Title Let Me See You Again (February 5)
Content span id="writeContents">◆ Text: Acts 9:17-19
After the Lunar New Year, you come back and tell a lot of interesting stories. Some people like that a daughter-in-law comes in and the family is doing well, but that idea is made to work out. Everyone, if you have a good idea, it will inevitably do well. One of the butlers is He still didn't This time, he went to his hometown and played a hanbok, but he said that he only wore blood. I don't know what a bloodbath is... Then stocks went down, I bought a lottery ticket, but I didn't get any hits. I laughed and did it. “You change the church. The members of our church do not get along well because of quarrels. I can’t because my church members have been stocking up until now, and I haven’t seen them do well, and my church members never bought a lottery ticket and got hit. I told a funny story. The idea of becoming a person, it is very important for people of faith to control their thoughts. Because the Holy Spirit is the Spirit who makes us, people with the Holy Spirit are designed to become people.
The young man named Saul had everything. But he was very dwarf in appearance, and he was such a sickly man that he suffered three ailments throughout his life. Therefore, he relied on God, and to him who depended on God, he could not understand Jesus, who appeared to be the Son of God. So, at that time, he thought that the best thing he could do for God was to arrest and imprison those who believed in Jesus, whom he considered a heretic. He now sees a mysterious light on his horse as he runs to Damascus to arrest and imprison a believer in Jesus. He saw a very intense light, but no one else could see him in the same place, but only a young man named Saul was struck by the light... The light was so intense that he fell off his horse and, unable to see or eat for three days, entered a mysterious world.
At that time, there was an early church leader named Ananias, and the Holy Spirit visited Ananias and moved him. “If you go to Damascus, a young man named Saul is now through the light, and he cannot open his eyes or eat. Meet him and pray with his hands on his hands. Then his eyes will stand out, and as his eyes become visible, he will become a great figure in the early church.” What do people of faith live by? It is not about living with the knowledge of the world. We do not live by the domination of any power, but people of faith live according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
There was the guidance of the Holy Spirit, but Ananias did not understand at all. At that time, you don't know how dangerous it is to go to see Saul, the man who took the lead in arresting and imprisoning people who believe in Jesus. However, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Ananias immediately goes to Saul. As if inspired by the Holy Spirit, he finds Saul, who is embarrassed as he has neither seen nor eaten. The Bible says that when Ananias was moved by the Holy Spirit and prayed for him, scales fell from his eyes and he could see.
A person can live a perfect life only when three things are shown. A person must have good physical eyes to see the world brighter. So it is a great blessing to say that you have good eyes. Everyone, you don't know how great a blessing it is to be able to see. I also prayed like that when I couldn't see for a few days due to the aftereffects of surgery. It's okay for me to lie down, so please let me open my eyes... You don't know how great a blessing it is to see. We live without knowing whether this is a blessing because we can just see it, but it is a great blessing to say that I can see things in the world.
Guys, do you remember the word black eyes? Young people these days do not understand the story of black eyes. Because I can't hear such words... Even when I was a child, I used a word that I used a lot, but black eyes is an expression that says that even if you open your eyes, you can't read Hangul, so you can't understand it by looking at it. When I was young, there were a lot of people who did not know Korean, so I used the expression “black eyes” a lot. It's frustrating because I can't see even though there are letters.
As we live in the world, our eyes to see things are precious, but sometimes we also need to have an intelligent eye. Only when the eyes of knowledge are opened can we live in a beautiful and rewarding world. When you have such intelligent eyes, you can see the world in a beautiful way. My brother, Pastor, has such an intellectual eye. He's been really good with books all his life. When I sit with my brother, we don't have much time to talk. I always have a book open and look at it all the time. So, when I go to my brother's house, I open the book and look at it, but it is already difficult for me to do anything for an hour.
Everyone, you have to know Jesus to know who I am. I do not know how many people in the world live their whole lives without knowing who they are. That is, the spiritual person, the person who has the eyes of the spirit, will come to know Jesus and know who I am. As the spiritual eyes are finally opened, you can see that a young man named Saul is transformed into a great figure in the early church named Apostle Paul.
According to the Bible, we are not transformed into people of God without experiencing this spiritual experience. A spiritual person is not something that can be learned. It's not about training. Spiritual people say that the eyes of the spirit must be opened. How can the spirit's eyes be opened? In today's Bible, it is said that the eyes of the spirit are opened when those who have received grace pray. Everyone, even if it seems like you are not listening, your prayers for your children are always answered. He always listens to the prayer we pray for our husband, and He always listens to the prayer we pray for our wife. So you don't know how important this intercessory prayer is. When we pray, we can see that our spiritual eyes are opened.
Even if you believe for the rest of your life, if your spiritual eyes are not opened, you cannot become a man of God. Only when our spiritual eyes are opened can we stand upright as people of God. Hopefully, pray fervently that the eyes of your spirit will be opened as Saul became Paul. We want to be renewed in the Word as Saul became Paul. I hope that you will be able to stand upright as men of God as you see me when you look to heaven as truly men of God and people of power by participating diligently in spiritual gatherings. We will pray with you.
“Thank you, Father God, we are people like Saul. No matter how knowledgeable you are, no matter how powerful you are, no matter how much you have in the world, you don’t know what is in heaven, so you don’t even know yourself. Help us to open our spiritual eyes as Saul was Paul at this time. Help us to live a blessed life where we can stand as people of God by opening their spiritual eyes so that they can stand upright as spiritual people so that they can meet God and see the work of the Holy Spirit. I earnestly pray in the name of Jesus. Amen."