Examining the overall composition of Romans(4)

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There are also those who teach that only when we add works to our faith, we become perfect faith.

Those people are now biblical unbelievers.

They say they believe, but they do not follow the call that God calls them according to the promise.

If you say that you must add something other than faith to be born again, and that acceptance is also the same, or if you have to add something other than faith to enter the 144,000 on Mount Zion, that person has no salvation, so if he dies in his current state, he has no choice but to go to the lake of fire.

Therefore, do not try to live according to the Word yourself, but if you accept the Word of God as it is in Christ, as the Bible says that you have already lived, you will live, becoming a living being, being born again, accepting Christ as Lord, receiving salvation, and sitting at the right hand of God as a spirit united with Christ is to have the faith to believe.

Also, if you have become alive in Christ, do not try to give up on yourself, but if you accept the fact that you died with Christ as it is, you will participate in Christ's death and become one with His resurrection and life.

For the living to believe that they are dead is active, but the manifestation of the life of Christ in the dead is passive through Christ.

Don't try to go to heaven, accepting that the kingdom of heaven has come in you is the right faith.

The kingdom of heaven is not entered by our efforts, but entered by being held by Christ.

Going to the eternal house of God after the death of the body in the future is also not by us entering, but by being raptured in the state of becoming one with our Lord Jesus Christ.

To believe according to the calling according to the word of God's promise is to believe in the word of God.

It is to receive the name of Christ, and it is our response to His call.

Responding humbly to the word of promise of the Lord is the right faith.

Therefore, as much as we listen to the word of Christ, we respond with the faith that believes according to the calling.

Those who try to believe with their own zeal do not accept the Word.

Then, since the powers of confusion, emptiness, and darkness in the heart do not leave him, he becomes more and more zealous to overcome them, and then establishes his own righteousness.

That is the Jewish faith, and there are many churches where modern Jews like him gather.

It is foolish to think that you can help your own soul with your own will or zeal.

Soul salvation is a mystery within us, and only Christ, the image of God (Colossians 1:27)

Therefore, the words that should never be added in front of God's Word are 'but' and 'however'.

This is to intervene with one's own thoughts, admit that the Word is correct, and then rationalize and defend oneself.

It shouldn't be like this. suffer for a long time. You must acknowledge and accept God's Word as it is.

Therefore, we must treat the word of God personally and receive it into our spirit.

A retelling of the entire book of Romans

Chapters 1-8 are about personal salvation.

Among them, the second half of chapter 1 to verse 3:18 is the story of sin.

In other words, it is the story of unbelievers, and those unbelievers are those who block the truth with forced logic (Rom 1:18).

Chapter 1 is the story of those who accept the gospel and those who block it.

Chapter 2 What is the sin of the Jews? It points out the sins of those who boast that they know and teach others, but cannot teach themselves.

And although they say they believe, what is the sin of those who believe in their own righteousness?

The solution is presented in Romans 3:19-32.

"The righteousness of God" is obtained by faith alone.

Faith here does not mean that I believe in Jesus, but the meaning of acceptance of the gospel.

So, the faith in Romans 3 and 4 is to accept the Word of God as it is.

Otherwise, a conflict arises between one's own beliefs and the beliefs prescribed by the Bible.

“In the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed - a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith” (Rom 1:17).

When the gospel of Christ enters into me, God's righteousness is revealed, and that righteousness becomes faith, and when that faith builds up, I trust in the Lord, and finally I live by that faith (the righteous will live by faith).

This is the faith that follows the tradition of faith of Abraham and David.

It is not important that I believe well, but the faith that accepts the gospel of Christ.

God does not say that we are justified  because we believe well according to our own standards.

Adam's sin in the Garden of Eden was to die by eating what he was told not to eat.

So what is righteousness?

Eating what God tells us to eat and living again is righteousness.

The various types of human sins other than the original sin committed in Eden are the phenomena of absurdities that appear after being separated from God.

You do not become a sinner because you sin, you sin because you are a sinner.

Therefore, the types of sin that appear are by no means all of human sins.

If you accept God's word with faith, 'God's righteousness' will appear.

God works by putting righteousness first (Psalm 85:13). The Holy Spirit works according to God's righteousness.

Therefore, to express Romans in one word, it is 'God's righteousness'.

Conflict with God always arises because people consider their own righteousness to be what they believe in their zeal.

That's why they walk a long road like the wilderness.

The Jews boast to God with fasting, almsgiving, tithes, and prayers.

But the publican couldn't even look up to heaven and confessed that I was a sinner while beating his chest.

At that time, it says that the publican was justified and returned (Luke 18:9-14).

Therefore, you must understand the concepts of sin and righteousness.

To accept God's righteousness, you must first admit that you are a sinner.

On the other hand, if I do not accept God's righteousness, I will boast that I am a righteous person.

To be justified by faith in Romans means that if we accept the Word of God as it is, righteousness is given to us from God.

The righteous in the Bible do not become righteous because their physical life is cleansed, but because God's righteousness come in  them.

There are many cases in which people do not understand the words of Romans 10 properly.

Romans 10: To obtain righteousness, who will ascend to heaven and who will descend to Hades?

Don't work in vain like that. If you accept with faith that the word is near, God's righteousness will be revealed.

is the word.

So, “If you believe with your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord, you will be saved, and whoever calls on the name of the Lord will not be put to shame and will become rich, and whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved” (Rom 10:9-13). 

Therefore, faith is not the measure of a person's zeal, but the key to knowing and believing in the knowledge of God's righteousness.

However, there is a certain process (system) in that belief. You should not omit this.

We must always check the state of faith that allows us to call on the name of the Lord intimately.

The human heart, which has become a sinner, is confused and empty, and darkness is over the deep (Genesis 1:2).

That is why human beings groan because of the pain and are unhappy.

But on the other hand, it is like a hen gathering her chicks, saying, "The Lord's Spirit hovers over the waters."

Likewise, the way of salvation is always open to sinners.

When we enter into the Word by faith, the Holy spirit works.

So, the Lord calls us to come to the water for all who are thirsty and hungry.

No matter how much you eat, the void will never be filled. No satisfaction.

Inferiority, depression, and fear all belong here.

However, the hope of salvation for sinful people is because the Holy Spirit always surrounds them with the Word of God, just as it was said, "The Spirit of God was hoverin over the waters" (Genesis 1:2).

The God of salvation is always near.

However, depending on whether or not we receive the word of God, God may consider us righteous or unrighteous (Romans 1:17-18).

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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