the brooding valley of death and spiritual warfare

Where there is distrust and disobedience, where there is sin, there is a brooding valley of death. After Adam, everyone was born into the world, the valley of death, and they struggled through it, before falling into hell, the valley of ultimate death. Shakespeare, the world-renowned playwright born in England, said, "Anxiety is in the sky, and on this earth we live, there is only anxiety, anguish and sighing." Henry David Sorrow, an American thinker, said of life, "Most people live their lives in still despair," and Thomas Fuller, an English priest, also said, "A man is born crying with screams, and he lives with pain, and eventually dies in despair."

As a result of Adam's depravity, there is no way for humans to escape the three catastrophes of spiritual death, environmental curses, and physical death on the earth. Jesus was born into this world as a man to save those suffering in the Valley of Death, and lived a righteous life with absolute faith and absolute obedience to God. He also became a sin offering for us on the cross, defeated death and the devil, revived, and became an eternal savior. That's how Jesus was the source of hope for us.
 

1. No harm done

There are many good things in this world, but life only breaks pride when it passes through the valley of death to realize human powerlessness. God's history is in it. When suffering, people are broken and think of God, and they realize their weakness and incompetence, and they are repentant, repentant, and walk the way into faith. Therefore, when pain comes, it opens a path of great blessing for us in the future. If a man is not in pain, he will not be broken. Hitting a hard stone with a head is to break it, but you cannot break it by hitting a rock with your fist, not with a head. Therefore, in Acts 16:18, it is recorded that "principle of defeat, and the arrogant mind is the forehand of falling." In Acts 5:5:7, "Young people, obey the elders and bend their backs with humility. God will deal with the arrogant, but humility will give grace to the humble. Therefore, when the time comes, he will raise your concerns to the LORD, for he will take care of you." In other words, God sometimes confronts us to break our pride.

So what should we do when we pass through the Valley of Death? No one in history has beaten death. After death, Jesus was the only one who was resurrected after kicking the door of the tomb. Therefore, we must find Jesus as we pass through the Valley of Death. The resurrected Jesus ascended to heaven after saying, "Chew up! I will always be with you until the end of the world," and is still with us through the Holy Spirit with air. He is also here right now. But he never appears unless we desperately look for him. Therefore, during times of pain and suffering, we have to look for Jesus even harder. Breaking a person is really hard and painful. Some people are easily broken, but those who are stubborn are not. Therefore, hardship and pain are precious blessings that come to us, make us obey the Lord, and make us believe in the Lord.

Psalm 23 Verse 4 states, "Even if I travel in the brooding valley of death, it is the Lord who will not be afraid of the sun that is with me. Lead the sheep and lead them to the grass of hope and the water, and the stick is what stops lions or bears from coming. In the brooding valley of death, the world, the cross of Jesus becomes our stick and our cane. Through the cross, the Lord leads us on the path of hope. When we sin and deserve to be unjust, ugly, and abandoned, the bitter water of sin and fire, ugliness and curse, despair and death runs through the cross of the Lord. Therefore the cross's cane is the one that leads us to hope. It is the hope of forgiveness and righteousness from sin, hope of becoming spiritual and holy from injustice, hope of healing and health from the curse of disease and death, hope of recovery from defeat and despair, and hope of eternal life from eternal death. And the cross, your stick, is what protects us. You have become my refuge, my fortress, the God who commissions you because you are our refuge and our strength through the cross. Therefore we have hope. Because Jesus died on the cross on our behalf. He has cleared our despair on the cross. Therefore, we can have hope even if we come in the midst of despair today. Because Jesus is with us. We have not come to believe in religion. We have not come to practice our rituals. We have come to get hope. Then you have come to the right place. Jesus is the source of hope.
 
