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[영어설교 / English Sermon ]  A New Creation

A New Creation

 
There was a funeral at a church in Chicago for a three year old girl who starved to death. An alcoholic dressed in dirty clothes came to the little girl's funeral. He took the little girl's shoes off her feet while everyone was praying and sold them to get drunk. The man who stole the shoes was the girl's father.

20 years later, a man stood and spoke in front of thousands of people at Chicago First Presbyterian Church.

"The father who stole his little girl's shoes at her funeral was me! It was God who saved this worthless, filthy man and gave a new life to become his disciple."

It was Mel Trotter, an evangelist of Chicago.

God restores those that seem worthless and useless to men and leads them to live a new life. God leads them to a new path where a dead soul comes to life again and lives a life for God's glory. 

 
2 (Second) Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

"A new creation" has come!

What does it mean to be "in Christ"?

It means to be in God's Kingdom. Since Adam disobeyed God and let sin into our lives, we have fallen from God and have been wandering in a world ruled by Satan.

But by the love of God, when a person believes that Jesus Christ has died on the cross and resurrected, he or she begins to live in God's Kingdom where God is in control.

Colossians 1: 13-14

"For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."

 Now, let's take a closer look at the differences between the old creation and new creation.

Who is an old creation?

1) An old creation is a man who is spiritually dead.

If you are spiritually dead, you cannot know God's existence. Your heart is filled with worldly things.

2) An old creation is a man who follows the world of Satan.

He or she seeks Satan's temptations that provide instant pleasures.

3) An old creation is a man who follows the desires of flesh.

He or she hates God and engages in injustice, abomination, greed, arrogance, boast, envy, murder, argument, drunkenness, debauchery, and lust.

Ephesians Chapter 2 Verse 1

"As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins"

First Peter Chapter 1, Verse 24:

"...All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,"

Who is a new creation?

1) A new creation is who is born again through faith in Jesus Christ.

It is he who believes that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Savior and therefore belongs to Jesus Christ.

It's a life that is no longer ruled by Satan, but a life that follows God's Word and walks with Christ.

2) A new creation is who lives in Christ.

Before, he was a slave of the world ruled by Satan, but now lives in God's Kingdom under God's rules.

3) A new creation lives life that is led by the Holy Spirit.

It is he who bears fruit of the Holy Spirit in his life. He lives in the light of Jesus and lives in gentleness and humility.

 First John Chapter 2, Verses Fifteen through seventeen.

"Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world- the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life- comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever."

Galatians Chapter Five, Verse Sixteen.

"So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh."

 
Now, how can we become new creation in Jesus Christ?

 
Ephesians Chapter Four, Verses 22 through 24:

"You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."

 God tells us "to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires".

People who live in their weak flesh are easy to fall into Satan's temptations and chase after instant pleasures of this world. It's a life that is ruled by the desires of flesh.

The desires of flesh go against the Holy Spirit, and the desires of the Holy Spirit go against the flesh.

When we are tempted by the worldy things and in the midst of sins from earthly desires, our spirit is dead and therefore we cannot know God or see God. But, when we live in Jesus Christ who saved us and follow the Holy Spirit, we are freed from Satan and this world.

We no longer live as slaves of our flesh.

We no longer live as slaves of Satan.

We no longer are consumed by worldly pleasures.

We no longer live as slaves of fear, worries, darkness, sadness, and sins.

We put on the new self, in God's likeness, and live a life of peace given by God.

We live an eternal life of Heaven where we live and praise God forever.

 
All of this is the work of the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

 
The Father blots out our transgressions.
 

Isaiah Chapter 43, verse 25:

"I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more."

 
The Son, Jesus Christ, cleanses us with his blood.

Hebrews Chapter 9, verse 14:

"How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!"

 
The Holy Spirit makes us holy.
 

 Second Thessalonians Chapter 2, verse 13:

"But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as first fruits to be saved thorugh the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth."

 
We, who are gathered here to worship and praise God, are those who are in God's grace.

God will give us bigger faith, to those that come out to worship God by God's grace. God will give us the strength to fight off Satan's temptations.

God will take away all of our darkness and sadness.

God will give us victory in our daily lives as we live as His children.

Let us pray.

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You for giving us Your Living Word today.

