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  『 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 』 (Luke 16: 8-9) The unrighteous steward (the mammon) squandered the master's property by giving him a random exemption. But the owner sees this unrighteous steward and says, "Well done." To understand this parable, one must understand the characteristics of the characters. Master means God. So God wants to forgive the sinner's debt. In Matthew (verses 18: 23-35) there is the content of the debtor of 10,000 talents. A ruler owed the king ten thousand talents, and the king urged him to pay the debts, but because he was unable to pay them, the king felt pitiful and forgiven his debts. This officer withdrew from the king and went home and met a ...

    『 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 』 (2 Corinthians 5: 1-4) The tabernacle is the place of covenant meeting with God. Before the time of the law (the law of God's wrath), it was the tabernacle where Abraham met with God. God's hand-built house means the flesh. God made man from the dust. And God put Adam in the garden of Eden to eat the fruit of the tree of life. The spirit in Adam's body came to life and began to communicate with God. But because of human sin, the body became polluted, and the spirit became an inhabitable...

  『 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. 』 (Acts 2:47) Those who are to be saved are not saved. 『 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. 』 (Acts 2:41) Three thousand souls to be saved were added. The soul is not saved, but the spirit is saved. Simon, the magician who followed Philip, was also baptized in Jesus, but Peter said, "You are a man full of poison," because he did not repent. But the guard who kept the Philippi prison tortured Paul. One night the prison door opened and the guard found an open door and tried to commit suicide, but Paul stopped it. The guard was afraid of God. The guard asked Paul: "How shall I be saved?" Paul said to the guard: "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you and your house will be saved". Philippi's guard was a repentant. But Simon the magi...

  『 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 』 (1 Peter 1: 3-4) This is a letter from Peter to the Saints who lived in Catacombs. The saints were evacuating by digging caves in the mountains to avoid persecution. God is what Jesus Christ calls the Father. When we are in Jesus Christ, we too can call God the Father. Unless we repent and be born again, we cannot be in Jesus Christ. Peter had denied Jesus three times before he died. It is the image of the unrepentant. Today, many call God Father without repentance. Jesus Christ, who died on the cross, was not a king but a sinner. Why did the Son of God die on the cross because of God's curse? For God does not forgive sin. But Jesus is innocent. It is amazing that the ...

    『 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ , (by grace ye are saved;) 』 (Ephesians 2: 4-5)   From the birth of man, the spirit is dying because of original sin. Original sin includes both physical and spiritual things. As we know from the Bible, the original sin inherited from Adam is carnal. Carnal original sin is evil in the heart (sinity), and living in the world, it causes man to break God's Word and the laws of the world and to sin. But spiritual original sin is the sin of wanting to be like God. So humans forget God, oppose God, and worship idols. So we call these two original sins. Most church people say that the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is original sin, but spiritual original sin is the beginning of spiritual original sin when Satan wants to be like God in God's kingdom. Thus, all beings who follow Satan inherit a spiritual orig...

    『 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus : Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus . 』 (Romans 3: 24-26)   Today, many churches refer only to the latter part, omitting "By redemption in Christ Jesus." If people believe in Jesus, they say, "With God's grace, they are justified freely." Without redemption, there is no forgiveness of sins. However, people think: We are forgiven of our sins by the blood of Jesus. But God bought the repentant from Satan, paying the blood of Jesus. This is free grace. The price of sin is death. A sinner cannot escape from sin unless he dies. The sinner must pay the price. But God paid His Son for the repenta...