I, who have been saved, live as us

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I, who have been saved, live as us (Romans 9:1-5)

The purpose of God's creation is for those who have been called into Christ to be where they should be, to do what they should do in the places they should be, and to serve those who are supposed to be there.

Therefore, the characteristic of a sinner is selfish, whereas a righteous person is altruistic.

Therefore, once personal salvation is completed by Romans 8, it must become a practice for us to live as ourselves.

We must train ourselves to read and convey the Bible as it is.

It should not be adapted and instilled in the believers for their interest or response.

This is trying to instill his level, and this is called gaslighting these days, right?

They have a strong tendency to try to create their own slaves.

So it's easy and it's good for the learner, but the results are very bad.

They become dwarves of faith.

So now, the disease of neurotic Christianity has become so rampant that this or that doesn't seem right, and people are not doing anything due to the fatigue syndrome of gathered worship or fatigue from prayer.

So when there is a Bible study of this or that kind, they snoop around secretly and get caught by someone with a loud voice.

A prophet has the mission of turning his back on the people and receiving the word from God, then turning around and spreading the word of God as he received it.

They don't look at the people's reaction at all.

They only convey it as it is through the spirit of prophecy.

However, almost all modern sermons are too conscious of people's ears.

That's why one writer says he doesn't serve as a pastor because in pastoral ministry, you have to lower the Word to the level of people's eyes for the church to grow. He doesn't like that.

Q. What is the pain and anxiety that Paul’s conscience testifies to?

“I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,  That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.” (Romans 9:1,2)

A. Our spirit has the ability to communicate with God, can discern light and darkness, life and death through spiritual intuition, and also has a conscience.

But our conscience is not on our side.

It is like a black box on an airplane and cannot be controlled.

Therefore, Paul says, 'My conscience testifies in the Holy Spirit that I have great heaviness and constant sorrow toward Israel.'

I was also a person who had great pride in the Korean church.

So, I got into a heated argument with an American professor who said, 'The Korean church only emphasizes faith and lacks intellectual discernment of the Word.'

I believed that the passion for discipleship training and missions of the Korean church would become a model for churches around the world.

However, as I traveled from country to country during my 20 years of missionary work, observed various spiritualities, and looked closely at the Korean church again, I felt the same sorrow as Paul had in the Holy Spirit, who was honestly examining his conscience for the salvation of his fellow Israelites.

At first I criticized them with a hateful heart, but now I am praying for Korea with a compassionate heart.

When the Bible said to Israel that they would return to their homeland, it was not just the body returning to Canaan, but fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen generations from David to Babylon, and fourteen generations from there back to Canaan to Christ (Matthew 1:17).

It is not true liberation for Israel to be freed from captivity and return to Canaan, but to return to their homeland only when they return to Christ, the Messiah they long for.

After being taken captive to Babylon, they returned to Canaan only to live in Zerubbabel's temple without the glory of God, they only had the pride of being the chosen people, but their country was trampled upon.

Next, Jesus Christ is crucified to protect the temple in Jerusalem, which was built by the politician Herod and has only the name of being a temple.

There are so many foolish Christians like Israel now.

Just as the name Korean Church has become a proper noun in the Bible, if you are saying that all heretics and cults should return to the existing churches, you are making the same big mistake as Israel.

That's why my heart aches when I look at Korean churches.

This does not mean that church gatherings are disintegrating due to the coronavirus outbreak, but that the time has come to restore the original church of the Bible, the true church of which Christ is the head  and his body.

Q. To what extent is Paul's firm will?

“For I could wish that  myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh” (Romans 9:3)

A. It is his will that it would be better for him to be cursed on behalf of his fellow Israelites.

This is the confession of a truly righteous person.

Just as Moses stood before God for Israel and prayed to erase himself from the book written in order to prevent Israel from being destroyed in the wilderness (Exodus 32:32), this is a time when a righteous person is needed who can stand before God with himself as collateral.

However, just before Israel was taken captive to Babylon, it is said that there was no righteous person in Jerusalem like Moses who could bear the sins of Israel before God (Jer 5:1).

When he say ‘I myself’, he mean that it is not what I say in Christ through His Spirit, but rather Paul’s personal thoughts.

When parents see their children sick, it's like thinking, 'I'll take care of the pain for them.'

‘accursed’ Paul is willing to accept God’s curse for Israel.

Paul himself means that he wants to do so even if it means being cut off from Christ.

He is a truly great apostle of the Lord, a disciple of the Lord, a righteous man, and a man of love.

Some  say that the apostolicity is being inherited in this age, and that they are doing the Holy Spirit movement, but they are foaming at the mouth, collapsing, speaking in tongues, and praying for the illness of their bodies that will return to the dust of the universe if they live less than 100 years.

Why do you catch so many ghosts and use them for what, and why do you take away the poor Park Soo-shaman's livelihood?

How does that help in establishing the heavenly original church and saving the chosen people in the Republic of Korea?

If you are an apostle, you should carry the Republic of Korea before God like Paul.

Likewise, up to Romans 8, the relationship is between me and God, but from Romans 9 onwards, it moves to a relationship with the neighbors of the righteous who completed up to chapter 8.

Although the world may hate and reject, those who are born from God will surely hear.

I have already risked my life to embody the original church of the Bible and to testify of this to all five continents. Anyone who has become a righteous person in Christ and has the confidence of faith to be cursed on behalf of others, please send a signal of devotion.

However, God did not uproot Moses and Paul and throw them into the lake of fire.

God wants us to take on his people and stake ourselves as collateral before his love.

If there is someone who is called to do something like this, let's have a proper fight.

Q. What is Israel’s advantage?

“Who are Israelites; to whom pertaine the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers; and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.” (Romans 9:4-5)

A. Paul lists the privileges of Israel.

1) Authority to be adopted 2) Conditions to receive glory 3) Covenant, the people of promise 4) They received the law first 5) Worship and promises 6) All traditions of their ancestors are theirs. 7) Even Christ came to this earth by them.

The genealogy of Jesus' flesh is theirs.

However, out of concern that Paul might view Jesus only as a descendant of man, he reveals that Christ is God over all things and is worthy of praise.

But the problem is that even though Israel had everything, they missed just one thing: Christ.

So, Romans 9 is about moving up from physical Israel to spiritual Israel.

Therefore, faith should not go back and forth from spiritual to physical.

In other words, do not even imitate Israel's faith.

Do not call the church building a temple, do not mention the word altar, do not speak of Jesus according to the flesh (2 Corinthians 5:16), but accept him as the Lord and Christ who died on the cross and rose again.

As a righteous person who becomes one spirit with Christ and one with God in the Spirit of truth, just as Paul took responsibility for Israel's unbelief and interceded with God saying that I would be cursed, we must take responsibility for those who the remnant in Korea and the five continents.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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