Touch each and every one of us with your Holy Spirit and open our hearts.

We no longer want to live as slaves of this world, as slaves of Satan.

Holy Spirit,

Fill our hearts.

Help us to live in your guidance.

We prayed all this in Jesus's name, Amen.

,ANewCreation,oldcreationandnewcreation,theHolySpirit

[영어설교 / English Sermon ] take up their cross and follow me 

Dear Father,

Please cover me with your Holy Spirit so that only your word may be proclaimed.

Open our hearts so that we may hear your living word and receive your grace.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen

John 11;25-26

Jesus said to her, " I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believe in me will live, even though they die, and whoever lives by believing in me will never die.

Do you believe this?."

there was a fisher man named Peter in Scandinavia. One day he went to fish with his beloved son. There were unexpected storm in that day. Peter's fishing boat was drifting like a leaf. Peter fought against big wave and strong wind for hours in the pitch dark night only to lose his sense of direction and energy and which led him to desparate situation. Then, he noticed a very bright pillar of fire in far away direction, which means the land is nearby. So Peter paddled his boat in that direction with all his strength.

Unexpectedly the place Peter reached was the village where he lived. Peter's wife was all tears when she met her husband and her son. Her cry had different reason than what Peter expected.

  "Honey, because of my fault the whole house got burned down and all the household furnitures are  lost. What shall I do now?."

That pillar of fire was from his burning house. Peter embraced his wife and told her in happy face and said .

  "Honey thank you. The fire you caused saved me and our son. Without that pillar of fire we both probably would have perished. Thank you for burning our house."

It is a true story. There is a very important message in it.

During our life time, some days we enjoy warm and brilliant sun shines but other days we have to go through the long miserable dark tunnels. Sometimes you enjoy beautiful wide open ocean from the cool shore of the ocean's edge, but, other times you encounter unexpected strong storm on pitch dark night at the sea and you become disoriented and exhausted from struggling against them and drifting like a piece of drift wood in the middle of ocean.

  To believe in Jesus who has resurrected from the death means you go forward straight to the life of light just like in the story I have described.

A Christian who believes in Jesus who overcame the death is blessed with the power from God to overcome any miseries and hardships while living in this temporary world because those who believe that Jesus Christ is his savior is blessed with eternal life with Jesus. All children of God who hope to be in heaven never despair with any hardship no matter how hard it is and believes that he will overcome them all. Hallelujah!!!.

John 12:24

Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

Jesus has died as one single seed of wheat. His death has produced countless fruits and it still doing it. When we die with Jesus we will live as His disciples.

To die with Christ means we have nailed our physical desires and sinful minds on the cross.

Through Christ who lives within us, we are able to bear fruits of the Holy Spirit and bring life to the dying souls. 

John 12:25

Anyone who loves their life will loose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

 We all are self-loving people. We fight for our self interest and worldly fame and power with tooth and nail. To achieve our goals we sometimes cheat and harm other people.

Bible said, anyone who is busy living a life of worldly physical desires, that is, who loves nothing but his worldly life will lose his life and wander in the darkness of death.

However, God tells us that He will give eternal life to whoever hates the earthly life or the worldly things and instead loves and cares for his neighbors and follows the footsteps of Christ.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."

Jesus is saying that unless you deny yourself to get rid of  worldly desires, possessions and indulge in the worldly luxury, you can not follow the way of Jesus.

John 10:27

My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

The followers of Jesus will recognize His voice. Jesus Christ makes you His children as long as you believe that Jesus took all your dirty sins upon Himself and died

on the cross for you and resurrected from death.

Holy spirit is in the children of God and he opens their spiritual minds to listen to God’s words so they can be connect with God.

Those who are rewarded with the Holy spirit will be led by the Holy spirit and never be tempted by the worldly possession and lust.

They will live the life of self denial and carry his own cross to follow the way of Jesus. God's almighty power will never allow anybody to take away His children from Father God. Hallelujah!!.

John 14:21

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.

Jesus declared that only who keeps His commands are the one who loves Him.

How is the life of person who keeps his commands?.

It is the life that faithfully and obediently follows His commands.

Jesus said whoever loves me will also be loved by my Father too. Anybody who loves Jesus will be obedient to His words and be loved by His Father.

