Title Five Treasures
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The title of this time is “The Five Treasures”. Our greatest hope in life is that God loves His people. Once upon a time, a young man met a woman and fell in love. The woman asked the young man to pick a star to prove a person. Then the young man picked a star. Again the woman asked the young man to pick the moon. Then the young man picked the moon.
Finally, the woman asked the young man to take out his mother's heart. The young man was troubled and took out his heart from his mother's chest. And while running towards his lover, he tripped over a stone beak and fell. My heart was rolling and falling. But do you know what happened? My muddy heart said. "Hey. Aren't you hurt?" It's a story, but this mother's heart is God's heart toward us. As long as this love of God exists, we will have eternal hope in the midst of any adversity.
We find five treasures in the text.
1. It is the treasure of resurrection.
Verse 9 “After Jesus rose from the dead in the early morning of the first day after the Sabbath” Jesus was captured by the enemies, died on the cross, and rose again on the third day. But the important thing is that God also gives us this resurrection in Jesus. By the grace of God, if I always die in Jesus, I experience resurrection.
So always kill me with grace. Kill my sins, kill my character, kill my bad habits, kill my carnal thoughts. Then the resurrection life springs up within me. That's why 2 Timothy 2:11-12 says, "Faithful saying, if we died with the Lord, we also live together; if we endure, we will also reign together; and if we deny the Lord, the Lord will deny us."
God values the death of the saints. Don't really try to die because you're going to die. If the world is hard and you want to die, it is a test. I'm talking about killing my bad things, not self-abuse or death of the body. It belongs to God's sovereignty and all we have to do is die from evil. Paul said that he died daily, and that he was trying to reach the resurrection from the dead every day.
2. It is the treasure of the holy water on Sunday.
The “first day after the Sabbath” in verse 9 is Sunday. The Jews kept Saturday as the Sabbath. However, in Christianity, the first day after the Sabbath, Sunday, is kept as a day of worship. Because the Lord was resurrected on Sunday. So, if you keep Sunday, the work of the Lord's resurrection will appear in every corner of your life.
Keeping the Sunday well is the most blessed thing in this world and is the most basic of faith. Because keeping the Sabbath is evidence of living a God-centered life. In the New Testament, every day is a Sunday. All are holy. Everyone must live centered on the Lord. However, it is God's will and necessary to set one day in the week to worship God together and to keep it specially.
We live by the grace that God has given us to live, not by our own strength. I have to admit that my competitor is still working today, and I live by God's grace by keeping Sundays without being impatient. Then God will bless you with various circumstances and ideas.
Make the time of worship and God's work a priority in your life on Sunday. That time is the most precious and blessed time. The bank that has the highest interest rates in the world is the bank called Jubilee Seongsu. If you keep it diligently on Sunday, God will bless your soul, your body, and your business. If you do God's work, He will even give you the blessings of heaven.
3. It is a treasure of love.
Verse 9 says, “He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, who had previously cast out seven demons.” All the disciples who were willing to give their lives for the Lord hid, and only a few women found the tomb of Jesus. The central figure is Mary Magdalene. He loved the Lord. Because he lacked faith, he brought spices for the corpse, but his love remained the same. So the resurrected Lord met her.
At that time, he put up the store he was running for sale, and he met someone who said he would buy the store, but he signed a wrong contract and was kidnapped, dragged to an ocean-going ship, working like a slave, and then dramatically escaped. Then he thoroughly repented of his formal faith on board. Even so, God had trained him to have true faith in God.
Love God and love your neighbor. The people who will survive in the 21st century are people of love. That is why, in the lesson of the last days, love will grow cold on that day, and if there is no love, it will be over. Even in the Garden of Eden, when we became like God and tried to discern good and evil, we ended up in paradise. It is the law that distinguishes between good and evil. Being a legal person is unfortunate. You need to be blinded by love. When love cools down, you are the problem, I am the problem. When you point out and accuse yourself of a mistake, that place becomes hell. But love becomes heaven.
4. It is the treasure of being filled with the Holy Spirit.
In verses 10-11, Mary told the disciples the news of the Lord's resurrection, but they did not believe it. Continuing in verses 12-13, the two disciples who met the resurrected Jesus returned and said, but they did not believe those words either. In verse 14, the resurrected Lord appeared and appeared to the 11 disciples, but he doubted whether he was dreaming. This unbelief is what the disciples looked like before they received the Holy Spirit.
However, in Acts 2, after they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they risked their lives to testify of the risen Lord. That fact shows how important the filling of the Holy Spirit is. People change in an instant. Every human being has the potential of the devil and the potential of an angel at the same time. That is why we must thirst for the filling of the Holy Spirit.
5. It is the treasure of evangelism.
Verse 15 The first command that the resurrected Jesus gave to his disciples is evangelism. “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” What makes you live? Do you live to eat, wear, and write? For the glory of God! And we live for the sake of evangelism.
Whatever it is, it must ultimately be connected with evangelism and missions. Even when the economy is difficult, we need to evangelize and do missions more. We need to do missionary work to become a blessed country. Christian history proves it. In England, I did the most missions during Queen Victoria, and in the United States I did the most missions during President Eisenhower. However, at that time, the country was the most stable, morals and ethics were upright, and the country became economically prosperous. Also, when you work hard, your ethics and morals will be restored, your politics and economy will be stable, and the amazing history of resurrection will appear in your personal life and environment. You must have a reason for God to give you special grace. That is evangelism and missionary work.
Dear saints,
Let's hold onto the treasure God has given us. I hope that you will become saints who receive great grace through the treasure of the resurrection, the treasure of Sunday holy water, the treasure of love, the treasure of the filling of the Holy Spirit, and the treasure of evangelism.