Psalm 138:7:8 "Even though I am in trouble, the Lord will make me alive, and your hand will be stretched out to prevent the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand will save me. For you will make amends for me, Yahweh. Do not throw away what you have built with your hands because your mercy is eternal," and Isaiah 43:1:3 "Jacob, the creator of you, says now, Do not be afraid, O Israel, because I have arrested you, and I have appointed you to call you, for you are mine. When you cross the river, the water will not sink you; when you pass through the middle of the water, it will not burn you when you pass through the middle of the fire. For I am Yahweh your God, the holy one of Israel, because I am your savior, I have given you Egypt as your flesh, and goose and chubbah as your place."

God, who built heaven and earth, will not let the water sink when we pass the water and burn when we cross the river, and keep the flame from going against you. It means that even if we are in trouble, they will protect us. Who do we love like this? It is not because we are well or because we are bound by our good service to God, but because God knew us beforehand and loved us, he arrested us and named us. It is an honor to be called by the president of a country, the king of heaven, the king of heaven, the king of the world, and the Lord God of Manchuria said, "Did I nominate you and call you mine?" How honored are you? Who do we belong to? It belongs to God. It belongs to God, who lived with the blood of Jesus the poisonous creature. That is why God considers us so precious to us that we are together when we pass through the water, not to flood, not to burn when we pass through the fire, and not to let flames go against us.

2. a spiritual war

Psalm 23 verse 5 describes a spiritual war that is written, "The LORD has prepared me a table in the presence of my enemy and poured oil on my head. From birth, we are suffering from the oppression of the devil who rules the world. Living in this world is a spiritual war in itself. The devil does not leave around us with the ghosts, but watches over us, stealing, killing, and destroying them. But God provides us with a table of grace to give us the power to resist the devil when it comes. Therefore, do not be afraid of the enemy. You must know that when the enemy comes, God will prepare us the table. There is no feast in the absence of an enemy, but when the enemy comes, the table is served. God does not just provide the table, but he poured oil on our heads with the Holy Spirit, allowing us to take care of our families, conduct business, and live our lives with the power of the Holy Spirit rather than with our strength, resulting in successful eventually. When the Holy Spirit comes, the success of our lives is guaranteed. Therefore, when the enemy comes, God sends us the Holy Spirit to succeed. That's why we usually say that hardship brings blessings equal to or greater than that hardship. Suffering is the weapon brought by the enemy, and therefore when the enemy comes, grace will surely come and the Holy Spirit will come with him to make us successful. When the Holy Spirit blows in life, you succeed in anything. The whole world is faced by evil, but we belong to God, and the enemy devil moves around to find those to swallow, but God provides us with food and oil to win. Therefore, there is no need to be afraid. God provides us with a table of grace to gain the strength to fight and win against the devil's attack. We must know that when the devil's attack comes, God's grace will also come.
 
As written in verse 2:9 of the Corinthian Book, "Everything God has prepared for those who love him has not been seen by the eyes, heard by the ears, and thought with the human mind. Only God has shown this to us by the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit knows everything, that is, the deep things of God." When the enemy comes, the Holy Spirit comes, shows us the way to success, shows us the way to win, and shows us the path of true happiness. When the enemy comes like this, God sends us the Holy Spirit in front of the enemy to show us all this reserve, so he allows us to bless him. Therefore, do not be lamented and discouraged when the enemy comes. When the enemy comes, good things happen to us.
 

3. Good God

In Psalm 23:6, he writes, "Goodness and kindness will surely follow me throughout my life, and I will forever save Yahweh's house." To be good is to say something good. The word good God, good God, is a great comfort to us. When I pioneered the church in Bulgwang-dong, it was really cold at heart, cold in body, and cold in life. I set up a tent church and laid a bag, but there were no five Christians and no annals. So the table was always empty. The dragonfly was always cold and shivering. I was discouraged at every service. At that time, the truth that the Holy Spirit of God told me was the voice of "God is good God." Even if you are in the tent, you are a good God, and even if you worship on a tent, you are a good God, and even if you meet an empty table, you are a good God. Therefore, the voice of "Think of and appreciate a good God. God is a good God" was very comforting to my heart. Because I realized the conviction and confession that "God is a good God, good things will happen to me in the end," I went to a poor, naked, and hungry person and told him, "God is a good God." If you believe in God, good things will happen in the end. As a result, look at Korea. In the 60s, a country that was poor, naked, and hungry and receiving aid from foreign countries became such a prosperous country in 60 years. It happened because less than 1 million believers in the 60s reached 10 million in 50 years, and more people met the good God. Therefore, we all want to confess loudly, "God is a good God."

