The Corinthian church was called into Christ, but as infants, they boasted, envied, and quarreled with only partial gifts.
If they do well, it's at the level of a kindergarten class, and you're immersing your feet in the world.
It is a church that is far from the Colosse Church, which holds on to Christ, the head.
Because they do not have the faith to receive Christ in them, who gave the new covenant, they are the church of the flesh that speaks of resurrection, glory, and love as something that will happen later.
The Church of Galatia also does not properly accept the words of the cross of Christ, so they do not know that they are already separated from the world by the cross and cannot cross over.
They do not know that they have become a new creation in Christ through the cross of Christ (Galatians 6:15).
So, theologians say that the Corinthian church is emotional enthusiasm and the Galatian church is intellectual piety, and only the Holy Spirit can harmonize the two churches.
The problem is that personal salvation has not been completed through the book of Romans, so they lacked confidence in the message of the cross of attending Christ as Lord, that is, of dying with Christ and living again together.
Therefore, because of the Holy Spirit who descends into their hearts, they do not have the perfection of holding the Lord as their head.
As you read and follow the sermons of the pastor who explained Lloyd-Jones's Romans, to the extent that you say you know Romans, you cannot understand the message of Christ's cross, die to sin, and live again, so the work of the Holy Spirit does not come.
Please, no matter how painful the book of Romans is, you must understand its contents so that you can learn the message of the cross of Christ and cross the realm of death and life like flipping the palm of your hand.
Then, when you look at people, you will know whether they are condemned and under the wrath of God, or whether they taste righteousness, holiness, and glory through the gift of eternal life in Christ (Rom. 6:23).
Every moment I think about what my authority is in front of God.
That is, I know and confess that I have no great authority other than the qualifications of a child of God to go to the Father, and go up the way.
It's all there.
And when I think about what my duty is, I come to realize that it is to come to the Father by being born again with the grace of the redemption of the cross of Christ, learning and remembering the truth through the teachings of the Holy Spirit.
Therein is peace and joy and glorious delight and the unsearchable riches of Christ.
So, because of the riches, there is nothing to envy, and there are no people to hate or fear.
Such people always take up the cross of Jesus and repeatedly admit that they are the ones who died and then came back to life.
Then, the life of Jesus will appear in the body and also in the mortal flesh, becoming the fragrance and letter of the Lord.
When you reach this stage, you will know the boundary between the outer person and the inner person.
In other words, you must die with Christ and rise again to become a dual being, dead to sin and alive to God because of His righteousness (Rom. 8:10).
It is not a negative double personality that hypocrisy , but a double personality that holds on to the message of the cross and loves it because the old and new, the outer and the inner person wrestle in symmetry.
So, those who constantly apply the cross of Christ to themselves have a metabolism that says, "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16).
The life born in Adam gradually declines, and the new life in Christ, the image of the Son of God, is renewed day by day.
He has a certain hope that in the future he will be much more advanced than he is now.
Also, we come to know that “for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17).
The light affliction, which is but for a moment, and the far greater and eternal weight of glory lie on either side, and the heavenly saints are sandwiched between them.
So says Paul. "I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far"(Philippians 1:23).
In the new covenant, Christ fulfills this eternal, glorious, and weighty covenant of salvation within us.
God began to do this within us (Philippians 1:6).
That is why we confess, "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor. 4:18).
We always see the visible and the invisible, the temporary and the eternal together.
It refers to the comparison between the old covenant and the new covenant, the ministry of the flesh and the ministry of the spirit.
Who among us can be free from the matter of what we eat, drink, and wear?
However, the command to seek his kingdom and his righteousness first means that if his kingdom and his righteousness are fulfilled, will we worry about eating, drinking, or clothing?
When you become one with Christ in the Holy Spirit and put your eternal self first and look at the eternal self, the greed, worry, and fear of the world melt away like ice cream.
The eternal glory in Christ becomes a reality by faith, and we pay attention to it and rejoice.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
COME AND SEE WORLD MISSION