Title Discipleship (4)/Acts 1:9-10
Content We generally think that the biggest reason we face difficulties is that we do not run by God. And as long as I have a heart to dedicate myself for the Lord and a heart to be loyal for the Lord's gospel and the Lord's kingdom, I don't think there is any reason for God not to bless me. And I think that the blessing is a basic sufficient condition for all the conditions and all the foundations to work for the Lord.
However, all the difficulties we face in this world do not have to be corrected, but rather are a kind of school study that I am making through the difficulties. So we come to a strange conclusion here.
The supreme and central mission in the Christian life of faith is to live. This doesn't mean surviving. It's not about staying alive, it's about living actively.
In general, we think that when we live a religious life, we separate a lot of time from our daily life and use it as time for the Lord. However, what the text is saying is that the believer's life of faith is simply living. The biggest reason why the Lord has left us now and is at the right hand of the heavenly throne is that it tells us that what we see is not everything, that there is an invisible world, and that the value in this visible world is not the highest, but that the invisible world is eternal and absolute. Because he taught and he left us to do so.
God satisfies all the conditions to create eternal things for us, so that I stand on that foundation and dedicate all my strength and devotion to the Lord. The Lord gave us birth in the times, history, circumstances, and work to make us, and commands us to create eternal things in the daily lives we encounter with those people.
Our battle is not a battle that leaves any achievements, but a response as a person who prepares for eternal things in all our daily lives, and it is a work that makes us face various problems in order to develop our proper attitude and ability as an eternal person.
We may all be people who self-defense as believers by attracting and comparing them only to areas of specialization that we can do well and know well. But in reality, we don't set the course for us to be believers, just as we don't set the school course for us to be good people.
It is determined by God. So, if we set the goal that this is the life of faith in order to actually become a believer, it is usually not a life of faith, but a good thing in general. Just as we must study hard to do good things, we must live our daily lives like believers in order to become good believers. That is the subject that God has ordained. Our wife, husband, this age, this environment, our neighbors, and our relatives are subjects. When you bump into them, you have to react as a believer.
We must teach our children not to be good in the world but to be recognized before God. Instead of being treated by the world, we must fight the world's temptations and disrespect by being treated in the kingdom of heaven. We must not be tempted to succumb to the victorious in the world, and we must resist the temptation to repay evil for evil.
Why is it wrong to give alms, donate, evangelize, and do missionary work? However, it is wrong to think that there is only one and that it is the only content of faith. It is a fruit. It is not a process. There must be a process of evangelism or salvation in our faith. That process is life. The process is life, and the work that is made is the end result, the fruit, and the conclusion.
But again, we are just listing these conclusions, not everyone has a process. Everyone is only accustomed to getting together and listing conclusions. So I know how to get good grades and how to be a decent person, but I'm not going through that process. So we live in two. They are cunning people who live with both hands on how to go out into the world and how to come to church and tremble solemnly.
We must prepare for eternity in our daily lives. I have to check how I react to all of that. That is the life of faith. And we fail a lot more. I know the answer, but I don't know the answer. You have to think, struggle, and cry. And sometimes you have to resign. After going through such a period of time, you finally become a good person, not overnight.
We also have no strength in our religious life because, strangely, everyone is adorning themselves with such a life of faith, with a sullen face, without saying anything to others, and being unable to surrender to ourselves. Let's go to Hebrews 11 and conclude this matter.
?쏝y faith we conquered kingdoms, worked righteousness, received promises,
to shut the mouths of lions, to quench the power of fire, to escape the edge of a sword,
And out of weakness we become strong, we become valiant in war,
, and women receive their dead by resurrection, and
These were tortured, but not spared, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Others were tempted not only with mockery and scourgings, but also with bondage and imprisonment.
being stoned, sawing, temptation, and death by the sword, sheep and goats
clothed in skins and wandering, suffering privation, affliction, and oppression (such a man is
They wandered in the wilderness, in the mountains, in the dark caves, and in the crypts. This man
They all received the testimony through faith, but did not receive the promise, because
God has prepared something better for us; otherwise we are all perfect.
so that it might not be fulfilled??(Hebrews 11:33-40).
A description of the great men of faith. They do not describe that they have found anything, but rather tell of all the problems they encountered in life that they walked through blades and stones, tribulations, persecutions, contempts, and temptations in their way to their eternal destination.
I did not choose a certain path to go there in this way and this kind of stepping stone. It is not that I decide my work and my life, but that life, circumstances, and times are all ordained by God. It is the most important explanation for the great men of faith that they went unbent by this on the way to the eternal goal for everything they encountered in it.
We also have important battles. Don't think it's because I can't do big things, and don't belittle it because it's not a big deal. The most important thing is that just as people here die upside down on the cross for the Lord, overcoming temptation, tribulation, and temptation as those who walk the eternal kingdom in today's trivial matters are treated equally, and it is a step toward an equal destination. .
That one step piles up and goes to the eternal country. So, in fact, we are living in a battle that risked our lives in that sense every day. Although it may have been a largely unsuccessful journey so far, we must win this battle, not forgetting that we are a man destined to fail, and that battle is before us every day, and in the most trivial, ordinary.
Don't ask me to fix it, but don't forget that it benefits me in preparing for eternity, and that there are these temptations and temptations to twist the way. I want to live as a person who is awake, who constantly checks himself to see how much progress is being made in becoming a person of the eternal kingdom, winning the battles every day and drawing closer to the Lord day by day.