Psalm 84:11 states, "Jahwe God does, He will give grace and movies and spare good things to those who do it honestly." God, who gives good things without sparing them, is a good God. Bad demons give us bad things, steal, kill and destroy us. The case of Job in the Bible shows how evil he is. The devil came to God and condemned Job, took away all his property overnight, killed his children, and made his beloved friends come and attack him. Job was truly beleaguered and in a miserable situation standing at the head of a hundred chukkandu. Nothing good happened. Nevertheless, Job said that he would thank God in the situation and not give up his faith. That's what we need to have. That's the real faith. Job ended up living a glorious life with a greater blessing later than before.

King Nebuchadnezzar warned Daniel's three friends, Sadrak, Mesak, and Abetnego, that if they did not bow to their idols while they were taken prisoner by Babylon, they would throw them to death. Then, in Daniel 3:17:18 they answered boldly, "If there is a God we serve, he will lift us out of the raging grasslands and from the hands of the king. Even if you don't, king, we will not serve the king's gods and we will not bow to the king's god of gold." This is the "faith of death." So, in the end, Sadrak, Mesak, and Abetnego were tied up and thrown into the grass, and Jesus Christ was present between the three of them, preventing the flame from buying them. If we come out with that kind of faith, God will rise from the throne. You can never stand still. Good God gives good things, gets life, but gains in abundance.
 
John 10:10 writes, "The only thing that comes is to steal, kill, and destroy. What I have come to is to obtain life from sheep and to obtain more abundance." No matter how much people criticize and suffer, we should not listen to Jesus because he said he came to obtain life from sheep and to obtain more abundance. In Genesis 1, he said that the world created by God was good to see. Therefore, it is good to have God with you even now. Good things will surely happen if you serve Jesus Christ as your savior and God becomes our father. Please believe that good things always happen in Christ. Therefore, in Rome 8:28, "All we know and those who love God, who are called according to his will, will join forces to achieve good."

As Psalm said, the world itself is a valley of death and a spiritual battlefield, but because Jesus is with us all the time, it becomes a good thing in the end. Therefore, "Jahe is my shepherd. He lies on the green grass and guides me to restful waters. He revives my soul and leads me to righteousness for my name. Even if I travel in the gloomy valley of death, the LORD will not be afraid of the sun: He will be with me, and your cane and stick will not be safe for me. My cup is full of oil, for you have rewarded me in the face of my enemies and poured oil on my head. Recite Psalm 23 times a day, saying, "Good will and compassion will surely follow me throughout my life, and I will save Yahweh's house forever." You don't know how good promises are in them. Wherever we go in this world, there is bound to be fear, fear, and pain. There are always anxiety, anxiety, and fear. We cannot beat this on our own. That is why waves blow and wind blow in our hearts. Among these fears, the only way to bring peace and faith is through God's Word. The Word is close to us and there is a Bible that records it, so if you read, believe, and accept it, it will come into us and give you the history of life. The best gift in the world is the word, the greatest power is the word, and the ability to protect our hearts is also the word. Therefore, I sincerely pray that we will be the ones who try to get closer to the word, keeping in mind that a life of faith close to the word will be a life of blessing and victory.

-Prayers-
God, O Father, thank you for being shepherd to us and for us to be broken, repentant, and transformed as we pass through the brooding valley of death. Also, thank you for your wand giving hope and your stick protecting us so that we can have a good soul, good and strong in everything, because you are with us. Lord! Please help us look at you, forsake fear, forsake anxiety, and gain faith and peace. Help us to expect the miracle of God.
I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.
Aman!

 
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