Don't be afraid to change the title!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Luke 5:36-39
Title: Don't Be Afraid of Change!
It can be a great adventure for us to challenge a new field. Because if you do it wrong, you can ruin your life. So, most people want to have a stable job and want to work in a stable field. However, these people may be good at a given task, but they do not take the initiative to promote something. This is because they are afraid in advance of the repercussions that will come to them if they fail. This is due to the property of not wanting to break itself after all.
Why are people afraid of change? It is because of the fear of the new world. This is because the worry of “what if I fail if I do this!” is ahead of me. Even if you start anything with a positive mind, if you fall over with a twist, you can't get up anymore and don't hesitate. These things are holding back the people of the world from challenging the new world.
Those who have been immersed in this life for the rest of their lives will face great difficulties if they ever try to meet the Lord and become his disciples. The Lord's path is a series of adventures. It means that you can never follow him with an idle thought. The way the Lord is going is to make water into wine, to wake the dead, to calm the storm, and to die on the cross. So the Lord sees those who want to follow Him and says, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” This means that you cannot follow the Lord without abandoning yourself.
But the fact is that he was just like us in the beginning. The only thing different from us is that He was born without sin. He changed 180 degrees when he met the Father through the Holy Spirit. When the Father (the Holy Spirit) did not rule over him, Jesus was just an ordinary human being. However, after being baptized in the Jordan River, the Holy Spirit came upon him and he began to live according to the Father's will.
That is why Jesus used the expression “son of man” whenever he referred to himself. The word “Son of Man” literally means “son of man”. Those who were born as sons of men became sons of God through the Holy Spirit. This is also true of the Son of God who comes before the Gentiles. If God chooses a person from among the Gentiles and God grants him grace and pours out the Spirit of Christ on him, then he becomes the Son of God who comes before the Gentiles. The Gentiles must believe in the Son who comes like this.
The whole Bible takes us into a world of adventure. The Bible is full of things that humans cannot even imagine. So most people end up just reading the Bible. “Things like that are done by God and by Jesus, how can humans like us do such things?” He said with a very plausible excuse. However, the Bible is a book that records the works of God through humans.
The reason we cannot put into practice the words of the Bible is because my self has not yet died. If you crucify me, who is living in sin, and be born again as Christ, and if Christ lives in me, it is not difficult to put into practice the Word. But the person who is not self-dead is fearful and terrifying because he will do whatever he thinks. If Jesus had not been controlled by the Holy Spirit (Father) and had been just an ordinary human being, he would not have been able to willingly give up his life on the cross for fear.
Today, in order to live like Jesus, we must first believe in the Son sent by God and be born again as Christ. If you do not go through that process, no matter how long you attend church and receive all kinds of gifts and show great power, you cannot live a life like Jesus. Today, in each church, there are so many people who have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, but there are no people who live a life like Jesus. It is because they have not yet crucified themselves, and therefore the Spirit of the Lord (not the Holy Spirit) is not yet in them. evidence that it is not.
The gift of the Holy Spirit plays a role in making the people of Israel on earth by convincing unbelievers to believe in Jesus. And furthermore, they help their faith life. However, you cannot change yourself 180 degrees like Paul by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us how to live by faith. If we want to live a life that has changed 180 degrees like Paul did, we must believe in the Son God has sent and be born again as Christ. Only then will Christ rule over me, so that I too can live like Christ.
If we live with Christ as our Lord, from then on, we will not live, but Christ, and we will break away from the life we have been afraid and fearful and believe in the Lord and move forward boldly. There may be some fear at first, but if you believe in the Lord within you and move forward, the fear will disappear and you will achieve your goal.
In fact, human fear is evidence that we are living in sin. So, the fear that arises from the fear that what is inside of me may become known outside or to people is greater. However, after acknowledging me as a sinner before the Lord, the devil can't make fun of me from then on and walk away.
To protect themselves from this evil, all human beings must enter the bosom of the Son sent by God. Otherwise, no matter how much you receive the filling of the Holy Spirit and fast and pray, the fear will come again after a short period of time. In a way, it is not an exaggeration to say that all human beings in this world are being thoroughly mistreated by the devil because of the fact that they are living in sin.
The only way to overcome these devil's tricks and escape from fear is to believe and accept the Son that God will send before the Gentiles as your savior. Hebrews 9:27 says, “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment…” This means that all humans must die once, but judgment must follow after death. That judgment refers to all the sins committed in the flesh while he was in the world.
If you think, “I believed in Jesus while I was alive, I will not stand before the judgment seat with the forgiveness of my sins” is a mistake. Judgment is not a place to judge unbelievers, but a place to judge those who believed. Unbelievers are immediately thrown into the fire of hell without judgment, but those who believed are judged and thrown into the fire of hell. The Jews were judged for their transgression of the law, and Christians today will be judged for their transgression of the Holy Spirit.
This is why God is sending His Son before the Gentiles again. Those who live under the Holy Spirit and disobey the Holy Spirit must believe in the Son whom He has sent and receive the forgiveness of sins. That way you won't be standing in front of the judges. Of course, this includes those who have been unbelievers. Since unbelievers have their conscience the law that judges them, if they have done anything that is reprehensible to their conscience, they must also believe in the Son God has sent to avoid the fires of hell.
Change is a challenge and the beginning of a new world. The Jews only liked the old wine (the Law) and hated the new wine (Jesus). It's because they don't want their lives to change. Even today's believers will continue to cling to the old things (life under the Holy Spirit) and will eventually turn away from the Lord who will come again. Just as the law served as a shadow of the good things to come to the Jews, the Holy Spirit also served as a shadow of the good things to come to the Gentiles who believe. Therefore, the law of the Holy Spirit is left until reform. When the son comes, the law is no longer needed.
Only those who dare to step out of their lives and challenge the new world will occupy the new heavens and new earth. It is because the one who puts away the life under the law of the Holy Spirit, which we have held firmly until now, and believes in the Son whom God has sent, will be the wisest person in the world.
-He who has ears, let him hear and understand!-