Title If the righteous could barely be saved...!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: 1 Peter 4:12-19
Title: If the righteous are barely saved...!
Human beings born in sin must believe in the Son of God in order to come before God. In order to believe in the Son, they must first hear the Word and realize their sins. A person who does not believe in the Son cannot come before God after all, so no matter what he did, his religious life was nothing more than building up his own beliefs in the end. The reason why the Pharisees, the scribes, and the lawyers, were unable to come before God despite their hard work in faith was because they did not believe in Jesus, the Son of God.
Before God sent his Son, the law was first given to humans so that believers could live under it, so that all believers could be made sinners who broke the law and imprisoned under him and granting grace through the Son of God. Everything written in the New Testament is actually a book written to tell you this.
Therefore, when Gentiles read the New Testament today, it should not be misunderstood that the New Testament is just a book that serves the same role as the Old Testament to Gentiles. In other words, it is a book that records what will happen to the spiritual Gentiles in the future. All the things written in the New Testament are the words that the spiritual son will come back to fulfill.
Therefore, the servants living under the law today are all sinners, and no one can come before God as they are today. We must cast off our sins and come before God. To do this, Gentiles must also meet the Son of God and be born anew. Only then can we approach God in a perfect form. However, in order to get rid of sins and be born anew, one must go through the pain of childbirth once more.
When you live your life of faith as a servant under the law, such suffering does not follow. That is why many people flock from all directions after hearing the evangelist's words that they can go to heaven. An evangelist who preaches the gospel is just a trumpeter who preaches the things that will be fulfilled in the future. It is unknown whether even himself who speaks like that will lead to eternal life. What they are saying (Jesus + Heaven) is definitely true.
However, he himself does not know how to properly believe in Jesus. Jesus is not a belief in words. If you confess with your mouth that you believe in Jesus, a life comparable to that must follow. But who among Christians today lives the life of Jesus? Even if I wash my eyes and look for it, I can't find it. So, it is easy to say that you believe in God with your mouth, but it is not difficult to believe in the Son. In order to believe in the Son, the kingdom must die, so as long as one's self is alive, the kingdom of heaven remains as the bread of the picture.
So, let's take a brief look at how to best believe in the Son of God! A theory is just a blueprint. However, you cannot build a house with only blueprints. Of course, you definitely need blueprints to build a house. However, if you only have the blueprint and do not move your limbs, the blueprint is just a piece of tissue paper. If the blueprints are ready to build a house, then let's build a house according to the blueprints. In short, it is the process of putting theory into practice. This process can be said to be the most important key factor.
The same is true of our religious life. Everyone knows that if you believe in Jesus you will go to heaven. But that's just a theory, not really believing in Jesus. In order to believe in Jesus, one's self must die. After living together with him for decades, one day he suddenly wants to abandon himself, so how easy is that? In order to abandon yourself, you must believe in someone. How can you boldly abandon yourself if the person you believe in is unknown? That is why it is easy to believe in Jesus in words, but even more difficult to put it into practice.
Today's Christians say that even after decades of zealous faith life, bad things happen at the end because everyone has only a blueprint to believe in Jesus, but in fact, they have never really believed in Jesus. This was also true of the Jews. In order to believe in Jesus, the Son of God must come before believers.
Before the Jews, Jesus came in human form. However, the spiritual Son of God has not yet come before Christians. But as you said and promised in the New Testament, the spiritual Son of God must come among the Gentiles. No, he has already come and is secretly training your servants. However, because the time has not come, he has not yet appeared in the world.
Those who are being trained by the Son should be careful not to forsake themselves. To be forsaken means not to consider yourself righteous. If you still don't realize yourself and don't believe what they say at the pulpit (all humans are dead because of their sins), you're likely to be abandoned.
In order for us to give up our own lives, we must have something to take our place. Otherwise, no one can abandon himself. Just as Abraham believed in God and was able to sacrifice his son on the altar at that time, just as Rahab believed in God and saved the spies, so we will be able to give up our lives only by relying on someone.
For you, that is the most important task you have to solve right now. If this is not resolved, all the efforts accumulated so far will be in vain. Who will believe in this pulpit and put everything down for themselves? Only those who trust and trust him will be able to sacrifice his son like Abraham and save the spies like Rahab the prostitute. To believe in this pulpit is to believe in the Son of God, and because you believe in the Son, you will be able to give up your life easily. But nothing can be given up to those who do not believe. In the end, he will have no choice but to believe in himself and live.