Hope is confirmed by God's love

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Hope is confirmed by God's love (Romans 5:5-8)

A pastora who passed away not too long ago has continued to receive hospital treatment to prolong her life for nearly 7 years even after I knew him.

She worked with famous revivalists on praise rally all his life.

She played the piano well and was very good at singing even though she was ill.

But she must have suffered quite a bit because I pointed at her and said, 'If you die right now, you will go to hell. Your praise is only a song, not praising God.'

Until the morning when she collapsed during dialysis and was taken to the emergency room, I prayed for her, she read my writings and communicated via KakaoTalk.

She did not let go of the word of truth until the very end.

The reason why her song is not praise is because there is no worship in the Spirit and truth, and because the anointing does not appear in praise as evidence.

Also, as her outward evidence, she did not show any desires of the spirit, only the desires of the flesh, and she repeated only her past achievements.

Watching it for 7 years felt like sitting in a trash can.

Her husband, the elder, knew the grace of the redemption of the cross of Christ, crossed the so-called boundary of faith, and lived as a new creation for several years before passing away.

At the end, the pastora grumbled, "If I die, I will go to heaven."

I wanted to say 'heaven is a garbage dump', but I held back.

I asked her on what basis she went to heaven.

It is because she believed in Jesus and received the forgiveness of sins through the blood of the cross.

I said Nicodemus knew and believed that Jesus was the one who came from God.

However, the Lord stopped his mouth, saying that unless he is born of water and the Spirit, he will neither see nor enter the kingdom of heaven.

Are people who were born wrong in Adam believe in Jesus and receive the forgiveness of sins through the blood of the cross and go to heaven?

You must follow the death and resurrection of Christ on the cross, believe in the Lord in him, and as a born again child of God who has obtained eternal life you receive the seal of the Holy Spirit.

So Paul clearly states that the basis for obtaining the same righteousness as Abraham is to believe in Jesus Christ as Lord, who gave himself on the cross for our sins and rose again to be our resurrection and life.

Q. Would you be proud of being justified by faith and hoping for glory?

“Hope makes not shamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in  our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us.” (Romans 5:5)

A. Of course, you will have a proud sense of identity that cannot be expressed in words.

We say that we are real Christians from the moment our spiritual values change.

It is because the hope gained in Christ is guaranteed by God's love, so we have a pride that has nothing to do with possessions, skills, or roles.

It is not a self-esteem for self-defence, but a glorious spiritual qualification and infinite pride that comes from Christ in him.

This is God's vision given to the righteous in Christ.

The vision God gives us keeps coming to mind and we pray over and over again.

However, the vision he harbored for his self-interest comes with a doubts asking if he can pray like this because he is ashamed to pray to God.

In the end, we got pray fatigue syndrome and stopped praying.

People of the Holy Spirit have clear discernment about prayer even if others ask them to pray like this or that way before God.

And this vision given by the Holy Spirit is a biblical vision.

Because we believe in the promise, it is the vision guaranteed by the Holy Spirit.

Even if the earth is split in two, we are sure that this will happen.

Therefore, if we continue to pray with that vision, God's covenant will be fulfilled.

If you go into Romans 8, first you will be born again as a Christian, and then you will receive the inheritance after being confirmed as a child of God.

After becoming an heir, the glory of God is given to you.

After that glory, the Holy Spirit follows like a tutor.

The Holy Spirit Himself pleads, the Spirit comforts, the Spirit teaches, assures, and provides.

Therefore, because the Holy Spirit leads us to conform to the image of the Son, all things of our lives add up to become good. (Rom 8:28)

This is not to say that this is a happy ending after all.

It comes to the conclusion of becoming the heir of the glorious God in the image of God.

The world will oppose, accuse, and condemn those who are walking this path, but there is no being in heaven or below that can separate such a person from the love of God in our Lord Jesus Christ. No one but God can touch them.

Q. What kind of God's love is it?

“For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commend his love toward us,in yhat, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom 5:6-8)

A. Explains the love of God, the love of Christ in the Holy Spirit.

What kind of love is that the Lord died on the cross for the ungodly as promised when we were weak. This is God's promise of love.

Just as God had sworn, the Lord walked the path of death.

The reason why this is love is that it is not easy to die for the righteous in this world.

This is because humans have no standard of righteousness.

There is a standard of good and evil, but there is no standard of righteousness, so he dies without knowing whether he is righteous or not.

Why is there no one who dies for the sake of righteousness? It is because people are the standard for being right or wrong, not the standard for righteousness.

That is why it is said that no one dies for the righteous.

However, those who die for goodness exist in names such martyrs, etc.

But no one voluntarily died for a sinner.

Entering Romans 5, faith comes first, then hope, and then love.

Faith, hope, and love are all found in Romans 5.

Christ died on the cross to prove the love that God has for us.

It means that the love that God forgave us and tries to save us through this incident of dying the ransom death of the cross and offering it once for all as the sacrifice of reconciliation has already been confirmed in history.

We received that love, and the effects of that event of the cross are still being applied.

It means that when we were still sinners, God unilaterally followed that promise to save us and to find us again, nailing Jesus Christ to the cross and now displaying the word of love throughout the world.

When we meet the living Jesus Christ in the field of our lives today, the history of Jesus who died on the cross 2,000 years ago becomes our history, and the history when we were predestined in God with Christ before the foundation of the world also becomes our history.

Therefore, it is not that we were grafted into the Lord on the spot of the shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, but this means that from the time we receive God's Word, believe in Christ and accept him as our savior, retroactively all of his history becomes our history.

This is what Antony Hookma's perspective.

It is because they can see the Lord who suffered in the Old Testament and the glory of the Lord after He suffered, see the eternal future in Christ, and see themselves who were already predestinated in Christ before the foundation of the world.

So I think I believed in the Lord, but when I receive the revelation of the Holy Spirit, I know that the Lord has called and sought me, and I know that I have already organized my reins from the womb of my mother, and then I know the predestination before the foundation of the world.

Those who say that faith depends on us are not people of the Holy Spirit.

If you go up along the line of promise by receiving the word of God, you will discover the great love that the Lord died on the cross for you.

That's why I confess that the effect is coming and coming to me now.

This is the result of God's righteousness obtained through faith.

The death of Christ on the cross is God's one-sided love that has nothing to do with our will.

Would a newborn baby know his date of birth and know his inheritance?

In the distant future, as you grow up, you will gradually learn.

This is the amazing grace of Christ's redemption.

It is the infinite love of God toward us.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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