<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405</id><updated>2011-12-14T18:34:32.162-08:00</updated><title type='text'>God, Human and Open Church</title><subtitle type='html'>** Important to Jesus religion are
"not formality of religion but content,"
"not perfunctory justice but love,"
"not theory but practice." 
**예수종교에게 중요한 것은
"종교의형식이 아니고 내용이고,"
"형식적정의가 아니라 사랑이다."
"이론이 아니고 실천이다."</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>48</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-2223676931934937587</id><published>2008-12-30T22:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T22:56:36.248-08:00</updated><title type='text'>18. God the Invisible</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsSnIZotFI/AAAAAAAAAnw/0ypePC4sMrI/s1600-h/34-Isaiah+45-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285839051128616018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsSnIZotFI/AAAAAAAAAnw/0ypePC4sMrI/s400/34-Isaiah+45-3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;18. “God the Invisible” (Tell me something)&lt;br /&gt;18. "숨어 계신 하나님”(Tell me something)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;-October 2001&lt;br /&gt;-2001년 10월&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;aiah 45:15&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;15 Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;이사야 45;15&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;15 구원자 이스라엘의 하나님이여 진실로 주는 스스로 숨어 계시는 하나님이시니이다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The elementary school where I went was a 4 km pathway between there and my home. Considering it is this long in a bumpy winding pathway, it is generally about 30~40 minutes long in an adult walking, or about 60 minutes long in a young elementary grader walking. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Those days were not the times where eatables were as sufficient as in nowadays, still less the times where every house has a refrigerator with drinks and fruits inside. During summer to autumn seasons alone, eatables were rather plentiful around so that snacks at home after school were not scanty, while during early winter to late spring, all kinds of snacks they could eat were mere puffy rice cakes or steamed bread which they bought from cake sellers seldom itinerant.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It refreshes my mind when I would call ‘Mamma’ from at the tip of the yard even before entering the brushwood gate coming home in a 60 minutes’ walk after school classes. Not alone did I do that way, but also most of the village children my age in the same village those days was similar in their first action entering their homes from school. Furthermore, especially the children who grew as the last-born had a more span of calling their Momma.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;When they calls ‘Mamma’ at the tip of the yard at home from school without their momma responding or being in the house, they are empty-minded, anxious, ill-humored and the like. The kinds of feelings might you also have experienced, despite the fact that your momma greeted you with neither an abounding welcome nor a flourishing treat when you came running in calling ‘Mamma’ even before through the brushwood gate.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;At times, we see TV program scene which introduces an old people’s home, an orphan asylum, or poor neighbors in our society. At times there, we see children entrusted to childcare asylums and adopted to their foster parents. In the meantime, it is said that the 12~18-months-old early infants adopted to their foster parents are very much inclined to keep an eye on their foster parents especially their foster mother. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Because these children have an experience of shock remaining from their previous separation alive from their mothers, they are said to get easily anxious even at a moment of their adoptive mother being out of sight. Even this short span of time comes near to these children as a dreadful fright, as I heard.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The scariest punishment upon the infants is their ‘mom being absent.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It is known a good number of young orphans in Korea are adapted to the homes in foreign countries. In foreign countries, already-children-growing homes also adopt children in many cases. While not compared if adopted to childless homes, yet they are sometimes put to comparison if adopted to blood-children-growing homes. While real children less often call their mom ‘Mammy,’ the children adopted especially from Korea tend to call ‘Mammy’ at any times so as to monopolize their foster parents’ love all to themselves, as I heard. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Though there could be an emotional difference between the east and the west, there is rather a common point that in proportion as a child is deserted once by their parent, the child is so hard to bear their parent being unseen within their eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel lost their land to Babylon B.C. 587, being draggled as captives. Among them were sincere Israelite people who had so far believed in and relied upon solely God. For them, the incident of Israel losing its sovereignty to Babylon and its king and high officials being draggled along as captives was the opportunity of experiencing their ‘God standing hidden’ in the history of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the very times of trials in which Israel experienced the Exile in Babylon the most tragic incident to Israel nation, there came abruptly a prophet nameless who prophesied that a new creation will begin by putting an end to the miserable and tragic situation and overcoming the ache of trials.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To look at the situation among the Chapters 40~55 in Isaiah, the chapter Isaiah 50:6 says, “I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The tribulation mentioned above is not imagination of the Messiah image that appeared in the interpretation of late times but the life of prisoners who was often seen among the Israelite brethren prisoners (see Psalm 129). One of the worst shames in human society is having one’s face hair plucked out in the either east or west. Being spat on the face is still worse shame. But the captive citizens Israel couldn’t even offer resistance to receiving such humiliation and insult to human individuality.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;They were not persons but mere worms, so to call. That was the life of Israel. They had to live resigned lives enduring under all the disgraces, according to most of Israelite prisoners’ situation. .&lt;br /&gt;Biblical expressions more often refer to a ‘concrete life’ well beyond ‘a mere theoretical thinking.’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Isaiah 42:3 likens the aspect of reduced-to-misery Israelite people to something like a ‘bruised reed’ and a ‘smoldering wick.’&lt;br /&gt;It is referring to it that even the flame light of the brilliant and pertinacious history is right now something like a ‘smoldering wick’ in the last and slightest flickering along with a ‘bruised reed of their miserable figures, now this time when they find themselves sweating blood in their collective quarters of long prisoners and in their slave-working workplaces, although they are the people with a long tradition of religion and an amazing history of salvation by God the Jehovah. The last deep sigh with hope of life fading away is deeply implied in that phrase.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the Bible verse Isaiah 40:2, “...her hard service has been completed...,” the phrase ‘hard service’ was originally the word warfare, but Job 7:1 and 14:14 interpret it as ‘hard service,’ or ‘forced labor.’&lt;br /&gt;This saying implies that most of the Judean people living collectively in each scattered corner of Babylon were put to forced labor or had to live as hard laborers.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Like the expression of Isaiah 41:14 “O worm Jacob,” the captive people Israel was something like a ‘worm.’ Also appearing in Psalm 22:6, the word ‘worm’ refers to the lowest status of a man who is not even treated as a human in human society.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Over a worm creeping on the earth, man doesn’t feel remorse, even though they killed it under their foot.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Refugees, war refugees and war prisoners’ human rights in Afghanistan and many other regions in the global village have been dying trampled underfoot to a bottomless degree, but the war molesters have had nothing of a guilty conscience. Still on, the human rights of refugees, war refugees and war prisoners in Afghanistan and many other regions are endlessly being trodden underfoot, how much the worse 2500 ago would they have been? The war prisoners’ human rights 2500 years ago were the times of being trodden underfoot even worse than we can imagine.&lt;br /&gt;For listeners’ information, when it comes to Rome at the time of Jesus, no guilt was accused, even if aristocrats made a prey of their slaves for killing in order to feed the lampreys growing in their ponds.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The symbolical expressions in Isaiah Chapters 40~55 are indirectly just how it was, how captive people Israel’s hardships and privations were to an extreme.&lt;br /&gt;But at last, there back again came the resumption of Israelite history of salvation,’ which had been discontinued by the 70-year-long Exile period in Babylon. Generally the years 70 correspond to the 3 generations. After all those years of pain and patience, Israel got a ‘message of joy’ that Israel had received punishment enough for her sins and her hard service had been completed (Isaiah 40:2).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At last, God was planning on a ‘new work,’ who seemed to not respond and be unseen even though the people so earnestly calling out and shouting in their captive lives worse than worms (see Isaiah 42:9, 43:14~21)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Within God’s providence were the following. Israel returns from 70 years of the captive Exile in Babylon from which country Israel had been taken away of her sovereignty (see Isaiah 43, Jeremiah 29:1~14). After the term of judgment, He shall have Israel come from the east and accumulate her from the west so as to let the whole world know that Jehovah God alone is the true savor, and Israel is the witness of the very work, according to the ‘new work’ God planned (Isaiah 43:10~12).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Neo-Babylonian Empire that used to be so up high is destroyed by the Persian King Cyrus in just a day (see Isaiah 41:25~26, 44:28). Finally, the Babylon is falling down, and God of Israel, Jehovah God is ‘the one and only Lord in the world history,’ it is proclaimed (45:1~7).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yahweh proclaims that He shall do a new thing unprecedented in history, an emancipation of Israel from Babylon through a non-Israelite, Cyrus the Persian man after anointing him as the King and having him subjugate many surrounding kings and powers (see Isaiah 45:1~7).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;With the war prisoners’ hardships and privations reached to an extreme, planting in them the hope of standing up upon this ‘newness’ overcoming frustration is the core contents of the Isaiah chapters 20~55. The prophet makes a whole new and wondrous profession, “Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel,” referring to the dispensation of God’s history of salvation beyond human imagination (Isaiah 45:15)&lt;br /&gt;It is as if a baby expresses a sense of security back again in the breasts of the mother by overcoming the frightfulness of the mother missing.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Among Isaiah 42:14~17, “For a long time I have kept silent, I have been quiet and held myself back. But now, like a woman in childbirth, I cry out, I gasp and pant,” this verse 14 compared Yahweh God to the aspect of a woman in labor right before her childbirth.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The bible depicts Jehovah God and Israel relationship in various ways of God assuming the figure of man, as in relationship between husband and wife, relationship between parent and child, the role of mother, and the like, or represents ‘the same figure of God and human’ in some various ways or other in order to make God’s nature understood in human language. Focusing on Isaiah chapters 40~50, these chapters try to deliver God’s compassion toward Israel through the ‘metaphor’ of ‘motherly love’ loving her child.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The shocking record of Isaiah 42:14 should be understood in the historical situation. Yahweh God as the mother of Israel refers the period of Israel’s captivity for 70 years in Babylon to the days of a mother being pregnant in His dispensation of salvational history. Israel having been newly born by returning Israel prisoner citizens to their homeland through the means of the Persian man Cyrus 536 B.C., He gave tongue to it as a terrified mother who are in her final moments of labor right before birth.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It speaks of creation, production and restoration processes of a new Israel through a ‘New Exodus’ solely through historical tradition of Yahweh. Culminating though the pain of giving birth to a baby does in Isaiah 42:14, this verse is the expression likening a newly-begun redeeming work of Yahweh to an act of salvation, or, to a mother’s final labor.&lt;br /&gt;The verse 16, “These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them,” is referring to Yahweh God’s love for Israel having neither cooled down nor stopped off.&lt;br /&gt;,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Furthermore 49:15 says, “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!”&lt;br /&gt;46:3~4 say, “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Isaiah chapters 40~55 draws the picture of Jehovah God as ‘a symbolic mother,’ as it were, the One who conceived Israel in the womb, and all along afterwards has brought it up on the back in the arms until She rescues it.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This compassionate God has been ‘present behind the history’ for a while so that He may make His people of the Israel coming back to God’s bosom with right mind and spirit. This explanation refers to the same ‘God who is hidden behind’ in today’s text Isaiah 45:15. What we should pay attention to is the confession that the ‘God hidden behind equals the savior.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;We might think it looks to be short, looking back to our days gone.&lt;br /&gt;However, as in Psalm 90:10 “The length of our days is seventy years-- or eighty, if we have the strength...,” the whole process of a human creature’s birth, growth and aging is merely 70~80 years for the most part. Computing one generation as usually 25~30 years, the span of 70 years is 2~3 generations-long tedious time not a short one.&lt;br /&gt;The letter part of Psalm 90:10 says, “...yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away (like an arrow).” The passage of Psalms 90 tries to remind us what life is, that just days vainly passing in pains and sadness without anything accomplished is what our life is.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Personally speaking, my physical pain that started at age 17 has since been 25 years (31 as of 2008). In this middle, I sometimes recite to myself today’s text Isaiah 45:15 during my walking, “Thou God who hides himself is truly the Savior,” a hard and difficult confession though it is.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In this is the greatness of Isaiah.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;They had to spend time 70 years having their mother land Israel’s resplendent history trodden by Babylon and most captive citizens living wormy lives in a foreign land. Draggled to Babylon to suffer all sorts of humiliation during the while of time passing helplessly, most of the captive citizens were dying with their yearning mother land buried in their hearts (towed off at 597 and 586 B.C.).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In fact, the people who managed to make it to their home land Palestine after 536 B.C. would have been the 2nd or 3rd generation, not the 1st one of captive citizens. With all the stories about Yahweh God they had earachingly heard from their ancestors, the admonitions they had been told from their ancestors of descendents restoring Palestine and the remorse of their faith they had..., the captive Israel citizens were yet powerless in the international state of affairs between powers. For the sake of liberating their nation, there was nothing for them to do (see Zechariah 1:7~17).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By asserting ‘...I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God (Isaiah 44:6),’ Isaiah chapters 40~55 focus on elucidating that the leader in world history is ‘Yahweh God alone.’ The ‘historical Lord God’ who destroyed a newly-emerging Babylon is not the Persian god ‘Marduk’ but Israel’s God Yahweh. And they also insist, the reason why the Persian king Cyrus appeared onto history is because Israel God Yahweh appointed him as a ‘servant’ or a messiah by anointment so that Israel might be liberated (Isaiah 45:1).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Making sense of an invisible God who is behind and beyond the history and attributing the historical consequences to Him is where the Book of Isaiah’s greatness lies.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘Being behind but he takes care of us endlessly without deserting.’ If it is rather short ages, it might be easy to endure thinking the hardship wouldn’t last long. However, looking at the history still in such faith in the 2nd or 3rd generation as well, one should have the faithful conviction that ‘the savior is also the very God, though hidden behind (for the present).’ This faith appears in today’s text Isaiah 45:15, “Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now it is time for conclusion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Looking at the Joseph’s story in the Book of Genesis chapters 37~50, the core of the story is put in the verses 7 and 8 subsequent to Genesis 45:5. And another is Genesis 50:20. Israel ancestors’ history, or the human history’s protagonist is not man but solely Yahweh God, which is what the Genesis chapters 37~50 focus upon.&lt;br /&gt;Even though man thinks, plans and acts, God exists in a hidden figure beyond the action of man. And that God ‘plans, leads and fulfill the divine providence of human salvation.’ This conception, the confession of faith that ‘God the Self-Concealer = the Savior,’ is what we can find here and there in the Bible.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;At today’s text Isaiah 45:15, Exodus chapter 2 (Moses story) and other places, there is always God’s providence in human history even if hidden, which is what Bible reporters tries to enlighten the descendents upon.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In Isaiah chapters 40~55, we can see God who is conceiving (Isaiah 44:24), birthgiving (42:14), fostering (46:4), arranging (49:1) and constructing (45:9~12), namely God who has a lot to do with a motherly attribute. By using the idea of a ‘Savior = God the Hidden’ who is greater than a mother’s earnest, warm and devoted love, they tries to enlighten on how amazing God’s compassion is.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The belief in visible things is a belief little.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The belief in the invisible is the faith bigger and more grown-up.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Being behind, yet God who is interfering in human history and supervising and leading your and my personal history, namely ‘God who is invisible behind, is the very Savior of us.’ The confession of this faith is what the Bible, or God the Sprit, appeals to us for.&lt;br /&gt;The Bible appeals to us not for God who is settled in your minds, but for God who is overflowing in your hearts.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The saying that ‘God who is invisible = the Savior’ might not be an easy confession.&lt;br /&gt;In a dreadful desolation where there is no response nor answer, it is rather endurable to receive a scolding or a rebuking.&lt;br /&gt;Would you speak anything, please!&lt;br /&gt;For, this silence as of now looks as if to choke me.&lt;br /&gt;Please make a response, even a mere piece?! (Tell me something.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Under attacks of being nervous, skeptical and frustrated, and groans coming out of itself like such as how come...to me?, or at times of feeling like wailing, screaming or outbursting, yet the Bible still tries to enlighten us upon:&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;That is to say: though God invisible behind, yet that entity is also the Savior, indeed...!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Please keep in mind that it is the faith and confession which the people truly looking forward to the future in their suffering must clutch (take hold of).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I, even I, am the LORD, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and apart from me there is no savior.” (Isaiah 43:11)&lt;br /&gt;“나 곧 나는 여호와라&lt;br /&gt;나 외에 구원자가 없느니라” (이사야 43장 11절) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsSAyaz23I/AAAAAAAAAng/9qW6kATSjOY/s1600-h/34-Isaiah+45-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285838392392932210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsSAyaz23I/AAAAAAAAAng/9qW6kATSjOY/s400/34-Isaiah+45-2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-2223676931934937587?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/2223676931934937587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=2223676931934937587' title='44 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/2223676931934937587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/2223676931934937587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/12/18-god-invisible.html' title='18. God the Invisible'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsSnIZotFI/AAAAAAAAAnw/0ypePC4sMrI/s72-c/34-Isaiah+45-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>44</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-7236484805967791119</id><published>2008-12-30T21:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T22:54:18.606-08:00</updated><title type='text'>18.숨어 계신 하나님</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsKo_mWFLI/AAAAAAAAAnA/ZR3GH2DD46M/s1600-h/34-Isaiah+45.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285830287032718514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsKo_mWFLI/AAAAAAAAAnA/ZR3GH2DD46M/s400/34-Isaiah+45.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;18. "숨어 계신 하나님”(Tell me something)&lt;br /&gt;18. “God the Invisible” (Tell me something)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-2001년 10월&lt;br /&gt;-October 2001&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;이사야 45;15&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;15 구원자 이스라엘의 하나님이여 진실로 주는 스스로 숨어 계시는 하나님이시니이다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isaiah 45:15&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;제가 다녔던 국민 학교는-지금의 초등학교-집과 학교 사이의 거리가 시골길로 4km정도였습니다. 굽고 울퉁불퉁한 시골길에서 이정도의 거리라면 일반적으로 어른 걸음으로는 30-40분 정도이고, 초등학교1-2학년의 어린 학생들에게는 1시간 남짓 소요되는 거리입니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;그 때는 지금처럼 먹을 것이 풍족한 때도 아니었고, 집집마다 냉장고에 음료수나 과일이 들어있던 시대는 더욱더 아니었습니다. 그래도 여름부터 가을까지는 먹을거리가 풍성해서 학교 갔다 와서 먹던 간식이 궁하지 않았지만, 이른 겨울부터 늦은 봄까지는 어쩌다 다니던 떡장수에게 산 바람떡이나 찐빵이 전부이던 시절이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;학교 수업이 끝나고 1시간이나 걸려서 집에 돌아오면 대문에 들어서기도 전에 마당 끝에서부터 '엄마'를 부르던 기억이 새롭습니다. 나 혼자만 그랬던 것이 아니고, 그 시절 같은 동네에서 자랐던 또래의 아이들 대부분이 학교에서 집으로 들어서면서 처음으로 하는 행동들은 비슷했습니다. 더구나 막내로 자란 아이들에게는 그 엄마를 부르는 기간이 길었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;학교 갔다가 마당 끝에서 '엄마'하고 부를 때 엄마의 대답이 없거나 아예 출타 중 일 때는 왠지 허전하고, 불안하고. 시무룩하고,...대문을 들어서기도 전부터 '엄마'를 부르며 뛰어 들어와도 호들갑스럽게 맞아주던 것도 아니고 맛있는 간식거리를 준비하고 맞아주던 것도 아닌데...이런 기분을 여러분들도 경험해 보셨을 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;TV프로에서 양노원이나 고아원, 아니면 사회의 불우한 이웃들을 소개하는 장면들을 흔히 볼 수 있습니다. 어린이들이 보육시설에 맡겨져서 양육되다가 양부모들에게 입양되어 지는 것을 종종 소개하는 것을 보기도 합니다. 헌데 양부모들에게 입양되는 12-18개월의 어린이들이(영유아) 양부모, 특히 어머니를 엄청나게 따른다고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;이 어린이들에게는 이미 어머니와 생이별한 경험이 충격으로 남아있기 때문에 입양한 가정의 어머니가 자기 눈에 잠시만 안 보여도 불안한 증세를 보인다고 합니다. 이 어린이에게는 이 잠깐조차도 엄청난 공포로 다가온다는 말을 들은 적이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 어린이에게 가장 무서운 벌은 '보이지 않는 엄마'입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;또 우리나라의 어린 고아들이 외국의 가정에 많이 입양되곤 합니다. 외국에서는 이미 자녀가 있는 가정에서도 입양을 하는 경우가 많습니다. 자녀가 아예 없는 집안으로 입양되면 다른 어린이들과 비교가 안 되는데, 그 가정의 친 자식들이 있는 경우에는 종종 비교가 되곤 합니다. 친 자식들은 오히려 '마미'를 덜 부르는데 유독 한국에서 입양된 어린이만은 '마미'를 시도 때도 없이 부르며 양부모를 독차지 하려고 한다는 말을 들었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;동서양의 정서적인 차이점도 있겠지만, 그 보다는 부모한테 한 번 버림받은 아이일수록 부모가 자신의 눈에 보이지 않는 것을 못 견뎌하는 공통점이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이스라엘이 바벨론에게 B.C 587년 나라를 빼앗기고 포로로 끌려갔습니다. 그 중에는 지금껏 하나님만을 믿고 의지해 왔던 신실한 이스라엘 백성들도 있었습니다. 그들에게는 이스라엘이 바벨론에게 주권은 빼앗기고 왕과 고관들이 포로로 잡혀가는 사건은 이스라엘 역사 중에서 '숨어계시는 하나님'을 경험하는 일이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이스라엘 민족 최대의 비극적 사건인 바벨론 포로기를 경험한 바로 그 고난의 시대에 한 무명의 예언자가 돌연 처참하도록 비극적인 상황에 종말을 고하고, 그 고난의 아픔을 딛고 새로운 창조가 시작될 것을 예언하였습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야 40장-55장중에서 그때의 상황을 살펴보면,&lt;br /&gt;이사야 50장6절 “나를 때리는 자들에게 내 등을 맡기며, 나의 수염을 뽑는 자들에게 나의 뺨을 맡기며, 치욕과 침 뱉음을 당하여도 결코 얼굴은 가리우지 아니하였느니라.”라고 기록되어 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;여기 나타난 고난은 후대의 성경 해석에 등장한 예언자의 메시야 상에 대한 상상이 아니라 이스라엘의 포로 된 동포들 중에서 얼마든지 볼 수 있었던 포로민의 생활이었습니다(시129 참고).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;사람이 사는 사회에서 가장 치욕적인 일은 동서고금을 막론하고 수염은 뽑히는 일입니다. 얼굴에 침 뱉음을 당하는 것은 더 큰 치욕입니다. 그러나 포로민 이스라엘은 이렇게 인격적인 모욕을 당하고 인간적인 수모를 격심하게 받아도 항거조차 하지 못했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그들은 다만 사람이 아니고 벌레였을 뿐입니다. 그것이 포로민 이스라엘의 삶이었던 것입니다. 그 모든 치욕을 받고도 참아야 하는 체념적인 삶을 살아야 했던 것이 대다수 이스라엘의 포로 민들의 상황이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;성경의 표현들은 ‘관념적인 사고’의 표현이 아니고 ‘구체적인 삶’의 표현일 때가 많습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;이사야 42장3절은 다시 처참한 이스라엘 백성의 모습을 '상한 갈대'와 '꺼져가는 등불' 같은 존재로 비유하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;이것은 오랜 신앙의 전통을 가지고 여호와 하나님의 놀라운 구원의 역사를 지니고 있는 백성이지만, 지금은 오랜 포로민의 집단 거주지에서나 그들의 중노동의 일터에서 피땀을 흘리고 있는 자신들을 바라볼 때는 '상한갈대'와 같은 초라한 자신들의 몰골과 더불어 그 화려하고 끈질긴 역사의 불빛조차도 이제는 꺼져가는 순간에 마지막으로 가물거리고 있는 '꺼져가는 등불' 같다고 비유했습니다. 삶의 소망이 꺼져가는 마지막 탄식이 이 구절에 깊이 내포되어 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야 40장2절의 “...그 복역의 때가 끝났고...” 에서 '복역'이란 말은 원래 군대라는 말이지만 욥7장1절, 14장14절 등에서는 '중노동(고역)'으로 해석됩니다. 또는 '강제노동'으로 해석하기도 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;이 말 속에는 바벨론 각지에 흩어져서 집단생활을 하고 있었던 유대 백성들의 대부분이 강제로 노동에 참가했거나 중노동자들로서 생활했음을 암시합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야 41장14절 “지렁이 같은 너 야곱아”의 표현처럼 포로 민 이스라엘은 '지렁이' 같은 존재였습니다. '지렁이'란 말은 시편 22편 6절에 그냥 '벌레'로 번역되었지만 이것은 인간 사회에서 인간 대우를 받지 못한 최하의 상태를 표현한 말입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;땅에 기어 다니는 벌레, 그것을 짓밟아 죽여도 아무런 죄책감을 느끼지 않습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;아프가니스탄의 난민이나 지구촌 여러 곳의 전쟁난민이나 포로들의 인권은 끝이 없을 정도로 짓밟힌 체 죽어가지만 전쟁의 가해자들은 아무런 죄책감을 느끼지 않습니다. 지금도 아프가니스탄의 난민이나 지구촌 여러 곳의 전쟁난민이나 포로들의 인권은 끝이 없을 정도로 짓밟히고 있는 형편인데, 지금부터 2500년 전의 전쟁 포로들의 인권은 우리가 상상하는 것 이상으로 짓밟히던 시절이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;예수 당시의 로마시대 때만 하더라도 귀족들의 정원에 기르던 칠성장어를 위해 자기 집에서 기르던 노예를 먹이로 주어도 죄가 되지 않던 시대이었음을 참고로 하시기 바랍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야 40-55장의 상징적 표현들은 포로 민 이스라엘의 곤고함이 극에 달해 있었음을 간접적으로 표현하고 있었을 뿐입니다.&lt;br /&gt;하지만 70년의 긴 바벨론 포로기로 인한 이스라엘 ‘구원사의 단절’은 마침내 그 막을 내리게 되었습니다. 보편적으로 70년은 인간세상에서 3대의 세월입니다. 늦어도 2대의 세월입니다. 이 긴 인고의 세월이 지난 뒤 이스라엘이 지은 죄 만큼의 벌을 다 받았다고, 그리고 그 벌에 대한 복역의 기간을 다 채웠다는 '기쁨의 소리가' 전언되기에 이르렀습니다.(이사야40장2절)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;벌레만도 못한 포로민의 생활에서 그토록 애타게 부르짖고 외쳐도 대답 없고 보이지 않던 여호와 하나님이 드디어 '새 일'을 계획하고 계셨습니다.(이사야42;9,43;14-21참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하나님의 섭리 속에는 이스라엘이 바벨론한테 주권을 빼앗겨 포로로 잡혀가 70년 동안을 보내고 다시 돌아오는 것이 포함 되어 있었지만,(이사야43장, 렘 29:1-14 참고) 그 심판의 기간을 끝내고 이스라엘을 동방에서부터 오게 하고 서방에서부터 모아서, 여호와 하나님만이 진정한 구원자임을 온 세계에 알게 하며, 이스라엘은 바로 이 일의 증인이라는 것이 여호와께서 계획한 '새 일'이라는 것입니다.(이사야43장10-12절)&lt;br /&gt;그토록 도도하던 신바벨론 제국이 페르시아의 고레스 대왕에 의하여 하루아침에 무너졌습니다.(이사야41장25-26절, 44장28절 참고) 마침내 바벨론은 무너지고 이스라엘의 하나님 야훼, 여호와 하나님은 ‘세계 역사의 유일무이한 주'시라는 선포를 제창하고 있습니다(45장1-7절).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;야훼께서는 비 이스라엘인-페르샤인 고레스-에게 기름을 부어 왕으로 삼고, 그를 통하여 열국의 왕들과 열국들을 정복케 하고 이스라엘을 바벨론으로부터 해방시키는 역사상 전무후무 한 새로운 일을 하신다고 선포하십니다.(이사야 45장1-7절 참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;곤고함이 극에 달한 포로 민들에게 이 '새로움'으로 말미암아 좌절을 딛고 일어설 수 있는 희망은 심어 줄려고 하는 것이 이사야 40-55장의 핵심 내용입니다. 예언자는 인간의 머리로는 헤아릴 수 없는 하나님의 구원사의 섭리에 “구원자 이스라엘의 하나님이여, 진실로 주는 스스로 숨어 계시는 하나님이시니이다!”라는 전혀 새롭고 경이로운 고백을 합니다(이사야 45장15절)&lt;br /&gt;마치 젖먹이가 어머니를 잃은 공포에서 벗어나 다시금 어머니의 젖가슴에 안기는 안도감을 표현하는 것과 같다고 생각할 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야 42장14-17절 중에(14절) “내가 오랫동안 고요히 하며 잠잠하여 참았으나 이제는 내가 해산하는 여인 같이 부르짖으리니 숨이 차서 심히 헐떡일 것이라”14절은 아이를 낳기 직전 산고에 신음하는 산모의 모습에 야훼하나님을 비교했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;성경에는 여호와 하나님과 이스라엘 관계를 부부사이로, 부모와 자식사이로, 어머니의 역할 등 *하나님을 마치 인간의 모습으로 묘사하는, 또는 어쩔 수 없이 하나님의 성품을 인간의 언어로 이해시키기 위해서* 여러 가지 ‘신인 동형상’의 모습으로 그리고 있지만, 이사야 40장-55장에서는 이스라엘에 대한 하나님의 긍휼을 어머니가 자식을 사랑하는 ‘모성애’의 비유를 통해서 전달하고자 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야 42장14절의 충격적인 기록은 역사적 상황 속에서 이해되어야만 합니다. 이스라엘의 어미로서의 야훼 하나님은 자신의 구원사의 섭리를 산모가 아기를 잉태한 기간-이스라엘의 70년 바벨론 포로기-으로 표현하고 있습니다. 이제 B.C536년 페르시아의 고레스를 내세워 이스라엘 포로 민들을 고국으로 돌려보내 이스라엘을 새롭게 탄생시키는 것을, 아기를 낳기 직전의 마지막 안간힘을 쓰는 충격적인 산모의 모습으로 언어화 시켰습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;야훼의 역사적 전통을 통하여 비로소 '새 출애굽'을 통한 새로운 이스라엘의 창조, 생산, 회복 이라는 과정을 말하고 있습니다. 이사야 42장14절의 아기 낳는 아픔은 절정을 이뤘지만, 이것은 새롭게 시작된 야훼의 구속행위를-구원행위-마지막 진통으로 표현한 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;16절 “...내가 이 일을 행하여 그들을 버리지 아니하리니”는 결코 야훼 하나님의 이스라엘에 대한 사랑은 식지도, 끝나지도 않았음을 말하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;한 발 더 나아가서 49장15절 “여인이 어찌 그 젖 먹는 자식을 잊겠으며 자기 태에서 난 아들을 긍휼히 여기지 않겠느냐! 그들은 혹시 잊을지라도 나는 너를 잊지 아니할 것이라”&lt;br /&gt;46장3절-4절 “야곱의 집이여! 이스라엘 집의 남은 모든 자여, 내게 들을 지어다. 배에서 태어남으로부터 내게 안겼고 태(자궁)에서 남으로부터 내게 품기운 너희여! 너희가 노년에 이르기까지 내가 그리하겠고 백발이 되기까지 내가 너희를 품을 것이라 내가 지었은즉 안을 것이요, 품을 것이요, 구하여 내리라“&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;이사야 40-55장 속에는 야훼, 즉 여호와 하나님은 자궁(태)에서 이스라엘을 만드셨고, 그 후부터는 줄 곧 업고 다니거나 안고 다니시면서 양육하시다가이스라엘을 건져내신 여호와 하나님을 ‘어머니의 표상’을 빌려서 그려내고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이런 긍휼의 하나님께서 정신 차리고 다시 하나님 품으로 돌아온 이스라엘을 하나님 백성으로 만들기 위해서 잠깐 ‘역사 뒤에 숨어 계셨다’는 것이 오늘의 본문 이사야 45장15절 '숨어 계신 하나님'입니다. 이 본문에서 유의해서 볼 것은 '숨어 계신 하나님=구원자'이시라는 고백입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;우리가 지나간 시간을 볼 때 70년은 짧게 느껴질 수도 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 시편 90편10절 “우리의 연수가 칠십이요, 강건하면 팔십이라도...” 나와 있듯이, 대부분은 한 생명이 태어나서 성장하고 늙어가는 모든 과정이 70-80살 밖에 안 됩니다. 또 보통 1세대를 25-30년으로 계산하면 70년은 2-3대에 걸친 지루한 시간이지 결코 짧은 시간이 아닙니다.&lt;br /&gt;시편 90편10절 “그 연수의 자랑은 수고와 슬픔뿐이요, 신속히 가서 우리가 날아가나이다.(화살이 날아가듯이)” 시편 90편은 아무것도 이룬 것 없이 수고와 슬픔 속에서 세월만 속절없이 흘러가는 것이 우리네 인생이란 것을 일깨워 주는 구절입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;내 개인적으로 17살에 시작된 육체적 고통을 햇수로 25년(2008년을 기준으로 하면 31년)되었습니다. 이런 가운데서 오늘의 본문 이사야45장15절 “숨어계신 하나님, 당신이 바로 구원자 이십니다.”를 산책하면서 가끔은 되뇌지만, 진실로 어렵고도 힘든 고백입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야서의 위대성은 여기에 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;조국 이스라엘의 찬란한 역사가 바벨론에 의해서 짓밟히고 대다수의 포로 민이 이국땅에서 벌레만도 못한 삶을 살면서 70년을 보내야만 했습니다. 그 동안 세월은 속절없이 흘러서 바벨론에 끌려와 갖은 고생을 하던 포로 민 대부분은 꿈에 그리던 조국 땅을 가슴속에 묻은 체 죽어 갔습니다.(B.C 597,586에 끌려옴)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;적어도 B.C536년 이후에 고국 팔레스타인에 돌아올 수 있었던 사람들은 포로민 1세대가 아니고 2-3세대 일 것입니다. 선조로부터 귀가 아프게 들어야만 했던 야훼 하나님에 대한 이야기와 자손들에 대한 팔레스타인 회복에 대한 당부의 말씀들, 그리고 자신들의 신앙의 뉘우침,...하지만 강대국 간의 국제 정세 속에서 이스라엘 포로 민들은 속수무책이었습니다. 조국 해방을 위해 그들이 할 일은 없었습니다.(스가랴1:7-17참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야 40장-55장은 이스라엘 하나님 야훼는 “...나는 처음이요 나는 마지막이라. 나 외에 다른 신은 없느니라.”(이사야 44장6절)고 단언함으로써 세계역사를 이끄는 분은 '야훼 하나님 한 분'이심을 천명하는데 주력하고 있습니다. 신흥 바벨론을 멸망시킨 ‘역사의 주'는 페르시아의 신 '마르둑'이 아니고 이스라엘의 하나님 '야훼'이시며, 그리고 페르시아의 고레스 대왕이 역사에 등장한 것도 이스라엘의 하나님 야훼께서 그를 기름 부어 ‘종’-메시야-으로 삼으셔서 비로소 이스라엘이 해방된 것이라는 주장입니다.(이사야45장1절)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;보이지 않는 역사 너머에 있는 야훼 하나님을 인식하고, 역사의 귀결성을 그분에게 돌리고 있다는데 이사야서의 위대성은 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘숨어 계시지만 끝까지 우리를 버리지 않고 돌보신다.’ 그것이 짧은 세월동안은 잠깐의 시련이니 하고 견딜 수 있습니다. 하지만 2-3세대로 넘어가면서도 그러한 신앙을 가지고 역사를 바라보고 ‘(지금은)숨어 계시는 하나님이 지만 구원자도 바로 그 하나님’이라는 믿음의 확신이 오늘의 본문 이사야 45장 15절의 “구원자! 이스라엘의 하나님이여, 진실로 주는 스스로 숨어 계시는 하나님이시니이다.”입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론을 맺겠습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;창세기 37장-50장 요셉 이야기를 보면 그 이야기의 핵심은 창45장 5절과 이어서 7절과 8절속에 있습니다. 또 한 곳 창세기50장 20절입니다. 이스라엘선조들의 역사, 즉 인간 역사의 주인공은 인간이 아니고 오직 여호와 하나님만이시라는 것이 창세기 37-50장의 핵심입니다.&lt;br /&gt;인간이 생각하고 모략하고 행동해도 그 인간의 행동 너머에 하나님은 숨어 계시지만, 그 하나님께서 ‘인간 구원의 섭리를 계획하고 이끄시고 이룩해 내신다’ 는 것이 '숨어계신 하나님=구원자'이시라는 신앙고백을 성경 곳곳에서 볼 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오늘의 본문 이사야 45장15절, 출애굽기2장(모세 이야기)등 성경의 곳곳에서는 숨어 계시지만, 인간의 역사 속에는 항상 하나님의 섭리가 있다는 것은 성경 기자들은 후손들에게 깨우쳐 주려고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이사야 40~55장속에는 잉태하고(이사야 44장24절), 출산하고(42장14절), 양육하며(46장4절), 조성하며(49장1절),만드시는 신(45장9-12절) 즉 모성적 속성을 강조하시는 하나님을 보게 됩니다. 어머니의 애타고, 따뜻하고, 극진한 사랑보다 더 큰 ‘구원자=숨어계신 하나님’의 표상을 사용해서 하나님의 놀라운 긍휼을 일깨워 주려고 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;보이는 것에 대한 믿음은 적은 믿음입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;보이지 않는 것에 대한 믿음이 큰 믿음이고 장성한 믿음입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;숨어계시지만 인간의 역사를 간섭하시고, 여러분이나 내 개인의 역사를 주관하시고, 이끄시는 ‘여호와 하나님’ 즉 “숨어계신 하나님이 바로 우리의 구원자”라는 고백을 성경은, 또는 성령은, 여러분에게 요구하고 계십니다.&lt;br /&gt;성경은 여러분 머릿속에 자리 잡은 하나님을 요구하는 것이 아니고, 가슴 속에서 뿜어내는 하나님을 요구하십니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘숨어계신 하나님=구원자’는 결코 쉬운 고백이 아닙니다.&lt;br /&gt;어떠한 응답도, 어떠한 답변도 없는 무서운 적막감 속에서는 오히려 야단치고 책벌하는 것이 견디기 쉽습니다.&lt;br /&gt;어떠한 음성이라도 들려주십시오!&lt;br /&gt;지금의 이 침묵은 숨이 막힐 것 같습니다.&lt;br /&gt;제발 한마디만이라도 응답해 주십시오!(Tell me something)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;속이 타고, 회의가 들고, 절망이 엄숙하여 저절로 어찌하여,... 내게는..., 따위의 신음이 흘러나오거나 때로는 울부짖고, 절규하고, 분노가 폭발할 때도,...성경의 가르침은 여기에 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;숨어계신 하나님, 그러나 그 분이 또한 구원자라는 사실을!....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;고난 중에도 진실로 내일을 기다리는 사람들이 거머쥐어야(꼭 붙잡아야) 할 믿음이고, 고백임을 기억하십시오!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“나 곧 나는 여호와라&lt;br /&gt;나 외에 구원자가 없느니라” (이사야 43장 11절)&lt;br /&gt;“I, even I, am the LORD,&lt;br /&gt;and apart from me there is no savior.” (Isaiah 43:11)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsKg45zV0I/AAAAAAAAAm4/SgxiWD9yEIo/s1600-h/35-Deuteronomy+9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285830147796326210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 270px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsKg45zV0I/AAAAAAAAAm4/SgxiWD9yEIo/s400/35-Deuteronomy+9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-7236484805967791119?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/7236484805967791119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=7236484805967791119' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/7236484805967791119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/7236484805967791119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/12/18.html' title='18.숨어 계신 하나님'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SVsKo_mWFLI/AAAAAAAAAnA/ZR3GH2DD46M/s72-c/34-Isaiah+45.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-3298188355710063689</id><published>2008-10-30T00:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-30T22:25:34.340-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Great Legacy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlkpvn3aMI/AAAAAAAAAcA/b8K1uoulRnE/s1600-h/35-Deuteronomy+8.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262848307880224962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 315px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlkpvn3aMI/AAAAAAAAAcA/b8K1uoulRnE/s400/35-Deuteronomy+8.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;16. “Great Legacy”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;16. "위대한 유산"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;-2001년 7월&lt;br /&gt;-July 2001&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deuteronomy 26:5-11 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.&lt;br /&gt;6. But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, putting us to hard labor.&lt;br /&gt;7. Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression.&lt;br /&gt;8. So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with miraculous signs and wonders.&lt;br /&gt;9. He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey;&lt;br /&gt;10. and now I bring the firstfruits of the soil that you, O LORD, have given me.” Place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before him.&lt;br /&gt;11. And you and the Levites and the aliens among you shall rejoice in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlkj-fbifI/AAAAAAAAAb4/mIIPS7MxVNs/s1600-h/35-Deuteronomy+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262848208792160754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlkj-fbifI/AAAAAAAAAb4/mIIPS7MxVNs/s400/35-Deuteronomy+2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Among TV programs in the mid-1970s way over 30 years from now, there was the program titled ‘Bravo to Long Life’ whose master of ceremonies was the announcer Hwang Inyong. If many persons applied to local broadcasting stations, the program-concerned persons in charge selected 3 senior entries among the preliminary contestants, who were qualified for final competition. The outline of the program is as follows. After each participant’s own turn such as a song or a specialty ended, the final contest-qualified senior then had his or her descendant family members all appear on the stage so the whole family sang together. Because people in the 70s~80s or older appeared on the stage according to characteristic of the program ‘Bravo to Long Life,’ there were quite a few age-advanced descendants who had been settled down socially and economically.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A certain old person among them introduced himself to judges in preliminary competition, complacently saying “My birthplace is somewhere deep in the mountains in Hamgyeong Province. To survive, I outcame down to Seoul and made my livelihood as a water-seller, sending all my 3 sons to famous universities.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the final competition, however, the words of this old person did a complete about-face.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In between the preliminary and the final, there was a few days of leisure. While other senior contestants-to-be were practicing their songs to sing in solo and unisons to sing with their descendents, yet this old man were concentrating on his self-introduction practice rather than song.&lt;br /&gt;The final competition day at last, he introduced himself, “Born as a son of self-sustaining descent, I have led my life as a scholar reading solely books during lifetime.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Like his saying at the preliminary, his 3 sons were famous university alumni who rose in the world in each of their working circles to a name-recognizable degree.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Yet, these sons reached the following thinking, their face might be lost, if the fact was known through TV to the world that “their father was born as a son of poor descent, broke away from an original home village to the south with everything behind, and subsisted on water-selling for the family livelihood and children.” To save their own face, the 3 sons all played brainwash(?) and pressure(?) upon the old person so they had their father do a complete about-turn concerning father’s background information.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Through the Chosen era down in the 36-year colonial ruling times by Japanese Empire, there was the custom that the higher middle-class families making a fair amount of money used their currency to buy water.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There were various reasons for this water-buying, such as digging a well was too expensive and too hard-workable. But one reason was, by using their currency to buy some loads of water regularly a day, they could use the chance to show off ‘how financially resourceful their family was,’ ‘in more frequent proportion to their reputation,’ even if they had a well in the house. By this reason, water selling in the capital was a commonly seen job.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Bukcheong Water-bearer&lt;br /&gt;북청 물장수&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. by Kim Donghwan&lt;br /&gt;김 동환&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Coming quietly over the dream every early in the morning&lt;br /&gt;pouring down a gushing cool water by the bedside,&lt;br /&gt;Bukcheong water-bearer soon goes afar over the beating heart.&lt;br /&gt;새벽마다 고요히 꿈길을 밟고 와서&lt;br /&gt;머리맡에 찬물을 솨아(쏴아) 퍼붓고는&lt;br /&gt;그만 가슴을 디디면서 멀리 사라지는 북청 물장수&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If the dream wet in water&lt;br /&gt;calls the Bukcheong water-bearer,&lt;br /&gt;he is gone again&lt;br /&gt;with a squeaking buckets with no trace behind.&lt;br /&gt;물에 젖은 꿈이&lt;br /&gt;북청 물장수를 부르면&lt;br /&gt;그는 삐걱삐걱 소리를 치며&lt;br /&gt;온 자취도 없이 다시 사라져 버린다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Every early in the morning,&lt;br /&gt;How awaiting the Bukcheong water-bearer I am!&lt;br /&gt;날마다 아침마다 기다려지는&lt;br /&gt;북청 물장수&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The more painfully working manual job it is to remain alive, the more shameful it is, this idea is one of the still so far deeply-ingrained Korean emotions. Water-bearer too was regarded as one of such jobs in those times. The waves of civilization affected even the back country in Hwamgyeong Province. So the water-bearers, who had to be under a water-carrying yoke for the sake of children education even though they themselves are under pains and contempt since born in poor descent and grown in lowest education, yet didn’t mind to bear water loads on the shoulders with not a day off in rain or snow even early morning on coldest winter day, which was the life of water-bearers (Bukcheong is a location name in South Hamgyeong Province).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;With no education and no property of his own down in Seoul a strange land far away from home and in all the hopes and anticipation, “I will send each and every son of mine to university by all means even doing a water-bearer,” this old person, a used-to-be water-bearer on the shoulders, has overcome lowest class ladder’s toilsome hardships of water-bearing through his own industry and efforts.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;By virtue of that, he was able to have all 3 sons go up to university. Now, under the oppression of the sons, disappeared the old man’s glory, who had been complacent whenever he saw his sons grown up to be nice-looking persons. Growing up, the sons looked upon it as natural that one should be born as a son of noble descent and read books growing under parents’ care and under the father who led a decent scholastic life in the middle of nothing wanting in clothes to wear, food to eat and everything. So by converting the sons’ self-introduction too into the saying, “We entered famous universities as hard as we studied, and rose in the society as hard as we worked,” they replaced their old father’s original self-sacrificing toilsome life by mere a meaningless easy-going life.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In this old man’s inverted words, it is hard to find the settlement of such words as devotion, sacrifice, diligence, care-taking and glory.&lt;br /&gt;In their places, there rather occupies such words as family origin, social rank, face-saving and so on.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For whom is the reputation, for whom is the social rank, and for whom is the care-taking position?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If only the sons had given information to the world as it is about their father’s sacrifice and devotion for his sons instead of their selfish face-saving, the old person’s glory of self-sacrifice would have been a spiritual legacy inherited generation after generation.&lt;br /&gt;Under the sons’ face-saving, however, the old person’s sublime spirit came to an end.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;By embellishing the history of our past like this old man’s sons did, there are times we try to save our faces. In recent days, papers and TV media have often dealt with the deepening antipathy against between Korea and Japan. There are some occasions where the Japanese themselves look down on Korea and China in their national consciousness that ‘the people of their own are distinctively superior to other nations and countries.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;With these senses of superiority and lordliness, the authorities continually try to instill national superiority in the people by unscrupulously modifying and misrepresenting even the historic facts in schoolbook that their emotionally most sensitive adolescents will learn. The authorities insist that the ancient culture of Japan was more original and excellent than Korea and China’s so it had its influence reach from the Japanese Islands onto the Korean Peninsula.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Dear listeners, please look at the map of the world.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Upon geographic features of China, Korea and Japan even in the eyes of elementary schoolchild, the advanced one in China among the 4 Great Ancient Civilizations moved across Korea onto Japan. The Japan authorities’ contention that ‘their self-professed prior-developed culture in the Japanese Archipelago on the Pacific coast moved in the backward direction to original onto the main continent’ is near to an egocentric attachment for concealing their cultural inferiority as well as it is ludicrous. What the Japanese national sentiment is hard to accept of is but the fact that they received cultural transfer from a lower-developed neighbor country in their self thinking.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Towards this sort of Japan, we Korean people are indignant and call names.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To think in self-possessed calm reflection and mental balance, our culture on the Korean peninsula too has arisen from one of the Great Civilizations. When we describe the history of our country, we use such modifiers as ‘a single people’ or ‘a single people built upon the grounds of agricultural culture.’ But we should know that this sort of words as well is something that we Koreans have embellished the past history with.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Hwangha Civilization has blossomed since far back in B.C. times. The Korean Peninsula was geographically under the influence of Hwangha Civilization. As one great ancient civilization in the Hwangha basin blossomed out and some tribes developed into a nation, afterwards turning into a strong power-centralized system, the people of lost vested rights or -- whether for any reason -- crowds of runaways gathered together. They made their way onto GoJoseon the First Tribal State or afterwards Goguryeo up at the north, and onto Baekje (the region of Mahan the federation of small tribes) down at the south. In so doing they competed for lots of land with the existing earlier settlers in the Korean Peninsula, or coexisted together peacefully, so they became early ancestors of the modern Koreans.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It is necessary that some parts should be added, some parts distant from the generally-accepted paraphrases of our nation identity, like “Posterity of Dangun the Founding Father of the Korean Nation; 5000 Year History; A Unitary Nation Developed from upon Agricultural Culture.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;“Owing to belonging to a frontier of the developed Chinese culture, the Korean Peninsula was influenced by settler people such as the political runaways and victims who had come in crowds from China,” -- are you sure we Korean people can proudly talk to our descendents as concerns this fact?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, in the process of looking into Korean ancestors’ genealogical record, one may find the ancestors are connected backwards to even the Hun tribes at the frontiers of Mongolian Plateau and the Altai Mountains. One of their common traits is the nomadic style of custom in their living. Nomadic tribes are very lagging behind in accepting civilization (see Genesis 46:3,4). If in TV you had ever watched the informatory scenes about the nomadic tribes somewhere in Central Asia and Africa, you would have found they have some life styles in which they still depend their mobility upon horses, oxen, sheep and the like, and still live in almost the same tents as those 1000 thousand years ago in this fast-progressing world. You might sometimes have felt how curious-looking theirs are, but might also have felt how stuffy-looking theirs are, those nomadic habits of living far behind from the civilization circles.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Looking into cultural origins, one may find the facts that ancient Kazakhs (the Turkish tribes) living in the Kazakhstan region of now were connected to Mongols, that the Mongols influenced ancient Korea enormously, and that the ancient Koreans in turn moved onto Japan, according to genealogical records backwards.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The reason why us Korean people are presently so indignant with is for the Japanese people’s arrogant moral code of conduct. To think in different shoes, the Korean too are thinking and acting similar to what the Japanese do. We wish that the culture that had influenced the Korean Peninsula would be ‘the Han race’ that had bloomed a bright and grand ancient culture in the Hwangha basin. But it is rather the culture of the Kazakhstan or Mongolian tribes who have even no water to wash face, let alone bathe, still living in the tents, still riding on horses up to this day, so that we are their descendents. This fact of real history is not easy at all for us to accept.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This kind of example is seen also in some white people who want to think as if white Americans were always superior and righter than wrong, while black Americans were always inferior and wronger than right, despite the fact that they are all the same Americans. In like manner, there are some Koreans who want to think as if Koreans had been influenced by the culture of the world-renowned Hwangha Civilization rather than that of underdeveloped nomads in the plains, once at least influenced they have been. This might be in some Koreans’ unconscious thinking (the worship of the powerful.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Knowingly and unknowingly, we have the prejudice of ‘the worship of the powerful.’ If the civilization and culture which we think were lower and inferior and crude are actually the ones which greatly influenced our nation genealogically, then, are you sure you would easily accept and tell such historical fact down to the posterity?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;People have the disposition to beautify the past.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Any country or nation has basically their myth of national birth or their epic of national heroes. Embellished than the real fact, these myths or heroic tales of national birth have been transmitted down to the descendents. The Roman myth of birth has a wolf having raised Romulus and Remus, a set of twins who were deserted in the mountains. Eating milk from the wolf in their baby days, the brothers were so courageous they later subjugated the Tiber riverside tribes, setting up the foundation of Rome.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The ‘courageousness’ which the Romans boast of means ‘aggressiveness’ from a different view.&lt;br /&gt;However, they emphasize the word courageousness instead of aggressiveness. This way, people tend to beautify their self-related past, handing this same embellished history down to their next generation.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of one thing worth learning from Israel nation, they had often times told their next generation the fact itself rather than an embellished version of their past history. In Exodus Chapter 20 and Deuteronomy Chapter 5, the Ten Commandments, whose introduction says, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery,” the Bible delivers God’s message of salvation and commandments, which is possible only by confessing ‘their past history of slavery.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;According to the character of Hebrews especially the Bible writers, instead of objectifying or objectively reporting a certain historical events, they rather give religious meaning to whether the texts of their having written are based upon historical facts (Confession of Faith), and they make their way creating new facts depending upon them (View of History).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The history is only ‘God’s history of salvation,’ which is the historical view of the Bible writers.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Today’s text Deuteronomy 26:5~9 starts from the confession that ‘the Israelite ancestry was drifters without possessions and wanderers without root.’ It refers to it that their ancestors were a few Aramaics who originally drifted about; they suffered any indescribable insult and ill-treatment when they went down to Egypt looking for edibles in the plains.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;They teach ‘God-wrought history of salvation’ to their descendents by repeating every year the historical consciousness in their confessing, “Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our misery, toil and oppression. So the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror and with miraculous signs and wonders. He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Deuteronomy 26:1~11 and Joshua 24:1~13 were the religious clauses which were annually repeated and recited in the Israelite general assembly.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Inside these religious clauses is a short and brief outline of Israelite long history developing into a nation. Recorded in here is a historical account of Israel shaping up for a long time into a nation: the patriarchal age in which Israelite ancestors leaving from Ur of the Chaldea and wondering about with flocks of sheep over the whole Middle East area, the period of slavery in Egypt, the period of vagrancy across over the wilderness, and at length Israel entering the land of Canaan where the 12 tribes being assigned each land to stand on and settle down.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This religious consciousness is lying underneath Israel’s thinking about land.&lt;br /&gt;(see 1 Kings 21:1~3 Naboth’s Vineyard and Deuteronomy 19:14)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The characteristic of this religious confession lies in the view that Israel’s experiences in the history are solely God’s activity. Instead of thinking the historical experience in the Exodus from Egypt was a sort of revolutionary determination and politically heroic revolution by Israelite descendents, they rather viewed it as ‘the salvation event by Yahweh God’ who led Israel out of Egypt through Yahweh God’s salvation providence, that is, with a mighty hand, an outstretched arm and miraculous signs and wonders.&lt;br /&gt;Instead of thinking the passage through over the wilderness the desert of death was by virtue of their extraordinary patience and sturdy endurance, they rather viewed it as solely ‘God’s event’ performed by God in which Yahweh God having completely led them, led them and guided them with the miraculous signs and wonders of manna and quail and a pillar of a cloud and a pillar of fire.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;They view their Canaan occupation too as the land which they finally gained through God’s leadership and guidance as ‘a battler of the war’ rather than through man’s efforts (compare between Judges, Deuteronomy 7:17~23 and Exodus 23:27~30). As it were, the Exodus is God’s event; the passage through the wilderness is God’s event; and the occupation of Canaan too is one of God’s events.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In past history, so many invaders and so many conquerors considered the victories in their wars to be their own. Jews’ historical characteristic is, however, the Bible writers consider even war to be God’s action.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Further, they viewed their history in the ‘religious eyes’ (religious confession) that this world secular history too was for the sake of Yahweh God solely bestowing salvation upon Israel (view of history).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This belief and faith about history became a fundamental source of power that brought a semi-nomadic herds of people wondering about without power and root into having survived as a nation which receives attention and concern from the world nowadays.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here now is the conclusion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Deuteronomy 26:5~11 has the record of “how they led their lives on and how they achieved rebuilding” in the vagrant history of Israel ancestry, that is, in so many occasions of sufferings such as being chased after, being pushed, being robbed and being displaced.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There are many times when the Bible records how awkward, unattractive, and full of shames and sufferings their Israelite ancestors’ history actually was. Not enough of their recording as it was, they went even to the extent of holding the ceremony in which they annually recited the account of their past history full of shames and sufferings to their descendents.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To identify themselves with their descendents through this ceremony of religious confession is not that they would prerogatively be given blessing in their lives because they were those who received God’s promise and the herd chosen by God’s calling, the purpose thereof is rather in order to teach their progenies to accomplish God’s promise and to receive and endure many historical trials and hardships coming about due to participation in the work.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Another teaching is that ‘the subject of the history is God’ and ‘God’s ultimate objective in the history is salvation.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The text Deuteronomy 26:5~9 teaches even us living at the present that when we see things in the eyes of faith, we can have hope, even though ours are the one filled with shames and sufferings (view of history).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘History is the stage where God works’ and ‘God will bestow salvation upon his people’ whatever hardships they are in; these ultimate hopes were the ‘great legacy’ which Israelite ancestors handed down to their descendents from generation to generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;“The LORD your God is with you,&lt;br /&gt;he is mighty to save.&lt;br /&gt;He will take great delight in you,&lt;br /&gt;he will quiet you with his love,&lt;br /&gt;he will rejoice over you with singing.”&lt;br /&gt;(Zephaniah 3:17)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlkLLBDkZI/AAAAAAAAAbo/NQ637Cd6jzE/s1600-h/35-Deuteronomy+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262847782657692050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 270px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlkLLBDkZI/AAAAAAAAAbo/NQ637Cd6jzE/s400/35-Deuteronomy+3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-3298188355710063689?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/3298188355710063689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=3298188355710063689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/3298188355710063689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/3298188355710063689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/10/great-legacy.html' title='Great Legacy'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlkpvn3aMI/AAAAAAAAAcA/b8K1uoulRnE/s72-c/35-Deuteronomy+8.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-6712051756366327774</id><published>2008-10-30T00:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-30T00:34:17.127-07:00</updated><title type='text'>위대한 유산</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlfgsQmvEI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/TWXv_c8UtAA/s1600-h/35-Deuteronomy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262842654800395330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 350px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 361px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlfgsQmvEI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/TWXv_c8UtAA/s400/35-Deuteronomy.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;16. "위대한 유산"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. “Great Legacy”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-2001년 7월&lt;br /&gt;-July 2001&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;신명기 26장 5-11절&lt;br /&gt;Deuteronomy 26:5-11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;5 너는 또 네 하나님 여호와 앞에 아뢰기를 내 조상은 유리하는 아람 사람으로서 소수의 사람을 거느리고 애굽에 내려가서 거기 우거하여 필경은 거기서 크고 강하고 번성한 민족이 되었더니 6 애굽 사람이 우리를 학대하며 우리를 괴롭게 하며 우리에게 중역을 시키므로 7 우리가 우리 조상의 하나님 여호와께 부르짖었더니 여호와께서 우리 음성을 들으시고 우리의 고통과 신고와 압제를 하감하시고 8 여호와께서 강한 손과 편 팔과 큰 위엄과 이적과 기사로 우리를 애굽에서 인도하여 내시고 9 이곳으로 인도하사 이 땅 곧 젖과 꿀이 흐르는 땅을 주셨나이다 10 여호와여 이제 내가 주께서 내게 주신 토지소산의 맏물을 가져왔나이다 하고 너는 그것을 네 하나님 여호와 앞에 두고 네 하나님 여호와 앞에 경배할 것이며 11 네 하나님 여호와께서 너와 네 집에 주신 모든 복을 인하여 너는 레위인과 너의 중에 우거하는 객과 함께 즐거워할찌니라&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlfEJCF-FI/AAAAAAAAAa4/HmeNMc7BTA8/s1600-h/Deuteronomy+3.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262842164307949650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 378px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlfEJCF-FI/AAAAAAAAAa4/HmeNMc7BTA8/s400/Deuteronomy+3.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;지금으로부터 30년도 훨씬 지난 1970년대 중반의 TV프로 중에 황인용 아나운서가 진행하던 ‘장수 만세’라는 프로가 있었습니다. 많은 분들이 방송국에 신청을 하면, 프로그램담당자들은 예심을 거쳐서 본선에 진출할 3명의 노인 분들을 뽑았습니다. 본선에 진출한 노인 분들은 본인이 부를 노래, 혹은 기타의 장기자랑을 하고 본인의 순서가 끝나면 자손들 모두가 출연해서 노인분과 함께 노래를 하던 프로였습니다. ‘장수 만세’의 특성상 70-80살이 넘는 노인 분들이 출연하다 보니 자손들 중에는 나이가 지긋이 들어서 사회적으로나 경제적으로나 자리를 잡은 사람들도 많았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;어떤 노인분이 예심을 볼 때는 심사위원들에게 “고향은 함경도 산골인데, 먹고 살기위해 서울로 내려와 물장수를 하면서 아들 3형제 모두를 명문대학까지 보냈다”고 자신을 흐뭇해하며 자기소개를 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그런데 본선에서는 이 노인분의 말이 180도 바꿨습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예선이 끝나고 본선까지는 몇 일간의 여유가 있었습니다. 본선에 함께 출연할 다른 노인 분들은 본인이 부를 노래를 연습하거나 자손들과 함께 부를 합창곡을 연습하는데, 이 노인분만은 노래보다는 자기소개 하는 것에 중점을 두고 연습했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;그리고서 본선 날에는 “먹고 살 만 한 양반의 자식으로 태어나 평생을 책만 읽은 선비의 삶을 살았다”고 자기소개를 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;노인분의 아들 3형제는 예선에서 노인분의 말대로 명문대학출신으로 사회 각 분야에서 어느 정도 이름을 내밀 정도로 성공한 사람들이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그런데 이 아들들이 생각하기에 “자기들의 아버지가 가난한 집의 자식으로 태어나 고향을 등지고 혈혈단신 남쪽으로 내려와 자식들과 먹고 살기 위해 물장수 했다”는 것이 TV를 통해서 세상에 알려지면 자기들 체면이 떨어진다는 것이었습니다. 3형제 모두가 자신들의 체면을 유지하기 위해 노인 분한테 세뇌와(?) 압력(?)을 가해 아버지의 과거를 180∘바꿔 놓았던 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;조선시대를 거쳐 일본의 36년 식민지통치당시 서울의 잘사는 명문양반집이나, 돈 많은 중인들의 집안에서는 물을 사서 쓰는 습관이 있었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;물을 사서 쓰는 이유는 여러 가지가 있었으나, 그 당시는 우물 파는 것이 너무 비싸고 힘든 것도 있었지만, '내놓으라 하는 집안 일수록' 집안에 우물이 있어도 하루 몇 짐의 물을 규칙적으로 사서 먹음으로써 ‘그 집안의 재력’을 남한테 보일 수 있는 기회로 이용하기도 했습니다. 이런 연유로 서울 장안에서 물장수는 흔히 볼 수 있던 직업이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;북청 물장수&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;김 동환&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;새벽마다 고요히 꿈길을 밟고 와서&lt;br /&gt;머리맡에 찬물을 솨아(쏴아) 퍼붓고는&lt;br /&gt;그만 가슴을 디디면서 멀리 사라지는 북청 물장수&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;물에 젖은 꿈이&lt;br /&gt;북청 물장수를 부르면&lt;br /&gt;그는 삐걱삐걱 소리를 치며&lt;br /&gt;온 자취도 없이 다시 사라져 버린다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;날마다 아침마다 기다려지는&lt;br /&gt;북청 물장수&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;먹고살기 위해 맨 몸으로 고생하는 직업일수록 자랑할 것이 못 된다는 생각이 지금까지도 면면히 이어져 오는 게 우리나라 사람들이 가지고 있는 정서 중의 하나입니다. 물장수라는 직업도 당시에는 그런 직업 중에 한가지로 여겼습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;개화의 물결이 함경도 두메산골까지 영향을 주어 자신은 가난한 집에 태어나 못 배운 탓에 고생하며 멸시를 받지만, 자녀들의 교육을 위해 물지게를 져야했던 물장수들은 연중무휴 비가 오나 눈이 오나, 아무리 추운 겨울의 이른 새벽이라도 물지게 지기를 꺼려하지 않았던 것이 물장수들의 삶이었습니다(북청은 함경남도에 있는 지명임).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;머나먼 타향 서울까지 내려와서 배운 것 없고, 가진 것 없던 형편에 “물장수를 해서라도 아들들만은 대학까지 보내겠다”는 희망과 기대로 물지게를 졌던 이 노인분은 자신의 근면성과 노력으로 최하층의 고달픈 물장수의 고생을 이겨냈습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그 대가로 아들 3형제 모두를 대학까지 보냈습니다. 이제는 자식들이 장성해서 잘 된 것을 볼 때마다 흐뭇해하던 노인분의 영광은 아들들의 압력 앞에서 사라졌습니다. 양반의 자손으로 태어나 입을 것, 먹을 것,...모든 것이 부족함이 없는 가운데서 선비의 고고한 삶을 사는 아버님과 그러한 부모 밑에서 책 읽는 것을 자연스럽게 보고 자란 아들들 역시 “자기들이 공부한 만큼 명문대에 입학했고, 사회에 나와서는 노력한 만큼 출세했다”는 것으로 말을 바꿈으로써 노인분의 자기희생적인 고달픈 일생을 지극히 안온한 일생으로 바꾸어 놓았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 노인분의 뒤바뀐 말속에서는 자식에 대한 헌신, 희생, 근면, 노력, 보살핌, 영광이란 말이 자리 잡기 힘듭니다.&lt;br /&gt;그 대신에 출신, 지위, 체면 등이 다가옵니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;누구를 위한 체면, 누구를 위한 지위, 보살핌의 자리 바뀜입니까?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;만약에 아들들이 자신의 체면보다도 노인분의 자식에 대한 헌신과 희생을 사실그대로 세상에 알렸더라면, 노인분의 영광스러운 자기희생은 자손대대로 이어질 유산일 수 있었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;하지만 아들들의 체면 앞에서 노인분의 숭고한 희생정신은 끝이 나고 말았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 노인분의 아들들처럼 우리는 과거의 역사를 미화시킴으로써 자신의 체면을 유지하려고 합니다. 요즈음, 신문이나 TV에서 한•일간의 감정 악화를 자주 다룹니다. 일본인들 스스로가 ‘자기들은 다른 민족이나, 나라들에 비해서 월등하게 뛰어나다’는 국민의식 속에서 한국과 중국을 얕잡아 볼 때가 많습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이런 우월감과 교만함을 가지고 정서적으로 가장 민감한 청소년들이 배울 교과서에 역사적인 사실까지도 서슴없이 수정하거나 왜곡시켜서까지 국민적 우월감을 고취시키려 합니다. 일본의 고대문화는 한국과 중국에 비해 독창적이고 우수해서 일본 열도에서 한반도에 영향을 주었다고 주장합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;여러분 세계지도를 보십시오!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;초등학교 학생이 보더라도 중국, 한국, 일본의 지리적 특성상 세계4대 문명의 하나인 중국의 선진 문명이 한반도를 통해 일본으로 건너가게 되었습니다. 태평양 연안에 속한 일본열도에서 ‘자기들의 발달한 문화가 대륙으로 거꾸로 거슬러 올라갔다’는 일본의 주장은 터무니없다기보다는 자신의 문화적 열등감을 감추기 위한 아집에 가깝습니다. 자기들보다 뒤쳐졌다고 생각하는 이웃나라에서 문화를 전수 받았다는 사실은 일본인들이 인정하기 힘든 국민감정입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이런 일본을 향해 우리나라 사람들은 분개하고 욕을 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 냉정히 생각해 보면 한반도의 문화도 이와 같은 경로를 따라 발달해 왔습니다. 우리나라의 역사를 기술할 때 '단일민족' 또는 '농경문화의 터 위에 이루어진 단일민족' 라는 수식어가 붙습니다. 하지만 이것도 우리나라 사람들이 자신의 과거를 미화시킨 것임을 알아야 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;황하문명은 기원전 오래 전부터 꽃을 피웠습니다. 한반도는 지리상 황하문명의 영향을 받을 수밖에 없습니다. 황하유역에서 고대문명을 꽃 피우고, 부족이 성장해서 국가로 형성되고, 후에 강력한 중앙 통치 체제로 바뀌자, 기득권을 획득하지 못한 사람들이나 ― 어떠한 이유에서인지 몰라도 ― 도망친 무리들이 뭉쳐서 위로는 고조선이나 후에는 고구려, 남으로는 지금의 백제(마한지방)로 영입해 와서 한반도에 자리 잡고 살던 사람들과 자리다툼을 하거나 평화로이 흡수해서 오늘날 대한민국의 선조들이 되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리민족의 정체성으로 당연히 받아들이던 “단군의 후예, 5천년의 역사, 농경문화 속에 정착한 단일민족”과는 거리가 먼 부문들이 첨가 되어야만 하는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;“발달한 중국 문화의 변두리에 속한 덕에 중국의 정치적 도망자나 피해자 등이 뭉쳐서 한반도에 몰려와 자리를 잡고 영향을 주었다.”- 이 사실을 대한민국의 국민들은 후손들에게 자랑스럽게 말해 줄 수 있습니까?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;더구나 한반도 선조들의 계보를 찾다 보면 몽골고원이나 알타이 산맥부근의 흉노족과도 연결시키게 됩니다. 이들의 특징은 유목민적인 생활관습에 있습니다. 유목민은 문명을 받아들이는데 굉장히 뒤쳐집니다.(창 46:3, 4참고) 여러분이 TV에서 중앙아시아나 아프리카의 유목민들을 소개하는 장면들을 보면 아직도 말, 소, 양등의 가축에 의존하는 기동력이나 빠르게 변해가는 세상 속에서 1000년 전과 비교해도 조금도 바뀐 것이 없는 천막에서의 생활방식 등이 때로는 신기롭게 보일 때도 있지만, 문명세계와는 너무 뒤쳐진 유목민의 생활 습관이 답답하게 느껴질 때가 있었을 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;인종과 문화의 맥을 찾다 보면 지금의 카자흐스탄 지방의 카작인들이(투르크족) 몽고와 연결됐고, 몽고인들은 한반도에 막대한 영향을 끼쳤고, 한반도에서 다시금 일본으로 건너갔다는 계보가 형성 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리나라 사람들이 지금 분노하는 것은 일본인들의 오만한 행동인데 입장 바꿔 생각하면 한국인들도 일본인들과 같은 생각과 행동을 한다는 것입니다. 한반도에 영향을 준 문화가 황하 유역에서 찬란한 고대 문화를 꽃피웠던 '한족'이라면 몰라도 아직도 말 타고, 천막생활을 하면서 목욕을 고사하고 세수 할 물마저 없는 초원의 유목민들인 카작인이나 몽골인의 후예인 것을 인정하는 것은 결코 쉬운 일이 아닙니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이런 예는 같은 미국인들인데도 백인이라면 나쁜 선입감보다는 오히려 호감 을 갖는 쪽으로 생각하고, 흑인이면 무조건 열등하거나 나쁜 쪽으로 생각하는 것이나, 이왕 중국의 영향을 받았으면 초원의 유목민들의 뒤처진 문화보다는 세계가 인정하는 황화 문명을 받아들인 것으로 생각하고 싶은 것이 우리나라 사람들의 무의식적인 생각일 것입니다(사대주의).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;우리는 알게 모르게 '사대주의' 선입관을 가지고 있습니다. 우리보다 못하고, 열등하고, 조잡하게 생각되던 문명과 문화가 우리민족한테 막대한 영향을 끼친 인종적인계보라면 여러분은 쉽게 받아들이고, 또 이런 역사적 사실을 후손들한테 말해 줄 수 있겠습니까?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;사람들은 과거를 미화시키려는 기질이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;어느 나라, 어느 민족에게도 건국신화나 영웅들의 이야기는 있습니다. 이들 건국신화나 영웅담은 사실보다도 미화시킨 이야기를 후손들에게 물려줘 왔습니다. 로마의 건국신화에는 산속에 버려진-로물루스(Romulus)와 레무스(Remus)-쌍둥이 형제를 늑대가 키웠다고 합니다. 늑대의 젖을 먹고 자란 형제는 용감성이 뛰어나 후에 티베르 강변의 부족들을 진압하고 로마의 기틀을 마련했다고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;로마인이 자랑하는 ‘용맹성’은, 다른 시야로 보면 ‘침략성’입니다.&lt;br /&gt;하지만 로마인들은 침략성이라는 단어 대신 용맹성을 강조합니다. 이렇게 사람들은 자신들과 관련된 과거는 미화시키고, 또 미화시킨 역사를 후손에게 물려줍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리가 이스라엘 민족에게 배울 것 중 하나가 선조의 과거를 미화시키는 것이 아니고, 사실 그대로를 전해 줄 때가 많았다는 점입니다. 출애굽기 20장과 신명기 5장의 십계명의 서문에는(서두) “나는 너를 애굽 땅, 종 되었던 집에서 인도하여 낸 네 하나님 여호와니라”에서 ‘종 되었던 과거사’를 인정함으로써, 비로소 성립할 수 있는 하나님의 구원과 명령을 시달합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;히브리인들, 특히 성경기자들은 어떤 역사적인 사건들을 객관화 하거나 그것을 객관적으로 보도하는 것보다, 그들이 기록한 본문들이 역사적 사실에 기초를 두고 있는 것에 신앙적 의미를 부여하고(신앙고백), 그것을 통하여 새로운 사실을 창조해 나가는데 그 특징이 있습니다(역사관).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오직 역사는 ‘하나님의 구원의 역사’ 뿐이라는 것이 성경 기자들의 역사관입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오늘의 본문 신명기 26장 5-9절은 ‘이스라엘의 조상들은 가진 것 없는 떠돌이 무리였으며, 뿌리 없는 방랑객들이었음’을 고백하는 것부터 시작합니다. 그들의 선조들은 본래 떠돌아다니는 소수의 아람 사람이었는데, 초원의 먹이를 찾아서 애굽땅으로 내려갔다가 말할 수 없는 곤욕과 학대를 당하게 된 것을 말합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그리고 그들은 “그 고난의 현장 한 가운데서 야훼를 향해서 부르짖었다. 그랬더니 야훼 하나님께서 그 부르짖음을 들으시고, 강한 손과/ 편 팔과/ 큰 위엄과/ 이적과/ 기사로써 그들을 애굽으로부터 이끌어내시고, 인도하여, 젖과 꿀이 흐르는 가나안 땅을 주셨다” 는 것을 고백하는 역사의식을 해마다 되풀이해서 하나님에 의해 이루어진 ‘구원의 역사’를 후손들에게 가르쳐주고 있는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;신명기 26장 1‐11절, 여호수아 24장 1-13절은 매년 되풀이 되어 이스라엘 총회에서 낭송되던 신조였습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 신조들 속에는 긴 이스라엘 민족 형성사가 아주 간략하고 짧게 요약되어 있습니다. 여기는 이스라엘 선조들이 갈대아우르를 떠나서 양떼를 몰고 중동지역을 배회하던 족장시절부터, 그들이 애굽에서 종살이하던 역사, 광야를 유랑했던 역사, 그리고 마침내는 가나인 땅에 들어가서 열두 지파가 각각 자기들의 설(살) 땅을 분배받고 정주하게 된 기나긴 민족형성사가 기록되어있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이러한 신앙의식이 이스라엘의 땅에 대한 생각의 근거를 이루고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;(열왕21:1-3에 나봇의 포도원 사건, 신명기 19:14 참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 신앙고백의 특징은 이스라엘이 역사 안에서 겪은 경험은 오직 하나님의 구원활동이라고 보는데 있습니다. 출애굽의 역사적인 경험도 이스라엘 자손들의 혁명적인 결단력이나 영웅적인 정치적 혁명의 일환으로 보지 않고, 이것은 야훼하나님의 구원 행위, 즉 강한 손과 편 팔과 이적과 기사로써 이스라엘을 애굽에서 이끌어내신 바로 ‘야훼 하나님의 구원사건’이라고 봅니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;또 죽음의 사막인 광야를 통과한 것도 그들의 탁월한 인내심과 강한 지구력의 힘에 의한 것이 아니라, 그들을 전적으로 이끌어 주신 야훼하나님이 만나와 메추라기와 구름기둥과 불기둥의 이적으로 이끄시고 인도하신, 즉 하나님에 의해서 이루어진 ‘하나님의 사건’으로만 보고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;가나안 점령도 인간의 노력이 아닌 '전쟁의 용사'로서 하나님이 주도하고 이끄셔서 비로소 얻은 땅이라고 봅니다(사사기 1장과 신명기7:17-23, 출애굽기 23:27-30 비교해서 참고) 말하자면 출애굽도 하나님의 사건이요, 광야 통과도 하나님의 사건이요, 가나안 점령도 하나님의 사건이라는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;과거 역사상 허다한 침략자들과 전쟁의 승리자들은 전쟁의 승리를 자신의 것으로 생각했습니다. 그러나 성경의 기자들은 전쟁까지도 하나님의 행동으로 생각한다는데 유대인의 역사적 특징이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;더 나아가 오히려 이러한 세속의 역사도 궁극적으로는 야훼 하나님이 이스라엘에게 오직 구원을 베풀기 위한 것이라는(신앙고백) ‘신앙의 눈‘으로 역사를 보았습니다(역사관).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;바로 이러한 역사에 대한 믿음과 신앙이 힘없고. 뿌리 없이 유랑하는 반유목민의 무리로 하여금 오늘날 세계의 이목과 관심을 일으키는 국가로서 끈질기게 살아남게 한 그 근원적인 힘이 되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론을 맺겠습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;신명기 26장 5-11절에는 이스라엘 조상의 유랑의 역사. 즉 쫒기고, 밀리며, 빼앗기고, 축출당하며, 수 없이 많은 수모를 겪으면서도 “어떻게 그들이 삶을 살아갔고, 새롭게 재건할 수 있었는가”에 대한 기록이 담겨 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;성경은 이스라엘 선조들의 역사를 실제로 볼품없고, 매력 없으며, 수치와 수모로 가득 찬 사실 그대로 기록할 때가 많습니다. 사실 그대로를 기록한 것으로도 모자라서 수치와 수모에 찬 역사를 매년 되풀이해 후손들에게 들려주는 의식을 거행했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 신앙고백적인 의식을 통해서 후손들에게 확인시키는 것은, 신의 약속을 받은 자들이라고 해서, 또는 신의 부르심을 받은 선택된 무리라고 해서 특별히 축복을 받는 삶을 사는 것이 아니라 오히려 신의 약속을 성취시키는 일, 그 일의 참여로 인하여 오는 역사적 고난들을 받아들이고 감내할 것을 가르치는데 그 목적이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;또 한 가지는 ‘역사의 주체는 하나님’이시라는 것과 ‘하나님의 역사의 궁극적 목표는 구원’이라는 것은 가르쳐 줍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;신명기 26장5-9절의 본문은 수치와 고난으로 얼룩진 역사라도, 신앙의 눈으로 볼 때는 희망을 가질 수 있음을 오늘을 사는 우리들에게까지도 가르쳐 주고 있습니다(역사의식).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘역사는 하나님의 활동 무대’이며, 그의 백성들이 어떠한 고난에 허덕인다 하더라도 ‘하나님이 구원을 베푸실 것’이라는 궁극적인희망이 이스라엘 선조들이 후손들에게 대대로 물려준 ‘위대한 유산’이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;“너의 하나님 여호와가 너의 가운데에 계시니&lt;br /&gt;그는 구원을 베푸실 전능자이시라.&lt;br /&gt;그가 너로 말미암아 기쁨을 이기지 못하시며&lt;br /&gt;너를 잠잠히 사랑하시며&lt;br /&gt;너로 말미암아 즐거이 부르며 기뻐하시리라.”&lt;br /&gt;(스바냐 3장 17절)&lt;br /&gt;“The LORD your God is with you,&lt;br /&gt;he is mighty to save.&lt;br /&gt;He will take great delight in you,&lt;br /&gt;he will quiet you with his love,&lt;br /&gt;he will rejoice over you with singing.”&lt;br /&gt;(Zephaniah 3:17)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQle4CxpsYI/AAAAAAAAAaw/PhhdbVyq1Jw/s1600-h/35-Deuteronomy+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262841956469944706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" 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href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post.html' title='위대한 유산'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SQlfgsQmvEI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/TWXv_c8UtAA/s72-c/35-Deuteronomy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-476807837284955511</id><published>2008-08-29T23:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-29T23:46:11.085-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Even when you are in sleep,...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SLjn9yVCWoI/AAAAAAAAAaY/LOo_n0cLFmM/s1600-h/34-Mark+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240193215113616002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SLjn9yVCWoI/AAAAAAAAAaY/LOo_n0cLFmM/s400/34-Mark+2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;17. “Even when you are in sleep,...(miracles are happening)”&lt;br /&gt;17."당신이 잠든 밤에도..(기적은 일어나고 있다)"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- September 2001&lt;br /&gt;- 2001년 9월&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;Mark 4:26~29&lt;br /&gt;26. He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;27. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.&lt;br /&gt;28. All by itself the soil produces grain--first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.&lt;br /&gt;29. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Changes of seasons are well beyond curiosity even up to wonder. In between merely a month, we are in the middle of fall. Compared with last August where the sun glared as if burning all on the earth, the weather has turned too different. Already, we get to looking for a hot tea and a warm floor early in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;One of the biggest characteristics in my life is living in through accordance with time while I look like living without restraint of time. Walking in my living is an essential priority. But on the condition of my body hard to adapt to sun or hot weather, I hardly can do the walking at any instant point of time, so my life has to be under rule and time.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I get to morning walking for about 50 minutes from 5:30~6:00 AM in summer, for 60 minutes from 6:00 or 7:00 AM in spring and autumn, for 60~90 minutes from 8:00~8:30 and at 9 o’clock of sunbeams starting to shine in very cold weather around 10 degrees below zero. Evening walking is also similar. For more than 300 days in 365, I am controlling my body with this load of constitutional walking. (This had been a way of living until September 2005 before my leg hurting.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The reason of changes of walking hours and walking loads season by season is as follows:&lt;br /&gt;First, it is because of difficulty in control of temperature caused up by being exposed to sunlight and bodily heat turning up during walk according to bodily particularities of mine. The higher the temperature within goes by the movement during walk and the higher the temperature without goes, the more hardly the heart endures, so that I easily get tired at a small bit of sunlight. .&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Second, it is because of sunbeams and lights, especially the lights of cars in the night that cause my eyes hard to open. Due to time difference of sun rising season by season and eye condition necessary of keeping off from strong lights and body condition hard to be exposed to sunlight, I get to my walking before sunrise and end it by the time when the sun rays are spreading, regardless of season (with an exception of winter). Since walking even after sunset is necessary for me due to a relatively increased amount of walking from October to March next year, the seasons that are somewhat easy to walk in lower temperature outside, wearing my sunglasses is essential for a walk.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Insulin-dependent diabetes (Type-1 diabetes) that started at the year 77 has brought me multiple complications with the passage of time. From 90, my eyes began to be very sensitive to lights. With the lapse of 20, 30 or longer years after diabetes, one of the hardest for most diabetics is visual impairment.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For visual protection, I have enjoyed using sunglasses since the year 90. Sunglasses at night, Sunglasses at 6 in the morning..., by a mere reason of wearing sunglasses on a daily routine basis, I sometimes was verbally abused by a stranger without cause, treated as an odd fish, and often even questioned abruptly by a policeman.... For me to survive, wearing sunglasses is a necessity, and yet Korean society doesn’t tolerate it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should like to recommend applying a mask on the mouth rather than ‘Insadol - a drug which advertises a strong gum’ to someone who has sore teeth, and rather applying ultra-violet-screened sunglasses to someone who suffers from diabetic visual trouble. For those who suffer from arthritis, bathing in warm water and a ‘supporting band’ worn around joints of knees, heels and elbows are efficaciously a priority over an oral drug of arthritis. Such kinds of advice, mess media promote, I have a wish. (Of course, excluded are serious cases that need professional treatment.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As a minister as I am, this action is now hard to practice, either. Not unlike before, I start evening walking at 6:30~7:00, and it is dark by the time 7:30~8:00 about time to end walking. The darker it is, the harder the lights nearby feel and the more serious my eyes’ soreness stimulated by lights gets. On account of this, the time I go to bed is not across 9~10 o’clock.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;While I used to walk uprightly in the morning out of hating the lights of the village 1km ahead of mine, I now walk heads down or eyes nearly closed from start by the ending point of evening walk. This is the best preventive measure I can take, together with walking, against eye impairment. Till just a while ago, a diabetic within my acquaintance who had said no problem with his normal life since his visual recovery he insisted on after surgery of visually impaired eyes virtually lost his eyesight in a mere few months.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As important as other parts of the body are, one must continue to take their own self-managing responsibility for and be anxious about their own eyes to an awful(?) extreme. For, unlike gradually-dwindling visual acuity of commoners by natural ageing, those who have long suffered from diabetes could catch a ‘sudden’ and ‘ruinous’ visual impairment. Although we commit numerous desires and sins because we can see, but we can cherish all the things good, wonderful and curious in this so-called beautiful world because we have eyes.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Walking itself alone too burdensome, 2~3 months in summer obliges me to set foot forward with an exertion. In summer, I end my walking in exhaustion in no leisurely state of looking around or appreciating and feeling the nature around.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Around the end of August, however, a cool breeze touches very obvious on the skin early in the morning and everything within my eye span begins to feel refreshing. From then on, escaping from a ‘bleak means’ essential for surviving or keeping the right condition of body, going out for a walk has ‘living itself’ thrilling.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Although it is merely one twentieth ~ one 24th of a day if an habitually walking time in the morning is calculated by the time, I am grateful myself for being alive in the time and feel an infinite happiness for still being visually able. Walking virtually works as a tonic of the mind, not only as a health of the body. Drops of dew on the grass, yellow primroses seen early in the morning, sawgrass feathers breezing in the wind, autumn plains emptied one by one....&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of human will at all, the change of seasons shows us miracles as well as gifts of Nature.&lt;br /&gt;Especially what has me moving each time among the gifts of Nature is 30-minutes-long eastern sky at sunrise and 30-minutes-long western sky at sunset. The sky about the 30 minutes long between early morning and morning and between afternoon and evening is what I untiringly appreciate, saying repeatedly to myself, what photographer or what painter were to express this solemnness?!...something intense, subtle, brilliant, elegant, natural...&lt;br /&gt;Nature itself is great art and a perfect piece of work. In the moment of walking across the creative world of art, one feels themselves full at last so that they often find themselves experiencing praise being to God the Creator.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;You listeners too, please walk across the fields early in the morning now once in your just imagination.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If you walk alone across the early morning fields especially the day it’s cloudy, you will taste a mystical feeling(!) of coming across(?) ‘a morning of creation’ as if being a principal character of Genesis 1st chapter. (Is this an emotion exclusively of my own? or a hyper-emotion?)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The world of creation, namely, the ecosystem is of a certain order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This certain order is unseen in the eyes of man. Even if seen on occasion, it has often been disregarded. And yet, if man disregards the order of nature and adds to man’s own artificial power, the damage returns to the humans themselves.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For example, to make agricultural use or municipal road use of the patches gotten as remnants through artificially embanking and narrowing such spaces as ‘vacant’ shores on the stream, marshlands down the river, watercourses on the curve that appear useless in ordinary times, it might look like gaining a great benefit at first and yet they could suffer a grave misery from a big flood in just a few decades since. The heavy flood damage of Anyang City area in 1977 as well was because they artificially narrowed the streambed surroundings through embankment of the Stream Anyang according to ‘city development scheme.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As to public fears of ‘Mad Cow Disease’ that drove the whole Europe into anxiety, the following ‘hypothesis of mad cow disease’ is most widely recognized, that the cause of disease is because they fed cows and sheep ‘animal feed’ that was manufactured from byproduct of the remaining meat after man’s usage for food. To raise livestock animals with animal feed, it has cows grow quicker. (It is the case with man, like, cow-milk-fed babies who grow quicker than not during infanthood.) In proportion as they grow quicker, they are more contributing to the economic profits for cow-keeping farm owners.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;But the result is as if they’ve lost 10 dollars if gaining 1.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;These calamities unexpected are taking places by man ignoring the root of Nature, which shouldn’t dare be infringed upon. &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the 1800s, Europe had the Industrial Revolution.&lt;br /&gt;The Industrial Revolution brought about the revolution of man’s brains as well as goods’ production. The human society after the Industrial Revolution began to rapidly change. Societies of Agriculture and handicraft changed into a society of mechanization. A great change also took place in means of traffic and telecommunication.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As such age of development, and age of revolution came to an arrival, humans by their own selves began to be too much carried away by the belief of ‘man’s power,’ ‘man’s possibility’ and ‘man’s potential.’ Escaping from ‘God’ power’ and ‘God’s miracle’ which had been transmitted even after the Reformation, they put emphasis on such human towers as ‘man’s power,’ ‘man’s achievements’ and ‘man’s dream of the future.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This time is often called the age of ‘rationalism’ or the ‘age of enlightenment.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A characteristic of rationalism is that, by substituting ‘Man’s power’ in place of ‘God’s power’ hitherto believed, they put man’s potential beyond all sorts of philosophy in order to deal with things.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In this mindset, they viewed and interpreted the Bible as well.&lt;br /&gt;‘.&lt;br /&gt;In ‘rationalism’’ view, the core interpretation of today’s text Mark 4:26~29 turns its eyes toward the verse 26 ‘seed scattered on the ground’ and the verse 28 ‘seed growing’ of bud-stalk-grain process. It is that a farmer collects multiple times of grain if he scatters seed on the ground and grows them in earnest efforts.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘Rationalism’ is known to have emphasized and promoted man’s power, endeavor and will. Under conditions of applying this spirit of the times straightforward even to the Bible interpretation, ‘growth,’ ‘harvest,’ ‘expansion’ and the like emerged as key words.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Spirit or ism is a product of the times. It never took place by accident. It is said Jesus’ coming down on the earth had heaven originate. That is, ‘emphasizing only the contemporaneity of heaven’ is a product of ‘rationalism.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The words of heaven Jesus sowed shot out buds among people. With the efforts of his disciples and Christians else, the heaven resulted in the Kingdom 60 times 100 times expanded (See 4:8). Like seed growing into grain by man’s efforts and will, the expansion of the Kingdom as well comes out in good result. This is the interpretation which ‘rationalism’ recognized.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, there are many times when the wisdom of man brings about a destructive result. (Please make a study of what chapters 3, 4 and 11 of the Book of Genesis mean.) With the passing of the Crimean War(1845~1856, giving a start to International Red Cross Movement), ‘the 1st World War’ 1914~1918 and the 2nd World War 1939~1945 in Europe, they began to lay reflections on the opinions of ‘rationalism’ that emphasized human power.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Seeing man’s power and man’s pursued wisdom coming out in not good but ‘destructive results,’ people began to give reconsideration to the idea that Jesus-sown words on the earth became seed to be increasingly on and on enlarging and expanding (4:30~32).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Scars left by war have taken away human wisdom and judgment and confidence in the western civilization so far built up and their vitality. This phenomenon is not confined to the philosophy circles. The repercussions were also very heavy in the religious circles. A theological thought on the rise after experiencing a destructive human nature was the very famous Karl Barth’s ‘neo traditionalism.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Neo Traditionalism is a theology emphasizing ‘the transcendence of God’ that although God the Omnipotent is present, yet this God is there just standing aloof from human history happening on the earth, that is, just looking over human lives without intervening.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;After having undergone the 1st and 2nd World Wars among the most tragic in human history, what are justice, providence and manifestation of God? Where can His intervention and interference in history be found? High-principled persons’ death and evil-minded persons’ prevalence! On-and-on problems in real society; Repeated contradictory social systems and irrationality; Theological dogmas that cannot approach human life; Subsidence of the spiritual world that has been built up so far in the belief of it to be reason and wisdom; and so forth. For a theological solution to approach such a succession of issues unsolved on the earth, ‘neo traditionalism’ was born as a field of theology after so many questions and agonies.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To interpret Mark 4:26~29 in neo traditionalism’s view, it emphasizes the verse 28 ‘Of itself the soil…’ and verse 27 ‘…he does not know how.’ Like the farmer in the text who is without distinct role in daily routine of sleeping and rising night and day, God is regardless of the history on the earth, while human history itself proceeds in human interaction between one another. The neo traditionalists set up God who is ‘merely looking over in the distance,’ standing aloof somewhere at a distant sky like a farmer who ‘sleeps and rises...and does not know how.’ In their view, God the Omniscient and Omnipotent, God the Omnipresent and God the Self-Revealer intervening in history, which had so far been emphasized in dogmas of Christianity, was not found in the tragic human scenes.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Under innumerable issues and events unsolved that humans turned out, the theology born undergoing historical circumstances where the word why? was so important was ‘neo traditionalism.’ &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Even if one asks the questions of how come...to us...whereunto and so forth in front of brutal reality behind war big or small that man creates, that person is neither ‘unbeliever’ not ‘atheist.’ (You may please refer to the Books of Job, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Habakkuk and Psalms 22 and the guests in the show Love’s Request.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I suggest you too should think over the Bible verses that have the appearance of...Why? How come....  &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In another sense, to look at the passage in apocalyptic view, one may interpret the passage with emphasis upon the verse 29 latter part ‘the harvest has come.’&lt;br /&gt;An extreme interpretation of this is the ‘time-limited apocalypticism’ that appeared in the early 90s.&lt;br /&gt;The parable of apocalyptical phenomena as in the chapter 24 of Matthew is just something that can be found at any point in human history. As for that, extreme apocalypticists argued, ‘the time of world’s end has come.’ &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;2000 years ago was the time when mass communication was not developed very much like this present. What happened at other regions distant from Palestine was unable to be informed of. Even if it might not happen at Palestine a tiny small section of the earth, the circumstances of Matthew chapter 24 has - in the context of the whole earth - always been taking place somewhere someplace. It is, for instance, wars, earthquakes, famines, false prophets, total eclipses and such others.&lt;br /&gt;  .&lt;br /&gt;By literally accepting the expression of man’s end and magnificatively interpreting the happenings at their own corner of the earth, some in both the medieval times around the end of the year 1000 and modern times in the early 90s around the end of 2000 argues that the time of world’s end has come. However, there we get to see some preposterous(?) irony sticking to a certain ‘literal’ interpretation, without paying attention to another Biblical part Matthew 24:36 “No one knows about the time of the end (that day or hour).”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Why do ‘self-claimed believers of good faith’ exclude only the verse Matthew 24:36 separately from literal interpretation...? Personally, this one is remaining as a question unsolved about apocalypticists.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To sum up Mark 4:26~29&lt;br /&gt;26th verse, a farmer scattered seed.&lt;br /&gt;27th verse, the famer repeats sleeping at night and rising in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;But he does not know how the seed grows.&lt;br /&gt;28th verse, by itself, the soil produces grain.