As we enter Romans 10

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As we enter Romans 10

Up to Romans 8 is the soteriology of sinners.

The subject who saves sinners is the Spirit of life. (Romans 8:2)

In a word, we are free from sin by the Spirit of life.

(For those who are determined to only believe on Jesus, think deeply)

The word 'free'  means to escape or to be liberated.

It refers to being free from being bound by sin and gaining liberation.

What binds us is sin and death, which binds us like a snare and constricts us.

They keep us in slavery as we cannot even breathe, and the result is death, the wages given to slaves of sin.

Deathis the culprit of the overall feeling of being ‘unhappy’, including human disease.

This death is the highest being on the side that goes to the lake of fire after the white throne judgment. (Revelation 20:14)

People who are slaves to sin manifest themselves through greed, illness, and bad habits in their lives.

For example, habitual alcoholics or those who enjoy smoking may be slaves of sin.

From the perspective of interpreting the Book of Job, we know whether that person is a person of the Holy Spirit of life or whether he or she belongs to sin.

So, as in the case of Job, salvation from sin can also be salvation in the situation the person is in.

In fact, the book of Job is the word who leaps from an earthly righteous man to a heavenly righteous man.

So, Romans 7 is like a condensed version of the Old Testament's Book of Job. (he who has an ear will listen, right?)

However, types of sin have both negative and positive elements.

Negative elements are evil in the eyes of humans, while positive elements, like Job, are good in the eyes of humans.

Therefore, it is said that those who have not obtained righteousness in Christ are like Job and Joseph.

Therefore, there are many religious people who are passionate about their subjective faith as a subjective good.

Excessively nationalistic patriots, human beings with compassion, responsibility, and duty, so-called martyrs, giving, social contributions, and moral people are all positive sinners.

It is very important for faith not to be tied to anything.

Can you get away from it at any time?

It's not that you can't do it because it's a sin, but you can only overcome sin by hating it and not having any desire to do so.

The Lord's servants must be those who put their hands on the plow and do not look back (Luke 9:62).

You must be able to leave without being caught in the past and without any regrets.

Just like a prince who was at a gambling table and heard that the king had died, said, ‘I don’t gamble anymore,’ and got up, we must be able to give up our lives so far.

Salvation is achieved according to the measure of faith.

So patience is needed.

The reason is that in Christ, greed and ego disappear.

Among the servants of the Lord I occasionally associate with, there are many whose greed has not yet been dealt with.

When a child of God receives discipline in Christ, the first thing he does is give up his desires.

Unfortunately, there are many people like Job who do not consider their current suffering or illness to be punishment.

He is a person whose affiliation and master over him have changed by the grace of Christ's atonement in a place full of sinful elements.

By Christ I died, I lived again by Christ, and I live by Him.

The truth is the principle between God and humans, and that principle is God's righteousness.

By the righteousness the Holy Spirit works, God and humans become one and a relationship is established.

In fact, law is the organization and institutionalization of God's laws of creation.

If you disobey this, it is a sin. (Hamartiya) You have missed the target.

The law sanctions us from the outside, but the principles are within us.

When Christ comes into us, the Word of God becomes the principle and we become Christians who appear in our real lives.

Christ is expressed through me.

This is the life of a righteous person.

However, I must follow the law as an obligation even if I do not want to.

However, it gradually becomes  that because the principle itself becomes myself.

A spiritual person is a person who has the principle that the word is fulfilled.

People who fall, stumble, foam at the mouth, and makes strange noises are not  spiritual person.

A person who knows the boundary between sin and righteousness, darkness and light, and death and life, and keeps it is a spiritual person.

God's righteousness is a righteousness other than the law (Romans 3:21) and is the principle of extraterritorial jurisdiction on this earth.

Therefore, spiritual people must always check this principle.

However, the devil makes us impatient and prompts us to be consumed by worry or anxiety.

Therefore, we must put on the helmet of salvation and manage our thoughts very well (Ephesians 6:10).

Because victory in the mind is victory in  life.

What is not created in the mind will not be created in life.

Sin motivates me to act based on my ego and greed.

Confusion arises and discernment is lost.

They just think that it would be a good idea.

Satan stimulates our senses and obscures our discernment.

Everything gets tangled up. This is bound to be an accident.

The Word of God sharpens our spirit’s senses and judgment.

The scale of understanding becomes very sensitive.

