Title Why Jesus (Matthew 1:21-25)
Confucius, Buddha, Muhammad, Socrates, Napoleon, Alexander, Genghis Khan and many other heroes
Great men rose to the horizon of history and lost again. Among the many names we
Why should we call on the name of Jesus and believe in him?
Among the KBS TV programs, there is something called "My Hometown". One day, Chungcheongbuk-do
A noodle factory run by Kang Hee-tak in the castle was introduced. Kang Hee-tak is 70 years old this year.
He is an old man with a first-class disability whose both hands were amputated in an accident while in the military. he is miserable
Han overcame his own obstacles and has been operating a noodle factory for 25 years.
All.
At around 4 a.m., the dough begins to knead and the noodles are dried and packaged
After tasting, he said: “When I tried it myself, it was really chewy and tasted great.
So delicious...
Hee-tak Kang, who was listening to those words, said, "I have the greatest joy to hear them."
answered. Faith in Jesus cannot be compared to taste, but we believe in Jesus
If you dare compare it to taste, it has a taste, so it cannot be compared to any other taste, so it is different from other flavors.
It is believing because it is not your opponent.
Currently, the Christian population in Korea is 12 million. Of course, among them, the taste is dry.
There will be people who just go to church without knowing it. However, most Christians
Because he liked Jesus, he believed in Jesus and became a Christian.
Why must it be Jesus?
Let me tell you why.
In short, because He saves me from my sins. see Matthew 1:21
“You will give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.
It's pride," he said.
The Bible defines us all as sinners. Romans 3:23 says, “Everyone
Because he has committed this sin, he falls short of the glory of God.”
"Everyone has sinned" means that everyone is a sinner.
The Greeks called sin "Hamartia". It means to miss.
Among the sins, the greatest sin is not believing in the God who created the heavens and the earth and created human beings.
It's going to go wrong.
There is one such thing as a misfire among gun accidents. Accidentally shot incorrectly, misses
It's an accident. It's like a random accident, it's a Hamartian
will be
Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death.” It means that if you commit a sin, you die.
is that But Jesus came to save us from dying for our sins.
is.
“The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Gospel of John
3:16 says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him
that everyone should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
If you sin, you die. But Jesus came into this world for our sins.
The teaching of the Bible is that whoever believes in Jesus will receive forgiveness of sins and have eternal life.
There are three kinds of people in this world. The first is someone who believes in himself. character
God's health, fame, popularity, knowledge, possessions, etc.
There are people. I was diagnosed with gastric cancer at Samsung Hospital on April 2 last year and was diagnosed with stomach cancer on April 20.
I had an excision operation. All my life, I was confident in my health. others are superior
If they say that they drink alcohol or have stomach upset, Jo says that it must be because of overeating or stress.
I thought the sim was the best.
However, there was something that I realized after I suffered the incident and underwent gastrectomy.
I did. It was "Health is not something to believe".
Life is fleeting. Health, knowledge, popularity, fame, possession, condition, they are
It should be remembered that this is a dragon value, not an absolute value.
In other words, it is not believable. Were there any talents who ran to the top of popularity?
All. Requests for appearances are flooding in here and there, and I can't sleep at night due to overlapping appearances in movies, dramas, plays, etc.
I couldn't sleep or eat on time. Then one day he fell. and 6
I had to take a month off. Six months have passed since then, but the request for appearances has not come as in the past.
is. He was starting to get nervous. Then I started getting into drugs.
Popularity, fame, knowledge, and possessions are not to be trusted. They are utilization values.
It's not trustworthy. There are people who believe in the second person. Human beings believe in their husbands and
A social existence that can live only if you believe in your family, trust your parents, trust your children, trust your brothers, and trust your neighbors.
is.
But what we do know is that human relationships are not absolute either.
All. There was a woman who came to me saying that she could not live any longer and had to divorce me. reason for divorce
It was simple. It's just that his personality doesn't match. When I asked how it didn't fit, my husband
She is in a hurry, she is slow, her husband is not afraid, she weighs herself and her husband eats salty.
The creeper eats freshly, and her husband is nocturnal, and she is a diurnal, and none of them are right.
is that there is nothing.
I answered her. The two only harmonize, saying, "It is a relationship that God has given."
Because they could be a fantastic couple. Two days later, my husband came. he
The reasons for the divorce were "I ignore my husband, I talk too much, and I have never once been a quarrel with my husband.
It didn't go away."
I gave him this prescription. "Long ago, I was going to a restaurant and the door
The doll on the desk nods and welcomes you. Nice to meet you
All. As I left after eating, the doll on the other side thanked me. I bow to you bye bye
All. When I asked the owner of the house how much the doll cost, he said 289,800 won including the installation fee.
All. "If you want to be greeted like that, don't live with people, live with dolls"...
We have to trust each other, but it is difficult to trust each other between people. Third is
People who believe in Jesus. Jesus died on the cross and was finished in three days
You came alive. And you are still with me. In Matthew 28:20 we read, “My
will always be with you until the end of the world."
Do we have to believe in things that come and go or do we believe in Jesus who is with us forever?
Should I? Do I have to trust someone who stays with me for a while and then leaves or is it forever?
Should I believe in Jesus who never leaves me?
The important thing is that if I believe in Jesus, my food, popularity, fame, material things, and health are valuable and
that it will be valuable. And when a couple believes in Jesus together, their relationship gets better.
In other words, the parent-child relationship improves, the sibling relationship improves, and the neighbor relationship improves.
There is no reason not to believe in this good Jesus. The Bible tells us who Jesus is
It is revealed in various aspects. In Mark 5, a man possessed with a demon saw Jesus.
There is a saying that I saw and ran and bowed in a loud voice. "Jesus, Son of the Most High God
woman," he said.
Then the Lord said, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit."
said he had left. Even the demons recognized Jesus. Jesus recognized even by demons
What if you don't know?
In Luke 1:23, we see Jesus, who was to be born by an angel, “He will become great and be the most exalted.
He is the son of God.” In Matthew 27:54, the Roman officer, the centurion, and the soldiers
This example of testifying that “this was truly the Son of God” and Jesus saving me from my sins
Number, Jesus, who is with me forever, so that we believe and receive Jesus
All.
Professor Alexander, who served as the first dean of Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States, returns to his post as a professor for 40 years.
died on October 22, 1851. Do you have a famous saying he left on his deathbed?
All. "When we are thirsty on a hot summer day, the most we need is a glass of water
not sea water. What we need in the past and now is also not from the whole world, yes
Jesus Christ"...
That's right. We need Jesus. Only Jesus saves me and stays with me forever
because you are
H. W. BeeCher, who worked as an evangelist with Moody, said:
All.
“Jesus never painted any pictures, but not Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo.
Most of Da Vinci's masterpieces are products of inspiration from Jesus.
Jesus never wrote a single attempt. However, world-famous poets such as Dante and Milton also
Inspired by Jesus, he left behind a masterpiece. Jesus never composed a single piece of music.
All. However, the works of masters such as Haydn, Handel, Beethoven, Bach, and Mendelssohn also
He created works of praise."
That's right. Great poets and musicians and artists and sculptors and novelists
knew, believed, and raised.
A friend asked Tennyson, a famous poet born in England. “How do you live Jesus?
Sir," said Tennyson, who was walking silently, "For me, Jesus is this flower and the crown of the sun.
It's like a system Just as this flower cannot but die without sunlight and heat, so am I without Jesus.
If you do, you will die."
Why Jesus?
Because if you believe in him, you will live.
Because trusting him makes you happy.
Because he is with me.
Because he won't leave me.
Because he protects and guides me.
Because he is my everything.
Amen