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Teachers’ Room – Middle-High School 중고등부 교사방
길, 진리, 그리고 생명 – Is Jesus really the Way for me? Continue reading
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Galatians 6.6–10 Let’s do it
Therefore, you do not judge people for what they used to be. You do not even judge yourself for what you used to be. If you sow your judgement, you will only get what springs up from it. But be changed in how you make your judgement because the Lord has changed the course already! Continue reading
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Galatians 6.1–5 Give me your bag
Then, who would dare carry someone else’s burden when you have enough of your own? – Under the old law, nobody. They were busy loading others while they themselves carried nothing (cf. Matt. 23:4; Luke 11:46). Continue reading
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Galatians 5.7–13 Slave again
it is Christ and his work that have freed you and continue to do so to be his, no matter what history or destiny you had. This might be a stumbling block to them, but not for us because it is the cornerstone, the foundation stone, of our faith’s hearing (that Christ transforms us completely… Continue reading
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Galatians 4:21–31 Of Woman but Free
Such ‘predestination’ and ‘foreknowledge’ only became valid for us and known to us in Christ, who took the trouble of transforming us from ‘of Hagar’ to ‘of Sarah’—still a woman, but whose name now represents the Spirit who freely gives birth to Abraham’s true, legitimate descendants through Christ. What grace that brings laughter! Continue reading
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Galatians 3.15–29 Excuse me, do you have faith?
We are too used to hearing it, but it is actually amazing and unbelievable. Thanks to the teacher-slave, who actually used to exist and whose duty was to bring the master’s children to and from school in the ancient days, we have safely arrived at the giving of the promise and the essence of faith—the… Continue reading
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Galatians 1 By Grace
Faith is given by grace. Grace precedes faith. God has grace in store for us even before we realise it with faith, just as the father waits for his son before even the prodigal begins to think of returning home Continue reading
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Philippians 4.15–23 Recognition
God’s glory is when God is shown as God, when his intention is realised, and when his desire is satisfied. Therefore, when we recognise each other in Christ, we glory God our Father, who fills our every need and holds us even tighter together as one body. Continue reading
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Philippians 3.15–21 Belonging
Our body seems weak, but the power of the head can transform even our faulty bodies (v. 21) from following our stomach (v. 19) to following the General Holy Spirit instead. How fortunate this is. Continue reading
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