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see your calling
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
(1 Corinthians 1:26) Behold your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble (1 Corinthians 1:27) But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to give to the wise. He chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong (1 Corinthians 1:28); God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are (1 Corinthians 1:29) (1 Corinthians 1:30) You are of God and are in Christ Jesus, who has come from God to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:31). so that it may be done, as it is written, "He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."
In James 1,
(James 1:9) Let the younger brother boast in his loftiness (James 1:10), and the rich brother boast in his humility, for it passes by like a flower of grass.
It is not that there are not people who have worldly knowledge, rich people, and good families in the church. And that doesn't mean they shouldn't come to church.
It is not the same Bible as the activist students claiming that all the rich are exploiters are evil, and the poor are poor people who are exploited and they are good.
According to the Bible, in Christ, there are rich and poor, ignorant people, educated people, people of good families, and people of little family. Everything is there.
In fact, how rich would it be if you were worldly rich and worldly smart? How can we follow God's wealth and God's wisdom and knowledge? The really smart people are in the church. Those who are corrected are in the church. Who is wise? He fears God and knows he is nothing. This person is a smart person, a straight person.
Therefore, a brother who is low in the world is told to boast of his highness in the church. He told us to think about the riches of faith and its worth in Christ.
In addition, a brother who is rich in the world is told to show humility with a repentant heart, knowing that he was arrogant, boastful, and arrogant in the past with how little he had. Why? Because it passes by like a flower in the grass.
In the words of this text, Paul is talking about how God called the church in Corinth.
In fact, the Corinthian church boasted and boasted about itself too much. They were human-centered. Because of this, the church is in chaos, and the danger of division and separation has come.
There is no room for human pride in the gospel of grace to which God has called us.
This is not to say that you were called based on a person's appearance, social status, merits, achievements, wealth, or wealth revealed in some work.
In the New Testament, people of high status are often mentioned. However, most of the believers were people of low status in the world.
He reminds me of three things about the church in Corinth.
First, remind them of their past state before calling them.
Most of them were neither wise nor competent. The family wasn't good. Indeed, when the Greeks saw the early church, they were such people who could be called a gathering of ugly and foolish people.
God did not call them because of what they were.
Rather, verse 27 says that they were 'fools'. This foolish word literally translates to 'choose the heinous sinners of the world'.
Also, they are the 'weak ones' in the world. They have no power. There are those who are sick and weak in body, and there are those who are weak in heart.
Also, God has chosen those who are lowly, despised, and do not exist in the world.
This is God's method of choice that does not fit the world's standards.
Hagi is said to be proud of those who graduated from local second-class universities rather than those who graduated from first-class universities in large corporations these days. Why? People who think they are good and smart have no loyalty, they have confidence without feeling like they have to be here, so they can go in and out of the company as they please.
However, the best way to hire people in the world is to hire them as report employees with their own skills.
But see that God has chosen us and called us.
There are more poor people than good people in the world, and there are more weak people than strong people in the world. There are more corrupt people in the church than healthy people in the world. Rather, God chooses the things that are neither inferior nor weak.
It is the same with choosing Israel from among the many nations and choosing Jacob.
It is the same with Jesus calling the twelve disciples. Rather than calling those who say that there is hope in the world, they are calling those who say that they have no hope but God, who have lost all hope in the world.
Second, it reminds them why God called them.
God has chosen the foolish, weak, lowly, and despised of the world to show His grace to a proud world, and to show how futile and trivial what the world seeks.
Eternal life cannot be obtained with the wealth, education, and family that the world boasts, but when those who have it depend on it and do not return to God, there is no such thing. It makes you realize what you really need in life.
Also, it puts them to shame, who walk proudly with the things of the world, and who regarded the precious gospel of God as foolishness. God is going to destroy everything in this world. Even all these things are given by God, and when God destroys them all, those who do not have eternal life with these will be ashamed.
Here is the work of those who have been saved.
What should those who have been saved do now?
You have to start with the realization that you were weak, ugly, and foolish. Is there anyone who can tell God that he is not? As He said about the church in Laodicea (Revelation 3:17), you say, ?쏧 am rich, and I have prospered, and need nothing. But I do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.??(Revelation 3:18) Buy from me gold refined by fire, that I may be rich; buy white robes, so that I may not see the shame of my nakedness; and buy eye drops, that I may see
The more you have this awareness, the more grateful you are for the grace.
Do you believe that it is the grace of God that has come to you now? if so --
What kind of life should we live to be worthy of our calling?
I was told not to brag about any body.
We have been saved free of charge.
Even in this world, God is visible.
He saves the unwise and makes them wise. He chooses those who do not have anything in the world and gives them eternal things, as well as the material things of the world. It also makes the unhealthy people healthy.
If we do this, we will soon become arrogant. I think I have something to do with this. It is difficult to know that it is the grace of God. I know there is something in me that saved me.
We are ugly people.
We are none.
We are saved from among sinners.
We were sick. This must not be forgotten.
The Corinthian church forgot this.
He gave me the gift, so I am proud of thinking that I had something in the first place. I criticize my brother who doesn't exist.
There are bound to be many mistakes while working in the church.
The church was created by gathering the poor and the poor.
So what are we perfect?
Accountant can't get the money right? We are like that.
You say you're sitting in the choir, can't you read the sheet music? let's not curse We are all like that.
If you were a good person too - God wouldn't have called you.
Because we are not good, we have received the precious salvation that cannot be achieved through our wisdom, strength, or good deeds. If I have anything, I have received it all from God, so what do I boast about and know that it is mine, so I am proud and criticize others?
But the power of the gospel chooses fools to be good to the world and to shame those who say they are wise. The power of this gospel can turn any heinous sinner back to God. You have the power to change. Here is the path to becoming righteous.
Third, it reminds the church of Corinth that we have in Christ.
Christ has provided us with everything we truly need.
There was no reason to be jealous and fight. Not knowing that we were given something too big, yes.
Christ is our wisdom.
Indeed, Christ is our wisdom to God. The one who has attained Christ is the one who has attained the greatest wisdom of any worldly fool. He doesn't know too much secret. Above all disciplines is theology. The knowledge of God is greater and transcendent than any other science in the world.
Proverbs tells us to seek this wisdom. Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
Christ has become our righteousness.
Christ clothed those who believe in the righteousness achieved through the shedding of blood on the cross. It is through the clothed righteousness of Christ that we come to God. Christ alone is the righteousness of the believer. Where is our righteousness?
Christ is our holiness.
We, who believed, are walking the step of sanctification today.
Who do we resemble today? The goal of our holiness is Christ. Believers can live holy lives through the Spirit of Christ.
It is about overcoming sin and living a life of sanctification.
Christ became the redemption of believers.
This redemption refers to the freedom of believers. When Jesus returns, our salvation will be fully realized.
All these blessings have come true in Jesus Christ.
So, why not love someone?
There is no difference between what Paul received and the grace that Peter received, isn't it?
What more precious and greater grace can there be than this?
If you have received it, why do you live like those who did not receive it?
We have nothing to be proud of.
We have nothing to criticize or condemn others for.
We should boast of the Lord because of His grace.
We should not brag about ourselves or others.
Have something to brag about?
Let only the Lord be proud.
How do you brag?
Pride is gratitude.
It is to praise.
It is our life that glorifies God.
A person who brags about his own thing seems to brag about it by showing it off with dung. It's arm out. Pride should boast in the Lord, with what we have gained in the Lord, and boast in the Lord. Good God, thank you God...