Title Translators (Genesis 12:1-4)
A recent Gallup poll of Americans found that the Bible is not human.
I asked about the impact on the life of 65% of the respondents said that the Bible is a fundamental part of human life.
I answered that it was a guide to solving a question or problem.
A study conducted by the famous Sondurban publishing house in the United States for 1,000 adults, men and women over the age of 18.
According to the survey, 86% of respondents believe that the Bible is the key to solving problems in their lives.
He replied that it was the truth.
We too believe in the Bible as the Word of the living God. and the word of God
Believe that those who followed and obeyed were successful, blessed, the way opened, and happy.
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In Genesis 12, Abraham received God's command to leave his hometown and relatives at face value.
He describes the incident in which he moved his residence. Leaving Abraham's home to live
The case of moving , teaches us three lessons.
1. Trust and move.
In the text, God did not say many words to persuade Abraham.
Why should I leave, what will happen if I don't, and how should I leave?
No explanation.
God's commands are always simple and concise. "Leave where you live, and
If you do, I will bless you. "It was God's command.
What matters is those who simply respond and obey God's simple and concise commands
that you have received this blessing. Why should I leave? Where do I have to go? how to leave
Do? All those who came to question and find out were excluded from the answers and blessings.
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It is said that the weight of the brain is about 1300 g, which is about 2% of a person's body weight. blood from the heart
The brain consumes 15% of the oxygen, and 20-25 of the oxygen we normally breathe in is used. unusual
The cerebral cortex, located in the silver cerebrum, consists of a high level of sense and perception, movement and skill, thinking and imagination,
It is said to develop language skills.
There are as few as tens of billions to as many as hundreds of billions of cranial nerve cells.
The bottom line is that neural circuits become an astronomical number of trillions to 10,000 trillions.
When a person receives a stimulus from outside, positive thinking breaks the circuit between nerve cells.
Open it wide and create a new circuit. However, negative thoughts interfere with the flow of circuits.
or suppress it.
Not only that. Positive thoughts or happy thoughts relieve muscle tension and
It relieves nerves and normalizes blood pressure. As a result, study well and business
It means doing well and doing well at work.
When the human brain is thinking positively and having a strong sense of self-confidence, the circuit is not blocked.
It gives the brain fresh vitality.
We should note an important fact here. It is belief that all things are positive
It's about creating and accepting.
Abraham is a prime example. If Abraham believed the word and command of God,
If he hadn't, he would never have left where he lived.
Even today, people of faith see, understand, and interpret everything positively. That
However, the less faith you have, the more you doubt, deny, and make decisions. Only those who have faith
You can listen to the word of God, make a decision and leave where you are standing.
2. See the vision and move it.
In Hebrews 11, Abraham’s actions when he left his homeland are explained as follows:
There is. “I could always go back if I thought of the hometown I left from. But he was even better.
I didn't go back because I looked at my hometown," he said.
Who will stop you from wanting to go back home? Who wants to go back to their hometown?
would you like to block He could go back at any time. But God gave him
There was John. When he had a vision that there would be a new land prepared by God when he left his
I was able to leave my hometown on the doorstep.
If you go to Paris, France, there is the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is famous as the symbol of France.
is. The Eiffel Tower is an iron tower. There are no stones in the tower, and there are no wood chips.
None of them are mixed. Daewongun and his daughter-in-law, Minbi, are arguing and fighting over the power struggle.
At that time, the French were building a 320-meter-tall iron tower.
The Eiffel Tower, who was an architect at the time, said that it would give the French youth a dream and a vision.
proposed to establish
However, the government, the parliament, and the Korean intellectuals at that time all opposed it.
All. Building a steel tower rather than a stone tower in Paris, the city of ancient culture, is counter-cultural and barbaric.
He objected to it as an absurd act.
But Eiffel did not back down and persuaded politicians and parliamentarians. and "outside
should be built on Temporarily erected” was conditionally allowed. Eiffel was conditionally
The tower was built on the premise that it could be demolished at any time on the outskirts of the city as permitted. 320 rice
When the Eiffel Tower was built, whether they liked it or not, the citizens of Paris had to look at the Eiffel Tower every day.
