Faith comes by hearing the word of Christ

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Faith comes by hearing the word of Christ (Romans 10:16-18)

Thoughts move the brain, and the brain classifies thoughts and remembers them.

If you listen to people for a long time telling you to believe in Jesus who died on the cross for you and to receive Jesus, the word “Christ” will not be remembered in your brain.

So, when one testify about Christ, there is no information in your brain, so the entrance to your brain is blocked and you fall into a deep sleep.

Like the Corinthian church...

When preaching the Word, there is a lot of interest in the cross, blood of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, heaven, the second coming, etc., but it is difficult to accept that Christ lives within you and become eternal life.

This is the result of Satan training people's brains with human words to prevent them from hearing the words of Christ.

Some people say that they can gain life and peace by focusing on spiritual thoughts on their own without receiving the support of the Spirit of life in Christ.

That would be natural meditation.

If the Spirit of the Lord does not work in Christ, the thoughts that arise from the law of sin and death are not blocked, so we cannot think of the spirit.

So, if you try to say the Lord's Prayer in a situation where you can see something, hear a sound in your ears, and move your hands, you will find that you cannot finish the short prayer properly.

We know very well that the brain is trained and memory is formed by the words we hear.

Q. Why didn't anyone obey the gospel?

“But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah said, ‘Lord, who has believed our report?’” (Romans 10:16)

A. Because it is a completely different gospel from the Messiah they hope for.

‘Who has believed our report...’ (Isaiah 53:1)

It means, Who believed this which we heard it and it became faith.

There is no information that is remembered in their minds after hearing about Jesus Christ, who was no appearance, shapeless, despised, and died horribly on the cross.

The three major salvations of Israel are the Exodus, the seven tribes of Canaan, and the liberation from Babylonian captivity.

It is impossible for those waiting for the Messiah of salvation to hear the gospel of the Lord.

This hearing became our faith, and we preached the gospel with this faith, but they did not listen.

It means that I listened, but those people didn't listen.

That's how important it is whether the word we hear is the complete gospel or not.

So, as I said before, it took 25 years since I began my faith to confirm‎ the fact that I was passed from Adam to Christ.

After that, as I continued to meditate on Romans and Hebrews repeatedly, it took me a long time to finally see clearly the way to God's throne of grace, and to do so, it took me a lot of time to learn how to love our Father and the Lord.

This is because the words that we are in Christ and Christ is in us and that we are one with God the Father are words that are very far from the vocabulary stored in our brains.

Q. What does faith come from?

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” (Romans 10:17)

A. The word of Christ. Therefore, faith comes from hearing.

Even if you can't hear it, you have to keep listening.

Some people realize it after 10 years.

Some people experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit for the first time in 15 years and knew to become one body and one spirit with Christ.

The ears of Israel, addicted to the law, were blocked and they could not hear.

However, some prophets received revelations and learned about Christ's suffering on the cross and his glory after suffering on the cross. David was one of them (Psalm 16)

We must continue to hear and listen to Christ through the word of God.

It is easy to believe that we believe in Jesus and believe in the cross, but the words that we are in Christ and that Christ is in us must be heard over and over again for a long time.

Truth repeats itself so that revelation becomes clear and applicable.

If you keep the words you heard in your heart, you will have faith.

That is why those who read, hear, and keep the words are blessed. (Revelation 1:3)

Q. Did Israel really not hear the word of God?

“But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the earth.” (Romans 10:18)

A. Among all things, there is not a single being that cannot hear the word of God.

So they didn't hear? The Bible clearly states that this is not the case.

The Lord has always been in all things through the Word that was in the beginning, he came to his own, but his people did not hear and did not receive him.

Christ, the Words, ‘said,’ reaches all over the heavens, earth, and sea.

Already the sound has been proclaimed throughout the earth, to the ends of the earth.

Even now, the word of God is being spread to the ends of the earth through the voices of those who preach it.

Even in the days of Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah, the word of God was heard, but the brain was engulfed by the sounds of eating, drinking, buying, selling, and getting married, so it was closed to the word of God.

Nowadays, although the words of the new covenant that Christ came into us, the gospel of the kingdom, are evidenced, we are unable to hear it, because our ears have been trained the elementary teachings of the message of Christ. (Hebrews 6:1)

That is why the field called the church is filled with thorns and thistles (Hebrews 6:8) because we cannot reach perfection.

Therefore, we must continue to preach and preach that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, who sits on the throne and is the Lord of all things,  he came into us as the Spirit of truth and becomes eternal life and glory and honor, so that we must open the ears of those who are addicted to the words of people without revelation.

How can they hear and believe and call on the name of the Lord and be saved if no one preaches to them? (Romans 10:14)

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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