9-8 임걸 목사 설교(영문번역)
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- 13-09-10 01:26
9월 8일 금문교회 주일예배 설교
설교자: 임걸 목사
번역 & 통역: 조명인 Title: Help me overcome my unbelief! (Mark
9:16-27; 1 Samuel 17:41-49)
Matthew 13:44: “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden
in a field.”
We, the people of God, have the single greatest treasure- faith in Jesus. There
is nothing that this world can offer us that’s worth trading for our faith in
Jesus. Do you understand the value of this treasure? Isknowing Jesus worth selling
all that you have?Have you maybe forgotten or lost its value?
II. 1. 믿음이 자녀를 살리고 나를 살린다. FAITH SAVES
In today’s passage, the boy’s father said, “I do
believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” Then what happened? A miracle- the
demon left the boy at Jesus’ command. If you want salvation for your children,
your family, yourself… believe in the
Creator God. Believe in Jesus the
Savior. Sincerely, genuinely believe.
Whatever the situation might be, it’s a matter
of having faith. Just like this father did here before Jesus, confess: “I
believe!” And when it gets hard to believe, because it will, bring that before
the Lord and say “Help me overcome my unbelief!” Pray to Him, cry out to Him-[what’s
important is not how strong your faith is, but whoit is in.]Then you will see salvation and freedom in your
family, in your children, in your own life.
(example1: When I first came to US, I was
physically, mentally, spiritually, a mess. I kept thinking- I was serving
faithfully and praying earnestly- why does my life still look like this?The
answer was that my faith was weakening.Dwindling.
Breaking. And because my faith, which should be my foundation, was failing, everything
I did– prayer, service- just became work.
So I prayed to God :” God give me faith like a
diamond- give me a faith as solid as a diamond rock in my heart.”
And THAT’S when I started feeling revived. Alive.
I wasn’t dying because of my circumstances;I was
dying from lack of faith.
Life in US is so hard to manage. Many people are
struggling physically, mentally and spiritually... But will your money/
education/ work/ position/ EFFORT… Will THESE THINGS BRING SALVATION TO YOUR
SOUL, YOUR PARENTS, SPOUSES, OR CHILDREN’S SOULS?
They won’t!
People sometimes say: “If I believe in Jesus is
he going to make me food and pay my bills?”
I would
say, “Yes! In fact if you believe in Jesus you get something far more valuable
than food.”
There’s nothing that this world has that can give
life to someone who is dying. The only thing that saves from death is faith in
Jesus. Faith in the living God.
Is your soul, is your mind, wasting away?
It’s because we lack faith.
If you have faith, you will live. Faith saves. Faith is what gives us
life. That’s why faith is the most precious treasure in this world.
In the midst of the challenges and difficulties
we face in our lives, it’s not more money, more time, more support that’s going
to save us- FAITH is going to save us.
Consider Abraham! Abraham was a wanderer his
entire life- he had no control over where he was going or how he was getting
there- What did he need the most? Faith. God didn’t establish him as a
man of love or a man of hope but a man of
faith.What we need to seek is this kind of FAITH. Because, again, FAITH is
what saves.
2. 세상을 이기는
가장 강력한 무기는 믿음FAITH WINS The one that truly has strength is the one that
has faith in God.Doesn’t matter how tall or short, how experienced or
inexperienced, educated or uneducated…
The one that truly has strength is the one that
has faith in the Lord.
Between David and Goliath, Goliath clearlylooked
more powerful externally. But even in the unlikeliest of situations, the one
that fights in name of God, like David did,emerges victorious. (hymnal
lyric:Faith is the victory, faith is the victory, oh glorious victory, that
overcomes the world)
The point of today’s message is this- We will overcome, we will be victorious… but
only by faith in God.
Every day people get hurt, pained, scarred-
there are so many that last year, one of the most popular themes in Korean TV showswas
“healing.” There’s that much hurt and pain in the world. But WHY do we get hurt
so much and so easily? It’s because we lack faith.We aren’t solid like a
diamond in our faith in God, so we just keep getting hurt, getting scarred, by
the hardships in this world. We lose sleep over a hurtful word by another
person…
I mean, why are we so weak? Because our
FAITH is.
Now, howdoeshaving faith mean not getting hurt?
Ephesians
6:16 “In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can
extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.”
SHIELD OF FAITH!!! 비난 (criticism) 과 악의 (malice)- what overcomes these is the shield of faith.
