Title Who Am I?
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Today, I would like to share the word of grace with you under the title ‘Who am I?’.
“Who am I?” is a question of self-discovery. This is because humans have lost their true self after Adam.
The pessimistic philosopher Schopenhauer sat one day in a park in Frankfurt, looking disheveled and disheveled. The park manager thought he was homeless and asked bluntly, “Who are you?” Then Schopenhauer replied in a very distressed tone: “Please, I want you to know who I am.”
Everyone asks ‘Who am I? Where will I go when I die after living like this?’ Questions like these are self-discovery questions. Since humans have lost their true self after Adam, they always feel empty in their hearts.
‘Modern people have two diseases. Losing oneself is the first disease, and losing oneself is the second disease,’ said even the atheist Nietzsche.
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1. Who am I?
who am i All religions start with this question. This question is a question directed toward the inner self. This question is about finding the soul beyond the body. who am i Physically speaking, the physical human here is you. But, obviously, asking who you are even though you are here is a question of finding a soul.
Ecclesiastes 1:2-3, “The evangelist said, “Vanity, vanity, vanity, vanity. All things are in vain. What profit is it to man that all the toil of toil under the sun is?”
Ecclesiastes 2:23 says, “All the days of his life he is troubled and toiled, but sorrow; his heart does not rest even at night; this is also in vain.”
Therefore, the self discovered by the evangelist is nothing but vain.
The English playwright and literary critic Bernard Shaw said of life's despair: He said, "I have two kinds of despair. One is the despair that things don't work out the way you want, and the second is the despair that comes after things become what you want." No matter what happens, the result is always despair. Humans are always in despair. Humans are hopeless beings, so unless the Redeemer comes and saves them, they are hopeless beings. What does the Bible say about me?
Genesis 3:17-19 "He said to Adam, "Cursed is the land because of you, because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree I told you not to eat. I will bring forth thorns and thistles for you; for you shall eat the vegetables of the field, in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Fallen Adam The Bible about him proclaims despair. Adam and Eve found me naked and forsaken by sin. When we sinned, the glory of God departed, and we were filled with shame and nakedness. I couldn't hide the shame. He struggled in front of the shame of guilt and ran away and hid behind a tree. And Adam and Eve found their selves living in a cursed land. The earth was cursed, and it was he who found a miserable environment in which he could survive only by producing thorns and thistles and sweating on his forehead. And in the end, the self that Adam and Eve discovered was the tragic self that got sick and died and returned to the dust. The Bible also says that humans are hopeless beings.
James 4:14 says, “You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a moment and then vanishes.”
1 Peter 1:24 says, “Therefore, all flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall.”
How desperate is that? Who am I? The answer to that is that philosophers say I am a hopeless being, and the Bible also says that fallen man is a hopeless being. Therefore, the only hope for us, who are drowning in the sea of despair, is that someone who will save us comes and saves us from this sea of despair. There is no other way to live. Humans are hopeless creatures from beginning to end. I am drowning in this desperate sea. Who can rescue us from drowning in this sea? We are hopeless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes and reaches out to rescue us. Philosopher, hopeless, religious hopeless.
According to psychologist Carl Jung, most of the patients who have passed the middle of their lives struggle with the problem of discovering a religious outlook on life as a last resort. He also said that no one who has not acquired a religious outlook on life cannot be healed. Human beings wander aimlessly until they find a reason for their existence, and their lives are lost. Humans are hopeless beings who can never find the meaning of life until they find Jesus. Busy politics, economic activities, artistic activities, waking up early in the morning and lying down late at night, all are futile, vain, and hopeless actions. After that, there is nothing left. Until we meet Jesus Christ who saves us, the very existence of human beings is despair.
2. You must meet Jesus
You have to meet Jesus. But can we not meet Jesus without knowing who Jesus is? Who is Jesus? Jesus is God who came in the flesh. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, so whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
John 1:14 says, “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
He came to this earth to become one with people. In other words, it is to become one with desperate people and rescue them. To rescue a person from drowning, you have to jump into the sea, swim, and rescue them. You cannot rescue a person from the sea while standing on land. If you try to rescue a person from drowning in despair, you will have to jump into the sea and rescue him. so