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Paul is a true missionary (Romans 15:14-21)
After I preached on the Book of Romans in 1997, I was invited to rallies all over Korea to preach on the Book of Romans, and I also preached on the Book of Romans in Japan, the United States, and the Philippines, so I was confirmed to be a worker of the gospel.
At that time, I had a half-baked confidence that salvation had reached a complete stage.
And since 1999, I have followed the path of a missionary by going abroad to expound the Bible and give sermons.
Rather than building buildings or schools, I only preached the Word.
However, in the current mission field, it is thought that ministry that only testifies to the Word is not missions.
We need to build a church building, a center, and a school or hospital to receive support.
Just as David had a deep fellowship with God in the wilderness of En-gedi, the missionary journey I have been on was God's hand in helping me reach the completion level of Romans, John's Gospel, and Hebrews.
I believe that if I had continued my ministry, the fulfillment of my current message would not have been possible.
So, I often testify that it took me 25 years since I began my faith life to realize and confirm that I had been delived over from Adam to Christ, and that it took another 25 years to clearly see the way to the throne of God's grace in Christ.
It is true that the branches attached to the vine have already become a branch through the grace of death and being raised of the Lord on the cross, which the Lord accomplished once and for all, but the period of time we take to believe and accept this and deal with it is different for each person.
It took Abraham 45 years, Moses 40 years, Jacob 20 years, and Joseph being held in chains in the royal prison for 13 years for the Word to be fulfilled.
In this way, everyone accepts the gospel of the Lord as knowledge and has confidence in faith, but it takes a long time to deny self, take up one's cross, and learn to yoke and follow the Lord together.
Com & See World Mission Cafe opened in 2005, and 18 years have already passed since I started sending breakfast there.
I will probably continue until I die.
Someone said that they trust me because I preach the same words from the beginning to the present.
In fact, while I lecture on the Church Epistles, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Revelation based on Romans, John, and Hebrews, I use the Old Testament to aid understanding like subtitles in foreign movies, so I write and say things in almost the same context then and now. That's probably why.
However, although there is no information about signs or miracles in Romans or Hebrews, all kinds of signs and wonders occur as they are preached and heard.
That's natural.
However, we do not preach the word for the purpose of healing or other signs and wonders.
The reason is that when sinners are justified by the cross of Christ, become holy according to the truth, and come before the glory of God, each subjective experience inevitably appears.
Q. Why does Paul talk about external things that are not found in Romans?
“For I will not dare to speak of anyt of those things which Christ has not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. “(Romans 15:18-19)
A. There is not a single line of signs or wonders in the words of salvation from Romans 1-8.
However, wherever Paul goes, there are signs and wonders.
That happens because he preaches the gospel of Christ that he received.
Paul is a priest who offers Gentiles as a sacrifice to God, and he is a minister who spreads the gospel and serves Gentiles so that they can come to God the Father, so he never needs to prove himself with signs and wonders that occur every time. So he is a real missionary.
So he says, “That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit” (Romans15:16)
The book of Romans was written to Gentiles from the beginning.
The content is the globalization of the gospel.
However, it is important to note that Paul does not promote people to listen to the word of the gospel that he has, citing signs and wonders that occur due to his serving Christ.
This is the same as when electricity flows, electromagnetic force is formed around the wire.
How can something amazing not happen when we testify the gospel of Christ through our body, the temple where the Holy Spirit dwells?
It is even more strange that there is no appearance of the Holy Spirit.
If you ask me about this, I will tell you only one incident.
At a graduation ceremony at a seminary, a pastor lost consciousness while sitting on a chair and fell sideways. Among the people surrounding him were pastors and the director of a prayer center, but no one laid their hands on the pastor's head, so I willingly did so.
It's natural to wake up again, but I don't take that fact seriously.
I have healed lung cancer, brain cancer, uterine cancer, breast cancer, a twisted back, and even a missionary who went insane on the mission field with the grace and love the Lord gave me, but I want to emphasize that that is not my main ministry.
I am convinced that only with the gospel of Christ can humans become fully whole and healthy both spiritually and physically.
So, all I have to do is to testify the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and its truth so that those who hear it may be saved and have peace with God the Father in the Spirit of truth.
Within it, healing, health, joy, and prosperity will surely follow.
Next, everything from Romans 15:22 onwards is a greeting.
You can read and apply it as is without any need for separate interpretation.
And Chapter 16 is a record of a monumental person recommended by Paul.
These are the names of people recommended by Paul who will shine in the history of Christianity.
I hope that you and I will be recommended by an apostle like Paul and have our names listed in this hall of fame, and we give glory to God the Father who gave us the Book of Romans.
Hallelujah, Allelujah!
P.S. The reason why Romans was explained in detail in QA style was to use it as a text for studying Romans, but it is a bit embarrassing to mix in subjective experience in several places.
However, this is not to prove myself, but to emphasize the fact that the same work of the Holy Spirit occurs in everyone who spreads the gospel of Christ, so I hope you will understand.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
COME AND SEE WORLD MISSION