<p>Saturday's Ramblings—Without Resurrection, No Love.</p><p> </p><p>1. Humans seeking God to fill their own deficiencies is Eros love.</p><p>Humans loving one another is Phileo love.</p><p>It is a spirit of philanthropy.</p><p>Therefore, it is said that Plato pursued Eros love, which seeks the Ideas, while his disciple Aristotle pursued Phileo love.</p><p>However, the Agape love pursued by Christianity is not something that humans possessed.</p><p>Some people compose songs as if Peter loved Jesus, but the confession was that the Lord knew that this love was nothing but Phileo (John 21:17).</p><p>Peter could not practice Agape love at that time.</p><p>This is because earthly things come from water (2 Peter 3:5), and heavenly spiritual gifts are given by the Holy Spirit.</p><p>Eros and Phileo—the innate nature of Storge—are being circulated as love.</p><p>However, Agape love must be imported.</p><p>For humans who possess only partial things, perfection must necessarily come to make  love (1 Corinthians 13:10).</p><p>An app that reaches love was installed only after the Holy Spirit came into us.</p><p> </p><p>2. Thus, God gave his only begotten Son, his love, to humans who have no love (John 3:16).</p><p>You must resolve for yourselves whether this only begotten Son is Jesus, or if it is Christ who died on the cross and rose again, sending the Holy Spirit to dwell among us.</p><p>This is because, just as one can lead a cow to water but cannot make it drink, speaking to a person without God's revelation is like casting pearls before swine.</p><p>However, what I can assert is that anyone who preaches about the resurrection of Jesus and the Heaven of Jesus can never attain Agape love.</p><p>Check the person next to you to see if what I am saying is far-fetched. Is that the face of Agape love?</p><p>Love is not seen with eyesight; it is seen with the body, and is perceived through the body.</p><p> </p><p>3. Looking at the five stages of saved faith spoken of by the Lord, the very first is being called and clothed with Christ; next, the image and writing of God are inscribed within; and after possessing the faith of the resurrection, it finally becomes Agape love—loving God and loving one's neighbor.</p><p>Next, one reaches the pinnacle of faith, looking toward the Lord Christ seated at the right hand of God, just like David (Matthew 22).</p><p>If one possesses saving faith, it is an ironclad rule that one must stand upon this process.</p><p>Otherwise, one ends up in the terrible predicament described in Matthew 23, where Jesus says "Woe" seven times.</p><p>Faith cannot be expressed in a flat, idol manner, simply by saying, "I believe in Jesus, I love that Jesus."</p><p>That is not faith that receives salvation.</p><p>Then why does He say that the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel of Christ(Romans 1:17), and why does He say that the message of cross of Christ is the power of God for salvation? (1 Corinthians 1:18)</p><p>From this, it appears that God, through the death and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ, moved us from one place to another, and then made known the news so that we might believe and follow Him to that place.</p><p>Peter also states that God, in His great mercy, gave us a living hope after causing us to be born again through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Peter 1:3).</p><p>Arminians, who advocate for free will, claim that regeneration occurs after believing. </p><p>Not at all.</p><p>We come to hear and believe after being regenerated.</p><p> </p><p>4. Is there anyone who denies that Christ, who rose again from the tomb, is present in those who were dead in Adam, by resurrection and life?</p><p>If anyone denies this, they cannot say that the Lord Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb 13:8).</p><p>Christ, who was the Word in the beginning, does not depart from all creation by even an inch.</p><p>However, the Lord, who bore that horrific cross when we were enemies and delivered us from sin, death, curse, and darkness, cannot help but dwell within us.</p><p>However, humans within Adam, who are addicted to the devil's words, believe that they can choose to accept the Lord Jesus Christ by their own will, acting as if they are the masters.</p><p>They are destined for long suffering.</p><p>It is precisely in this state that the devil has filled the hearts of humans—who refuse to keep God in their hearts—with compromise ideas (Rev 12:16).</p><p>Do not speak such nonsense.</p><p>Even Thales and Socrates, the first philosophers, said that knowing one does not know oneself is the smartest thing to do.</p><p>Do not attempt to claim that a human being without revelation can know the mystery of regeneration.</p><p>Only by going before God can one understand why His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, endured such excruciating pain and died on the cross, and why Christ, who is the Resurrection, had to be present within us to bring us back to life.</p><p>One comes to realize why there is total depravity, why there is unconditional election, and why there is irresistible grace; one will then kneel before that love and weep bitterly.</p><p>There was no righteous person.</p><p>One didn't know who one were.</p><p>No one knew why one were unhappy or why one were afraid.</p><p>All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).</p><p>No one, not even in all philosophy, knew why humans are as pitch-black darkness as the ambiguous universe.</p><p>Only after I, who had died in Adam in transgressions and sins, was resurrected and gained eternal life through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, do I come to know who I am, where I am, and why He sought me out so ardently and called me into Him—all within the Son and the Father.</p><p>We come to know why He sang the serenade of love for so long, "You are in me, and I am in you."</p><p>The Lord Jesus Christ, whom I welcomed with hesitation and inadvertently, gradually awakens me and enables me to know the mystery of keeping the promise of becoming one with Christ and dwelling in the room of his love.</p><p>For instance, it is the love of the Song of Solomon.</p><p>Passover is good, Good Friday is good, and the first day after the Sabbath is all good.</p><p>However, we must not forget that the eighth day of the world to come —when He died and rose again—is flowing together among us, overlapping with any day of the week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.</p><p>It is the very day of resurrection; although it is said there is nothing new under the sun, it is the very day when every day is a new day.</p><p>The resurrection and life of the perfect Christ, the raw material of Agape love, work within the people of the eighth day.</p><p> </p><p>Written by Pastor. Yohan Kim</p><p>Translated by Missionary Sookyung Chung</p><p>COME AND SEE WORLD MISSION</p><p>TO GOD BE THE GLORY</p>
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