[영어예배설교 / English Sermon] The power of God's Word

[영어설교 / English Sermon] The power of God's Word  

 

   

 

 

The power of God's Word

 

Dear Father,

Please cover me with your Holy Spirit so that only your word may be proclaimed. Open our hearts so that we may hear your living word and receive your grace.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen

 
There was an alcoholic who was living a miserable life. One day somebody gave a Bible to his wife who converted to a Christian while reading the Bible where she found the comforts and treated the Bible as her jewel. However, her husband was laughing at his wife's newly found faith in God.

One day, this drunken husband came home and got hold of his wife's Bible and threw in the fire place and said 'Lets see what happen to the Bible.'

Following day, while he was cleaning out the fire place he noticed the some piece of Bible which has escaped the fire. That happens to be the part of Matthew chapter

24, verse 35 which said "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." He was so surprised to find himself  how this verse stuck in his mind.

This is how the will of God works. This husband felt the deep guilt on his behavior and started to walk toward the path to the spiritual salvation.

Like this story, God's Words have been  living and active in the past, present and future. The Words of God forced a person who threw Bible to the fire and laugh at

his wife's faith in God to put his knees to the ground and lead him to the repentance and salvation.

Hebrews 4:12

 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts

and attitudes of the heart.
 

I pray and hope that the Word of God we receive today inspire your spirit, soul and body to lead you towards the road to eternal life.

John 1:1

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
 

What is the meaning of Word?.

Who's Word is it?.

The Word is from Jesus Christ who was there at the beginning of the universe and He was there with God and Jesus is God.

And Jesus who is God himself descended to this world with the image of a human being. The Word transformed to the physical being and showed us the glory of God who is the truth and full of grace.

Nobody saw God, however He sent His only Son Jesus Christ to show us the spirit of  God and gave us the privilege to become God's children whoever believes in His name and honor Him. Hallelujah!.

 
John 1:12,14,18

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

The word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

No one ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

 
I believe everybody gathered here to worship God deserves to be the image of God as He intended in the beginning of His creation by believing in Jesus and follow His way and His spirit.

Then, let us share our thoughts about the relationship between Christian and God's Words.

First, Christians want to be able to bear the beautiful fruits.
 

Matthew 7:19

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

 

By the grace of Christ our sins are forgiven and our lives are saved. However, we are living in weak and sinful flesh. We can not overcome our physical weakness by ourselves. Satan is a fallen angel who puts himself against everything that God stands for.

Satan also has his own spiritual power.

Only way to escape from the spiritual temptation of Satan is to have the full faith in Jesus who was victorious over the power of Satan, resurrected and ascended to the heaven and sit on the heavenly throne.

 
Although our weak flesh is the easy target for Satan, all Christians who believe in Jesus Christ will have the protection of Holy spirit which will push out Satan's evil

power and temptation and lead us to the eternal life. This is how we be able to bear the beautiful fruits with the help from the Holy God. The ability to bear beautiful fruits come from ' God's Words'.

In the name of God I pray and hope that everybody here , through the Words of God and by Holy spirit, will live the life of bearing beautiful fruits.

 
Luke 8:11

This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the Word of God.

1 Peter 1:23

For you have been born gain, not of perishable seed but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring Word of God.

 

My dear brethren and sisters!.

We are here by the grace of God. By God's grace we believe Jesus is our Savior and we treasure His Words and desire to live by His Words.

We thank and praise God whose astounding love towards us for Him to sent His only Son to death to save us. God's overwhelming love and grace lead us to gather here to praise and worship Him.

Second, we Christians want to overcome all those filthy thoughts and selfish and conceited behavior.

How can we eliminate those intermittent filthy thoughts from our mind?.

How can we free from the debilitating anger, accusation, lust and all kinds of addictions?.

How can we clear out those undesirable thoughts from our mind?.

How can we free from all those anxiety, fear, all sorts of sadness and other innumerable unclean thoughts which depress us and walking all over us?.
 

Jeremiah 23:29

 "Is not my word like fire," declares the Lord, "and like hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?.
 

As the Scripture said the God's Words will remain deeply in our minds and help us to overcome all those filthy thoughts in our minds which are keeping us suffer.

And God's Words will bring us the freedom, peace and happiness by help us to defeat and overcome the endless suffering from the deep sorrows, sinful thoughts, anger, all kinds of addictions due to the weak mind and the life of slave to sins.

God is omnipotent and almighty. His living Words with Holy spirit will free us from the control of Satan and evil spirit.

Let us ask for the God's grace and His Holy Spirit.

Only God can give us the true freedom.

Only our strong faith to Jesus Christ will lead us to the path to the eternal life.

 
Hebrews 4:12

For the Word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

 
Psalm 19:7

The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple.

 
God's word is alive and well and active. He will restore our weak and empty spirit. He will save us from the oppression and control. He will heal us from the pain and sufferings. He will help us to escape from the sorrows and dark world. Hallelujah!!.
 

Let us praise our living God.

Let us praise our Lord who protects and helps us from all those adversities. Let us praise our Lord who allows us to have the eternal life of living.

Let us praise Him altogether now. We praise God who saves us and allows us to have the new life.

Dear Lord!!. Please uphold us with your strong arms. Please helps us to free from the dark and grieving soul which makes us to suffer. Help us to soar over the storm with You and enjoy the peace You allowed us to have.

Lead us to love You no matter what pain and suffering we are under.  Please have Your love cover us from all those adversities.

 

Still
 

hide me now

under Your wings.

Cover me

Within Your mighty hand.

 

When the oceans rise and thunders roar

I will soar with You above the storm.

Father You are king over the flood

I will be still, know You are God.

 
Find rest my soul

In Christ alone

know His power

in quietness and trust

 
When the ocean rise and thunder roar

I will soar with You above the storm

Father You are king over the flood

I will be still, know You are God (x2)
 

Find rest my soul

In Christ alone

know His power

in quietness and trust

 

When the ocean rise and thunder roar

I will soar with You above the storm

Father You are king over the flood

I will be still, know You are God (2x)

 
 

Let us pray.

Heavenly Father,

We praise God who saved us and allowed us to have an new life. Please hold us with Your strong arms. Please protect us from the oppressive sorrows and darkness. Please allow us to enjoy the God given peace while soaring above the storm with You.

Please lead us to love You under however the painful adversity we are in, and have Your love cover all those things.

 

We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.