Title When the Perfect Comes?
Contents Sunday daytime sermons
Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Title: When the Perfect Comes?
God's work tells us that the beginning and the end are always the same. That is to say, the end of God's work can be known by looking at its beginning. For example, if at the beginning a person of faith called Abraham was put forward, the end would end with a person with faith like Abraham. In this context, Moses, the representative of the prophet, represents Jesus who will come as the prophet's consummation side in the future. Aaron the high priest, who sown in the temple, can be seen as a foreshadowing of what Jesus would do in the future. In addition, King David, the greatest saint among all Israelite kings, could be said to have foreshadowed the coming of Jesus Christ as the firstborn king.
However, what we do know is that all of the human beings who were established first did not become permanent, but were temporary. As a prophet, there is no prophet comparable to Moses. A certain human could oppose the mighty Pharaoh of Egypt, who held the greatest power in the world at the time, and another human could cross the Red Sea like land with a huge group of 600,000 male men. What other human could see the glory of God in the flames on Mount Sinai and live without dying, and who could receive the commandments engraved on stone tablets from God? As a prophet, it can be said that he is the greatest prophet of all time and a servant of God. But he, too, was only a model servant, not the real master. The real owner is Jesus Christ. What Moses had shown thus far was, after all, only a model to represent Jesus.
The high priest, who boasted the highest authority to the people of Israel, was also lacking. As we can see from the Bible, the high priest and the priests working under him were not able to become anyone, but only the tribe of Levi, a very special position that could become a priest. Since the meaning of the position depended on the death and life of the people because of their sins, it can be seen that the authority of the priests felt by the people was really weighted with great weight. In other words, if he had committed a crime by violating the law, he was not able to solve it himself. He had to go to the priest, slaughter a sheep, and bring the blood and meat to God to offer a sin offering or a trespass offering. The priest was nothing less than an executor who enforced the law on the people.
Furthermore, the high priest had to slaughter a sheep once a year and offer a ransom offering with its blood and meat, whether all the Israelites were men over the age of 20, whether they were guilty or not. Well, we can only guess what that authority must have been like. So, how much respect should the people have to welcome them? However, even with these great and dignified priests for the people, they did not completely solve the sins of the people. It was because they were piled up in the weakness of the flesh that they too were carrying sins. Also, the blood and meat of animals could not completely atone for human sins. That is why Jesus without blemish was needed. Jesus was able to forgive all human sins by offering his body as a ransom sacrifice while he was himself as High Priest. This also started as a feeble human being, but the end is finished by Jesus, who is fully human and God.
Now let's see Jesus coming as King! Before that, Saul had ascended to the throne as the first king in Israel, but when Saul disobeyed God's command, God deposed him from the king's seat and made David sit on the throne as a man after God's own heart. did it David ruled Israel well according to God's command. Of course, David also committed unsavory things because he could not overcome the lusts of the flesh, but God gave him an opportunity to repent and live again, and while taking care of him so that he could rule the country in a way that is worthy of God's word , David was able to faithfully carry out his duties as king. However, no matter how good a king he was, he made the mistake of committing a sin, and because he was a human being, he could not rule the Israelites forever. When you look at the kings appearing after King David, you can see how depraved they were. So, we can know that there is only one true King, Jesus Christ. Jesus is our true King and our eternal Lord.
As Jesus also said, ?쏽ou must put new wine in new wineskins to preserve both.??If the Holy Spirit has performed this work through people through gifts, from now on, the Spiritual Son of God will inherit the baton and carry on the work. you will be able to afford Just as Moses, Aaron, and David were all used as types of Jesus, the ministers who worked with the Holy Spirit also foreshadowed the Son who would come spiritually and carried out these tasks. will have to step away This does not mean that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are completely lost. You will be born again in the Son who comes spiritually. Only when we do this, both the work of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit will shine through in the Son, and the new spiritual Son will develop and sublimate it further and eventually create the best work that God desires and desires. It is the fruit of faith. In the future, all the ministers produced here will be in charge of this ministry.