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God is looking for those who receive God's love in the world through the Word and Son, and live in that love, so that their souls prosper, all things prosper, and they live strong in spirit and body.
Those whom God sought through the Son are those who reflect themselves in front of the mirror of the Word, realize the sins and evils of their inner man, and repent with all their hearts before God.
▣ Sin is a spiritual thing (inherited through Adam) that causes God's wrath.
▣ Evil is a carnal thing that prevents a person from prospering while he or she lives. (Self-sin)
Because the devil who disobeyed God in Eden had the original attributes he had when he was imprisoned in the world, the devil has the power to die and will deceive many people into living under sin until the day the whole world is judged before God. .
Therefore, as long as we have a physical body, we are always challenged by sin and evil, and we have no choice but to hesitate at the crossroads of choice.
God never forsakes those who come before Him to forsake sin and evil and belong to God. Just as a hen holds her chicks under her wings, He embraces those who come before Him through mercy and love, and through the Holy Spirit he embraces them. He guides and guides life.
Although God lived in the world, he did not turn away from the voices of those who sought God's help, first Israel, and then all the people of the world.
God is the One who makes those who seek you white as wool and whiter than snow, and then sanctifies, though their sins and evils are red as scarlet and red as crimson. (Isa 1:18)
▣ Your life depends on who you belong to and with whom you live.
Where do you belong and with whom do you work?
We want you to believe that we must belong to God and that we can be happy only when we walk with the Lord.
◎ Those who belong to God and are with God
Isaiah 40:31 - “You will be refreshed, and you will rise up on the wings of an eagle, you will run and not get weary, and you will walk and not get tired.” Those who belong to the Lord live in grace even in this world, but through God's grace, they will enjoy the blessing of eternal life in heaven.
▣ Even though life is difficult and difficult for all of us, don't fall into formal faith and put priority on what belongs to the Lord and what we do with the Lord.
When we become partners with the Lord, we will do well on this earth and receive the promised victory.
Just as parents try to give good things to their children, God tells us to ask, seek, and knock in order to bless all His people with the most precious and beautiful things.
▣ Because the blessings and peace that people seek are from God, God's obedience is a gift to anyone who is worthy of God's heart and lives according to God's will.
He prepared manna and quail for the people of Israel who were walking in the wilderness and wanted to fulfill God’s word. He guided and protected those who were weary from the heat and cold with a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud. It is our Heavenly Father who treats us as children.
What is the secret to a successful life as a believer?
It is to love God and be with God.
When believers draw close to God through worship, God gives them new strength and gives them wisdom and courage to live.
▣ Because Sunday is the day on which Jesus overcame the power of death and rose from the dead, giving thanks to God through Sunday worship will not only give us new strength but also bring us closer to Him.
James 4:8 - “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.”
Please believe that God is not close to or with anyone, but that when we try to draw near to God on our own, God also draws close to us and is with us.
The text talks about how to be with the Lord until the end of the world just before Jesus ascended to heaven. How can we be with the Lord in this life and in the life to come?
1. We must boast in Jesus.
Verse 19 - “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
▣ What is the Christian life?
It is always living a life of thinking, speaking, and acting centered on the Lord.
Everyone has a habit of boasting about what is beneficial to them.
Just as when we love a person, that person takes over the center of our heart and thinks of that person, when we love the Lord, the Lord takes over all our thoughts and hearts.
2 Corinthians 10:17- “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
There are countless things we can boast about in the world, but the pride of the saints should be the boasting of Jesus.
James 4:16- “Now ye boast in vain boasting, and all such boasting is evil.”
He says that boasting about the fruits of one's life without boasting for the sake of faith and boasting about the fruits of life are all evil.
▣ There was once a famous singer named Hillini Halverton in the American opera world.
One day, he overheard a conversation in the house where his son was playing with a neighbor's child. The neighbor saw his son and boasted, "My father knows the market well." knows God well.”
As soon as he heard his son's answer, tears began to flow from his eyes, and he ran into the study room.
I read an article in which he confessed that he cried.
What was it that made him so moved when he heard his son's words?
What was the meaning of those tears?
It was because he was so proud of his son who knew how to boast about his father who knew God well.
▣ What about us?
We are children of God.
How can we boast in God as our Father and in Jesus as our Savior?
It is so enchanting and proud that you and I have become children of God.
Believe that those who truly trust in God and boast in Jesus as their Savior can be bold in the Philippian prison, in the face of Goliath, and in the Red Sea, and boast in the Lord.
2. When we obey the Word, we can be with the Lord.
Verse 28 - “Teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”
Without a life of listening to God's Word and studying it, we cannot meet and know God, nor can we practice a life with God.
No matter how rich the worldly studies and knowledge, no one can know God except through the Word of God. After God first called Israel out of Egypt, God gave the Word through Moses and blessed them for thousands of generations to come and keep and practice them. You said you would give it to me.
▣ DL Moody, a famous American revivalist, loved Jesus so much after he first believed in Jesus that he always sang hymns at work and gave thanks for everything, but after a while the joy of being born again disappeared and he found himself abandoning the Word and following the world. And I fasted and prayed on the mountain for a week.
So I came down with full grace, and after a while, I went back to the old days.
So he said to God, “God, I am a man burned with fire, and I am a man rejected by God. What kind of heaven is this guy going to? After being regenerated, I went out into the world, I received grace and then poured it all out. I read the Bible while lamenting that I was an outcast.
Romans 10:17 “Therefore faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” “I have not read the Bible, so I have no grace, my faith is not growing, I am not clean!” So from that time on, he diligently studied the word of God and became a worker used by God.
As we diligently study and obey God's Word, I hope you will be with God.
3. We must not stop or stop praying, which is a conversation with God.
If the conversation becomes distant in our daily life, the love of the family and the love between the saints will also grow cold.
No matter how passionately you love each other, if you don't talk to each other, you will fall apart. What is prayer? It is a time to listen to God and have a conversation while giving your voice to God.
In Song of Songs 2:8 and below, God compares the prayers of His people to the sound of footsteps of a roe deer running for grazing.
If a believer does not communicate with God through prayer, any kind of passionate love will grow cold, and they will lose the inspiration to discern God's will and become homeless in their faith. (Prayer is like a magnet.)
If you look at a harmonious family, most of them are families in which conversations between family members are not cut off.
Likewise, prayer is a conversation with God.
Remembering Ephesians 6:18, “Always pray in the Holy Spirit with all your prayers and supplications, and always do your best to keep awake and ask for it.” that you can get.
Even Almighty God will not help us if we do not communicate with God.
you know? you know? It doesn't mean you get God's help, but God's answer comes to those who first ask, seek, and knock in faith.
Just before his ascension into heaven, Jesus said in his earthly will, “I will always be with you until the end of the world.” But we can become orphans all of a sudden because our loved ones and our parents leave when the time is right.
However, the Lord sent the Holy Spirit of God in order not to leave us as orphans, and He said that He is always with those who boast in Him, keep His Word, keep His Word, and do not stop praying.