Title: What Do You Believe?
Today, I would like to think about a problem that is often raised by those who come to church for the first time and start a life of faith. Also, if you look at the truth, you can see that there are many people who believe in the church even though they have been to church for a long time to be honest.
What do we believe in? You should be able to give an accurate answer to this question.
This is the word most often used by Christians.
What the hell do you mean?
It is often said that we believe in Jesus. He also tells us to believe in Jesus.
So, what does it mean to believe in that Jesus? We need to know that clearly.
This is because the content of our faith will be certain.
They are called greedy by the world because the content of faith is uncertain.
Because it is said that they live well in this world and go to heaven after death.
And they say that if you don't believe in Jesus you will go to hell, so there are many cases where they treat us emotionally.
1. A correct understanding of faith is required.
The Bible is written about Jesus Christ.
The Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Iran means good news.
The good news should be good news for everyone.
A word that only applies to a specific person cannot be the gospel.
The gospel is for everyone. This applies to all sinners.
What is the good news for everyone and for everyone?
It is to solve the problem of death.
It is not the life that ends in death, but eternal life is the most blessed news. When a person dies, there is nothing more to say.
If it were enough for us to die, we would have no need for conscience, morality, or religion.
I'm just going to live my life the way I want it to and die when I die. Why would you want to keep your conscience? I read a shocking report on an Internet site that teenagers these days were engrossed in a bizarre murder and killed their younger brother because they wanted to.
When a person's conscience becomes like that, he becomes no different from an animal.
Humans are not the only beings when they die.
It is said that after death there must be judgment.
If there is judgment, doesn't it mean that there is a master who judges?
It means that there is a Judge, who will judge with destruction or eternal life.
So, where can we get eternal life?
It is the Bible, the Word of God, that shows that.
This is where the Gospel of John differs from the Synoptic Gospels.
[Matthew] records Jesus who came as the King of the Jews, [Mark] records Jesus who came as a servant to mankind, and [Luke] records Jesus who came as a true man.
But [the Gospel of John] wrote Christ who is God.
“That you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name” (John 20:31).
2. Then, what is the faith that John testified?
What to believe
What should be the content of faith?
It is said that our faith is to obtain . John consistently testified that Jesus is our life.
When we talk about the signs and wonders of Jesus, we testify that we were trying to gain by believing in him.
He is the bread of life that came down from heaven through the miracle of Oh Byeong-yi, the miracle of healing a 38-year-old sick man, and the life that can overcome despair, and the miracle of saving Lazarus that he is the resurrection of eternal life. I tried to show In other words, these are things that show that Jesus is the Son of God, the Christ, and the Christ.
This is also the meaning of the words to Nicodemus that we must be born of water and the Spirit.
But when we talk about life, it is easy to think of this life of flesh and blood.
It is easy to think that there is life only while there is this life.
However, silver has two kinds of life.
One is the life (Bios) that comes from the parents' blood and flesh, and the other is the life (Jo-e) that comes from the Holy Spirit (Holy Spirit).
The life of Bios ends in death, but the life of Zoe, born of the Holy Spirit, is eternal.
This should not be confused.
In the Garden of Eden, God told Adam and Eve that they would surely die, but after that Adam and Eve continued to live. Also, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, but Lazarus died again. At this time, the death of Adam and Eve meant spiritual life, and the raising of Lazarus also showed the resurrection of spiritual life, not physical life.
It was meant to give.
Life as Bios has its limits. In other words, biological life has death.
But Joe's life is eternal life.
To be saved through faith in Jesus is to receive eternal life.
This is the content of our faith.
“And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He who has the Son has life, and he who does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:11-12).
3. It is said that this life is that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
In John 1:14, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten, full of grace and truth.”
He said that He took on this flesh, who was God, and dwells among us.
We must keep in mind the meaning of 'dwelling among us' here.
This word has a very important meaning.
It means that the God we believe in is the God who always dwells among us.
It means living together in the middle of our lives.
It means that you are in the middle of our lives and participate in our joys and sorrows. It means that Jesus Christ, the object of our faith, dwells with us in the center of our life. To believe in it is true faith. This is what the saying goes about, whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
John is proving this life with words understood by the Greeks at the time. It is said that in the beginning there was this word (Logos)... The beginning is the Greek word alke, which also means the root, or the source, the essence.
He said that the root of the universe is the logos (the Word).
He said that He took on a physical body and dwells with us in the field of our lives.
He said that he was Jesus Christ.
He said that he is the way, the truth, and the life of all life.
So, what is my belief? Let's take a look here.
Do you have what the apostle John testified of? We must reflect deeply.
Today, it is a phenomenon that the faith of the Korean church is almost flowing towards materialism.
Therefore, we see that the content of our faith in Jesus is changing as well.
Also, there were many people who spread this corrupted content of faith.
"Believe it! It becomes what you believe!" That's all they teach, but that belief is only a demand for self-esteem.
There's nothing wrong with making such a claim because we're creatures, but that's not the content of our ultimate belief.
The purpose of our faith in Jesus is that we may be set free from sin and receive eternal life from death.
Therefore, there can be no despair for people of true faith.
Despair means the complete loss of hope, which means that there is no such despair for those who believe in Jesus.
Therefore, it means living believing that Jesus Christ, who is eternal life, is with us in any circumstance. That is why we will live singing the hymn, “In the cottage, in the palace, wherever my Lord Jesus is served, the kingdom of heaven.”
Now we must discover the Lord who dwells in our lives.
In Matthew 8, the disciples were all afraid during the storm.
But Jesus leaned on the stern and fell asleep.
The wind grew stronger and stronger, and water came into the boat.
The ship was on the verge of capsize. Then the disciples woke up the Lord.
"Lord! Save us, we will perish."
"Why are you afraid, you of little faith..."
He rebuked the wind and the sea and calmed them. (Matthew 8:25-26)
The disciples said that they would die even though Jesus was in the same boat.
Today we have to think about whether or not we are in the same situation.
Even though the Lord is with me in the field of my life, I am not scolding because I feel like I am going to die.... I need to think deeply about it.
God already knows everything about us.
God has insight into our past, present, and even our future.
Why do you want to die even though there is such a God...
If so, we must awaken the Lord.
There is nothing so foolish to say that you will die without waking the Lord.
We must come to the Lord and cry out in prayer.
It is Jesus Christ who will calm the wind and the sea.
The only person who can calm the waves in my life is Jesus Christ. The only person who can calm the wind in our homes is Jesus Christ. He rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a calm.
God does not want His people to suffer.
Zephaniah 3:17 says, "The LORD your God is in your midst, the Almighty to save. He will rejoice over you over you, he will keep his love over you, he will rejoice over you with singing and rejoicing."
God is the Almighty who is in our lives and saves us.
And he loves us. If we just improve our relationship, he will be happy for us. He said that he could not overcome joy because of us, and he loved us quietly because he liked just looking at us. I hope that such a relationship will be established.
If you realize that God rejoices over things like me, that is the most correct faith. Only when we live with such faith will we be able to bear God's work.
When we live with that kind of faith, we give our all and live.
I sincerely hope that all those who have this kind of faith will become. ♣