All. The Eiffel Tower, which soars soaring into the sky, has begun to establish itself as the pride of Parisians.
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However, there were those who did not want to see the Eiffel Tower until the end. what are their concerns
I wondered if I would be able to live without looking at the Eiffel Tower, which I hate to see if I live somewhere else.
And they came to the conclusion that if you lived right under the Eiffel Tower, you wouldn't see it. okay
It is said that philosophers like Sir Sartre lived under the Eiffel Tower.
The iron tower built by Eiffel is now a world landmark and a tourist attraction in Paris.
I did.
The Bible can be divided into three main categories. It is past, present and future
it will be While explaining to us the history of days gone by, how are we today?
It teaches you how to live. But the important thing is to explain and reveal what is to come.
There is. What the world will be like in the future How will the history of mankind and its end end
is it? How will the judgment of injustice and injustice be conducted? And what about the eternal world
It explains how to do it and how to do it. The Bible tells us dreams, futures and rains
I am presenting the version.
A person with a vision has faith. Faith moves you forward. hebrews
11:1-2 "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
We have obtained the evidence.” Let's go forward with a vision.
3. Don't look back
Lot, Abraham's nephew, lived in Sodom and Komori. The place has been a culture since early
It was a convenient place to live as it was developed as a center of commerce. But at that time it was already homo
Moral depravity, such as sex becoming fashionable, was no joke. God sent an angel there
He sent the message to Lot that he would send down brimstone fire to destroy the city.
He urged the people to leave immediately.
After being warned by the angel, "Leave quickly, and do not look back," Lot and his wife
She took her daughter and left the city of Sodom. And say "Never look back" two or three times
I begged you. But Lot's wife ignored the warning and looked back and became a pillar of salt.
ended. The major scholars wondered why Lot's wife ignored God's warning and looked back.
It is interpreted that it was because of regrets about the things in the world that she usually enjoyed and lived.
I must have left the jewelry behind in a rush, and the purple silk was just
would have left it alone. However, a major mistake, a crucial error, is a failure of God's Word and warnings.
that it was considered insignificant.
"I hope it's okay, is it okay, looking back at my hometown, what's the big deal?
Will her unbelief and complacency thinking, "Will it be okay?" left her as a pillar of salt.
that made it happen. But Abraham did not look back to the hometown he had left. only heart
He could go back whenever he ate, but he did not turn back.
Lot's wife looked back and died. Judas Iscariot left Jesus and went out.
si died.
A man named Theme left Paul and went out into the world. And since then, his
I have no way of knowing.
We are people who have turned away from sin and turned to the Lord.
From the world of injustice to the world of significance, from death to the world of life, from the moment to the eternal
These are the people who have moved their addresses around the world. Don't go back to the world you left behind.
According to the 1999 demographic statistics published by the National Statistical Office of Korea, an average of 1,688 births per day
675 people died. Every day, 994 couples were married and 323 divorced.
You can be born or you can die. You can get married or you can divorce. That
But under no circumstances should we go back to before we believed in Jesus.
We call Abraham the father of faith. Because there is a good reason
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He left by faith alone at the command to leave. He looks forward and moves forward
I lived with a vision. I had many opportunities to go back, but I did not look back and went to the land of Canaan.
went out to
We also have two paths. Do you return to where you left off or go forward?
Are we going back to our old self, entangled in sin and old customs, or moving forward towards a new world?
Do you fall into the world’s foolishness and temptation and leave the Lord
We are standing at a crossroads.
Let's not turn back.
Let's not look back.
I decided to live the Lord's will I decided to live the Lord's will
I decided to live according to the will of the Lord, I will not turn back
Turn your back on the world and look at the cross, turn your back on the world and look at the cross
I turn my back on the world and look at the cross, I won't turn back
I decided to love only the Lord I decided to love only the Lord
I decided to love only the Lord, I won't turn back
- Amen -