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Pastor Cho's Sermon Outline - Yoido Full Gospel Church - Seoul, Korea
Who Am I?
2 Corinthians 5:17

2006-09-03

Introduction : The animals don´t ask themselves who they are, because they only have the flesh and the soul without the spirit, therefore pursuing only a physical life. However, the humankind is different. Let´s say, an uneducated and poor farmer spends all his life working in a field in the mountain district. At times he would straighten his painful back with a sigh and ask himself questions like "What is life? Who am I? Where I´m going after I die?" These kinds of questions are the ones that seek self-awareness because the humankind has lost the answer to who they are, ever since the fall of Adam.


1. Who am I?
    - All religions start with this question. This question is for the inner self. This question
        rises above the flesh and seeks for the spirit.
    1) The self that was found by existential philosophers
        (1) The self embraced despair of a guilty conscience.
        (2) The self embraced meaninglessness and nothingness.
        (3) The self embraced despair of death and nothingness.
            - In other words, the humankind is an existence of despair (Ecc 1:2-3, 2:23).
    2) The Bible is telling about me (Ps 107:10-11).
        (1) I was deserted by sin and went about naked.
        (2) I suffer from living on a cursed land.
        (3) I will return to the ground by disease and death.
        - The Bible is also telling us the humankind is an existence of death
           (1Pe 1:24, Heb 9:27)
        - Who am I? The answer is I am an existence of despair and have no hope if the
           Savior doesn´t save me.

2. We must meet Jesus.
    1) Who is Jesus?
        (1) The incarnation of God (Jn 1:14, Col 1:5)
        (2) He became one with humankind. - Lived as humankind (Heb 2:14-15)
        (3) He paid debts of humankind and died.
            - God cleared off death, sin, dirt, disease by His death (2Co 5:21).
        (4) He finished everything and gained victory by the resurrection (1Co 15:55-57).
    2) When hopeless humankind meets Jesus, the despair will be changed into hope.
        (1) We were forgiven by the precious blood of Jesus and receive righteousness as
            a gift (Eph 1:7, Ro 3:24).
        (2) Every wickedness in our life is cleansed, and we receive the Holy Spirit as a gift
            (Ac 2:38, Tit 3:5-6).
        (3) Our body and mind are healed, and we receive physical health as a gift
            (1Pe 2:24).
        (4) We are liberated from the curse, and we join in the blessing of Abraham
            (2Co 8:9, Gal 3:9).
        (5) We are liberated from death and Hades, and we receive the eternal life of heaven
            as a gift. - The absolute despair of humankind is changed into the absolute hope
            (Jn 14:1-3).

3. A life of a person who met Jesus (I am the way and the truth and the life)
    1) A person who found the way - The way to live, the way to heaven (Heb 10:20)
    2) A person who gained hope - The life that receives true joy (Ps 16:11, Jn 8:32)
        - The whole world is deceived by the devil.
        (1) Infatuated with greed and goes to the wrong way - The slave of avarice, lust,
            ambition, earthly desire of money and power (1Co 6:9-11)
        (2) Unproved teaching - The death cannot live again (Jn 11:25)
    3) The life - the life that lives with the Holy Spirit
        - the life that receives God´s selection (1Co 6:19-20)


Conclusion : The jar of despair will be overflowed with hope by accepting Jesus.






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