We know very well that the results of actions in a chaotic state and in an orderly state are significantly different.

For example, if you violate your lane while confused, it can cause an accident.

However, if you are in an orderly state and break the lane to avoid a collision with another car, it is a wise action necessary to prevent an accident.

This is praised because it prevents casualties even though it breaks the law.

In this way, the inner principle is natural, beautiful and convenient.

This is the new covenant in which Christ reigns within us.

It is salvation that appears in reality and the actual work of Christ.

Just as there is no need traffic laws if we follow them well, Christ, the Word, fulfills the Word of God in us, so we are subject to extraterritorial jurisdiction over the law.

It is a different righteousness and a righteousness that fulfills the requirements of the law.

This is achieved through the law of the Spirit of life in Christ.

This same principle continues until Romans chapter 8, and from chapter 9 onwards, we learn that salvation should not end with the individual.

The results of salvation must be revealed to our neighbors.

His kingdom is singular, made up of plurals.

His righteousness becomes my righteousness when God’s principles become mine.

Therefore, it must be because of me that others become righteous.

Therefore, national, global, and universal salvation must be achieved through me.

All things are globalized and cosmic, but not only humans.

So the Bible and salvation are needed only for humans.

Take a look at the azaleas on Jiri Mountain.

They bloom together as if they made a promise at the same time on the same day, right?

Life is God's principle, energy, and God's will.

For example, it is like the power that makes the solar system rotate at a constant speed interval time.

Think about the principles of revolution and rotation, the principles of ebb and flow, and the forces between the sun, moon and earth.

So Newton would have said that the entire universe is like a machine operated by God, right?

There is a story that Archimedes realized the principle of buoyancy in water and jumped into the water naked.

Newton's universal gravitation simply discovered God's principle already present in the universe.

Since all things continue without deviating from certain limits, it is said to be a principle.

Because sinful people go beyond the limits of principle, they make laws, and if they fail to follow the laws, they must go to prison or be isolated from society.

In this way, the world keeps getting narrow.

That means more laws are made.

Even though we continue to make laws, society becomes more and more confused.

As sin cries out louder (2 Timothy 3), laws continue to be made.

Therefore, the closer humans get to the end, the more desperate they are for salvation.

However, if the church only emphasizes ‘believing in Jesus and receiving forgiveness of sins’, they only try to solve the sins they have committed and do not try to receive the word of true salvation as a principled person.

We must be born again through the redemptive grace of the Lord's cross.

Since humans were born wrong, they must be born again.

Surprisingly, it takes quite some time to accept this principle of born again.

This may be because, after hearing the half-gospel,  'believe on Jesus, accept Jesus’, I move forward with beliefs such as I believe, my sins have been forgiven, I have become a child of God, etc.

So, I once scolded a person who likes to receive Jesus by saying, ‘You’re so talented. How can you bring the Jesus from 2,000 years ago or the Jesus in heaven into you?’

It is Christ who lives in us (2 Corinthians 13:5). It is the Spirit of life who works within us.

After hearing the grace of atonement achieved by the Lord Jesus Christ, following it in faith and accepting the position and belonging in which we stand, we must be found that the sinner who was in Adam died with Christ and has now become a new creation in Christ.

We realizes that we was born again, not through our own hard work.

This kind of salvation must be achieved individually, nationally, globally, and universally.

So our salvation must be universal.

We must assimilate into nature.

Therefore, when special revelation opens, natural revelation also opens brightly.

Isn't it salvation to be born as a sinner, to be born again in Christ, to enter into all things, and to have eternal life with Him?

Just as creating a prosperous country is for the people, Christians must create national and global salvation for themselves.

This was Paul's feeling. (Romans 9:1) 

When the environment deteriorates, only poisonous species like cockroaches survive.

The environment for faith is now becoming extremely poor.

By testifying to the word of truth, we must save God's remnants and change the environment of our faith into the kingdom of God.

If we compare faith to a car, all the devices are pre-made, so all you have to do is put gas in it and it starts moving.

For Christians who have the principles of faith, just put the word and the body will move.

Just turn on the switch and our soul, spirit, and body will move.

Although God is invisible, He is a God who can be seen and touched by Christians who have the principles to accept His Word and turn it into reality through faith.

Also, these people make God visible to others.

The Holy Spirit is doing this today.

The Holy Spirit teaches and reminds us of the words of Christ, show us his glory, lead us to Christ and unite us with him.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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