The Inseparable Love of God (1) [ Romans 8:38-39 ] Why can nothing separate us from the love of God? 1. Because God’s love is eternal. Romans 8:29a says: “For those whom He foreknew…” The word “foreknew” refers to before eternity began —before the creation of heaven and earth . The phrase “those whom He foreknew” does not simply mean knowing about someone intellectually, but rather loving them. In other words, it refers to “those whom God loved from eternity past.” Amos 3:2a says: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth.” If “known” merely meant intellectual knowledge, that would imply that God only knew Israel and did not know the other nations—which cannot be true, because the all-knowing God lacks knowledge of nothing. Therefore, “I have known you only” means “I have loved you only.” God loved Israel among all the nations of the earth. Hosea 13:5 says: “I knew you in the wilderness , in the land of great drought.” The “wilderness” was where the Israelite...
A pastor …
The pastor must talk to
God about the church members' problems,
teach them God's laws
and commands, and show them
how they should live and
what they should do
(Ref.: Exodus 18:19-20).
Pastors must stand
before God together with the elders.
God's response to Moses,
the leader of the Israelites, in prayer was,
"Go on ahead of the
people. Take with you some of the elders
of Israel
and take in your hand
the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.
I will stand there
before you by the rock at Horeb.
Strike the rock, and
water will come out of it for the people to drink"
(Exodus 17:5-6).
So Moses did as he was
instructed, in the presence of the elders of Israel.
A praying pastor must
act according to the prayer response received from God.
They should go forth,
not complaining, before the congregation they lead.
The pastor should stand
before God with the elders.
Additionally, they
should obediently believe in
and act upon the
miraculous command of God, as in the past, "Strike the rock with the
staff."
At that time, when God
parted the Red Sea to make a way,
He will also bring forth
water from the rock for the congregation to drink.
Those who believe in
Christ, who is the Rock,
will have streams of
living water flowing from within them,
just as the Scripture
says (John 7:38).
Pastor, please convey
the word of God as it is.
A pastor must preach the
word of God as it is
(Ref.: Exodus 19:25).
Pastors should not
handle donations carelessly!
Pastors should not
dishonor God's holy name
by mishandling the holy
offerings that believers give to God
(Ref.: Leviticus 22:1).
Rather than hearing the
word of God through a pastor ...
It is better to hear God
speak directly to us
than to hear Him speak
through a pastor
(Ref.: Exodus 20:19).
Can a pastor marry a
prostitute?
In Leviticus 21:13-15 of
the Modern Korean Bible,
God says: "The high
priest must marry a virgin.
He must not marry a
widow, a divorced woman, or a prostitute,
but must marry a virgin
from his own people.
Otherwise, his children
would be defiled among their people.
I am the Lord, who makes
him holy."
To the prophet Hosea,
God said:
"Go, marry a
promiscuous woman and have children with her,
for like an adulterous
wife this land is guilty of unfaithfulness to the Lord"
(Hosea 1:2).
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