Title Servants of God (Sunday Sermon on December 31, 2006)
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Bible: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9. Sunday sermon on December 31, 2006.
Title: Servants of God.
I believe that God will give you great grace today.
Whenever we are good friends
You should be able to say the right thing.
And you have to be able to tell someone else's story from an objective point of view,
And those who hear it well accept
You should be able to improve yourself.
But, for most people, they see themselves as being too absolute.
Because of (asserting only one's own righteousness), they do not listen well to others.
On the contrary, I feel very upset when someone says something. That
and some become angry and cut off any further conversations, or
There are times when they think of it as an enemy.
Mainly, the older you are, the lower your mental age is.
It's like a child who doesn't like hard foods.
Newborn babies only feed on their mother's milk.
And when they grow up a little, they start eating baby food.
And when the teeth start to come out, it is only then that you start eating hard food.
And after that, when they grow up, they eat anything.
In today's text, the condition of the members of the Corinthian church is
Soon you will be like a child. Can't eat hard food
On a spiritual level, it is explained that they are in a situation where they are breastfed.
The Apostle Paul said that man's dependence on human wisdom alone
How foolish before God the Corinthian church
Explains in simple words in detail to the saints.
But it's like breastfeeding a child.
That's how you teach it.
They are just being careful and treating them with love and patience.
Everyone! This world is truly a scary world.
People's spiritual eyes are all closed.
So I can't see the world properly.
They are only looking at the material world.
Everyone! A herd of lions is swarming outside now.
This world is like the animal kingdom you see on TV.
It is a world where the principle of weak and strong food is being kept as it is.
So if you sell your eyes, you will be caught and eaten.
Anyone who does not develop their own strength will be pushed out of the logic of strength.
You get caught in the food chain. So we have to be mindful.
Therefore, we are spiritually vigilant in our faith.
You will have to pray so that you will not be possessed by Satan.
Everyone! Satan's forces are coming like a herd of lions.
1 Peter 5:8-9. Be sober and awake, your adversary the devil is crying
Prowls around like a lion, looking for someone to devour.
Oppose me, for even your brethren in the world
knowing that they are going through the same suffering.
Everyone! What is the world? It is like a lever field.
If you step on the wrong foot a little, it will explode instantly.
There is no one to hold on to.
Truly, it is dangerous to walk on thin ice.
The world we live in is.
But everyone! Look at this world now.
Even in such a scary world, people can relate to each other
I'm not in the mood to fight.
And everyone lives with Han (恨).
Not only that, but also out of hatred and revenge.
It is full. That's why in the end
It means that you will end up in a situation where you will suffer from fishermanship (漁父之利).
Everyone! Listen! The comrade next to us who we had been fighting with until now (the people of God)
Bitten by a lion, torn to shreds, bleeding
Even in death, he only insists on his own righteousness until the end.
I don't know what all these people are doing.
If we are true friends, we pray together, we sing hymns together,
We should be able to worship together. Not only when I'm happy, but also when I'm sad
A true friend is someone you can work with.
If we are comrades fighting together on the same front
We eat together, sleep together, and march together.
You're fighting a war together, right?
The front of the gospel and the front of missions are the same.
We also have comrades who fight together.
Galatians 5:13-15. brothers, you
was called to freedom, but to that freedom
Do not use the flesh as an opportunity, but serve one another out of love.
14) The whole law said, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Did it come true in one word?
15) If you bite and eat each other, be careful not to destroy each other.
Everyone! Everywhere fighting is each other
Is it because you want to get higher? Politicians fight like that, right?
Are you trying to ignore the achievements of others and only reveal your own achievements?
Isn't that how you try to seize a high position even by deceiving the people?
Everyone! What are we talking about in today's sermon?
Are you not talking about the quarrel between the planter and the waterer?
The problem is that it is only God who makes it grow.
Those who plant and those who water are common.
And these are all servants of God,
They teach that they are co-workers. So they are God's workers.
Therefore, they are only servants of God.
That is why he rewards each of his servants according to their hard work.
Everyone! One night Yunan is bright and the big star is far away from the East
Guide the wise men to Bethlehem in the land of Judea
We guide you to the place where the baby Jesus was born.
After that, the star that fulfilled its mission immediately disappears.
Because the star only took them to Bethlehem.
The mission was only to guide you.
Now the object to be worshiped by the wise men
It was the baby Jesus, not the star.
So the star that has fulfilled its mission is no longer
There was no reason to stay.
Everyone! Aren't we too attached to our achievements?
And don't you try to reveal those achievements too much?
Everyone! We only have to do our mission,
It should be borne in mind that it is by no means an object of worship.
He is just the colt of a donkey who takes Jesus until he enters Jerusalem.
He never deserves to be praised and worshiped by anyone on the street.
You'll have to keep that fact in mind.
We are but donkeys carrying the gospel of our Lord,
We are by no means the gospel itself.
That's why we're not that great of ourselves.
But most people do when they are exalted and valued.
There are those who do not know that this is because of Jesus.
That's why some people lose their minds and feel ashamed.
Therefore, from now on, even in Haengyeo, our original duty
There should be no forgetting.
I hope you have a good old year and welcome the new year
The meaningful grace of Song Gu-Young-Shin
I wish you all the best. Amen.