On the surface, caves and tunnels are not much different. When you enter them, they are prisons. There is nowhere to get out. However, tunnels are dark and dark, and even deep underground caves have places to get out. We can live a life like a cave or a life like a tunnel. The trials of those who do not believe in God are large and small caves. That is why there is despair, frustration, and sadness. However, for those who believe in God, such caves can surely be turned into tunnels with exits. The exit is Jesus Christ.

1. the cause of the cave
Our lives are born in caves from birth. It is a cave of sin. Even if it is not a sin that we have committed ourselves, we are already in the cave of sin because our ancestors gave birth to us as sinners. And we never come out of the cave and die without the help of Jesus. There is also a cave of faults. People have a lot of faults. Today, many people, adults and children alike, struggle and face life breakdown in caves with faults such as game addiction. There is also a cave of disease. If one disease is cured, another disease will come, and if another disease is cured, life will constantly struggle in the cave of disease, and life will never be completely free from the disease. There is also a cave of poverty and frustration. Many people struggle to get out of the cave. Doesn't it look like yesterday when we were in a financial crisis, we used to exercise gold mosquitoes? Currently, countries in Europe, including Greece, are struggling to fall into the cave of the financial crisis and are at a loss. Who knows if the cave of the financial crisis will come again in the aftermath of Korea? Also, there is the most feared cave of death. When a person dies, they cannot come out any more. Once they enter the grave, they cannot come out. Once they enter the cave of death, they cannot come out. This is the tragedy of life that left God. Because Adam is disobedient to God, the foundation of life, he became a species of sin. From then on, all human beings struggle and end their lives in prisons called the Cave of Sin, the Cave of Tear, the Cave of Disease, the Cave of Poverty and Disappointment, and the Cave of Death.
When the Pacific War ended in 1945, General MacArthur, who led the war to victory, gave a famous speech in Tokyo. The closing part of the speech is very impressive: "The problem that the whole world is facing is the economic problem. The economic problem is the military problem. The military problem is the political problem. The political problem is the conscience problem of a politician. The conscience problem is the moral problem, and the moral problem is the problem of religion." General MacArthur said that since religion is at the root of all problems, conscience should be upright, and politics should be right in order to revive the economy in peace.
Longfellow, an American poet, wrote in his poem, "All crimes have heaven punishment in them and contain the seeds of pain." Religion is at the root of all problem solving, and when religion can only come out of crisis right away, establishing a religion right is trusting Jesus and establishing a conscience. Through the Lord, the door from the caves will be opened wide in our lives. We suffer and struggle in individuals, families, lives, and businesses because of the caves that cannot be left when we enter. We wander in a dark cave without knowing our way to go, struggle, suffer, resent, complain, sigh, and become bloody. However, if the door of the cave opens anywhere, it can become a tunnel. You thought you had entered a cave when you went down to downtown Seoul or the provinces by car, but if you go a long way, you will find a tunnel. There is an exit to the outside. If you call the name of Jesus, the cave must become a tunnel in Christ.
2. the sin of leaving God
The sins that left God were distrust and disobedience. All of this suffering we suffer now is because Adam and Hawah were distrustful and disobedient. Therefore, we have to drill an exit in this cave of distrust and disobedience. You have to drill an exit in the caves of death, the caves of sin, the caves of injustice, the caves of disease, the caves of curse, and the caves of despair. Then who will drill an exit in those caves? You cannot drill with human power. It is a really scary cave. To drill it, the Lord crucified it, his body was torn and he bled and suffered it. On the cross, the Lord pierced through sin while suffering indescribably hard pain. He pierced through pain. We pierced disease. The Lord made a tunnel for us. Don't say there is no hope. If you have a way in, there is a way out. From sin, there is a way out of disease, and there is a way out of curse. Jesus said, "I am the way, truth, and there is no way to come to God without me," and that is the door from the cave into the tunnel. No matter how much you enter the dark cave, when you call the name of Jesus Christ, the cave opens up in the name of Jesus Christ and becomes a tunnel. Therefore, don't forget that the cave turns into a tunnel with Jesus alone, whether you pass through the gloomy valley of the dark death or suffer from an enemy's attack. Therefore, we must not be discouraged. Jesus became the gateway to the tunnel of our lives like caves through the obedience that died on the cross.
