What do you think about Chris

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What do you think about Christ? 

“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, What do you think of Christ? Whose son is he?’ They say to him, ‘The son of David. He said to them, How then does David in Spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you on my right hand, Till I make  your enemies your feet’? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?” And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more question.” (Matthew 22:41-46)

The Gospel of Matthew testifies that Jesus is Christ.

And the Gospel of John testifies that Jesus is present in us as Christ.

So He says that you will know that I am in you and you in me. (John 14:20)

Without the Holy Spirit of truth, only the image of Jesus, who came in the form of the flesh, is imprinted on us, but we do not receive Christ, his attribute and element, and his image is not engraved in us, so we become a chaff without grain.

Even now, we don't know how much chaff there is, which is not tares, but has only the form and no content.

For example, there is a pastor who says that he has found the right answer, so he has given up studying and has come this far on the path of a pastor. The right answer he has found is Ephesians 1:7, which says that we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, which is the requirement of salvation that He has held onto for decades.

There is still 100 miles left to the grain.

Jesus has cleared away our sins in Adam and has come into us through the Holy Spirit, becoming the content within us.

It is a grain of life within the chaff and becomes the image of God.

However, it took Peter until Pentecost to believe that the Lord, who is the Word, became the Lord and Christ from the image of Jesus who came in human form, and to look up to the throne of the Lord like David.

The period of suffering until Pentecost should not only be seen as a period to commemorate the death of Jesus on the cross, but also as a period to follow the process of the Lord's death, resurrection, and the Lord's ascension to heaven as the resurrected body and sending the promised Holy Spirit.

When we say, "Hallelujah, our Lord has risen and ascended," we will be like Peter and the other disciples, staring blankly at the sky and saying, "Amen, Lord Jesus, come quickly," and vaguely looking up at the sky and waiting for the Lord.

Therefore, Christianity has continued to carry out the Holy Spirit movement in various ways as a survival strategy for survival, and based on the fact that the Holy Spirit, who was poured out on all flesh as prophesied by Joel, came on the day of Pentecost and came down to them with a sound like a strong rushing wind and tongues of fire that were divided, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in other languages ​​(Acts 2:1-4), the Holy Spirit movement has continued in Christian history.

On the other hand, some argue that the work of the Holy Spirit is a one-time thing.

Both sides are right, but they are also wrong.

Even now, the same phenomenon as Pentecost occurs in the target of evangelism.

The work of the Holy Spirit that comes upon the flesh (Acts 2:17) is revealed.

It is the work of the Holy Spirit that comes upon the flesh, the work of the Epi Holy Spirit, and the work of the Holy Spirit that appears as a gift.

But that is the work of the Holy Spirit that appears to those in the flesh.

The church in Corinth is an example.

That is why Paul says that if you do not believe that Christ is in you, you are reprobate.(2 Corinthians 13:5)

The substantial truth of the Holy Spirit of Pentecost is explained in detail by Peter, who speaks of the relationship between David and Christ that the Lord spoke of. (Acts 2:25-35)

Peter was so obsessed with Jesus that he boasted that he would give up his life, but he failed repeatedly.

When the Holy Spirit came upon him, he not only became an apostle with great power, but also realized that David was a prophet who foresaw the coming of the Lord 1,000 years before the coming of the Lord, crucified Jesus would become Christ and the Lord, even though he was his descendant by bloodline (Acts 2:30).

Because of this, David testified that he always kept the Lord before him and called on the name of the Lord, and that he was saved, and his heart was glad and his tongue was glad, and he had a hope that his body would not go to Hades and not perish (Acts 2:25-27).

Like the reformers, if the moment of conversion is not right, believe in Jesus and you will be saved. If you say Amen, you have become a child of God, and they gather together and say, “I met God,” “Later, resurrection, heaven,” etc., and in the collective intelligence, the Holy Spirit movement only shows the phenomenon of Pentecost, but they do not properly serve the Lord and Christ that the Lord spoke of through the example of David, and so they do not properly believe in the calling into Christ, repentance and faith through born again, justification, and sonship, and so there is much talk about whether I have become holy, or should become holy, or have been glorified, or will I be glorified after death. 

A hundred schools of thought argue about the Holy Spirit.

Whether you feel a shiver run through your body and walk around the corners of the room dozens of times, or speak in tongues, prophesy, see visions, and see heaven and hell, if you want to stand in the ranks of David’s faith, you must only follow the path of conversion presented by Peter.

“Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

To those who were pricked in their hearts and wondered what they should do,  “Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit", we must deeply consider and follow the words. (Acts 2:36-38)

The substantial truth that appears in the flesh as speaking in tongues , prophesying, trembling all over body, with the Holy Spirit of Pentecost  is to enable us to know the redemptive work that Jesus has accomplished, repent, receive forgiveness of sins, be freed from sin through baptism bound to his death and resurrection, and receive the Holy Spirit as a gift, and to always have the Lord sitting on the throne before us like David and call upon His name, so that we may be saved.

That is why, at the very top of the five stages of salvation in Matthew 22, the core of salvation, he used David's faith as an example to let us know that he is Christ.

Like Peter, we also go through various hardships until Pentecost, but we must progress from the visible historical Jesus to the stage of faith where we worship Christ, the invisible spirit, as Lord, through faith in him, receive his life, gain his image, and achieve love through the power of his resurrection and life, always keeping the Lord who sits at the right hand of God's throne in front of us like David, and calling on the name of the Lord.

That is why the Gospel of John is important, the book of Romans is important, and through the book of Hebrews, if we boldly approach the throne of grace like David through the Lord Jesus Christ, we will gain the rest that David gained, and we will become overcomers and sing praise of glory.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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