Let's check the title position / Ezekiel 47:1-12
Content God, who created the heavens and the earth, prepared everything for human beings to eat, wear, and use in nature, and prepared everything so that people could enjoy the blessings in life through Jesus, God becomes the Father of all who believe.
However, believers should know that they are enjoying God's grace differently according to their religious position.
Ezekiel saw this fact while he was praying. If you live as if you have many things ready, you can say that you are unhappy or foolish.
2 Corinthians 13:5 {Make sure you have faith}
With the scale of this time, I hope that it will be an opportunity to work towards a better faith by confirming where I am and how much God's grace I am enjoying.
1. There are people who enjoy the grace of the ankle.
Ezekiel is led into the holy temple one day while praying.
The gates of the temple faced (east), and water flowed from the threshold of the temple.
flow to the east. After measuring 1,000 cubits of the flowing water with a line, I asked Ezekiel to cross over, and I crossed it.
The water was only about my ankle.
This shows the first step in the faith of those who enter and leave the church.
Keeping Sundays and going to church are people who work hard.
Such people experience the peace and grace of God only the moment they go to church or attend various meetings. fruitless believer.
2. There are people who enjoy grace to the extent of a knee.
Looking at the (knee) recorded in the Bible,
1) Praying posture / 1 Kings 8:54, Ezra 9:5.
(1 Kings 8:54) After Solomon knelt down and stretched out his hands to the heavens and had made this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he got up from the altar of the LORD.
I know how to pray. lips opened. Have fun. get a response depth is created.
Knowing what God's grace is.
2) When showing respect / 2 Kings 1:13
(2 Kings 1:13) When the king sent the third captain of fifty and his fifty, the third chief of fifty went up and came to Elijah, and knelt down before him and begged him, "Son of God, I pray, my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants. I look forward to seeing you
Also, I respect the shepherd and the saints. Respect for parents. Someone who lived only for himself.
Live with respect for your neighbours.
3) Posture of submission and worship / Psalm 95:6 Philippians 2:10
(Psalm 95:6) Come, let us bow down and worship; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
I know how to serve.
4) Humility / Matt 17:14. Luke 5:8
(Matthew 17:14) When they came to the crowd, a man came to Jesus and knelt down on his face, saying,
Live humbly.
3. There are people who enjoy grace about the waist.
1 Peter 5:5 Let them all gird one another in humility.
Even if you go to church well, pray well, and serve, you can be proud.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride precedes destruction, and a haughty heart precedes stumbling.
1) Authority and Power / Deuteronomy 33:11
2) Stand firm in the truth / Luke 12:35. Ephesians 6:14
3) Pleasure / Psalm 30:11
It is the grace enjoyed by those who wear the belt of truth and work for God, the gospel, and the church.
It is faith that has reached the stage of serving and devoting by the power of the Word, just as a servant works faithfully with his belt on.
Such a person will experience the power of God and experience the power of resurrection in every event.
4. There are people who enjoy grace enough to swim.
When an airplane flies low, mountains and high-rise buildings become rough, but when it flies high, it cannot go through. When I was in the shallow stage of grace, there were many bumps and wounds, but when I entered the deep stage of grace, I and the world were nowhere to be seen and only the redeemed Lord was visible.
The image of a saint who always lives without lack.
My feet fell from the ground, and my life separated from the world
Such people are not the only ones receiving grace in the church.
It is not only through prayer that we receive grace.
Even when outside the church, at home, at work, doing God's work, or doing worldly work, always live a life full of gratitude with a bright face.
When you enter this stage, there is no need to worry about whether or not there are things in the world.
No matter how many blessings God blesses, we do not lose our hearts and live as if nothing exists.
* Whole body is submerged in the water, and those who made their pleasure in their boats live by faith
Both hands are submerged in the water, so everything you do with your hands is done by faith.
My heart is immersed in the water, I give up my two hearts and serve the Lord with one heart.
My neck is submerged in water, so I don't live for the flesh, I live for the faith
Your mouth is submerged in the water, so throw away your evil mouth and preach the gospel.
Ears are submerged in the water; the ears that used to hear common things hear spiritual things.
Both eyes are immersed in water, so the eyes that saw the world see the spiritual world
Since his head is submerged in the water, his head, who used to only discuss the world, longs for only God.
* The image of a person filled with the Holy Spirit.
To be filled with the Holy Spirit, 1) You must abstain from wine / Proverbs 23:31 Do not even look
Ephesians 5:18 Do not get drunk / wine = pleasure = unbelief
2) Give thanks in everything / 1 Thessalonians 5:16
3) Always rejoice / Philippians 4:4-7
4) Be faithful to your mission / 1 Corinthians 4:2 , Revelation 2:10
5) Serve as good stewards / 1 Peter 4:10
6) Make prayer a life /
Let's live like this! Then, we believe that the power of God like a river will come upon us.
I believe that joy and peace like a river will come.
Conclusion) Where do I stand now? Are you enjoying the grace of your ankles? Let's develop! knee? Let's work harder! waist? Let's do our best! Is it enough to swim? Do not be content, and do not quench the filling of the Holy Spirit in order to keep it. I hope that all of you will enjoy God's grace and enjoy it enough to swim.