Title: Where Do You Believe?
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title; Where do you believe? (Philippians 2:5-11)
The root of mankind's problems is pride that turns away from God and opposes God. Behind him is Satan, and their means is false deception. Fallen human beings are still deceived by the deception and try to exalt themselves. They disregard God's commandments, do not rely on the Creator, and seek the salvation of life in a proud place with the thoughts and lusts of the flesh. Impossible. It is illegal. Pride is the forerunner of destruction and the forerunner of falling. Jesus, the only savior of mankind, commands us to cherish the humble heart of obedience to the point of death on the cross.
1. Save me from the Lord's place
Those who are saved will go down to a lower place. The Lord's purpose in saving mankind, who have fallen into the sin of pride, is to lower us to a place of humility. The purpose is to bring the proud life that has left God, resisted God, served as a servant of Satan, and wanted to be exalted, to the humble place of living as God, the place of truth, the place of eternal life, and the place of heaven. That is why the Savior Jesus, being God, did not consider equality with God to be robbery, but came to this earth in human flesh. He came to Bethlehem, the smallest town in Israel, lay in a manger, fled to Egypt under persecution, grew up in Nazareth, a neglected town, lived a life of suffering without a place to lay his head, and Golgotha to save mankind from sin. He suffered on the cross and became obedient to the point of death. All of this makes us realize how false and unrighteous our pride is.
And human beings are creatures that cannot live without God. Eternal life is maintained in God. However, proud human beings fall and lose their life and become insensitive, filling their stomachs with the things of the perishable world instead of eternal life, believing that it is what makes humans happy, and they rot the glory of the God of all things, the eternal and absolute God, and the incorruptible God. They were exchanged for idols in the form of men, gold, and filth. The place of creation is restored by the grace of the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. To be a true creature, you must repent of all your arrogant sins and return to living as a human being who lives only by relying on God.
By the death of the Lord the Lord shows how terrible the consequences of our pride are. The sin of pride begets death. God's judgment cannot be avoided. It only inflicts pain and suffering. You cannot escape from Satan's slavery. Understand how Jesus suffered and died in Gethsemane. Are you proud of having a lot of money? Are you proud of your high position? Are you proud of your knowledge? Are you proud of having so many close people? Are you proud of being popular? It's cheating. way to die it's the way to ruin Hear the cry of the blood of the Lord! Do not take lightly this great fact that for that reason the only begotten Son of God must shed blood in suffering!
In order to come down to the low position of the cross where the Lord is, we must strive and strive to live according to the commandments. And we must pray by relying on the Holy Spirit. Then he will lead us to the truly humble. This is salvation. This is the way to live If you rely on the Word and the Holy Spirit to discover your arrogant iniquity, you will mourn. I will rip the garments of my heart. And he will give comfort to those who mourn. Because only the grace of the cross of the Lord can save us from the sin of absolute despair. Longing for the cross of the Lord every day to reach full salvation! The only way to fulfill all the words of God is the power of the cross. Then we will go down to a lower place. The more you know the Lord, the more your heart will break because of your pride. will repent
How can a proud man and the Lord be together! Would the grace of the Lord be full of unconditional and unconditional faith? When we obey the Lord's law of salvation according to the Lord's word, the Lord is with us and works. It is impossible for us to win and bear fruit without the Lord being with us and working. Therefore, the place where the Lord is with us, the more we go down to the place of faith, relying only on the Lord through the grace of the cross, the more we are with the Lord, the more we will be with the Lord. It is to overcome, bear the fruits of our mission, and become a person of the Lord who can pay off the debt of love we owe.
2. Save your neighbors in the Lord's place!
The more you complete your salvation by descending to a low place by relying on the cross of Jesus after being saved from this arrogant sin, the more you realize the reality of your neighbor's soul. Those who have been saved only by the grace of God and the love of the Lord, and those who experience salvation, come to know the reality of their neighbor's soul, just as they realized their own soul through the grace of the cross, and truly love their neighbor, Knowing what it is, as the Lord gave His life above all things for our salvation, so we too go on the path of doing everything ourselves for our neighbors.
A proud man cannot love his neighbor. A proud man seeks his own gain. He who truly loves his neighbor does not seek his own gain. He is the only one who sacrifices everything for himself like the Lord for the salvation of his neighbor. That low position is the place where the Lord bore the cross for us, and when we are with the Lord in that place, not what we do, but where the Lord shows His love through us. How can man himself save a neighbor who is hostile to God, a neighbor who has sinned, a neighbor who has fallen, a neighbor who is debauched, and a neighbor who is desperate! This is possible only through the grace, power, and authority of Christ. Let's go down to the lower seat of the Lord! Let's love the place. Let's not leave the place! Let's go down to the Lord more and more. The more you do, the deeper the love of the Lord will be revealed and you will save your neighbors.
We have left God and committed too many sins without knowing the Lord, and even after believing in the Lord, we are not able to have faith in the same place, so we are indebted to the Holy Trinity. We owe God, we owe ourselves, and we owe everyone in the world. How can you pay off this much debt! it's the only way Don't leave the Lord's place, and let's become rich by the Lord's grace at the place of the cross! Then, with the grace of the Lord so abundant, you will be able to fully repay the debt.
There is no difference between the position of saving our neighbors and the position of being saved. it's the same place We must not depart from the seat of grace on the cross of the Lord. If you are in a low position, the peace, joy, and gentleness of heaven will come upon you. You will become a person who has the heart of the Lord. If you have the heart of the Lord, you will become one who is truly with the Lord, and you will become a person in which the Lord appears. The more the Lord appears, the more the Lord's work of salvation will bear fruit through that person. Don't leave your humble seat for any reason! If possible, Satan will try to deceive us and lead us from humility with all sorts of tricks. They will tell you to be arrogant in vain and false. will make you lust for unrighteous sins. They will tell you to live according to the lusts of the fallen flesh. Don't be fooled. you have to wake up and stay awake
To be a faithful and faithful believer, the heart comes first, not the actions. Do you always have the heart of the Lord! It is not an exaggeration to say that it depends on whether you do not always leave the Lord's seat, but rather long for the Lord's seat and go down. Where is the true refuge in a sinful world, a world where the winds of ordeal never stop! The only place where the Lord is is a refuge. The Lord wants to always be with us in the place of service even to the point of death on the cross. Don't leave the place!
Being different from Jesus, different from the Word, and lacking the fruit of the Holy Spirit is all pride. A proud person is unaware of his own pride. Rather, they justify pride, boast, and view it as power. ?쏦oly Spirit! Holy Spirit! Break our pride!??Let's go down to prayer and the Word! Let's break our pride! That is salvation. Because Jesus died on the cross. That is how I live and save my neighbors.