John 16 Commentary (1)

John 16 Commentary (1) The world does not have a special relationship with God because the Word of God does not come.Therefore, they are outside the body of Christ, the church, the community (castle) of God's children that is being built into a great castle in the Holy Spirit.Therefore, they have no way to pursue love, so they only have hatred.They only gather together diligently to form a party for their own benefit.They are literally becoming a gang of interest groups under the name of church.Although they have the name of church, they are not temples that are being built as a dwelling place for God (Eph 2:22) by becoming one with Christ in the Holy Spirit, but rather, they are people who belong to the world and can become the house of the devil with their collective intelligence or collective emotions. The important point of John 16 is the change of mission.The one who said, “I” (Jesus) is leaving, and another Comforter, “the Spirit of truth,” is coming.The time that Jesus spoke of in John 7, that is, that time (John 7:8).It refers to this day that the Bible calls today.Everyone believes and hopes for the White Throne Judgment where the Lord will come again to judge the living and the dead, but they do not know this day, the last day of all days, the day called today, the day of salvation when the Holy Spirit comes in us, dwells in us and works in us.This day is a day when a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day.This day has come among God’s chosen ones secretly from the world, so Christ is a mystery.Jesus began God’s project of salvation, and after removing all obstacles between God and man through his death on the cross and his resurrection, the Holy Spirit completes it.Therefore, the one who sows and the one who reaps (the harvest) is only Christ. John 16:1-4 shows the world's last struggle.There are two organizations in this world. One is the organization of God's children, the citizens of heaven in Jesus Christ, and the other is the group of darkness controlled by Satan, the ruler of the world.In John 16:2, Christians are driven out of that organization.Just as Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, became stubborn and drove out Israel, the world hates God's chosen people and helps them come to Christ.Such phenomena are happening here and there now, whether we know it or not. From John 16:5 onwards, Jesus, who came in the flesh, says that it is for your good that he is going away.The reason is that when the Lord returns to the Father, He will send a Comforter (John 16:7).The first thing the Comforter, or the Holy Spirit, does when he comes is to rebuke the world.1) He rebukes the sin of not believing, that is, the sin of not receiving the Word.In other words, He rebukes those who do not make room to receive the Word, who are unbelievers.2) He rebukes those who do not know the righteousness of God.The Spirit of truth, whom the Lord sent after He left, makes it known that eternal life is God's command (John 12:50) and that eternal life is to know the only true God and Jesus Christ (John 17:3).3) He judges the prince of this world. This world has already been judged.Because they do not believe in Christ, they continue to commit sins of which they are not aware.They are not in sin because they sinned, but because they do not believe in Christ as Lord and do not obey the Son and follow his death and resurrection.They are in condemnation because they say they believe in Jesus, but their affiliation is confined to the power and authority of the ruler of this world.Surprisingly, believers like this do not become children of God, but are children of the devil that filled in the world.They are the prostitutes, and when they come together, they are Babylon.They are separated from Christ with door on both sides, like the church of Laodicea, which is the church of the last days.And yet, they claim to see and wear the clothes of faith.The world is judged together with the old serpent, the devil, Satan, who is the prince of the world.The Comforter, the Holy Spirit, clearly distinguishes between sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8-11)Therefore, the judgment according to the Gospel of John has already begun.It starts right from John 3. Next, He tells us what the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, does for the chosen ones.1) It leads us to the truth, to Christ (John 16:13).There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.We overcome judgment in Christ.God judges with the truth (Rom 2:2).However, if we suppress the truth with unrighteousness, the wrath of God from heaven will come on us (Rom 1:18).We cannot be sure that we have escaped the wrath and anger of God (Rom 2:8) by following the truth just because we keep repeating Jesus with our mouths.They look boring, worthless, and neither bold nor confident.When we hear the gospel of truth and believe, we should gain eternal life in Christ and look forward to glory and rejoice because of His righteousness, but instead, the shadow of God’s wrath is upon us (John 3:36).A few days ago, I told a friend that if a person is fallen from a geriatric disease, he should not be recognized as a leader of any religion.I can assure you that if you can gain freedom in the truth and go up and down to God, you will never have to deal with the social convention that says you will die after suffering for ten years, except for a fatal illness.Again, because you believe in Jesus, know the truth, and see eternal life, you cannot be seen as the king of righteousness and life, regardless of sin and death, on the other side of God's wrath.Again, just because you believe in Jesus, you cannot be said to know the truth and see eternal life and thus are as the king of righteousness and life on the other side of God's wrath, regardless of sin and death.The fact that I use negative words means that today's Christianity is miserable. 2) It shows the glory of God in Christ.Glory is value.It does not change to spiritual values unless you are a person of the Holy Spirit.If the light of the gospel, which is the new covenant, Christ dwelling in us, is not in us and we are transformed into glory by His Spirit and go from glory to glory, then we are nothing but a body, a vessel of clay.No matter how much we talk about the message of the cross of Christ, they cannot hand theirselves over to Jesus' death (2 Corinthians 4:10).Only when Christ in the flesh, a vessel of clay, becomes our treasure, we voluntarily bear the cross.It is the same principle that when we repeat the Lord’s Prayer and the will of God is fulfilled, Christ becomes the treasure of heaven, so we finally seek His kingdom and His righteousness (Matthew 6).If our values do not change, then our treasure is always in the world.No matter how much we preach that we should not worry about what we will eat and drink for our lives or what we will wear for our bodies, there is no story other than eating and drinking at the table where the pastor is seated.The most desolate time is during mealtime after Bible study at church. Judas Iscariot, who sold Jesus, did not see the glory of Jesus Christ, and the disciples who went to Galilee to fish did not see the glory of the only begotten Son of God, who is revealed to us through the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, three days later.The glory of the kingdom of God is realized in us through the Holy Spirit.Pastors are the Lord's witnesses who testify to the gospel message about the kingdom of heaven, and even though they have been testifying to the message with all their might, hearing stories about what to eat, what is good for where, and what is good for beauty is a time like torture.Clearly, the kingdom of God is not about eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17) is written in large letters, but it is a story that is eaten all day and night.It is normal to ask the pastor how we can move into the place where the Holy Spirit comes, and how we can believe that righteousness will be revealed, and how we can become one with God in Christ and have peace and rejoice in God,  as in the catechism, how we can obtain the joy in Christ, the glorious joy.  3) When the Holy Spirit of truth comes, through the pain of childbirth, spiritual children of God will come out.In Revelation 12, the children of the woman clothed with the sun come out.They are the remnant and the target of the serpent, the dragon.The words, “Because the devil has been cast down to the earth, the heavens and those who dwell in them will rejoice, but woe to the earth and the sea” (Revelation 12:12) are the same as the key verse of the Book of Revelation.Those who say they are building a tent on the earth are talking about being among the 144,000 who stand on Mount Zion.They say that the Book of Revelation is the new covenant, but they are truly ignorant of the Bible.When Christ died, rose again, and ascended to heaven, we were already bound together in Him and sat down with Him at the right hand of God the Father (Eph 2:6).Therefore, our citizenship is in heaven (Phil 3:20), and the book of Hebrews calls us holy brothers who have received a heavenly calling (Heb 3:1).If we do not know whether we belong to heaven or to the earth, if we die now without God's intervention, we go to a lake of fire.Theologically, the heavenly church is a perfect church and the earthly church is a militant church.That is because the prince of the world is the devil, the old serpent the devil.We are sanctified in Christ by truth and look upon glory with His glory because we belong to heaven.However, since the serpent's food is dust, our flesh are currently exposed to suffering and groan.However, even though we suffer in the midst of the tribulations of this earth, if we receive the seal of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit becomes the guarantee of our salvation, we can overcome the world and the things in the world through faith through Christ who is in us. That is true faith. Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.Translated by  Nancy Chung COME AND SEE WORLD MISSION To God be the glory.