Title: Yoo Jong's Beauty
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The text is 2 Timothy 4:6-8
Today I would like to introduce a man who, because the Spirit lived, was faithful to death for God who is the Spirit. He is the apostle Paul. Paul was not even Jesus' 12 disciples. However, he lived a life of loyalty and devotion that was second to none of the 12 disciples. It was possible because his spirit was alive in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. After hearing the voice of the risen Lord on the road to Damascus, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” (Acts 9:4), he converted from Judaism, which he considered his own life, to Christianity. became “Missionary Paul” who opened the door of missions toward “Lord! For the sake of the Spirit, give up what is to be lost, and get drunk on what is to be taken!”
One of the reasons I admire and like Paul is that he has reaped “the beauty of seed.” In a dictionary meaning, it means “the beauty of 有終”, that is, “a fine ending, a beautiful ending”. However, most people end their lives like a dragon. It started out splendidly and grandly, but at the end of it, there was nothing to praise, nothing great, nothing great, nothing great achievement.
You can see how passionate he was for the gospel. In Paul, God's zeal to preach the gospel was burning like an active volcano. When Paul, who preached the gospel so hard, blamed the Christians for the great fire in Rome in July 64 AD, Paul was arrested around AD 66 and imprisoned again in Rome's Macmetine Prison, and around AD 67 in Rome. He was martyred by beheading. The letters written in the 1st and 2nd Roman prisons are “Eph, Col, Phil, Mon, 1 Tim, 2 Tim, and Titus” and are called prison epistles. . Paul, who predicted death, is adorning the beauty of a believer's death in the most beautiful way through 2 Timothy, which he wrote to Timothy, the son of faith, just before his martyrdom. 2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” What a wonderful farewell speech? What a wonderful and proud will, a confession of faith.
It says “I fought the good fight” and was the victor in the spiritual battle. Only those who have a living spirit can fight spiritual battles and have victory through the power of Jesus without being oppressed by the power of the devil. In the new year, be more victorious in spiritual battles.
How confident and confident are you in the beauty of Yoo Jong-suk as a victor of faith, a racer in life, and a communicator of the gospel “at the end of the race”? It's so cool and I'm not proud of it. The race of faith must be completed like a marathon. You have to look back over and over again in the middle, lean to the left or right, or stop and hesitate. Let's run to the end while looking to the Lord!
“I have kept the faith” It is not easy to have faith in comfortable times. The age in which Paul lived was the age of persecution. do you believe in jesus It was the era when the equation that one must die was established. Still, Paul kept his faith. May our faith be like this.
I pray that you will have this kind of living faith, a faith that even death cannot help. Paul's confession of reaping this kind of beauty ends like this. “From now on there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing” (2 Timothy 4:8). “Lord! I also wish to be crowned on that day.”