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change in Christ

 

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All human beings try to live by sticking to the way they used to live. As a result, I don't want to change as much as possible. In other words, humans depend on the old and do not accept the new. Abraham was able to stand tall as the father of faith because he put down his thoughts and put into action the commands that God had spoken without any complaints. When God said to Abraham, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s house” (Genesis 12:1) , Abraham did not hesitate to say anything and left his hometown and relatives, where he had lived for generations, and went to an unfamiliar and remote place. God was pleased with such Abraham.

 

God felt compassion for the people of Israel, who had been living hard for about 2,000 years under the heavy burden of the law, and sent His Son, Jesus, to tell them, “Everyone believe in the Son whom I have sent, and put down those burdens.” However, the Israelites hated being changed, so they kept the law until the end, but rejected Jesus and went to destruction.

 

Jesus compared this to this, saying, “No one drinks old wine and desires new, because they say that old is good” (Luke 5:39) . Although the law was a shadow of the good things to come and was not the true image, the people of Israel, who were unaware of this fact, believed that the works of the law were what made people holy. As a result, they rejected Jesus.

 

Christians today are no exception to this. Christians today would think they were not drunk on foolish old wine like the Jews were. And they would believe they were drunk with new wine because they believed in Jesus. But Christians, like Jews, are just as addicted to old wine. Just as to the Jews the law was not a shadow and not the true image of good things to come, so for Christians today the law of the Holy Spirit (spiritual law) is a shadow and not the true image of good things to come. However, Christians who do not know this believe that everyone is saved by the law of the Holy Spirit, who has given them to realize their sins in their hearts.

 

The history of Christianity, which started with the early church, is already over 2,000 years old. Even Christians have struggled to live according to the Holy Spirit for about two thousand years. However, none of the Christians live fully according to the Holy Spirit. You can see that the more you try to live according to the Holy Spirit, the more you will commit sins. For example, let's say you didn't watch TV when you were told not to watch TV on a Sunday. But in my heart, I want to see it, and I am excited to see it. He is already sinning in his heart. The law of the Holy Spirit makes you sin even just thinking about it in your heart. How can a person with a corrupt heart fully obey such a strict law? This is the heavy burden of the law for Christians.

 

Although the Bible emphasizes that the law cannot make anything perfect, in the end even Christians, being deceived by the subtle tactics of a dead spirit who do not want to accept Christ, use these excuses and other excuses to not believe in the spiritual Son sent by God. If we apply the words of Jesus, “new wine must be put in new wineskins” (Luke 5:38) to Christians, they will abandon their religious life under the law of the Holy Spirit and now come before them as a new owner. It says to believe in the Son with your heart. Only then can they become truly heavenly citizens.

 

But if you exclude this and believe that you have been born again by the Holy Spirit, who has been sent to play the role of the spiritual law, it is like the Jews who believe they are justified by the law. This is why the Jews are so good at pointing out what is wrong with them, but they do not see their own things at all. A spiritually blind person is not a person who cannot see things, but a person who cannot see their own situation.

 

Today, both the demons and the three brothers and sisters know that believing in Jesus is the only way to be saved. But Jesus, who came to the land of Israel in the flesh, came only to take care of the sins of the people of Israel who lived under the law. And the blood that Jesus shed when he died on the cross was the solution for the original sin committed by the first man, Adam. In this context, Jews who lived under the law, even if they call on the name of Jesus, first receive the forgiveness of their sins of violating the law, and then receive the Holy Spirit as evidence that they have been forgiven of their original sins through the blood that Jesus shed, leading to salvation.

 

However, Christians who called on the name of Jesus and received the Holy Spirit as a gift are sinners who disobey the Holy Spirit because their hearts are corrupt and they cannot live according to the law of the Holy Spirit. Even if Christians want to have their sins against the Holy Spirit solved, they can't solve their sins because Jesus has not come to Christians spiritually yet. However, Christian pastors are calling out every day to be saved by believing in Jesus. Shouldn't Jesus be in front of our eyes so that we can go out with our sins and have our sins forgiven or not?

 

According to the Bible, Jesus is now on the throne in heaven (Hebrews 8:1). How can we meet Jesus in heaven and confess that I have sinned against the Holy Spirit? In order to solve this problem for Christians, God is sending His Son even before Gentiles, that is, Christians. Since Jesus, who is in spirit (the Word), cannot go before humans as a spirit, he goes through a pre-selected person from among the Gentiles. Whether they like it or not, the Gentiles must believe that the One who comes like this is the Son of God. This is what we call 'Christ who comes as a thief' or 'Christ who comes as a spirit'.