&lt;br /&gt;29th verse, when harvest has come, the crop is gathered.&lt;br /&gt; - That is, it refers to a farmer’s daily rhythm of life.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A detailed explanation about nature order and strenuous efforts for my body management’s sake as a prologue to the sermon of the day was, indeed, because it had a lot to do with how to interpret the text. The up-keep of nature order preconditions tolerance(?) that should know enough to accept nature in its very nature, rather than human wisdom, human power, human ability and man-driven development so as to enliven nature like nature.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;By virtue of ‘rationalism(enlightenment thought)’ after 1800, the scope of humans’ rational thought has been expanded and human society has developed. On the contrary, machine civilization and inventions humans invented for their own convenience and thought trend(ism)s resulted in finally destructing and reducing humans to misery. The human self-conceit claiming to be at the summit point of ecosystem did harm to nature to the extent unrestorable.&lt;br /&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;They were so conceited, by interpretation with this arrogance, human efforts and will might be able to make a domain of heaven and its expansion with an avalanche of a force.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Everybody, let us think.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;You may please have the following questions: Where is the space God stands in? Where has God’s omnipotent gone? And what is the role of the personage(?) who exists on His own without any interference or influence from anybody, and who makes everything exist(Exodus 3:14)?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the text, there comes the saying that a farmer scatters seed on the ground, and in the process of the seed sprouting and growing, the soil by itself finally produces grain (28th verse). The persons who themselves did farming and grew flowers will know that there is no such method of farming.&lt;br /&gt;Why, then, did they omit farmer’s pains taken until harvest?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To think about it in connection with the verse 28, sprinkling water, digging up weeds and thinning out the seedling until seed, if sown, grows and produces grain is, indeed, farmer’s endeavors to have some good crop, regardless of ‘the nature of seed itself budding and growing spontaneously.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;After all, the verse 28, in the mystery of life and reverence for animation, puts emphasis on animation of seed itself, rather than man’s will and efforts.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Bring up an image to yourself of the lives within your bellies. A sperm and an ovum being connected together is the work which parents can do. And yet, the origin of life and the crystallization of mystery the sperm and ovum is not what man can create. Modern science is only at the level of managing to know the mystery little by little. With this very view in mind, I suggest you should understand the parable of God’s kingdom in Mark 4:26~29. With Jesus coming, the earth has the seed of kingdom sown (verse 26). Regardless of human will, the seed, in another word, the word comes down and intervenes in the history of man, so that it may be accomplished.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This is the plan and providence of God.&lt;br /&gt;By hastily acting by means of a certain figure or a certain method, heaven doesn’t necessarily expands over the earth in a day or two, which Jesus teaches his disciples (verse 28).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Here, that which shouldn’t be overlooked is the role of the farmer who has no idea of the process how seed grows as in verse 29. It doesn’t mean that the farmer just sit on his hands in the waiting for harvest. Rather, it emphasized just famer’s daily life by saying sleeping at night and rising during the day, but not the waiting for a persimmon falling with his mouth open in laziness. .&lt;br /&gt;It is the case with an unborn baby within the belly. Although people might have fertilized ‘an origin of life and a crystallization of mystery,’ yet they cannot partake of a proper nature of the life inherent in the sperm and ovum’s own. And does the unborn baby have a heart, organs, limbs and hair created by the will of mother?&lt;br /&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;No, it is not so. Already, the unborn baby is getting bigger and bigger by the animation of its own. The animation of a baby’s own is by ‘its own spontaneous animation,’ which is not concerned with the mother’s will. The anti-abortion movement in Christianity is from this concept.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Then, what is the role of mother? Even though the life’s mysterious origin cannot be helped any more, the life within the belly may lead to abortion or premature birth, if the role of mother falls short of the way. Please understand things with this point in mind, while reading today’s text. Approach, from this angle, this person’s path of life especially the lifestyle as good as struggle and what my view is on nature order that shouldn’t be transgressed by man.  &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Mark 4:26~29 the text of the day is a parable that underlined the saying ‘even during our sleep, the expansion of heaven makes its way onward.’&lt;br /&gt;To make application of this parable, rather than self-conceited because I am being available, I should know that it that God have entrusted even me sinner with ‘such precious word,’ ‘such precious expansion of God’s kingdom’ is Saint Paul’s confession and also the privilege of every Christian. The Judaic are to receive the condemnation correspondent to punishment because they deserted this privilege. So the privilege turned over to the gentile to become Christianity of modern times, which is the gist of St. Paul’s letters message, the history of the Bible and the history of Christianity.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This history of God has God as its hero and man as its supporting actor. At this point lies the spotlight of interpretation of Mark 4:26~29.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, don’t be lazy as a supporting actor and actress. The reason why this man wrote my own story at wordy length is because only when I endure as a supporting actor even to the point of wetting the pants, giving a burning smell, tumbling over and throwing up even though I have to have insulin injected 25 years, boast of my heart(?) beating usually 100~120 times a minute and all the other complications, have to avoid light, sunrays and hot condition in the state of hardly capable control of body temperature, and dip my body over 10 times a day in the bathtub water gasping on and on for breath for some months of summer, I can make my own history of Psalms Canto 118 Verses 17~18:&lt;br /&gt;“...I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the LORD has done (for me)....”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There is no such history that doesn’t line up in the order of past-present-future. The struggle of my personal life too is, indeed, the endeavor to meet the future.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, here comes the conclusion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Bible teaches us that the whole history’s hero is God Himself.&lt;br /&gt;The expansion of God’s kingdom is made also according to God’s will. Even so, please don’t disregard your human role as a supporting actor and actress.&lt;br /&gt;God’s providence and His work is come true in the world human.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In fact, an inspiring drama as well will be lacking in something with only the 1~2 major performers’ splendid talent. It is come true only when the supporting performers assimilate their own proper roles thoroughly. It was Jesus on the cross who was faithful enough to meet his own proper role up to the extent of shedding his painful strained scream “Why have thou forsaken me?”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;And eventually Jesus got God’s will fulfilled.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The miracle of the Gospel being preached was possible by Jesus taking his best role faithful. You as well, be please faithful to your own proper role up to the extent of agonizing outcry with every ounce of your energies.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The crop of seed sown today cannot be gathered in just a day from now (see the verse 28).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Concerning salvation, its meaning cannot be recognized until we understand ‘the word patience’ in a painful life. I pray you everybody may please be the doers of your own most proper role as a dignified supporting actor and actress in the amazing miracle of ‘God’s kingdom’s expansion.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SLjnmDtubEI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/8cosZT_u-bw/s1600-h/12-16-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240192807463709762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SLjnmDtubEI/AAAAAAAAAaQ/8cosZT_u-bw/s400/12-16-2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-476807837284955511?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/476807837284955511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=476807837284955511' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/476807837284955511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/476807837284955511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/08/even-when-you-are-in-sleep.html' title='Even when you are in sleep,...'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SLjn9yVCWoI/AAAAAAAAAaY/LOo_n0cLFmM/s72-c/34-Mark+2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-7285407648517387021</id><published>2008-06-25T19:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:14.468-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Son of Man</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL-2-EzD0I/AAAAAAAAAZ4/NhueJoYCfxQ/s1600-h/35-Mark+15-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216011538777968450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL-2-EzD0I/AAAAAAAAAZ4/NhueJoYCfxQ/s400/35-Mark+15-6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;15. ‘The Son of Man’&lt;br /&gt;15."사람의 아들"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;June 2001&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark 15:39&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;마가 15장39절&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;예수를 향하여 섰던 백부장이 그렇게 운명하심을 보고 가로되 이 사람은 진실로 하나님의 아들이었도다 하더라&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL-iCpt6VI/AAAAAAAAAZw/03og2TOKXkI/s1600-h/35-Mark+15-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216011179229309266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL-iCpt6VI/AAAAAAAAAZw/03og2TOKXkI/s400/35-Mark+15-2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL9z4I9pbI/AAAAAAAAAZg/4fwKg_7SRjM/s1600-h/35-Mark+15-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216010386133591474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL9z4I9pbI/AAAAAAAAAZg/4fwKg_7SRjM/s400/35-Mark+15-3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the sun rising in the east, when my mother gave birth to me, a cute baby’s life of mine began.&lt;br /&gt;At the age of 12, when I counted stars with morning stars of my eyes, how happy I was full of dream.&lt;br /&gt;In 20 something days, when I knew coffee and sought romance, love began to find me....&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This song lines is part of the popular song ‘My 20 Years’ sung by the singer Jang Gyehyeon in the middle of 1970s. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For most people, the memories of their child days tend to be remembered beautifully. They run and play innocently here and there, time just passing by. Before they are aware, to them come 20 something days where the words like coffee and romance are often on their tongues. On common occasions, the age of 20 in the eye of adults is seen as the ‘generation of rebellion’ with many suspicious parts yet, who are clumsy, unheeding, and dashing this way and rushing that.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;While the world which a 20-year-old looks at is complex with ‘contradiction and hypocrisy,’ it is in the 20 something days that they were so armed with ‘dream and passion’ that even if in their own fantasies they had all their bodies staggering out of the emotion that there might be suddenly a great deal of things to do for them if only they took the plunge into the world of contradiction and hypocrisy. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the time when this 20-year-old age turns into 40, while there are a lot who control the world, stand out in the world and keep step with the world, yet there are many people live day by day fixing their droopy shoulders in the middle of being trampled in the world, being detained by the world, and crying, irritated and turning away from the world...after being deceived by the world.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;By the time of 40 who as good as lived twice of 20-year-old age which was passionate and dreamy, he or she gets to realize that the world and life are rather not easy to deal with to live in 20-year-old dream passion romance and desire alone. The more suppressed by the world one is in their lives, the more repetitively they say on their tongues, how hard and exhausting their livings are!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Like the lyrics, ‘You, my cold-hearted love, in this lamentable world...(Korean Folk Song, Some 500 Years),’ by the time when one reaches the twilight years of 70 or 80 even amidst the world life contained full of sadness and full of things to say as every individual under the circumstances where each person’s life is varicolored, he or she finds themselves being left alone as an entity who has to stand evenly and equally like anybody before the death door.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Please listen to what the Bible writer said about how vain time and tide are!&lt;br /&gt;It reminds us of how hopeless the man under time is!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Psalm 90:9~10&lt;br /&gt;9. All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.&lt;br /&gt;10. The length of our days is seventy years-- or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Genesis 47:9&lt;br /&gt;And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers." (Meaning, Although my years gone by are rather few as compared with the years in which my ancestors wandered around the world, yet I have spent my life that was rough and stormy.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Most people grow up at first in as warm-hearted care as anybody else in the world within the wombs of their mothers. After birth, they grow up in all kinds of care and concern lest they should get cold, heat, illness or things like those.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Few and far between, there are appalling hard lucks who were deserted at the birth, but most people begin their first stage of earthly life in a ‘king-like reception,’ regardless of ignorant or intelligent from their well-educated parents, wealthy or poor, aristocratic or slave, or anybody.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, the longer and longer years are added to one’s life, the more and more he gets to know the meanings between ‘difference’ and ‘discrimination’ and the more and more serious the discrimination according to the difference also gets, which fact he gets to experience in the body numerously. It means, the more one feels that ‘discrimination’ gets more serious in his life, the more afflicted his life in the world gets. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That is, the life becomes the one in which the following plaintive lyrics spontaneously come up in his throat, the lyrics of the song Some 500 Years ‘...in this lamentable world....’ This way, the beginning may start easily, but there are many things around us in which, the more time goes by, the harder and tougher it gets.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Such way is our faith in God whom we confess ‘his being our Lord’ to and whom we believe in, and such is our religious life in church. Even in the case of the people who at first started their faith by realizing God’s grace in the words of Matthew 11: 29~30, “...for my yoke is easy and my burden is light,” they may get dismayed or have self-rationalization by thinking “Doing this much might be still enough,” as time goes by, if they reach the words of Mark 8:34 “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Often, the people who set foot in the churches for the first time in their misunderstanding ‘faith-confessing act’ in which they receive Jesus as a way of enhancing the effect of evangelism in church as if through it they’ve gotten handily a ‘shortcut to prosperity in everything’ or a ‘universal remedy of cure-all,’ they keep engagement to their churches in the attractions of the sermons full of fortune-oriented promises and achievements and the sermons of consolation like Isaiah 53:4, ‘Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, they get to be hesitant by the time reaching Mark 8:34, “You must deny yourself and take up his cross and follow me.” This part of text requires their own concrete resolutions as a task of faith life, of course instead of blessing or consolation which are easily accessible in their churches or sermons. It is the line that requires each person’s own resolution, in subsequence to repentance and thanksgiving,&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The word ‘follow’ is one of the most suitable for explaining discipleship of Jesus, and occurs about 90 times in the New Testament. Jesus called his disciples ‘fishers of men (Mark 1:17).’ A various characters gathered together for a certain cause. They gathered for participating in ‘God’s Kingdom movement.’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But they had to put everything behind in order to follow Jesus. The disciples who had left everything behind lived for 3 years with Jesus in hearing what Jesus said, yet still there were often times where they didn’t even understand Jesus. It is that they didn’t understand ‘the Kingdom of God’ and ‘the Son of God,’ which Jesus proclaimed.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Today with the text of the Gospel Scripture the Book of Mark, I should like us to be informed of ‘the Son of God,’ whom his disciples mistook.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First,&lt;/strong&gt; the disciples mistook Jesus for just a christ, or a messiah.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The disciples didn’t understand their mentors rightly. Despite a great confession of his faith he confessed(Mark 8:29), Peter stood in his mentor’s way when he was referred to Jesus’ sufferings in Jerusalem. The words of Mark 8:32 ‘Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.’ has the meaning, ‘Peter gives a scolding to his mentor Jesus.’ It is that Peter misunderstood Jesus to the extent of a student reproaching his teacher.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Other disciples too were similar to Peter. Even in the solemn and serious condition of Jesus stepping toward Jerusalem that awaits Jesus’ sufferings, James and John brings out how greedy they are for power, wishing for one on the right seat of the Lord and the other on the left seat when Jesus receives glory (Mark 10:35~37). Still other disciples indignant with James and John who had totally misunderstood the mentor’s way were not very different from James and John, either.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Jesus was the person who preached ‘God’s Kingdom’ on the earth, taught, healed and derived away demons. Not only that, Jesus bestowed divine abilities upon them. In other words, Jesus’ disciples also were given the abilities to do the same jobs as Jesus himself did. In the same ways as Jesus did, they preached (Mark 6:12), taught (6:30), healed (6:13) and derived out demons (6:7). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In view of such activities of disciples, the confession by Peter in Mark 8:29, ‘My Lord is the Christ(Messiah)’ is the confession in which Peter confessed Jesus whom God acknowledged, Jesus the God’s divine power-bestowed God-man, and Jesus who preaches the Kingdom of God, teaches, heals, and derives out demons.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;That is, for them who had thought of only the Christ, it was too hard to understand that it is ‘God’s will’ for the Son of Man himself to suffer, be killed and come to life again as in Mark 8:31, and that Jesus enters Jerusalem so as to put them into action. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Jesus whom they have so far looked at is a very messianic one, a person of spiritual power (Mark 1:10), a person full of abilities, a person demons are amazed at, a person healing and delivering the people ill, suffering and weak, a person putting stormy waves to sleep, a person giving hungry people bread of miracle and so forth. Only such a person was what the disciples thought of, but they didn’t understand the Jesus who must proceed into sufferings and death.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Distant from Peter and other disciples understanding Jesus as a ‘political king’ or a ‘divine human being,’ Jesus declared himself serving as ‘the Son of Man the Sufferer’ (8:31). The confession of Peter was not completely wrong. Just, it was a confession ‘not wrong’ but ‘insufficient.’ To put it in an easier way, he was right to about one half or one third.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As a modern man too, it is easy to confess in their faith in the Lord that Jesus is a powerful person like Peter, James and John, a deliverer of the sick and the distressed and a bestower of all kinds of abilities and authority, but in front of Jesus Christ’s commandment that led to sufferings and death, or in front of the passage “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” (Mark 8:34), it is most cases that they hold their hands up in advance, or do so after trying some efforts to a degree.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Glory without self-sacrifice had no place to be in Jesus’ teaching.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Second,&lt;/strong&gt; the disciples mistook Jesus for just a descendant of David.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;On the way of Jesus to Jerusalem together with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus a beggar sitting by the roadside continued to call Jesus ‘Son of David.’ As Bartimaeus very actively asked for mercy on him, Jesus accepted the request by making him receive his sight (see Mark 10:46~52). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In spite of many people interfering with him (like Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet ), Bartimaeus stopped Jesus and attained Jesus calling him, was let to say what he wanted and was rescued.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Different from Peter’s confession, Bartimaeus asked for help shouting ‘Son of David.’ The phrase ‘Son of David’ Bartimaeus shouted asking for help is possible to understand when associating it with Zechariah 9:9, “See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish nation has lived in all kinds of troubles and hardships with its sovereignty deprived of. They have lived with eager anticipation for their Messiah. Even though now they are in being trampled on and suffering in other countries, yet in the end a certain Israel’s King from King David’s family line would certainly be born again and that king would put the nation of Israel back to restoration. This is the ideology of Messianism.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;David’s descendants thought of him as a certain king who brings victory to Israel by destroying the enemy of hostile foreign countries for the sake of setting up an Israel. In the mind of Israelite people, he had been left as somebody who had a royal authority politically and militarily. Entrance into the castle Jerusalem prior to his sufferings and death, which they call the entrance of victory, ensues right after the event of Bartimaeus’ healing (Mark 11:1-10).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Jesus who was publically called ‘Son of David’ by Bartimaeus proceeded toward Jerusalem with power of this very title. Although Jesus entered as the King of Israel, Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels is introduced not so much a king who is of power as a person who has mercy on sufferers, heals and rescues.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Jesus sends his disciples to get the ‘foal of donkey’ as the king as in Zechariah Chapter 9 who is righteous, gentle and having salvation.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Old times, kings in Israel had a ‘royal right of order’ through which they could conscript their own need of animals. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you readers look carefully at verses 2 and 3 of Mark, they have recording of the imperative sentences by Jesus Christ to his disciples, “Bring it here” and “Tell him that the Lord needs it.” These commanding styles were the language commanded only by kings from old. Just, ‘Jesus the Son of David’ recorded in the Gospels, in his exercising his royal right, uses not so much an imperial parade of magnificence as a royal representation of a king who has mercy on sufferers like the case of Bartimaeus, in other words, a king who is compassionate.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Like Peter’s confession in 8:29 “You are the Christ,” the title ‘Son of David’ as well is well-suited to Jesus Christ. It is because Jesus is both David’s blood descendent and the ‘accomplisher’ of eschatological anticipation of the Son of David.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For, in the process of such anticipation being achieved, Thy Kingdom will proceed to be done in healing and grace of redemption, different from Jewish race’s hope in their mind, that is, Messianism idea that the Son of David overwhelms the foreign countries in political and military collisions and restores the nation.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The title the Son of David is also an ‘insufficient confession even though right’ like the title ‘Christ (or Messiah).’ For, the title the Son of David doesn’t contain the sufferings of Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Third,&lt;/strong&gt; the Son of God - the suffering on the cross&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of ‘the Son of God,’ its meaning is implied in the loud-speaking confession of the centurion who witnessed the event of Jesus on the cross, “Surely this man was the Son of God!” (Mark 15:39). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This loud speaking let us finally know of what the ‘role of Jesus’ is in the whole process of the ‘redemptive history’ God planned. It has the implication that ‘although he is rejected and killed on the cross, he will be raised from the dead by God and be given glory and honor.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Academic circles guess that the ‘execution on the cross’ started at the Persian Empire. Afterwards, it continued in the Greek and Roman Empires. This penalty was applied to mostly slaves and temple plunderers and runaway soldiers. It is said that especially the slave who rose in revolt was inflicted a cruel execution on the cross.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The persons who were executed on the cross died slowly away in great agony. The man-made custom which has humans die the most painfully is the very execution on the cross (see Mark 15:44).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In Palestine, the execution on the cross was a penalty afflicted upon rioters.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish race in Jesus’ times was full of the idea that ‘the Messiah the Son of David would make his advent and set the oppressed Israelites free.’ Yet it was the situation where, no matter how they had awaited, the Messiah didn’t show up. They has been in the belief that ‘the Messiah’ or ‘the Son of David’ in their anticipation of coming would solve the problems that were political, economic and religious.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The disciples also were a part of such Jewish people. Due to this, Jesus’ best disciple Peter turned his back on Jesus 3 times saying he didn’t know him, right before Jesus was hung on the cross, and ‘everyone of disciples deserted him and fled’ according to the recording of Mark 14:50. We can see that the persons who betrayed Jesus were not only Jude and Peter but also all the disciples. Frightened, the disciples turned their backs on and betrayed Jesus at the most critical moment of crisis.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The day of being executed on the cross has on-and-off audible moaning and screaming of Jesus who is in only anguish in the middle of complete darkness where nothing is seen. ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? (Mark 15:34)’ meaning the passage outcried in anguish by Psalm writer, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Psalm 22:1~)” was flowing out of also the mouth of Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If all people betray and disregard, and if there have been God’s consolation and recognition, then he could have been comforted for those pains and anguish. However, even the consolation wasn’t present in the suffering on the cross. Letting out even the blood-spurting screams “Why are you so far from helping me, so far from the words of my groaning? (see Psalm 22:1)” was the last scene of Jesus on the cross.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Still in silence, God was realizing God’s will just as it was, or God’s plan to save the whole human race by letting his only-begotten son die. Jesus himself became a human being, participated in humans’ pain and sufferings (Philippians 2:5~11), and was hung on the cross to replace the burdens of sins. In return for the screams in extreme anguish, Jesus saved human beings and initiated them into eternal life.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Out from endurance of cruel abuse and his own death came the power to save the world. Understanding Jesus’ numerous sufferings and anguish like sweats turning into blood, the disciples and the early church finally came to comprehend that Jesus’ death execution on the cross is an inevitability. At length, Jesus Christ was confessed by believers to his being a righteous person who suffered (see Isaiah 53) and the Messiah (see Mark 15:39 and Luke 23:47). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I will conclude:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It seems that the disciples and the early church have been in great agony before confessing to Jesus hung on the cross being the Messiah whom they had so eagerly anticipated. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is because, in the context of the Old Testament having been always read, they had remembered him to be the Messiah strong and bringing victory, not the Messiah suffering.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As the disciples in the early church misunderstood, so we in modern times look at Jesus with misunderstanding eyes. Our seeing eyes and receiving breast as well accept only the half part of Jesus, just as Peter and other disciples turned their faces away from ‘the Son of God who was suffering’ but understood him only as ‘a political king,’ or ‘a divine man.’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;People fill their minds with only the ‘theology of glory’ in which they concentrate mostly upon proclaiming God’s Kingdom, healing, exorcising demons and having all kinds of abilities. It is hard that the ‘theology of the cross and sufferings’ in which Jesus must suffer and die on the cross as in Mark 8:31 gets a foot in.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;We are members of the church community who confess to Jesus’ being our ‘Lord.’&lt;br /&gt;To look at Luke 9:57~62, there is the saying of Jesus to the disciples, “... but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” Although the saying is given to us “Deny yourself, and take up your cross daily and follow me,” this commandment is so much so hard for us to accept. Nonetheless, this commandment is none other than our Lord’s command so that we must fight endless fights with us ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Life is wearisome.&lt;br /&gt;Especially, the life as a disciple of our Lord has a stronger possibility of a continuity of weariness. Please let us remember that, only after we get accustomed to such weariness, there comes the birth of a disciple who can make the ‘rightful and sufficient confession’ “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Mark 8:29, Matthew 16:16 and Luke 9:20).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Be you yourself who can reach such confession!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Later on, I add.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For the persons here, you yourself and numerous other Christians else as well, the commandment “Deny yourself and follow me” is one so much to accept in the living. Regardless of the positions in the churches, only the person who has the ears that can attend to this saying and the heart that can contain it can conform themselves to this holy message.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The moment stepping out of the pulpit, a minister too is no more than a member of the Kingdom of God. 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL0sjs0N5I/AAAAAAAAAZI/EquIQhpfQQw/s400/35-Mark+15-6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;15."사람의 아들"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2001년 6월&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;마가 15장39절&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;예수를 향하여 섰던 백부장이 그렇게 운명하심을 보고 가로되 이 사람은 진실로 하나님의 아들이었도다 하더라&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark 15:39&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, “Surely this man was the Son of God!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL0eVDqC5I/AAAAAAAAAZA/jF1NH_15tPE/s1600-h/35-Mark+15-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216000120334191506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL0eVDqC5I/AAAAAAAAAZA/jF1NH_15tPE/s400/35-Mark+15-5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;동녘에 해 뜰 때 어머님 날 낳으시고&lt;br /&gt;귀엽던 아가야 내 인생 시작됐네.&lt;br /&gt;12살 시절에 꿈이 있어 좋았네,&lt;br /&gt;샛별의 눈동자로 별을 헤던 시절.&lt;br /&gt;커피를 알았고 낭만을 찾던&lt;br /&gt;스무살 시절에 나는 사랑 했네....&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 노랫말은 70년대 중반에 가수 장계현이 부른 ‘나의 20년’이라는 대중가요의 일부분 입니다. 대부분의 사람들에게 있어서 어린시절의 추억은 아름답게 기억 되곤 합니다. 천방지축 철모르고 뛰어 놀아도 세월은 흘러만 가고, 어느덧 커피와 낭만 같은 단어들이 입에 올려지는 20살 시절이 돌아옵니다. 어른들의 눈에 비치는 20살은 어설프고, 철없고, 좌충우돌하는, 아직은 미심쩍은 구석이 많은 '반항의 세대'로 보일 경우가 허다합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 20살이 바라보는 세상은 ‘모순과 가식’이 뒤엉킨 반면에, 자신은 ‘꿈과 정열’로 무장되어 있어서 모순과 가식속의 세상에 자신이 뛰어 들기만 하면 갑자가 할 일이 너무 많아질 것 같아-비록 자신만의 착각이지만-온 몸이 비틀리던 그때가 20살 시절입니다.&lt;br /&gt;이 20살이 40살로 바뀔 때쯤이면, 세상을 휘어잡는 사람, 세상에 우뚝 선 사람, 세상과 평온하게 보조 맞추는 사람도 많지만, 반대로 세상에 짓밟히고, 세상에 억류하고, 세상에 기만당하고 ....울고, 짜증내고, 세상에 등 돌리는 가운데 많은 사람들이 하루하루를 늘어진 어깨를 추스르며 살아갑니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;정열적이고 꿈 많던 20살을 한 번 더 산 40살 무렵이 되면 20대의 꿈과 정열과 낭만, 의욕만 가지고는 세상이란(인생살이) 것이 만만치 않음을 깨닫게 됩니다. 세상에 눌려 사는 사람일수록 살아간다는 것이 힘들고, 피곤하다는 말을 버릇처럼 입에 달고 삽니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'한 많은 이 세상 야속한 님아~(한 오백년)' 라는 노랫말처럼 세월 앞에서 각자의 삶이 가지각색으로 채색되어 개개인마다 한도 많고, 할말도 많은 세상살이도 70,80살의 황혼으로 접어들 때쯤이면 죽음 앞에서 똑같이 평등하게 서 있을 수밖에 없는 존재로 남아 있는 자신을 발견하게 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;세월의 덧없음에 대한 성경기자의 말에 귀를 기울여 보십시오.&lt;br /&gt;세월 앞의 인간’이 얼마나 덧없는지를 깨닫게 해줍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;시편 90:9-10&lt;br /&gt;우리의 모든 날이 주의 분노 중에 지나가며&lt;br /&gt;우리의 평생이 순식간에 다하였나이다.&lt;br /&gt;우리의 연수가 칠십이요 강건하면 팔십이라도&lt;br /&gt;그 연수의 자랑은 수고와 슬픔뿐이요&lt;br /&gt;신속히 가니 우리가 날아가나이다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;창 47:9&lt;br /&gt;우리 조상의 나그네 길의 세월에 미치지 못하나 험악한 세월을 보내었나이다. (저희 조상들이 세상을 떠돌던 햇수에 비하면 제가 누린 햇수는 얼마 되지 않지만, 험악한 세월을 보냈습니다)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;대부분의 사람들이 처음에는 세상 모든 사람보다 귀하게 어머니의 뱃속에서 극진한 보호를 받고, 낳아서는 추울세라, 더울세라, 병날세라....온갖 보살핌 가운데서 성장을 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;간혹 낳아서부터 버림받은 기막힌 운명도 있지만, 대부분의 사람들은 그들의 부모가 많이 배워 유식하거나 무식하거나 부자이거나 가난하거나 혹은 귀족이거나 노예이거나를 막론하고 ‘왕 같은 대접’속에서 처음의 인생살이를 시작합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하지만 인생살이의 햇수가 더 해질수록 ‘차이’와 ‘차별’을 알게 되고, 또 그 차이에 따른 차별도 심해진다는 사실을 몸으로 수도 없이 겪게 됩니다. 살면서 ‘차별’이 심해진다는 것을 느끼면 느낄수록 세상살이가 괴로워진다는 것을 의미합니다.&lt;br /&gt;'한 많은 이 세상~한 오백년의 처량한 노랫말이 저절로 목구멍을 통해 올라오는 인생살이가 되어가는 것입니다. 이렇게 처음의 시작은 쉽게 시작되지만 갈수록 힘들고 어려워지는 것들이 우리 주변에는 많습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리가 '주'라 고백하고 믿는 주님에 대한 믿음도 그렇고, 교회 안에서의 신앙생활 역시 그러합니다. 처음에는 마태복음 11장 29절~30절 “...내 멍에는 쉽고 내 짐은 가벼움이라” 에 은혜 받고 믿음생활을 시작한 분들도 시간의 흐름에 따라 “...누구든지 나를 따라 오려거든 자기를 버리고 제 십자가를 지고 따르라”(막8:34) 이르면 아연 질색하거나 “...이만큼 하면 그래도 괜찮겠지!” 하는 자기 합리화를 가지게 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;흔히-교회에서 전도의 효과를 높이기 위한 방법으로-예수를 영접하는 ‘신앙고백의 행위’를 마치 세상에서의 '만사형통의 지름길' 이나 ‘만변통치의 특효약’을 손쉽게 구하기라도 한 듯한 착각 속에 교회에 처음 발을 들어 놓은 분들이 기복적인 약속과 성취의 내용이 풍성한 설교, 또는 몸소 우리의 괴로움을 맡으시고 우리의 병을 짊어지신(사53:4) 위로의 설교에 이끌려 교회에 충실하게 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하지만 막 8:34 “나를 따르라” 에 이르면 주춤거리게 됩니다. 이 본문에는 교회에서(설교) 쉽게 접할 수 있는 복도, 위로도 아닌 본인들의 구체적인 결단이 신앙생활의 과제로 요구됩니다. 회개와 감사에 이어서 각자의 결단이 요구되는 구절입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘따른다’는 말은 예수의 제자직분을 설명할 때 가장 합당한 말인데 신약에서 90번 가량 나옵니다. 예수는 제자들을 '사람 낚는 어부(막1:17)' 로 부르셨습니다. 다양한 성격의 사람들이 한 목적을 위해 모였습니다. '하나님 나라의 운동'에 참여하기 위해 모인 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;하지만, 그들은 예수를 따르기 위해 모든 것은 버려야 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;모든 것을 버린 제자들은 예수와 3년 동안 가까이서 살고, 말씀을 들었지만 제자들 역시 예수를 이해하지 못할 때가 많았습니다. 예수께서 선포하신 '하나님 나라'와 '하나님의 아들'을 그들은 이해하지 못했던 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오늘은 마가복음의 본문을 가지고 제자들이 오해했던 '하나님의 아들'에 대해 알아보려고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;첫째,&lt;/strong&gt; 예수를 그리스도(메시야)로만 오해했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;제자들은 스승을 제대로 이해하지 못했습니다. 베드로는 위대한 신앙고백을 했지만(막8:29) 예수가 앞으로 예루살렘에서 당할 수난을 언급했을 때, 스승의 길을 막아섰습니다. 막8:32'예수를 붙잡고 항변하매(간하매)' 는 제자'베드로가 스승인 예수를 꾸짖다' 의뜻입니다. 제자가 스승을 꾸짖을 만큼 예수를 오해한 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;다른 제자들도 베드로와 비슷했습니다. 예수가 수난을 받을 장소, 예루살렘을 향해 가는 엄숙하고 심각한 상황에서도 야고보와 요한은 예수가 영광을 받게 될 때 하나는 주의 오른쪽에, 다른 하나는 왼쪽에 앉는 권력에 대한 욕심만을 드러냅니다.(막10:35‐37) 스승의 길을 전적으로 오해한 야고보와 요한에 대해서 분노하는 제자들도 야고보와 요한‐베드로와 다른 것이 별로 없었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예수는 이 땅에 '하나님 나라'를 전파하고, 가르치고, 치유하고, 귀신을 내어 쫓는 분이셨습니다. 이것만으로 모자라서 제자들에게 신적인 능력을 부여했습니다. 제자들도 예수 자신의 사역과 같은 사역을 할 수 있는 권능을 부여 받아왔던 것입니다. 예수님과 똑같이 전파했고(막6:12) 가르쳤고(6:30), 치유했고(6:13) 귀신을 내어 쫒았습니다(6:7)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이러한 제자들의 활동을 생각할 때 베드로의 막8:29 '주는 그리스도(메시야)입니다'라는 고백은 하나님 나라를 전파하고, 가르치고, 치유하고, 귀신을 내어 쫓는 예수, 하나님의 신적 능력을 부여 받은 예수, 하나님한테 인정받은 예수를 고백한 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 예수만을 생각한 제자들 앞에 막8:31의 자신이(인자) 고난을 받고, 죽임을 당하고, 다시 사는 것이 ‘하나님 뜻’이고, 이것을 행동으로 옮기기 위해 예루살렘으로 입성하는 예수를 제자들은 이해하지 못했던 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;지금까지 제자들이 보아온 예수는 성령의 권능을 입은 분(막1:10) 능력이 넘치는 분, 귀신들이 알아보고 놀라는 분, 병든 자와 고통을 당하는 자와 연약한 무리들을 치유하고 '구원하시는 분, 거친 파도도 잔잔케 하시는 분, 굶주린 이들에게 기적의 빵을 주시는 분, 이런 분으로만 제자들은 생각해왔지 고난과 죽음으로 이어져야만 하는 예수님을 이해하지 못했던 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;베드로나 다른 제자들이 예수를 ‘정치적 왕’ 또는 ‘신적 인간’으로 이해한 것과는 거리가 멀게 예수 자신은 ‘고난 받은 인자’로 자신의 사역을 선언 하신 것입니다.(8:31)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;베드로의 고백은 틀린 게 아니었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;다만 '옳지만' '불충분한 고백'이었던 것입니다. 더 쉽게 말하면 반이나 1/3만 맞춘 셈 입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;현대인에게도 주님을 믿는 신앙은 베드로, 야고보, 요한처럼 능력이 넘치는 분, 병든 자나 고통을 당한 자를 구원하시는 분, 온갖 능력과 권세를 부여하시는 분으로 고백하기는 쉬어도 고난과 죽음으로 이어진 예수의 명령, 즉 “누구든지 나를 따르려거든 자기도 버리고 자기의 십자가를 지고 나를 따르라”(막8:34) 본문 앞에서는 미리 두 손을 들거나. 어느 정도까지는 노력을 해보다가 두 손 들 수밖에 없는 경우가 대부분입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;자기희생이 없는 영광은 예수의 가르침에는 없었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;둘째,&lt;/strong&gt; 예수를 다윗의 자손으로만 오해했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예수께서 제자들과 큰 무리를 이끄시고 예루살렘으로 가는 도중에 길가에 앉았던 바디매오가 예수를 '다윗의 자손'이라고 계속해서 불렀습니다. 바디 매오가 끈질기게 자비를 구하자. 예수께서 그의 눈을 보게 하심으로 바디매오의 요구로 들어 주셨습니다(막10:46-52참고).&lt;br /&gt;바디매오는 많은 사람들의 방해에도 불구하고(많은 사람들이 꾸짖어 잠잠 하라 하되) 예수님을 멈추어 세웠고, 부름을 받게 하였고, 자신의 원하는 바도 말 할 수 있게 되었고, 구원을 받았던 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;바디매오는 베드로의 고백과는 달리 '다윗의 자손'을 외치면서 도움을 요청했던 것입니다. 바디매오가 예수께 도움을 청하면서 외쳤던 '다윗의 자손'이라는 말은 스가랴서9:9의 "보라! 네 왕이 네게 임하시나니 그는 공의로우며 구원을 베풀며 겸손하여서 나귀를 타시나니 나귀의 작은 것 곧 나귀새끼니라“를 연상 시킬 때 가능합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이스라엘 민족은 주권을 남의 나라에 빼앗기고 온갖 고생과 멸시 속에서 살아왔습니다. 그들은 메시야에 대한 희망을 품고 살아왔습니다. 지금은 남의 나라에게 짓밟히며 고생해도 종말에는 반드시 다윗의 혈통 가운데서 이스라엘의 왕이 다시 탄생하고, 그 왕이 이스라엘 나라를 다시 회복한다는 것이 메시야 사상입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;다윗의 자손은 이스라엘을 세우기 위해 이방대적들을 멸망시켜 이스라엘에 승리를 가져 다 주는 왕이라고 생각해 왔습니다. 그는 정치적 군사적으로 왕적 권위를 행사하는 분으로 이스라엘민족의 머리 속에 남아 있었던 것입니다. 고난과 죽음에 앞서서 예루살렘 성으로의 입성은-이것을 승리의 입성이라고 합니다-바디매오 치유사건에 바로 뒤이어 일어납니다.(막11:1‐10)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;바디매오에 의해 공적으로 '다윗의 자손'으로 불리워진 예수는 바로 이 칭호의 권세로 예루살렘을 향해 나아가신 것입니다. 예수는 이스라엘의 왕으로 입성을 하지만, 복음서에 나오는 예수는 위엄 있는 왕이 아니고 오히려 고통 당하는 자에게 자비를 베풀고, 치유하고, 구원하는 분으로 소개되고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예수는 스가랴서 9장에 나오는 공의롭고, 겸손하면서도, 구원을 베풀 왕답게 그가 탈 ‘나귀새끼’를 제자들을 보내 구해오게 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그 옛날에 이스라엘 왕들은 자신이 필요한 짐승은 징용할 수 있는 '왕적 명령권'이 있었습니다. 여러분이 막11장 2절과 3절을 주의 있게 보시면 예수가 제자들에게 “...끌고 오너라” 와 “... 묻거든 주가 쓰시겠다 하라”는 명령어들이 기록되어 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;이런 내용의 명령은 그 옛날부터 왕만이 내릴 수 있는 명령입니다. 다만 복음서에 기록된 '다윗의 자손, 예수'는 왕권을 행사하심에 있어서 제왕행렬의 웅대함이 아니고, 바디매오의 경우처럼 고통당하는 자에게 자비를 베푸는 왕의 표상을-자비로운 왕-사용하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;8:29 “주는 그리스도이십니다.”라는 베드로의 고백처럼 '다윗의 자손'이란 칭호도 예수께 합당한 칭호입니다. 이것은 예수가 다윗의 혈통적 후손임과 동시에 다윗의 후손에 대한 종말론적 기대의 ‘성취자이기 때문입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;다만 이런 기대가 성취됨에 있어서 이스라엘 민족의 가슴속 희망과는 -다윗의 자손은 정치적, 군사적 충돌로 인해 이방민족을 제압하고 나라를 회복한다는 메시야사상-달리 치유와 구원함의 은총을 통해 그의 나라를 이루어 가시는 것이기 때문입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;다윗의 자손이라는 칭호도 ‘그리스도 (메시야)’라는 칭호처럼 '옳지만, 불충분한 고백’입니다.&lt;br /&gt;다윗의 자손이란 칭호 속에도 예수의 수난을 포함시키지 못하고 있기 때문입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;셋째,&lt;/strong&gt; 하나님의 아들 - 십자가의 고난&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'하나님의 아들'이란 말은 예수님의 십자가 사건을 목격한 로마 백부장의 “...그는 진실로 하나님이 아들이었도다”라는 외침어린 고백 속에 그 의미가 함축되어 있습니다(막15;39).&lt;br /&gt;이 외침 속에는 하나님이 계획한 ‘구속사’의 전체과정 속에서 ‘예수님의 역할’이 무엇인지를 비로소 알게 해 줍니다. ‘그는 배척당하고 십자가에서 죽임도 당할 것이지만, 하나님에 의해 다시 살리심을 받고, 영광을 얻으실 것’이라는 말이 함축되어있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'십자가형'은 페르시아 제국부터 시작된 것으로 학계에서는 추측합니다. 그 후 그것이 그리스와 로마제국으로 이어졌습니다. 이 형벌은 주로 노예와 사원 약탈자, 탈영병에게 적용되었으며, 특별히 반란을 일으킨 노예에게는 잔혹한 십자가형에 가해졌다고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;십자가형에 처해진 사람들은 괴로운 가운데서 서서히 죽어갔습니다. 인간이 가장 고통스럽게 죽도록 만든 제도가 바로 십자가형입니다(막15:44참고).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;팔레스틴에 있어서 십자가형은 정치적 폭도들에게 가해졌던 형벌입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예수 당시에 이스라엘 민족에게는 ‘다윗의 자손인 메시야가 도래해서 압제 받는 이스라엘 백성을 해방 시킬 것’이라는 생각이 충만해 있었다고 합니다. 그러나 아무리 기다려도 메시야는 나타나지 않은 상태였습니다. 그들이 기대하던' 메시야'나 '다윗은 자손'은 정치적. 경제적. 종교적. 문제를 해결해 줄 것 이라고 믿고 있었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;제자들도 이런 이스라엘 민족중의 일부였습니다. 그렇기에 예수가 십자가에 달리기 직전에 그의 수제자 베드로는 예수를 3번씩이나 모른다고 외면했고, 막14:50절 ‘제자들이 다 예수를 버리고 도망하니라'라고 기록되어있습니다. 예수를 배반한 것은 유다와 베드로뿐만이 아니고 모든 제자들이었음을 살펴 볼 수 있습니다. 제자들은 겁에 질려서 예수께서 가장 극심한 위기 순간에 처했을 때 그 분을 등지고 배반했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;십자가에서 처형당하던 날은 아무것도 보이지 않는 어두움 속에서 오로지 고통당하는 예수의 끊어질 듯 들려오는 탄식과 절규만이 들릴 뿐입니다. '엘리 엘리 라마 사박다니 (막15:34) 시편 기자가(시편22장1절 이하 참고) 고통 속에 외쳤던 "내 하나님, 내 하나님 어찌하여 나를 버리셨나이까"가 예수의 입에서도 흘러나오고 있었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;모든 사람이 배반과 외면을 해도 하나님의 위로와 인정이 있었다면 그 고통은 위로 받을 수가 있습니다. 하지만 십자가의 고통 속에는 그 위로마저 없었습니다. “어찌 나를 멀리하여 돕지 아니 하오며 내 신음소리를 듣지 아니하시나이까”(시22;1참고)라는 피를 토하는 절규까지도 토해내게 만든 것이 십자가 위에서의 예수님의 마지막 모습이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 하나님은 여전히 침묵 속에서 하나님의 뜻. 곧 그의 외아들을 죽이시므로 써 온 인류를 살리시려는 계획을 그대로 이루고 계셨습니다. 예수님 자신이 인간이 되어 인간의 고통과 고난(빌2:5‐11참고)에 동참하시고 , 죄악의 짐을 대신 하기 위해' 십자가에 달리셨습니다. 극한의 고통 속에 절규하는 그 대가로 인간을 구원하며 그들에게 영원한 삶을 부여하신 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;잔혹한 고통의 감수와 그 자신의 죽음으로부터 세상을 구원하는 힘이 뻗쳐 나왔습니다.&lt;br /&gt;예수의 수 없는 고난과 땀이 피로 될 것 같은 고민을 이해하고 마침내 제자들과 초대교회는 예수의 십자가 처형이 필연적일 수밖에 없었음을 깨달았습니다. 드디어 예수는 고난 받은 의인으로서 (사53장 참고) 메시야로 고백하게 된 것입니다.(15;39, 눅 23;47 참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론을 맺겠습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;제자들과 초대교회는 이 십자가에 달린 예수가 바로 그들이 그렇게 대망하던 메시야라고 고백하는데 엄청난 고민을 한 것 같습니다. 그들이 항상 낭독하던 구약의 맥락에서는 고난 받는 메사야가 아니고 강하고 승리를 가져 다 주는 메시야로 기억했기 때문입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;초대교회 제자들이 오해했듯이 오늘날의 우리들 역시도 오해의 시선으로 예수님을 바라봅니다. 우리의 보는 눈과 받아들이는 가슴 역시도 베드로나 다른 제자들이 예수의 ‘고난 받은 인자’는 외면하고 ‘정치적 왕’이나 ‘신적 인간’으로만 이해한 것처럼 예수의 반쪽만 받아들입니다.&lt;br /&gt;하나님 나라를 전파하고, 치유하고, 귀신을 내어 쫓고, 온갖 능력을 갖춘 '영광의 신학'만이 머리 속에 가득 채웁니다. 막 8;31의 십자가 위에서 고난 받고, 죽어야 하는 ‘고난의 십자가 신학’은 발붙이기 힘듭니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리는 예수님을 '주'라고 고백하는 교회 공동체의 일원입니다.&lt;br /&gt;눅 9:57-62을 살펴보면 예수님이 제자들에게 “...인자는 머리 둘 곳도 없다”고 했습니다. “자기를 부인하고 나를 따르라” 가 우리들에게 주어졌지만 받아들이기에는 너무 벅찬 명령입니다. 하지만 그 명령이 주님의 명령이기에 자신과 끝없는 싸움을 해 나가야 하는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;인생은 고달픔입니다.&lt;br /&gt;특히 주님의 제자로서의 삶은 고달픔의 연속이 될 가능성이 큽니다. 그 고달픔에 익숙해질 때 비로소 내 안에서, 내입에서도 "주는 그리스도시요. 살아계신 하나님의 아들이시니다."(막8;29, 마16:16, 눅9;20) 라는 ‘옳으면서도 충분한 고백’을 할 수 있는 제자가 탄생되는 것임을 기억하시기 바랍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이러한 고백까지 하실 수 있는 여러분들이 되십시오!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;추후로 덧붙입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;여기 계신 분들이나, 본인이나, 그 밖의 무수한 기독교인들도 “자기를 부인하고 나를 따르라”는 말씀을 받아들이고 살기에는 너무 벅찬 명령입니다. 다만 교회 안에서의 지위를 막론하고 이 말을 들을 귀가 있고, 담아 둘 가슴이 있는 자만이 이 말씀에 순종 할 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;목사도 강대상을 내려가는 순간, 여러분과 똑같이 하나님 나라의 백성일 뿐입니다. 평신도, 집사, 장로, 목사 할 것 없이 하나님과의 깊은 교제를 원하는 분은 바로 ‘자신의 선택여하에 따라’ 하나님과 깊은 관계를 가질 수도 있고, 못 가질 수도 있다는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하나님과 깊은 관계를 가질 수 있는 여러분이 되십시오.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Welcome visitors to My personal homepage,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/" target="_self"&gt;http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/&lt;/a&gt; .... &lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGLzs7BnfTI/AAAAAAAAAYo/XFDnwcZvG9c/s1600-h/35-Mark+15-8.