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misconceptions about the bible

 

Today's Christians are people who live their faith by reading the New Testament written by the disciples of Jesus or the Apostle Paul. The Old Testament was written by prophets under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and the people of Israel lived their faith according to these words. That is, it can be understood that the people of the next generation saw the words of the Bible written by the people of the previous generation and lived their life of faith.

 

What we need to be careful about here is that even if Moses wrote the Bible based on his own experiences, he would not be able to write it down because he could not know the details of what would happen until later. However, it is possible to estimate and record by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, but it is not possible to record accurate facts. And more importantly, despite the fact that prophets and Bible writers recorded what they experienced and experienced in the reality of that time, the next generation has no choice but to accept the Bible written by the previous generation as their own reality, misunderstanding their own circumstances. will be.

 

A good example of this is that the New Testament, written by Paul, is now accepted by Christians at face value as their own. Thus, despite not being Jews who lived a religious life in the same environment (life under the law) as the Apostle Paul, Christians put themselves in the same position as Paul and read the Bible, and without realizing it, they became righteous.

 

To explain this more simply, Paul was an Israelite who was born as a Hebrew and lived a religious life under the law. He wrote the Bible based on his own experience as a Christian through the exclusive grace of Jesus. However, today, when Christians look at the Bible written by Paul, they misunderstand themselves as Jews who lived under the law, and they mistakenly believe that they were justified and saved according to their salvation process. This can be a huge mistake. Christians today are just Gentiles who have lived without the law. Therefore, there is a stark difference between Paul (including all Jews), who lived under the law, believing in Jesus, and Gentiles, who lived without the law, believing in Jesus.

 

Because Christians today do not fully understand this, even among the same Christians, they are heresy with each other and cause many problems. In order to solve this problem for Christians, the spiritual Lord must come before them as a perfect person. In this way, right and wrong will be judged using the spiritual Lord as the reference point. Until then, no Christian can say the false statements that his denomination is orthodox or that he must come to his church to be saved. There is only one spiritual Lord who can solve all such problems at once.

 

God used Moses as a tool to save the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Moses was called by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. From the point of view of Israel at that time, Moses was truly a great person. However, Moses is only a type of Jesus Christ who will come to save the Israelites from their sins. Although Moses is obviously a great person, he cannot save the Israelites from their sins because he is a servant.

 

The Israelites who were born afterward continue to support Moses as their savior. “Our father Moses saved us from Egypt.” All of the forefathers of faith, including Abraham, were given as a type of Jesus Christ to come. However, because the people of Israel did not know such a fact, they admired those who were used as models of Christ and made them objects of faith. Even the ministers who are being used with the gifts of the Holy Spirit today are merely models of the Christ who will come, and they cannot save Christians from their sins because they are servants like Moses.

 

Even though Jesus came as the fulfillment of the law, the people of Israel only mention the names of people like Abraham and Moses rather than Jesus, but do not look down on Jesus. To this, Jesus said, “New wine must be put into new wineskins! But no one drinks old wine and desires new, for they say that old is good” (Luke 5:38-39) . It can be seen that the human habit of pursuing only big and flashy things is reflected in the Israelites as well. It is the foolish thought of human beings who continue to settle for the old despite the arrival of the new.

 

Therefore, in order to properly interpret the New Testament written by the apostles or Paul and apply it to them spiritually, the spiritual people of today's Christians must receive the help of the spiritual Lord. Before that, not only can no Christian interpret the Bible spiritually, and even if he uses his wisdom and knowledge to interpret and interpret the Bible, it will only come out of his or her own thoughts.

 

For example, according to Galatians 5:16-24, which Paul wrote, almost all pastors will teach the saints to live by the Spirit. They say that if you follow the Spirit, you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. But can Christians with a corrupt heart really live by the Holy Spirit? Christians may be filled with the Holy Spirit and live according to the Holy Spirit for a moment, but unless they get rid of the evil in their hearts, they live according to the world without their knowledge. will live by This is the true face of Christians.

