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※ Bible: John 1:19-28
※ Title: Have a good goal.
Thank you and I respect you for stopping everything today and coming to the church to worship with me to serve the Lord and to make the Sunday holy. May our Lord respond to you with grace and blessing in your name. Today, I will tell you under the title of Have a Good Goal.
Last week, my personal praise was 360 (new 301).
1. God's great grace it is has brought us All this way in faith-ful-ness.
God's un-bound-ed love which sought us Hoe can tongue of man ex-press?
His strong hand is watch-ing o'er us Wheth-er sleep-ing or a-wake.
He makes all things pleas-ant for us In the Lord for Je-sus' sake.
2. God re-news our fail-ing pow-ers With His might from day to day,
And in mer-cy on us show-ers Grace suf-fi-cient for the way.
Though the love-less streets be drea-ry Harsh and bleak the moun-tain ways,
We shall walk and not be wea-ry Clasp His hand and sing His praise.
3. Dai-ly clos-er comes the prom-ise When a-gain we see the Lord,
Eve-ry bur-den tak-en from us, Eve-ry joy in him re-stored.
Back at home my room is wait-ing I shall walk in through that door.
Join my Fa-ther ce-le-brat-ing, And with Him live ev-er-more.
I sang this hymn and prayed. Lord! I am a pastor of Daeso Church and have been tried 15 times after being sued and accused 4 times by the elders and butlers of Daeso Church. It was really scary and hard. And the conclusion was that all of them were innocent. What should I do now? Tell me in my heart, Lord! and he replied to my heart that you should have a good goal for the glory of God.
Therefore, I set a good goal in your heart and bless the indicator in the name of the Lord. So I decided to make the title of today's words to have a good goal for the glory of God. That's right. He said that God blesses you only when you have a good goal. That's right. When your goal is good, peace appears on your face without your knowledge.
If you have a peaceful face, you look elegant even without big makeup. Therefore, I believe that saints with peaceful faces can evangelize. A peaceful face is up to the happy saints. Happiness belongs to the winner. Players who beat the disease, beat Corona, beat poverty, and win the gold medal look happy even if they cry.
Last week, a presidential candidate was elected from a political party, and the loser smiled and raised his hand, and it looked sad to me. That's right. From now on, I believe that our church should set good goals for the glory of God. And you have to run. John, the protagonist of the text, is an apostle who had a good goal of God's glory.
In John 3:30, he heard that the people who were coming to him were going to Jesus.
(Jn 3:30) He must increase, but I must decrease.
I said that
Also, in Matthew 3:11-12, the people who come to get baptized by themselves
(Mt 3:11) "I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
(Mt 3:12) His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
He lowered himself and honored the Lord.
Therefore, the Lord saw John in Matthew 11:11
(Mt 11:11) Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist.
That's what I think. That's right. You're a good person only when your goal is good. You are a great person only when your goal is good. Therefore, you bless in the name of the Lord to have a good goal.
● An entomologist named Jean-Henri Fabre discovered a very important fact while carefully observing the ecology of flies. It means that fly bugs spin around only following the fly flying in front of them for no purpose. It's just going around without any direction or destination.
Even if you bring something to eat right under the spinning wheel, you just keep spinning without looking. I didn't know why they were spinning, and when the fly in front of me was spinning, the fly bugs that had been following me for seven days ended up starving to death. According to some statistics, 87% of people live like flies observed by Fabre without any goals. That's right. Life is too short.
● At 7:30 p.m. on the 15th, my beloved friend Eo Yoon-il, butler, was called by God and prayed. Tomorrow, we are going to hold an incentive ceremony for the elderly. My heart is proud and sad. He lived a little longer than 80 years. But life is short. Let's live with good goals. Now, I am going to receive grace by reading the words of God given today.
When reading the words, I hope God will give us new grace and blessings.
● 19-20 verses.
(Jn 1:19) And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
(Jn 1:20) He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ."
That's what he says. That's right. In John's time, people saw John's actions and were so good that is this Messi?
Is this person Christ? I was curious. So I send someone to ask. At this time, John answers. I answer that I am not Christ. It's holy denial. Everyone who has no faith in the world tries to raise their status. So I try to attract everything I have and wrap myself up and improve the reputation of the name.
However, John the Baptist was not shaken at all about his identity. It's a moment when you can pretend to be Christ as much as you want. But John did not even mistake himself for Christ. This is a blessing. It's grace. The belief that I answer no in front of people who acknowledge me is a great belief.