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215999271532723506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGLzs7BnfTI/AAAAAAAAAYo/XFDnwcZvG9c/s400/35-Mark+15-8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-2756426827823146494?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/2756426827823146494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=2756426827823146494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/2756426827823146494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/2756426827823146494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html' title='사람의 아들'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/SGL0sjs0N5I/AAAAAAAAAZI/EquIQhpfQQw/s72-c/35-Mark+15-6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-2091821355575410903</id><published>2008-03-28T17:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:16.311-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Habit of Faith</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2UdmG7xuI/AAAAAAAAAV4/YzlD7BEitRg/s1600-h/35-Luke+4-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182961982340056802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2UdmG7xuI/AAAAAAAAAV4/YzlD7BEitRg/s400/35-Luke+4-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. &lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14. “What is Learned in the Cradle is Carried to the Grave&lt;br /&gt;(Habit of Faith)”&lt;br /&gt;14. "세살 버릇 여든까지 간다.(신앙의 습관)"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.-April 2001&lt;br /&gt;-2001년 4월&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- One’s conduct(habit) controls his fate.&lt;br /&gt;- 자신의 행동이(습관) 자신의 운명을 좌우한다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Luke 4:16&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;16. He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read.&lt;br /&gt;17. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2UU2G7xtI/AAAAAAAAAVw/T6bpup-lCEY/s1600-h/35-Luke+4-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182961832016201426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2UU2G7xtI/AAAAAAAAAVw/T6bpup-lCEY/s400/35-Luke+4-3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There goes a Korean saying, “What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.”&lt;br /&gt;This saying contains the meaning that ‘the doings done since young last even until the death.’ We often call those continual doings ‘habit.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Hebrew word ‘derek’ generlly means a ‘way.’ &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, the ‘derek’ is also used as the term referring to man’s way of doing or living, that is, ‘life’s pattern’ based on continual doings in symbolic meanings. Accordingly, the Bible in many places translates ‘derek’ into a ‘way of doing’ (Chronicles 6:23, Job 4:6, Psalms 37:14, Proverbs 13:6). As it were, the ways that a man has lived in is just the report on his ways or traces of doing.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs 1:31 says ‘man will eat the fruit of his ways of doing.’ In other words, it means one’s life is decided by the traces of how he has lived. It means the ways of how he has lived, or the way of doing he has taken in his life judge what kind of person he was.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The examples are the wicked(Proverbs 2:22), the ways of darkness(Proverbs 2:13), the way of wisdom(Proverbs 4:11), the way of life(Proverbs 6:23), her ways(Proverbs 7:25), the way of death(Proverbs 14:12), the way of righteousness(Proverbs 16:31), etc., which explain ‘derek’ in connection with man’s ways of doing.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;And this ‘derek’ is related to the habit that defines and forms one’s way of action. Jeremiah 22:21 wrote that Israelite people made it a habit not to obey the words of Yahweh from their youth. Here, the term of ‘Habit’ is a translation from ‘derek.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘Habit’ refers to a fixed way of doing, namely an attitude of a man that is done continually.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In other words, you might say that ‘habit bears behavior, and the behavior bears fate.’ Repeating some behavior, one finds it turning into a habit in spite of himself. The habit in turn decides one’s fate, as it were.&lt;br /&gt;Look back on yourself.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;We can see this habit affecting a large part of our life. That’s why the Hebrew word ‘derek’ is interpreted into habit, way of doing, life’s path, life’s tendency.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There is also a Hebrew word ‘mishpat’ carrying the meaning of habit.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The word mishpat implies judgment, condemnation, right, etc.. 1 Samuel 2:13 translated ‘conduct of two wicked sons of the priest Eli’ into ‘habit’ when it mentioned their act. The reason why it translated that way is because ‘man’s habit meant the conduct based on man’s own decision and right.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Accordingly, ‘habit’ occasionally means one’s independent way of doing of his own responsibility. That is, habit is indeed the way of act done not by others, but by one’s own belief and independency.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Here, what we must remember is that the ‘habit’ meant by ‘derek’ and ‘mishpat’ refers to a ‘continual and repeated way of doing’ conducted under man’s own will and dominance.&lt;br /&gt;A person gets into forming one’s own future through their own acts.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;One of the most important for one’s fate forming is not only a human will for the future but also the repeated way of doing that supports the will.&lt;br /&gt;On that occasion, we often use the words, ‘we work out our own destiny.’&lt;br /&gt;Bear in mind that ‘one’s habit affects his destiny.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Today like in Luke 4:16, I am about to explain manner of doing(habit,model) Jesus would always do so that our habit of faith may be reviewed. I wish you will learn what habits Jesus did at ordinary times, which will be helpful to your time of resolution for the future.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To look at some Jesus’ habits in Luke:&lt;br /&gt;First, Jesus had the habit of certainly going to the temple on the Sabbath. &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Luke 4:16 says that Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. Here, the ‘custom’ means a fixed habit.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Today around us, we see a few types that deny the reason for the church being and insist on the needlessness of church service. Among them, there are many persons who insist on church needlessness and church abolitionism. Of course, it is true that the churches today have considerable inconsistencies and problems, like they point out.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, like what they say, ‘If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything,’ or ‘You can't succeed if you are afraid of failure,’ right? Hebrew 10:25 said, ‘Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another--and all the more as you see the Day approaching.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;No matter whether it be any times, it is not right to assert that churches are needless and abolish church service. Jesus watched the religious leaders in those times whose religious spirit were dead and whose religious form only was alive and rebuked by saying, ‘Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees.’ In the meantime, Jesus himself didn’t forget to go to the synagogue and attend church service according to the custom whenever it was the Sabbath.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There are also some other people who say, ‘It is better to read the Bible or watch Christian broadcasting programs at home rather than attend Sunday church service, because sermons might not be very good if you went to the church.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Yet, this is from ignorance of the real meaning of why they go to the church. Most important is the behavior itself in which I go before God and attend divine service in real life. Let us suppose a person who has his old mother. Is it right whatsoever if he gave up visiting his parent from the outset because he feels uninterested in visiting his parent and because he dislikes hearing his parent’s reproofs? Whether in trouble or pleasure, believers in Jesus should prove their obligation of God’s children by going to church and attend service for sure.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Second, Jesus had the habit of always reading the Bible.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Luke 4:16 is recorded, ‘...on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read....’ Jesus has grown in the habit of reading the Bible since young. The given text emphasizes how Jesus read the Bible in his ever-lasting habit.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Also on trial by Satan, with what did Jesus overcome? He overcame with the words he had read at ordinary times(Luke 4:1~13). When Jesus the Son of God as well overcame with the words he had read at ordinary times, then how can the breakable mediocre mortals keep faith without reading the Bible? By making a habit of reading the Bible and being abundant in godly words, one should turn into a holy believer who wins by overcoming their troubles coming against themselves.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Some believers say that the Bible is so dull that they don’t read. As in the saying ‘a good medicine tastes bitter,’ you should remember that a book doesn’t necessarily have to be interesting to be beneficial for your life.&lt;br /&gt;In Psalms 1:2, ‘Blessed’ is ‘the man who meditates on the law of the Lord day and night.’ One who might have much difficulty in reading the Bible may as well try hard to live in the words from God by listening hard to even the Bible-recorded tape.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘The society that recognizes the Word of God’ - this is why the Bible Scriptures were written down and so many a prophet has fought in exchange for their own lives. From where one reads the Word of God, there grows the kingdom of God.&lt;br /&gt;God was called especially ‘Immanuel,’ which means God is with us. Then how is God with us? God is with us with the Word of God. So many people wonder in pursuit of God. But remember that God is living in and working with this very Bible, namely the Word of God.  &lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Israeli people’s number 1 in their property list is said to be the Bible(Old Scriptures). Even when they had their land taken away by enemies and had to start their run-away, it is known that they ran away with at least their Bible for certain. Today’s scientists, entrepreneurs, artists and war heroes who boast their best all over the world have very much share of Jewish people. We should know that the very this is the result from their having served God and lived in the words of God after receiving it since early.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;What has brought this result is because Jews did their best in all their own areas by recognizing that the ever-living ever-working God is always beside them.&lt;br /&gt;They virtually enlighten other countries’ people as well about what it means to ‘live(stand) in the presence of God.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Third, Jesus was in the habit of always praying such as praying alone and praying with his disciples.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Luke 22:39 says ‘Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives....’ Out of habit of praying always at ordinary times, Jesus was in the habit of always praying by praying in the early morning and praying all through the night.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If somebody asks what keeps a church, I’d answer that it is important both how much to give offering and how to devote oneself with the body.&lt;br /&gt;But what is more important is to pray for the church one attends and for the minister. In return, the minister knows how precious his believers are and pray for them. The verse of Matthew 7:7 ‘Ask and it will be given to you...’ refers to how precious prayer is.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;That one should pray until it becomes a settled habit to pray at a certain regular times every day, -- until prayer settles naturally down within their own body -- this is what today’s text teaches us. At the point where one reaches their internalization level of regular praying, what they should think therewith is the ‘quality of prayer,’ that is, whether what he or she pray for is right to God’s ‘righteousness’ (Luke 12:22~32). If one is idle from the start in praying because he or she hates the prayer of ‘babbling or harping on the same string,’ then they might later be put on the brink of feeling awkward with a praying action itself. Various places in the Bible teach us the prayer manners of earnest praying in whole concentration as well as the right contents of God’s ‘righteousness.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If you keep repeating the act of prayer with earnest desire, the habit of praying is formed. The habit makes the practice of reaching up to godliness. If godliness is internalized into the body, personality is formed, until the life of prayer is formed. Such sequence is what we often can see happening. It is likened to the following situation where although it looks as if water flows at random if it is poured down on the ground at first, yet a groove is dug in and the ways for water running are made so that it becomes rill, and stream.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It is that if good manners are repeated and become accustomed habits for oneself, he would take rightful actions by thitherto-steady-accumulated habits even if something unpredictable might occur. Equipping oneself with firm and whole-personal faith in repeating good manners, this is what attitude the believers on the earth should take.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now comes the conclusion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There is a western saying, ‘Rome is not built in a day.’&lt;br /&gt;Our present day doesn’t end as today alone; it is one of numerous days. Today’s preciousness, today’s attentiveness and today’s thankfulness lead to tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Hebrew 11:1 said, ‘Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.’&lt;br /&gt;Looking forward to the image that we hope for and aim at in the mind, let us pray with good habits. Faith is the confidence that today’s dream ‘returns as realization’ in the end tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the life, habit is highly important.&lt;br /&gt;In many cases, today’s habits change tomorrow’s life.&lt;br /&gt;In good habits of faith, please become good believers!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Everything is possible for him who believes (Mark 9:23)&lt;br /&gt;믿는 자들에게는 능치 못할 일이 없느니라. (막 9:23)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2UG2G7xsI/AAAAAAAAAVo/JhWHCwBH-1M/s1600-h/35-Luke+4-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182961591498032834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2UG2G7xsI/AAAAAAAAAVo/JhWHCwBH-1M/s400/35-Luke+4-4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-2091821355575410903?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/2091821355575410903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=2091821355575410903' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/2091821355575410903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/2091821355575410903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/03/habit-of-faith.html' title='Habit of Faith'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2UdmG7xuI/AAAAAAAAAV4/YzlD7BEitRg/s72-c/35-Luke+4-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-4852403817365806830</id><published>2008-03-28T17:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:15.305-07:00</updated><title type='text'>세살 버릇 여든까지 간다</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2KHmG7xqI/AAAAAAAAAVY/4zO-g4hAEp4/s1600-h/35-Luke+4-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182950609266656930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2KHmG7xqI/AAAAAAAAAVY/4zO-g4hAEp4/s400/35-Luke+4-7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14. "세살 버릇 여든까지 간다.(신앙의 습관)"&lt;br /&gt;14. “What is Learned in the Cradle is Carried to the Grave&lt;br /&gt;(Habit of Faith)”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-2001년 4월&lt;br /&gt;-April 2001&lt;br /&gt;,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 자신의 행동이(습관) 자신의 운명을 좌우한다.&lt;br /&gt;- One’s conduct(habit) controls his fate.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;누가복음 4장16절&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 예수께서 그 자라나신 곳 나사렛에 이르사 안식일에 자기 규례대로 회당에 들어가사 성경을 읽으려고 서시매 17 선지자 이사야의 글을 드리거늘 책을 펴서...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;우리 속담에 “세 살 버릇 여든까지 간다.”라는 속담이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;이 말 속에는 ‘어릴 때부터 한 행동들이 죽을 때까지도 이어진다.’는 뜻이 담겨져 있습니다. 수없이 되풀이 되는 이러한 행동들을 우리는 흔히 '습관'이라고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;히브리어 '데렉'은 일반적인 '길'을 뜻입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 이 '데렉'의 상징적 의미로는 인간의 소행이나 생활, 즉 지속적인 행위에 따른 ‘삶의 패턴’을 가리키는 용어로 쓰이기도 합니다. 따라서 성경의 여러 곳에서 '데렉'을 '행위'로 번역되곤 합니다.(대하6:23, 욥4:6, 시37:14, 잠13;6등) 즉 인간이 살아온 길은 오직 그 사람의 행위, 행적에 대한 보고일 뿐이라는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;잠 1:31절에 '인간은 자기 행위의 열매를 먹게 되어 있다‘고 합니다. 이 말을 다르게 표현하면 그 사람이 살아 온 행적을 가지고 그 사람의 삶을 단정 짓는다는 말이 됩니다. 그가 살아온 길, 그가 살아오면서 취한 행위에 의해 그가 어떤 사람이었는가를 판정한다는 뜻입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예를 들면 악인의 길(잠2:22), 어두운 길(잠2:13), 지혜로운 길(잠4:11), 생명의 길(잠6:23), 음녀의 길(잠7:25), 사망의 길(잠14:12), 의로운 길(잠16:31),등에서 '데렉'을 인간의 행위와 연결하여 설명하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그리고 이 '데렉'은 행위를 규정짓고 행위를 형성하는 습관과도 연결되어 있습니다. 렘22:21에 의하면 이스라엘백성은 어려서부터 여호와의 말씀을 준행치 않는 것을 '습관'으로 삼았다고 기록되어 있습니다. 여기서 '습관'이란 용어는 '데릭'을 번역한 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'습관'은 고정된 행동, 즉 지속적으로 행해지는 인간의 태도를 가리킵니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 말을 다른 말로 표현하면 '습관은 행동을 낳고, 행동은 운명을 낳습니다.'라고도 할 수 있습니다. 행동을 되풀이 하다 보면 어느새 습관으로 변하고, 그 습관으로 인해 인간의 운명이 결정 되어진다는 말이 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;자신을 되돌아보십시오.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리들의 삶의 많은 부분은 이 습관에 의해 움직여지고 있는 것을 볼 수 있습니다. 그래서 히브리어 '데릭'은 습관, 행동, 삶의 길, 삶의 방향으로 해석하곤 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;또한 습관이라는 뜻을 가진 히브리어는 ‘미쉬파트’가 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;미쉬파트는 판단, 심판, 권리 등의 의미를 내포하고 있습니다. 삼상2:13에서는 엘리 제사장의 불량한 두 아들의 소행을 말할 때 이들의 행동을 '습관'으로 번역하고 있습니다. 이렇게 번역한 것은 '인간의 습관은 인간 자신의 판단이나 권리에 따른 행위‘임을 의미한 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;따라서 '습관'은 자기 자신이 책임져야 할 자신의 주체적 행동을 말하기도 합니다. 즉 습관이야 말로 남에 의해 행동 되어 지는 것이 아니고, 자신의 소신과 주관에 의해 좌우된다는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;여기서 우리가 반드시 기억해야 할 점은 '데릭'이나, '미쉬파트'가 의미하는 '습관'이란 인간이 자신의 의지와 주도 아래 행해지는 ‘지속적이고 반복된 행위’를 가리킨다는데 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;사람은 자기의 행동을 통하여 그 자신의 미래를 형성해 나가는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;자신의 운명을 형성하는데 가장 중요한 것은 미래에 대한 인간의 의지와 그 의지를 뒷받침 해주는 되풀이 되는 반복된 행동입니다.&lt;br /&gt;이럴 때 우리는 흔히 '운명을 개척한다.'라는 말을 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;‘그 사람의 습관이 그 사람의 운명을 좌우한다,’는 것을 명심하십시오.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;오늘은 누가복음4:16절 예수님이 늘 하시던 행동을–습관-본보기로 해서 우리의 신앙적 습관을 되돌아보려고 합니다. 예수님이 평소에 하시던 습관을 배워서 내일을 위한 결단의 시간에 도움이 되었으면 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;누가복음에 나타나는 예수님의 습관을 살펴보면&lt;br /&gt;첫째: 예수님은 안식일에 꼭 성전에 가는 습관을 갖고 계셨습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;누가복음4:16절을 보면 예수님께서 그 자라신 곳 나사렛에 이르사 안식일에 자기 규례대로 회당에 들어가셨다고 했습니다. 여기서 ‘규례’는 정착된 습관을 뜻합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오늘날 우리 주변에는 교회를 부정하고 예배의 무용론을 주장하는 몇 가지 유형을 볼 수 있습니다. 그 가운데 교회무용론과 예배폐지론을 주장하는 사람들이 있습니다. 물론 그들이 지적 하는 대로 오늘날의 교회들은 많은 모순과 문제점을 가지고 있는 것은 사실입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 구더기 무서워 장 못 담그겠습니까? 히브리서 10:25에 '(그럴수록 너희는) 모이기를 폐하는 어떤 자들의 습관과 같이 하지 말고 오직 권하여 그날이 가까움을 볼수록 더욱 그리하자 (더욱 모이기를 힘쓰는 자들이 되라)'고 하셨습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;어느 시대를 막론하고 교회무용론을 주장하고 예배를 폐지하는 것은 옳지 않습니다. 예수님은 당시의 종교 지도자들에게서 회칠 한 무덤과 같이 종교적 정신은 다 죽이고 형식만 남아 있는 것을 보시고 “화 있을 진저 외식하는 서기관들과 바리새인들이여!”라고 책망하셨습니다. 그러면서도 예수님 자신은 안식일만 되면 규례를 따라 꼭꼭 회당에 가서 예배를 드리는 일을 잊지 않으셨습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;또 어떤 사람들 가운데서는 ‘주일날 교회에 가 보았자 설교도 신통치 않으니 차라리 집에서 성경을 보던지 기독교 방송이나 보는 것이 주일예배에 참석하는 것보다 더 낫다’고 하는 사람들이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 이것은 교회에 나가는 참뜻을 모르는 무지에서 비롯된 것입니다. 가장 중요한 것은 내가 하나님을 찾아나가 예배를 드리는 그 행위인 것입니다. 어떤 사람한테 늙은 부모님이 계시는데. 부모님을 찾아뵙는 일이 재미없고 부모님의 잔소리 듣는 것도 싫어서 부모님 찾아뵙는 것을 아예 포기 한다면 어떻게 그 행위를 옳게 보겠습니까? 예수 믿는 자들은 괴로우나 즐거우나 교회에 꼭 나가서 하나님께 예배를 드림으로서 자녀 된 본분을 보여주어야 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;둘째: 예수님은 늘 성경 읽는 습관을 가지고 계셨습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;누가복음4:16절 '예수님이 규례대로 회당에 들어가 성경을 읽으려고 하시매'라고 기록 됐습니다. 예수님은 어려서부터 성경 보는 습관 속에 자라셨습니다. 예수님은 늘 습관을 좇아 성경을 읽으셨음을 본문은 강조합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;또 사단으로부터 시험을 당하셨을 때에 무엇으로 사단을 물리치셨습니까? 평소에 읽은 성경 말씀으로 물리치셨습니다(누가복음4;1-13). 하나님의 아들 예수님도 평소에 읽어둔 말씀으로 사단을 이기셨는데, 허물어지기 쉬운 범인들이 성경을 읽지 않고 믿음을 지킬 수 있겠습니까? 매일 성경 읽는 것을 습관화해서-말씀으로 충만해져서-자신에게 부딪치는 어려움을 이겨내고 승리하는 성도들이 되어야 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;어떤 사람들은 성경은 재미가 없어서 읽지 않는다는 성도들이 있습니다. '몸에 좋은 보약일수록 입에는 쓰다’는 말과 같이 재미있는 내용의 책이 반드시 자신의 삶에 유익한 것이 아님을 기억해 주시기 바랍니다.&lt;br /&gt;시편1편2절을 보면 ‘복 있는 사람’은 ‘하나님의 율법을 주야로 묵상하는 자’라고 기록되어 있습니다. 정말 성경을 읽기 어려운 사람은 성경을 녹음한 테이프라도 열심히 들어서 하나님의 말씀 속에 살도록 노력해야겠습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'하나님의 말씀을 인정하는 사회' - 이것 때문에 성경은 기록되고, 수많은 예언자들이 자신의 생명과 바꾸면서 싸워왔습니다. 하나님의 말씀을 읽는 곳에서부터 하나님의 왕국은 성장되어 갑니다.&lt;br /&gt;특히 하나님을 ‘임마누엘’이라고 하였는데-하나님이 우리와 함께 계시다-신령한 하나님이 어떻게 우리와 함께 계십니까? 말씀으로 우리와 함께 계시는 것입니다. 많은 사람들이 하나님을 찾아 헤매지만 하나님은 바로 이 성경, 즉 말씀 속에서 살아서 역사하고 계신 것을 기억하시기 바랍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이스라엘 사람들은 재산 목록 1호가 성경(구약)이라고 합니다. 적에게 땅을 빼앗기고 도망을 갈 때에도 성경만은 꼭 가지고 도망을 쳤다고 합니다. 오늘날 세계를 주름잡는 세계 제일을 자랑하는 과학자들, 재벌가들, 예술가들, 전쟁 영웅들 중에는 이스라엘 사람들이 차지하는 비율이 매우 높습니다. 바로 이것이 일찍부터 하나님을 섬기며 그 말씀을 받아들여 말씀 속에서 살아온 결과임을 알아야 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;살아 계셔서 역사하시는 하나님이 항상 옆에 계신 것을 인식하고 모든 분야에서 최선을 다하는 것이 오늘날 이러한 결과를 가져왔습니다.&lt;br /&gt;'하나님 앞에서 산다(선다)‘ 는 것을 다른 나라의 사람들에게도 가르쳐 주고 있는 바입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;셋째: 예수님은 혼자서도 기도하고, 제자들과 기도하며 늘 기도하는 습관 속에 사셨습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;눅22:39절에 '예수께서 나아가사 습관을 쫓아 감람산에 기도하러 가시매....' 예수님은 평소에 늘 기도하는 습관이 있어서 새벽에 기도하시고 밤을 새워 기도하시고 예수님은 늘 기도하는 습관 속에서 사셨습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;교회는 무엇으로 되느냐? 고 묻는다면, 내가 얼마만큼 헌금을 내느냐! 도 중요하고 몸으로 어떻게 헌신 하느냐! 도 소중합니다.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 더욱 중요한 것은 자기가 참석하는 교회와 자기교회의 목사를 위해 기도하는 행위입니다. 또 목사는 교인의 소중함을 알고 교인을 위해 기도해 주는 것입니다. 마태복음 7:7 “...구하라 그리하면 주실 것이요...” 라는 말씀 속에도 기도의 소중함을 깨우쳐주고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;매일 정해 놓고 규칙적으로 기도하는 것이 습관이 될 정도로-기도가 몸에 익을 때까지-기도해야 할 것을 오늘의 본문은 우리들에게 가르치고 있습니다. 규칙적으로 하는 기도가 몸에 밸 정도가 되면 그와 더불어 생각할 것은 자신이 하는 기도가 하나님의 '의'와 맞는가 하는 ‘기도의 질’입니다(누가복음12;22-32). 처음부터 '중언부언'하는 기도가 싫어서 기도를 게을리 하면, 나중에는 기도하는 행동자체가 쑥스러울 지경에 이르게 됩니다. 성경 곳곳에는 하나님의 '의'와 맞는 내용과 더불어 온정신을 집중해 간절하게 하는 기도의 형식을 가르쳐주고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;간절한 소원을 가지고 기도의 행동을 반복하면 기도의 습관이 만들어지고, 그 습관 속에서 경건에 이르는 연습이 되고, 경건함이 몸에 익숙해지면 인격이 이루어지고, 마침내는 기도가 이루어지는 것을 볼 때가 많습니다. 마치 처음에 물을 땅에 부으면 아무렇게나 흘러가는 것 같지만 붓고 또 붓고 또 부으면, 마침내는 홈이 파여서 물이 흘러내리는 길이 만들어지고, 도랑이 되고, 개울이 되는 것과 같은 이치입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;좋은 행동을 반복하여 그 행동이 자신에게 익숙한 습관이 되게 되면 예기치 못한 상황이 벌어질 때도 그때까지 쌓아온 습관에 의해 올곧은 행동을 하게 되는 것입니다. 좋은 행동의 반복하다 보면 굳세고 인격적인 믿음을 갖추는 것이 이 땅 위에서 성도들이 취할 태도입니다.&lt;br /&gt;/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론을 맺겠습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'로마는 하루아침에 이루어지지 않는다.'라는 서양 격언이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;우리들의 오늘 하루는 오늘로 끝나는 것이 아니고 수많은 날 중의 하루입니다. 오늘의 소중함, 오늘의 신중함, 오늘의 감사가 내일로 연결 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;히브리서11장1절에는 '믿음은 바라는 것들의 실상이요 보지 못하는 것들의 증거'라고 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;마음속에 자신이 바라고 목표하는 모습을 바라보며, 좋은 습관을 가지고 기도합시다. 오늘의 꿈이 내일은 ‘현실이 되어 오고야 만다.’는 확신이 믿음입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;인생에 있어서 습관은 대단히 중요합니다.&lt;br /&gt;오늘의 습관이 내일의 삶을 바꿀 때가 많습니다.&lt;br /&gt;신앙의 좋은 습관을 가져서 믿음의 사람들이 되십시오!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;믿는 자들에게는 능치 못할 일이 없느니라. (막 9:23)&lt;br /&gt;Everything is possible for him who believes (Mark 9:23)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2JfGG7xoI/AAAAAAAAAVI/_GTHptzZjgw/s1600-h/35-Luke+4-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182949913481954946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2JfGG7xoI/AAAAAAAAAVI/_GTHptzZjgw/s400/35-Luke+4-2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-4852403817365806830?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/4852403817365806830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=4852403817365806830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/4852403817365806830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/4852403817365806830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post.html' title='세살 버릇 여든까지 간다'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R-2KHmG7xqI/AAAAAAAAAVY/4zO-g4hAEp4/s72-c/35-Luke+4-7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-4676422413440151374</id><published>2008-01-30T18:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:22.606-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thou shall Rise Up before the Gray Head</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6ExJNkgTQI/AAAAAAAAATw/5w66cN3dh48/s1600-h/34-Leviticus+10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161460682274655490" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6ExJNkgTQI/AAAAAAAAATw/5w66cN3dh48/s320/34-Leviticus+10.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12. “Thou shall Rise Up before the Gray Head”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;12. "센 머리 앞에서 일어서라."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;May 2001 - Parent’s Week&lt;br /&gt;2001년 5월 – 어버이 주일&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- Real and living education of respect for parents, which they showed with the body&lt;br /&gt;- The spirit of filial piety, the starting point of all ethics applied in the human society&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Leviticus 19:32&lt;br /&gt;32 You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the LORD.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6EwttkgTOI/AAAAAAAAATg/e_R7cf69-UY/s1600-h/34-Leviticus+19-elderly_people.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161460209828252898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6EwttkgTOI/AAAAAAAAATg/e_R7cf69-UY/s320/34-Leviticus+19-elderly_people.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few years ago, there was a case where an 73-aged old man strangled and killed his old mother who was older than 90. Many people who heard the news in TV badly criticized the act of this old man who had killed his own old mother.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;But come to know the circumstances, it was not necessarily the case for indiscriminate criticism. The news report had it that the old man’s son already died, and that he was depending upon his grandson who inherited no decent amount of property. Because he as well was in the situation of feeding upon unwillingly-offered meals against his conscience in his grandson’s small chartered room, the old man thought that serving ‘his over-90-year-old mother’ along was not acceptable not only for his old mother but also for his grandson and the wife, according to the news report. The old man went to his father’s tomb and cried out bitterly. Returning home from there, the old man strangled and killed his old mother, saying, “Dear mom, go where your husband is and rest there in peace and comfort, not perfect as the place may be.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The story is one of the cases that show a slice of hurtful human alienation most extremely in modern society.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;About the old man’s such act, we can hear from one side of the society, “The old man violated a fundamental moral law, or the old man is a unmatched outlaw, or....” Meanwhile, some of the contents are understandable.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In agricultural society of ancient, there was no expression like ‘man living upon his grandson and the wife,’ even if man might become aged and live long. But nowadays has become the times of frequently hearing the words from old folks here and there, “I’d rather live alone than live hanging stuffily upon my child.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Proverbs has the following words, “A gray head is a crown of glory.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In a large majority of countries no matter whether it be eastern or western, as is seen in Israel, Korea, China, Japan and any other countries of ancient dynastic times, most of the people were suffering from hunger, except for such privileged class like king, aristocrats, large landowners and big merchants. A lean year coming in, they died of starvation. A war breaking out, they were forcibly mobilized before they had to die. And in a winter of no farming despite the times of no war, they were drafted for slave labor and draggled to forced labor. Besides, any epidemic running round, it was common that every one or two in each house died.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This way, they lived at the cost of them, as well as in the worries of what to eat and what to wear for a life time, in physical heavy labor, in death and poverty left behind after sweeping of a war, and in an enormous number of deaths without being able to apply any medicine even to an epidemic (contagious disease) so common today. These circumstances had been lasting in both the western and the eastern hemispheres down until 100 years ago from now.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It is known that the average age of Roman men in Jesus’ times was a mere 40. Even until the forced annexation of Korea by the Imperial Japan about 90 years ago from now in Korea in the year 1910, it was also quite hard that folks lived up to the age of their ‘60th birthday celebration.’ Only much fewer folks than the old persons going as far as to hold their ‘80th birthday celebration’ nowadays were able to attain their 60th birthday anniversary.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;So in the past, they couldn’t choose but accept that surviving the 60th birthday was in itself a wisdom in tough life circumstances and a victory in life. That’s the underlying reason why by even falling into debt despite poor circumstances, the sons and grandsons held a grand banquet on their parents’ 60th birthdays. Down to even the previous generation of us in our society, generally applied was the thinking, ‘A gray head is a glory and a crown of life, and a pride of the family.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Another thing is that in the times where there were no TV, newspapers and computer, young descendents had to be attentive to old people’s unusual wisdom.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In agricultural and nomadic societies, to live depending on nature is absolute.&lt;br /&gt;To look closely at the nature, such phenomena like drought, heavy flood, extreme low weather, extreme hot weather, huge snowfall...used to usually present itself in the similar cycles to 3, 5, 10, 30, 50, 70, 100 years.., though not exactly the same numbers. To remember that and to teach how to survive such natural disasters in the age of underdeveloped science, it was nothing other than the wisdom to come from old persons who had experienced 30, 50 and even 70 years of cycles by living longer than others.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Although bodies got old and into illness, yet it is that while they were living, the ‘wisdom in old persons’ heads’ was the source and foundation of life for descendents to live upon, and the wisdom, namely, the knowledge, which should be respected.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To see the TV program, ‘Animals Are Living,’ it occasionally introduces the life of elephants.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The commander and leader in a herd of elephants is not a strong and young male, but the old female that lived the longest in the herd. If there comes the time when it is hard to live because of no food around due to a severe drought, she will lead the elephants’ group that she belongs to, find where water is, and finally feed the herd, by recollecting her past memory through the experiences of drought, thirst and hunger which she has experienced for over 50~60 years’ life.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It is also the case with the camels on the desert. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The longest lived one is the chief in the flock. At ordinary times, the owner leads the way of the camel flock. But if strayed from the right path amidst the desert, the owner then cannot take the lead. Rather, he should entrust every right to an old camel and only follow at the heels of the camel flock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be told that all this depended upon the wisdom based on the experience to come from long administrative ability of old individuals, which cannot be gotten by young individuals.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Even human society held up the experience and wisdom cherished by such old individuals, old persons, in old-times agricultural and nomadic societies. That is, old persons’ age was identified with wisdom. The saying, ‘a gray head is a crown of glory’ passes in meaning also as the saying, ‘the old person managed to live up to a gray head in such a hard world because he was wise.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As it went into the industrial society, however, it has changed into the times where this wisdom of old persons became as if useless. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The agricultural methods too don’t depend on the weather of the sky like of old, but much more on the power of machines. And household tasks too are not the traditional ways that have been transmitted from our mothers and grandmothers. More and more developed good-performance electronic appliances that voluntarily substitute just at the pressing of a button for what people should do, well-packed well-organized miscellaneous daily necessities in supermarkets..., these changes are convenient and efficient for young folks, whereas it has rather fallen into the world where old folks have few opportunities to lend their wisdom and where a ‘mother-in-law studies the face’ because of any breakdown that might happen in case of wrong handling.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Since workplace had its machines and information develop differently day by day, we have seen frequent cases where many 50-something office workers who has much work experience but lacks aptitude for adaptation to new instruments required in the information society were pushed off behind the people who are younger than their sons even before 1~2 years since employed. Even though they were the motive power of nationally earning money abroad due to diligence and earnestness in their younger days and also have lived faithfully as a household head in their family, yet it is in the situation where they have been being pushed off and driven away behind the young hands who are only better at intelligence rather than real experience gone through with the body, according as more industrial information society settled in.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Old and outworn bodily in agricultural and nomadic societies of antiquity, the experience and wisdom coming from old persons’ age was so valuable above anything. But more and more into industrial and information societies, the wisdom entertained of the best value by old people has changed into an old-fashioned item, or into like nag that might have been suitable for a certain ancient times where there was the ‘Goryeo Burial,’ an ancient practice of abandoning an old person to die at the grave site. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If there was any 80- or 90-aged person living, the descendants held it to be a ‘right manner as posterity’ that even if disinclined for serving their old person, they should keep their inward feelings to themselves. They thought it to be a right path as a human being that outdoors an old person should be respected as a pride and glory in the family and as the most advanced person in the order of rank.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Nowadays we get to see the following frequent occasions that after old people who have been studying faces of young family members have their children move out, they live by their own or finally choose to go to a toll asylum for the aged. I once heard the news that among adult wedded couples in their 40s, the 60% men and 80% women answered yes to their living away from their parents. This is the current real address of the ‘thought of respect for old people’ in 2000 something years, even though they might be in for the same situation as their present father and mother in 20~30 years.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;You might have heard of the TV actress Sonsuk. According to the actress Sonsuk’s saying, for fear that she should be a burden to the family in living together in her advanced age, she went ahead and said aye to her children’s living in their own branch families, saying “You may live out, yes you may!” As soon as her children responded an unhesitating yes to her saying, it is known that she was inwardly very disappointed with her children. We need to remember what she said, “I reluctantly suggested living separately from my children. But how many parents will there be who would inwardly think badly of living together?”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the slogan of “industrialization, informationalization and westernization” our society imitates and pursues, we, willing or unwilling, find ourselves resembling the western society as it is. As one of the problems, our unique extended-family-oriented family system and atmosphere is collapsing and the ‘nuclear family’ and ‘individualism’ is prevailing.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It is common phenomena that plenty of old people in the West spend their old days in old people’s home for 10 or 20 years with their children visiting once or twice in a year, or that they stare fixedly at their children’s compliments cards of Easter or Christmas cards before they die lonesomely.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Until the 1940s~1950s, the western society as well now prevalent of nuclear families was in a family atmosphere different from nowadays. Unlike today, there was no high divorce rate. Their average child number was 3~5. Fathers of the families were hard-workers and the wives were care-takers for the matters like their family health and children education as home-makers. This picture of family was a typical aspect of the Western middle class until the 40s~50s.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Even if they didn’t live with their parents, namely, old persons, they often gathered together and ate together and mixed together with their sons and the wives and grandsons and granddaughters and in so doing formed their bond between family members in meaningful special days like family anniversaries, Saturday evening dinner, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and Easter Day. This atmosphere of harmonious family has been transmitted like their parents did.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Up until 1950, like their parents did, the husband as head of the family did for his wife and children, and the wife cared for her husband and children, sometimes inviting their parents to the family dinner in their respect.... Such manner of life was able to be kept by a majority of people. Up until this time, the parents were treated nicely as parents by their children.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Since the 1960s, however, the society changed drastically and the persons who had devoted themselves in the 1930s~40s began to be alienated from society from the 60s lasting up to now.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The steady ‘alienation of old people’ as well, which are often dealt with in the Western society, is a social change that occurred in a mere short period less than 2 generations for 50~60 years.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Our country is about 10~20 years later than the West is in social change. As late as the 70s, old people didn’t live in the state as dispirited as this much. In the case of mere 20~30 years ago in Korea, when an old folk reproved a young man or student who didn’t concede his seat in the bus or subway train, the young man or student sometimes muttered something to himself but right away escaped from the seat with his face reddish because of the surrounding people.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;But nowadays is often the case with fighting instead of escaping. Students’ smoking is also the same yesterday or today. Just, nowadays is often the case with their smoking openly instead of smoking out of sight, and they often talk back or fight instead of being flushed with head down and escaping in front of a reproving adult or old person. This is the difference from former times. .&lt;br /&gt;That is to say, things have been changing to the generation where what old persons say is losing its power.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For the sake of all these of now we are blessed with, those whom we disregard as ‘old men or oldsters’ have been living in dedicating themselves to work since young, giving birth to and educating their children. Their children think it almost natural to burden their parents with all school expenses, allowances and most of children’s big marriage fund, and further to demand apartment or house and business money through parents’ disposal of property and estate.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;On the other side, it is more often than not that the old parents are living in an indefinable pent-up anxiety from being shy of asking for allowance from their adult children, and in trembling with fear from being unable to express ailment and loneliness.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Young people tend to be living in the ‘thinking like a ageless baby’ who knows how to insist on only his privilege of protection as a child but has lost his duty to return. In 30 years, however, the very young men of now also become old persons, according to the order of nature. For example, the following young men also become old and gray-haired in 30~40 years, who now spend one million won per month on their children’s school expenses, allowances and clothing money and yet feel reluctant and unfair of giving their old parents even 100 thousand won, so that they try to call their siblings together and discuss about jointly pitching in.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;We have been growing hearing the lyrics “...like a baby grows up to be an adult...” as in the singer Seo Yuseok’s song titled ‘Ongoing Days.’ Speaking of another thing we should know is, the lyrics of the song ‘Song of Remorse’ includes this following content, “Don’t sneer at the gray head who goes behind that young lad at the front.” &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What does this mean?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It could mean that “A monkey-shaped old entity whom you those young brushed off and treated as a nonsense might settle into your body like a thief in spite of yourselves.” Or it could mean that “Although I am now under the pitiful circumstances of being disregarded and finger-pointed at on account of being old, ill and worn-out, yet 30~40 years ago I was confident that I’d be ever strong and self-sustaining like the current you young in front of me. I never imagined I’d be an old weakling like me in front of you. So dear you young, please be awakened through me to the fact the old entity is not others but you yourself.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Human history flows.&lt;br /&gt;It flows like streaming water.&lt;br /&gt;Streaming water stands to flow someday even if the water is blocked by a dam or bank.&lt;br /&gt;It is also the case with man.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There is no such thing like an everlasting bloom of youth. Even the springlike youth who now agonizes uncontrollably over his powerful strength and ambitious spirit must also know the latent chance that with the passage of years he stands to be transformed into an old and sick entity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now come a conclusion.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The spirit of filial piety is based upon the spirit of love and affection between parent and children.&lt;br /&gt;This filial piety is also the beginning of all ethics in the human society.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To look at the book of Leviticus 19:2, one can read this command, “Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.” The subsequent verse 3 makes reference to respecting parents and observing the Sabbath. As it were, this may mean that as the commandment of observing the Sabbath is from God, so that of respecting parents is characteristic of religion.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Behind the norm, there is the ‘divine good will’ that God wants his community(godly people)’s peace and welfare despite seeming as if respecting parents has nothing to do with God who created all creation.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Respecting one’s parents is a must. The filial affection is also the obligation we have to do so that our soul may be prosperous in everything and happy. When this respecting of parents is rightly habituated, we can then get to take a right-mannered look at the old persons in our society and community. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today’s text Leviticus 19:32 has this saying, “Thou shall rise up before the gray head.” That means that respecting old persons shouldn’t stop at mere words or theory, but it should rather be accompanied by its practical action.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Hebrew word for ‘Respect’ is ‘Kibed.’&lt;br /&gt;This word means ‘heavy,’ originally meaning ‘liver.’ Hebrews thought of the liver as something the heaviest of the man’s internal organs.