Believe me even if you see the title!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: John 14:1-14
Title: Believe in me even if you see what happens
It may seem easy at first glance for people to trust people, but it is by no means easy. The human heart is unbelievable even among family members. That's why we say, "You can know the waters of the open road, but you can't know the heart of the people of the Hangil." What's more, how much more believable would it be if those were the words of a stranger who didn't even know his face? However, there are people who say they believe everything written in the Bible. But this is a lie. Sometimes I can't believe the words of my parents who gave birth to me, so I'm dubious, but how can I say that I trust people I don't even know?
If you look at the faces of these people, only the outside is plausible, but the inside is full of lies. When such people face an emergency, their faith in God that they believed in until then is gone and they struggle to live on their own. It can be said that all the abductees in Afghanistan fall into this case. Where are these only? All Christians who remain under the law are the same. Even if there are people who die trying to keep the foundation of the faith, it is a religious level of faith derived from belief, not a faith that properly knows Christ.
What is a belief derived from religious beliefs? A few years ago, terrorists from Muslim countries launched the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, and despite many people, they have no guilt because they acted according to Allah's will. And rather, they believe that if they die like this, they will go to Allah (God in their dimension) bosom. Others who have seen it see him hailed as a hero and feel the urge to do it again. This is called belief in beliefs from a religious level. If Allah permits killing people, he is a follower of the devil.
In the same way, even if today's believers in Jesus are abducted by other religious groups and forced to convert to religion and then die in refusal to die, they die to keep the faith that comes from their beliefs, and they are not martyred by any means. What is martyrdom? Like Jesus, it is said that martyrdom refers to the fact that he died by the hands of the devil (human) while trying to save humans without any sin, or that a person born again as Christ died unjustly at the hands of the devil (human) while trying purely to save another person in the same vein. will be.
Then, believing is so difficult, who can fully believe in God? To be clear, there is no single human who lives under sin who can fully trust God. When I say this, some people may ask, “Is it true that there is not even a single Christian out of those many Christians who truly believe, but unless they have been born again into Christ, there cannot be a single person who has perfect faith. Again, there is only one Son of God in this world who can fully believe in God. And God also believes only in the Son.
So, how can humans truly believe in God? It is only when we believe in the Son sent by God that human beings can truly believe in God. If so, how should he believe in his son? As I said at the outset, it is by no means easy for a person to trust a person. The Son of God must come in human form, so how can strangers believe in him as the Son of God?
No matter how well they unraveled and delivered the Bible verse, if the spirit of the person who preaches it is dead, the saints who hear it are also dead. Because the living will no longer be able to endure it there. If they accept the word and obey it, what kind of work will happen? The difference between those who look like the same person and preach the word, but who have Christ in their hearts and those who do not, is this different.
The reason that the Jews living under the Law at that time did not easily believe in Jesus were the people who failed because they tried to believe by looking at the outward appearance of Jesus. They thought that the appearance of the Son of God would be very splendid. However, as the Bible records it, it is written that Jesus did not have a beautiful appearance, nor did he have an appearance to be admired. Given this situation, how could they have easily accepted Jesus as the Son of God?
But even in the midst of it, there were those who believed in Jesus. They were people who had broken the law and were cursed by God. They believed in Jesus and were healed. No matter how many people who gave birth to the disease shouted that Jesus was the Son of God, they only saw Jesus as a heretic monster and did not want to believe him at all. However, those who gave birth to diseases and those who believed in the word and experienced miracles had no choice but to trust the words of Jesus more and more. Who else would believe and follow Jesus? They are, of course, those who believe in them. That's why the Bible says it adds faith to those who believe.
This kind of thing is being reproduced in the present day as it is for those who believe and follow the word of the Lord who has come to this pulpit. To those who believe and accept the pulpit message as the Lord's word, it becomes a good sign (fruit of love), and on the contrary, to those who do not believe and complain, a very bad sign (evil fruit) continues to appear.
If Jesus had not come from the Father, such a sign would not have appeared. This is because Jesus never followed such a sign until he began his public life. Likewise, if this pulpit had not come through Christ, those who believed in the pulpit would not have had such a sign. This is because, before this ministry, this pulpit did not show any such signs at all.
How can we believe in the Son of God who comes in human form? It is a time when parents and children cannot be trusted easily, but there are people who are wondering, “How can we believe that he is the Son of God?” Now you don't have to worry about that at all. This is because when anyone believes and obeys what he says, he can see and believe what will happen to him.
Too many people these days are deceiving people everywhere, saying that they are the Second Coming Jesus or that they can only be saved by coming to their church. But now you don't have to worry about that. There is a simple way to tell the real and the false Christ. This is because, as I said before, when you listen to them and obey them, you can quickly tell whether they are real or not by looking at what happens.
And indeed, if they are people of Christ, the signs (the love of Christ) and wonders (the fruit of Christ) according to the Word will follow, and if they are fake, nothing will happen to them (the evil fruits will remain). This is because no one can imitate the true love and true fruit given from the Lord, no matter how many lies and falsities prevail today.
And if there are any who even now deceive that healing and exorcism are the fruits of Christ, we should be especially wary of such people. This is because the only sign that appears when you believe and follow Christ is the fruit of love.
Healing and exorcism, given by the gift of the Holy Spirit, is a sign that spring sowers appear to gather unbelievers from all directions. As it is the harvest time, it is the time to harvest the fruits of love through Christ. When the perfect thing comes, the worship service will be defeated, the tongues will also be defeated, and all the gifts will be destroyed.
Those who believe in casting out demons and seeing only healing may fall into the devil's tricks if they make a mistake. In the last days, it is said that even the devil will receive great authority from the dragon to heal diseases and to exercise power. In the last days, our members must not forget that it is the greatest blessing to be caught up in the hands of the harvest workers, sorted into wheat, and entered into the master's shed!