Commentary on John 11 (5)
I would like to say one more thing, knowing that in John 11 you understand that Christ is both the Word and the resurrection and life.
The fact is that all command verbs in the Bible contain God's will.
When parents tell their children, ‘You should study,’ even if the children do not want to study, the parents’ will is contained in the parents’ words, so any normal child has no choice but to obey those words.
A proper child inherits genes from your parents, so when he is told to study, he automatically obey his parents' will in the words 'study'.
In this way, the words of parents move the will of their children.
The same goes for human speech.
However, children who disobey their parents have no hope.
These people never listen to others.
The reason why people who do not respect their parents are useless is because people who do not listen to their parents' will cannot follow the will of others.
These people live with a critical defect in social skills.
Since the Word of God itself contains spirit and life and is accompanied by God's attributes, God's will, all imperative verbs in the Bible are said to have God's will.
This means that there is a device in the Word to enable that to happen.
Therefore, just because God tells us to love one another, trying to love with all our might is a legalist.
However, if you listen carefully to the words to love, you will find the will to love if you find a way to love and follow the words.
When you listen to objective words and embody them, you discover an amazing mechanism that actively activates your will.
And then I can put those words into practice.
However, many people only receive the word of God as a teaching and try to carry out the word on their own.
Something like QT can be seen as a method of that kind.
I once said that a person who asks God through the Word and realizes “Should I live like this or like that?” decides to live like this today, and corrects himself one day at a time, perhaps becoming a person of the Bible if he lives as long as Methuselah for 969 years.
That's the same as saying that squatting down and chanting to become a Buddha is like putting sand in a pot and hoping it will turn into rice.
The education theories that exist in the world today are the same.
Educational theory is the principle that if you teach, enlighten, and scold people, they will behave properly.
That is modern educational theory.
John Dewey's educational theory, which leads American education, is an educational method to Live like a pastor, live like an elder, and live like a saint.
His educational theory is that if taught in that way, humans can control their reason, emotions, and will and live that way.
But is America like that because it is taught so well?
In the past, issues such as hair or attire or not greeting others were a big problem, but in the country where pedagogy is in full bloom and is full of knowledge and information, people often shooting and kill dozens of people.
Is this because of poor education?
That is the limitation of intellectual education.
The Bible is by no means intellectual education.
Therefore, teaching discipleship training is not successful.
The Bible says that you can never become perfect by teaching people.
Since humans are evil by nature, they only have the mindset that they should do that, but in reality, they have a sinful nature that does not allow that (Rom. 7), so the Spirit of life comes and works in us by the will of God, changing us and moving us.
The Bible says that Christ will change our nature so that we become the image of God.
This is the greatness of the ㅠible and the greatness of Christian education.
This means that all command verbs in the Bible contain God's will.
Disciples who know the truth become people of the Bible when they listen closely to the word of the Lord, that is, listen to the principles of the word and follow with faith the belonging and location designated by the Lord.
If you're still doing kid jokes like QT, throw it in the trash immediately.
It seems like it's possible, but in the end, we think it's not possible and end up stumbling. That's the sinful nature of humans.
Just as Jesus became the model of obeying God's word and carrying the yoke on this earth, we too must take the yoke of becoming one with Christ in the Holy Spirit, learn from the Lord, and learn that it is easy and light to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow the Lord.
Through this, we become people who can fulfill God’s word and follow it.
That is the disciples of Jesus Christ.
A person like Paul, who boasts that he is blameless in the law, laments, “O wretched man that I am! who will deliver me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24).
Thereby, he states that the work of the Spirit of life in Christ is an absolute element of salvation.
If you think that you can change people through QT or Bible study, you should discover the body of death as soon as possible like Paul and repeat, “O wretched man that I am!”
Pay as little tuition as possible.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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