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The Word was growing mightily       [Acts 19:8-20]         Pastor A. W. Tozer, who was called a prophet of the 21st century, stated in his book "That Incredible Christian": ‘Today's churches are filled with weak Christians.   They need to be entertained with something interesting to come to church.   ...   Therefore, they can only stay at a morally and spiritually weak level.   They barely hold on to a faith they themselves do not understand well with feeble hands.’   What is the cause?   Just as a salesman emphasizes only the advantages of his product and hides the disadvantages, an imbalanced evangelist only talks about the positive aspects, hiding the negative ones (Tozer).   We are being deceived by a false gospel.   Emphasizing the natural way without teaching the path of suffering, in other words, emphasizing the promised land without the wilderness, as if there were no death, is a fake g...

  Applying the Word Bible study             [Nehemiah 8:13-18]       It is said that there are words that came about when unemployment among middle-aged and elderly people soared in Korea 2003 due to the economic recession (Internet): 'O-ryuk-do' (thieves who work until the age of 56) and 'Sa-o-jeong' (retirement age at 45) became popular, and as unemployment among young people became serious, ‘Lee Tae-baek’ (mostly in their 20s were unemployed) and ‘Sam-pal-sun’ (early retirement at the age of 38).   Originally, 'Sa-o-jeong' was said to be one of the escort monsters (?) of the third Xuanzang in Journey to the West.   However, the current Sa-o-jeong is used to refer to 'a person who misunderstands words' and 'a person with a different thought pattern'.   It is used to mean that a person does not listen properly and says something else.   There is a series of Sa-o-jeong that I found in the Bible: A...

Revival of the Word (II)     [Nehemiah 8:6-9a]       It is a morally lax world.   We hear a lot about moral hazard these days.   Originally, this meant that people were not careful when they bought insurance.   If we buy car insurance, we don't worry too much about traffic accidents.   And if we buy life insurance, we don't pay much attention to our health.   As if the sense function of the remote control has been exhausted, it means that the conscience has become dull.   It refers to the loss of judgment about right and wrong.   This kind of moral hazard phenomenon is not a thing yesterday or today, but you can see that there is no standard (Internet).   What is our standard?   It is the Bible.   The Bible is called the canon.   Its original meaning is sleep.   Borrowing the words from Amos 7:7-8, it is “a plumb line”.   A plumb line is a tool used on construction sites.   It ser...

Revival of the Word (I)     [Nehemiah 8:1-5]     Do you know the difference between bewilderment, sadness and shock?   Bewilderment - when you go through the Old Testament, thinking that the sermon text the book of Hebrews is from the Old Testament, Sadness - when you can't find the text of the Bible and wander around, but the pastor told me to read it first, Shocking - when you open the Bible to read the text, but it's a Chinese Bible (Internet).   In this age we live in, we are facing the phenomenon of a drought in which we do not listen to God's word.   Look at Amos 8:11 – “’The days are coming,’ declares the Sovereign LORD, ‘when I will send a famine through the land-- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the Words of the LORD.’”   This era we live in is an era that denies the existence of absolute truth, an era in which emotional arousal through psychological manipulation draws more attention than ...