Title: Who Are You? (Galatians 3:26-29)
Content Who are you? (Galatians 3:26-29 Kim Jeong-tae)
Some fish that live in a tank are very passionate and energetic animals in the sea, but when you bring them into a tank, it takes on a completely different picture. At first, they hit the glass wall as if going through a fishbowl, but after a certain amount of time, they say that they adapt well and live in the fishbowl.
If you divide the space in half by putting a glass in the center of the fish tank, similarly, it is called an eggplant animal with the wisdom that it bumps here and there at first but never after a while.
Even if you remove the glass that separated the middle of the tank, it never crosses the boundary where the glass was.
Even wise people are often like this.
People have many experiences in life, and that's what gives them amazing wisdom. Do you learn amazing know-how that others do not know? There are some amazing tricks to doing just this.
There are many good (?) books in the world that tell you these secrets, “You can cheat her in 30 minutes” “Cheat without risk” “Investment techniques to make 100 million in one year” “Until the age of 100 without any problems” You can live” “World history read overnight” “The Bible read overnight” However, secret recipes abound in the world. And in fact, you can see some effect through that book. However, it is a fact that there are not many cases where such books misrepresent their essence.
What do you mean when you say 'I can cheat her in 30 minutes'? What is the truth? I'm only interested in cheating without knowing why.
Do you mean to hold my hand and give me a kiss? It can be fun too. It may be of real interest to you. Some of you may say that there are Playboys and Playgirls out of them, so it's common sense, but most people don't know better than I do. I kiss a lot. My daughter makes it every morning.
Because everyone is interested in things that we have never done before, we want to experience them at least once, and we are interested in such things because God instinctively made them interested in them.
However, we are saying that we must clearly understand the true meaning of what we want and want to do, yes, God is trying to make us do it even instinctively.
There are people who say that they want to get married and live happily just the two of them. It's saying that we can't just love each other. This is a really ignorant, stupid and stupid idea. We do a lot of things through marriage, does anyone know what we do?
I do the dishes. I do laundry, and there are family members and in-laws. And do you do something important? And is there one very important thing missing? have sex. Why? Why? do we say good? It's to have children. It is what a loved one does to have a child who is an alter ego of each other, and through this, joy that has never been experienced is unfolding.
You say having children is boring or annoying, and ostensibly for good reason. But having a child makes you realize that all these annoyances, hassles, and burdens are the biggest factor in the world that suddenly gives you happiness. Even if you fight to death with the person who gave birth to your child, it is the parents who smile when they see their child.
In the days when castles are open like these days, there are not many people who find it funny to enjoy pleasure through sexual contact once. And it is just how many people are obsessed with superficial things without thinking about the true meaning of such actions and the wonderful will that God has given them.
Think about it for a moment. Why is sexual activity a concern to you?
It's not easy either. It takes a lot of effort to do that once. Because that's what marriage is about. right? There are people who laugh out loud, don't they? Even if you don't, it takes a tremendous amount of material and time to persuade the other person to do the sacred work. So what do you do?
It's also hard work. It's not that hygienic either. But I really want to do it. Why? Because God made it that way. Because that's what you have to do. If we hadn't given those instincts to lazy, annoying, and irritable people like us, there's very little chance we'd ever practice this joy, the joy of having a child.
The development of the world's media is helping to distort God's intentions. The mass media sings unanimously that having children is a burdensome task. It seems that many people in the world fell for that song. They do not talk about the amazing energy and joy that comes from having a child, but only a third-party understanding that it is difficult and burdensome.
Everyone! The reason your parents are all successful in raising people with strange personalities like you is not because your parents are both superhumans and people of great ability. because you experience it.
People believe they can control and coordinate all of this. The younger you are, the more you are just starting to get to know each other. There is a pretty girl in the middle and high school in our church, and it is the most difficult to talk with that student. Because they don't think they're wrong. He builds up all his thoughts around a certain point that he thinks is right. This is called Cartesian thinking. 'I think. It is to put the whole world on this ground of 'therefore it exists'.
Do you know what Cinderella means? It means 'replenished with ashes'. When people say Cinderella, they think of a pretty girl who meets a wonderful prince and lives happily ever after, but Cinderella is actually a story of a dusty girl who is covered with ashes because of her stepmother and two older sisters. People turn this story into a story of a prince who appears on a white horse and enters the palace in a pumpkin carriage.