Ambrosius, the famous father of the first church, warned of how dreadful the lust of the flesh was. "One thinks that the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of another life are not very powerful, but they have tremendous power. Samson could have killed the lion, but he could not. Samson was able to set fire to the barley field of his enemies, but he could not prevent their whole body from burning by the fire of the lust that a woman had set." Samson was a servant of God, a man who has pledged his devotion to God who has never shaved his head, and a man full of the richness of the Holy Spirit, but he was enslaved by lust and woman's temptation and was destroyed. When we leave God, the foundation of life, we become servants of the devil and the life that has left God falls in the midst of despair in a difficult cave. Humans are trapped in the cave of lust and cannot move. Even a great business like Samson could not move in front of lust. But we are grateful and happy to live a lifetime because there is hope in Christ according to Jesus Christ.
Even those who deserve to be sinned, unjust, ugly, and abandoned have no education, and even if they come from a country, if the Lord meets us and brings Jesus into my heart without discrimination, Jesus will be the way, truth, and life. Jesus is not guiding the way. Jesus does not teach the truth. Jesus does not guide the way to life, where there is life. Jesus himself is the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus himself is not the one who guides the way from cave to tunnel. Jesus himself is the one who turns any cave into a tunnel. At this time, if you serve Jesus, you will find a solution to our problems. The exit opens up in the cave and becomes a tunnel. In the cave where the road ahead is dark, a bright light shines through the tunnel exit. There is hope in Jesus. There is forgiveness in Jesus. There is health in Jesus. There is a blessing in Jesus. There is heaven in Jesus. This is what Christianity is like other religions. Another religion is, "Study more yourself. Be more disciplined. Clean up more." That's why tunnel the cave." But even if you try to twist your fingernails to death, you won't be able to drill an exit and turn it into a tunnel. We can't, on our own. But in all other religions, we are told to drill on our own. "More discipline and ethics!" But how hard is it for a weak human to cultivate and morality?
3. in order to follow Christ
Jesus believed and obeyed God's commands, and by dying on the cross, he tunneled all of our caves of despair. Therefore, we must meet Christ in the cave of death in this world. Not without Jesus. We must meet Jesus. He says in Hebrew 11:6, "Without faith, we cannot please God, but he who moves toward God must believe in his presence and also in his presence to those who seek him." The Lord is here to give us an award, not to give us pain. Therefore, today we need to know that the Lord is the God who gives us the reward we need. I sincerely hope to have an image of Jesus, a good image of Jesus who gives us the reward.
How can I trust and obey? To trust and obey is to look at the cross, go under the cross, and take off your shoes. I must entrust everything in my life under the cross and hold in my heart the blessing you have given me in the Lord's cross. I have a dream of God's grace that is given through the cross with the thoughts of the Gospel of Five through the cross filled in my heart. You have to have a dream that is good for everything and strong as if your soul were good, and believe that your life will be good no matter how terrible, difficult, and painful I am in the present. You must shout "I will do it if you believe!" and face a better tomorrow with faith and confess your lips. In this way, you must believe and live obediently as the Lord wishes. The Lord's crucifixion is to give peace in this world and restoration in the afterlife through the hardships of the cross. It's not to give up on this world. This is not the Lord's will to "give up the world and go into the afterlife and live well." The Lord's will is the relief of this world and the restoration of the afterlife. The Lord's crucifixion is to give us eternal rest in the afterlife. In this world, we have liquidated our sins, liquidated our faults, liquidated our diseases, liquidated our curses, gave the afterlife eternal rest, gave us citizenship in heaven, and gave us eternal rest. Therefore, the first thing in Christ is that the soul is prosperous, and secondly, all the people of the country are prosperous and strong. If you believe and obey, we will receive such blessings and blessings from the Lord.
4. Follow the example of Christ
Now we must follow Christ's example. We ourselves cannot change our character. We are meant to live according to our innate character when we are born. But there is something that can change. Personality is one thing that can be changed by one's efforts. Personality can be changed by one's own efforts. In James 1:2 verse 4, it is written, "My brothers, be absolutely glad that you are tested in various ways. Achieve complete patience because you know that the ordeal of your faith creates perseverance. What we go through is to learn faith through trials. It is to learn the character of faith. When an ordeal comes, faith grows and faith receives its platform and gains strength. Just as it is recorded in Corinthians 4:10, "The life of Jesus is also to appear in our bodies," if we join him in his death, we will also join him.
