Title: You and God (Colossians 1:22-24)
Content People do not know what state they are in right now. Most people live their lives thinking that they are very normal. The standard of authority by which you judge yourself is always yourself. But God's judgment is the opposite of man's judgment.
God sees humans as beings with fundamentally wrong self-portraits. Why?
Let's make some assumptions like this. Most of the people who are here now who are proud to say, “I am healthy” 30 years ago. When I got ill, I went to the hospital and told the doctor that it must be something like this. Then, at that time, the medical technology was not enough, so the doctor roughly agreed with the patient's opinion and treated them. At that time, people were somewhat confident in their self-diagnosis. But now it's different. Hospitals are equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment.
EEG tests, hepatitis tests, endoscopy, intestinal tests, etc. machine accurately diagnose the diseased part of the human. So even a normal person goes to the hospital and undergoes a detailed examination, and broken parts appear here and there. So, looking at the results, there are very few perfect people. Even a healthy person cannot guarantee health.
I myself have been confident about my health in the past. But now I have lost confidence in my health. This is because I saw a person who was healthy until yesterday suddenly fell ill and was taken to the hospital, where he received a diagnosis such as Cyanosis and lived for several months before dying. At the young age of 30, I saw her face turn yellow and die of liver cancer. He was a fine person. There was a person who bought headache medicine when he had a headache. I couldn't eat or eat, so I went to the hospital, and the test result was a brain tumor. We can too. I don't have confidence. No matter how much you insist on being normal, it's no use. We have no confidence in our bodies. All humans are like that. However, there is one strange obsession.
It's about your soul. Humans keep thinking that they have only their own body. This cannot but be the folly of animalizing oneself. I live an animalistic life, thinking that it is enough to dress well, eat well, and enjoy pleasure.
However, modern science also says that humans have souls. If you deny this, you are a non-civilized person. What is the difference between animals and humans? Humans have souls and animals do not. The body is finite, but the soul is eternal. The soul is not buried like the body.
How do you diagnose your own soul? If you think it's normal, you're arrogant. Diagnosis must be made through the Word of God. If you look up through the Bible, which is the mirror of your soul, do an EEG test, and see through X-rays, what kind of existence a human being is is diagnosed spiritually.
The Bible should not be ignored. If you do not know the Bible, you are not a modern man. Thousands of people have tried to bury this Bible for 3500 years. However, the Bible was resurrected every day despite persecution. Even in the Soviet Union, which was said to be the suzerainty of communism, the Bible continued to exist. Even under China's iron fist rule, the Bible was being read. More than 600 million Bibles are sold every year. Would a lie sell so much? If it were a lie, it would have already disappeared. The fact that there are so many people who yield to the Word proves that the Bible is true.
The most common words in the Bible are sin, death, judgment, and blood. Most of them are colorful words. So people reject the Bible. However, there is something we need to realize clearly in the face of the fact that the Bible repeats primary terms. It's just that God doesn't judge me that way. Whoever says no is a pitiful person. It is wrong to be afraid of primary colors. We must not undermine the fact by saying death is futile and sin as weakness. If you do not speak the right words about the disease of your soul, you will not be able to make a correct diagnosis and there will be no treatment.
There is a fundamental difference between Korean doctors and American doctors. American doctors diagnose a disease and, if it turns out to be cancer, tell the patient that it is clearly cancer. However, Korean doctors do not tell their patients the truth. Even after the cancer operation, it was a little bad, so the part was removed, so I can rest assured now. Comfort the patient with lies. Only tell the truth to your family. The family then smiles in front of the patient and wipes the tears behind them. If done wrong, the patient will not know what disease he has until he dies, and then he dies. They die unprepared for death.
But American doctors tell us exactly. If you don't tell me right away, you will be sued later. So they show the patient the x-ray and explain in detail. "Your condition is like this now. Even if you have surgery, your chances of survival are slim. But if you want, I will do surgery. Should I do surgery or not?" Ask questions and do what the patient wants. When you give up surgery and feel discouraged, you ask, "Do you believe in God?" Ask questions and exhort faith. It is to prepare you spiritually.
The patient is then startled at first, but gradually prepares for death. When you inform in primary colors, you can prepare properly. Human beings can be prepared when they correctly diagnose the soul. What is God's diagnosis of my soul?
1. You are an enemy of God.
“You, who were formerly aliens and enemies in heart because of your evil deeds, now have reconciled you through the death of his flesh, so that you may be presented before him holy, blameless, blameless” (Colossians 1:21-22).