People see the world in their own way. That's our limit. It is inevitable, but if you are a wise person, you must look to God. That's important.
Verses 26-27 of the text we read today say that we have become sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, and whoever has been baptized into Christ has put on Christ.
This is truly an amazing event. It is a fact that there is now room for us to live as God's children, looking to God. Whether this exists or not is the difference in life. It is the fact that the life of a believer who goes to church every day, prays every day, and reads the Bible every day, in a way that seems boring, difficult, and annoying, will abolish living in the folly of the world and find a way to live fully as the Son of God. As we get to know the Lord, we begin to ask what the meaning of life is that God gives us. You are asking the truth of what God is trying to give you through this work.
How would I feel before God? I too must be a fool.
Not long ago, I saw a picture on the internet where a hole was drilled in a desk and was slightly blocked to disguise it. Why did you drill a hole? To look at your phone. This is to view or send text messages while pretending to be in class during class. It was something I could never have imagined when I was in school. But we, middle and high school students living in this age, dream of a perforated desk. That's worthwhile.
Our thoughts, our standards, and our desires are like that perforated desk. It's convenient, usable and smart, but it's just like a classroom desk with a hole in it.
How do you want to live your life? Are you dreaming of punching a hole in your desk, playing around and living in a new world?
Dear young shepherds, what is the true meaning of God? I hope you will be thinking.
What the rhinoceros living in the forests of Nepal loves the most is the fruit of the Trevia tree, which no other animal cares about. The rhinoceros walking in the forest finds the Trevia tree fruit, and when it finds it, it devours as much as it can eat and then leaves the place. Leave. If you think about it from the point of view of the fruit of the Trevia tree, it is truly astonishing. How much time, process and effort must have been put in for the fruit to ripen into fruit? I wouldn't have spent a single day or even an hour tinkering with it. Nevertheless, how vain would it be if it became the food of the Godzilla rhino, as soon as it ripened and fell to the ground? As a fruit, it cannot but beat the heart and grieve.
However, the mysterious history of life begins at that moment. The trevia tree fruit that enters the rhino's stomach is all digested, but the seeds in it remain and are mixed with the rhino's excrement the next day and come out into the world again. And it grows into a tree by fertilizing the rhinoceros dung. There is no way for the Trevia tree to survive other than this way. The fruits of the Trevia tree that are ripe and fall in the shade of the forest will never sprout in the shade. You must go out to the sun to survive, but since you cannot move on your own, it is absolutely impossible to float them on your own. But thankfully, the fruit, which no animal cares about, only likes rhinos, so he transfers it from the shade to the sun with his own body. If the rhinoceros goes extinct in Nepal, it will be the funeral day for the Trevia tree.
This amazing thing is also happening among African acacias and elephants. African acacia trees are not in the least afraid of being eaten by a giant elephant. What the tree is really afraid of is the larva of a tiny moth, which is nothing more than a microbe compared to an elephant. The caterpillar is the most formidable enemy capable of exterminating African acacia, as it not only eats the fruit of the acacia tree, but also gnaws at the seeds inside it. However, while the elephant eats the acacia fruit and the larvae attached to it at once, it does not have the enzyme to digest the acacia fruit seed, so the seed also comes out with excrement and begins a new life by fertilizing the excrement. For the acacia fruit, the elephant not only spreads the seeds, but also acts as an insecticide to get rid of the larvae.
The world has a meaning we never expected. We know many things that will never be perfect if we live only with our thoughts.
When I get out of the car for a long time and walk, I start to see people's faces. They see their laughter in their lives, God with them.
If you do not accept God, you will only dream of a life without God. You can't see anything else at all.
The text we read today teaches us that we are the descendants of Abraham and appointed heirs according to the promise. He is a man of God. That is, if you belong to Christ.
Where do you belong? Is Christ meaningful to you? Do not live by your wisdom, but live in the image of Christ through the wisdom of Christ. Amazing events of which we do not know will begin there.
In the name of the Lord, I pray that such confidence and faith will be a blessing for you to move on to a new path of life.