Jesus Death If we participate in the hardships of my death, Jesus Resurrection, and Jesus Christ's death, the life of Jesus will also appear to us. Therefore, if you join the crucifixion of Jesus, the glory of resurrection will come to us. Suffering must bring blessings beyond that, and through suffering, the history of life approaches and brings change to us. Look back. Personal change has come to us through hardship, but only a few have come from cultivating and cultivating morality. When we go through hardship, it is painful, but through various hardships, great glory is achieved in our lives. Therefore, hardship is not necessarily harmful to us. Various hardships bring us more blessings than that. When hardship approaches, God sets the table in front of it. God sets the table in front of the enemy. Faith, hope, love, righteousness, peace, joy, all kinds of wisdom, intelligence, and power are poured out by God's blessing, which no one can easily experience. You pour oil in front of the enemy there, succeed in everything you do, and make it overflow. The enemy comes to us and traps us in a cave, but Jesus tunnels the cave so that we can go out and have greater success. As a result, when we experience hardship, we realize our distrust and disobedience, so hardship is beneficial.
Psalm 91:14:16 also says, "God said, I will raise him because he loved me; I will raise my name; I will ask him to answer; I will be with him when they are in trouble, and I will find him and make him a movie. I will satisfy him by making him live a long life and show him my salvation." When you find God, good things will happen. When you find God, you save, raise, respond, make him movies, and give him longevity. In this way, God wants us to give him good things, so find him. Therefore, when you find God, maturity and change of faith come. If you move on to God, you will surely change. How can we not resemble God if we meet a good man and if we meet a good man, our disciples become good people and if our friends are good people, we meet God and spend more time with him?
Corinthians 4:16:18 "So we are not discouraged. Our outsiders are old, but our inner people are renewed day by day. What we receive for a while is not what we see, but what we see is what we see, what is seen is what is seen, what is seen is eternity." We generally live in the visible world, seventy, and eighty, if robust. But the invisible world is eternal and eternal. It is through hardship that we are changed and mature today in order to enter the invisible world and receive glory, honor, and praise. Therefore, the hardships we face in this land for a while make us achieve the most important things of eternal glory.
Through the tunnel of hardship, the more you are trained to imitate Christ, the more faith you will grow, hope, and love you will live a life of serving God and your neighbors. The more you pass through hardship, the more you will grow in character of faith, desire, love, righteousness, peace, and joy. And as you pass through the brooding valley of death, through the growing personality and ability, it becomes a tool that God preciously uses. Therefore, do not avoid the caves that come into our lives, but pass through them with Jesus. The brooding valley of death is a cave. "When passing through the brooding valley of death, what you will not fear is a cave together," the Bible writes. But Jesus is our tunnel. Jesus is the tunnel from the cave of sin. It is the tunnel out of our poor behavior, the tunnel through disease, and the tunnel through poverty. It is also the tunnel through which we pass through the prison of death. There are no more prisons like caves to trap us in Jesus. In Jesus, every cave becomes a tunnel and the door opens. We have a wide open door. He is saying, "For Christ has given you freedom to free you, so stand firm in faith and never again be in the yoke of a servant." We are no longer servants. We are free men. Jesus opened the door to freedom on the cross. He became a free man who gained freedom from sin, freedom from disease, freedom from curses, and freedom from death. We pray in the name of the Lord that through the tunnel we gain faith, desire, love, righteousness, peace, and pleasure, and hold Jesus stronger, hold on to the soul better, stronger, stronger, and more life-filled, always full of all good things.
-Prayers-
My beloved Father, God! Thank you for sending us Jesus Christ and tunneling all the caves we suffer in our daily lives because they suffer on our behalf. Thank you for growing your soul and being strong every time we leave the tunnel. Thank you for the change in our character. Thank you for always being with us, our way out, and for being truthful.
I pray in the name of Jesus.
Aman!
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