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Worship-witnesses           [Romans 12:1-2]     What is your life purpose?   What are you living for?   In the book “Purpose Driven Life” by Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, he says there are 5 benefits to living a purpose driven life (Warren):   (1)    The first benefit is that knowing purpose gives meaning to life.   Without God there can be no purpose in life, and life without purpose is meaningless.   Without meaning there is no importance or hope.   A young man in his 20s wrote: ‘I must be a failure because I am struggling to become something, but I don't really know what I am trying to become. All I know how to do is live roughly.   One day I will feel that I am beginning to live only when I find my purpose in life.’   Are we living while feeling the meaning of life?   (2)    The second benefit is that life becomes simpler when we know our purp...

  “Who has known the mind of the Lord?”     [Romans 11:25-36]     During the morning prayer meeting last week, I received a lesson from God about ‘The church dispute' centered on 1 Corinthians 1:10.   The lesson of God is that there are three causes of disputes in the church.   The three causes are: (1) not agreeing with one another, (2) not uniting in mind, and (3) not saying the same thing.   The reason why all the members of the Corinthian church did not have the same mind was because they were proud (4:6).   And because of their pride, they went beyond what is written (4:6) and boasted of themselves rather than the Lord (1:31).   As a result, there was envy and strife in the Corinthian church (3:3).   Upon hearing the news of this conflict, the apostle Paul (1:11) wrote a letter to the Corinthian church and said: “Is Christ divided?” (1:13)   In order for us to keep the unity of the church, we all must have the...

The mind set on the flesh       [Romans 8:5-8]                        Look at Romans 8:5-8: “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.   For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”  In this verse, “the mind set on the flesh” appears three times: “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh” (v. 5), “For the mind set on the flesh is death” (v. 6), and “the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God” (v. 7).   Here, what is “the mind set on the flesh”?    ...