&lt;br /&gt;Respect means, as it were, ‘Consider the gray head (of your parents) precious like a liver.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Although the experience and wisdom which old persons have gone through in their lives prior to us may seem unfit and useless for current times, yet the society where their lives are appreciated with their gray heads alone should be the very ‘community we aim towards (as God’s people).’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;All living creatures come into being and live their cycles through the organic processes of infancy ~ puberty ~ adulthood ~ senescence(old age) before they die. Even if the time might come when human cloning is dreamt of and is put into practice by chance, the relationship between parent and child lastingly continues. The best way to be treated as a parent as a human by your own precious children who are the apples of your eye is to now show the example of your respecting parents in your body in front of those children. The education shown in your body is the share that may return to you yourself in several decades.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I look forward that the reward in Exodus 20:12 would be your own, everybody.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. 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"센 머리 앞에서 일어서라."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12. “Thou shall Rise Up before the Gray Head” &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2001년 5월 – 어버이 주일&lt;br /&gt;May 2001 - Parent’s Week&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 몸으로 보여준 부모공경의 교육이 살아 있는 참교육&lt;br /&gt;- 효의 정신은 인간사회에서 통용되는 모든 윤리의 출발점&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;레위기 19장32절&lt;br /&gt;32 너는 센 머리 앞에 일어서고 노인의 얼굴을 공경하며 네 하나님을 경외하라 나는 여호와니라&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6EpRdkgTKI/AAAAAAAAATA/uGNESNZqkjA/s1600-h/34-Leviticus+9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161452027915553954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6EpRdkgTKI/AAAAAAAAATA/uGNESNZqkjA/s320/34-Leviticus+9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6Eo4dkgTJI/AAAAAAAAAS4/0LJIMWz4RsE/s1600-h/34-Leviticus+12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161451598418824338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6Eo4dkgTJI/AAAAAAAAAS4/0LJIMWz4RsE/s320/34-Leviticus+12.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a name="[문서의 처음]"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;몇 년 전에 73살이 된 노인 분이 90살 넘는 노모의 목을 졸라서 죽인 사건이 있었습니다. TV 뉴스에서 이 소식을 접한 많은 사람들이 자신의 노모를 죽인 이 노인의 행동에 비판을 가했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그런데 사연을 알고 보니 함부로 비판만을 할 일이 못되었습니다. 노인의 아들은 이미 죽었고, 변변한 재산하나 못 물려준 손자에게 얹혀 지낸다고 했습니다. 손자의 작은 전셋집에서 자신도 눈치 밥을 얻어먹고 있는 실정이니 ‘90살 넘은 어머니를 모시고 산다는 것’이 늙은 어머니에게도 못할 짓이고, 손자며느리에게도 못할 짓이었다고 했습니다. 아버님 산소에 가서 통곡을 하고는 집에 돌아와서 노모를 목 졸라 죽이면서 “아버님 곁에 가셔서 그 곳에서나마 편하게 지내시라”고 했답니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;현대 산업사회의 가슴 아픈 인간소외의 단면을 가장 극단적으로 보여준 경우입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;노인의 이런 행동에 대해서 사회 한편에서는 “천륜을 거역했다느니, 천하의 폐륜아,...”하는 소리가 들려옵니다만 수긍이 가는 내용이 많습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;옛날 농업사회에서는 사람이 늙어서 오랫동안 산다고 하여도 “손자며느리한테 얹혀서 산다.”는 표현이 없었습니다만, 지금은 도처에서 “자식들한테 얹혀서 갑갑하게 지내느니 혼자서 사는 게 편하다.”라는 노인들의 말을 종종 듣는 시대가 되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;잠16:31 '백발은 영화의 면류관'이라는 구절이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;옛날 왕조시대의 이스라엘이나, 우리나라, 중국, 일본,... 동*서양을 막론하고 대다수의 국가에서 왕이나, 귀족, 대지주나 큰 상인 등의 특권층만을 빼고는 국민의 대부분은 배고픔에 시달렸습니다. 흉년이 들면 굶주려 죽고, 전쟁이라도 일어나면 강제로 동원되어 전쟁터에서 죽고, 전쟁이 없던 시기라 하더라도 농사를 짓지 않는 겨울철에는 부역으로 징집되어 강제 노동에 끌려갔습니다. 게다가 전염병이라도 돌게 되면 한집에 한•두 명 쯤 죽는 것쯤은 예사였습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이렇게 평생을 먹을 것과 입을 것 걱정, 육체적인 중노동, 전쟁이 휩쓸고 간 죽음과 가난, 그 흔한 돌림병(전염병)에도 약 한번 못써보고 엄청난 양의 죽음으로 그 대가를 치루며 살았습니다. 이런 형편이 동서양 모두 100여 년 전까지 지속되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예수님이 살던 로마시대의 남자들의 평균 나이가 40살 정도였다고 합니다. 우리나라도 지금으로부터 90여 년 전, 1910년 일본에 의해 강제적인 성격의 한일합방을 할 때까지도 61살의 ‘환갑’까지 사는 게 꽤 힘들었습니다. 오늘날 80살의 ‘팔순 잔치’를 해 먹는 노인들보다도 훨씬 더 적은 수의 사람들만이 환갑을 맞이할 수 가 있었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그래서 과거에는 61세(환갑)까지 산 것만 하더라도 모진 인생에 대한 지혜요, 삶의 승리로 인정할 수밖에 없었던 것입니다. 자손들이 없는 살림에 빚까지 내어 가며 부모에게 성대하게 환갑잔치를 해 드린 것도 이러한 이유가 그 밑바닥에 깔려 있었습니다. 우리사회에서 저희들 바로 웃세대 까지만 해도 ‘백발은 인생의 영화요, 면류관이요, 집안의 자랑’이라는 생각이 전반적으로 통용되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;또 한 가지는 TV, 신문, 라디오, 컴퓨터가 없던 시절에는 젊은 후손들은 노인들의 남다른 지혜에 귀를 기울여야만 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;농업사회나, 유목사회에서는 자연에 의존해서 사는 것이 절대적입니다.&lt;br /&gt;자연현상을 유심히 살펴보면 - 똑 같은 숫치는 아닙니다만 - 보통 3, 5, 10, 30, 50, 70, 100년....비슷한 주기성을 띠고 가뭄, 홍수, 추위, 더위, 폭설.... 등의 현상이 나타나곤 합니다. 과학이 발달하지 않은 시대에 이것을 기억하고 이런 자연 재해에서 살아남을 수 있는 방법을 가르쳐 주는 것은 남보다 오래 살면서 자연재해를 30년, 50년.70년 주기까지도 경험한 노인들의 경험에서 나온 지혜일 수밖에 없었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;비록 몸은 늙고 병들어도 그들이 살아있는 동안은 ‘노인들의 머리 속에 든 지혜’는 후손들이 살아가야 할 삶의 원천이요, 밑바탕이요, 공경해야 할 지혜이자 곧 지식이었던 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;TV프로 '동물은 살아있다'를 보면 코끼리들의 생활이 소개되곤 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;코끼리 무리를 지휘하고 이끄는 것은 힘이 센 젊은 숫놈이 아니고 그 무리에서 가장 오랫동안 산 늙은 암놈입니다. 50-60년 이상 살면서 자신이 겪은 가뭄과 목마름, 배고픔의 경험을 통해 극심한 가뭄으로 먹을 게 없어서 살기 힘든 시기가 오면 옛날의 기억을 더듬어 자신이 속해 있는 코끼리들을 이끌고 물이 있는 장소를 찾아내서 마침내는 그 무리를 먹여 살립니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;사막의 낙타도 마찬가지입니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;가장 오래 산 놈이 그 무리의 대장입니다. 평소에는 주인이 낙타무리를 이끌고 길을 가지만, 사막 한 가운데서 길을 잃게 되면 이때는 주인이 낙타무리를 잡이 끄는 것이 아니고, 오히려 늙은 낙타에게 모든 것을 맡기고 자신은 낙타무리의 뒤만 따라가야만 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 모든 것은 - 젊은 개체들이 가질 수 없는 - 늙은 개체들의 오랜 경륜에서 나온 경험을 바탕으로 한 지혜에 의존한 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;인간사회에서도 옛 시절 농업사회나, 유목사회에서는 이러한 늙은 개체들이 -노인들-간직한 경험과 지혜를 떠받들었습니다. 곧 노인들의 나이는 지혜와 동일시되었던 것입니다. '백발은 영화의 면류관이다'는 말은 ‘그 노인분이 지혜로웠기 때문에 그 험난한 세상을 백발이 되도록 살수 있었다.’는 말과도 통합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그런데 이 노인네의 지혜가 산업사회로 바뀌면서 쓸모없게 되어버린 시대로 변했습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;농사짓는 법도 옛날처럼 하늘에 의존하는 것이 아니고 기계의 힘에 더 의존하고, 가정에서의 가사 일도 어머니의 어머니들에게서 전해져 오던 전통적인 방법이 아닙니다. 갈수록 발달되어 ‘단추하나만 누르면 사람이 할 일을 알아서 해 주는 성능 좋은 가전제품들, 슈퍼마켓에 잘 포장되고 정리되어 각종일용품들...,.이런 변화가 젊은 사람들한테는 편하고 효율적인데 비해 노인들한테는 그들의 지혜를 빌려줄 수 있는 기회는 별로 없고, 오히려 잘못 만지면 고장을 내는 통에 ‘눈치 보는 시어머니’로 전락되어 버린 세상입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;직장에서도 하루가 다르게 기계가 발달되고, 정보화 되다 보니 직장 일에 대한 경험은 많아도 정보 사회에 필요한 새로운 기기적응에 뒤쳐지는 많은 50대직장인들이 취업한지 1-2년 밖에 안 되어 아들보다도 어린사람들에게 밀려나는 경우를 많이 보게 됩니다. 그들의 젊은 시절, 근면과 성실로 인해 국가적인 외화 벌이의 원동력이 되었고, 가정에서도 가장으로서의 충실한 삶을 살아 왔건만, 산업 정보화시대에 들어와서는 몸으로 부딪친 경험보다는 머리만 좋은 젊은 사람들에게 밀려나 뒷전으로 내몰리고 있는 상황입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;옛날 농업사회나 유목 사회에서는 몸이 늙고 낡아도 노인의 나이에서 나오는 경험과 지혜는 그 무엇보다도 귀중하고 값진 것이었는데, 산업사회나, 정보통신 사회로 바뀔수록 옛날 사람들이 최고의 가치로 생각하던 지혜는, 캐캐묵은 구닥다리, 그 옛날 고려장 지내던 시절에나 어울림직한 잔소리로 변하고 말았습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;한 동네에 80-90살의 노인네가 살아계시면. 자손들은 노인을 섬기는 것이 귀찮더라도 내색하지 않는 것이 ‘자손 된 도리’로 여겼습니다. 밖에 나가서는 집안의 자랑이요, 영광이고, 위계질서의 가장 큰 어른으로서 높이고, 이것이 사람 사는 순리라고 생각했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;지금은 오히려 노인 분들이 젊은 사람들 눈치를 살피다가, 자식들을 분가시키고 자기들끼리 살거나, 마지막에는 유료양로원을 택하는 경우가 종종 보게 됩니다. 40대 중년부부들이 부모님들과 따로 사는 것에 남성은 60%, 여성은 80%가 찬성한다는 보도를 들은 적이 있습니다. 그들도 20-30년 뒤에는 지금의 부모들과 똑같은 처지가 되건만,... 이것이 2000년대의 ‘노인공경사상’의 현 주소입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;연극배우 손숙 씨가 있습니다. 손숙 씨가 하는 말이 자기도 나이 들어 자녀들한테는 같이 살면 귀찮을 것 같아서 "나가 살아라! 나가 살아라!" 하고 자식이 분가해서 사는 것에 먼저 찬성했답니다. 자신의 그 말에 자식이 선뜻 응하자 속으로는 무척 섭섭했다고 합니다. “어쩔 수 없어 분가하자고 하는 것이지, 속으로 같이 사는 것 나쁘다고 생각할 부모님들이 몇 분이나 되냐”고 한 말을 기억해 둘 필요가 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리나라사회가 모방하고 따라가는 “산업화, 정보화, 서구화”의 구호 속에는 싫으나 좋으나 서구의 사회를 그대로 닮아가게 됩니다. 그 문제점의 하나가 우리나라 특유의 대가족 중심의 가족제도나 분위기가 무너지고 ‘핵가족’과 ‘개인주의’의 만연입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;서구의 많은 노인들이 10, 20년 동안 양로원에서 늙은 말년을 지내면서 자식들이나 손자들이 1년에 한두 번 방문하거나, 그것도 아니면 부활절이나 크리스마스카드로 대신한 안부의 카드를 눈이 뚫어지게 바라보다가 쓸쓸하게 죽는 것은 흔한 현상입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;핵가족이 만연한 서구사회도 1940-1950년대까지는 지금과는 다른 가정 분위기였습니다. 지금처럼 이혼율도 높지 않았고, 대부분 자녀수는 3-5명, 그 집안의 가장인 아버지는 열심히 일하고, 아내는 가정주부로서 가족의 건강과 자녀들의 교육문제에 신경 쓰는 이런 가족풍경이 40-50년대까지의 서구 중산층의 전형적인 모습이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그들의 부모님, 즉 노인들과는 같이 살지 않는다 하더라도 집안의 기념일이나, 토요일 저녁의 만찬, 추수 감사절, 크리스마스, 부활절,...따위의 의미가 부여되는 특별한 날에는 아들며느리*손자손녀들과 자주 모여 식사를 하고, 어울려서 가족간의 유대감을 형성하는 가족적인 분위기를 그들의 부모님들이 한 것처럼 이어져 내려왔었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;1950년대까지는 그들의 부모님들이 한 것처럼 남편은 가장으로서 아내와 자식을 위해고, 아내는 남편과 아이들을 보살피고, 때로는 늙은 부모님을 생각해서 가족의 만찬에 초대하고,....이런 식의 삶을 대다수의 국민들이 지킬 수가 있었습니다. 이때까지는 부모들이 자식들한테 부모다운 대접을 받았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;1960년대부터는 사회가 급격히 변화되고 1930-40년대에 젊음을 바친 이들이 60년대부터는 소외되기 시작해서 지금에 이르렀습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;서구 사회에서 흔히 거론되는 본격적인 ‘노인소외’도 50-60년, 불과 2세대도 안 되는 짧은 기간에 일어난 사회변화입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리나라는 서구보다 사회변화가 10-20년 정도 늦습니다. 70년대까지만 하더라도 노인들이 이렇게까지는 기죽어 살지는 않았습니다. 20-30년 전만 하더라도 버스나, 지하철에서 노인네들이 자리양보 하지 않는 젊은이나 학생들을 나무라면, 그 젊은이나 학생은 투덜대면서도 주위 사람들 때문에 얼굴 붉히면서 그 자리를 피했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 오늘날은 피하지 않고 싸우는 것이 다반사입니다. 학생들이 담배 피는 것도 옛날이나 지금이나 같습니다. 다만 지금은 피해서 피지 않고 떳떳이 피우고, 나무라는 어른이나 노인들 앞에서 얼굴 숙이고 도망치는 것이 아니고, 따지고 싸운다는 것이 달라진 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;즉, 노인네들의 말이 힘을 잃어 가는 세대로 변한 것 입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리가 “노인네 또는 늙은이”라고 무시하는 그분들이 우리가 누리는 지금의 모든 것을 젊은 시절부터 몸 바쳐 일구며, 자식 낳고, 교육시키며 살아 왔습니다. 자식들은 부모님들에게 학교 등록비(교육비일체), 용돈, 막대한 결혼 비용의 대부분을 떠맡기고, 나이가 더 들어서는 부모 재산 정리해서 아파트(집)나 사업자금 요구하는 것을 당연히 요구합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;반대로 부모님들은 자식들에게 용돈 달래기가 쑥스러워 괜히 울화병 생기고, 아프고, 외로운 것을 내색하지 못해 전전긍긍하며 살아가고 있는 경우가 허다합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;젊은 사람들은 자식으로서 보호 받을 특권만을 주장할 줄 알고 되돌려주는 의무는 상실한 ‘만년 어린아이 같은 생각’을 하며 살고 있습니다. 하지만 30년 뒤에는 지금의 젊은이도 노인이 되는 것이 자연적의 질서입니다. 가령 자식들 한달 교육비, 용돈, 옷값으로 100만원 쓸 때 부모님들에게는 10만원 드리는 것이 아깝고, 억울해서 형제들 모아 놓고 서로 나눠서 부담하자는 젊은이들도 30-40년 뒤에는 자신들도 백발이 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;서유석의 '가는 세월'에 보면 "아가들이 자라나서 어른이 되듯이"를 우리는 듣고 자랐습니다. 한 가지 더 알아야 할 것은 ‘회심곡’ 가사 중에 “앞에 가는 저 젊은이 뒤에 따라 가는 백발을 우습게보지 마라”하는 내용이 들어 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이 말이 무슨 뜻입니까?&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;“젊은 당신네가 무시하고 별 볼 일없이 취급하는 원숭이 모양새의 늙은이가, 당신들도 모르는 사이에 당신네들 품안으로 도둑처럼 파고든다.”는 말이 될 것입니다. 아니면 “지금은 나이 들고 병들고 지쳐 남들한테 무시 받고 손가락질 받는 처량한 신세지만, 30-40년 전에는 지금의 젊은 당신들처럼 언제까지 힘이 있어 자신 있게 살 줄 알았지, 지금처럼 이렇게 늙고 힘없는 늙은이가 될 줄은 몰랐다. 나를 보고서 늙은이가 남이 아니고 자신이라는 것을 깨달으라.”는 뜻 일 겁니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;인간의 역사는 흐릅니다.&lt;br /&gt;흐르는 물과 같이 흐릅니다.&lt;br /&gt;흐르는 물은 댐이나 둑으로 막아 놓아도 언젠가는 흐르게 되어 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;인간도 마찬가집니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;언제까지나 청춘은 없습니다. 지금은 넘치는 힘과 패기를 주체 할 수가 없어서 고민인 젊은 청춘이라도 세월이 흐르면 늙고 병든 인생으로 탈바꿈 될 가능성이 있다는 사실도 알아야 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론을 맺겠습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;효의 정신은 어버이와 자식 사이의 친애의 정신을 바탕으로 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;이 효는 인간사회의 모든 윤리의 출발점이기도 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;레위기19:2절을 보면 “나 여호와가 거룩하니 너희도 거룩 하라”고 명령합니다. 그리고 이어서 3절의 부모 공경과 안식일에 대한 언급이 나옵니다. 이 말은 곧 안식일에 대한 명령이 하나님의 명령이듯, 부모 공경 역시 종교적 성격을 뛴다는 말이 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 규범의 배후에는 ‘부모공경’이 모든 만물을 창조하신 하나님과는 아무런 상관도 없는 것처럼 보임에도 불구하고 ‘(하나님 백성의)공동체의 평화와 안녕’이 하나님께서 원하시는 ‘하나님의 뜻’이라는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;부모의 공경은 마땅히 행해야만 하고, 그 효는 우리의 영혼이 범사에 잘되고 행복을 누릴 수 있는 종교적 의무이기도 합니다. 이 부모 공경이 제대로 이뤄질 때 내 이웃의 노인, 우리사회의 노인을 제대로 바라 볼 수가 있습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;오늘의 본문 레위기 19장 32절의 본문에서 “너는 센 머리 앞에서 일어서고”라는 표현이 있습니다. 이것은 부모, 노인공경이 말이나 이론만으로 그쳐서는 안 되고 실천적 행동이 수반해야 된다는 사실을 의미합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'공경'이란 말의 히브리어는 '키베드'입니다.&lt;br /&gt;이 말은 '무겁다'는 뜻으로 원래는 '간장'을 의미 합니다. 히브리인들은 사람의 내장 중에서 간장을 제일 무거운 것으로 여겼습니다.&lt;br /&gt;곧 공경이란 ‘백발(부모)을 간장처럼 귀히 여기라’는 뜻이 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리보다 먼저 인생을 살아오면서 경험했던 경험들과 지혜가 지금 시대에는 안 맞고, 또 지금시대에는 그 지혜가 쓸모없다 하더라도, 그 백발만으로도 그 분들의 삶이 인정받는 사회가 바로 ‘(하나님의 백성인) 우리가 지향하는 공동체’ 이여야 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;모든 생물체는 유아기-성장기-장년기-퇴화기(노년기)의 과정을 거쳐 한 세대를 살다가 생성-소멸합니다. 인간복제를 꿈꾸고, 혹 인간복제를 실천에 옮기는 시대가 온다 하더라도 부모와 자식의 관계는 이어집니다. 눈에 넣어도 아프지 않은 소중한 자식들한테 인간대접, 부모 대접 받는 길은 지금 그 자식들 앞에서 부모 공경의 본을 몸으로 보여 주는 것입니다. 몸으로 보여준 교육이 몇 십 년 뒤에 자신에게 돌아 올 몫입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;참고로 출 20:12의 보상이 여러분의 것이 되기를 바랍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;네 부모를 공경하라.&lt;br /&gt;그리하면&lt;br /&gt;네 하나님 나 여호와가 네게 준 땅에서 네 생명이 길리라.&lt;br /&gt;(출애굽기 20:12)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. (Exodus 20:12)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Welcome visitors to My personal homepage,&lt;a href="http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/eindex.htm" target="_self"&gt;http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/eindex.htm&lt;/a&gt;/ about theology / health and disease / culture / sex.... ‘Continuity of Life’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6Eon9kgTII/AAAAAAAAASw/4Dxc05M8PpM/s1600-h/34-Leviticus+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161451314950982786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6Eon9kgTII/AAAAAAAAASw/4Dxc05M8PpM/s320/34-Leviticus+2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-1337340853205466299?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/1337340853205466299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=1337340853205466299' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/1337340853205466299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/1337340853205466299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post.html' title='센 머리 앞에서 일어서라'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R6EqH9kgTMI/AAAAAAAAATQ/ia4L_ZVW2rM/s72-c/34-Leviticus+11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-7135427252086009022</id><published>2007-11-30T02:15:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:19.348-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The New Man</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dNBP--2cI/AAAAAAAAASo/0vC1DOrwG2I/s1600-h/34-Ephesians+4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140662183532616130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dNBP--2cI/AAAAAAAAASo/0vC1DOrwG2I/s320/34-Ephesians+4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13. ‘The New Man’&lt;br /&gt;13. "새 사람"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- August 2001&lt;br /&gt;- 2001년 8월&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- About behavior, norm, ethics…code of conduct by a person becoming ‘the new man’ Apostle Paul tells&lt;br /&gt;-바울 사도의 ‘새 사람’이 되어가는 행동, 규범, 윤리...행동강령에 대하여...&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ephesians 4;17~32&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.&lt;br /&gt;17. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.&lt;br /&gt;18. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.&lt;br /&gt;19. You, however, did not come to know Christ that way.&lt;br /&gt;21. Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;&lt;br /&gt;23. to be made new in the attitude of your minds;&lt;br /&gt;24. and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.&lt;br /&gt;25. Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.&lt;br /&gt;26. "In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,&lt;br /&gt;27. and do not give the devil a foothold.&lt;br /&gt;28. He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.&lt;br /&gt;29. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.&lt;br /&gt;30. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.&lt;br /&gt;31. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.&lt;br /&gt;32. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dMe_--2bI/AAAAAAAAASg/2BUtlGGJ1vk/s1600-h/34-Ephesians1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140661595122096562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dMe_--2bI/AAAAAAAAASg/2BUtlGGJ1vk/s320/34-Ephesians1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dMWf--2aI/AAAAAAAAASY/pJ6g6tfoLEw/s1600-h/34-Ephesians+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140661449093208482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dMWf--2aI/AAAAAAAAASY/pJ6g6tfoLEw/s320/34-Ephesians+2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Still in Korea, there are many families with old parents to support.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;One of proud things in Korea to the world is the tradition of living with old parents. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Even though there are more increasing people who refer to the nuclear family era, more increasing old people who live alone and more increasing old peoples’ home, still in Korea there are relatively more old people who live together with their children. (I don’t know how long this phenomenon will last, but I have a wish that we are not the last generation on this land where our old people live with their children.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;One general thinking in the minds of Korean folks has it that it is customary for the first son and his wife to live with his parents. Nowadays a lot changed, there are more old people whose other sons as well take turns periodically to live with or more old people who live with their daughter and her husband.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, there are some of old folks who think it natural that the oldest son and his wife should attend upon at least those who live in the houses of younger son, and also some of old folks who live with their daughter and her husband who feel depressed in the speaking to themselves, “Oh, my son, my son....” or “If only I have a son, I might not be in this harsh treatment....”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This favoritism to a son is the Korean sentiment that has been traced down till now. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are many cases that those old folks who live with their son handed down all their hard-earned hard-accumulated money to their son and his wife. To judge strictly, the pocket money sons give off to their parents is often a mere tiny bit out of their parents’ property, and yet even the pocket money they give it to their parents with an attitude of patronage on their faces.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If their daughters’ husbands took this attitude, the parents who might have been silent to such action of their sons go as far as to show reluctance. Due to growing in learning the still existing bad discrimination between son and daughter, the younger generation in their 30s~40s as well is of no exception to their way of thinking about son. The big-talking man who says he doesn’t discriminate son or daughter when he begot is, for the most part, the man who has already one son or the man who is in his early stage of marriage. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Though different according to locality little by little, it is said that any elementary school has the same problem of lacking girls. In a severe case, it is said that girl children are immoderately insufficient compared to boy children in the ratio of 100 to 130. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This phenomenon is said to be much worse in China.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to ‘ideology of favoritism toward male babies’ that hangs on to sons, old folks in China and Korea think they still don’t lose the just cause, even if they live with their son and the wife. The older-aged folks they are, the more natural they think it to be well-treated when they are old, by speaking to themselves about their sons they had been so strenuous to grow “How far I have gone to grow my son....”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, it is different from the standpoint of daughters-in-law.&lt;br /&gt;There goes a saying, “However great pains you go to, two unappreciated thankless jobs are ‘taking care of baby children’ and ‘waiting on aged parents’.” Between them, waiting on aged parents is much harder. Taking care of baby children takes just as long as 2~3, or as longest as 5~6 years, while waiting upon parents takes even as long as 20~30 years of time and tide until the end.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Though there is a satirical fad phrase like ‘a hard life under her daughter-in-law’ nowadays, yet there is mostly more cases of ‘a hard life under her mother-in-law’ or ‘a hard life under her family-members-in-law.’ Even if an oldest son and wife or one of the other sons and wife serves their parents, looks and appearances of daughter-in-law’s life under her parents-in-law are not different. This is the common complaints by daughters-in-law.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Even though they serve their parents-in-law faithfully by fixing warm meals more than 2 times a day if not ‘all three warm meals,’ and even though they live ‘in the temperance of their privacy’ compared to their friends who live in nuclear families, they just live in all being scolded without receiving any single right compliment from their mothers-in-law. What is even worse, however, on a day like when another daughter-in-law or daughter of theirs drops by mothers’ houses accidently once or 1~2 times a month with purchased meat or clothes and slips some allowance money into their hands, the old parents-in-law express their gladfulness by saying, “Our ∞ is the best in the world.” &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Not sufficient enough with being glad alone, too often than not we can see them run right to their neighbors, their senior citizen’s hall and their school for old people and every other place possible so that they sing praises only of sons, daughters-in-law and their sons-in-law who came for just a short drop-by.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Serving warm meals 3 times a day, trying to please whichever way they want, looking after them numerously, being scolded to a repulsive degree,..., without attention to each and every kinds of such attentive efforts, they feel thanks only to and show interest only in ‘their son and daughters-in-law who appeared a short moment and slipped a little allowance into their pockets,’ so that the daughters-in-law who are living together with them just go mad and crazy in resentment. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This picture often seen in the neighborhood is one of conflictive issues between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Not sufficient enough with such praises for others, even worse goes the discord between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law on an occasion like when mothers-in-law give the farm produce they have taken so much pains together in growing to live with their children (in rural area) or the items they collected with their money so hard-earned together up to a shoulder-drooping degree (in city), into the hands of other daughters-in-law who are merely dropping by once in a long while, without even asking to their daughters-in-law who are living together.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Son or daughter who lives in a branch family comes their parents for a short visit once in a long while, receives client-like treatment and eats this and that fixed in their front. And then if he or she makes a demonstration of benevolence by giving allowance money and clothes, they are spoken of as a good and decent daughter-in-law or son-in-law. In case of siblings with children attached, their children make a mess of the whole house, which is irritating. In that condition, the slow-witted senseless mother-in-law brings out and gives them this and that by saying “I give mine own as I please” and does others, so that the daughter-in-law living together just feels her bosom sore in resentment one way or another. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Of course, this picture is not fit for every family. Yet, we can see a numerous families still have troubles in such similar ways.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of one interesting phenomenon, there is a saying, “In case of a mother-in-law passing away, the daughter-in-law who had been under the same roof in serious conflicts with her mother-in-law in her lifetime weeps the most plaintively and sorrowfully.” It is neither a false weeping nor a perfunctory. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since she has been together with her mother-in-law in bad affection and good in so long-lasted discord, all these things became the life of her own. That’s why she so unconsciously bursts into the fit of emotion different from other patronizing daughters-in-law.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;There goes a saying, ‘People who’s married after 7 years of romance fall into divorce in just a year after.’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In romance days, it doesn’t have the system where he or she reveals one’s everything to the other for 24 hours every day. Even though they see each other once in a while or every day, he or she shows just part of oneself and looks at just part of the other. If they now marry, however, they have a lot more chances to see a lot more parts of the other against their will, and to greedily attempt to correct the other’s weaknesses. In this situation where most of one’s identity is discovered by the other and one’s opinions collide with the other’s at any time of 24 hours, there came ceaseless occasions of dissonances.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This way, people feel difficulty in front of words like ‘Continuously’ or ‘Like Every Day’ meaning constant repetition.&lt;br /&gt;‘Life of faith’ as well is not different from that.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Life of faith required by the Bible is not the role of daughter-in-law who shows all good outward appearances by smiling sweetly and slipping money into their parents-in-law’s pockets in just-once-in-a-long-while visits. It is life of faith that is like of a daughter-in-law who has to live in conflict in the middle of sundry errands and small complaints face to face to a tiring degree any moment 24 hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dLz_--2YI/AAAAAAAAASI/foyajRH0_O4/s1600-h/34-+Ephesus2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140660856387721602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dLz_--2YI/AAAAAAAAASI/foyajRH0_O4/s320/34-+Ephesus2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dLl_--2XI/AAAAAAAAASA/rLUR_CcgPoM/s1600-h/34-Ephesus5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140660615869553010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dLl_--2XI/AAAAAAAAASA/rLUR_CcgPoM/s320/34-Ephesus5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Paul the Apostle who constantly preached Jesus until he died after repentance on the way to Damascus wrote a good quantity of the Bible(Paul’s Epistles). ‘Paul’s Epistles’ authored by Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles have several characteristics.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The first is the spreading of the Gospel.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It was the law that had remained religiously for the Jews in Asia Minor until Paul’s preaching the Gospel. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Apostle Paul explains by taking various examples about the issues between the law and the gospel, respectively the former that is the precepts of life and the latter that Paul himself preaches. In an intense case, he compares the law to ‘Ishmael’ borne by Hagar, a female servant of Abraham and compares the Gospel to ‘Isaac’ borne by Sarah, a wife of Abraham (Galatians 4:21~31). Against the law dominating over the Jewish world at the time, Paul the Apostle of the Gentiles preaches the Gospel that salvation comes not from the law but comes from Jesus. That is the first characteristic of Paul’s Epistles.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The second is the foundation of the church&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Not synagogues that used to be for Jews so far, a new community of the church was established. Apostle Paul highlights that the church can play role solely in the first priority of the community’s ‘order and harmony.’ Apostle Paul explains to believers by comparing that church to the human ‘body.’&lt;br /&gt;①Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God (1 Corinthians 11:3).&lt;br /&gt;②The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ (see 1 Corinthians 12:12~31).&lt;br /&gt;In the illustrative sentences such as above, we can see the church is likened to the body of a human.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Lord’s Supper Service is indeed the institution to have the Church as ‘One Body’ understood. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On the eve night of being caught and taken away, Jesus imparted his disciples bread and the cup in remembrance of him and said, “This is My Body, which is for you (when Jesus took and broke bread after giving thanks) (1 Corinthians 11:24)” and “This cup is the new covenant in My Blood (1 Corinthians 11:25).” These sayings in the Sacrament must only be interpreted in terms of the Church as an organic body so that they may be rightly understood, according as Apostle Paul reminds.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The third is that he taught the ethics necessary for the church community.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Apostle Paul’s Epistles emphasizes life principles or ethics for the believers in the early church. This aims at establishing of order within community for the upkeep and development of a newly born church community. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The early church began to consist of people of various kinds. It was the community of slaves and masters worshiping together (Ephesians 6:5~9, 2 Timothy 6:1~2). It was the community of Jews and Greeks worshiping together (1 Corinthians 1:24, 10:32). Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, men or women and so forth, the worship community of people from various walks of life gathering together to attend service was the internal status of each church after Paul’s instituting the church. Since such many stratums of people attended worship service, a variety of issues began to occur.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A characteristic of Paul’s Epistles is that Apostle Paul mentions the issues that began to arise in each church and suggests how to solve the issues.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For instance, Corinth region is the city where commercial industry was developed at the time.&lt;br /&gt;The city was so developed in commerce that comings and goings of people were naturally so frequent. With all and sundry people crowding in there, sexual immoralities were wide and prevalent. The sexual impurities were filtering into the whole city of Corinth. Such situation is a precondition for why the sexual issue unseeable in other parts of Paul’s Epistles was also deeply dealt with in the church at Corinth (1 Corinthians 5:1~8, 6:15~20)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;We can best interpret today’s text, Ephesians 4:17~31 when we set its background to Paul’s concern who wishes to preserve the ‘purity of the church at Ephesus’ by guiding his brothers and sisters in a right manner.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The opening of the text including Ephesians 4:17~31 begins with the words including ‘I request earnestly’ at Ephesians 4:1. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This section is the record of believers’ ‘norms of life’ that are related to reality. And its core message lies in the words, ‘Be one.’ Work for God is divided into many duties. And these duties working harmoniously each other to set up the church is a ‘metaphorical depiction of the body’ and a ‘basic theme of being one,’ which Paul the Apostle highlights.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;From Chapter 4:17, he teaches ‘practicable standards of life (code of conduct)’ that people need to apply in their reality of life. He emphasizes the believer must overcome the old man of heathenism and further and further be changed concretely into the new being created in baptism.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;From Verse 22, he instructs through imperative sentences that the Christians should put off the old self (Verse 22), that is, put off falsehood, madness, stealing and evil speaking so that they may have their truth and sincerity recognized. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Verse 25 analogous to the ninth article in the Ten Commandments is what he orders by preconditioning that the believers of faith and baptism are the members of the church that is the body of Christ. It forbids any falsehood from happening between neighbors. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Verse 28 analogous to the ninth article is what the Christians of one body should understand in their mutual relationships in the context of the order, ‘Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God (Verse 30).’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To sum up the flow of Ephesians Chapter 4:1 ~ Chapter 5, it would be as follows:&lt;br /&gt;4:1 - I request politely....&lt;br /&gt;4:2-16 ‐ Be one.&lt;br /&gt;4:17-24 ‐ Put on new man.&lt;br /&gt;4:25-32 ‐ Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God.&lt;br /&gt;5:1 ‐ Be followers of God&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;To look more closely, there are one saying ‘Be renewed (4:23)’ and another saying ‘Put on the new self (4:24).’ To go further to pay attention to the verse 25 ‘Therefore...,’ the conduct appearing in the 4:17~22 are the acts by none other than the people that belong to the old self or the body of sin, meaning “Now that ‘you are renewed’ because of ‘our Lord Jesus Christ,’ you should ‘lead the conduct’ of verse 25 and below’ from now on.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The essence of Ephesians 4:25~32 tells about the process of growing in the new self, and about manners, principles, ethics, conduct codes and such that should be observed in each Christian’s growing process as a new being. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Apostle Paul firmly states with an imperative sentence, “All kinds of malicious thinking, evil words and immoral acts are ‘grieving the Holy Spirit of God,’ such as lying, madness, stealing, evil speaking, brawling and faultfinding that are the doings of the sinful old man before believing Christ, conducted by you the self-professed new men.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here comes a conclusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A certain person’s thinking is expressed through actions. And if the actions pile up, they become habits. There are many times when habits determine the rest of one’s life. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Among Presbyterian doctrines (the order of salvation), the saying ‘Be made new’ in today’s text doesn’t refer to the ‘Justification (being called righteous)’ determined through a single ruling.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;“You already received the decision that you are ‘righteous in the blood of Jesus’ concerning your identity by the grace of God. Yet, the saying ‘Put on the new self’ in the text refers to the person who keep overcoming themselves -- or their evil thinking, speaking and action -- in discordant relationship with neighbors in the life led day by day till one’s death on the earth.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Speaking of the saying “I am not who used to be,” if this is used by a man who has bitter grudge against money, that becomes his slogan for making money. If used by an examinee who studies, that becomes a decision to stop playing around and study hard. But if used by a Christian who has received God’s grace, that becomes a mature Christian’s motto who pursues the characteristics of the new self like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control and such, by breaking away from the characteristics of the old self like sexual immorality, idolatry, deception, evil language, greed, fits of anger and such (Galatians 5:16~24).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Apostle Paul’s words ‘Victorious Life’ indicate the life in which one knows how to overcome him- or herself in the Christian’s day-after-day struggle like that. Only the person living that way is ‘the new man’ who is renewed every day (see 2 Timothy 4:1~8).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I pray you everybody be ‘the new man’ yourself in your ‘victorious life’ day by day!&lt;br /&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Welcome visitors to My personal homepage,&lt;a href="http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/eindex.htm"&gt;http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/eindex.htm&lt;/a&gt;/...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dLZ_--2WI/AAAAAAAAAR4/RFlP6lvMogI/s1600-h/34-Ephesus4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140660409711122786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dLZ_--2WI/AAAAAAAAAR4/RFlP6lvMogI/s320/34-Ephesus4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dLQP--2VI/AAAAAAAAARw/i5ljijwtHGI/s1600-h/34-Ephesus3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140660242207398226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dLQP--2VI/AAAAAAAAARw/i5ljijwtHGI/s320/34-Ephesus3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-7135427252086009022?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/7135427252086009022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=7135427252086009022' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/7135427252086009022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/7135427252086009022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-man.html' title='The New Man'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dNBP--2cI/AAAAAAAAASo/0vC1DOrwG2I/s72-c/34-Ephesians+4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-6052456583404809578</id><published>2007-11-30T02:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:25.524-07:00</updated><title type='text'>새 사람</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dC6v--2TI/AAAAAAAAARg/DvWsMAI1oFY/s1600-h/34-Ephesians1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140651076747188530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dC6v--2TI/AAAAAAAAARg/DvWsMAI1oFY/s320/34-Ephesians1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13. "새 사람"&lt;br /&gt;13. ‘The New Man’&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- 2001년 8월&lt;br /&gt;- August 2001&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-바울 사도의 ‘새 사람’이 되어가는 행동, 규범, 윤리...행동강령에 대하여...&lt;br /&gt;-매일 매일의 싸움에서 자신을 이겨낼 줄 아는 사람이 진정한 ‘새 사람’&lt;br /&gt;- About behavior, norm, ethics…code of conduct by a person becoming ‘the new man’ Apostle Paul tells&lt;br /&gt;- The person who overcomes himself in day-by-day struggle is a true ‘new man’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;엡 4장17~32절&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;17그러므로 내가 이것을 말하며 주 안에서 증거하노니 이제부터는 이방인이 그 마음의 허망한 것으로 행함 같이 너희는 행하지 말라 18 저희 총명이 어두워지고 저희 가운데 있는 무지함과 저희 마음이 굳어짐으로 말미암아 하나님의 생명에서 떠나 있도다 19 저희가 감각 없는 자 되어 자신을 방탕에 방임하여 모든 더러운 것을 욕심으로 행하되 20 오직 너희는 그리스도를 이같이 배우지 아니하였느니라 21 진리가 예수 안에 있는 것 같이 너희가 과연 그에게서 듣고 또한 그 안에서 가르침을 받았을찐대 22 너희는 유혹의 욕심을 따라 썩어져 가는 구습을 좇는 옛 사람을 벗어 버리고 23 오직 심령으로 새롭게 되어 24 하나님을 따라 의와 진리의 거룩함으로 지으심을 받은 새 사람을 입으라 25 그런즉 거짓을 버리고 각각 그 이웃으로 더불어 참된 것을 말하라 이는 우리가 서로 지체가 됨이니라 26 분을 내어도 죄를 짓지 말며 해가 지도록 분을 품지 말고 27 마귀로 틈을 타지 못하게 하라 28 도적질하는 자는 다시 도적질하지 말고 돌이켜 빈궁한 자에게 구제할 것이 있기 위하여 제 손으로 수고하여 선한 일을 하라 29 무릇 더러운 말은 너희 입밖에도 내지 말고 오직 덕을 세우는데 소용되는대로 선한 말을 하여 듣는 자들에게 은혜를 끼치게 하라 30 하나님의 성령을 근심하게 하지 말라 그 안에서 너희가 구속의 날까지 인치심을 받았느니라 31 너희는 모든 악독과 노함과 분냄과 떠드는 것과 훼방하는 것을 모든 악의와 함께 버리고 32 서로 인자하게 하며 불쌍히 여기며 서로 용서하기를 하나님이 그리스도 안에서 너희를 용서하심과 같이 하라&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="#1707381388"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dCnv--2SI/AAAAAAAAARY/pypNRgF58iE/s1600-h/34-Ephesus6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140650750329674018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dCnv--2SI/AAAAAAAAARY/pypNRgF58iE/s320/34-Ephesus6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dCYf--2RI/AAAAAAAAARQ/Mk5iuTASoEE/s1600-h/34-+Ephesus2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140650488336668946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/R1dCYf--2RI/AAAAAAAAARQ/Mk5iuTASoEE/s320/34-+Ephesus2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;아직도 우리나라는 연로한 부모님을 모시고 사는 가정이 많습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;한국인이 세계에 자랑 할만 한 것 한 가지가 바로 연로한 부모님과 함께 사는 풍습입니다. 핵가족 시대를 말하고, 혼자 사는 노인들이 늘어나고, 유로 양로원들이 해마다 증가하고 있어도, 아직까지는 자녀분들과 함께 사시는 노인 분들이 더 많습니다(이런 현상이 언제까지 지속 될지는 모르나 노인 분들이 자녀들과 함께 산 이 땅의 마지막 세대가 되지 않았으면 하는 바람을 가지고 있습니다).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리나라 사람들의 보편적인 생각 속에는 큰아들과 큰며느리가 부모님과 함께 사는 것이 아직까지 관례화 되어 있습니다. 요즈음은 많이 바뀌어 다른 아들들도 기간을 정해놓고 돌아가면서 부모님들과 함께 살거나 혹은 딸사위와 함께 사는 분들도 많아졌습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하지만 작은 아들 집에서 지내는 노인 분들이라도 큰아들 큰며느리가 모시는 게 당연하게 생각하고, 딸사위와 함께 사는 분들 중에는 “아들, 아들...” 하거나 “아들 하나만 있어서도 이 구박 안 받지...”하며 우울해 하는 분들도 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이런 아들 선호사상이 지금껏 내려 온 한국인의 정서입니다. 아들과 함께 사는 노인 분들은 자신들이 힘들게 모아놓은 재산모두를 아들 며느리한테 물려준 경우가 많습니다. 아들들이 부모님께 드리는 용돈도 엄격히 따지고 보면 부모재산 중 일부만을 떼어내어 용돈이라고 내어놓는 경우가 허다한데도, 용돈 드릴 때는 부모님들한테 생색내는 것은 다반사입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;아들들의 이런 행동에는 잠자코 계시던 분들도 사위가 이런 태도를 보이면 못 마땅해 합니다. 아직도 남아있는 아들과 딸에 대한 심한 차별을 배우고 자란 덕에, 30-40대의 젊은 사람들도 아들에 대한 생각은 예의는 아닙니다. 자식 낳을 때 아들 딸 가리지 않는다고 큰소리치는 남자는 이미 아들이 한 명 있거나, 결혼초일 경우가 대부분 입니다.  지역마다 조금씩 다르지만 초등학교마다 여자아이가 모자라는 경우는 똑같다고 합니다. 심한 경우는 여아 100명 대 남아 130명 정도로 남자아이들에 비해 여자아이들이 턱없이 부족하다고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;이런 현상은 중국에서는 더 하다고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이렇게 아들한테 매어 달리는 ‘아들선호사상’덕분에 중국과 한국에서는 노인 분들이 아들내외와 산다고 하여도 아직은 그 명분을 유지할 수 있다고 생각합니다. 나이가 연로한 분일수록 힘들게 키운 아들한테 "어떻게 키운 아들인데..."하며 늙어서 대접 받는 것을 당연하게 여깁니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 며느리 입장에서는 다릅니다.&lt;br /&gt;세상에서 ‘죽어라 고생해 봤자 생색 안 나는 것’이 '어린아이 돌봐주는 것' 과 '연로한 부모님 모시는 것'이라고 합니다. 그 중에서도 연로한 부모님 모시는 것은 더 힘이 듭니다. 어린아이 돌보는 것은 2-3년, 길어야 5-6년만 지나면 끝이 나지만, 부모님을 모시는 경우에는 20-30년이라는 긴 세월이 지나야 끝이 날 수도 있기 때문입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;요즈음은 '며느리 시집살이'라는 유행어도 있습니다만, 아직까지는 대부분 '시어머니 시집살이' 나 '시집 식구 시집살이'가 더 많습니다. 큰아들 큰며느리가 부모님을 모시거나 다른 아들 중 한 명이 모신다고 해도, 시집살이의 모양새는 비슷하다는 것이 며느리들의 공통된 하소연입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'하루 세끼'까지는 안 되더라도 하루에 2끼 이상은 더운 음식 만들어서 시부모님 봉양하고, 핵가족으로 사는 친구들에 비해 '자기 사생활 절제하며’ 살아도 시어머니한테 칭찬 한번 제대로 못 받고 꾸중만 듣고 살건만, 다른 며느리나 딸들이 어쩌다 한번 혹은 1달에 1-2번 고기나 옷을 사 들고 잠깐씩 와서 용돈이라도 조금 쥐어주고 가는 날이면, 노인 분들이 “...우리∞가 최고"라고 좋아합니다. 혼자서 좋아하는 것도 모자라서 옆집사람, 혹은 경로당, 노인학교.... 할 것 없이 잠깐 다니러 온 아들과 며느리, 딸사위 만 칭찬하고 다니는 것을 흔히 볼 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하루3번 더운 밥상 차려드리고, 갖은 비위 맞추고, 수도 없이 쳐다보고, 지겹게 꾸중 듣고,..., 온갖 수발드는 노력은 간데없고 ‘잠깐 얼굴이나 보이고 용돈 조금 내밀고 간 아들며느리만 좋다’고 하니, 같이 사는 며느리는 부아만 치솟습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;주위에서 흔히 보는 이런 모습은 고부간의 갈등 문제 중 한가지 입니다. 설상가상으로 칭찬하는 것만으로는 모자라 (농촌에서)자식들하고 살기 위해 죽도록 고생하며 지은 농산물이나, (도시에서)혹은 어깨 쳐지도록 고생하며 벌어온 돈으로 장만한 물건들을 같이 사는 며느리한테는 물어보지도 않고, 집에 간혹 가다 잠깐씩 다니러 오는 다른 며느리 손에 들려 줄 때는 고부간의 갈등은 더욱 심각해지곤 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;분가해서 사는 아들이나 딸은 어쩌다 한번 다니러 와서 손님처럼 대접받으며 이것저것 치려 주는 것 먹고,...시부모님들한테 용돈이나 옷가지로 생색내면 좋은 아들며느리, 딸사위를 소리를 듣게 됩니다. 어린아이라도 딸린 형제들이라면 어린조카들이 온 집안을 어수선하게 만들어 짜증나는 판에, '내 것 내 맘대로 주는데'하는 눈치 없는 시어머니는 이것저것 챙겨주고,... 같이 사는 며느리는 이래저래 부아만 끓어오르게 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;물론 모든 가정이 이렇지는 않습니다. 하지만 아직도 많은 가정이 이와 비슷한 일로 어려움을 겪고 있는 것을 볼 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;한 가지 재미있는 현상은 시어머니 돌아가시면, 살아생전에 지독하게 시어머니와 부딪치며 한 솥 밥을 먹은 며느리가 제일 많이 서럽게 운다는 것입니다. 거짓 울음도 아니고 남에게 보이기 위한 형식적인 울음도 아닙니다.&lt;br /&gt;시어머님과 긴 세월 부딪치며 고운 정 미운 정 삭이며 살다보니, 이 모든 것이 자신의 생활이 되었기에 어쩌다 잠깐 와서 생색내는 며느리들하고는 다른 감정을 자신도 모르게 터트릴 수 있는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘연애 7년 끝에 결혼한 사람들이 1년 만에 이혼한다.’는 말이 있습니다. 연애시절에는 상대방에게 자신의 모든 것을 24시간 보여주는 것이 아닙니다. 간혹 만나거나 아니면 매일 만나더라도 상대방에게 자신의 일부만을 보이고, 또 상대방의 일부만을 보게 됩니다. 그런데 결혼을 하게 되면 본의 아니게 상대방의 많은 부분을 보게 되고, 또 욕심을 내서 상대방의 단점을 고치려고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이렇게 상대방한테 자신의 대부분을 내보이거나 보여주고, 24시간 중 아무 때라도 부딪칠 수 있는 상황에서는 다툼이 쉬지 않고 일어납니다.&lt;br /&gt;‘믿음생활’도 이렇습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;성경에서 요구하는 믿음 생활도 어쩌다 한번 시부모님께 다니러 와서 생긋 웃으며 용돈 쥐어주고, 좋은 점만 보이는 며느리의 역할이 아닙니다. 지겹도록 얼굴 마주치며 24시간 어느 때라도 잔심부름과 잔소리 속에서 부딪치며 살아야 하는 며느리와 같은 게 믿음 생활입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;다멕섹 도상에서의 회심이후 끊임없이 죽을 때까지 예수를 전파한 바울은 상당수의 성경을(바울서신) 기록했습니다. 사도 바울이 저술한 '바울서신'에는 몇 가지 특징이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그 첫째는 복음의 전파입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;바울 사도가 복음을 전파할 때까지 소아시아 유태인에게 종교적으로 유지되어 오던 것은 율법 이였습니다. 바울은 유대인들의 생활 방침인 율법과 자신이 전파하는 복음의 문제를 여러 가지 예를 들어 설명합니다. 심한 경우에는 율법을 아브라함의 여종 '하갈'(하가)에게서 난 ‘이스마할’로 비교하고, 복음은 자유 있는 여자 아브라함의 부인 ‘사라'의 자녀 ’이삭‘으로 비유합니다(갈 4:21-31).&lt;br /&gt;당시 유대인 세계를 지배하고 있는 율법에 대항해서 예수 그리스도가 어떻게 하나님의 아들이며, 구원은 율법으로서가 아니고 이 예수로 말미암아 온다는 복음전파가 바울 서신의 첫 번째 특징입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;둘째는 교회의 성립에 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;지금까지 유대인들에게 있어오던 회당이 아니고 새로운 교회공동체의 설립입니다. 바울은 공동체의 '질서와 조화 속'에서 비로소 교회가 그 기능을 할 수 있다고 강조합니다. 이 교회를 바울은 인간의 ‘몸’에 비유하여 교인들에게 설명합니다.&lt;br /&gt;①각 남자의 머리는 그리스도요, 여자의 머리는 남자요 그리스도의 머리는 하나님이시라(고전11:3). ②몸은 하나인데 많은 지체가 있고, 몸의 지체가 많으나 한 몸임과 같다(고전12:12-31 내용 참고).&lt;br /&gt;등의 예문에서 교회를 (인간의)‘몸’에 비유하고 있음을 볼 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;성만찬의 제정도 교회를 ‘하나의 몸’으로 이해시키기 위한 제도입니다.&lt;br /&gt;예수님이 잡혀가시기 전날 밤 제자들에게 떡과 잔을 나누어주며 기념케 하신 성만찬의 '이 떡을 가지사 떼어 이르시되 이것은 너희를 위하는 내 몸이니'(고전11:24) 와 '이 잔은 내 피로 세운 새 언약이니'(고전11:25) 말씀도 교회를 유기체의 몸으로 해석할 때 비로소 이해될 수 있음을 바울은 상기시킵니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;셋째는 교회 공동체에 필요한 윤리를 가르쳤습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;바울 서신은 초대 교인들의 생활지침, 또는 윤리를 강조합니다.&lt;br /&gt;이것은 새로 탄생한 교회 공동체를 유지시키고, 발전시키기 위한 공동체 속의 질서 확립에 그 목적을 두고 있습니다.  초대교회는 각양각색의 사람들로 구성되기 시작했습니다. 종들과 상전이 함께 예배드리는 공동체였고 (엡 6:5-9, 딤전6;1-2), 유대인과 헬라인이 함께 예배 드렸고 (고전1;24, 10:32) 부자와 가난한자, 유식한자와 무식한자, 늙은 자와 연소한 자, 남자와 여자 등,....모든 부류의 사람들이 함께 모여 예배를 드리는 예배공동체가 바울이 교회를 설립한 이후의 각 교회내의 현황이었습니다. 이런 여러 계층의 모든 사람이 모여 예배를 드리다 보니, 여러 가지 문제들이 발생되기 시작했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;바울 서신의 특징은 각각의 교회마다 발생하기 시작한 문제점들과 그 문제점들에 대한 해결 방법을 제시하고 있다는데 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;가령, 고린도 지역은 그 당시 상업이 발달한 도시입니다.&lt;br /&gt;상업이 발달 한 도시여서 자연히 사람들의 왕래가 심하고, 온갖 사람들이 들끓다 보니 음란이 극심했습니다. 음란함은 고린도의 도시전체를 장악했습니다. 바울 서신의 다른 곳에는 없는 성적문제를 고린도 교회에서 깊이 다룬 것도 이런 상황을 전제로 합니다(고전 5:1-8, 6:15-20)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;오늘의 본문 엡 4:17‐31절은 형제를 올바르게 인도함으로써 ‘에베소 교회의 순수성’을 보전하려는 바울의 염려를 그 배경으로 할 때 가장 잘 해석할 수 있는 부분입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;본문 엡4:17-31장의 서두는 엡 4:1 '권합니다.'