It means we will be like Jesus.

God is the love and the light.

All who is loved and lives in the light of God will no more be controlled by the darkness and sorrows. God's light will get rid of all those dark and oppressive miseries which so far controlled us. God's love will cure and restore the deep mental anguishes and undesirable pains we have been suffering. Hallelujah!!.

I praise the God who has saved us from all the pain and misery.

I praise the God who has led us to His light and comforted us and promised the peace.

I love Father God and His Son Jesus and The Holy Spirit who has  saved us and allow us to have an eternal life.

John 24:26

But the advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything  I have said to you.

My dear brothers and sisters!

Ask for the Holy Spirit! Ask for His grace!.

When we are in the full of grace, our spiritual eyes will be opened wide and bright as if a blind man has gained the sight.

Through His words we will meet our God and hear His voice. We will experience the love of our living God when we praise and exalt Him.

We will achieve the direct communication and conversation with spiritual God  when pray for the righteousness in heaven.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

Who are the people that are of this worlds?

Those are the person who is busy looking for the short lived pleasures and gratifications. Satan is very jealous and hate people who is close and intimate with God. Satan tempts  us to fall into the world of temporary pleasure and gratification with sweet and delicious things.

People who fall into such temptations and are consumed by worldly things are those that are "of this world".

The person who is blinded by the worldly things tends to despair and rejects 'Spiritual things'.

Also, they don't understand them.

One cannot follow the spiritual way if one is slave to the worldly things. The Holy Spirit will be revealed to us when we denounce the bodily sins and gratification and follow Jesus Christ carrying our own cross, then we will enjoy and live the eternal life as the children of God who

is the light and the love.

John 14:27

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

God promised us peace to us which is unlike of anything from this world when we follow Jesus Christ carrying our own cross and lead the life which is Jesus like.

God said 'Do not let your heart be troubled and do  not afraid.'

When we are enjoying the peace given to us through the God's grace, all those anxiety, worry and uneasiness  which were relentlessly tormented us will  leave us alone. All those power of darkness which has been harassing and made us miserable will be finally  gone for good.

I believe all of you who are gathered here to worship God will enjoy the God given peace and praise God everyday of your life,

I also believe you will meditate on God's words and will follow His way. And to achieve this goal you will pray all the time and conquer the Satan's temptation.

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for the words of  precious life. Please embrace us with Your grace and Holy Spirit, and lead us to meditate on your words and pray to You all the time. Please lead us to praise Father God who saved us.
 

We pray in the name of our savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

,takeuptheircrossandfollowme,Matthew16:24

  
[영어설교 / English Sermon] God loves you

God loves you.
I praise and thank God who led us together here for this service. I believe through this holy service God will bless us with comfort, hope, deeper faith and most of all, His love upon us.

 John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

God's love toward us is boundless and there is no regard whether you are sinner or righteous. His love covers everybody whether one is rich or poor, hopeless, full of both physical and spiritual pain, in short, whatever the living situation you are in.

To save these people, God sent his Son to this wicked world. God is merciful toward these people who are spiritually dead and under the influence of worldly temptation. Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God said anybody who believes in Jesus will get eternal life.  What God mean by "you believe in Jesus?"

God created Adam in His image in every sense of the goodness, and Adam committed the crime which is punishable by death by betrayed God's wishes.

All human beings following Adam, whether likes or not, born with this guilt and corrupted with jealousy with envy, hatefulness and selfishness, which eventually bear the fruit of guilt and led us to mutual destruction and hopelessness. In the beginning, however, God had no intention of creating the guilty human.

Genesis 1:27

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them: male and female He created them.

God created human in His image and His image is love. Jesus came to this world to redeem our sin by His blood on the Cross and death. This shows how great the God's love is.

Is Jesus's death on the cross just for those people who lives by the righteous rules like hard work, helpfulness and selfless people?. Are those people really pure and guiltless?.

We are all born with the sin committed by Adam and we could not be like God even though we are born with God's image.

Jesus came to this world to save us from the world without spiritual being and full of sins. Jesus took over all our sins and died on the cross to give us the eternal life and defeated the death by resurrected after third day and ascended to the heaven to sit right side of His Father. Hallelujah!!!

