Title What Servants Do and What Sons Do!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Matthew 23:1-15
Title: What servants do and what sons do!
In the old days, in the countryside, there were always servants in the wealthy households who did a lot of farming. At that time, servants were paid a year's wages in advance and lived in a wealthy house. Whether it rains or snows, the servants take care of the farm for the year of the owner's house. After the one-year contract period is over, the contract with the owner is renewed or they leave to find another place. 30-40 years ago, there were many people living like this in our countryside.
Nowadays, many people leave the countryside and go to the city to get paid and go to work. But, in reality, working life is nothing short of a bummer. At that time, only the environment and name in which the servants lived has changed, but the appearance of working and receiving wages is the same. Therefore, it can be seen that the master-slave relationship always exists wherever humans live.
When you watch historical dramas aired on TV, it is always the master lady and lowly servants that appear. Those who are slaves must live as slaves in the house forever until the master restores their authority. Servants, no matter how powerful and bright in wisdom, cannot rise to the position of master. Also, if the servants do well ten times and make one mistake, they must leave the house when the master tells them to leave.
Just as a master-slave relationship is established in this way in the world, the relationship between God and human beings is also established as a master-slave relationship. God is the Father of all spirits and the Master of all men. And all those who are used by God are servants. The prophets who were used by God in the Old Testament and those who are used by the Holy Spirit today can all be called servants. Except for false pastors or paid pastors who became pastors without God's permission.
A typical example of a servant is Moses. At the command of God, Moses set out to free the Israelites from slavery in Egypt for 430 years. God trained him for 80 years to use him. Judging from his deeds alone, as a human being, he has done a really great job.
Even Moses, who did such a great job, is expressed in the Bible as a servant who worked in the house of God. Like Moses at that time, a servant can never enter the land of Canaan (Heaven) flowing with milk and honey. The reason God did not allow Moses to enter the land of Canaan was because of Moses' disobedience, but the purpose of God was to show that he could not enter the land of Canaan as a servant.
As Moses shows, servants must keep God's laws and take good care of the flocks entrusted to them faithfully until their master comes. If he is engrossed in the pleasures of the flesh and fails to take good care of the sheep entrusted to him, he will be cast out into darkness (hell) when the master comes. Servants do well ten times, but if they make one mistake, they must take responsibility and be kicked out of the place.
God is the master of all human beings. And Christ is his Son. It would be good for God to appear directly in front of humans, but God cannot do that because He is a spirit. And the moment human sinners see God, they all die on the spot. So God gave His Son in the flesh full power to forgive human sins and sent him to save the people of Israel from their sins.
However, the servants who had been taking care of their master's flock for 2,000 years had forgotten their identity and were pretending to be masters. The master sent his son to deliver them from their sins in due time, but the servants who forgot their identity tried to kill him and take his place. The master was angry and burned them, took the vineyard and gave it to the Gentiles. This is the result of the Israelites' rejection of Jesus Christ.
Now the ball has passed to the Gentiles who believe in Jesus name As mentioned above, even the most powerful and powerful pastor today cannot escape the status of a servant. Since the slave has not been given the authority to forgive human sins from the master, the souls of the saints cannot be saved either. The only thing a servant can do is to take good care of the master's flock by the law of the Holy Spirit and take good care of them so that they do not go out of the world.
Then, when the master's son comes, he must give the sheep to him without hesitation. Only the Son of the Master can bring the human soul to eternal life, because only the Son of the Master comes with the power to forgive sins from the Father. However, Christians, who have lived under the law of the Holy Spirit for two thousand years, have forgotten their status as slaves and are pretending to be masters by claiming to be sons of God.
If you look at what servants are doing in churches today, they are teaching that everyone can go to heaven if they just call on the name of Jesus. But this is very wrongly taught to the saints. What an unbeliever believed in and gained by believing in the name of Jesus was that they received the Holy Spirit and became God's people on earth. It is a very dangerous idea to talk as if all of God's people on earth had become God's people.
Think about it! People who had lived without knowing God until now heard the evangelist's words, believed in the name of Jesus who came to the land of Israel, and received the Holy Spirit, and came to know that God is living. You cannot become a people of heaven just by knowing God. This is because those who became God's people on earth still have the problem of sin in their hearts that needs to be resolved. But, how dangerous is this teaching if you teach such people that they are saved as if they became the people of heaven?
That's what the Jewish rabbis taught, and they made the Israelites twice as many children of hell. They also thought that if they diligently went in and out of the temple according to the law, everyone would automatically reach heaven. The rabbis also taught that. But they too were sinners who had not had their sins solved. Nevertheless, their pride was skyrocketing because of the fact that the Jews had been saved. In the end, Jesus came to solve their sin problem, but because of the fact that they were saved, no one would easily believe in Jesus.
Salvation can lead to eternal life only when the problem of human sin is resolved. Just because the Israelites called on the name of God, today's Christians do not solve the problem of human sin just because they call on the name of Jesus. The Jews who lived under the law had to believe in the Son who came in the flesh to receive the solution of their sins, and today, Christians living under the law of the Holy Spirit must believe in the Son who comes spiritually to receive the solution of their sins in their hearts. No one can attain eternal life without resolving this.
But today, servants (pastors) are teaching as if everyone would go to heaven if they unconditionally call on the name of Jesus without any hesitation in their conscience. Of course, they should face judgment because they made the saints twice as many children of hell, but what about the saints who grew up hearing that they were saved under them? So, the wrong teaching makes the saints twice as many children of hell. False pastors The more the paid pastors are, the more they emphasize the word that they are saved by the saints.
Soon, God will send His Son to the Gentiles as well. Will the saints who believe that they have been saved by calling on the name of Jesus easily believe in the Son whom God has sent? The Son only comes to save sinners, but will the people who believe they have been saved because of the teachings of false servants, confessing that they are sinners and running to the Son? That is why, in the last days, even servants should meet well. -He who has an ear, let him hear and understand-