Title Reaction - Nov 21, 2010
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(1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in everything, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1. What is your relationship with God?
1) It is said that unbelievers want to be comforted by making their own gods for Christians.
- Do we not have any such consciousness in ourselves?
* There are many man-made gods in Japan and India. The Land of Eight Million Gods (Aoyorozu no Kami)
* They sometimes worship monkeys, cats, and rocks as gods. : Kamidana
* They make gods to serve for their own blessings or disasters that may arise.
* At home and at work, their god-consciousness framed the culture.
* For them, worshiping a god is synonymous with jinx.
* Rather than not worshiping God and worrying about it, it is more meaningful to do it once.
* Worshiping God has no influence on their daily life. There is only consciousness.
* Their real life takes form with little or no divine interference.
- How are we? Isn't it the same as the Japanese ceremonial form?
* Do you interfere and respond to God in your daily life?
* Because God exists, do you think carefully and discern through the Bible?
* Are all practical daily lives answered by God?
2) Today's text is to respond by God in your life.
- God wants everyone to respond to Himself in Jesus. : God's will
* In the past, when you did not know God, you reacted in darkness and dominion.
(Ephesians 2:2-3) “At that time you walked in them, following the customs of this world, and following the prince of the power of the air, a spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience, in which we all formerly followed the lusts of our flesh. and did the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like others.”
* Now you have become a light in Jesus who has become light.
(Ephesians 5:8) “You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light.”
- All actions in one's life must be responded to by God.
* You must see the beautiful mountains and streams and respond by God's creation.
* You must respond to your joys and sorrows with the teachings of the Bible that God has given you.
* Mourning: (Psalm 119:20) “My heart is broken because I always long for your statutes.”
* Joy: (Philippians 4:10) “I rejoice greatly in the Lord, because what you thought about me sprouts again, and you also thought about it, but there was no opportunity.”
* Sorrow: (Lamentations 2:11) “My eyes are broken with tears, my intestines are boiled, and my liver is poured out on the ground, for my virgins and my people are destroyed, and the little children and the sucklings are confused in the streets of the city.”
* Wrath: Moses' wrath (Exodus 32:19) “When they came near the camp, and saw the calf and its dancing, he became enraged and threw the tablets out of his hand down the mountain and broke them.”
* Joy: (2 Samuel 6:16) “As the ark of the LORD was coming into the city of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked out through the spear and saw King David jumping and dancing before the LORD, and she was despised in her heart.”
2. Are we really responding to God?
1) What do you always rejoice in?
- Most of us have selfish pleasures.
* Wealth is the greatest reason for achieving our joy.
* When you gain social honor or be recognized by those around you, you are likely to fly.
* Most do everything they can for this joy. : injustice
* But do we take the highest pleasure as the fruit of our labor for the purpose of God, which is man's duty?
2) What do you pray for?
- Most of people's prayers are selfish for themselves.
* Ask for blessings in one's life, fulfillment of one's purpose, and blessings for one's bones and flesh.
* To solve their own problems, they sometimes even fast to save. : hunger strike
* But have you ever prayed for the kingdom of God and its righteousness in the first place?
* Do you pray first to become more faithful and faithful to God?
3) What are you grateful for?
- Many people's gratitude to God is clich d.
* Many thanks are biased towards formality without sincerity from the heart.
* Do you think that your thanks to God is an expression of your confession due to your heartfelt gratitude?
* How do you respond to the Lord's grace for your life?
* True gratitude to God is confirmed through actions in the life of that life.
* When most prayers are answered, the help of those around us takes precedence over gratitude to God.
* Give thanks to God in spare time.
4) Gratitude in today's text is to be a confessional response through God in everything.
- We must respond as we respond to God as we respond to our parents and children.
* How would you react if God was a visible being?
* We must respond to all things through God and approach God with all our hearts.
(Exodus 33:11) “The Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend, and Moses returned to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, the young man, did not leave the tent of meeting.”