Because? It's an honest belief. If you're honest, you're confident. Honesty has power. There's nothing to fear. If you're honest, you're free. But John the Baptist was honest. I said I wasn't Christ. Therefore, I bless you in the name of the Lord for your honest grace.
● It's the 21-23 verses.
(Jn 1:21) And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No."
(Jn 1:22) So they said to him, "Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
(Jn 1:23) He said, "I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."
That's what he says.
I ask again and again and again. Then, is it Elly? In their eyes, it seemed Greek or at least Elijah. This is because Elijah was the person that the Israelites respected the most at that time. In the encyclopedia, Elijah is introduced like this. I'll read it for you.
● Elijah is a man from Thisbe, Gilah, who lived during the reign of King Ahab of the Kingdom of Israel. When King Ahab married Ishebel, a villain from the time of King Sidon's daughter, worshiping idols, Elijah predicted that Israel would suffer from a severe drought because it had not rained for years.
Elijah, who was chased by the hatred of Ahab and Ishebel because of this, stayed hidden in downtown Krit, east of the Jordan River. Water was drunk in the city, and food was eaten by crows ordered by God.
● Elijah stayed with a widow of Sarepta. While hiding from the kind treatment of the widow she met there, Elijah saved the child with a miracle of prayer when the widow's son became ill and died.
However, as the drought continued, Ahab, who thought this was due to Elijah, visited Elijah with Obadya instead of the palace, and Elijah confronted Baal and 450 prophets from Asera on Mount Galmel. First, the prophets of Baal and Asera offered sacrifices and called their gods, but there was no response. However, when Elijah built an altar and called Jehovah, he immediately responded with fire.
Elijah ordered the people to execute Baal's prophets and soon the drought ended with rain. And Elijah went faster than Ahab, who fled to Samaria with the help of God, and reached Israel, he introduces in the encyclopedia. But looking at Yohan, he looks like Elijah.
But John honestly replies that he is not.
● The errand boy asks again. Are you a seer? What kind of person is a prophet? If you write it in Chinese characters, first. It's a person who knows. The dictionary introduces you as a person with the ability to recognize anything first. Therefore, Elijah was considered a prophet by people at that time.
But John the Baptist replies, "It's not me. Then who is it? To those who ask again, I answer that it is the sound of a person shouting in the wilderness to straighten the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said. I humbly answer that it's just a sound that's disappearing soon. That's right. Humility is the goal of Christian life.
● Proverbs 18:12, Solomon...
(Pr 18:12) Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
That's what he says. That's right. Humility is a guide that guides the saints to blessings. Humility will eventually bless you. Therefore, I bless you in the name of the Lord for the grace of humility in your life.
● I mean 24-25 verses.
(Jn 1:24) (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
(Jn 1:25) They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
That's what he says. Elijah was honest. I was humble. Then a person's attitude suddenly changes. You are neither Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet, so you ask why you baptize.
Respect changed and became angry. That's right. It's a reformation. And I believe it's the foot of foolishness. I believe that plagiarism is Satan's strategy to read everything and God's punishment. And you lose your own personality. Don't let them be treated like humans. Therefore, the most frightening thing in human life is the punishment of change.
Therefore, in Revelation 2:10,
(Rv 2:10) Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crow
That's what he says.
Why do people change their mind? I believe it's because of the pride of being the best, the desire to do whatever I want, and the fear of being disadvantageous to myself. But this is distrust. I believe that the first is not me, but God, the church work is not my way, but God's will, and fear is due to distrust that does not believe in God's love.
That's right. Believe in God's love. And let go of your greed. And be humble. That's faith. I believe that living with faith itself is a blessing and happiness. Therefore, I bless you in your name with unwavering faith until you go before the Lord.
● 26-28 verses.
(Jn 1:26) John answered them, "I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,
(Jn 1:27) even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."
(Jn 1:28) These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
He's talking.
That's right. John's goal of faith is only an honor to God. I baptize with water, but the Lord baptizes with the Holy Spirit, and I testify to myself that I cannot handle the untying of his shoelaces. What are the characteristics of a foolish person? It's about putting yourself forward. This is called self-examination in modern language. But John is only an honor to God.
He undermines others to show off himself. In modern words, it is dissing. If you diss someone else, you mistake yourself for going up. It's foolish behavior. When my husband becomes king, I become king even if I don't try. My wife married me and was the evangelist's wife even though she didn't teach me.
The moment I became a pastor, my friends called me pastor's wife even though they didn't teach me. Therefore, I believe that the best goal is an honor to the Lord. Therefore, I bless you in the name of the Lord, for you are like me. Aman!
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