(권하노니)에 의해 시작되고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;이 부분은 교인들이 실생활에 부딪치는 '생활규범' 을 기록한 부분으로 그 핵심은 '하나 되라'는 말에서 있습니다. 하나님의 일은 여러 직무로 나누어 있으나, 이 직무들이 서로 어울려 교회를 세워 나간다는 것이 사도 바울이 강조하는 '몸의 비유'이고 '하나 됨'의 기본 주제입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;4장 17절부터는 사람이 살아가면서 부딪치는 ‘삶의 실천적 준칙’(행동강령)들을 가르치고 있습니다. 이교적인 옛 사람을 극복하고 세례 안에서 이루어진 새 사람이 점점 더 구체적으로 변화되어야 할 것은 강조합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;22절부터는 그리스도인 들이 신실성을(진실성) 인정받는 것은 옛사람을 벗는 일(22절) 곧 거짓말, 성냄, 도둑질, 지껄이는 일에 있다고 명령문들로 지시하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;십계명의 9번째 항목에 적용되는 25절은 믿음과 세례를 믿는 자들은 그리스도의 몸인 교회의 일원이 이라는 것을 전제하여 명령합니다. 이웃 간의 어떠한 거짓말도 금지 할 것을 명령합니다. 28절은 제 8계명에 적용되며, 한 몸인 그리스인들은 상호의존 관계 속에서 '하나님의 성령을 근심하게 하지 말라.'(30절)는 명령 속에 이해해야 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.’&lt;br /&gt;엡 4장 1절-5장의 흐름을 크게 요약하면&lt;br /&gt;" 4:1 – 권하노니&lt;br /&gt;4:2-16 ‐ 하나 되라.&lt;br /&gt;4:17-24 ‐ 새 사람을 입으라.&lt;br /&gt;4:25-32 ‐ 성령은 근심하게 하지 마라.&lt;br /&gt;5장 1절 ‐ 하나님은 본받는 자가 되자"&lt;br /&gt;로 요약 될 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;좀더 자세하게 살펴보면 4:23 ’새롭게 되어’ 와 4:24 ‘새 사람을 입으라’ 말이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;다시 25절의 '그런즉'에 유의해서 살쳐보면, 4:17-22에 나오는 행실은 옛사람에 속한 사람들이나 하는 행동이고, '주 예수'로 말미암아 ‘새롭게 된 너희’는 이제부터는 25절 이하의 ‘행동을 하라’가 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;4:25-32의 핵심은 새롭게 되어 가는 과정, 다른 말로 하면 크리스천들이 새사람이 되어 가는 행동, 규범, 윤리...행동강령들을 말합니다.&lt;br /&gt;사도 바울은 새 사람이라고 자처하는 사람들이(너희들이) 예수 믿기 전의 옛 사람의 행실 인 거짓, 분냄, 도적 질, 더러운 말, 떠드는 것, 훼방 등의 온갖 악한 생각과 말이나 행동은 '하나님의 성령은 근심케 하는 것이다.'고 명령문으로 강력하게 못 받고 있습니다(30절).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론은 맺겠습니다.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그 사람의 생각은 행동으로 표현되고, 그 행동들이 쌓이면 습관이 됩니다. 습관은 그 사람의 남은 인생을 결정지을 때가 많습니다.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;오늘의 본문에서 말하는 '새롭게 하소서'는 장로교 교리 중에서(구원서정) 단 한번의 판결로 끝나는 '칭의'(의롭다)를 말하는 것이 아닙니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이미 하나님의 은혜로 '너는 예수의 피로 말미암아 의롭다'는 신분상의 판결을 받았지만, 오늘의 본문에서 말하는 '새 사람을 입으라.'말은 이 땅에서 죽을 때까지 매일 매일 이어지는 삶 속에서 이웃들과 부딪치면서 자신을-(온갖 악한 생각과 말이나 행동)-이겨나가는 사람을 일컫는 말입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;“나는 어제의 내가 아니야”를 돈에 한 맺힌 사람이 사용하면 돈 벌기 위한 구호가 되고, 공부하는 수험생이 사용하면 이제는 고만 놀고 공부하겠다는 결심이 됩니다. 이 말을 본문에 은혜 받은 크리스천이 사용하면, 호색, 우상숭배, 거짓, 더러운 말, 탐심, 분냄 등 옛사람의 특성에서 벗어나 사랑, 희락, 화평, 오래 참음, 자비, 양선 충성, 온유, 절제 등의 새 사람의 특성을 가지려고 노력하는 성숙한 크리스천의 표어가 됩니다(갈 5;16-24 내용).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;바울 사도의 ‘승리하는 삶’이란 이처럼 매일 매일의 싸움에서 자신을 이겨낼 줄 아는 삶을 말함이고, 이렇게 사는 사람만이 매일 새롭게 되는 ‘새 사람’입니다(딤후 4:1-8내용 참고).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;여러분들도 ‘매일매일 승리하는 삶’ 속에서 ‘새 사람’이 되십시오!&lt;br /&gt;I pray you everybody be ‘the new man’ yourself in your ‘victorious life’ day by day!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome visitors to My persona homepage,&lt;a href="http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/eindex.htm"&gt;http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/eindex.htm&lt;/a&gt;/...&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 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id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115430225049520402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2or91fiRI/AAAAAAAAAP4/wifrLbuI4pw/s320/34-Early-Church.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. ‘Even for the Gentiles’&lt;br /&gt;10. “이방인에게도”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;- August 2001&lt;br /&gt;- 2001년 8월&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- ‘God’s word’ from Palestine to the whole Roman Empire! (Expansion of the Gospel)&lt;br /&gt;- The supreme project of the early church is ‘Therefore go and make disciples of all nations’ (Matthew 28:19~20)&lt;br /&gt;-'하나님 말씀‘을 팔레스타인지역에서 로마제국의 전 영역으로!(복음의 확장)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Acts 11:17-18&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;17. So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could oppose God?”&lt;br /&gt;18. When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2oUd1fiPI/AAAAAAAAAPo/c2PTEdXbW1E/s1600-h/34-Acts5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115429821322594546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2oUd1fiPI/AAAAAAAAAPo/c2PTEdXbW1E/s320/34-Acts5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The life of the Early Church began from the life of Jesus of Nazareth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By being killed on the Rome’s penalty frame of a cross barely after only 3 year period of his public ministry, or his public life, Jesus drew public attention on the contrary. Not long after Jesus died, his character and faith contrarily went over the Palestine and reached to further areas so that it moved people deeply. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In short of 20 years since Jesus was crucified, the followers of Jesus began to come about in the center of culture in the Roman Empire surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, Philippi, Antioch in Surya, and other Roman cities also had Christians come about.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Christians who spread fast but steadfast believed firmly, ‘Jesus still remains without dying and keep company wherever they go’ (Acts 2:31~42). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Because they believed Jesus was still alive not dead, they were able to put up with all the adversities related to gospel spreading. When they preached gospel in the beginning, it was not rare that they suffered battering, imprisonment, shipwreck...various kinds of persecution and even death (see Acts 8:1, Acts 12:1~5, 1 Corinthians 6:4-5, 2 Corinthians 11:23-27).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;While Jesus was on the earth, the first reason he was in conflict with Jewish religion was legalistic thinking and racial issue. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In even less than 20 years, it is said, church propagated to an amazing speed. At this time, there came some problems between Jews and gentile believers. Jews believed and taught, ‘Only Jews themselves are the chosen people of God, so that non-Jewish people cannot be received by God at all unless they accept all the requirement of Judaic law.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, Jesus objected to the argument that gentile believers ought to observe all the rules in the Old Testament in order to please God.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Pharisees much emphasized external behavior that could be evaluated and regulated only according to discipline. But Jesus always taught in more concern for one’s ‘personality’ than man’s behavior. Jesus gladly helped even a Roman centurion, then saying, “I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith” (see Matthew 8:5~13).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘God’s Kingdom Movement,’ which Jesus put forth during his living period, was mostly limited to the local denominations inside Judaism in Palestine. First, Jesus’ disciples were all Jewish. Gentiles Jesus met were few persons. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It might have been simple during Jesus’ living, but the conflictive problems incurred from Judaic tradition and a radical view on the Old Testament were one of the complexest issues that had to be solved by the Early Church formed for the first time after Jesus’ Death.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Pentecost day’s descent of the Holy Spirit that happened when Peter preached the Gospel to a crowd in Jerusalem set a remarkable turning point in the life of the Early Church. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like Acts 2:5 ‘...God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven,’ there were a mixed audience in the crowd in Jerusalem at Pentecost, not only a Jewish audience from Palestine and its vicinity, but also an international audience from each cities along the Mediterranean Sea (Acts 2:9~11). They were those interested in Judaism. If it had not been so, they would not have had to take the trouble to visit Jerusalem to participate in the religious festival.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;But not all of the gentiles in the audience would have been sure converts who accepted law of Judaism with their full confidence. After conquest of Judah and Jerusalem, the King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon B.C. 586 took Israelite King and leaders and most of influential citizens to Babylon. In the prime of Israel Kingdom, the temple service held in Jerusalem had been most important. But as the Jerusalem Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, the place of worship and fidelity was lost to Israel, who had kept sacrifices and offerings in the Jerusalem Temple.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Although the remaining people left over in Jerusalem was able to keep sacrificial rites in the ruins of the collapsed temple, the prisoners taken to Babylon were not allowed any of that. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The prisoners couldn’t imagine at first, and yet they realized that they were able to sing the song of Jehovah in the foreign land they are draggled to. In other words, they made synagogues in their communities they were dragged to instead of the Jerusalem Temple and began to sing songs of the Lord. The worship rites in the Jerusalem Temple had centered upon sacrificial rites, while in synagogues of the communities prisoners were taken to, prayer, reading tora, strict observation of the Sabbath, circumcision, dietary regulations of the Old Testament and others that were available anywhere were emphasized instead of the sacrificial rites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Judaic synagogues took its places all over the Mediterranean coast and the Roman Empire. Each synagogue had no uniform regulations required. Synagogues couldn’t choose but apply each community’s own measures that were fit for their new conditions the Jews were in. According to how the inhabitants thought, a synagogue developed in a much more free way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;While each of the Judaic synagogues in the Roman Empire was distinct in its own way, there was one point in common. It was the use of Hellenic language which everybody used at the time. Some of the Jews gave their children Roman or Hellenic names and adopted even Roman cultural sorts of art gladly (see 1 Maccabees, Jason, Stephen and Philo are Hellenic names).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The pilgrims who listened to Peter’s sermon on the day of Pentecost would have been also the Jews using Hellenic language (see Acts 2:1~13). At the time, there were even many Jews living in Palestine who used Hellenic language (see Acts 6:1~6). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Peter and disciples observed their great Judaic festivals and even preached in the precincts of a temple. Peter and disciples observed Judaic tradition and also believed they should preach the Gospel even to Jews who came from other areas and Jews who use Hellenic language.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In spite of indiscriminative evangelism of the Gospel by disciples, not long later there began to be friction between the Jews of Hellenistic group - who used Hellenic language and the ones of Hebraic group - who used Hebrew or Aramaic languages. The Jews of Hebraic group who used Aramaic or Hebrew Languages began to gain ground by categorizing themselves as if legitimate and categorizing the Jews of Hellenistic group as if illegitimate. Wherever they lived, the Jews who used Hellenic language thought that they were not receiving right and proper resources distributed by their church (see Acts 6:1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the church chose 7 men besides 12 disciples and had them in charge of Christians of Hellenistic group. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of the disciples, Stephen preached openly, “Judaism and its temple’s period was finished. Jesus who was killed miserably is alive again among the dead. God gave him the high seat of honor so that Jesus was a true messiah.” And he proclaimed, “Accepting and pursuing Jesus only is the only ‘Way.’” (Acts 7:2~23)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Finally, Stephen was killed with stones by the mob in Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Saul, the most greatest person in the history of Christianity, was pleased, keeping an eye on the coats of the people who was executing the killing of Stephen on the spot (8:1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this Saul was not a simple coat keeper. He was a Pharisee who was smart and influential. Saul went to a high priest and asked him for a commission which entitled him Saul to take Christians in Damascus as prisoners to Jerusalem and then interrogate and put them to punishment. In the process of this execution of his duty, Saul met with an amazing experience which overturned his life totally (Acts 9:3~9, 22:5~11). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saul was on the road to Damascus with a view to eradicating Christians there. Then and there, ‘a light brighter than the sun came down from heaven’ to flash a beam around Saul. He listens to the sound of Christ the Resurrected, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” In the moment, Saul becomes a convert to Christianity. He became a changed person (from Saul to Paul.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In this incident, Paul realizes that the hopes held as a Judaic was not true. After the event on the road to Damascus, Paul realizes the Divine Messiah came as a servant, not&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a great emperor or a soldier. Now then it became the opportunity when he committed his whole life to Jesus of Nazareth, whom he had despised so badly.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Jesus of Nazareth request that Paul acknowledge the fact Jesus of Nazareth the Christ reigns over all power and authority, as the Son of God and the Lord of the Universe. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although physically Paul got blind because of too strong a light, yet spiritually he had his eyes opened by the persons he used to persecute. He had so strong an impact of an experience that Paul was unable to eat or drink for 3 days in a row after arrival at his quarters in Damascus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Resurrected Christ gives Ananias in Damascus a special message and power to open Saul’s eyes and has him visit Paul. With his eyes opened again after Ananias laying on of hands, Paul now has baptism administered and shares some time together with Christians in Damascus (Acts 9:10~19). The persons wanted by the police are now friends who are closest to Paul. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Through the time shared with Christians in Damascus, Paul realized that brothers and sisters could associate with one another despite the differences of classes and backgrounds social or religious, which was previously impossible to imagine.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Later, he makes this association into one of main topics of his message. ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus’ (Galatians 3:28)’ This is a verse he wrote upon the basis of his experience at the time.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Right away, Paul calls upon Jews waiting for him in Damascus.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;But Paul’s message was never the one expected. Far from condemning the faith of Christians, he calls Jesus the Messiah and pledges his fidelity to Him.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;At this, Jews and the government officials in town conspire to kill Paul. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So Paul’s friends carry him in a basket secretly and send him down the wall of the castle (Acts 9:23~25, 2 Corinth. 11:32~33). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And he visits Jerusalem again at the risk of his life (Acts 9:26). Seeing Paul preaching the Gospel bravely without giving up even in Jerusalem, Jews are striving to kill Paul. By this time, the disciples in Jerusalem gladly try to accept Paul’s ministry of gentiles in their considering that it was the right expansion of Christianity Message.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Evangelism for gentiles was an important task the Early Church was faced with. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Acts 8, 9 and 10 show easily to understand how the word of God spread to gentiles. As if a drop of ink spreads in the water of a bowl, it shows how the word spreads within the bounds of the Roman Empire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2nVN1fiMI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/C4WDjiBbarU/s1600-h/34-Acts6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115428734695868610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2nVN1fiMI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/C4WDjiBbarU/s400/34-Acts6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2nJd1fiLI/AAAAAAAAAPI/JHxNwGgVkko/s1600-h/34-Acts7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115428532832405682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2nJd1fiLI/AAAAAAAAAPI/JHxNwGgVkko/s400/34-Acts7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;If one looks closely at the Bible, however, the spread of the Gospel was not always smooth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Acts 9:43 ‘Peter stayed in Joppa for some time with a tanner named Simon,’ we can find out a significant meaning involved within. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Because of dealing always with skins of dead animals, tanners were considered ‘unclean’ by Jews by prescriptions of the law. So the traditional Jews had considered staying with such unclean persons to be inconceivable and totally unlikely (see Leviticus 11:27~28 and 11:39).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Staying at the house of the tanner, Peter has an amazing life-changing experience. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In a vision, he saw an object like a great sheet coming down, containing all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air (Acts 10:11~12). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They are ‘unclean things’ judging from food-related prescriptions in the Old Testament (see Leviticus Chapter 11). Because of the reason, Peter naturally declined the offer by the voice that he should eat those. Then the voice from above came to him a second time reproving, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” (see Acts 10:1~16).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As soon as he awoke from the vision, Peter met the men sent by Cornelius. They said to Peter that they should go back together with Peter because Cornelius wanted to meet. Cornelius was a centurion at the town of Caesarea where the garrison of a Roman commander was stationed. (Acts 10:1)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Peter was aware of how serious an aspect it implied to go to this Roman officer. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Whether the reason political or religious, an apostle being entertained by a Roman was an unimaginable to Jewish Christians living in Jerusalem. However, Peter went to Cornelius’s house to speak about the word of God. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To the surprise, Cornelius and the persons in the house showed deep interests in Christianity faith. Furthermore, these began to have the same spiritual experiences as the first converts at Pentecost. (Acts 10:44~48)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This event was a grand turning point for Peter and the disciples in Jerusalem. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As Peter got back to Jerusalem, much more conservative Jewish fellows didn’t consider Peter very acceptable. (see Acts Chapter 11)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;By explaining the circumstances of the case step by step, Peter eased the minds of the fellow believers to a degree. Considering the record of the Book of Acts afterwards, that event became the cause of friction between Peter and the Jerusalem church and even over Paul’s evangelism of Hellenistic Jews. Even in view of the ministry of Paul, ‘the principle of Jews being prioritized’ was adopted, we can see (see Acts 13:14, 17:1~2). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like Romans 1:16 ‘It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile,’ this thinking was so widespread among leaders in the Early Church that church leaders in Jerusalem had this way of thought that in order for a gentile&lt;br /&gt;to be a Christian, he or she should first be a Jew by receiving circumcision. And the Book of Acts speaks a lot of this issue(see Acts 15:1~11). Plus, antagonistic Jews would put Christian believers in trouble(Acts 13:50).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As a solution to this problem, Jewish leaders suggested that gentile believers should abstain from actions that might cause some dislike to Jewish Christians. That is, they suggested that gentile believers should stop dietary habits such as eating meat without blood drawn out or paganish wedding customs contrary to the Judaic law and customs (see Acts 15:28~29)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This suggestion was eclecticism and a compromise to propagate the Gospel. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The most important thing to apostles was to praise God and to preach even general commons the Gospel that made their lives changing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Early Church chose the eclecticism to spread the Gospel to gentiles. (Please compare this eclecticism with the condition of the church in Corinth (1 Corinthians 8:1~13).)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The reason why the Early Church chose eclecticism is because like Matthew 28:18~20, it made a supreme project of the words ‘Go and make disciples of all nations.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let me conclude:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By humbling Himself, Jesus Christ came as ‘the Son of Man’ and died on the cross. By reviving and ascending to heaven(Philippians 2:5~11), He redeemed and saved His chosen people. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Such facts as we know are from the Scriptures written after the Early Church. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Between disciples, there was a serious conflict of opinions over ‘What is the nature of Christianity?’ The relation to the law of the Old Testament which ended by the death of Jesus still held on for the Jewish disciples. Connecting Judaic tradition and Christianity was chosen because the Jewish disciples conceived that it was the essential nature of Christianity they thought and also a ‘best’ and utmost way they could preach the Gospel ‘even to gentiles.’ Exclusiveness against Hellenistic Christians and other nations separated groups in the Christian community (see 1 Corinth 1:10~12).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Book of Acts tries to tell posterity the ultimate objective, ‘the expansion of the word of God,’ by writing about God’s evangelism, God’s wisdom and God’s plan.&lt;br /&gt;Overcoming all kinds of social discrimination according to such as race, denomination, position, sex, and educational background…and preaching the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, namely, the ‘Gospel,’ was the most urgent task of the Early Church.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The bible tells us that, like the disciples in the Early Church, we should stop the prejudice that would impede the ‘expansion of the word of God’ because of the worldly judgmentalism according to nation, skin color, denomination, social position, man and woman, education and ignorance and the like. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The very person who can accept the word of God is a Christian who is grown up in faith. If you are at all, then I hope you be a Christian who is mature in faith.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;‘But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8)’&lt;br /&gt;오직 성령이 너희에게 임하시면 너희가 권능을 받고 예루살렘과 온 유대와 사마리아와 띵 끝까지 이르러 내 증인이 되리라. 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(Expansion of the Gospel)&lt;br /&gt;- The supreme project of the early church is ‘Therefore go and make disciples of all nations’ (Matthew 28:19~20)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;사도행전 11장 17-18절&lt;br /&gt;17 그런즉 하나님이 우리가 주 예수 그리스도를 믿을 때에 주신 것과 같은 선물을 저희에게도 주셨으니 내가 누구관대 하나님을 능히 막겠느냐 하더라 18 저희가 이 말을 듣고 잠잠하여 하나님께 영광을 돌려 가로되 그러면 하나님께서 이방인에게도 생명 얻는 회개를 주셨도다 하니라&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2cbN1fiEI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/ie_1rONeggU/s1600-h/34-acts4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115416743147178050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2cbN1fiEI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/ie_1rONeggU/s400/34-acts4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;초대교회의 생활은 나사렛 예수의 삶에서 시작되었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;예수는 고작 3년이라는 사역 기간을(공생애) 겨우 넘기고 로마의 십자가 형틀에서 비극적인 죽임을 당함으로써 오히려 대중의 이목을 끌게 되었습니다. 예수가 죽은 후 얼마 안 되어 그의 인격과 신앙은 오히려 팔레스타인 지역을 넘어서 먼 곳까지 전파되어 사람들에게 깊은 감화를 불러일으켰습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;예수가 처형 된지 20년도 안 되어 지중해를 둘러싼 로마제국내의 문화의 중심지에는 예수를 추종하는 모임들이 생겨났습니다. 로마, 고린도, 에베소, 빌립보, 수리아의 안디옥, 그리고 다른 여러 로마도시에도 크리스천들이 생겨나게 되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;빠르지만 확고하게 전파 된 크리스천들은 “예수가 죽지 않고 살아서 그들이 가는 곳마다 함께 동행 한다”는 믿음을 굳게 믿었습니다(행2:31-42참고). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그들은 예수가 죽지 않고 살아있다고 믿었기 때문에 복음 전파에 따르는 갖가지 역경을 참아 낼 수 있었던 것 입니다. 처음 복음을 전파 할 때는 구타, 투옥, 파선을 비롯한 온갖 종류의 핍박과 죽임을 당하는 일도 흔했습니다. (행 8:1, 행 12:1-5, 고후 6:4-5,고후11:23-27 참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예수가 살아 있을 때 유대교와 충돌한 가장 큰 이유는 율법과 인종 문제였습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;예수가 죽임을 당 한지 20년도 안되어 교회가 놀라울 속도가 확산 되었다고 하였습니다. 이때 유대인과 이방인신자들 사이에 문제가 일어났습니다. 유대인들은 자기들만 하나님의 백성이므로 비유대인이 율법의 모든 요구를 수락하지 않는 한 도무지 하나님께 영접 될 수 없다고 믿고 가르쳤습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그러나 예수는 이방인들이 하나님을 기쁘게 해드리기 위해서는 구약의 모든 율법을 이행해야 한다는 주장에 반대하였습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;바리새인들은 오직 규율에 따라서만 평가되고 규제 될 수 있는 외적 행위를 크게 강조 했지만 예수는 언제나 인간의 행위 보다 사람들의 ‘사람 됨'에 더 큰 관심을 두고 가르쳤습니다. 예수는 한 로마의 백부장까지 기꺼이 도와주면서 ’이스라엘 중 아무에게서도 이만한 믿음을 만나보지 못하였노라‘(마 8:5-13 참고)고 말해기도 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예수가 그의 생존 기간 동안에 내세운 ‘하나님 나라 운동’은 거의 팔레스타인의 유대교내에 있는 지역 종파에 국한된 것이었습니다. 우선 예수의 제자들이 모두 유대인이었습니다. 예수가 만났던 이방인들은 소수의 개인들이었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;예수의 생존시에는 간단한 듯해도 사도행전에서 보면 유대교의 전통과 구약에 대한 급진적인 태도에서 초래되는 갈등문제는 예수의 죽임이후 처음으로 형성된 초대교회가 해결해야 했던 가장 복잡한 문젯거리이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오순절 날 베드로가 예루살렘 군중들에게 복음을 전할 때 일어난 오순절 성령강림 사건은 초대교회의 생활에 주목할 분수령을 세우게 됩니다. 행2:5 ‘경건한 유대인들이 천하 각국으로부터 와서∼' 오순절에 예루살렘에 온 군중 속에는 팔레스타인과 그 부근에 사는 유대인뿐만이 아니고 지중해 연안의 각 도시에서 온 국제적인 청중들이 섞여 있었습니다(행2:9-11). 이들은 유대교에 관심이 있었던 자들이었습니다. 그렇지 않다면 종교 축제에 참석하려고 예루살렘까지 구태여 올 필요가 없었을 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 이들 중의 이방인들 모두가 유대교의 율법을 전적으로 받아들인 확실한 개종자는 아니었을 것입니다. B.C586년 바벨론의 느브갓네살왕이 유대왕국과 예루살렘을 정복한 후 이스라엘의 왕과 인재들과 영향력 있는 주민들을 모두 바벨론으로 데리고 갔습니다. 이스라엘왕국의 전성기 때는 예루살렘에서 거행되는 성전 예배가 가장 중요했습니다. 그러나 느브갓네살왕이 예루살렘성전을 파괴시키자 예루살렘성전에서 희생제물을 드림으로써 갖는 경배와 충성의 장소를 이스라엘은 잃고 말았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;비록 예루살렘에 남겨졌던 남은 백성들은 무너진 성전의 폐허에서 나마 희생 제사를 계속할 수 있었지만, 바벨론으로 이송된 포로 민들에게 아무런 희생제사도 지낼 수 없었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;포로 민들은 처음에는 상상도 할 수 없었지만 끌려온 남의 땅에서도 여호와의 노래를 부를 수 있음을 깨달았습니다. 즉 그들은 예루살렘성전 대신 이송된 거주지역에 회당을 만들고 그 곳에서 주의 찬송을 부르기 시작했습니다. 예루살렘 성전에서의 경배의식은 희생 제사를 중심으로 한 것이지만 포로 민들 이송된 거주지역의 회당에서는 제사 대신 어느 곳에서나 할 수 있는 기도, 토라 읽기, 안식일 엄수, 할례, 구약의 음식 규정 등에 강조점을 두었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;유대인 회당은 지중해 연안, 로마 제국의 전 영역에 자리를 잡았습니다. 회당마다 균일한 규정을 요구한 것은 아니었습니다. 회당은 각 지역마다 유대인들이 자기들이 처한 새로운 환경에 맞는 대응책을 끌어 들일 수밖에 없었습니다. 회당은 거주민의 사고방식에 따라 훨씬 더 자유롭게 발전되었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;로마제국의 유대인 회당들은 각각의 특성이 판이했지만 한 가지 공통점이 있었습니다. 그것은 그 당시는 누구나 사용하던 헬라어 사용입니다. 일부 유대인들의 경우에는 자녀들에게 로마식 또는 헬라식의 이름들을 지어주었고 로마 문화의 예술들도 기꺼이 채용하였습니다(마카비 1서 참고, 야손, 스데반, 필로는 헬라식 이름임).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;베드로의 설교를 오순절 날 들었던 순례자들도 헬라어를 사용하는 유대인들이었을 것입니다(행 2:1-13참고). 또 그 당시는 팔레스타인지역에 사는 유대인들도 헬라어를 쓰는 사람들이 많았습니다(행 6:1-6참고). 베드로와 제자들은 유대인의 대축제들을 지켰으며 심지어 성전 경내에서도 말씀을 전하기도 하였습니다. 베드로와 제자들은 유대인의 정통을 지키면서도 다른 지역에서 온 유대인이나 헬라어를 사용하는 유대인들에게도 복음이 전해져야 한다고 믿었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;제자들의 차별 없는 복음 전파에도 불구하고 얼마 되지 않아 헬라어를 사용하는 유대인들과(헬라파) 히브리어나 아람어를 쓰는 자들(히브리파) 사이의 다툼이 일어나기 시작했습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;아람어나 히브리어를 쓰는 히브리파 유대인들이 자기들은 적자, 헬라파 유대인들은 서자격으로 편을 갈라서 득세하기 시작했습니다. 헬라어를 쓰는 유대인들은 어디서 살았건 교회에서 분배하는 물자를 제대로 받지 못한다고 생각했습니다(행 6:1 참고).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;그래서 교회는 12명의 제자이외에 7명의 남자를 선택하여 헬라파 크리스천들은 맡아 보게 하였습니다. 그 중 한명인 스데반은 공공연하게 유대교와 그 성전은 끝났고, 로마인에 의해 수치스런 죽임을 당한 예수는 죽은 자 가운데서 다시 살아났으며, 하나님이 그에게 높은 영광의 자리를 줌으로써 예수는 참된 메시아였다고 주장했습니다. 예수만을 인정하고 쫓는 것이 유일한 '도'임을 선포했습니다(행7:2-23).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;결국 스데반은 예루살렘의 폭도들에 의하여 돌에 맞아 죽었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;기독교 역사상 가장 위대한 인물인 바울, 이때는 사울 자신도 현장에서 스데반의 죽음을 집행하는 사람들의 외투를 지켜주며 흐뭇해합니다(8:1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;그런데 바울은 단순한 외투지기가 아니었습니다. 그는 영리하고 영향력이 많은 바리새인이었습니다. 바울은 대제사장에게 가서 자신이 다멕섹의 크리스천들을 예루살렘으로 잡아온 후 심문하여 형벌을 받도록 허락하는 임명장을 청합니다(행9:1-2, 갈1;13-14참고). 바울은 이 일을 수행하던 중, 자신의 생애를 온통 뒤바꾸게 되는 놀라운 경험을 하게 됩니다(행 9:3-9, 22:5-11). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;바울은 다멕섹에 있는 크리스천들을 박멸하기로 작심하고 그 곳으로 가는 길이었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그때 '하늘에서 해보다 더 밝은 빛이 나와' 바울을 비춥니다. 그리고 부활하신 그리스도의 “네가 어찌하여 나를 핍박하느냐?”음성을 듣고 개종을 하게 됩니다. 사울은 사람이 바뀌고 말았습니다(사울에서 바울로...).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;이 사건으로 바울은 자신이 유대인으로서 품었던 희망들이 거짓이었음을 깨닫습니다. 신령하신 메시아는 위대한 제왕이나 군인이 아닌 종으로 오셨던 것을 바울은 다멕섹 도상의 사건이후 알게 된 것입니다. 이제 바울이 그렇게 멸시하던 나사렛 예수한테 그의 전 생애를 맡기는 계기가 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;나사렛 예수는 '하나님의 아들과 만유의 주'로서 정사와 권세에 대한 통치를 바울이 인정할 것은 요구합니다. 바울은 강렬한 빛 때문에 육신으로는 맹인이 되었지만 자신이 핍박하던 자에 의해 심적으로는 눈이 열리게 됩니다. 그는 자신의 경험에 너무도 큰 충격을 받아 다멕섹의 숙소에 당도한 후 3일 동안 먹을 수도 마실 수도 없게 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;부활하신 그리스도는 다멕섹에 사는 아나니아에게 특별 메시지와 시력 회복의 능력을 주어 바울을 방문하게 합니다. 아니니아의 안수를 받은 뒤 다시 보게 된 바울은 이제 세례를 받고 다멕섹에 있는 크리스천들과 얼마의 시간을 가집니다(행 9:10-19). 수배대상의 인물들이 이제는 바울과 가장 가까운 친구가 된 셈입니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;바울은 전에는 상상 할 수 없었던 사회적, 종교적, 신분과 배경의 차이를 막론하고 남녀가 함께 연합할 수 있는 것을 다멕섹 크리스천들과 지내는 시간을 통해서 깨달았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;후에 이러한 연합을 자기 메시지의 중심과제로 삼습니다. '유대인이나 헬라인이나 종이나 자유자나 남자나 여자나 구분 없이 다 그리스도 예수 안에서 하나이니라.'(갈3:28)는 이때의 체험을 바탕으로 한 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;바울은 다멕섹에서 그를 기다리고 있는 유대인들을 곧장 찾아갑니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러나 그의 메시지는 전혀 예상 밖이었습니다.크리스천의 신앙을 비난하기는커녕 오히려 예수를 메시아라고 선언하고 그에 대한 충성을 다짐합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그러자 유대인들과 도시의 관원들이 바울을 죽이려고 공모합니다. 그래서 바울의 친구들은 몰래 바울을 광주리에 실어 성벽 아래로 내려 보냅니다(행9:23-25, 고후 11;32-33). 그리고 바울은 죽음을 무릅쓰고  다시 예루살렘을 방문하게 됩니다(행9:26).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;바울이 예루살렘에서도 까지도 굽힘이 없이 담대히 복음을 전하자 유대인들이 바울을 죽이려고 힘씁니다. 이때 예루살렘에 있던 사도들은 바울의 이방인 사역을 기독교 메시지의 타당한 확장이라고 보고 기꺼이 인정해 주려고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이방 선교는 초대 교회가 당면한 중대한 과제였습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;행8징, 9장, 10장은 하나님의 말씀이 이방인에게 어떻게 전파되는지 알기 쉽게 보여줍니다. 마치 물 한 그릇에 잉크 한 방울이 퍼지듯 말씀이 로마제국 영역 내로 퍼져 나가는 것을 보여 줍니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2cPd1fiDI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Bmfa5ux_niM/s1600-h/34-Acts6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115416541283715122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2cPd1fiDI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Bmfa5ux_niM/s400/34-Acts6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2cCt1fiCI/AAAAAAAAAOA/56mAlhHQ4ws/s1600-h/34-Acts7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115416322240383010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rv2cCt1fiCI/AAAAAAAAAOA/56mAlhHQ4ws/s400/34-Acts7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; .&lt;br /&gt;그러나 성경을 자세히 살펴보면 복음 확장이 순조롭게만 되어지지 만은 않았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;행 9:43 '베드로가 욥바에 여러 날 있어 시몬이라 하는 피장(피혁 공)의 집에서 유하니라‘는 의미심장한 뜻이 기록되어 있습니다. 죽은 짐승의 가죽을 늘 다루었기 때문에 유태인들은 피혁공을 율법의 규정상 ’부정하다‘고 여겼습니다. 그래서 정통 유대인들은 그런 부정한 자들과 함께 유숙하는 것은 있을 수 없는 일로 여겨왔습니다(레위기 11:27-28, 레위기 11:39 참고).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;베드로는 이 피혁공의 집에 머물면서 자신의 생애를 바꾸어 놓는 체험을 하게 됩니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그는 환상 중에 '각색 네 발 가진 짐승과 기는 것과 공중에 나는 것들이' 담긴 보자기를 보게 됩니다.(행10:11-12) 이것들은 거의가 구약의 음식에 관한 규례에서 볼 때 ’부정한 것들‘입니다(레위기 11장 참고). 이런 이유로 이것들을 먹으라는 음성을 듣고 베드로는 자연히 거절합니다. 그러자 '하나님께서 깨끗케 하신 것을 네가 속되다 하지 말라'는 꾸짖는 소리가 하늘에서부터 들려옵니다. (행 10:1-16 내용 참고)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;베드로는 환상에서 깨어나자마자 대문을 막 들어서는 고넬료가 보낸 사람들을 맞게 됩니다. 이들은 베드로에게 고넬료가 만나기를 원하니 함께 가지고 합니다. 고넬료는 로마의 사령 수비대가 주둔한 가이사랴 도시의 백부장 이었습니다.(행 10:1)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;베드로는 이 로마 장교에게 가는 일이 얼마나 심각한 성격을 지녔는지 잘 알고 있었습니다. 유대인 사도가 로마인의 접대를 받는다는 것은 정치적 이유건, 종교적 구실이건, 예루살렘에 사는 유대인 크리스천에게는 상상할 수도 없는 처신이었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그러나 베드로는 고넬료의 집으로 가서 하나님의 말씀을 들려주었습니다. 그러자 놀랍게도 고넬료와 그 집 사람들이 기독교 신앙에 깊은 관심을 보였습니다. 더욱이 이들은 오순절의 첫 개종자들처럼 똑 같은 성령의 체험을 갖기 시작합니다(행 10:44-48).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 일은 베드로와 예루살렘 사도들에게는 일대 전환점인 사건이었습니다. 베드로가 예루살렘으로 돌아가자 그 보다 훨씬 보수적인 유대인 교우들은 베드로를 별로 달갑게 여기지 않았습니다.(행 11장 참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;베드로가 차근히 사건의 경위를 설명하여 교우들을 다소 안심시켰지만 그 이후의 사도행전 기록으로 보아 이일은 베드로와 예루살렘 교회, 더 나아가서는 바울의 헬라파 유대인 전도에까지 마찰을 일으킵니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;바울의 사역을 보더라도 ‘유대인 우선주의’를 채택했음을 알 수 있습니다(행13:14, 17:1-2참고) 또한 로마서 1:16 ‘복음은 모든 믿는 자에게 구원을 주시는 하나님의 능력이 됨이라, 첫째는 유대인에게의 또한 헬라인에게로다’ 이러한 생각이 초대교회 지도자들에게 팽배해 있었기 때문에 예루살렘의 교회 지도자들은 이방인이 크리스천이 되려면 우선 할례를 받음으로써 먼저 유대인부터 되어야 한다는 사고방식에 젖어 있었고, 사도행전에는 이 문제에 대해 많은 언급을 하고 있습니다(행 15:1-11참고). 또 적대적인 유대인들이 크리스천 신자들을 어렵게 했습니다(행 13:50 참고).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 문제의 해결책으로 유대 지도자들은 이방인 교인들이 유대인 크리스천들에게 특별히 혐오감을 주는 행위를 삼가 달라고 제안합니다. 즉 피를 빼지 않고 고기를 먹는다든지....따위의 식사법이나 유대 율법과 관습에 어긋나는 이교의 결혼 풍습은 중단 하라는 것이었습니다(행 15:28-29 참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이 제안은 복음을 전파하기 위한 절충안이었고, 타협책이었습니다. 사도들에게 가장 중요한 일은 하나님을 찬양하고 그들의 삶을 바꾸게 하는 복음을 일반인에게도 전하는 것이었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;초대교회는 이방인에게 복음을 전하기 위해 절충안을 채택했습니다. (이 절충안을 고린도 교회의 상황과 비교해 보기 바랍니다. 고전 8:1-13)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;초대교회가 절충안을 택한 것은 마 28:18-20 ‘모든 족속으로  제자를 삼으라.’ 을 초대교회최대의 지상과제로 삼았기 때문입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론을 맺겠습니다.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;예수가 자신을 비워 ‘사람의 아들’로 오셔서 십자가에 죽으시고, 부활하시고 승천하심으로 (빌립보 2;5-11) 택하신 백성들을 구속하셨습니다. 우리가 알고 있는 이러한 사실은 초대 교회 이후의 성경 기록입니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;초대교회 제자들에게는 "무엇을 그리스도교의 본질로 보느냐?"는 문제를 가지고 심각하게 부딪쳤습니다. 예수의 죽음으로써 마감된 구약의 율법과의 관계가 유태인 제자들한테는 아직까지 유지되었습니다. 유대인의 전통과 기독교를 접목하는 것이 그들이 생각한 기독교의 본질인 동시에 ‘이방인에게도’ 복음을 전파 할 수 최선의, 그리고 최상의 방법이라 생각되어 선택되었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;헬라파 유대인이나 타민족에 대한 배타성은 크리스천이라는 공동체에 편을 갈라놓게 됩니다(고전1:10-12참조)&lt;br /&gt;.    &lt;br /&gt;사도행전은 하나님의 선교, 하나님의 지혜, 하나님의 뜻을 기록함으로써 '하나님 말씀의 확장' 이라는 궁극적인 목표를 후세에게 전해주려고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;민족, 종파, 지위, 성별, 빈부, 지식....등 모든 사회적 차별을 극복하고 예수의 탄생, 사역, 죽음, 부활, 즉 ‘복음’을 널리 전하는 것이 초대교회의 당면 과제이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;성경은 초대교회 유대인 제자들처럼 민족이나, 피부색, 종파, 사회적 지위, 남녀의 구분, 더 가진 자와 덜 가진 자의 차이, 지식이 더하고 덜하고,...세상에서의 판단기준들 때문에 ‘하나님의 말씀확장’에 지장을 가져 다 주는 편견을 버릴 것을 우리들에게 요구하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하나님의 말씀을 받아들일 줄 아는 성도가 장성한 믿음을 소유한 기독교인 입니다. 이왕이면 여러분들도 장성한 믿음을 가진 기독교인들이 되십시오!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;오직 성령이 너희에게 임하시면 너희가 권능을 받고 예루살렘과 온 유대와 사마리아와 띵 끝까지 이르러 내 증인이 되리라. (행1;8)&lt;br /&gt;‘But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. 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Wisdom(Life, Nature, Diabetes, Wise Person)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. 지 혜 (생명력, 자연, 당뇨, 지혜자)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- September 2001&lt;br /&gt;- 2001년 9월&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- About the ‘role of wise person’ as an agent of God&lt;br /&gt;- The Book of Proverbs - A collection of Israelite wise persons’ awakening and wisdom&lt;br /&gt;- 하나님의 대리인으로의 '지혜자의 역할'에 대하여....&lt;br /&gt;_ 이스라엘 현자들의 깨달음, 지혜의 모음집-잠언(서)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Proverbs 1:1-31&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: 2. for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight; 3. for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair; 4. for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young - 5. let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance - 6. for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxcHACf-oI/AAAAAAAAALY/9KUQHYhTImw/s1600-h/34-Proverbs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088042954361141890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxcHACf-oI/AAAAAAAAALY/9KUQHYhTImw/s400/34-Proverbs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Wisdom is called ‘Hokmah’ in Hebrew.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘Hokmah’’s original concept has a basic concept of experience and know-how that have been acquired through active communication between man and man, or between man and things. For that reason, there are many occasions when the wisdom in the Book of Proverbs is often expressed as the fruit of acts that human beings have experienced in their living (see Proverbs 1:31).&lt;br /&gt;It is referred to as ‘wise’ when one is fundamentally free of evil and rather rules or dominates all the evildoing. In addition, the word wisdom in the Proverbs goes besides skillfulness, includes actual living experiences, profound insight into life issues, judiciousness and resourcefulness, and also awareness of God.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Born in this sense, ‘Hokmah’ expresses various kinds of wisdom.&lt;br /&gt;‘Hokmah’ appears 140 times in the Old Testament, 39 times in the Proverbs. Let’s look at the examples of ‘Hokmah’ used in the Old Testament:&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;First, strategy in war (Isaiah 10:13)&lt;br /&gt;Second, specific ability in skills or technical jobs (Exodus 28:3, 31:3, 35:35, 36:1~2)&lt;br /&gt;Third, wisdom in administrative dealings (Deuteronomy 34:9, Isaiah 29:14, Jeremiah 49:7, 2 Samuel 14:20)&lt;br /&gt;Fourth, wisdom referring to sound judgment and sense (2 Samuel 20:22, Jeremiah 9:12, Isaiah 47:10, Daniel 1:4)&lt;br /&gt;Fifth, prudence in religious doings and concerns (Deuteronomy 4:6, Psalm 37:30, 90:12, Isaiah 33:6)&lt;br /&gt;And so forth, meanings are applied variedly.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The ‘wisdom’ in the Old Testament wore secular looks at first. By and by it grew to be theological. Finally it became a form of Israel’s faith. The Proverbs 1:7 and 9:10 is saying, the fear of God, or faith and religion, is the foundation of cognition and wisdom.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The Book of Proverbs uses the name of God in Israel concretely so that anybody hear faith and wisdom is the same meaning. From verse 1 to 9, it combines ‘secular and universal wisdom of human race’ and ‘Yahweh faith’ together. In these verses, ‘wisdom’ ‘insight’ ‘discretion’ ‘stupidity’ and such traditional wisdom-related words are being used mingled with ‘justice’ ‘righteousness’ ‘fear of God’ and such religious concepts.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Also along with ‘wisdom,’ the Proverbs emphasizes how important point there is in teaching, or education. Another word of education, ‘discipline’ is from the Hebrew word ‘musar.’ In Israel community living in fear of God, the essence of wisdom is to teach people what is discerningly the best one, namely Jehovah. On account of this, the Proverbs emphasizes educating positively with discipline for the growth in wisdom. This discipline is also the word used when farther or teacher admonishes his son or student. (see Proverbs 22:15, 23:12~14)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the basis of most maxims is the thought of God flowing. This thought is that a certain order or rule reigns throughout all life of man. Man’s circumstances are decided according to how they act. That means in a sense, it is what God has given. For example, an honest person gets happiness. An evil doer pays one’s penalty. Words and deeds Yahweh God hates are sure to be in for bad results for man, so that human beings must avoid those things. We can see there is such thought embedded securely in maxims. (see Proverbs 12:21, 13:6, 24:16, 25:8)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;We can find a ‘feature’ of the Proverbs in how it depend less upon ‘revelation of God’ but more upon ‘humans’ experience.’ We should take a look at the reason why the proverbs were written. It is so that it could transmit wisdom through initiation into desirable manners to each descendant and through intra-communal initiation into knowledge as a way of maintaining the Israel community God sanctioned. Wise persons have taught wisdom is expressed in honesty, justice and fidelity through righteous action.&lt;br /&gt;‘Wisdom that doesn’t stay at its fixed point,’ this is one of the most important teachings of Israelite wise men.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Wise persons teach human beings have the ability to take morally rightful actions, and that one’s words and deeds are important in the lives as people of God. In the old days where the Bible were written, it was considered to be wise that one did one’s best within the range of the right way as a human being between God and man. But in the modern days where man lost their nature, ‘nature’ is added.&lt;br /&gt;Christianity of the present and the future demands a human being should take their task in their life as &lt;a&gt; &lt;a&gt; and &lt;a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;It teaches that a human being is responsible &lt;before&gt; &lt;before&gt; and &lt;before&gt;. In other words, a human being is responsible for understanding what God means and &lt;god’s&gt; standing before God, neighborhood and nature.&lt;br /&gt;After all, wisdom is a human being’s role as God’s agent, namely a medium who makes peace between God-Humanity-Nature. “Without God, without his fellowmen, man loses their globe.” This saying highlights the role of wisdom uniting God, humanity and nature into one.&lt;br /&gt;These three have to take root in an organic relationship for sure.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Environmental pollution and natural exploitation bring about unexpected calamities.&lt;br /&gt;TV news is reporting a reddish brown tide in the sea off the coast of Yeosu South Province of Jeolla, and a big threat to the ecosystem because of intense greenish water at the mouth of Nakdong River. Red tide and green tide are natural phenomena of change that have been reported since the ’80s. In 20 years since, the reddish and greenish phenomena of water 2001 are diffusing broadly in a frightening speed. As much, it is a warning that nature is going more and more into disease rapidly, for all the benefits that man owes such as things to eat, things to drink and things to breathe.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The sea farmers in the blue belt area of the South Sea are helpless out of unexpected damage from disturbances of the elements. In the meantime, most other people in other areas just gain their knowledge of red tide and green tide, but have no special activity or determination to prevent environmental contamination.&lt;br /&gt;Only a minority or groups who are concerned for nature appeal against environmental pollution. Most of the people are living in their happy-go-lucky way of thinking it’s none of their own business, even though they see on TV the fishermen’s faces tearful out of damage of their properties overnight. One’s own house has their faucets running filtrated tap water. They get boiled rice, bread, vegetable, fruit and such other food on the table from stores full of goods....&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Even though the mass media reports day after day ‘the more time passes, the more pollution happens,’ common people have little difficulty in their breathing.... In such a condition, they have little distinct inconveniences in their daily living. So using various living substances such as kitchen detergents and bathroom detergents that are considered necessary in their daily food clothing and shelter, they tend to use them without thinking where the discharged sewage and waste water after use would go and what grim results might come near to them.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Our country has a large population for its area. It is one of the most densely-populated countries in the world. Upon this property, damaged nature and environmental pollution are unavoidable.&lt;br /&gt;Even those less densely-populated and less naturally-damaged countries consider ‘environmental pollution’ seriously and see about preventives.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;A few years ago, environmental groups once worked hard to popularize the formula that one doesn’t use shampoo but use natural soap while washing their hair, and drops vinegar in water while rinsing their hair. Frankly speaking, washing with good-quality shampoo and rinsing with aromatic rinse rather than with soap is better for hair smell and smoother for hair line. The statement ‘Hair line gets smooth in a month or two’ is not completely suitable. Still remaining is the stiffness of hair line even after a year or two (in my personal experience).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;What is important is, the persons who washed their hair with natural soap are still healthy when they are older, as compared with those who used shampoo and rinse. More important one is, if and only if we take initiative practice for the wellbeing of posterity even if we don’t feel like wishing our hair with natural soap, then our nature can stand to remain or survive.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Still the same, most of the people looks upon environmental pollution and its damage as none of their business. But in the future, there will be more frequent times where the folks who used to be arrogant before the benefits that they owe to nature feel bitterness over the disasters their nature repay them with in kind for its losses.