Title Servant's Status and Son's Status!!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Galatians 4:1-7
Title: The Status of a Servant and the Status of a Son!!
When a certain king has an only son after a long time, in the hope that he will become a virtuous king who takes good care of his people, he thoroughly hides his son's identity and is led by a nurse to live among the world. Let them experience a harsh and lowly life in the place they live. It hurts his parents, but in order to raise him as an upright king, he must also avoid recognition between the father and son.
The king's son, who does not know English, has to endure severe ordeal as if he was born into a poor family without knowing that he is a prince. He doesn't envy or discourage the children of affluent families while they study while wearing good clothes all year round and feeding them whatever they want to eat every day. The more they do it, the more he clenched his teeth and firmly determined that he will be successful. Studying while sleeping, you will be whipping yourself more and more.
The king's son did not show any weakness in his heart, even in the midst of difficult life. Each time he felt weak, he burned his will one by one, whipping his heart more and more. The king's son had been trained so thoroughly until he reached adulthood. The king's son lived among the lowest and lowly people, and there he thoroughly experienced and learned the suffering of those who do not have, and the tyranny of those who have. This was exactly what the king wanted to get. Now, knowing that the time has finally come to hand over the throne to him, the king invites his son into the palace.
After hearing all this from the king, the son was confused for a while and resented his father for making him go through such a difficult life even though he was a prince. You will soon understand when you learn that it was the love of a father who wanted him to become a human and sit on the throne. When such a son becomes king, it goes without saying that the country will achieve a peaceful and peaceful life, and how happy will the people live under a benevolent king?
What we have seen so far is a reproduction of a situation that could happen on this earth. It is questionable whether there will be such a king and son in this world, but if human beings can abandon their own greed, it will not be impossible at all on this earth. However, it is only in question whether humans can give up their desires and devote themselves to others.
If so, is this really possible in the kingdom of God? Not only is it possible ten or a hundred times, but in order to become the Son of God, one must go through these procedures before entering. The Lord is saying that anyone who wants to enter the kingdom of God without going through these procedures is a robber and a thief. The Bible is full of these stories. However, believers today are completely ignoring these facts.
Why do they ignore these facts while calling God their Father? The reality is that they are not really the sons of God. God also doesn't force them to undergo such rigorous training because they aren't really His sons. As we have seen above, if a true king, as in the above article, would like his son to inherit his throne, he would want his son to become a much better king than himself. In order to create a king who can look back on the lives of such people, it is not because he studies a lot, but rather, he has to let the people live in harmony with the people from an early age, and naturally learn the life of grassroots.
How much more should it be to raise a king of a trivial land, but how much more would it be to raise the Son of God, the King of kings, over all heaven and earth. It's not even your own child, so there's no need for such rigorous training. Of course, even if you are not someone who will live as a child of God, after receiving this hard training, it will be of great help to those who have lived the same life as a naughty person until now.
However, God does not force these people to undergo such rigorous training as God gives them. That is why even among those who have come here, those who do not like this kind of training and refinement and continue to look good in the world are telling them to leave this place at any time. God tells us that if there are people who want to become His sons because they are different from human thoughts, they must go through the gate that God has given them.
However, those who want to live as slaves can live as slaves without having to go through such a gate. However, the status of a servant is always more unstable than that of a son. A servant is good ten times, and if he makes one mistake, he is immediately expelled from his master's house. But even if the son makes a mistake a hundred times or a thousand times, as long as he admits his mistake, he is immediately forgiven. This is the difference between a servant and a son. The fact that Christians today do not always shake off their uneasy mind even when they call God their Father is an undeniable proof that they are servants.
What is the identity of a servant? All those who believe in Jesus and become God's people on this earth are called servants. In other words, all Christians today who have received the Holy Spirit are slaves. And the status of a son means that those who used to live as slaves believe in Christ who came spiritually, and those who are born again in Christ have the status of being the sons of God. Jews had to believe in Jesus who came in the flesh to become the Son of God, and Christians today must believe in Jesus (the Son) who comes spiritually to become the perfect son of God.
The Israelites who lived under the Law at that time also called God their father, but they all had the status of servants. Just as they could become sons of God only if they believed in the Son who came as the Lord of Heaven, Christians today are not free from sin. It is the spiritual Lord who comes before Christians spiritually who will set them free from these sins. Today's Christians must believe in the spiritually coming Lord to be freed from sin and become perfect sons of God.