This is what we are believe in that Jesus died for our sins and resurrected from the death, and by the merciful grace of God we are all cleared of the sins.

Philippians 2:5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus.

God loves you just the way everyone is. However, God wants whoever believes Him to come out of the world of sin and come to Him. Jesus came to this world clearly to show how the people who has God's image should behave.

The people who save through the faith should neither follow the way of this world nor follow the physical desire. God wants you to be like Jesus and make God happy and glorify His original intention of making us in His images in the first place.

But then, what we should do to be like Jesus?.

Matthew 11:28  

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

It happened at some lording dock in U.S.. One day a passenger ship arrived and while the passengers were leaving the ship one woman tripped her feet and fell out of the ship. At that instance people started shouting and asked ship crew to do save her. All the ship crews were doing was just stand there watching a drowning woman while she was surfaced twice above water. When this woman was completely exhausted then one crew dived into the water to bring out limp woman. Then some people started to question why the crew waited so long to save her. A crew replied with the sigh of relief.  "Don't be ignorant. When a person who is drowning will tried save himself with all the power person has and no stronger person would overcome that and drown together at the end."

When you rid of everything you possess and take everything to God, who becomes the Lord of yourself and led you into the life of light.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come The old has gone, the new is here!

When you died with Jesus on the Cross and resurrect with Him you will gain the new life, that is, you became new creature.

Colossians 2:12

Having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through your faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Faith in God is ultimate gift to you from Him. By the grace of God you have been gained the faith and allowed to walk the God's way with Him and becomes like Him and lead your life as a man who has been blessed to have the image of God.

It is a very big burden for us to live as a worldly being. Some of us are born into this world under very unfortunate circumstances. Some came from the country with very unfavorable conditions, or from a broken family with unbearable burden and hard life. The burden which we have no control over.

Some of those burdens are from uncontrollable physical desire, alcohol, drugs, gamble, pornography, something that is easily addictive, or unwanted physical ailment or mental decease, bad family and or friendly relationship. Nobody can free from all those worldly sins.

Jesus said anyone who is carrying all those burdens and struggling with them to come to Him and unload to Him. Bring every burdens, in other words, everything that you have to deal with your own mind and will power to Jesus.

When you do that Jesus will becomes our Lord and He will lead us to the realm of the life of light, love, peace and will blessed with the eternal life. Hallelujah!!!!.

It is such an overwhelming and enormous blessing when we embrace Jesus Christ as our savior and fallow His step and walk along with Him.

Whatever the situation we are in, Jesus is fair to everybody whether he is rich, poor, healthy or not, incarcerated in prison, addicted with drugs, leading a privileged life, etc.....

Jesus forgive all sins when you confess your sins and ask for the forgiveness and believe in the Cross and accept Him as your savior.

God has forgiven all our sins. We are blessed with the grace and peace from Him and leading a heavenly living regardless of what sorts of situations we in right now and  after the death we are promised with heaven where there are no pain from the mental problem and praise our Lord, who is with us there, forever and ever. Hallelujah!!!!!!.

Dear beloved brethren,

Everybody in here is specially loved by God who would like to bless all of you with eternal love. However, if you fail to respond to His special blessing God is unable to work with you. Please don't reject God's love. Believe in the fact that Jesus died on the Cross to take out our sins and resurrected after three days from the death.

Please accept Jesus as our savior and ask for the holy sprit within us. Take everything to God and follow His way, then God will comfort and sooth all our pains from the affliction.

No matter how long you have been suffered, God will root out all those sufferings from you and give you comfort and peace within you and rejuvenate you to the new creature.

And God would like to work with new creatures to save and raise the dead souls who are unaware of God's love.

Anybody who has not yet accepted Jesus as his savior or who is not sure of himself but would like to find out more, please remain here after service or come to Thursday service and have a prayer session together.

we should firmly believe that we will be in heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ even if today is the last day of the earth.

Let us pray,

Heavenly Father we thank you for us to hear about heavenly life. Please protect us from the influence from Satan who is trying to stop us from learning about the way to the God. Please sooth our pain from the affliction and heal our wounds. Please let us walk with Jesus and live by the words from Him and praise him and give thanks to Him

all the time and pray hard to God it to happen.

In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN.