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Who is valuable?

August 11, 2022

Just went out to find out vegetable! My garden should be the messiest place in the whole community, because I didn't tidy up at all, and I don't want to tidy up! Why don't I want to tidy up? The correct popular answer is: I am lazy! But I really don't know how to organize it, and I know that God created everything for good! There are no flowers in my garden, and there are some plants that are not helpful to me, those that are inedible, but isn't it bad for inedible plants? Are plants that cannot be eaten useless? Of course not! God created all things, all things are good! Everything is useful! There is no animal or plant in this world that is useless! Are the plants we can't eat just waste? Many insects we call pests, but either our pests are not good for the world? Of course not!

The real problem in this world is from the greed of people! Man's greed began in Genesis, but man's greed has never changed! Because of greed, people divide people into 369 grades and treat them in different ways! You are not helping me, you are not good for me, you are inferior! The same goes for animals and plants! Insects can become food for birds, but insects are not beneficial to humans, so insects become pests in the eyes of humans! Humans are truly the most greedy animals in the world! Humans use all means to eliminate the animals and plants they do not like. Humans have never thought that animals and plants are created by God, and they all have their own values ​​that must exist. No one can deny any animals and plants, including human beings. Some vulnerable groups and the elderly, we are not qualified to deny everything! Ancient emperors had many concubines, this is greed! Why do emperors have so many concubines? Because emperors often indulge in indulgence and lose their sexual ability! They always want new women to provoke their desires, and if they can't provoke their desires, they will be thrown into the cold palace! This is the "greed" of human standards!

(Philemon 1:11) Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: ~ Philemon has only one chapter, which is interesting! This is what Paul wrote to Philemon. Philemon was the master of Onesimus. Because Onesimus served Paul and Paul preached the gospel to him, he believed in the Lord! Paul told Philemon: Before Onesimus was a slave, now Onesimus is a brother! So let Philemon treat Onesimus like a brother! I find it interesting that Paul uses the word "benefit"! Why was it not good for Philemon to treat a slave to Onesimus. But what if Onesimus believed God to be a brother would benefit Philemon instead? Onesimus became a slave, of course, it was beneficial to the master. When Onesimus became a brother, Philemon could not treat Onesimus as a slave. Reasonably said: Philemon has one less a servant! Like me, when I'm not a Christian my values ​​are completely different from Christian values! And my "benefit" is what I said at the beginning ~ the animals and plants that can't help me, can't be eaten by me, can't be used by me are all pests and are useless! My "benefits" are people and things that help me!

After becoming Christians, our most important change is ~values! I don't know what kind of gospel the Christians in this world are preaching? Because chatting with my dad today, I am still very disappointed in his values! Christians often say: We want to preach the gospel, we need to preach the good news! I would like to ask Christians what is the gospel? What is good news? Why are there more and more Christians in the world, but the world is getting more and more corrupt? Because we are all preaching the wrong gospel and we are all misinterpreting the Bible! We are all using the theory of the world, we are never really "evangelizing"! Take a lot of courses lately! These courses are not difficult for me, but I really don't want to learn, because they are all the way to learn the world! A wolf in sheep's clothing, is it a lamb? A wolf in sheep's clothing is always a wolf! Educating Christians with the world's theories will only make more Christians follow the devil! You really don't know what the gospel is and what the good news is!

The "gospel" is that we have a new master. We used to worship Money, but now I have changed masters. We are the same as Onesimus. We used to be slaves of "money", but now we don't have to be slaves of "money" ! This is what Paul wanted Philemon to see. In the past we only saw immediate benefits, but now we become Christians to see the benefits of eternal life! Onesimus became Philemon's slave, which could meet Philemon's needs in this life, because Philemon had slaves to use, but Onesimus became a brother, and became Philemon's eternal blessing! "Gospel" is an improvement of values! Our "evangelism" is to spread a kind of improvement of values, not to make people's eyes or to stay in this life, in this life, we will always be slaves of Money!

Why can we evangelize? Because we got "good news"! What is "good news"? The good news is that we have the hope of eternal life! We have a master who created the universe, but he was willing to die for our sins, he died for our sins, and he has prepared a heavenly home for us in heaven! Therefore, our hope of eternal life is not because of what we do, but because God accepts Jesus' sin offering and is willing to give us the opportunity to be reconciled with God, and we all have the hope of eternal life! We have the hope of eternal life, we need to improve our values, because we have changed masters, we are no longer slaves of money, because money has never died for us, and money will not give us the hope of eternal life! If we don't get good news, we don't change the master, what gospel are we preaching? We are still slaves to money, can we preach the gospel? We have no hope of eternal life, why should we preach the gospel?

Therefore, we must first get the "good news", the good news is that we have a master in heaven, who has redeemed us with his precious blood, and has prepared a place for us to live forever! We want to "evangelize" because we have to tell everyone that our values ​​are no longer the same! Because we changed the master, what our values ​​see is the value of eternal life! Not the value that the world sees in this life! So "evangelism" is to preach new "values"! We are no longer slaves to money, we are God's people, we are people with the hope of eternal life! This is the value of a true Christian! What really makes a difference in being a Christian is ~values! Because we have changed owners! My master is no longer "money", and we were slaves to money from birth, and now we have changed to become the children of the Father! Christians will always have the hope of eternal life, because Abba Heavenly Father loves us!