 

Christ, who came as the Spirit through man, will first ask whether Christians have lived according to the Holy Spirit or not. At first glance, it seems like you have come to point out the mistakes of Christians, but if you open your heart and listen to the end of the Word, you will realize that this is not the case. The reason that Christ, who came as the Spirit, points out and rebukes Christians for their sins is so that Christians can realize their sins and raise their hands. This is because, only when you realize your sin and raise your hand, Christ can forgive that person's sin and lead to salvation.

 

However, even among Christians, hard-hearted ones will either dislike Christ for pointing out their sins or try to kill him as a heretic monster. Especially those who believe that they have been born again by the Holy Spirit will not listen to what Christ is saying. These people have a dead spirit (serpent) in their heart that will force them to continue living the way they have been living, and will deceive them into never accepting anything new. Even if Christ wants to enter the human heart as a new master, he will never be able to enter those who do not accept the Word.

 

When we are healthy, we do not go to the hospital. Then, when something goes wrong in the body, you go to the hospital. So, after receiving an examination at the hospital, when the doctor informs you that the disease is called cancer, it is only then that he gets confused and trembles. A person who was so confident up until yesterday will stop thinking about it when the doctor says that cancer cells are growing in his body. Then he said, “Doctor! Is there any way to live longer?” He said, asking where he would go, rubbing his hands and feet in front of the doctor and asking for his life. Who will premiere in the face of death? This is the human form in the flesh. In the face of death, humans have no choice but to become subservient in the face of death, wanting to live even a little longer in a world that can never come again.

 

Anyone who is told that they are dying from an illness will not be able to help but be nervous. Thus, such a patient is to listen to whatever the doctor has to say. If a person who likes alcohol or cigarettes, which can be said to be fatal to cancer cells, says, “If you do not stop smoking immediately, you will die.” But, if such a person were not ill and the doctor gave such an order, who would listen to him and stop drinking or smoking? This is the human figure with two faces. Judging from these results, it can be seen that in the end, human beings can only hear what is said when an emergency arises for them.

 

As if to prove this fact, there are parts in the Bible where Jesus explained the principles of the world as examples. In Matthew 9:12, it says, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick!” that's what you're saying As mentioned above, those who feel they are in good health never visit a doctor. But those who feel that they are not in good health are expected to visit the doctor every day.

 

Likewise, he who feels that his soul is sick and dying is bound to seek the Lord, the healer of the soul, daily. However, those who do not feel that their soul is sick and dying, instead of seeking the Lord, are stoning the healer of the soul who is trying to reveal the name of their disease.

 

Would such a person say such nonsense to a doctor that cancer cells are growing in their body? If I had been diagnosed with this in the hospital, I would have been crying in front of the doctor and begging for my hands to become feet. However, even though the soul, which is several dozen times more important than the body, is sick and dying, foolish humans do not come to the Lord who will heal the soul, knowing that the body will be fine. “The body is better than the clothes worn outside the body, and the soul is much more important than the body” (Matthew 10:28, 6:25-28, Luke 12:33). They only think about the visible reality, but they do not realize the afterlife of human beings at all.

 

Even the pastors who call themselves guides of the soul teach the saints not to live for 'times of the soul', but to live only for the times of the flesh, which is visible to the eye, what more? All things created in this world are born in this world and when their life ends, that is the end. However, there is a world in which we live in the flesh and another world in which we live spiritually, as far as humans are created as spiritual beings in the image of God. So, for a human being, it will face two deaths. In the Book of Revelation, it is recorded that there is the first death, followed by the second death (Revelation 21:8). The first death literally means physical death, and the second death is a reference to spiritual death.

 

Non-believers live unaware of this fact, but believers must believe these facts even if they do not want to believe them. And if you believe in this fact, you should never live your life in vain. In order to diagnose how seriously ill their souls are today, Christians must measure how much they have lived in disobedience to the Holy Spirit. However, if you believe in Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit for the first time and fail to live according to the Holy Spirit, you can't remember at all and say that you were saved only because you had received the Holy Spirit. Today, Christians who believe that their soul is healthy just because their body is healthy is a big deal.

 

Since Christians are clearly spiritual people of Israel, when they disobey the Holy Spirit and want to live their lives, disease does not come to their body like Jews, but to their heart. Because the disease that has come into the heart is not clearly visible on the outside, no one can detect it. Only the Son of God can find out the disease in the human heart. The Son of God not only finds out the disease in his heart, but also heals the disease himself.

 

However, humans are refusing to be diagnosed with the disease inside their mind. Even when they say let's just diagnose how cleverly humans reject it, they are rejecting it with all kinds of excuses. Thus, even if they were diagnosed with the disease semi-forcibly, how evil and lazy humans are, they hardly accept it. The question is, why are you sick? The body is so perfectly fine. He said that he was reluctant to appear in front of the healer of the soul. Even so, he kept saying 'Lord! The cry of 'Lord!' is the reality of believers today. Then, “Where are you standing today?” The Lord is still asking me this today.

   

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