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The worldwide have made one dash after another at developing under the fantasy that only ‘development and progress’ would make man’s life abundant. Environmental pollution showed up due to adverse effects of development. And so restoration movement of exploited nature, wounded nature, has been going on since the 70s~80s.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;For example, the streams in the city were smelly and corrupt with daily waste water, and were looked upon as a mere habitat of mosquitoes and harmful insects. It is now used as parking lots, after covering construction of the streams for an increasing number of cars.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, the streams that lost its original function through the covering of asphalt and cement over offered not only roads and parking lots. But it also offered some dysfunctions to urban ecosystem. It is not easy to tell which the dysfunctions to ecosystem are, but various problems that wasn’t brought up at the time of covering over the streams came out. Subsequently, they are uncovering the covered roads and parking lots under construction at some places, so that they may restore things to original (refer to Cheonggye Stream Restoration Project).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In the case of the stream water within the city are smelly, decaying and mosquito-originating, losses after covering of the streams grow bigger than the gains when considered on long-term basis, and so that is why they restore things to original. Some cases in foreign countries have shown, they destruct even huge dams made with big money big manpower and big time so that they try to regain the rivers’ original flowing.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summer in 1977, the area Seoul Metropolitan area had a enormous damage of heavy rain especially around Anyang. So far, nothing has been able to stop the waterspout down from sky. The citizens in the neighborhood of Anyang stream suffered the most. One of the reasons is because the authorities narrowed the stream bed artificially by making banks along the Anyang Stream according to their ‘Urban Development Plan.’ Our country lives in the topographical features in which drought and flood take turns.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Out of near-sighted thinking that in ordinary times the ‘spacious idle land’ looking as if ‘it were broadly neglected without being used’ is too wasteful and uneconomic, they tend to make banks to narrow the river bed, so that they use the rest of it artificially and arbitrarily according to the concerned city’s planning of development, we can see easily.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;This kind of administrative fallacy is an aftereffect of city development that they have made in no recognition of natural environment. If you make an arrangement by making banks along the river bed that was looked upon as a wasteland in ordinary times, you might feel like you have some extra plot of land and are using the ground very usefully for urban development. However, you cannot deny that by the time of a big flood in just decades, you might suffer an occasion as in Anyang town. (For information, in comparison between highest and lowest quantity of flow, Han River is 1:590, Nakdong River is 1:360, Seine River is 1:10 and Rhine River is 1:30.) Our country lives in the natural environment that is not easy to control water resources as against other countries. In this sense, it is dangerous to ignore the natural environment of the Korean Peninsula and to blindly imitate other countries’ policies.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Modern environmental pollution has been a cause of a lot of diseases. As a solution, modern time demands a lot of dependence upon artificial remedies. Advanced countries have seen an increasing appearance of a thing called ‘alternative medicine.’ Most of artificial remedies made by man have side effects happening at an unexpected part the body if taken for long (even if not antibiotics). Recent days, reviewed in medical circles are ‘folk remedy’ ‘fresh-oriented diet’ and ‘natural therapy,’ which were previously ignored.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Each individual body is but a little different in attribute person by person. Dependence upon the same old stereo-typed medicines prescribed by clinics gets to be either cured or not cured. And so is cancer. When cancer cells pervade in the same proportion over the whole bodies of patients, the same treatment can end in either some patients dying or some patients surviving.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Not different are natural therapy or diet. Even among persons who got discharged with a death sentence, some are brought back to life but some die away, through fresh-food-oriented diet or other folk remedies. In the past, we have been given the medicine with a tendency to ignore some ‘vital force’ of human bodies’ own, ‘self-purifying effect’ or ‘self-restoring effect.” And yet a human body has vitality in its cells themselves and so does nature have an amazing vital force and self-purifying effect.&lt;br /&gt;Modern medicine likewise is turning its eyes back to this fact.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rpxb_ACf-nI/AAAAAAAAALQ/Z4C140tBHd8/s1600-h/34-1-+Diabetes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088042816922188402" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rpxb_ACf-nI/AAAAAAAAALQ/Z4C140tBHd8/s400/34-1-+Diabetes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of my case, I had type-I diabetes(insulin-dependent, age 17) since right after suicide attempt through the poison RH-787 in 1977, but also had my various internal organs’ functions breaking down and dying away. Diabetes alone, I have a very bad fluctuation between high and low blood sugars as against other diabetes.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I had an awful suffering due to my feet from 1991 to 95. I did not move intensely nor did anything but walk in carefully-chosen shoes. Even so, while deep into walking, I happened to blisters on toes or heels.... The next day when I resumed walking again, I would have the yesterday’s blisters breaking. And the rips on broken blisters got bigger.... 4 years of suffering on account of feet, I carried disinfectant, bandage, antibiotic ointment, antibiotic injection solution anywhere along, so that I could give an local injection on my injured spot.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In those days, there was no way I could help it, whenever I got blood on their slippers due to my feet injury when I go to another house or church. What I came up with then was walk on my front feet with heels up.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As you might have done it, even one or two minutes is hard to walk at first. A certain time by and by, I walked on forefeet whether it was home or near. Our usual distance at a time in daily life is more or less 30 minutes. 5 minutes’ walk and 1~2 minutes’ rest, and then resume.... Thanks to this repeated training, the hurts on the feet that suffered for 4 years without leg muscles easily relieved(?) began to heal up in a few months. My right big toe nail in those days fell off 5 times, yet it has turned up normally. My left big toe nail fell off 8~10 times, yet by now it turns up, if deformed, tinily and slantwise.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;These days not differently, if I walk longer in shoes that are inconvenient even a little, my feet get blisters and my left foot toes are inclined to fall off. Every this happening, I turn on music and dance lightly with heels up in the house. Or I practice the walking on forefeet for about 20~30 minutes. (This part of my life up to October 2005, afterwards I’ve been in foot treatment still now May 2007 since the fall-down October) Upon my long experience, if you find shoes that are real convenient for your feet, buy beforehand some pairs of shoes at once, I’d like to suggest.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Around 18~20 years from insulin administration, I suffered from too chilly toothache. Especially in winter below minus 5 degrees and at that in the evening or morning when I got back from walking outside, my teeth were so painfully sore that I would be compelled to suffer for over 30 minutes. Around then on, from mid October to April next year where it goes below minus 15 degrees on usual mornings, I had a habituation to mask wearing. I wore change-color or dark glasses on the eyes (essential for eye protection) and a mask on the mouth. So it is natural that the gazes towards me in seminaries and ministers circles were not very good.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Whenever I suffered from foot pain for every once some years, also whenever I wanted to weep in achingly cold teeth after a constitutional walk outside in winter, I had no occasion of being helped by others’ wisdom. I thought by myself. I agonized by myself. And I practiced by myself. The solutions may be a little too easy and simple. But any book, any various health-related TV program or any diabetes clinic in hospitals for diabetics doesn’t give us advice.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In fact, it may have been solved just simply, come to know of it. But it wasn’t into hands until I suffered and suffered in real blood and sweat for about 3~4 years. Many among diabetics are still suffering the same symptoms as I have. The more diabetic or the more progressive chronic disease it is, the more important it is to develop how the person oneself lives out along by figuring out circumstances, attitude and constitution as a patient on top of the theories book and hospital taught.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As long as one is afflicted with diabetes over a long period, his skin grows so much thinner and weaker. According as his diabetic history piles up, he may be troubled with skin scabies. Once he scratches, he has to scratch and scratch to blood to be alleviated.... At last he ends up in hospital. It is common sense that there he receives remedies and prescription like ointment from the doctor.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The itching symptom that troubles diabetes isn’t solved by ointment alone. The fundamental cause of the itch is the stimulus on the skin and the failure of the skin moisture retentiveness. Especially inside where one has direct heating through heater or stove rather than indirect in winter, the itchiness goes worse. The drier inside, the drier the skin gets. The crumblier the skin gets, the worse itchy symptom goes.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In my case, as a solution to solve itchiness, I bathe once a day lightly. When I bathe, I keep off using soap if possible while bathing. At the end of bath, I put on oil over the body before wiping water with towel. When the skin is badly dry, I make it a practice to wear drugstore-sold Vaseline on top a little and give it a massage. Then, most of itchy symptom can be solved.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The person myself don’t have atopic dermatitis. But the folks who suffer from atopic dermatitis are similar. The colder season comes, the warmer water you must practice taking a bath or shower with. Only, you should avoid if possible soap when you take a bath or shower, and instead make a kind of flour lotion with a bubble-beater. Put it over your body instead of soap. Then rinse it off with warm water in a sincere manner.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Within the flour is an amazing effects of cleansing and nourishing. If one’s skin is dry-type, or if humidity in the air lowers down in fall and winter, you may add some oil to the flour lotion. How much you put in oil depends on how your skin condition is. In this way, make your own secrete health formula fit for your constitution. (Without shampoo, rinse, shower cleaner, soap or any, you can have your skin smooth and shining bright.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As for the persons who suffer due to sensitive response to any minute stimulus on their skin of diabetes and atopic dermatitis, it is essentially required to ‘keep no stimulus and retain their moderate water’ for their skin protection. So those concerned, please see to the above-mentioned method of bathing.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;My way of such living is “a part of wisdom through which I may tenaciously subsist my life in the nature God the Creator endowed man with,” in which belief I live on.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now, let me conclude.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘Hikmah’ in Hebrew is often translated into ‘Wisdom.’ This ‘hikmah’ makes a human as the owner of the cosmos, and makes a human know the existent cosmos’s &lt;order&gt; and &lt;law&gt; and accommodate to them.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Proverbs writers try to explain their knowledge about God through secular concerns, through humans’ ultimate concerns and through connection with universal experience. But then the world order they themselves figured out is thorough and thorough religious.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;God entrusted human beings with the administration of the world He created. Human beings are commanded to bear their God-given projects responsibly before God and to govern the world they live. In the commandment lies a reciprocal implication of ‘governing and responsibility.’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Jesus’ dying on the cross is, in other words, the sacrifice to make peace between God and man, man and man and man and nature.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As created beings, man “must live within creator’s good order,” which is Israelite wise men’s awakening, wisdom, and education they taught their posterity. Also by emphasizing how weak and humble being man is as compared to God the Almighty, they tried to say to the descendants, “Who oversees man’s life and death is the only God alone.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;That is, they emphasized fearing God is the beginning of Wisdom (Proverbs 1:7, 9:10).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Bible tells us, for His people who struggle in anguish, feel anxious, and wish to escape in the middle of their lives and yet who must live perseveringly - the agonized who bear their full life tasks and the helpless who may be at a loss without God’s help - Yahweh God acts in His history. In the Bible, through their wisdom of experiences, Israelite wise men awaken the precious belief, “One, who is not true and sincere with his or her life, is not true and solemn with God, either.”&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Psalm 90:12 says, “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”&lt;br /&gt;Please take deeply to heart the saying of the Proverbs writer who saw the process of man knowing themselves as ‘wisdom’&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Me and everybody, let us live ‘the life as a wise person’ that the Proverbs says!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,&lt;br /&gt;and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” (Proverbs 9:10)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Welcome visitors to My personal homepage,...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/eindex.htm"&gt;http://www.mryoum.com/skin_youm_html/eindex.htm&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxbuACf-mI/AAAAAAAAALI/QRzUZnPAN6w/s1600-h/34-122.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088042524864412258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxbuACf-mI/AAAAAAAAALI/QRzUZnPAN6w/s400/34-122.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxbIQCf-jI/AAAAAAAAAKw/W6dX__Rm1No/s1600-h/34-350-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088041876324350514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxbIQCf-jI/AAAAAAAAAKw/W6dX__Rm1No/s400/34-350-2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-7429340640212484287?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/7429340640212484287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=7429340640212484287' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/7429340640212484287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/7429340640212484287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2007/07/wisdom.html' title='Wisdom'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxcwgCf-rI/AAAAAAAAALw/KSiluYd_vyU/s72-c/34-2-101.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-6168820289549621012</id><published>2007-07-16T22:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:23.640-07:00</updated><title type='text'>지 혜</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxYIACf-iI/AAAAAAAAAKo/4Z0_0IvNFVg/s1600-h/34-2--68.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088038573494499874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxYIACf-iI/AAAAAAAAAKo/4Z0_0IvNFVg/s400/34-2--68.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. 지 혜 (생명력, 자연, 당뇨, 지혜자)&lt;br /&gt;8. Wisdom (Life, Nature, Diabetes, Wise Person)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- 2001년 9월&lt;br /&gt;- September 2001&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;- 하나님의 대리인으로의 '지혜자의 역할'에 대하여....&lt;br /&gt;_ 이스라엘 현자들의 깨달음, 지혜의 모음집-잠언(서)&lt;br /&gt;- About the ‘role of wise person’ as an agent of God&lt;br /&gt;- The Book of Proverbs - A collection of Israelite wise persons’ awakening and wisdom&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;잠언 1장1~6절&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 다윗의 아들 이스라엘 왕 솔로몬의 잠언이라 2 이는 지혜와 훈계를 알게 하며 명철의 말씀을 깨닫게 하며 3 지혜롭게, 의롭게, 공평하게, 정직하게 행할 일에 대하여 훈계를 받게 하며 4 어리석은 자로 슬기롭게 하며 젊은 자에게 지식과 근신함을 주기 위한 것이니 5 지혜 있는 자는 듣고 학식이 더할 것이요 명철한 자는 모략을 얻을 것이라 6 잠언과 비유와 지혜 있는 자의 말과 그 오묘한 말을 깨달으리라&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxXrgCf-gI/AAAAAAAAAKY/bhP2jrff6uI/s1600-h/34-Proverbs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088038083868228098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxXrgCf-gI/AAAAAAAAAKY/bhP2jrff6uI/s400/34-Proverbs.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;히브리어로 지혜를 '호크마'라고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;'호크마'의 원래의 개념은 인간끼리, 혹은 사물과의 적극적인 접촉을 통하여 습득되어진 경험과 기술이 기본 개념입니다. 그 까닭에 잠언(서)에서 언급하는 지혜는 인간이 살아가면서 경험한 행위의 열매로 표현될 때가 많습니다(잠1;31 참고).&lt;br /&gt;이 지혜는 근본적으로 악을 행치 않고, 오히려 모든 악행을 지배하거나 통치할 때 '지혜롭다'고 합니다. 또 잠언(서)에서 지혜라는 말은 숙련됨 이외에 실제적인 생활경험과 심오한 생활문제에 대한 통찰, 그리고 교활함과 책략뿐 아니라 하나님에 대한 인식까지도 포함됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이런 의미에서 탄생된 ‘호크마’는 여러 종류의 지혜를 표현하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;'호크마'는 구약에서 140번 가량 등장하는데 잠언에만 39번 기록되어 있습니다. 구약에서 사용된 '호크마'의 예를 보면,&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;ㆍ첫째 ; 전쟁에서의 모략 (사10;13)&lt;br /&gt;ㆍ둘째 ; 기술이나 기술적인 직업에서의 특정실력 (출28;3. 31;3. 35;35. 36;1-2)&lt;br /&gt;ㆍ셋째 ; 행정적인 처리에서의 지혜 (신34;9, 사29;14, 렘49;7, 삼하14;20)&lt;br /&gt;ㆍ넷째 ; 건전한 판단과 의식을 가리키는 지혜 (삼하20;22, 렘9;22, 사47;10, 단1;4)&lt;br /&gt;ㆍ다섯째 ; 종교적인 행위•일들에 있어서의 신중함 (신4;6, 시37:30. 90;12, 사33;6)&lt;br /&gt;등 다양하게 쓰이고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;구약성서에 나오는 '지혜'는 처음에는 세속적인 형태를 띠다가 점차 신학화 되어 마침내는 이스라엘의 신앙의 형태로 되었습니다. 잠언1:7과 9;10절에는 하나님을 두려워하는 것, 즉 신앙과 종교가 인식이나 지혜의 근본이라고 말하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;잠언(서)에서는 이스라엘의 하나님의 이름이 구체적으로 사용됨으로써 누구에게든지 신앙과 지혜가 같은 뜻으로 들리게 됩니다. 1장부터 9장 사이에는 '세속적이고 인류 보편적인 지혜’와 ‘야훼 신앙’을 통합 시키고 있습니다. 이 구절들에는 '지혜'와 '통찰' 그리고 '현명함'이나 '어리석음' 같은 전통적인 지혜 용어들과 '정의', '올바름', '하나님에 대한 경외' 같은 종교적인 개념들이 뒤섞여서 사용되고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;또 잠언에서는 '지혜'와 더불어 가르침, 즉 교육의 중요한 점을 강조하고 있습니다. 교육의 다른 말 '훈계'는 히브리어 '무사르'에서 나왔습니다. 하나님을 경외하며 살아가는 이스라엘 공동체는 지혜의 본질을 사람으로 하여금 명철하게 가장 선한 것, 즉 여호와를 가르쳐 주는 것에 있습니다. 때문에 지혜를 키워주기 위해서는 반드시 훈계로 교육시킬 것을 잠언서는 강조하고 있습니다. 이 훈계는 아버지나 선생님이 아들이나 학생을 야단칠 때 쓰는 말이기도 합니다. (잠 22;15, 23;12-14 참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;대부분의 금언들 밑바닥에는 하나의 사상이 흐르고 있는데, 이 사상은 인간의 모든 삶 속에는 하나의 질서•법칙이 지배한다는 것입니다. 인간의 행동 여하에 따라 그의 형편이 결정되며, 어느 면에서 보면 그것이 신의 보응이라는 것입니다. 예를 들면 정직한 사람은 행복을 얻을 것이며, 나쁜 짓 하는 사람은 불행하게 되며, 야훼 하나님이 싫어하는 말과 행동은 반드시 인간에게 나쁜 결과를 가져오기 때문에 그것을 피해야 한다는 사상이 짙게 깔린 것을 볼 수 있습니다. (잠 12;21, 13;6, 24;16, 25;8 참고)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘잠언의 특징’은 그 근거가 ‘하나님의 계시’가 아니라 ‘인간의 경험에 의존’하는 것에 있습니다. 하나님이 허락한 이스라엘 공동체를 유지하기 위한 방편으로 후손들에게 각 개인이 취할 태도와 공동체내의 지식전수를 통해 지혜를 전달해 줄 목적으로 잠언이 기록되어 있다는 것에 주목해야 합니다. 지혜는 옳은 행동을 통하여 정직과 의와 성실로 표현 된다고 지혜 자들은 후손들을 가르쳐 왔습니다.&lt;br /&gt;‘지혜는 지혜 그 자체에 머물러 있지 않다’는 것이 이스라엘 현자들의 가장 중요한 가르침입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;지혜가 있는 사람은 인간이 도덕적으로 바른 행동을 할 힘을 지니고 있다고 가르치며, 오직 하나님 백성으로서의 맡겨진 삶에는 자신의 말과 행동이 중요하다고 가르쳤습니다. 성경이 기록 된 그 옛날에는 하나님과 인간만을 묶어서 인간으로서 정도를 벗어나지 않는 범위 내에서 최선을 다하여 사는 것을 지혜롭게 생각했지만, 자연을 잃어버린 현대에 와서는 이 범위에 '자연'이 추가 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;현재와 미래의 기독교는 &lt;하나님 앞에 선 존재&gt;&lt;이웃 앞에 선 존재&gt;&lt;자연 앞에 선 존재로서&gt; 인간은 자기의 과제를 짊어지고, 그의 생을 살아갈 것을 요구하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;인간은 &lt;하나님 앞에서&gt; &lt;이웃 앞에서&gt; &lt;자연 앞에서&gt; 책임 있는 존재라는 것을 가르치고 있습니다. 말하자면 인간은 하나님의 뜻을 이해하는 책임을 지고 하나님•이웃•자연 앞에 서 있는 &lt;하나님의 대리인&gt;이라는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;결국 지혜는 인간의 존재를 하나님의 대리인으로의 역할, 곧 하나님-인간-자연을 연결시켜주는 매개체 역할을 하게합니다. “하나님 없이, 그의 형제 없이는 인간은 지구를 잃게 됩니다.”―이 말속에는 지혜가 하나님과 인간과 자연을 한 묶음으로 묶어주는 역할을 강조하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;이 셋은 유기적인 관계 속에서 자리 잡을 수밖에 없습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;환경오염과 자연의 피해는 뜻밖의 재난을 가져 다 줍니다.&lt;br /&gt;TV뉴스에서 전남 여수부근의 바닷물에 적조현상이, 낙동강하구에는 녹조 현상이 심하게 일어나 생태계에 큰 위협을 준다고 보도하고 있습니다. 녹조나 적조현상은 80년대부터 보고 된 자연변화 현상입니다. 그런데 20년이 지난 2001년에는 녹조나 적조현상이 무서운 속도로 넓이가 확산되고 있습니다. 그 만큼 우리에게 먹을 것, 마실 것, 숨쉴 수 있는 혜택을 준 자연이 급속도로 병들어 가고 있음을 경고하는 현상이기도 랍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;남해 청정해역에서 바다농사를 하시는 분들은 뜻하지 않은 재난상의 피해를 당해서 어쩔 줄을 모르고 있어도 다른 지역에 사는 대다수의 국민들은 녹조와 적조에 대한 지식만 늘어났지, 환경오염을 방지하려는 특별한 움직임이나 결단이 없습니다.&lt;br /&gt;자연환경에 관심이 있는 소수만이 또는 특정단체들만이 환경오염을 외치고 있을 뿐, 국민들 대부분은 하루아침에 재산상의 피해를 입어 울상인 어민의 얼굴을 TV에서 보면서도 남의 일 뿐이라는 안이한 생각 속에서 일상생활을 하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;자기 집 수도꼭지에는 정수된 수돗물 잘나오고, 식탁에 오르는 쌀(밥). 빵. 야채. 과일, 등의 먹을거리들은 슈퍼에 가면 가득히 쌓여있고,...&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;‘갈수록 공기가 오염 된다’고 매스컴에서 하루가 멀다고 보도하고 있지만, 일반국민들이 숨쉬는데 별 지장이 없고,...이렇듯 오늘을 살아가는데 별 불편함을 못 느끼다 보니 의, 식, 주 생활에서 꼭 필요하다고 생각하는 주방세제, 목욕세제 따위의 각종 생활용품들이 사용 후에는 오수나 폐수로 방류되어 훗날 암담한 결과로 다가올 것은 생각하지 않고 사용하게 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리나라는 땅에 비해 인구가 많습니다. 세계적으로도 손꼽히게 인구 밀도가 높은 나라입니다. 이러한 특성상 자연 훼손과 환경오염은 불가피 할 수밖에 없는 실정입니다. 우리나라보다 인구 밀도가 훨씬 낮고, 자연훼손이 훨씬 덜한 국가들에서도 '환경오염'을 심각하게 생각하고, 대책을 강구합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;몇 년 전에 환경 단체에서 머리 감을 때 샴푸를 사용하지 않고 대신 빨래비누로 감고 마지막 헹구는 물에 식초 몇 방울 떨어뜨리는 방법을 보급하려고 애쓴 적이 있었습니다. 솔직히 말하면 비누로 머리를 감는 것보다는 질 좋은 샴푸로 감고 향긋한 린스로 마무리를 한 것이 머리에서 풍기는 냄새도 좋고 머리결도 훨씬 부드럽습니다. 환경단체에서 주장하는 ‘2주-1달 지나면 머리 결이 부드러워 진다’는 말은 적절치 않고, 1-2년을 사용해도 머릿결에 뻣뻣함이 남아 있습니다(내 경험을 말하자면...).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;중요한 것은 비누를 사용해서 머리를 감은 분들의 머리카락이 샴푸, 린스 사용한 분들보다 나이 들어서도 굉장히 건강하다는 것입니다. 더 중요한 한 가지는 비누로 머리 감는 것이 마음에 내키지 않더라도 내일의 후손을 위해 개개인이 행동에 옮길 때만이 비로소 자연은 유지되거나 살아 날 수 있다는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;아직까지도 대다수의 국민들이 환경오염과 그 피해를 남을 일로만 여깁니다. 그러나 자연이 주는 혜택 앞에서 교만했던 사람들이 자연이 주는 재해 앞에서는 원망을 하게 되는 경우가 앞으로는 더욱 번번해 질 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;전 세계적으로도 '개발과 발전'만이 인간의 삶을 풍요롭게 할 것이라는 환상아래 개발만을 향해 돌진해 왔지만, 개발의 역효과로 환경오염이 나타나자 70-80년대부터는 개발된 자연, 훼손된 자연을 복원 시키려는 운동이 전개되고 있는 형편입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예로써 도시 내의 하천은 생활하수로 냄새나고, 썩어가고, 모기나 유해 해충들이 서식처 정도로만 인식하다가 늘어나는 자동차를 위해 하천부지를 복개공사 한 뒤에 도로나 주차장으로 사용하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하지만 하천을 아스팔트나 시멘트로 복개시키면서 그 기능을 상실한 하천은 도로와 주차장만을 제공한 것이 아니고 도시 생태계에 역기능까지 제공했습니다. 정확하게 어떤 것이 생태계에 대한 역기능인지는 모르지만, 하천부지를 복개할 당시에는 생각지 못했던 여러 가지 문제점들이 나타나자 복개했던 도로나 주차공간을 뜯고 원래대로 복원(복구)시키는 공사가 여러 곳에 생겨나고 있습니다(청계천 복원 사업 참고).&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;도시 내의 하천 물에서 냄새나고, 썩어가고, 모기가 생긴다고 하여도, 장기간을 보면 하천을 복개시킴으로 해서 얻는 이득보다는 잃는 손실이 커져서 원래대로 복원(복구) 시키는 것입니다. 외국에서는 많은 돈과 인력과 시간을 투자해서 만들었던 거대한 댐들조차도 파괴시켜 강물 원래의 흐름을 되찾게 하고 있는 실정입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;1977년 여름에 경기 수도권 지역, 그 중에서도 안양지역에 엄청난 홍수피해를 입었습니다. 아직까지는 하늘에서 쏟아지는 물을 인간의 힘으로는 어쩔 수가 없습니다. 그 당시 안양천 부근에 사는 시민들의 피해가 엄청 컸습니다. 그 이유 중 하나가 ‘도시개발계획안’에 따라서 안양천에 둑을 쌓아 하천부지를 인위적으로 좁혔기 때문이었습니다. 우리나라는 가뭄과 홍수가 반복되는 지형 속에서 살고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;평소에는 ‘쓸모없이 넓게 방치 된다’ 싶은 하천변의 ‘넓은 빈 공지’(공휴지)를 아깝게 생각해서 둑을 쌓아 하천부지를 좁힌 후에 나머지 부지를 해당 시에서 도시계획에 인위적으로 사용하는 것을 쉽게 볼 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이런 행정상의 오류는 한반도특유의 자연환경을 모르고 벌인 도시개발의 후유증입니다. 평소에는 버려진 땅으로만 생각되던 하천부지에 둑을 쌓아 정비하면 여분의 땅이 생겨나 도시계획에 굉장히 유용하게 사용하는 것 같지만, 몇 십 년 만의 큰 홍수 때 안양천과 같은 일이 일어납니다.(참고로 물이 가장 많을 때와 적게 흐를 때의 유량을 비교하면 한강은 1;590, 낙동강 1:360, 센느강 1;8-10 라인강 1;30 정도입니다.)&lt;br /&gt;우리나라는 다른 나라에 비해 수자원의 조절이 쉽지 않은 자연환경에서 살고 있습니다. 때문에 한반도의 자연환경을 무시하고 너무 외국의 정책만을 모방하는 것은 위험합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;현대의 환경오염은 많은 질병을 가져왔고, 그 치료책으로 인위적인 치료약에 의존할 것을 요구합니다. 선진국에서는 훨씬 전부터 우리나라에서는 '대체의학'이라고 불리던 부분이 서서히 부각되고 있습니다. 인간이 만든 인위적인 치료약들 대부분은 장기간 복용을 하게 되면 생각지 않던 곳에서 부작용이 나타나곤 합니다(그것이 항생제가 아니더라도). 근래에 와서는 그 동안 무시 했던 '민간요법'이나 '생식위주의 식생활‘이나 ’자연 요법' 따위의 '대체의학'들이 다시 의학계에서 검토되고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;인간 개개인의 몸은 그 특성이 조금씩 다를 수밖에 없습니다. 그것을 병원에서 처방해주는 천편일률적인 처방약에 의존하다 보면 낫는 사람은 낫고, 낫지 않는 사람은 낫지 않습니다. 무서운 암도 마찬가집니다. 환자에게 암세포가 몸 전체에 같은 비율로 퍼졌는데도 같은 처방으로 어떤 환자는 살아나고 어떤 환자는 죽어갑니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;자연요법이나 식이요법도 마찬가집니다. 병원에서 사형선고를 받고 퇴원한 환자 중에서도 각종 야채즙위주의 식이요법이나 다른 민간요법으로 소생되는 사람은 소생되고 죽는 사람은 죽습니다. 우리는 그 동안 인간의 몸 자체가 가지고 있는 '생명력'이나 자연이 가지고 있는 '자정효과‘나 ’자생효과'를 무시하는 쪽에서 의술을 펼쳐 왔습니다. 하지만 인간의 몸은 그 세포자체가 생명력이 있고, 자연도 그 안에 놀라운 생명력과, 자정효과가 있습니다. 현대의학에서도 이 부분에 다시금 눈을 돌리고 있는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxXfgCf-fI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/IqHrvv7EWSo/s1600-h/34-1-+Diabetes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088037877709797874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxXfgCf-fI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/IqHrvv7EWSo/s400/34-1-+Diabetes.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;제 경우도 1977년 RH-787로 음독자살 직후부터 I형 당뇨병(인슐린 의존형, 당시 내 나이 17살)뿐만이 아니고 몸 안의 각종 내장기관이 그 기능을 상실 하다시피 한 곳이 많았습니다. 당뇨병만 하더라도 다른 당뇨병환자에 비해 고혈당과 저혈당의 기복이 매우 심한 편입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;91년부터 95년까지 발 때문에 너무 심한 고생을 했습니다. 특별히 격렬한 운동을 하는 것도 아니고 신중하게 고른 신발을 신고 걷기만 하는데도 산책에 열중하다 보면 발가락이나 뒤꿈치에 물집이 잡히고,...그 다음날 다시 산책하면 어제생긴 물집이 터지고, 물집이 터진 상처가 커지고... 발 때문에 고생하던 4년 동안은 소독약, 붕대, 항생제연고, 항생제주사액과 주사기를 상처부위의 국부주사를 위해 어느 곳에나 가지고 다녔습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그 당시에는 발의 상처 때문에 남의 집을 방문하거나 출석하는 교회의 슬리퍼 뒷부분에 항상 피를 묻어도 특별한 방법이 없었습니다. 그때 생각해 낸 것이 뒤꿈치를 들고 발 앞부분만으로 걷는 것이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;여러분도 해 보시면 아시겠지만, 처음에는 1-2분 걷기도 힘듭니다. 어느 정도 시간이 지남에 따라 집안에서나, 가까운 거리는 뒤꿈치를 들고 다녔습니다. 우리가 일상에서 걷는 보통의 거리는 30분 안팎의 거리입니다. 5분 정도 걸고, 1-2분 쉬고, 다시 걷고, 이런 반복된 훈련 덕분에 다리 근육도 쉽게 풀리지 않고(?) 4년을 고생하던 발의 상처들이 몇 개월 지나면서 아물었습니다. 그 당시 오른쪽 엄지발톱은 5번 빠졌는데도 정상적으로 나오고 왼쪽 엄지발가락 발톱은 8-10번 정도 빠졌는데 지금은 기형적으로 조그맣고 비뚤어지게 나옵니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;요즘도 신발이 조금만 불편한 것을 신고 산책을 오래 하면 물집 잡히고, 왼쪽 발톱 쉽게 빠지려 하고, 이럴 때면 발뒤꿈치 들고 집안에서 음악 틀어 놓고 가볍게 춤추거나, 20-30분 정도 뒤꿈치를 들고 하는 걸음걸이를 연습하고 있습니다. (이런 부분도 2005년 10월까지, 10월에 넘어진 후 발 때문에 2007년 5월인 지금도 치료를 받고 있는 중입니다.) 내 오랜 경험상 자신의 발에 편한 신발을 발견하시면 한꺼번에 몇 개씩 사 두는 게 좋다는 말도 하고 싶습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;또 인슐린을 투여한지 18-20년 정도 되니까 이가(치아) 너무 시린 증세로 고생 했었습니다. 특히 겨울철 영하 5도 이하의 날씨에, 그것도 저녁이나 밤에 산책을 끝내고 실내에 들어오면 이가 너무 시려서 30분 이상을 고생해야만 했습니다. 이때부터 보통 아침 기온이 15도 이하가 되는 10월 중순에서-다음해 4월까지는 입마개(마스크)사용이 생활화 됐습니다. 눈에는 체인지 칼라의 안경이나 썬글라스(시력 보호를 위해 필수적임), 입에서는 마스크 차림새니 신학교나 목사 세계에서 본인을 바라보는 시선이 곱지 않은 것은 당연합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;발 때문에 몇 년씩이나 고생할 때도, 겨울철이면 산책 후에 이가 시려서 울고 싶을 때도 다른 사람들의 지혜에 도움 받은 적이 없습니다. 혼자 생각하고, 혼자 고민하고, 혼자 실천에 옮겨 봤습니다. 이런 해결 방법들은 너무 쉽고 간단한데도 당뇨병환자를 위한 어떤 책에도, TV의 각종건강 프로에서도, 종합병원에서 운영하는 당뇨 클리닉센터에서도 조언을 안 해 줍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;알고 보면 간단하게 해결 할 수 있던 것을 3-4년 정도는 진짜 피 흘리며 고생고생한 뒤에야 터득했습니다. 당뇨병환자들 중에는 많은 이들이 아직도 본인과 같은 증세로 고생들을 하고 있습니다. 당뇨병이나 기타의 진행성 만성질환 일수록 책이나 병원에서 가르쳐 주는 이론 위에, 그 환자가 처한 환경이나 본인의 생활태도, 본인의 체질 등을 파악해서 자신이 살아 갈수 있는 방법을 개발하는 것이 중요합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;당뇨병을 오래 앓다 보면 피부가 굉장히 얇아지고 약해집니다. 어느 정도 병력이 붙으면 피부 가려움증도 올 수가 있습니다. 한번 긁으면 피가 나도록 긁고 또 긁고.... 나중에는 병원까지 가게 됩니다. 병원에서 의사들이 치료책으로 연고제 등을 제조해 주는 것이 상식화 되어 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;당뇨병환자들을 괴롭히는 가려움증은 연고로만 해결 할 수 없습니다. 가려움증의 근본원인은 피부에 와 닿는 자극과 피부의 수분유지가 안 되어서 생기는 현상입니다. 특히 겨울철에 간접 난방이 아니고 히터나 난로를 이용해서 직접난방을 하는 실내에서는 가려운 현상이 더 심해집니다. 실내가 건조해질수록 피부도 건조해지고, 피부도 건조해지면 가려운 증상도 더 해 갑니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;내 경우에는 가려움증을 해결하는 방안으로 하루 1번 정도는 가볍게 목욕하고, 목욕할 때는 비누 사용은 될 수 있는 되도록 억제하고 있는 중입니다. 목욕 끝에 수건으로 물기를 닦기 전에 오일을 온몸에 골고루 바르고, 심한 건성일 때는 그 위에 약국에서 파는 바셀린을 살짝 바르고 마사지를 하는 습관을 들이면 웬만한 가려움증은 해결할 수 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;본인은 아토피성 피부질환은 없습니다만 아토피성 피부질환으로 고생하시는 분들도 비슷합니다. 추운 계절 일수록 따듯한 물로 목욕이나 샤워하는 습관은 필수입니다. 다만 목욕이나 샤워 할 때에 비누 사용은 될 수록 피하고 대신 밀가루를 거품기를 사용해서 로션정도의 농도로 만든 뒤에 비누칠 대신 온몸에 칠한 다음, 따듯한 물로 정성 들여 닦아만 내면 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;밀가루 속에 놀라울 정도로 세정효과와 영양공급효과가 있습니다. 그리고 자신의 피부가 건성이거나, 공기 중의 습도가 낮아지는 가을이나 겨울철에는 밀가루 반죽 속에 오일을 첨가 하시면 됩니다. 첨가하는 오일의 양은 자신의 피부상태에 맞게 조절하면 됩니다. 이런 식으로 자신의 몸에 맞는 자기만의 건강비법을 개발하시기 바랍니다. (샴푸, 린스, 샤워 클리너, 비누, 일체 사용 안 하셔도 피부가 굉장히 매끄럽고, 윤이 납니다.)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;당뇨병이나 아토피성으로 피부가 조그만 자극에도 민감한 반응해 고생하는 분들은 피부보호를 위해 ‘최대한 자극 없는 그리고 적당한 수분유지’가 필수이기 때문에 위에 소개한 목욕 법을 유의하시기 바랍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;나의 이런 생활방식들도 “창조주 하나님이 인간에게 베풀어 준 자연 속에서 내 자신의 삶을 끈질기게 영위하기 위한 지혜의 일부분” 이라 믿으며 살아가고 있는 중입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론을 맺겠습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;히브리어 '하캄'을 지혜로 번역하기도 합니다. 이 '하캄'은 인간을 우주의 주인으로 만들고, 인간으로 하여금 현존하는 우주의 &lt;질서&gt;와&lt;법칙&gt;을 알아서 거기에 잘 적응하도록 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;잠언 기자들은 그들의 신에 관한 지식은 늘 세속적인 관심사에 의해서, 인간의 궁극적 관심사에 의해서, 그리고 보편적 경험을 결부 시켜 설명하려고 합니다. 그러면서도 그들 자신이 밝혀낸 세계 질서는 철두철미 종교적이라는 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하나님은 인간에게 그 지으신 세계의 통치를 위임하시고, 인간은 그 받은 과제를 하나님 앞에서 책임 있게 감당하며, 그가 살고 있는 세계를 다스릴 것을 명령 받았습니다. 이 명령 속에는 ‘다스림과 책임’이라는 상반관계가 내포되어있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;예수님의 십자가상에서의 죽음을 다른 말로 표현은 하나님과 인간, 인간과 인간끼리, 인간과 자연을 화해(화목) 시키기 위한 희생입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;피조 된 인간은 “창조 질서에 순응하며 살아야 한다.”는 것이 이스라엘 현자들의 깨달음이고, 지혜이고, 후손들에게 가르친 교육입니다. 뿐만 아니라 그들은 전능하신 하나님과 비교해 볼 때 인간이 얼마나 나약하고 보잘 것 없는 존재인지에 대해 강조함으로써 ‘인간의 생사를 주관하시는 분은 하나님 한 분 뿐’이라는 것을 후손들에게 들려주고자 노력해 왔습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;즉, 하나님을 경외하는 것이 지혜의 근본 (잠1;7,9:10)임을 강조했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이스라엘의 하나님 야훼는 삶을 한가운데서 번뇌에 몸부림치며, 불안해하고, 도피하고 싶어 하며, 그러면서도 끈질기게 살아야만 하는 당신의 백성들을 - 생의 과제를 부둥켜안고 고민하는 자, 하나님의 도움이 아니면 어찌할 바를 모르는 자 - 위하여 야훼 하나님은 역사 안에 들어와 활동하시는 분이라는 것을 성경은 우리에게 가르쳐주고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;잠언(서)을 통하여 이스라엘의 현자들은 “자기의 생에 대해서 진지하고 진실할 수 없는 자는, 하나님에 대해서도 진지할 수 없고, 진실할 수도 없다”는 삶의 경험에서 나온 지혜를 통하여 소중한 믿음을 일깨어 주고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;시편 90;12 - “우리에게 우리 날 계수함을 가르치사 지혜로운 마음을 얻게 하소서”-인간이 자신을 알아 가는 과정을 ‘지혜’로 본 시편 기자의 말을 가슴깊이 음미하시기 바랍니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;잠언에서 말하는 ‘지혜자로서의 삶’을 우리 모두 살아갑시다!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;여호와를 경외하는 것이 지혜의 근본이요&lt;br /&gt;거룩하신 아는 것이 명철이니라. (잠언9;10)&lt;br /&gt;“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,&lt;br /&gt;and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” (Proverbs 9:10)&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Welcome visitors to My personal homepage,...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mryoum.com/main.html"&gt;http://www.mryoum.com/main.html&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxXNgCf-eI/AAAAAAAAAKI/oHhXYc8RsHQ/s1600-h/34-1-Rainbow_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088037568472152546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxXNgCf-eI/AAAAAAAAAKI/oHhXYc8RsHQ/s400/34-1-Rainbow_0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxXDgCf-dI/AAAAAAAAAKA/0VY6wE_Gk5I/s1600-h/34-1-mount.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088037396673460690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxXDgCf-dI/AAAAAAAAAKA/0VY6wE_Gk5I/s400/34-1-mount.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-6168820289549621012?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/6168820289549621012/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=6168820289549621012' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/6168820289549621012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/6168820289549621012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post.html' title='지 혜'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RpxYIACf-iI/AAAAAAAAAKo/4Z0_0IvNFVg/s72-c/34-2--68.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-953915058515239144</id><published>2007-05-30T01:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:28.484-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Joy is In You</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl07PGDbRtI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/wyu0_k6VOYw/s1600-h/1-ZION-9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070273885998106322" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl07PGDbRtI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/wyu0_k6VOYw/s400/1-ZION-9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11. ‘My Joy is In You’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11. "나의 기쁨이 너에게 있다."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Commemorating the Independence Day - August 2001&lt;br /&gt;- 2001년 8월 – 광복절을 기념하며....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- ‘Hephzibah’ and ‘Beulah’ in Isaiah 62:1~5&lt;br /&gt;- Meanings of ‘Hephzibah’ and ‘Beulah’ in Isaiah 62&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isaiah 62: 1~5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.&lt;br /&gt;2. The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.&lt;br /&gt;3. You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD's hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God.&lt;br /&gt;4. No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah ; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married.&lt;br /&gt;5. As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070273331947325122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl06u2DbRsI/AAAAAAAAAJI/qTz6TNceqqg/s400/12-40-20.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl0512DbRqI/AAAAAAAAAI4/7rqocb-FzMU/s1600-h/12-40-19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070272352694781602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl0512DbRqI/AAAAAAAAAI4/7rqocb-FzMU/s400/12-40-19.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl05mGDbRpI/AAAAAAAAAIw/3aX2YofA_Sk/s1600-h/12-40-20-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070272082111841938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl05mGDbRpI/AAAAAAAAAIw/3aX2YofA_Sk/s400/12-40-20-7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Middle East nicknamed ‘the Powder Magazine of the World’ is the area that raises attentions and tensions of the concerned countries and all the other parts of the world. Even the countries that have nothing to do with local wars in the Middle East have been reluctantly interested in the situations in the Middle East, because of ‘importing crude oil and the relevant repercussions in the world economy.’ The most frequently conflictive nations in the Middle East are Israel and the Palestine National Authority(P.N.A.). Israel and the P.N.A. both insist that the West Bank of Jordan River is their own land transmitted from their ancestors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The arguments are both not wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The present territory of the Palestine Authority used to be the ‘land of Israel,’ since entry through the Exodus and wilderness into Canaan, through Judges’ period, through the united Kingdom and divided Kingdoms, through the years as prisoners in Babylon, through reestablishment of Jewish religion by homecoming citizens, through a colony of Hellas by Alexander and his descendants, up until the colony of Rom. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 70 A.D., Jerusalem Temple and castle walls were trampled by Titus the Roman general commander. Israelis were once again dispersed in all directions within the Sovereignty of Rom. In long time and tide, the places Israelis left have been occupied by folks after folks. This is the Palestine National Authority. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In 1945, Israel gathered to Jerusalem ‘under the banner of Zionism.’ Under the military reign of the Allied Forces 1948, the nation of the present Israel was founded in about 2500 years. At last in about 2500 years, they flagged their own national flag of Israel on top of the history of hardships and humiliations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is after 1948 that Israel of the present had its birth. The star in the middle of their national flag on the surface of white is called ‘the Star of David,’ the symbolism of which is to revive the long-lost glory of David the King.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Under the project of actualizing the glory of David, when the present Israel’s nationality was attained and its territory confirmed around 1948, there were residents who had lived for about 2000 years. Not being able to follow only the command “Destroy any breathing” as in books of Deuteronomy and Joshua is the ethics of war and the ethics of international society in the contemporary times as well as modern. Although Israel put up the Star-of-David flag in their dreaming the glory of David or a new Israel at 1948, there was still an unsettled issue of ownership of the land between them and Palestine folks already occupying, when they returned to their motherland from all over the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Folks in the Palestine Authority as well have their say. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If any period or any country loses their sovereignty and its people disperse in all directions, other folks naturally get to occupy the land. The people as well have settled and inhabited the place from generation to generation in nearly 2000 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet abruptly on a certain day a certain people come and say to drive them out, “The land is ours who are the descendants of old Israel. So you go another place.” Not 20 years or so, they have lived nearly 2000 years.… Who is the owner of the land?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reading the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, two of the most frequent words are descendants and land.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 12:1 Go to the land I will show you.&lt;br /&gt;Genesis 50:24 God will surely take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&lt;br /&gt;Leviticus 20:24 I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.&lt;br /&gt;Exodus 23:30 Until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.&lt;br /&gt;Deuteronomy 19:14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.&lt;br /&gt;Deuteronomy 28:11 in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.&lt;br /&gt;Joshua 1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness and this Lebanon ~.&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other than this, there are promises about the land on many parts of the Bible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For people in Israel and the Palestine National Authority, land is not the concept of that as investment value and property. It is ‘the concept of land’ as ‘the foundation of life and the root’ that they have to hand down to their offspring. In modern world, because of wars decreased, the concepts of land 100 or 200 years ago has much disappeared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our country as well has been not much different.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the Japanese Annexation of Korea, the Colonial Period by Japan, the 1945 Liberation of Korea, the subsequent Division into South and North Koreas, and the Korean War, numerous youths or patriots on the land burned themselves to only keep their own land, devoting all of themselves and leaving all behind. Not only for life of their own but also for the foundation of their ancestors and descendants, they have kept this land where we are standing, dedicating their fields, patches, forests and even their lives. What would have been the results? It might have been a medal from the nation. It might have been just three name characters on the tombstone. Or, much more folks might have been dead under any nameless hills, fields, or any locations in the Southeast Asia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yet, many of the descendants of these have suffered hardships of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When they gave away all their wealth they had and even burned their bodies to keep this very motherland safe, it was impossible for them to be faithful to both their family and their country. The motherland for which they so burned themselves finally saw liberation and the war stopped. Yet, what met them in reality was ‘problems of life.’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is evident that they don’t have any left because they give theirs all away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To those, not only their sacrifice buried behind the glory of their country but also their ‘descendants’ hardships’ were their shares returned, but when they die, they might not have even thought that amount. Men who were quick adapting to the reality flattered Japan under the Japanese colonial period, ingratiated American Military Administration under the same period, and after the year 1948 had connections with members of the Liberal Party that was the main force of power. On account of this, not theirs taken away, rather they increased their wealth. On account of having the sagacious(?) ancestors, the descendants live comfortably afterwards, which is often the case. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What on earth is the land?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One group is, not enough that they sacrificed themselves, they even had to leave their children, struggling so hard to keep this land safe. Another group is, they just looked the other way towards the world around as if it were none of their own. Still another is, swiftly finding their way around for their interests whenever their existent vested interests changed, they devoted themselves to the accumulation of capital so even their descendants might live comfortably generation after generation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They are each different courses of life according to whether they looked upon the land as the foundation of the nation or whether they look upon it as the value for their own private wealth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today, grandmothers of forced comfort women are being discussed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A story of a grandmother says, when she was 16 years old, a Japanese policeman and his minions came to drag her father along. Her mother first hid her husband and pointed to her daughter, saying “Is it possible to bring my daughter instead of my husband?” At that, the minions deceitfully said, “If so, she will be served with shiny-white rice and a good pair of rubber shoes.” And then the girl was tagged along to the detachment of forced comfort women. To live with her 8 children, the girl’s mother hid her husband and had to point to his oldest daughter, to be sad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was the painfully poor reality of the countryside at the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Though this lady is over 80 and not far from dying, she speaks out mixed words of ‘love and hatred’ that she still doesn’t want to see her father and mother. Thousands or 10 thousands members of usually 15-to-20-year-old flowerlike virgins on the Chosun Peninsula were forcedly dragged away to battlefields and become victims under the pretence(?) of heightening Japanese troops’ fighting spirit who were at war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And then came the liberation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the ferry homeward bound from Japan, there were full of so many persons with so many stories in their heart. Across the blue sea of the Korea Straits, they endured seasickness longing for their home in the motherland and their beloved family. Soil-bared hillsides, ragged roofs of straw-thatched cottages, famished young children and his siblings... The long-cherished homeland back before them in years, there was yet nothing changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, even if forced to be drafted into slave work to be injured, or into battlefields to get their legs lost, no matter what other people might think, men could somehow manage to return home in their family’s hospitality in their motherland’s bosom, but then women was in a different situation. Since trodden after trodden by soldier after soldier enough to get their body demolished, their situation was hard to be accepted by the Chosunese folks who were under the influence of Confucianism. Because of who and because of what was of little matter in their eyes. They were just sources of family shame and humiliation for fear others might know, although the women were actually so pitiable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘If dead in battlefields without coming back,’ they might have been not less than forgotten entities in their families’ minds. Rather, in front of the eyes, the ladies remained as if ambiguous leftovers that couldn’t be killed or saved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The situation the former comfort women suffered was, the land of home they returned with yearning so much at the bow of homecoming boat now turned into a “bitter land of gall ” that disserts them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might be disinterested as this matter is others,’ but please suppose it be yours. If they had been a member or an aunt in your family, you would have kept it a secret for fear neighbors should know. It is former comfort women who were in their situation desolate with their dream of life broken because of the motherland, and had to be once again deserted by even his home village and family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Failing to keep &lt;strong&gt;this land&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the virgins of &lt;strong&gt;this land&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;trodden on the &lt;strong&gt;other land&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;came back to &lt;strong&gt;this land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;But &lt;strong&gt;this land&lt;/strong&gt; again looked away from them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now they are 70~90 years old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nothing has rewarded them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Words and deeds of Prime Minister Koizumi (Abe Premier as of 2007) as well as Japanese Textbooks that have tried to deny even the entities of the comfort women who was forcedly victimized in the Greater East Asia War that Japan was the culprit of... They are the infamous offences that maliciously hinder anywhere the vestiges of former comfort women who are still alive in Korea China Philippines as well and testify the history of indescribable disgrace in the past days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Despite even now confessing the past sin and apologizing for it on the national level is the least reward they could offer for these forced comfort women (grandmothers by now) victimized by the Japanese Government’s wrong policy the politicians committed during the past days, yet even this is what they disregarded. So even till they breathed their last, their ‘bitter sorrowful lives’ have not been acknowledged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To add a remark, ‘Itaewon’ as well is a place and name that began this way.