Title: Drama of reversal / Matthew 21:33-46
Today's text is different from other parables, so it is a story that lets you experience a traditional dramatic reversal. It shows that the history of salvation in which God saves mankind is like a stage.
This text summarizes the history of God's salvation.
At that time, the kingdom of God will be taken from you, and completely different people will receive it. It is said that this corner stone will become a stone of judgment and they will be crushed into powder. Only then will the chief priests and Pharisees know what they are saying to them, and they will be pierced in their consciences. is. This parable shows the truth that penetrates the Old and New Testaments.
This verse well shows how serious human sin is.
The owner did nothing wrong. He planted a vineyard and gave him a job. They did everything they could to make a living. The grace that God bestowed upon Israel was astonishing. All the grace toward us is too great. You have created a beautiful world. Birds are flying in the sky, animals are plentiful on the ground, and fish are playing in the water. If we manage the world God has given us well, eat the fruit in a natural way, and give glory to God, nothing will happen.
what would be the problem? However, they ate the forbidden fruit because they were blinded by lust. They killed, robbed and ravaged each other. Because of their conscience, they also denied conscience and left God, asking where God is. The more evil was done, the more severe and accelerated it became. The quality worsened and the brutality increased and accelerated. The quality worsened and the brutality reached its peak. Anything that interferes with their greed rushes to get rid of whoever they are. All the evils that are being done in the world today are beyond the limits of what can be explained. This is not just Israel, but all human beings. There is no one righteous, not even one. Everyone is sympathetic to sin. Everyone is also destroying the environment. Did you not sell Jesus for money, betray your friends for money, and live according to your own desires, and then your country is not what it is today?
The government began to raise the sword of circumstances for the establishment of a second nation. No one knows that a second nation can be established only by breaking the cycle of corruption, but people do not have high expectations. Because who will judge whom? All of them were corrupted, and by the way, what is new under the sun?
Recently, a drama called Hong Gil-dong has been gaining popularity on SBS. It is a story of Hong Gil-dong, a bastard who comes into the midst of the disappointment of Tamgwan-ori and the king who is unaware of the suffering of the people, and organizes the Hwalbindang and solves the resentment of the people. The reason Hong Gil-dong's dramas are popular is because of the pleasure of turning things around when you see a scene where people with great powers who never seem to have been punished are coolly punished by Hong Gil-dong. So now, there is a debate about where Hong Gil-dong is from, along with the claim that Hong Gil-dong was a real person. However, even if Hong Gil-dong was a real person in history, he was a failure, and even if Hong Gil-dong appears again, the extreme evil of the world does not diminish.
The stone rejected by man has become the cornerstone of the kingdom of God.
Man crucified Jesus, but Jesus was resurrected. Although Jesus was buried in a tomb, the resurrected Lord established the churches of God and started a new work. The crowds who killed Jesus abandoned the devil's festival and loved it, but God provided the stage for a great battle. Everyone who believes in him has become a new person. A great reversal of drama began to take place in which those who did evil together with the evil ones repented and became a new person.
One of the most famous American singers is Ehel Warher. He was the son of an unwed mother whose mother, sadly, was raped by a gangster on the side of the road while leaving work. My mother gave birth to me, but she always looked at me with a curse because she was the enemy's child. So I was not properly educated. But he was born with a good voice by nature. Finally, he becomes a famous singer. One of his most famous hits is "When We Go Through the Storm".
The resentment against the unknown father who raped his mother, the resentment against the mother for not having an abortion, and the struggles of resentment and resentment towards all societies that despise and despise him are the song "When Passing Through the Storm" has been thoroughly expressed in But one day he accepted Jesus. The god of resentment and curses that had dominated his personality was cast out, and the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of love and peace, came to rule.
Then, one day, at a concert venue, a customer requested a song for his hit song, "When We Go Through the Storm." Then Warher politely declined and said:
?쏣veryone, I am a person who has accepted Christ.??My heart and mind have changed. I have forgiven my father, who brought me into this world, and I have forgiven my mother and society. I can no longer sing the song I sang while resenting someone. I changed after I accepted Jesus Christ. Only joy and gratitude. I have become a man after God, and I have called out to God.??No matter how much Hong Gil-dong appears, you cannot change the world. A fundamental reversal cannot be achieved. But the risen Lord can change people. Everyone is a sinner, but who will kill and who will live? The drama of great reversal is not due to circumstances or trials, but is possible when we change through Jesus as singer Warher transforms. We must first change because of Jesus in us. You must turn into a prosecutor, a judge, and a prisoner. The elites who lead history must repent, saying, "I am a sinner," as they beat their hearts.
A miracle happens when the discarded stone turns into a headstone. This is a drama of reversal.
We will end by introducing the famous work of our country, Chunhyangjeon. The author of Chunhyangjeon is unknown. However, in the story of Chunhyang, Lee Do-ryeong, the son of a Namwon Bussa, and Chunhyang, the daughter of a gisaeng, fall in love. The new officer who came down after that falls in love with Chunhyang's beauty and forces him to do so, but Chunhyang refuses. As a result of this, he is subjected to various hardships and the prison is being cleared, but Lee Do-ryeong becomes a teacher and comes down to Namwon to rescue Chun-hyang, and imprisons and judges the priest and corrupt officials.
There are several theories about the study of Chunhyangjeon, but one theory says that it was a work that came out of the influence of Christianity. Chunhyang is a saint, Lee Doryung is Jesus Christ, and Shingwansato and Tamgwanori are the evil forces of the world. The point is that while keeping the incision of faith in the world, when Christ judges, the saints are taken up to heaven and participate in the feast of praise. Looking at it that way, it seems so.
Brothers and sisters, we lament as if burdened in the world, but at some point we hope and believe in a great reversal of history. God has done so in the past and will continue to do so through our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that you will look forward to that day and live in hope.