To believe with the heart is true faith.
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Sunday day sermon
Text: Matthew 15:1-20
Title: To believe with the heart is true faith
There are two kinds of faith in God: believing with the lips and believing with the heart. To believe with your lips is to believe only with your mouth without your heart, and to believe with your heart means to believe with all your support. Therefore, believing with the lips can be seen as false faith, and only believing with the heart can be seen as real faith.
In the New Testament, you can see that Jesus often uses the expression “hypocrites” especially toward the Pharisees, because he did not believe in God with his heart but only with his lips. In Matthew 15:8, it is written, “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.” This is a rebuke to the people of Israel who do not believe in God with their heart but only with their lips. .
If you do not believe in God with your heart but only with your lips, you will not live according to the will of God, but according to the will of men. The reason is that if we believe in God with our hearts, all our lives depend on God because all our hearts are turned toward God. However, if we believe in God only with our lips without a heart, outwardly, we call on God’s name, but in reality, we live by God’s name. Everything will be done according to human will. In our proverb, “If you make rice cake with words, the Koreans will have enough to eat”.
And the one who is much more difficult than believing in God is the Son whom God sent. Because God is invisible to people right now, people are deceived when they confess that they believe even with their lips, but since the Son comes in the same form as humans, it is true that it is difficult to believe in Him even after seeing Him before recognizing Him as the Son of God.
In order to recognize the man sent by God as the Son of God, not only must he give up everything he had built up in the world (wealth and honor) up to that point, but he must also acknowledge all of his religious life as a sinner. Are you willing to give up everything and admit yourself to being a sinner? This is the reason why the Jews who lived under the law did not recognize Jesus as the Son of God. That is why it is said that believing in the Son is much more difficult than believing in God.
Today, Christians believe that everyone is saved because they believed in the same Jesus that the Jews did not believe in, or the church teaches that, but only one knows and the other doesn't. Even Christians now believe in Jesus only with their lips, but there are still no people who believe in Jesus with their hearts. If I say this, Christians will be angry, but if you listen to the story to the end you will understand.
Christians still believe in Jesus with a corrupt heart. How can a man with a corrupt heart believe in Jesus in his heart? To truly believe in Jesus, you must first receive forgiveness of sins in your heart through the Son God sent. However, he had not yet sent such a son to Christians. The reality is this, how can a Christian with a corrupt heart believe in Jesus in their hearts?
If you look at the present life of Christians, keep your lips on the Lord! Although they are shouting “Lord!”, if you look inside, you can feel that your heart towards the world is much stronger. If Christians truly believe that their master is Christ, not only should they not be in tune with the world, but they should also give up their desire to gain wealth and fame in the world. And you have to humbly look back on yourself and admit that you are a sinner. However, it is a fact that it is as difficult to find such people among Christians. With this in mind, the Lord said in Matthew 7:21, "Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father who is in heaven."
When we look at the Bible, it seems that only the Jews are very wrong, but in reality, Christians today are no different from the Jews. The reason Christians today cannot find their faults is because the true light has not yet shone in front of Christians. The true light is none other than the Son of God, whom God will send before the Gentiles as a type of Jacob. In order for Christians to realize that their wrong way of thinking and their religious life are shackled by the law (canon law), Christians will only know this fact through the true Son sent by God.
Unlike Jesus, who came to the land of Israel as a type of Isaac (obedience), the Son of God who comes as a type of Jacob is a person who is easy to deceive, gets angry easily, and comes with a straightforward personality like Jacob (rough). Looking at Jacob's actions, we can see the status of the Son of God who will come before the Gentiles. It is as if the appearance of the present Gentiles is not much different. Gentiles, including Christians, will have eternal life only when they believe in the Son of God who will come like this. However, it is uncertain whether those who are currently living in faith will recognize and accept the Son of God who will come in the form of Gentiles.
As mentioned briefly above, in order for the Jews to believe and accept Jesus, they must give up all the wealth and honor they had accumulated in the world up to that point, and they also had to admit that their lives under the law were all sinners. that you did In the Bible, those who claimed to be righteous did not believe in Jesus because they could not give up on them in the end, and those who recognized themselves as sinners, such as tax collectors and prostitutes, believed and accepted Jesus.
If so, it is clear that Christians today too, those who believe in Jesus and believe that they are saved will not believe in the Son of God who is sent as a type of Jacob. There is a high probability that he will admit that he is a sinner and believe in the Son God has sent.
The reason that all human beings must acknowledge themselves as sinners before the Son of God, whether or not the Gentiles have lived a religious life, is that the moment Adam falls into Satan's temptation, all human beings are under Satan's control. Therefore, from the moment all human beings are conceived in their mother's womb, a red god is conceived and controlled by Satan. This is also the reason why all human hearts are corrupted. It is absurd from the beginning that people with corrupt hearts believe in God with their hearts. Then why did I say that you must believe with your heart? The reason is that he said so in the sense that he can believe in God with his heart only after receiving the forgiveness of sins in his heart through the Son.
However, some Jews at the time of Jesus and Christians today believe that they believe in God without first having their sins in their hearts forgiven through the Son sent by God. This is false belief. How can you believe in God or in the Lord without clearing up your corrupt heart? Moreover, God has not yet sent His Son to Christians. However, everyone is calling on the name of Jesus with only their lips without any heart, believing that they have been saved through it, or teaching at the church. It can be a very dangerous idea.
We see clearly that the Jews believed they were all saved as they are today because they were born according to the lineage of Abraham, the father of faith. .
If Christians today also believe that all their sins have been forgiven by calling on the name of Jesus with their lips without a heart, and if they consider themselves to be a saved life, but do not believe in the Son of God, whom God sends as a type of Jacob, then they will not believe in Jesus. It is clear that the unbelieving Jews will follow the same path.
I tell you once again, all beliefs that you believe with your mouth and not with your heart are all false beliefs. Therefore, no one can attain eternal life with this kind of faith. Therefore, Christians must believe in the Son of God, whom God sent as a type of Jacob, in order to receive the forgiveness of sins in their hearts and attain eternal life.
And even an unbeliever who has never lived a Christian life will be forgiven of all his original sins and self-criminal sins and enter eternal life if he acknowledges himself as a sinner and believes in the Son sent by God. That is why God is said to be the King of kings and the one who is absolutely fair in front of humans.
On the other hand, today's churches do not know how ignorant they are because they are orthodox, and how disrespectful they are to unbelievers as children of Satan. How can such people be said to be children of God who live according to the just will of God? Jesus never did. Just by looking at this, you will be able to tell the difference between what the real Son of God is doing and what the fake Son of God is doing. -He who has an ear, let him hear and understand-