Column-About disposition(tendency)

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Column - About disposition (tendency)

1. A prominent Korean pastor says he realized through Lloyd-Jones's book that sin is a disposition. He's right.

Since sin, and righteousness also are disposition, faith can be known by looking at disposition rather than zeal.

A person's disposition to speak,  to care for others,  to joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, and more importantly,  approach God, determines their present and future.

Even if their heart is full of good thoughts, their actions are not realized because of their disposition.

That's why they make excuses, saying, "The heart is willing, but the flesh is weak."

John 3:6 says, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."

If you live in the flesh, there is a constant internal war between your outer self and your inner self.

Even if your outer self wins, you lose, and even if your inner self wins, you still lose.

My rational calculations are correct, but my emotions are hurt, so I end up losing. My emotions are good, but my calculations are wrong, so I end up losing.

But the Holy Spirit unifies the intellect and the emotions, so there is no civil war.

2. God's plan for creation is that we are in the place we must be.

All humans in Adam are under the standard of good and evil that they have under sin.

No matter what, I am the one who loses.

Paul discovered that this is not a matter of our good will, but the sin within us (Romans 7:17, 20).

That's why Romans 7 is called biblical psychology.

Even if we study psychology based on pedagogy, without the grace of Christ'sdeath and resurrection on the cross, we will only be playing a seesaw game based on the standards of good and evil under sin. Ultimately, we will be forced to surrender to Christ's death and resurrection on the cross, saying, "Oh, wretched people!"

Therefore, Christianity contains elements that distinguish it from other religions, such as born again, repentance, baptism, new creation, and partaking of Christ's flesh and blood.

3. Even so, if we believe in Jesus and God in a worshipful way like a religion, will the Word come true?

Should we urge them to "come closer to Jesus"?

In the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25), the church is formed from the moment the five virgins welcome the bridegroom.

The lamps indicate a willingness to welcome the bridegroom.

The five wise virgins, preparing oil, wait not for their own timing, but for the bridegroom's timing.

It  is same that their faith in wanting the bridegroom.

But the question is whether they are truly wise brides who wait for the groom's timing.

The church is Christ's wife, united with him by giving his body.

If the church, which is one body with Christ (Ephesians 5:26), is abandoned, it is an insult to God and to the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave his body and loved the church, his body, through Christ's suffering on the cross.

4. If we speak of free will and pretend to be the subject of our own obedience, we are like Saul.

If we unanimously unite in Jesus without any certainty and praise and glorify each other by believing in the Lord and doing the Lord's work, that is Babylon.

Thus, the Babylon of Genesis 11 reappears in Revelation 17.

Christian education, guided by humanism, has become a tacit agreement to exalt one another and to do things for themselves.

Therefore, the message of the cross has become a narrow path, with few taking it.

We all agree that God is a God who unchangingly loves and tolerates us, even though we are weak human beings and cannot do what we want.

Looking to the cross at the place of sin, we think the grace of Jesus' atonement, and believe that he will forgive sinners even today.

When we repent, it tells us that God forgives.

Cheap grace(?) is repeated.

5. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). All actions are exposed.

However, if one persists in the place of birth, without following Christ's death and resurrection on the cross, death will inevitably be transmitted online to one's spirit.

Under God's wrath and anger, there is tribulation and distress (Romans 2:8-9).

This is because Christianity, in a group, has degraded people to make them believe easily and has not followed the truth.

After graduating from seminary and theological seminaries, they briefly contemplate their own existence, but then give up and follow those who have gone before, ultimately joining the ranks of success and failure in the order of desire.

The reason Romans is emphasized is because a few verses of Scripture cannot easily transition from the place of sin and death to the place of righteousness and life in Christ.

Before we can have freedom in the truth, many who approach God face sin and are frustrated in that very place.

Of course, this is Satan's accusation, obscuring the throne of grace.

Do not be under the delusion that our faith can approach God's throne of grace without being recognized by our own conscience, the devil, the Holy Spirit, the Lord, and God the Father.

When Romans 1-8 becomes easy, my disposition will involuntarily continue to lean toward spiritual thinking.

Students do well in their studies when their textbooks are easy.

Having died with Christ and risen with Him, having the tendency to eat and drink Christ and think spiritually in him is the result of long and repeated study of the truth.

It is the result of hearing and hearing again and again.

Written by Pastor. Yohan Kim

Translated by Missionary Nancy Kim

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