Title The Family of God (1 Peter 02:9)
Contents Today is the 1991 year since the Holy Spirit descended on each believer as a perfect person. It is unacceptable treatment for the Holy Spirit to enter into a humble man. It is as if the emperor came to the slum and entered our house. In this way, the supreme promise of Immanuel, the prophecy that God will be with us, has been fulfilled. By the coming of the Holy Spirit, the cave-like human heart was given a bright light and warm heat. The outsiders were completely unaware of this change.
With the coming of the Holy Spirit to us, the history of mankind undergoes a fundamental change. Outwardly, nothing had changed. That is still the case to this day. But spiritually, there was a revolution. Thousands of prisoners, cursed humans who will face the torments of hell, began to enter heaven. They have already radically changed their lives from their mortal life. Because the Holy Spirit came in and they were remade as new people.
This new person, above all else, experienced a new home. The most heavenly place in the world is home. But the unbeliever's assumption remains only half-form. By the coming of the Holy Spirit, the skeleton is filled with content. The Holy Spirit enables believers to be reborn as children of God. That is why God allows us to live in the world as a family. They have a family connected by blood like the people of the world, but in a larger sense they have a spiritual family, the church.
Originally, God had a plan to establish a family with all mankind as His children. All people have God as their father and become brothers and make this earth a paradise. But man betrayed God. He left his father and reconciled with his enemies. Since then, love has disappeared from this land. God created families so that we could taste love. That is why he allowed them to experience the least amount of love through blood.
In a home, there are parents and children are raised. From here, man learns order and begins to know the power of love. However, love itself is selfish because human beings themselves are united in sin. Fights and feuds are always involved. Nevertheless, the family is the only model in the world that makes us understand God's love. It is inconceivable to explain God and exclude the family. Without a family, there would be no way to understand God.
God explained his love based on this assumption. He explained himself as a father, mother, lover, and brother, and allowed us to taste spiritual love through the influence of the Holy Spirit. made him his own child. Now, believers have become brothers with God as their parent. All of them were proudly entitled to be part of God's family. The gathering of this whole family of God is the community called the church.
In the church, Christ is the head and the individual is its member. The church makes believers born as children of God. This is not a mental, but a spiritually real event. At this time, it is also said that being born again as a spirit is born twice. In this way, those who have been regenerated call God their Father, and those who have been born again call their brothers. They grow in faith with their father's protection and nurture. And he inherits his father's inheritance.
They eventually form the family that God originally planned. And wait for the new heavens and new earth to appear. There, God's family will live happily as one eternal family. Meanwhile, on this earth, brothers help each other and practice this eternal family. These are perfect brothers. They are brothers that are closer than unbelieving flesh and blood. A spiritual home is built when we recognize that we are. Also, by doing the work, you experience the family.
These are God's chosen people, called out of darkness, and they are kings and priests. These are the kingdoms of God and belong to God. They begin to experience the privileges they receive in the spiritual home of the church. Here, they meet their father and brother and are provided with the food of life. Here, you can taste the wonderful light of God and proclaim the virtues of God. Of all the things that exist on earth, the church is. There is nothing precious. Sitting in the back seat is a waste of waste.
Go to the kingdom of heaven. Whether a married couple is a family or not. If they are unbelievers, it has nothing to do with me. we can't meet forever There are no husbands and wives, no blood and no brothers in heaven. There is only a family made up of God's chosen people. Jesus also spoke to his mother and brothers. ?쏻ho is my mother and my brothers???Then, referring to the disciples, he said, ?쏬ook at my mother and my brothers??(Matt. 12:49). The believers around you are eternal blood and brothers.
At the same time, they experience the power of a spiritual family. Those who come in here change their lives. Hold on to the weak and encourage each other. Here we are healed, and here we forsake our sins. Here you will find peace of mind and experience what true love is. Here we grow up as children. Spiritual brothers and sisters. We must pray for each other's lives. Through prayer, spiritual brothers experience more love. Meet one another and respond with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
All of my family members resemble my father, so they are handsome. No one should feel inferior here. No one thinks I'm handsome here. If I think of myself as a good person, it's not my family. Even those who firmly believe that they are ugly do not deserve to be part of God's family. The standard of good or bad is not to be anything human. The standard is whether you are born as a child of God and have inherited the character and power of God.
Now there is only one principle or driving force that unites this family. that is love That love comes from the Holy Spirit. Love is not inherently human. Human love is selfish. True love exists only in God. It is to love itself to be a joy. The Holy Spirit becomes a string and shows love. Thus, the family of God loves one another as if God had forsaken Himself for His children. And there you begin to experience true happiness.
Through the church we have become brothers. A person who does not want to be a brother cannot belong to a beautiful church. All of them had one God as their father and became brothers. A family with many brothers and sisters is strong. In the past, people in our country valued strong families and wanted to become one family with each other. Because the members of that family are strong. We are really strong because of God. The power that moves the universe comes from the Father. And the brothers help each other with this power.
I saw [Drama Game] written by Butler Anyang-ja once. The play, titled "Recovery," tells the story of the reunited life of two men and women who have been divorced and have one child. They each try to live with pride as necessary people for the other. The bonding process was more difficult than expected. Then, the girl's child became seriously ill. Then she looks at her husband and her relatives and suffers. It seems that a weakness has been caught, and it is because of a loss of self-esteem.
At that time, it was my husband who handled the matter wisely. He recalls what she said before marrying his wife. She wanted to get a family. Yes! it's family I wanted to get someone to love, someone to help each other and depend on. Husband tells wife We've become a family. As they share the pain of their families, each recovers as a family in name and reality. Ai's illness binds two groups of lonely people together and makes them passionately experience something they've never known before.
It was love. This radically cures our loneliness. There is nothing that provides the power of love like a family. How much would it be if we loved a passerby? If we loved an unknown passerby, would it be true love? We became a family. It is not legally forcibly entwined with a prosperous family. The Spirit of God became a string and bound it. Yes, we are God's family.
I read an article written by an American. Its contents were as follows. One day my little son came up to me. I asked, placing his little hand on mine. ?쏡addy, what does God look like,??I said, ?쏥od is love and sunshine. And everything you know is good.??My son looked into my eyes and said. ?쏷hen Dad, God is just like you.??I bowed my head in shame. I was such a godless father.
We are all the same. He was a member of a family that was too shameful toward our loved ones. He was also a member of the family who was very indifferent toward God's family. God has given us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is love. All power overflows from that love. let's love let's love my family Don't yell at your children, be kind to your spouse, and love God's family. Let us remember that these are my eternal brothers. And let's make love