 

Nevertheless, Christians are trying to comfort or confirm themselves with the words of the Bible written by Paul. What it means is that “the people of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh along with its passions and desires” (Galatians 5:24), and they are trying to establish themselves as children of God who have been saved. How anxious would they have been to try to comfort themselves by reminding them of these words over and over again? So they do not want to see the following words even if they die, or they just try to skip it. The reason is that he is currently afraid of being involved in such a thing.

 

“Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, envy, wrath, partying, separation, heresy, envy, drunkenness, licentiousness, and the like. those who will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 6:20-21).

 

Then they forcefully said, “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law” (Galatians 6:22-23) . They are doing well, but it is impossible for Christians with corrupt hearts to have these fruits of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. So they hide their inner self and show love, joy, mercy, and gentleness on the outside, and they do not know how humble they are in front of believers. Then, in front of people who do not know their identity, they do worse than non-believers, as if they vomit out the resentment they have endured. This is the present address of Christians today. Who can deny this!

 

However, ignorant of this fact, Christians continue to believe that Christ is in their hearts. He also says that faith must reach the full measure of Christ. If Christ is not yet in the hearts of Christians, how can we reach the stature of Christ? Christians mistake the Holy Spirit for the Spirit of Christ, and they keep saying that they must reach the full measure of Christ, but as Christians, even when they die and wake up, they cannot reach the full measure of Christ. Because Christians keep making these nonsense claims, the evil spirits are cleverly deceiving this and teaching false pastors that they are saved through false pastors.

 

The reason Paul told the Gentiles that they must attain the stature of the fullness of Christ was because he had personally experienced Christ with the Holy Spirit. After the 12 disciples of Jesus were forgiven of their sins, they were finally captured by the Holy Spirit and preached the gospel to their people. However, unlike the 12 disciples, Paul had Christ who came as light (spirit) with the Holy Spirit in his heart and preached the gospel to the Gentiles. Unlike other apostles, the reason why Paul was used that way was to foreshadow the spiritual Son of God who would come before the Gentiles. Judging from this, we can see that the Son of God, who will come before the Gentiles like a thief, will eventually come through a person like Paul.

 

At that time, the Ephesians did not know this and wanted to act like Paul, but they could never live a life like Paul. It was possible for Paul to forsake his life and follow Christ because Christ was already in his heart. However, the Ephesians are people who have only just heard the gospel preached by Paul, received the Holy Spirit and have basic faith under the spiritual law, and it was unreasonable to think that they could live a life like Paul. This is just like a child imitating an adult, and only side effects are more likely to occur.

 

Christians today have the same thoughts as the Ephesians at the time. Even Christians, while living as unbelievers, heard the gospel from someone and called on the name of Jesus, and had an amazing experience that they had never experienced before, and later found out that it was the baptism of the Holy Spirit. When I received the Holy Spirit, the ecstatic feeling at that time was as if I was in heaven. A person who did not know God until then, and lived like a dog or a pig, received the Holy Spirit, and came to know that God is alive, and also came to know that the devil and demons exist. After living as an unbeliever and experiencing this kind of experience, he thinks he is now a child of God and has received certain salvation. I had this experience by believing in Jesus and receiving the Holy Spirit, but who dares to come forward and deny the salvation of Christians?

 

But now, Christians can only realize that they are sinners who have disobeyed the Holy Spirit only by breaking free from the illusion of being saved. Because if they do not realize that they are sinners, evil spirits will keep believers under their feet and prevent them from believing in the Son to come. Because the Pharisees mistakenly believed that they were saved, they rejected Jesus, who would save them from their sins. This is because the evil spirits that were controlling the Pharisees prevented them from believing in Jesus. It really can be a sad thing.

 

The fact that there is no Christ in the hearts of Christians can be found in the fact that no one lives according to the Holy Spirit. The biggest reason Christians do not live by the Holy Spirit is because their hearts are full of sin. So, unlike when Christians today received the Holy Spirit for the first time, as time goes by, they are becoming more and more depraved. You're not going to accept this, but it's no surprise if you've ever checked what's inside your heart.

