Title Invisible Being (1 Timothy 06:15-16)
Content In modern times, the vision of faith is broadly expanding from the church to the neighborhood and society. Because the cross of Christ is the atoning death for the sins of all mankind, I think this tendency to go out into the world with deep interest in the souls of unbelievers is very important and precious. However, the problem is that it is good to go to the world, but sometimes faith and the gospel are weakened, and there is a big problem in being reinterpreted by the world.
Even the unchangeable existence of God, that God, the Creator, is self-existent and omniscient and omnipotent, is shaking in today's theological world. This is a major crisis.
『The Denial of God』is not only the philosopher 『Nietzsche』 had done before, 『Freud』 and 『Karl Marx』 also challenged its existence, and 『Comte』 of the mid-19th century as a positivist denies the existence of God, which cannot be seen as a positivist. I did.
Some theologians of our time today say, "God is dead" rather than denying that "there is no God". Professor Hamilton of Emory University said, "God is dead in our time and history." He also says, "The god did not kill man, but God himself."
Here, they did not have a right angle view of spiritual beings that they could not see and could not see. It acknowledges only the visible but the disappearing.
According to the Bible, spiritual beings are either angels, demons, seraphs, or immortal beings. How much more, as John 4:24 says, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” God, who is the source of all beings (whether spiritual or physical), has an immortal nature. In verse 16 of today's text, it says, "Only him has immortality..." This is a statement that teaches that the idea that God, the Spirit, dies is absurd and untruthful.
They are merely positivists who cannot acknowledge the existence of an existence that cannot be proven by natural science. They are looking for gods, but they are looking for gods that appear in microscopes or telescopes.
So they acknowledge Jesus but not God.
The Jesus they are talking about, which modern radical theologians are talking about, is the human Jesus as a historical figure, and the attraction they feel through him is either ethical or didactic. They do not believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Savior.
Peter, the disciple of the Lord, was the one who observed Jesus most closely than anyone else. He was a person who saw more people than anyone else, such as being tired and starving when he couldn't eat. However, to the Lord's question, "Who do you think I am?", he confessed his faith, saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And the Lord said that this confession of Peter's faith taught the Spirit of God to know.
In Genesis 4, we see Cain and Abel building an altar to God. Cain, as a farmer, offered sacrifices with farmed plants, and his younger brother, Abel, as a shepherd, sacrificed a lamb as a sacrifice. As a result, though, Abel's offering was acceptable, but Cain's offering was not. Why did you prepare your own offerings and offer them, but one was acceptable and the other was not?
That's because there is a difference in the underlying issue. The question is whether there is blood in the sacrifice. Cain asked him to go out with the reward for his hard work and hard work and acknowledge himself. He is the symbol of materialism and humanists who say that through human effort and effort, one can become happy on his own and achieve salvation on his own. In a word, they are natural people.
But Abel offered a sacrifice of bloodshed that killed the lamb.
This is a sacrifice that acknowledges that one is a sinner, and serves as a model of God's faith, believing in the grace of God's forgiveness and humbly bowing down to God. In other words, they are of the spirit.
Hear God's warning to Israel!
“Egypt was a man, not a god, a body, not a spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will fall, and the helper will fall, and they will all perish.
The stalwart Egyptian soldiers, the horsemen that run while flying dust like clouds, the iron chariots that shake the earth's axis, and the Egyptian army, the greatest power in the world at the time, are the greatest. However, if you look at Isaiah 33:9 to 34:11, it is said that even that strong Egypt will be destroyed. These words teach us that if we do not depend on God but on the material things of the world, on human wisdom and on human righteousness, we will eventually be destroyed.
Therefore, we must not take the name of God in vain. There will always be a time of judgment by the living God. After Adam's transgression, people gradually fell into sin. I lived a life without God. As if seeing the world was everything, he was absorbed in eating, drinking, getting married, marrying, and having fun. What happened in the end? The voices of their sins reached the heavens, and God judged them with a great flood. Except for Noah and his family, who lived with faith in God, they were killed cleanly.
But folks! Now a greater judgment awaits us. It is a judgment of fire that never goes out and never dies. The most tragic destruction. This judgment will be given without exception to those who say, “God is dead” and live without God. That place is hell.
However, it is the most blessed day for those who believe in God and believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior. It is a day to look forward to the new heavens and new earth. It is a day to meet the dead in the Lord, and the most precious thing is to be reunited with the Lord.
Now, we must look to that day and live a life of waiting for the Lord. See Isaiah 40:30-31.
“Even boys will be weary and weary, and young men will stumble and fall, but those who wait on the Lord will find new strength, and they will rise up like eagles on wings; they will run and not get weary, they will walk and not get weary.”
The land that the people who wait for God will enter and live in this way is a land that has been changed in a wonderful way. See Isaiah 35:6ff.
“... Water will spring up out of the wilderness, and streams will flow from the desert; the scorching desert will be turned into a lake, and the dry land will be turned into a fountain. ..'
For God's people who believe in the atoning blood of God and His Son, please believe that amazing things will also happen, when "roses from the garbage heap" bloom.