Title Pride, neglect, deception / Galatians 6:7-10
Galatians 6:7-10
Don't deceive yourself. God is not to be ridiculed. Whatever a man sows, he will reap what he sows. Whoever sows according to the desires of the flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, and whoever sows according to the will of the Spirit will receive eternal life from the Spirit. In doing good, let us not become discouraged. If you do not fall from exhaustion, you will reap when the time is right. So, while we have the opportunity, let's do good to everyone. Let's do this especially to the members of the faith.
Matthew 25:23-46
Then his master said to him, 'You wicked and lazy servant, you thought that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not sow. If so, you should have entrusted my money to the money-player. If I had, I would have come and paid interest on my money. Take the one talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. To those who have, more will be given, and from those who do not have, even what they have will be taken away. Cast this useless servant out into the darkness. There will be grievous weeping and grinding of teeth.
Isaiah 2:11-12
In that day, man's arrogant eyes will be swept away, man's stubbornness will be broken, and only the Lord will be exalted. That day was prepared by the Lord of hosts. It is the day when all the proud and the arrogant will be humbled.
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The Bible emphasizes that human beings are spiritual beings made in the image of God and are called to realize themselves, bearing the fruits of life such as truth, goodness, and beauty. However, at the same time, it declares that human beings have critical flaws and sinful tendencies that are not easily healed in human nature, and are so fatally problematic that they must be re-created. Doctrineically, it is called that, and it says that human beings are born into the world stained with 'original sin', and cannot see the 'Kingdom of God' until they are born again as new beings through the power and grace of the Holy Spirit. Then, more specifically, what is the concrete reality of the original sin tendency, that is, the original sin nature, which is fatally stigmatized in our spiritual life like the Mongolian spots of the Mongols?
The Bible summarizes the three most fundamental aspects of sin, which take concrete form and appear in the nature of human original sin. That is pride, negligence, and deception. If we dig into the causes of all the ills of personal and social sins, there are three things that can be caught like boils, and the Bible reveals that they are pride, negligence, and deception.
Today's passage from Isaiah specifically warns against the sin of pride. On that day, the Lord's Day, "The haughty eyes of men will die, the wrinkle of men will be crushed, and the Lord alone will be exalted. That day the Lord of hosts has prepared. All the proud and the arrogant, all the arrogant, It's a low day."
The dictionary meaning of the word 'pride' is to show off and be rude. However, if we look more carefully in a religious sense, the human disease of 'pride' lies deeper. 'Pride' is a form in which a person does not acknowledge his finite creation, does not have a heart of gratitude and humility in front of the Creator, and causes beatings in the Garden of Life, saying that he is the master of life. It is the impulse of self-bluff to become great alone, without acknowledging that all humans are beings who cannot but live together. It is a false heroism that does not acknowledge the Creator and thinks that he is the master of life and can further control other lives. Ultimately, it manifests itself as a self-centered selfishness that tries to arrange, possess, and dominate all things that exist around it, conceiting that 'one can become like God'.
The second symptom of human original sinfulness is a disease called 'negligence', which is easy to think of as the opposite of 'pride' on the surface. It is true that Christianity traditionally warns a lot about human 'pride', but not much about the sin of 'negligence'. However, as the parable of Jesus in the parable of the talents in Matthew's Gospel suggests, 'negligence' is implied in the parable of Jesus, who does not understand even the prudence of burying in the ground, and gives harsh rebukes that are difficult to understand at first glance, for fear that the person who received the month will lose the principal. 'Sin is as deadly as the sin of 'pride'. In a nutshell, the sin of 'negligence' is the act of realizing the life God has given, not making the most of the opportunities and conditions of life that have been given to it, and not making full use of the opportunities and conditions of life, laziness, desperation, and fear of creative adventures. It means to belittle yourself for being non-existent.
'Pride' and 'negligence' are the two sides of human original sinfulness, in that they both attempt to conceal themselves from God and man once more as a common protective color of 'deception' in order to excuse themselves. revealed. 'Deceit' is to deceive others. However, in order to deceive others, whether the object is God or fellow human beings, man is built so that he cannot plausibly deceive others without first deceiving his own conscience. Therefore, in today's Galatians, the apostle warns, emphasizing, "Do not deceive yourself. God is not blessed. Whatever a man sows, he will also reap." Man's original sinful nature finally loses his truth and reveals its true nature clearly in the sinful nature of 'deception'.
The gospel testifies. All of them have lost the image of God, but they have not lost the image of one God. Rather, they are living a life of humility rather than pride, sincerity not negligence, and truthfulness not deception before God and men. It testifies that there is a way of Jesus who made a way. He is the image of an unsickened God, the second Adam. In him there is light and life, and the power to heal and transform. He has the power to forgive all sins, and he has the power to wash the face that has become ugly like the devil with the face of a child of God and turn it back to red.
In this century of chaos, in this rebellious age, when pride, deception, and negligence are rampant as if it were the way of a normal person, the more Christians think about Jesus, look to Jesus, and run to Jesus' camp to build the kingdom of God. Let's join us in spreading the solidarity front we want to go.