 

But if Christ is in the heart of the believer, anyone can live according to the Holy Spirit. The reason is that the Son came to accomplish the Father's will. When Christ (Son) comes into the heart of a believer, the evil (dead spirit) that has been dominating people's hearts until now is gone, and Christ takes the place of the Father. It is because He leads us to the Holy Spirit so that we can live according to the will of the Holy Spirit. However, no matter how much these explanations are given, those who have never experienced Christ do not recognize Christ as the Spirit. And he goes on to assert that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Christ.

 

We explain to unbelievers that God is invisible to our eyes but exists like the wind, just as the wind exists when we see the reeds shake even though we cannot see it with our eyes. Still, unbelievers don't want to believe that. Those who explain God at that time are frustrated and to the point of dying, but those who still believe explain God to the end. Still, unbelievers don't listen. In the end, he turns around, remembering the words in the Bible, “No one knows except those who have received it” (1 Corinthians 2:11).

 

Likewise, those who have been born again through Christ explain God's providence of salvation in detail, but Christians are still people who have not given up on the lust of the flesh. . This is just as unbelievers understand nonsense when explaining the existence of God to unbelievers, so Christians do the same. When Jesus came to the land of Israel, he explained the kingdom of heaven to the Pharisees, but they sarcastically did not listen to Jesus.

 

However, those who heard the words of the Son of God who came before the Gentiles and preached 'about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment,' and realized that they were sinners who disobeyed the Holy Spirit, all rushed to the Son and confessed through their sins. You will find the grace of Christ. Those who have received the grace of Christ will travel all over the world again, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and sealing all those who come out after hearing the word of Christ with grain. At that time, the wheat will go into God's barn, but those who do not get rid of their sins because they do not believe in the words of the Son of God will be thrown out of the earth as chaff.

 

In other words, if you believe in Christ who has come spiritually among Christians and receive the 'spirit of adoption (Romans 8:15)', you will be freed from spiritual blindness and realize how wrong your people are living your faith before God. Because there is no such person among Christians yet, they have not been able to correct the Christian's wrong life of faith. Among Christians, there are some who criticize and condemn the Christian life with the 'gift of the Holy Spirit', but there is no one yet to solve the problem of Christians' sin. However, those who believe in the spiritual Son and receive the 'spirit of adoption' and are born again, like Paul, not only point out the wrong religious life of their own people, but also have the ability to solve the problem of Christians' sins.

 

Paul's harsh criticism of his own people was because they were so ignorant of God. Although he was calling on the name of God with his lips, he did not seek God, but instead used the name of God to elevate his vested interests and his honor, so Paul could not just look at it. This was not only happening to the Jews at the time, but the Christians living under the law of the Holy Spirit today are doing the same. Even Christians today call on the name of God with their lips, but in reality their hearts are full of bitterness. Christians have a name that they also lived, but every word they say is making Christians twice as 'children of hell'. To say that they are making 'children of hell' means that there is no 'life of Christ' in their words.

 

“Their throats are open graves, their tongues teach deceit, their lips are the poison of vipers, their mouths are full of curses and bitterness, their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and trouble are in their way, peace. have not known the way, and there is no fear of God before their eyes” (Romans 3:13-18).

 

Soon Christ will come before the Gentiles. At that time, not to mention false pastors, those who called on God’s name only with their lips, those who insulted and reviled members of the church, and those who sucked blood with a straw in their necks will all be kicked out of their seats. And those who deceived the church members with the spirit of antichrist and led them into heresy will also be harvested in advance and thrown into hell.

 

Christians say, “If Christ is here or there, do not go, for Christ is in your hearts” (Matthew 24:23)! You will have to be fully armed until the real Christ comes. Those who refuse to listen to what the Lord is saying should take these words to heart. The grave here does not mean a cemetery on a mountain, but it means that all human spirits are dead because of iniquity. Even if the spirit is dead, those who hear the voice of the Lord and come out will come to life.

 

“Just as the Father has life in himself, so he also gave life to the Son so that he may have it in him, and because of his kindness he gave the authority to judge! Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, and those who have done good will come out to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to a resurrection of judgment” (John 5:26-29)

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