Title: Wonderful Jesus. (Luke 18:15-30)
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These days, it is a poster of politicians holding small children and smiling.
It tries to capture the hearts of voters by stimulating their emotions.
This is a popular public relations tactic by politicians recently, but it looks great.
Because few will hate the appearance of those innocent and innocent children.
In particular, our church is like a model of heaven full of children like this.
I think it is a beautiful church.
A pastor holding a child and praying for blessings
The eyes of many saints who love such a child as if they were mine
It is clear that they are indeed possessors of heaven.
In this regard, it is worthy of praise for being better than the disciples of Jesus at that time.
Try overlapping the figure of Jesus holding a child and smiling brightly.
Our Jesus was a wonderful man!
The Bible verse this morning comes to me as an inspiration.
But how paradoxical are the facts?
It is a revolutionary word that overturns the customs, common sense, and daily life of the world.
These thoughts, words, and actions of Jesus that permeate the Bible are
Awakening the deep divinity within us, giving us new enlightenment,
It makes him good and respectful, and makes him look to the holiness of God.
How shy and sorry the disciples who scolded the children at that time!
The kingdom of God just needs to be like a child. (Child here is the same term as a newborn child in 2:12, 16 and is different from a larger child. According to Jewish custom, a child was brought to the rabbi to receive a blessing. Of course, the newborn babies must have been babies, judging from what they did.)
Newborns don't know the world
With its purity, with full trust, pure, without blemish, and obediently,
Only parents want and follow.
Children are not loved for what they do
Just being there brings joy to parents and those around them.
Now, for something, we take away the strength of our shoulders.
Just rejoice and taste the joy of enjoying that love.
The Lord sees and knows these hearts now.
But here again, like us,
or much better than us,
A rich saint with great faith and success in the world asks
:18 Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?
Then how do you know that I am good (that is, I am God)?
He says that there is no one good except God.
And throwing away the world's successes and pride
He tells you to follow me.
Just as a camel cannot go through the eye of a needle,
He also says that you cannot enter the kingdom of God.
We secretly talk about my faith and good life.
To be proud and praised in front of people
You might want to insure yourself that heaven is yours if you stop.
But today Jesus speaks firmly.
leave the world,
and follow me,
life that has eternal life
Like a child who knows nothing of the world,
To throw away the world's success and greed.
Today I look back on my life.
And I think about the fundamental life that Jesus embraces.
The path Jesus walked and eternal life
I think that the kingdom of God is the same.
I see that God is there.
Oh, God is with me and all my family in Jesus Village.
If you just realize this
while we can't,
What God forbids you to do,
God is with you.
Now in the reign of God
We pray that we will follow that guidance.
At that time our Lord was at the hour of death
You knew how painful it would be
He was fulfilling only the will of God, which was completely different from the world.
You are the perfect example of heaven
Those who follow Him are disciples.
It seems impossible to us
God does it.
When Peter and his disciples met Jesus, they left everything and followed him.
When you are opposed to the world, you will receive many times more in this world.
There is no one who will not receive eternal life in the afterlife.
The Lord who is near death is still busy with God's work.
The pains and sufferings of this world are rather revealed to the Lord in full power.
I pray that the Almighty Almighty fills me completely.
It is no longer I who live, but Jesus lives in me.
Although I am in the flesh, I pray that I will live by this faith.
At this time, the hard life of this world will be changed into blessing and the reign of eternal life.
Amen!