&lt;br /&gt;Just, what is different is it traces back to the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is said, Itaewon had the ‘Unjongsa Temple,’ where only nuns dwelt in religious austerities. During the aggression, Japanese invaders came all the way to Old Seoul and were stationed at Yongsan, randomly raping the ‘Buddhist nuns of Unjongsa Temple’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other ladies, who were raped, either killed themselves, or tried to abort every way possible, or discarded their newly born before others knew, or otherwise let their new-born babies overturned to death. Yet the life-loving nuns could not dare to, so they had to give birth to their babies and bring up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As Japanese invaders are run away from Old Seoul, the returned Royal Court had to agonize over the issue of the babies born due to the raping by the Japanese invaders. Subsequently, the Royal Court decided not to punish the women including ‘Unjongsa’ nuns who had to be delivered of babies of Japanese invaders, and to build a nursery to nurse the babies, it is known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After war, it is said people called this dwelling place of nuns ‘It-ae-won’ by using I of different, Tae of pregnant and Won of temple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That is, the beginning of the place-name ‘Itaewon’ is from the dumbfounding(?) word origin that means ‘a temple impregnated by alien cusses.’ Itaewon itself is the name which left women ‘a biggest bitter sadness.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By and by at the time of King Hyojong, a pear farms settles in. Because they built a ‘post-town inn’ where passengers stopped in at the area raising many pears, they changed it into a different Chinese character set of I-tae-won by using I of pear, Tae of big and Won of temple. Thus, the present name ‘Itaewon,’ holding the connotation of a pear growing temple, is what was changed midway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What the history on this land is...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man’s history is the history of the land as well.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Isaiah 62:1~5 the likening of Israel’s history to the land, and by ‘giving comfort to the land,’ is proclamation of the message giving hope to the homecoming citizens who are in discouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;B.C. 586, sovereignty being snatched away to Babylon, the king and influential leaders were draggled to Babylon as captives. 538 B.C. when Babylon’s sovereignty was turned to Persia, part of the Israelite prisoners come to return home 537 B.C.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though these returned citizens started to build a new Temple(Ezra 5:14~16), yet for some reason, building the temple stopped to move forward. To consult Haggai, building the Temple is resumed around 520 B.C.(Haggai 1:12~14). At length, they consecrate the Temple 515 B.C., which the returned citizens had begun to build since 537 or 536 B.C.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The situation of about this 20 years between 537 and 512 B.C. is not written elaborately in the Bible. But guessing is possible that during the period, the returned citizens suffered troubles of lives with various issues around (see Nehemiah). The returned citizens in the situation needed something that might encourage and comfort them. By proclaiming salvation of Isaiah 62:1~5, the Prophet encourages the returned citizens in such situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The consolation of Isaiah 62:1~5 has hope inside, on and about the content that it encourages the homecoming of the people still in foreign lands, not only the citizens returned to the land of Palestine. This promise of salvation is towards all Israelites as well as the returned citizens. In our country likewise, such as ‘To The Land Of Hope’ and ‘The Spring Of My Young Home’ were the public songs with such character, in the subsequent periods of disturbance across 8.15 Liberation of Korea, the Korean War, and the early 60ies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Under the Japanese colony and in the Korean War, our country as well had many people see their land of motherland not as value for investment but as the foundation for national life, and give theirs all away to redeem this land, it is said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Israel in the Bible saw the land as absolutely that which belongs to their God of Yahweh (see Leviticus 25:23(exp.), Deuteronomy 19:14, 1 Kings 21:3). There are many times that God and Israel are represented as if husband and wife or father and son.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A step further, today’s text Isaiah 62:1~5 depicts ‘God who marries the land.’ The condition of its sovereignty lost to and trodden by another country is likened to ‘a spinster,’ ‘a deserted woman’ or ‘a woman left behind abandoned’ as in the verse 4. But this is the past Israel. For the present returned Israel, it is the proclamation of God that He will call the land ‘Hephzibah - My Joy is In Her,’ or ‘Beulah – a Married Woman’ (see Hosea Chapter 1). It is the proclamation that God’s mercy and compassion will embrace not only people but also the silent land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;‘Hephzibah’ and ‘Beulah’ have such meanings as follows: For the citizens who returned 537 B.C., the meaning is, God of Yahweh will look after and care for the land that they are to truly have feet on. And for Israelites who are hesitating still in foreign lands, the meaning is, “The past disasters no more exist. Hereafter, Zion will be downtrodden no more. Rather, Like a torch shining in the darkness, I will look after and lead Jerusalem so that it may stand out brilliantly all over the world. So don’t wave or hesitate about returning home” (Isaiah 62:11).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today’s text has, rather than in the words proclaiming, but has a more significance in that it proclaimed a new promise in times of complete lack of common objective and thought in deep discouragement after the Exile period.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusion now comes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the eyes of God’s people, the Exile period had gone. But the period of salvation didn’t dawn yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The promise of salvation written in Isaiah(40~) did not certainly materialized. Especially, the details described of the salvation period to come still didn’t come to pass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, faith is like this; “The Israelites groaned and cried out in their hardships, and God of Yahweh bestowed salvation upon them. Faith is that one acknowledges and is patient that God is alive and acting in the history indeed in the process of bestowing the salvation” (see Exodus 2:23~25).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isaiah 61:1~3 is reinterpreted and proclaimed at Luke 4:16.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here one can see that, even though the proclamation of the book of Isaiah was not fulfilled in the ,Prophets’ period, yet with persevering vitality, it somehow gets more and more fulfilled. The reason why we repeat to a boredom to study the history of Israel in sermons is so that we may learn their ‘persevering vitality’ through the history of hardships Israel underwent. It is because we can learn that, only in the process of Israel’s keeping the persevering vitality, the living God are acting in the history in His words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The bible is working amid the principles of dynamics and paradox.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What is important is, today’s text affects us contemporary people ‘through the history of ‘reinterpretation.’ In the event that the words of a royal priesthood, a holy nation and a chosen people (compare Exodus 19:6 and 1 Peter 2:9~10) are applied to you one by one, “Hephzibah” in today’s text Isaiah 62:1~5 can be interpreted into “My Joy is In You.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dear believers, you are a chosen member of people. 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"나의 기쁨이 너에게 있다." &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. ‘My Joy is In You’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 2001년 8월 – 광복절을 기념하며....&lt;br /&gt;- Commemorating the Independence Day - August 2001&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 이사야 62장 1~5절의 ‘헵시바’ 와 ‘뿔라’ 에 대한 소고&lt;br /&gt;- ‘Hephzibah’ and ‘Beulah’ in Isaiah 62:1~5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;이사야 62장 1~5절&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;1 나는 시온의 공의가 빛 같이, 예루살렘의 구원이 횃불 같이 나타나도록 시온을 위하여 잠잠하지 아니하며 예루살렘을 위하여 쉬지 아니할 것인즉 2 열방이 네 공의를, 열왕이 다 네 영광을 볼 것이요 너는 여호와의 입으로 정하실 새 이름으로 일컬음이 될 것이며 3 너는 또 여호와의 손의 아름다운 면류관, 네 하나님의 손의 왕관이 될 것이라 4 다시는 너를 버리운 자라 칭하지 아니하며 다시는 네 땅을 황무지라 칭하지 아니하고 오직 너를 헵시바라 하며 네 땅을 쀼ㄹ라(뿔라)라 하리니 이는 여호와께서 너를 기뻐하실 것이며 네 땅이 결혼한바가 될 것임이라 5 마치 청년이 처녀와 결혼함 같이 네 아들들이 너를 취하겠고 신랑이 신부를 기뻐함 같이 네 하나님이 너를 기뻐하시리라 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rm37UN4zwuI/AAAAAAAAAJo/LzZdNRegkbw/s1600-h/1-Wedding.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074988679860306658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rm37UN4zwuI/AAAAAAAAAJo/LzZdNRegkbw/s400/1-Wedding.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'세계의 화약고'라는 별명이 붙은 중동지역은, 해당국가들 뿐만이 아니고 온 세계의 관심과 긴장을 고조시킵니다. 중동 지역의 국지전과는 이해관계가 없는 나라들도 '원유 수입과 그에 따른 세계 경제의 여파'로 인해 어쩔 수 없이 중동지역의 상황에 관심을 가지고 지켜보게 됩니다. 중동지역에서도 가장 빈번하게 충돌하는 국가는 이스라엘과 팔레스타인자치지구(P.N.A)와의 대립입니다. 이스라엘과 팔레스타인자치지구(P.N.A) 모두 요르단강 서안지구를 자기들이 조상 때부터 물려받은 땅이라고 주장합니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;양쪽의 주장 모두가 맞습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;출애굽과 광야의 생활을 거쳐 가나안 땅에 입성 한 이후 - 사사시대를 거쳐 - 통일 왕국과 분열 왕국시기를 보내고 - 바벨론 포로기와 더불어 - 귀향 민을 통한 유대종교의 재확립, 알렉산더와 그 후예들에 의한 헬라의 식민지가 되었고 - 후에는 로마의 식민지를 거칠 때까지 - 요단강의 서안지구, 지금의 팔레스타인자치지구는 ‘이스라엘의 땅’이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A.D 70년 이후 예루살렘 성전과 성벽이 로마의 디도 장군 지휘아래 짓밟히고, 이스라엘인들은 다시금 로마의 통치권 내의 영역으로 뿔뿔이 흩어졌습니다. 이스라엘이 흩어진 자리에는 오랜 세월 동안 사람들이 모여 들어와 살기 시작했습니다. 그것이 지금의 팔레스타인자치지구입니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;1945년 이스라엘이 '시온주의 깃발아래' 예루살렘으로 모여들고, 1948년 연합군 군정 통치 밑에서 지금의 이스라엘을 약 2500여년 만에 건국하였습니다. 드디어 2500여년 만에 고난과 굴욕의 역사 위에 이스라엘 국기를 꽂았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;현 이스라엘이 탄생한 것은 1948년 이후입니다. 그들이 사용하는 국기 가운데 있는 별 모양의 상징은 - 흰 바탕에 - ‘다윗의 별’이라 하여 그 옛날 다윗왕의 영광을 재건하려고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;다윗의 영광을 실현시키자는 과업 아래 현재의 이스라엘이 1948년 이후 수립되고, 영토가 확정될 때 그 땅에는 2000년 가까이 살던 주민들이 있었습니다. 옛날 신명기나 여호수아서에 나타난 것처럼 “호흡이 있는 것은 진멸하라”는 명령만을 따를 수가 없는 것이 근대에 이어 현대의 전쟁 윤리인 동시에 국제사회의 윤리입니다. 1948년 새로운 이스라엘 ‐ 다윗의 영광을 꿈꾸며 국기조차 다윗의 별을 내걸었지만, 그들이 세계 각국에서 고국 땅을 찾아 왔을 때는 이미 그곳을 점령하고 살던 팔레스타인 사람들과의 땅에 대한 소유권문제가 남아 있었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;팔레스타인자치지구의 사람들도 할 말은 있었습니다. 어느 시대, 어느 나라이건, 주권 잃고 국민들이 뿔뿔이 흩어지면 그 땅에는 자연히 다른 사람들이 살게 됩니다. 그들도 그렇게 2000년 가까이 그곳에 정착하여 자손 대대로 살아왔습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그런데 어느 날 갑자기 “자기들이 옛날의 이스라엘 자손이고 땅 임자니까, 너희들은 다른 곳으로 가라“고 내 쫓으려고 합니다. 10, 20년도 아니고 2000년 가까이 동안 살던 곳인데...그 땅의 주인은 누구이겠습니까?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;구약의 창세기, 출애굽기, 레위기, 민수기, 신명기, 여호수아, 사사기를 읽다 보면 눈에 가장 많이 띄는 단어가 자손과 땅입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;창 12;1 내가 네게 보여 줄 땅으로 가라.&lt;br /&gt;창 50:24 아브라함과 이삭과 야곱에게 맹세하신 땅에 이르게 하시리라.&lt;br /&gt;레 20:24 땅 곧 젖과 꿀이 흐르는 땅을 너희에게 주어 유업을 삼게 하리라.&lt;br /&gt;출 23:30 그 땅을 기업으로 얻을 때까지&lt;br /&gt;신 19:14 네 하나님 여호와께서 네게 주어 차지하게 하시는 땅 곧 네 소유가 된 기업의 땅에서 조상이 정한 네 이웃의 경계를 옮기지 말지니라.&lt;br /&gt;신 28:11 네게 주리라고 네 조상들에게 맹세하신 땅에서&lt;br /&gt;수 1:4 광야와 이 레바논에서부터∼ 너희의 영토가 되리라.&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이외에도 성경의 수많은 곳에서 땅에 대한 약속이 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이스라엘과 팔레스타인자치지구 사람들에게 있어서 땅은 투자가치나 재산으로서의 땅의 개념이 아닙니다. 그들의 선조들이 살았고, 뼈를 묻고 자신들도 묻혀야 할 곳, 그리고 자손들에게 물려줘야 하는 ‘삶의 근본이며 뿌리’로서의 ‘땅에 대한 개념’입니다. 현대 세계에서는 전쟁이 줄어들었기 때문에 100년, 200년 전의 땅의 개념들이 많이 사라졌습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리나라 역시 그 중에 속할 때가 많습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;한일합방과 36년간의 일본에 의한 식민지시대, 1945년 해방과 곧 이어 남북분단, 6.25전쟁 때에는 이 땅의 수많은 청춘들, 혹은 애국지사들이 자신의 모든 것을 버리거나 뒤로 한 채 오로지 조국의 땅을 지키기 위해 자신을 불살랐습니다. 자신들의 삶뿐만이 아니고 선조와 후손의 근본을 지키기 위해서 있는 논, 밭 임야....목숨까지도 바치면서도 우리가 발 디디고 서 있는 이 땅을 지켜내었습니다. 그 대가가 국가에서 수여하는 훈장, 아니면 묘비의 이름 석자, 그보다 더 많은 이들이 이름 없는 어느 산골, 어느 벌판, 혹은 동남아의 어느 곳에서 죽었는지도 모릅니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;하지만 이들의 후손 중 많은 사람들이 생활고에 시달립니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;조국, 즉 이 땅을 지켜내기 위해서 가지고 있던 모든 재산을 내어주고, 자신의 몸뚱이까지 불사를 때는 가정과 국가 모두에게 충성(충실)을 할 수는 없었습니다. 그들이 그렇게 지키기 위해 애태웠던 조국은 해방을 맞고, 또는 전쟁은 멎었지만 그들에게 현실적으로 부딪친 것은 ‘삶의 문제’ 이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;자신의 모든 것을 내어 주었으니 남아 있는 재산이 없는 게 뻔합니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이 분들에게는 조국의 영광 뒤에 묻혀진 개인의 희생뿐만이 아니고 ‘자손의 고생까지’가 이분들에게 돌아온 몫이지만, 그분들이 죽을 때는 이런 것까지는 생각하지 못 했을 것입니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;현실에 적응 잘하는 사람들은 일본 식민지 아래서는 일본에 아부하고, 미군정시대 때는 미군정에 잘 보이고, 48년 이후에는 권력의 주된 세력인 자유당과 결탁했습니다. 덕분에 이들은 재산을 빼앗긴 것이 아니고 오히려 늘렸습니다. 그들의 자손들은 지혜로운(?) 조상을 둔 덕분에(!) 세상 편하게 잘 살고 있는 경우가 허다합니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이 땅이 무엇이 건데! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;한 부류는 자신의 목숨도 모자라서 부모, 자식들의 목숨까지도 버려가며 이 땅을 지키려고 발버둥쳤고, 한 부류는 세상 돌아가는 것을 남의 나라 일처럼 구경만 했고, 한 부류는 기득권이 바뀔 때 마다 재빠르게 처신해서 자손들까지도 대대손손 편하게 지낼 수 있는 막대한 재산을 축적하고.... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;땅을 민족의 근본으로 보느냐. 아니면 재산 가치로 보느냐에 따른 각자의 인생 행로였습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rm37Cd4zwtI/AAAAAAAAAJg/Ym9LIcoZsig/s1600-h/12-40-20.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074988374917628626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rm37Cd4zwtI/AAAAAAAAAJg/Ym9LIcoZsig/s400/12-40-20.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오늘도 정신대 할머니들이 거론되고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;어느 할머니는 16살에 일본순사와 그 사람들의 앞잡이가 아버지를 징용으로 끌고 가기 위해 잡으러 오자. 어머니가 아버지는 피신시키고 16살 먹은 자신을 가리켜 “남편 대신 데려가면 안 되겠느냐” 해서 아버지 대신 “흰 밥에 고무신 사 준다" 는 ‘일본 앞잡이들의 뀜’에 빠져 정신대에 끌려갔다고 합니다. 그 어머니는 8명의 자녀들과 살기위해 남편을 피신시키고 남편대신 제일 큰 딸을 지목해야만 했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;지겹도록 가난한 당시의 농촌 현실이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; 이제는 80살이 넘어 죽을 날이 얼마 남지 않았는데도 이 할머니는 아직도 당신의 아버지와 어머니는 보고 싶지 않다는 '애증'이 섞인 말을 토해냅니다. 조선반도에서 대개가 15-20살 정도의 꽃다운 처녀가 수천 명, 혹은 수만 명이 전쟁을 하는 군인들의 사기를 돋우기 위해서(?) 강제로 전쟁터로 끌려가 서 희생물이 되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그리고 해방이 되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;일본에서 조국 땅으로 돌아오는 귀국선에는 갖가지 사연을 가슴에 품은 온갖 사람들로 가득 찼습니다. 현해탄의 푸른 바다 위에서도 조국의 땅, 가족의 품을 그리워하며 배 멀미를 견뎌냈습니다. 벌거벗은 산등허리, 초라한 초가지붕, 배고파하는 어린 자식이나 동생들..... 몇 년 만에 다시 밟는 그리운 조국 땅이지만 달라진 것은 없었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그러나 남자들은 징용으로 끌려가서 노역을 하다가 다쳤거나 전쟁터에서 다리를 잃었어도 개의치 않고 조국의 품. 가족의 환대를 받으며 집안으로 들어갈 수가 있었지만 여자들은 달랐습니다. 이미 군인들에게 짓밟힐 만큼 짓밟혀서 망신창이가 된 몸, 유교적 사상에 물든 조선 사람들에게는 받아들이기 힘든 딸이었습니다. 누구 때문에, 뭣 때문에는 따질 문제가 아니었습니다. 그저 현실적으로 불쌍하지만, 남이 알면 집안 망신시킬 딸일 뿐이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오히려 ‘전쟁터에서 죽어 오지나 않았으면’ 가슴에라도 묻고 살아가겠지만, 눈앞에 나타난 딸은 죽일 수도, 살릴 수도 없는 존재로 남아 있었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;귀국선 뱃머리에서 그렇게 그리며 찾은 고향의 땅은 이제는 자신을 버리는 ‘쓰디 쓴 소태의 땅’으로 변한 게 정신대 할머니들이 겪은 상황이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;여러분들도 이런 이야기고 남의 일이니까 편하지, 여러분 집안의 친 할머니 혹은 이모, 고모라면 이웃들이 알까 봐 쉿-쉿 했을 것입니다. 조국 때문에 인생의 꿈이 무너진 것도 한이 맺히는데 고향과 가족한테도 또 한번 버림을 받아야 했던 이들이 정신대 할머니들 이었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;이 땅을&lt;/strong&gt; 지키지 못해&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;이 땅의&lt;/strong&gt; 처녀들이&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;남의 땅에서&lt;/strong&gt; 짓밟히고&lt;br /&gt;다시금 &lt;strong&gt;이 땅에&lt;/strong&gt; 돌아왔건만,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;이 땅은&lt;/strong&gt; 다시금 그녀들을 외면했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;이제 그분들은 70-90살의 연령이 되었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그 무엇으로도 그분들에 대한 보상은 없습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;일본이 전쟁의 주범이었던 대동아 전쟁에서 희생당해야만 했던 위안부들의 존재조차도 부인하려는 일본의 교과서 문제나 고이즈미 총리(2007년 현재는 아베 신조 총리)의 말이나 행동은 한국의 정신대 할머니들뿐이 아니고, 중국, 필리핀등지에서 아직도 살아서 지난날의 오욕의 역사를 말해주는 정신대 할머니들에게는 그분들의 흔적을 아무 곳에서도 발붙이지 못하게 하는 파렴치한 행동인 것입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;일본의정치인들이 지난시절에 저질러졌던 일본정부의 잘못된 정책으로 인해 희생당한 전쟁 위안부(정신대 할머니들)에게 지금이라도 과거의 잘못을 인정하고 국가차원에서 사과하는 것이 이분들한테 해 줄 수 있는 최소한의 보상인데도, 이것마저 외면하는 통에 마지막 죽은 순간까지도 이분들의 ‘한 많은 삶’은 인정을 받지 못하고 있습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;덧붙이면 '이태원'도 이렇게 시작된 장소요, 지명입니다.&lt;br /&gt;다만 시대가 임진왜란으로 거슬러 올라가는 것이 다를 뿐입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이태원에는 ‘운종사’라는 여승만이 수도하는 절이 있었다고 합니다. 임진왜란 때 왜적이 거침없이 한양까지 올라와 용산에 주둔하고 머물면서  ‘운종사의 비구니’들을 마구 겁탈했습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;다른 아녀자들은 겁탈을 당한 후에 스스로 목숨을 끊거나, 갖은 방법으로 낙태를 시키거나, 낳은 애를 남들 모르게 버리거나, 그것도 아니면 갓 낳은 애를 엎어서라도 죽였지만, 생명을 중시하는 비구니들은 그러지도 못하고 아이를 낳아서 기를 수밖에 없었습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;왜군이 서울에서 도망가자 다시 서울로 돌아온 조정은 왜군들에게 겁탈을 당해서 낳은 아이들 문제로 고심해야 했습니다. 마침내 조정에서는 ‘운종사’ 여승들을 포함해 왜적의 아이를 낳은 부녀자들을 벌하지 않기로 하고, 이곳에 보육원을 지어 아이들을 기르게 했다고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;그리고 전쟁이 끝난 후에  사람‘들은 이 비구니들이 기거하는 곳을, 다를 이(異), 애밸 태(胎), 사원 원(院)을 써서 이태원’이라고 불렀다고 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;즉 ‘이태원‘ 이라는 지명의 시작은 ’이국 놈들의 애를 밴 (여승들의)사원‘이라는 기막힌(?) 어원에서부터 시작한 셈입니다. 이태원이라는 지명자체가 여인들에게 ‘크나큰 한을 남겨준 이름’입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그러다가 효종 때 이곳에 배 밭이 들어서고, 배나무를 많이 재배하는 곳에  여행자의 숙소인 ‘역원’을 지었다고 해서 지금의 배리(梨), 클 태(泰), 사원 원(院)‘의 뜻을 가진 이태원’이라는 이름으로 한자표기를 바꾸었다고 합니다. 지금의 배리(梨), 클 태(泰), 사원 원(院)을 쓰는 ‘이태원’은 중간에 바뀐 이름입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;이 땅의 역사가 무엇이 건대...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;인간의 역사는 그 땅의 역사이기도 합니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rm36td4zwsI/AAAAAAAAAJY/myin_OiUOwA/s1600-h/1-dress_7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074988014140375746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rm36td4zwsI/AAAAAAAAAJY/myin_OiUOwA/s400/1-dress_7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl02wmDbRjI/AAAAAAAAAIA/IKnEZ5KIXaY/s1600-h/12-40-19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070268963965584946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl02wmDbRjI/AAAAAAAAAIA/IKnEZ5KIXaY/s400/12-40-19.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이사야 62:1-5 이스라엘의 역사를 땅에 비유하고 ‘그 땅을 위로 해 줌’으로써 실의에 찬 귀향 민들에게 희망을 주려는 메시지의 선포입니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;B.C 586년 바벨론에게 주권을 빼앗기고 왕과 이스라엘의 영향력 있던 지도자들이 바벨론에 포로로 잡혀갔습니다. 538년 바벨론의 주권이 페르시아에게 넘어가자 537년 이스라엘의 포로들 일부가 귀국하게 됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이들 귀향 민들은 새로운 성전을 짓기 시작했지만 (에스라 5.14‐16) 웬일인지 성전 짓는 일은 중단 됐습니다. 그리고 학개서를 보면 520년경에 성전 짓는 것이 재개됩니다(학개 1.12‐14) 결국 귀향 민들에 의해 B.C 537또는536년부터 짓기 시작한 성전을 B.C 515년에 봉헌됩니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;이 537년과 515년 사이 근 20년간의 상황이 성경에는 자세하게 기록되어 있지 않습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;하지만 이 기간동안 귀향 민들은 여러 가지 문제로 어려운 생활고를 겪은 것으로 추측됩니다. (참고 느헤미야 5장) 이런 귀향 민들은 격려하고 위안해주고 지켜줄 그 무엇이 필요했습니다. 예언자는 사 62:1-5의 구원을 선포함으로써 이 때의 상황 속에서 귀향 민들을 격려합니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;또 사 62:1-5절의 위로의 내용에는 팔레스타인 땅에 귀환한 귀향 민 뿐 아니고 아직도 외국에 남아있는 사람들의 귀환을 독려하는 내용을 기본으로 하는 희망이 담겨 있습니다. 이 구원 약속은 귀향 민 뿐 아니고 이스라엘 전체를 대상으로 합니다. 우리나라 경우에도 8.15해방과 6.25전쟁, 60년 초의 정치적 혼란으로 이어지던 시대에 '희망의 나라' '고향의 봄' 등은 이러한 성격을 뛴 대중을 위한 노래들이었습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;우리나라도 일제 식민지 아래에서 또는 6.25전쟁 당시 많은 사람들이 조국의 땅을 투자의 가치가 아니고 민족의 삶의 근본으로 보고, 이 땅을 찾기 위해 자신의 모든 것은 내주었다고 했습니다.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;성경에 나오는 이스라엘에게 있어서 땅은 철저히 야훼, 하나님께 속한 것이라고 보았습니다. (레25:23, 신19:14. 왕상21:3, 특히 레25;23참고) 하나님과 이스라엘은 부부관계 또는 부자관계로 묘사 할 때가 많습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;오늘의 본문 사 62:1-5에서는 한 발 더 나아가 ‘그 땅과 결혼하는 하나님’을 묘사합니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;남의 나라에 주권을 빼앗기고 짓밟힌 것을 4절 '독신녀' '버림받은 여자 ', '버림 받은 채로 내버려 둔 여인'으로 비유하고 있습니다. 하지만 이것은 과거의 이스라엘입니다. 현재의 귀향한 이스라엘에게는 그 땅을 "나의 기쁨이 그(녀)에게 있다 –햅시바" 또는 "결혼한 여자-뿔라'"라 하시겠다는 하나님의 선포입니다. (호세아 1장 참고). 하나님의 자비와 긍휼히 사람에게 뿐이 아니고 침묵하는 땅까지도 포용하시겠다는 선포입니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;'헵시바'와 '뿔라'는 537년 귀향한 귀향 민들에게는 진정으로 자기들이 발붙이고 살아야 할 그 땅을 야훼 하나님께서 돌보아주시고, 사랑하겠다는 뜻이고, 아직도 타국에 남아서 귀환하기를 주저하는 이스라엘에게는 “과거의 재난은 더 이상 없다. 시온이 짓밟히는 일은 이제는 없을 것이고, 오히려 어둠에 빛나는 횃불 같이 예루살렘은 세계만방에 찬란하게 그 모습을 드러내도록 내가 돌봐주고 이끌어 줄 것이니, 너희는 귀환하는 것을 망설이고 주저하지 말라”(사 62:11)는 의미가 됩니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;오늘의 본문은 선포하는 말에 있다기 보다는, 포로기 이후 깊은 절망에 휩싸여 공동의 목표와 사상이 완전히 결여 된 시대에 새롭게 약속을 선포하였다는 것에 더 큰 의의가 있습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;결론을 맺겠습니다&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;하나님 백성이 보기에 포로기가 끝나도 구원시대는 동터오지 않았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이사야서에 기록된(40장 이하) 구원 약속은 분명히 실현되지 않았습니다. 특히 앞으로 다가올 구원의 시대를 묘사한 세부 내용들의 더더욱 실현되지 않았습니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;그러나 믿음은 “고난 중에 울부짖었더니 야훼 하나님이 구원을 베풀었다. 그 구원을 베푸는 과정에서 비로소 하나님이 역사 속에서 살아서 활동하신다는 것을 인지하고 인내하는 것”입니다. (출애굽기 2장 23절-25절 참고)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이사야61:1-3절이 누가복음 4:16절에 다시 재해석 되어 선포됩니다.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;이것은 이사야서의 선포가 예언자의 시대에는 성취되지 않았더라도 끈질긴 생명력을 가지고 비로소 성취되어 가는 것을 볼 수 있습니다. 우리가 설교 속에서 이스라엘 역사를 지겨울 정도로 반복하여 공부하는 것은 이스라엘이 겪었던 고난의 역사를 통해 그들의 '끈질긴 생명력'을 배우는데 있습니다. 이스라엘이 끈질기게 생명력을 이어가는 과정 속에서 비로소 생명의 하나님이 말씀으로 역사 안에서 활동하시는 것을 배울 수 있기 때문입니다.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;성경은 역동성의 원리와 역리성의 원리 가운데서 우리에게 역사하십니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;중요한 것은 오늘의 본문이 '재해석'의 역사를 통하여 오늘을 사는 우리에게까지 영향을 발휘한다는 것입니다. 왕같이 존귀한 제사장, 거룩한 나라, 선택 받은 백성이라는 말씀을(출애굽기19:6과 베드로전서 2:9-10비교) 여러분 한명 한 명한테 적용 될 때는 오늘의 본문 이사야 62:1-5의 말씀 중 “헵시바” 는 바로 당신에게 “나의 기쁨이 너에게 있다” 로 해석 할 수 있습니다. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;여러분! 여러분은 선택 받은 백성 입니다. 자부심을 갖고 그 나라의 백성이 되십시오!&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome visitors to My personal homepage,... &lt;a href="http://www.mryoum.com/main.html"&gt;http://www.mryoum.com/main.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl02h2DbRiI/AAAAAAAAAH4/QU_8A-yhCdA/s1600-h/12-40-20-7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070268710562514466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl02h2DbRiI/AAAAAAAAAH4/QU_8A-yhCdA/s400/12-40-20-7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl02RWDbRhI/AAAAAAAAAHw/J0qzTizFZIc/s1600-h/12-40-20-3-koizumi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070268427094672914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rl02RWDbRhI/AAAAAAAAAHw/J0qzTizFZIc/s400/12-40-20-3-koizumi.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14995405-2403361814698250237?l=ministeryoum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/feeds/2403361814698250237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=14995405&amp;postID=2403361814698250237' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/2403361814698250237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14995405/posts/default/2403361814698250237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ministeryoum.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post.html' title='나의 기쁨이 너에게 있다.'/><author><name>Minister Youm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14122167862003847487</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='23' src='http://www.mryoum.com/bbs/data/gallery01/34_9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/Rm37w94zwwI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/N6UpqRphP2Y/s72-c/1-ZION-9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14995405.post-327312581476849292</id><published>2007-04-30T03:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-27T17:42:33.926-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Heavens and a New Earth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RjXI3ML34vI/AAAAAAAAAHo/5XyyF_-gDYQ/s1600-h/1-1-new+Heaven19.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059170606910006002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RjXI3ML34vI/AAAAAAAAAHo/5XyyF_-gDYQ/s400/1-1-new+Heaven19.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RjXIh8L34uI/AAAAAAAAAHg/hkZqbFkaHfE/s1600-h/1-1-New+Heaven18.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059170241837785826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RjXIh8L34uI/AAAAAAAAAHg/hkZqbFkaHfE/s400/1-1-New+Heaven18.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. New Heavens and a New Earth &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9."새 하늘과 새 땅"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RjXIBcL34tI/AAAAAAAAAHY/-258_jm7TwM/s1600-h/1-1-New+Heaven14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059169683492037330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RjXIBcL34tI/AAAAAAAAAHY/-258_jm7TwM/s400/1-1-New+Heaven14.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- July 2001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- 2001년 7월&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- About ‘the New Heavens and a New Earth’ in Isaiah 65, 66&lt;br /&gt;- ‘The New Heavens and the New Earth,’ the Song of suffering righteous persons&lt;br /&gt;- 이사야 65장, 66장의 ‘새 하늘과 새 땅’ 이란?&lt;br /&gt;- 고난 받은 의인들의 노래 ‘새 하늘과 새 땅’ &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Isaiah 65: 17~25&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;17 "Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. 19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more. 20 "Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed. 21 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands. 23 They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them. 24 Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent's food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain," says the LORD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RjXHocL34sI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/4QIEaVniNlk/s1600-h/1-1-New+Heaven15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059169253995307714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uASPvqvJB2k/RjXHocL34sI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/4QIEaVniNlk/s400/1-1-New+Heaven15.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;October 1895, the intrigue by the Japanese Government made their hired Japanese men brutally assassinate the Empress Myeongseong, ‘Queen Min’ (The Eulmi Incident). In this precarious situation, what the incoming civilization-oriented pro-Japanese cabinet of Kim Hongjip first attempted was Danballyeong, or the Ordinance Prohibiting Traditional Topknots, or the Act of Short Haircut, which was proclaimed on November 15th of 1895, the 32rd year of the Emperor Gojong. The command was ‘Cut the hair topknots of adult men and discontinue wearing headbands.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the influence of Confucianism, the Choseon Society at the time was where the folks considered ‘tying their long-grown hair in a topknot the symbol of filial piety to their parents, or the essence of human duties.’ The people subject adamantly opposed to the Danballyeong - the Bobbed Haircut Act - by taking it for not a simple cutoff of their hair but a serious molestation on their living bodies. Nationally pervaded by the recognition that the topknot-cutting act was an enforcement taken after Japan’s, it led to anti-Japanese sentiment. The anti-Japanese atmosphere incurred by the high-handed order prohibiting topknots gave rise to patriotic royal armies at various corners of the country, triggering a decisive detonator for royal army movement, as did the Eulmi Incident. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If it were today, it might not matter whether how short or how dyed their hair were in accordance to one’s personal freewill and taste. However, as back then as 1895, the very idea of having their precious hair and topknots cut off felt as shockingly shameful as the world turned towards opposite way. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a result, the Kim Hongjip Cabinet’s coercion of people into obeying the regulation prohibiting topknots (Danballyeong) which was pronounced with no hard facts of the time taken into account was faced with resistance of the subjects and Confucian scholars, losing its public basis to carry out reforms of government affairs. Instead, the incoming pro-Russia cabinet of Yi Beomjin, Yi Wanyong, Yun Chiho, etc. withdrew the Haircut Act to win the disarrayed hearts of the people. With their hairdos trusted to their personal free will, the Danballyeong finally came to the end of the chapter. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the process of modernization, the ‘forced short haircut’ was a common fate which East Asian countries had to suffer. With the Meiji Restoration, Japan cut their Chonmage(traditional Samurai topknot), a symbol of chivalry, and wore Western clothes. As a symbol of rejecting the style of Ch’ing dynasty in pursuit of modernization, China cut their traditional ‘Chinese queue(pigtail),’ a symbol of Ch’ing dynasty. Yet, different from ‘Chonmage’ and ‘Chinese queue,’ our ‘Danballyeong,’ the command ‘Joseon(the Korean Empire)’s topknot be cut,’ had a latent variable of ‘Japan’s invasion on Joseon.’ That’s why the ‘forced short hairdo’ left a scar in the history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At ‘the Japanese annexation of Korea’ 1910, the Korean Empire(Joseon) lost its sovereignty to Japan and fell to a colony of Japan. Because of politicians’ blunders, the sovereignty of the country was lost, and yet the ‘patriotic spirit’ of Chosen people was the last to be lost.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At this time, what Japan did was enforcement of the ‘Danballyeong’ once again. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At the time, some of high-class officials, intellectuals and men of wealth in Old Seoul were sagacious(?) enough to quickly accept the colonial policies of the Japanese government and was changing their appearances to the conditions of those days. Although sovereignty was taken over, it was the same land, the same folks as yesterday.... According to what one thought, there would have been a lot of their ways to live on. Old Seoul turned into another name of Old Seoul, the name of Joseon turned into the Korean Empire, and Japan founded their government-general for colonial rule. Ironically and virtually, most of them survived in high government offices whose names only changed. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As Joseon turned into the name of the Korean Empire, the Western things began to enter in a degree. Very few persons who were called ‘men in Western clothes’ took the place of traditional dress into Western clothes and took the place of traditional topknots into glossily-oiled bobbed hairdos. But then it was in one’s voluntary accordance to a changing situation within and without the nation, not by enforcement of government (Note: the execution of haircut order by Kim Hongjip Cabinet was too mandatory, while the haircut issue in pro-Russia cabinet was rather voluntary).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, to take away not only Joseon’s sovereignty but also the patriotic spirit after 1910 Japanese annexation of Korea, Japan shouted for ‘Naeseon Ilche (=Japan and Korea are One Entity)’ and began oppression over Joseon. ‘Danballyeong(=the Topknot Cutting Edict)’ too was out of the policy of elimination of patriotic spirit rather than modernization of Joseon. Modern society thinks little of how to wear their hair and clothes in fashion, but until early 1900, all the countries as well as Joseon had lived in the food, clothing and shelter of their own living styles and conditions. So, different from fashion of now, Joseonese outfit or dressing style of that time was inseparable from racial sentiments of Joseon. 1910 ‘Topknot Cutting Edict’ was ‘spiritual crackdown’ by Japan to change the sentiments the Korean had. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the same area of Far East, China, Korea and Japan have each own individuality in dress and outfit. Topknots alone, the shape of Joseon is distinctly different from that of China and Japan. By cutting the topknots representative of racial trait and changing traditional clothes into Japanese common costume, they tried to forcibly unify Koreans’ outward appearance into the ‘Naeseon Ilche(=Japan and Korea are One Entity)’ Japan shouted for. It was an outrageous outlet of greed that outward appearance first be into one nation regardless of Japan or Joseon. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At this time, high officials and wealthy intellectuals of Old Seoul conformed easily to the current state of affairs. Namely, they sagaciously went for the current of the times. Yet, Confucian scholars in local provinces refused to compromise. Our country’s traditional sentiments has taken it that one of the last to be done was a child dying in front of his parents and killing themselves. The folks who had lived their entire lives in this way of thinking were faced with the ‘Danballyeong,’ or the Topknot Cutting Edict. Here and there were appeals and entreaties flying in. There were some cases where they even committed suicide.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the eyes of the civilized gentlemen in Old Seoul at the time, they were merely ‘stupid, hardheaded, slow-witted and self-opinionated oldsters.’ Yet, those who best endeavored to truly keep the ‘Spirit of Joseon’ were these scrupulous, close-minded and self-principled elders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Asked which persons are clever, one might refer to persons who chance what is going on and know how to change their appearances and ideology in accordance to the changing society. But then, asked who have been faithful to the Spirit of Korea, it is those rural Confucian scholars who lived in anonymity in the hinterland who died against the Japan’s colonial policy in the time of ‘Danballyeong’ edict. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The bible has much in common.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BC 597, Babylon invaded the Kingdom of Judah (Zedekiah, last king of Judah the South Kingdom, BC597~586). Babylon set fire on and destroyed buildings in Jerusalem, killed folks, and even demolished the castle and the Temple (see Jeremiah 52, Lamentations). When the Babylon army withdrew, they captured very important persons in the country such as the King of Israel, high officials in the government, Scribes and high priests (see 1 Kings 25, Jeremiah 52:24~30). Bible writers put emphasis on important characters of the government like King Jehoiachin and Zedekiah. 2 King 25:21 expresses this situation as ‘Judah went into captivity, away from her land.’&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now, there are numerous people remaining on the land of Judah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On the land of Palestine, poor peasants and low-class priests alone remained (Jeremiah 52:16). The petty farmers left behind on the land are Israelite people, and even if chief priests - mostly low priests left behind - did their best in their duties, the Bible has no record about their lives, or is negative about them if any. Bible writer writes Israel’s history stopped at 586 B.C.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The writer found the context of history not from farmers and low priests who were left on the land farming and serving God but from King Jehoiachin, and dignitaries, Scribes and chief priests who were tagged along to Babylon 597 B.C. (including prisoners 586 B.C.). Ezekiel was one of prisoners in 597 B.C. and Nehemiah and Ezra are descendants of these prisoners held to Babylon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Look at the case of Korea as well. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Japan in colonial period of Korea tagged along the Crown Prince Yi Eun(posthumously King Yeong) to Japan at his age of 11, 1907, who were the son of King Gosong and who was supposed to be enthroned to the Korean Empire in succession to the last successor of Joseon king Emperor Sunsong. Afterward, out of three finally nominated Japanese Crown Princesses at the time, Japan intentionally forced him to marry Lady Yi Bangja who had been deprived of the right of Crown Princess after her being diagnosed ‘not capable of producing offspring, or her possible sterility,’ for the nominally plausible cause of so-called ‘Japan and Korea are One Entity.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To stop the seed of Yi Dynasty was Japan’s policy of marriage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By any chance if King Yeong(Yi Eun), the last Crown Prince of the Korean Empire and His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince ‘Yi Gu,’ the son of King Yeong and Lady Yi Bangja and the rightful successor to the Korean Empire had returned to his homeland at the age of 15 at 1945 liberation of Korea and if they the descendants of the Korean Empire in unison had shouted out ‘We are the legitimate descendants of Joseon,’ then, would the people, social leaders and fighters for national independence who would have been mutely endured in so many distresses and great suffering on their motherland, would they have passed it over? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Looking at the Bible, it reads: the returning homecoming people claim their legitimacy, holding their dominance over the existing people on the land of Judah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why don’t you too turn the table to think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like in the parable of the Return of the Prodigal Son, the older son who worked all along in the home, grumbles a lot of complaints. Say, if somebody comes back in a few decades of years before them who remained behind, taking great pains in farming, giving birth to children and serving God in their own way, and reproaches them in claims “Release the land,” “Stop now serving gods,” “You are not pure Israelites, so do not attend the restoration of the castle and the Temple” and “You so mixed with Samaria that you are unclean,” then who would like it (see Nehemiah, Ezrah)? While it felt bad and unfair, the existing settlers couldn’t but lose the dominance to the homecoming prisoners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Korea too, the men of yesterday who used to receive stipends from the Korean Empire acted themselves shrewdly as stipend-receivers from the Japanese Government, as soon as the sovereignty was turned over to Japan. Even though they too were Joseon people, were born in Joseon and lived in the realities of Joseon, even if they are sad about the situation of Joseon, considering they received stipends from Japan, were they as brokenhearted as the peasants in distresses on the native land? Or, were they treated as unfairly as those patriotic young ablaze with chivalrous spirit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, when the Japan government systematically oppressed Joseon, the Joseonese high officials who received stipends under the Japanese Government, which side did they take? What side high officials was on was the Japanese Government. If they later made defenses of “It was against their will,” the history itself judges their opportunist behavior. Even if it had been for their livelihood, their behavior is none of pride to boast about. On the contrary, it is judged, the patriotic spirit of village seniors who had to kill themselves in full of lamentations to a fault is still greater.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this sense, it is true, Ezekiel, Nehemiah and Esther in the Bible too received stipends and got help to a degree from the authorities of Babylon that ruled over Israel at the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If one get a stipend and help from another, he has no option but to understand the situation of the other to a degree. Under the help of ruling country, they attempted to restore the Temple and rituals in Israel. It was also their duty to leave racial spirit and ritual functions for God down to posterity. And it is written to have been endowed in the grace of Jehovah God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yes, it is. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the sovereignty that is already taken away, it is important to maintain somehow nation’s specific racial ceremonies as God-chosen people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the farmers and low chief priests having remained on the land who disregarded the homecoming folks, calling them dirty, who are they? This way, when there occurred people who were ignored out of dominance, there were many words to say. Moreover, it was at the time the situation under colonial rule of another nation. How did they express what they had in their hearts? Examples of our poets’ under 36 years of colonial rule: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Yi Yuksa&lt;br /&gt;1) And thus after numberless years have passed again.&lt;br /&gt;A superman may come to this wilderness&lt;br /&gt;On the back of a white horse.&lt;br /&gt;Gladly I will let him cry out with abandon. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Yi Sanghwa&lt;br /&gt;2) The land no longer our own -&lt;br /&gt;Does spring come just the same&lt;br /&gt;to the stolen fields?&lt;br /&gt;Along the paddy path like the part in my hair&lt;br /&gt;Where blue sky and green fields meet and touch&lt;br /&gt;I walk and walk as if in a dream.&lt;br /&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;However, now -&lt;br /&gt;The land no longer our own,&lt;br /&gt;I am afraid even spring might be stolen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Han Yongwun&lt;br /&gt;3) Thou art gone.&lt;br /&gt;Ah, thou art gone, whom I love.&lt;br /&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;Ah, even though thou art gone,&lt;br /&gt;I have not sent thee away.&lt;br /&gt;The song of love that cannot resist its own rhythms&lt;br /&gt;Whirls around thy silence. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Yun Dongju&lt;br /&gt;4) Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or on a pleasant day&lt;br /&gt;I also have to keep another line of confession in the book.&lt;br /&gt;- At that time, at so young age&lt;br /&gt;How did I make such a shameful confession? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The above poets are The Wilderness, Does Spring Come To The Stolen Fields, The Silence Of My Beloved and The Book of Confessions, what we learned in our middle and high school textbooks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These writers of poems are not the people who received stipends from Japan Government under the colonial days. Just, they were poets and pioneers. They were not guaranteed positions of high. They were not chasing for snobbish success. Just because feeling sorry for the realities of their own country, they put the hurt emotions into ‘poetic language.’ More than emitting, they tried to inspire the racial spirit and cherished prayer for independence into the minds of Joseon’s rising generation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look, however! They are poems that sang like the sovereignty of stolen country, racial spirit and cherished prayer for independence. But they are avoiding direct expressions. The reason was, the days they worked and lived in was where they have been being repressed under the oppression of Japan colonial rule. While they tried to enlighten racial spirit and shouted for Joseon folks to stand together one another till the very day of independence, what speech they used is the words like the wilderness, the stolen fields, spring, my beloved, the book of confessions and such. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Taking lessons of them in middle and high school, our national citizens looked into what truly the poets wished to speak through these poems as well as subjects and materials. In the study of a poem of 70~80 years ago, even the persons of the same country cannot tell the linguistic lines of the poem until they learn such as the situation of the poem-written days and the thought of the poet. Even collegians, doctors and poets of foreign countries reading these poems, yet without learning the contemporary history the poems belonged to, they cannot discuss the true meaning of the poems and the spirit of the poets they wished to express in poetry. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The characteristic of my sermon is, by analyzing the times and circumstances of the text, and by getting at what the text intended to say, that I am letting you know. You know the word ‘grace’ you use often? When a certain minister on the pulpit touches you listner’s feeling by adjusting his speech of words eloquently, you say ‘you’ve got grace.’ Yet, ‘grace’ the Bible says is used, while ‘God’s words are descending’ in the times and circumstances different on each text, and according those words when the believer of Him repents, change one’s past behavior, refreshes one’s lost will, thanks God, and so forth. Among others, when one listens to God’s words, repents his past sins and returns to God, right this amazing occasion the person has got grace in the words, it can be judged (see Ezra 10).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today’s text Isaiah 65:17~22, 66:22~24 must be interpreted under the premise that the oppressed people expressed their feelings through poetic language according to their specific times and circumstances. King and high officials of the government, Scribes, hi