When God called the prophet Ezekiel from among
the stubborn Israelites, what did he promise? “I will make your forehead like
the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by
them, though they are a rebellious house (3:9).”
Look, humans are weak. We’re limited. Just like
that we become tired, we fall, we get tempted, we get frustrated…
So when God still calls us to proclaim His word…
and people persecute us, criticize us and insult us. Many of us will
be disappointed and just want to give up being a messenger of God.
Now, God knows this. That’s why in Ezekiel 3:9
God promises to grow their faith. He told him “I will protect you. I will make
your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. “ He made Ezekiel’s
faith strong as a diamond, so that all threat, terror, insult will bounce
right off the shield of faith. Again, the one that truly has strength is the
one that has faith.
(example: Gideon’s 300 soldiers story.
When God selected 300 people, how did he select
them? Did he choose the most muscular? Tallest? Smartest?No, God selected
those that had FAITH. And he sent home those that didn’t. So by the
end of this, there were only 300 soldiers left… and with those 300 that HAD
FAITH IN GOD, Gideondefeated over thousands that didn’t. What’s the lesson here?
FAITH is our greatest weapon, and it’s when we are equipped with it that we are
our strongest.
Do you fear this world? Do you fear people? If
you do, that’s because you don’t have faith. How can we be courageous in front
of our enemies? How can we face trials and tribulations with
confidence? Faith. Trusting in who God is. I hope this week each of
you will live in a way that declares victory through faith in God.
3. 믿음이 하나님을
기쁘게 한다. FAITH PLEASES GOD
(Hebrew 11:6 “Without faith it is impossible to
please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and
that he rewards those who earnestly seek him)
One of the worst feelings is being distrusted by
someone else- it’s almost insulting, like “what! I’m not like that!”But you
know what-we do the same to God.We were born with nothing, and yet until this
very moment He’s provided food and clothing, He’s guided us to where we are
now, He’s forgiven us of all of our past present future sins, protected our
families, allowed us to even breathe the air we’re breathing now… But with our
worries, our distrust, our lack of faith in who God is, we never fail to
insult, belittle God.
As Christians, we are distinct. We’re set apart.
We HAVE to be. What separates us is the fact that we don’t live to please
ourselves, we live to “glorify God.” To glorify Him is to pleaseHim.
Now, how do we please God? How do we do that? Do
we do it by sacrificing thousands of oxen, lambs and goats like they did in the
Old Testament? Or by givingthe most money during offering time?Do we please God
by fasting every week, going to every morning prayer? No! It’s very simple: Hebrews 11 says FAITH. Trusting in God.
Absolute, uncompromised Faith. Faith when we’re diagnosed with terminal
illness, faith when facing death, faith in the midst of financial hopelessness,
faith when we lose the people we love most…
That kind of faith is what pleases God, and when
we align our hearts to the purpose of glorifying God, every worldly concern, worldly
problem, is overcome, because they mean nothing.
III. Do you have faith?
Do you maybe think that you have faith, but actually
don’t? And you find yourself being easily hurt, easily discouraged, easily
worried?The problem might not be with your circumstance, but with your faith. Have
you overlooked or forgotten the most important thing in this world? Have you
prayed earnestly and sincerely, not for God Himself, but for other unimportant,
and ultimately temporary things?
We need to seek and ask for what really MATTERS.
FAITH, that SAVES, FAITH that gives STRENGTH, FAITH that actually PLEASES and
GLORIFIES GOD.
THAT’S how we can live in the boldness and joy
that the Bible promises us.
If you don’t have this kind of faith, can we humble
ourselves before the Lord and ask Him “Help me overcome my unbelief!”
God will answer our prayer. He will give
us faith like a diamond.
Remember the last words of Joshua.(in Joshua
24:15: “If serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for
yourselves this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my household, we
will serve the LORD.” That was Joshua’s declaration- can we do the same and
declare today that we will not put our trust in the world,but in God who
created it?
One of the things that makes God the saddest is a
lack of faith. If we’re going to believe in Him, let’s REALLY believe the
fullness of WHO HE IS.
(Example 3: For I
have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me.” That line that we
sing has to be a declaration and confession of our hearts, not just a song! I
pray and hope that our faith will not be a weak in thehardships of the world,
but strong in the truth of God our Father.
Some of us have heard the
story of David and Goliath that it really just becomes that- a story. But
it’s not just a storyabout the past; it’s relevant TRUTH- and what’s the lesson?
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