Sharing is Caring

‘The living should take this to heart’         [Ecclesiastes 7:1-4]     ​   ​               On Thursday, April 20, 2008, there was interesting news in South Korea YTN 11 o'clock night news.   The news was about some people taking pictures for their funerals, writing their last will letters, reading that letters in a mortuary room.   I saw most of them crying when they were reading down their letters.   Not only did they read down their letters, but they actually went into their coffins in the mortuary room.   Then the other person slowly poured the soil over the coffin with a shovel.   When I was watching that moment I thought if a person who was inside the coffin heard that sound of the soil, he would probably felt real about his death.   The response of those who experienced their dying process was "I wanted to live more."   And the...

Conclusion       The grace that God has given us is that we have been justified by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ by the preaching of the gospel through the servants of Jesus Christ.   In other words, we have been justified only by believing in Jesus.   Now we are those who are in Christ Jesus.   Therefore, we are no longer under God's wrath and God's judgment, but in God's inseparable love.   And that inseparable love of God has been poured into our hearts.   Therefore, we have become those who love God.   Also, we have become lovers of one another.   We have become people who accept each other.   Also, because we share, we have become people who care for each other.   In other words, we have become the Lord's community of love.   If we have received forgiveness of sins through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, we are credited to God for righteousness through His resurrection.   Therefo...

Living worthily as recipients of the best gift (2)       [Romans 6:1-14]     If you look at the Korean news these days, you will come across news that several people are being investigated by the prosecution because of the list of ‘Park So-and-so’ and the late ‘Jang-so-so’.   On one list, it seems that key figures in the former regime who took bribes are being investigated.   And on the other list, it seems that because of the documents of a celebrity, the people involved in those documents are being investigated by the prosecution.   Meanwhile, while listening to Korean broadcasts on the radio last week, I heard a voice lamenting why there are so many lists like this in Korea.   What do you think?   I once thought about my list.   I thought about what my sin list would be like, where a list of such and such sins were recorded.   At the same time, I thought that the list of all sins was completely erased by the b...

  ‘Sin living in me’           [Romans 7:17-20]                         Look at Romans 7:17, 20: “As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.    …    Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.”    The Apostle Paul repeatedly said twice that “it is sin living in me.”    Here, “me” refers to the Apostle Paul himself.    Who is Paul?    He was a zealous persecutor of the church.    Look at Philippians 3:6 and 1 Timothy 1:13 – “as for zeal, persecuting the church …” (Phil.3:6), “Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, …” (1 Tim.1:13).    While on his way to arrest Christians in Damascus, he met Jesus on the road to Damascus (Acts 9). See the conversation between Je...