I will fill it with the title vessel.
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Text: Psalm 81:8-16
I pray that God will fill you with good things, saved by Jesus Christ, and filled with good things for your beloved saints who are more precious than the world in which the Holy Spirit dwells.
In John 2:1 and below, the Galilean “parable of the wedding feast at Cana” appears. In connection with today's title, we should pay attention to the fact that, as Jesus commanded, only water filled in six stone jars became wine. The ideal did not change, but the water turned into wine according to the vessel and as it was filled. What was fetched and spilled did not turn into wine. If there were 3 stone jars, only 3 would have changed, and if there were 10 stone jars, all 10 would have changed. This is the providence of God who fills the vessels. We hope that all of us will be blessed by God, prosper, and prosper. However, in the eyes of God, if the vessel is not ready or if you have a small vessel such as Jongjaegi, even if God wants to give it, you cannot receive it. God is waiting for the vessel to be blessed.
If we divide today's text into three parts, 1) verses 8-10 are hopeful words, 2) verses 11-12 are hopeless words, and 3) verses 13-16 are hopeful words again.
I. In order to be blessed, we must listen to the word of God as in verse 8.
Believers should not be swayed by the words of men, but only listen to the word of God. In the case of Eve in the Garden of Eden, when they heard the word of God, they did not even look at the tree of good and evil, and when they heard the tricks of the devil working through the serpent, it looked sweet, delicious, and desirable enough to make us wise. As a result, they ate, sinned, and were expelled from the Garden of Eden.
The strongest faith is the faith built on the Word. Therefore, you should read and listen to the Word a lot on a daily basis, and keep the Word fullness. Revelation 1:3 says, “Blessed are those who read the word and those who hear it and those who keep it and do it.”
“Blessing comes from the Word”. Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”
“Words are more precious than heaven and earth”. Romans 10:17 says, “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”
“Faith comes from the Word”. Here there is life, prosperity, power, answers, thanksgiving, peace, and blessings.
II. As in verse 9, you must not worship foreign gods.
In Exodus 20, there are the Ten Commandments, which are the core of God's law and commandments. The first and second are the commands to abstain from foreign gods and idols. Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.” Verse 4 says, “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or make any phenomena, and you shall not worship and serve them.” God says of Himself, “I am a jealous God, and I will pay for the sins of those who hate me, from fathers to sons to the third and fourth generations.” God hates idolatry the most. In the Bible, there are many constant fights between those who worship God and those who worship idols, and the representative scene is the conflict between King Leehab and Queen Jezebel with Elijah, the prophet of God. King Ahab and Jezebel worship idols and do evil. God rebukes Elijah by listening to him, but when he does not listen, he closes the heavens so that it does not rain for 3 years and 6 months. The bout of prayer that risked his life on Mount Carmel was 850 to 1. The work of God is not in the multitude, but in the truth. God was the God of Elijah. He responded with fire and dragged 850 people into the valley to kill them.
Ⅲ. You must open your mouth wide, as in verse 10
①Cry out and pray.
As Jesus said in Luke 22:41, “Pray earnestly”. Like Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:17, ‘Pray without ceasing.’ God says, “Call to me in the day of trouble, and I will answer you” (Ex. 33:3).
② It means to dream big.
A big dream makes a big bowl, a big person, a big success, a big fortune.
Unlike God who wants to give us such hope and blessings, Israel in today's text did not listen to God's word nor long for God. As a result, God is upset and leaves them alone. So will you be okay? But we see that God still cares and has affection for His people.
IV. As in verses 13-16, we rely on God's promise to bless us if we return to Him and serve Him well.
① Verse 14 says, “I will defeat the enemy”.
Our spiritual enemy is the devil and unclean spirits. The enemy of the world is the Kim Jong-il communist group who cannot abandon their ambition to invade the South. "God! Remove the enemies of this nation quickly, and let the season of Christ come to this land through peaceful unification and the gospel.