Colossians 2:6-7

 (Colossians 2:6-7)

『As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 』

The word Christ is Lord is used in the Bible "two meanings." The word “Jehovah is also translated the Lord " or the "Master". So it comes out mixed. Here, it means that the Lord is the Master, not the Lord. The Bible says it is our Lord Jesus Christ. When Jesus becomes our master, the work of Christ begins. God buys "the repentant" at the cost of Christ, "makes Jesus Lord," and forgives sin. "buying a sinner" is redemption.

In Colossians 1:13-14『Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:  In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: 』 Redemption means "God bought a sinner." Buy and wash away sins.

In Acts 2:36, 『Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. "Here, the master is the owner." If you repent, Jesus becomes Lord. Repentance means giving up on my mastery. If I say that I repented in my life as a master, this means false repentance. People say that they accept Jesus, but it is not repentance unless they give up their master's life. How wrong is it to believe in Jesus without ever repenting? If you say that you believe in Jesus, but have never repented, the state of total corruption in Romans 1-3 is maintained. Total corruption means that you are the master. The life in which he is the master still holds in his heart the desire to be like God, like Adam and Eve who abandoned the word of God in the Garden of Eden. He who is the master is a wicked man against God. So evil (old man) must die. We must be buried with Jesus who died on the cross.

When Jesus asked Peter, "Who do you think I am," he said, "You are the Christ and the Son of God." . Peter never doubted that Jesus was the Son of God, but he did not become Lord. Three and a half years later, when Jesus was crucified, the situation appeared. Before that, Jesus said, "All of you, forsake me." In particular, when Peter spoke with strength, Jesus said to Peter, "You will deny me three times until the chicken crows three times."

At the age of 75, when Abraham heard God's voice, he left "hometown, relatives, father's house," and God said, "Go to the land I will direct." He left his hometown.
"Abraham leaving home" was not entirely obedient to God's command. God is not the Lord of Abram. It took 25 years to completely obey and become dead. Today, "people who say they believe in Jesus and have a lot of Bible knowledge" do not realize what the Bible says to them.

When we are living "a life in which Jesus is not Lord," we are like disciples who forsake Jesus. The disciples experienced more miracles and marvelous experiences than the people of the Church today, but abandoned all Jesus on the cross. If you don't realize what the Bible says to me, it means you have never repented and are not in Christ. The Jesus I think and believe will be different from the "Jesus who repents and denies himself after realizing what the Bible tells me." Believe in Jesus and be able to share it with others, but being united with the crucified Christ is different.

Faith is different from self-confidence. Today, however, the beliefs of many people in the Church are based on self-confidence. Faith is not self-confidence, but comes from the Lord. In Galatians 3:23, 『But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 』 Faith comes from God to those who repent. So, it is believing to go into Jesus Christ on the cross. This is only salvation. When Peter saw Jesus on the cross, he denied Jesus three times and cried and fled. Faith has not come. The confidence of self-confidence is the faith that comes from the flesh. It is a faith that thoroughly follows the body. Today, when we see miracles, experience, learn the Word, and build up Bible knowledge, we believe in Jesus as the Son of God. But it is different that Christ becomes Lord. If one day, the situation is like Peter's run away, it is a life that runs away until faith comes.

In the book of Revelation, the Bible said, "All who are not recorded in the Lamb's book of life will worship the beast." It means that all those who do not have faith from God are those who are not recorded in the book of life. But many church people today think, "Because I believe in Jesus, it will be recorded in the Lamb's book of life." It was not recorded in the Lamb's book of life until faith came. In order for faith to come, there is no way other than a life of repentance that denies you. It is only self-confidence. God only records the repentant in the book of life.

Romans 10:9『 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 』 Here, "to admit the Lord" means "Jesus is the Master." The word "Jesus is the Master" is not a matter of declaring it in words, but to become such a state. The apostle Paul quoted what Moses said just before his death. In Romans 10:5-8『 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 』

The words of faith preached by Paul are the words of Deuteronomy to a new man who enters Canaan. It was interpreted by Paul. In Deuteronomy 30:11-14『 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.  It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 』 Moses died before Canaan. New people born in the wilderness think only of obeying the Word of God in the land of Canaan.

"The word is in your mouth, and it is in your heart, and you can do it." Here, those who are only in the mouth and those who are in the mouth and are in the heart are different. Obedience is not only in the mouth, but in the mouth and heart. The mind becomes a gift of faith from God when you become a new man. The new man is the one who died and was born again. The old man is the one who has to die about God, without leaving the evil of greed that wants to be like God.