Title I Send You
(On that day, on the evening of the first day after the Sabbath, where the disciples had gathered in fear of the Jews,
When the doors were closed, Jesus came and stood in the middle, saying, “Peace be with you?
When he had said this, he showed his hands and his side, and the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
And Jesus said again, Peace be with you, that the Father sent me
Just as I am sending you, when he had said these words, he breathed on them and went away.
Lazarus Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven.
If you leave it as it is, it will remain as it is.” (John 20:19-23)
Early in the morning of the first day after the Sabbath, the women visited the tomb before dawn and were resurrected.
I met a Lord, and this was immediately passed on to the disciples.
Peter and John ran to see the empty tomb.
In one day the Lord's resurrection was preached from mouth to mouth, and the disciples
made them gather.
But the Jews are still locking the door inside because they are afraid, and suddenly the Lord is there.
appeared in the midst of it.
① Peace be with you ② As the Father sent me, so I
③ Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven.
He said that if you leave it as it is, it will remain as it is.
Today we are going to learn the words of the Lord, "As the Father sent me, so I also
You have to think about the phrase "I send you".
1. 'I also send you' means to be witnesses of the resurrection.
This is the Lord's command.
and is different.
A command is something to be obeyed.
We are called soldiers of Christ.
In a military society, orders are life.
In other words, if you don't, you will be killed.
He commanded the disciples who had seen the resurrection to testify of that fact widely.
Why are you doing this command?
Because the resurrection must be my resurrection and the resurrection of all believers.
In other words, if you have faith in the resurrection, you must be a witness of the resurrection.
If you have not yet preached the resurrection of Jesus, you cannot obey the Lord's command.
is the result. It also proves that our faith does not have a resurrection faith with such conviction.
It is also
Those who truly possess great joy are bound to speak of it. There is still no joy in the resurrection
It must be seen that there is no power to convey to the flag.
Even today, everyone else has become a witness of the resurrection, but the church members are still in the midst of a meeting.
There may be this.
Thomas was like that. Where did Thomas go and where all the other disciples met the Lord?
He testified of the Lord's resurrection in joy, but he said he would not believe it. That
After eight days had passed and the Lord Himself showed him before him, he said, 'Oh! my lord, me
You are the God of '.
Everyone!
When your children grow up to a certain extent, shouldn't they say that they are fathers and mothers?
If the time has passed and you can't speak, how frustrated will your parents be?
So will God. We must not become spiritually disabled.
2. 'I also send you' means to go out into this world.
A Christian is not of the world, but he must not turn his back on the world
is the word. It's like water shouldn't enter a submarine, but a submarine is
Christians are meant to be in the world as they ought to be in
All.
Therefore, to have good faith is not to deny the world, but to leave the world in
It means taking on the same role. A belief that can change the world
it means you have to If our faith is only in the church, it is
It's not what you want. 'As the Father sent me, so I also send you into the world.
send it to '. Therefore, our faith must go out into the world.
All.
Gathering only with each other, having fun with each other, and acting according to the Lord's command
is not. It is not worthy of praise. The volunteer work of believers is the church
It is not done only within, but it must go out into the world.
Here are today's problems.
It's good that you have to go out into the world, but you shouldn't go into the world.
We must go out on a mission to testify to those who do not know the resurrection of Jesus.
I'm not talking about hanging out with people.
So it should be clear here.
What are the principles that we, as the Lord's disciples, must keep in the field of life?
Since this is not standing upright, different actions occur among Christians.
If you look again this time, there are candlelight protests in front of Seoul City Hall, even among believers
See what appears to be a polarization phenomenon.
Why do you see it appearing that way?
It is because we act according to our own thoughts on the principles of Christian life.
You will need to understand the meaning of today's text correctly.
“As my Father sent me, so I send you,” he said.
How did God send Jesus Christ into this world?
That is clearly shown in John 3:16.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him
that all should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Believe me, I sent my son to this earth to have eternal life.
In other words, he sent his son into this world to save everyone.
Then, how did the Lord who came into this world for that purpose act?
You just need to know that. What the Lord has done on this earth is our principle.
That principle is made clear in Galatians 5:22-24.
That is the fruit of the Spirit.
“The fruit of the Spirit is ① love, ② joy, ③ peace, ④ patience, ⑤ kindness, ⑥ goodness, and ⑦ faithfulness.