Humans have become enemies with God not only outwardly, but in their hearts. From the beginning, he became an enemy of God, departed from God and committed evil deeds.
The state of leaving God is enmity with God from the bottom of your heart. I know there will be some who will object to this statement.
"I don't go to church, but I acknowledge that God exists. I consider the Christian life positively. But why am I an enemy of God?"
However, it is not what I think of God that matters, but how God sees me. When God sees me, he sees me as an enemy. A relationship apart from God is an enemy relationship with God. It is not a subjective relationship that I think of, but an objective relationship that God sees as an enemy relationship. If it's your own subjective position, you can change it. But when it comes to being objective, there is nothing you can do. Can you accept this saying? You can prove that you have become an enemy of God.
A state of indifference to God is an enmity with God. God has a relationship that cannot be indifferent to us. If there is indifference between parent and child, this is a wall of sin. Yes, because it is a pedigree relationship. The relationship between the Creator and the creature is one that cannot be indifferent. It is a relationship that should not be neglected.
Sometimes it can be hostile. There is a rejection of Christians, do you know why? Because they became enemies with God. Even with the powerful people of the world, if you make enemies, you can't sleep. What can a human being who is hostile to God do? There is no peace. The reason there is no peace is because we have become enemies with God. The soul senses it. Because we have become enemies with God, anxiety and fear come.
2. Your world is missing the most important thing.
“In those days you were outside Christ, outside the kingdom of Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12)
For unbelievers, there are two important things in life.
1) There is no hope.
When we do not believe in Jesus, we have no hope. What is the hope of those who do not really believe in Jesus? When you are young, you struggle for a successful life. But as you get older, you realize that it's all a mirage and you feel empty. When I was young, I was arrogant when negotiating to scout for myself in a large corporation. But through the 40s and 50s, I lost hope. Those of you who are really heading towards the twilight of your life, what are your hopes? What are you buying for? Please ask yourself a question.
Are you buying for your children? no. From now on, when you turn 60-70, you should be prepared to live alone. The smarter your child is, the more ineffective he can be. The more a daughter-in-law is prosperous and the more she learns, the more trouble she has to suffer. If you are in a high position, the sense of emptiness that falls is deep. The more money you have, the more miserable it is. There's absolutely no hope. We have to admit this frankly. So that's normal.
The Bible says that seeing is not hope. What you see is nothing to look forward to. But I don't know how many people are serving the unseen. What you see is like the morning mist.
For those who do not believe in Jesus, please answer the question. Who is God? The normal answer is that God must be God. Because God made me. But because we do not believe in God, there is no God. Then God is me. In the end of the world, it is said to love oneself and to love pleasure.
Invest only for yourself. The results are so disastrous. The truth is, I am not God. Humans are not neutral. Whether you are on God's side or on the devil's side. There are many of you who do not know Jesus yet, and many of you will reject it when you say you are under the control of the devil.
The Bible says that humans are either controlled by God or controlled by the devil. If you refuse to be controlled by God, you are under the control of the devil. He did not serve God as God, so the devil became God instead.
Unbelievers are looking for fortune tellers. The more modern people are, the more intelligent they are. Chaebols, politicians, and lawmakers are looking for famous fortune tellers as regulars. Intelliyo elites are like that. I am not looking for you, but because I am bound by the devil, I am automatically taken away. It is evidence that you belong to the devil and are controlled.
Who among you has an amulet in the house, raise your hand. Why take such a thing, stick it on the wall, and put it in a closet and pillow? It is because of fear because the devil is in control. It's about getting stuck. It is slavery. It is to live in chains. But those of us who believe despise the amulet. A piece of paper, a piece of painting, a piece of writing. No one is afraid because our Father is the one who made the whole universe. No one can control me who believes in God. Only God controls me. So we burn all the amulets.
Idol worshipers are not allowed to marry. I can't have a party, and I can't even move. I can't even use the tombs, and I can't even sleep. Poor lives. But when you return to God, you are simply set free. When God is not the master, life becomes a tragic life.
3. In this way, those who turn away from God and become enemies and lead a life without God
under the wrath of God.
“But according to your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when the righteous judgment of God is revealed” (Romans 2:5).
Life is not reincarnation. Just as history had a beginning, so will the end. On that day, God will judge all the wicked. Until that day, the evildoer continues to pile up wrath on his head. It is accumulating wrath that one cannot bear. The longer he lives, the more his wrath grows. Longevity is bad for him.