We are vessels for His honor

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We are vessels for his honor. (Romans 9:24-29)

Modern education means living according to your position.

Don't you feel like you're talking exactly like the devil?

As believers in Jesus, we must live like pastors, elders, and deacons.

The devil says you can become like God and do your own thing. So, if there is a Christian who says, ‘I am a Christian and I must live like a Christian in accordance with the spirit of the law,’ he will be treated as a model prisoner in this era.

However, if you only believe in Jesus' earthly ministry and say you believe in Jesus, you are following in the footsteps of the Jews.

Although Christ is Jesus of Nazareth, born of the tribe of Judah, He is above all things and is worthy of eternal praise (Romans 9:5).

If you do not believe that, you are like a Jew.

The biggest problem with Christianity today is that although we know well about Jesus' earthly ministry, we are blind to the heavenly ministry that he is still alive and working in. 

So we won't be able to see the glory.

Because we do not see the glory, we cannot become one with that glory, and  we have no perfection, we are unable to achieve love.

Since he believes that being glorified comes after death, he ends up becoming an earthly person.

That is why they do not understand the true meaning of the most important verse in the Book of Revelation: Rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth  and of the sea. (Revelation 12:12)

They do not know that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Word, and therefore the Lamb who rules over all things and is at the right hand of God until the enemy becomes a footstool.

They do not know that through His death and raised, we, who were dead in trespasses and sins, have been raised and bound to His raising and ascension into heaven, where we sit down with the Lord (Ephesians 2:6) and have become heaven.

That is why Jesus says, “If you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins” (John 8:24)

Those are the Jews who did not know Jesus and did not accept Him and they only knew Jesus but did not know Christ. 

They did not know that Christ is the Lord of all things and did not know that they were citizens seated with Him in heaven (Philippians 3:20).

They have no idea that they are blind to not know the way to God.

Q. Who is the precious vessel made by the potter?

“Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only,  but also of the Gentiles?” (Romans 9:24)

A. This vessel is us and it is me.

We contain Christ. We contained the owner of heaven and earth.

The fact that the universe is contained within me is the gospel.

So, even if there is only one person among the 144,000 in Revelation 7, I am one of those who affirm that it is me.

When have I ever asked God to add me to 144,000 (144*1000)?

God fulfilled the rich covenant of my salvation, inheritance, and promise through his Son Christ and spread the gospel of truth.

As I heard and believed the words according to revelation in the Holy Spirit, the Father sealed me with the Holy Spirit, saying, “You are mine.”

I receive Christ, His Son, I have His image and superscription, and I serve Christ, who is resurrection and life, as Lord, so Wherever I am, He will surely find me and fill me.

The temple in heaven is not built with stone or gold, but is the house of God's saved children. If I don't go there, a hole will form and the temple will never be completed.

Therefore, I confidently declare that even if there is only one person, that person is me. Alleluia!

First, the Jews were the candidates for salvation like this, and then we, the Gentiles, were the candidates.

That is why it is written in Hosea, “I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.” (Romans 9:25)

First of all, he calls those who are not his people his people.

Then he will call those who have not been loved as lovers (Hosea 2:23)

This is God's plan for us, the Gentiles.

Q. How did we, Gentiles, become sons of God?

“And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ‘You are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God..” (Romans 9:26)

A. It is exactly as prophesied through Hosea (Hosea 1:10).

This is also Paul’s universal view of the church.

Whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, if you hear the Word, believe it, and receive Christ in His presence, you will believe in the holy universal church and the communion of saints by the Holy Spirit.

You will be called ‘sons of God’ in a foreign land.

These are the true Israel.

It is the New Jerusalem through Jesus Christ.

Q. What about Isaiah's prophecy about Israel?

“ Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.” (Romans 9:27)

A. Isaiah cries out about Israel.

Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.

However, in a spiritual sense, you must not become sand.

It must become a earth that receives seeds and bears fruit.

And only when it becomes the good soil of a born again heart can the words be fulfilled.

That is why “For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness; because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.” (Romans 9:28)

It is the earth, that is, the hearts of the born again saints.

Therefore, the Sermon on the Mount is heaven’s absolute ethics,

Because they are poor in spirit and mourn, they become meek (Matthew 5:5) and through barter by handing themselves over to the cross and receiving Christ, they obtain a new earth and receive the rain of righteousness from the new heaven, thereby bearing the fruit of mercy...

That is why God says that He will fulfill His word on the earth and finish it. (complete)

Q. From whom is the remnant, the seed?

“As Isaiah said before, Except the Lord Almighty had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and been made like unto Gomorrah.’” (Romans 9:29)

A. God speaks in advance according to the prophecy of Isaiah (Isaiah 1:19)

This seed is not all Abraham's descendants in the flesh, but only Isaac, the promised seed, becomes Abraham's descendant and the lineage of the Messiah.

The only descendant of Abraham that is indicated is Christ (Galatians 3:16)

God does not judge us because we have been chosen as the earth and vessels containing this seed, and the Word comes to us as providence, and is in our mouths and in our hearts, and we believe with our hearts, unto righteousness, and confessing with our mouths, being made unto salvation. (Romans 10:8)

How can Judah judge Tamar when she has Judah's seal and staff (Genesis 38:25)?

Judah says, ‘I lost.’

When we hear and know that Jesus is Lord and Christ, we become one with him in his death and his being raised from dead through baptism , we repent and return to the Lord , we receive forgiveness of our sins, and we are bound together with Christ by the Holy Spirit and are now seated in heaven. 

Who will oppose, accuse, condemn, and separate me from the love of Christ and the love of God in Christ, since I am bearing His image and glory with the Spirit and life of Christ?

We who were baptized into Christ have clothed ourselves with Christ and have become Christ's. We are also Abraham's descendants and the true Israelites who will inherit as promised. (Galatians 3:27-29)

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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