It is said that there is no law against such things as sexuality, ⑧ meekness, and ⑨ self-control.
This fruit of the Spirit is the form of life that the Lord practiced on this earth, and
It is an absolute given. Therefore, following Christ is
It means living in the Spirit to bear the fruit of the Spirit.
The great social activity of Christians consists in bearing the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Christians must be crucified with our passions as well.
So by his love, by his joy, by his peace, by his long-suffering
By his mercy, by his goodness, by his faithfulness, by his meekness, by his
You will have to live with the abstinence of This is the Christian principle of conduct.
Because Jesus Christ accomplished God's will in this very place.
So he told his disciples to receive the Holy Spirit.
3. 'I am also sending you' is the Lord's promise to be with you.
Now, who concretely can live by this principle?
They must be people who have been born again by the Holy Spirit.
People who are born of the Holy Spirit change people. Even personality changes.
Change your mind, change your outlook on life, change your values.
So you can tell the difference between
become a person Because Christ lived like this.
So, we live by looking to the Lord.
The writer of Hebrews said, “Let us look to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.
For the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame.
He is seated at the right hand of the throne of your God” (Hebrews 12:2).
The word we should pay attention to here is that we were not ashamed of the cross.
In the eyes of the world, there is nothing as shameful as the cross.
The cross was a curse, a crushing defeat, despair, and death.
The cross was ridicule, disgrace, shame, and defeat.
But our Lord was not ashamed of it for the joy that was set before him.
said. From a theological point of view, it is a shame and shame for the Son of God to come to this earth in the flesh. The Son of Almighty God in the humble stable
What a shame it is to be born in and the Son of God the Son
What a shame it would be to work as a carpenter's son in the slum of Nazareth.
Did you!
But the Lord was not at all ashamed of it.
Jesus was never ashamed of poverty.
How unbearable it is to be handed over to sinners and crucified naked.
It was a humiliation and a shame! However, our Lord is not ashamed of the suffering
I wasn't embarrassed. If the Lord was ashamed, poor and sinful man
God's love for salvation, joy, peace, patience, mercy, goodness, and loyalty
He would not have shown meekness, meekness, and self-control. Rather, the Lord fulfills his mission
and was proud of doing the will of Heavenly Father.
So, how should we live in this world today?
What would the Lord's command mean, 'I am sending you too'?
Like the Lord, if we distinguish between what we should be ashamed of and what we should not be ashamed of,
It means you have to live. We, too, should not be ashamed of the hardships we face when we live according to the word of the Lord. Because this is the principle of the Christian life.
is.
People in the world are shy when they drive a small car.
The world is ashamed of living in an apartment of small square footage.
The world is ashamed of small income.
The people of the world are ashamed when they get sick or when difficulties come to their homes.
But true Christians who follow our Lord need not be ashamed of that. You will never be upright Christians by being ashamed of such things.
You can not. There is never anything to be ashamed of.
Rather, if the result of my honest and true living is poverty and weakness of the flesh,
It will not be a shame, but a great pride and a crown before God.
What we should be ashamed of is bribery, injustice, intemperance, greed, and nothingness.
Discerning luxury, vanity, debauchery, pride, false abundance
it will be moving Talking about nothing people say they have money
Well, that's something to be ashamed of.
Therefore, Ephesians 5:11-12 says, “Do not partake of unfruitful works of darkness.
Rather, rebuke them, for the things they do in secret are a shame to speak."
It was.
The Lord is with the evangelists.
The proof is the power of the Holy Spirit.
He said, 'Breathe out and receive the Holy Spirit.'
This means the power of the Lord.
It speaks of the power of resurrection.
Human affairs depend on one's own abilities, but in God's work, the Lord is with them.
It means, 'The sins of any ye are forgiven you; and whose sins ye leave, you
It is well expressed in the saying, 'There will always be.
It is truly amazing.
Individual human beings are lacking, but the Lord will exalt him to those with whom the power of the Lord is with him.
You write it. So evangelism is not about having knowledge.
Evangelism is not something you can do well with a high IQ.
Evangelism is possible through the power of the Holy Spirit.
If you are filled with the Holy Spirit today, you can become a witness of the resurrection.
May we all be filled with the Holy Spirit and live as witnesses of the resurrection. ♣