Title: God's Comprehensive Art / Romans 8:26-28
Contents
God's Comprehensive Art
Bible: Romans 8:26-28
It is often said that opera is a comprehensive art. It is a combination of different types of art.
Because it has created stage art.
The Korean dictionary defines opera as an opera. In other words, it means a song and a play.
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Opera is a synthesis of various arts such as singing, acting, costumes, stage, and lighting.
It will be appreciated as art.
As we read through the Bible, we learn that God is the creator of the great synthesis of art.
you will find
The providence of human history, the plan and providence of salvation, and the providence of creation
That's right.
Truly a great example of what God created and continues to do today.
You are a drinker.
As I looked at the Nayagara Falls, I wondered if I could drink so much water every day with human power.
What if we were to pour 24 hours and 365 days continuously for a hundred or two hundred years?
I thought about what I should do.
It is impossible with human strength.
In addition, the Ulchang stands on Mt. Baekdu, Mt. Geumgang, Mt. Myohyang, Mt. Samgak, Mt. Namsan, Mt. Jiris, Mt. Songni, and Mt. Halla.
The trees and the flowering plants that bloom and fall according to the season are harvested in time by human power.
I thought about whether it would be possible to water, fertilize, and weed.
But even that is impossible with human strength.
The countless stars floating in the sky are fixed like rubber balloons suspended from the ceiling.
They are not static, but moving in their own orbit around the sun.
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Therefore, by human power, a space traffic cop is sent to organize the orbits of the stars.
I thought about whether I could do it, but I came to the conclusion that it was impossible.
has been
However, even at this time, God is pouring water from Nayagara Falls and Cheonjiyeon Falls.
Let it pour down, and from time to time, rain and dew will cause vegetation to grow,
The Earth we still live on, without the presence of a god, is today without collision with other stars.
you made it right.
Is that all?
God's art creation is out there, but it's in us too.
In other words, the great providence and work of God toward us revealed through us.
It is truly a great comprehensive art.
Starting from the fact that I was born into this world, I can walk or drive to school today.
The fact that I came out of the circuit and opened my mouth to sing hymns and hear the word, and spiritually already
I should have been a child of hell, but I became a child of God and called God “Father.”
The fact that I was able to call… … .
Is that all?
I, who should have already collapsed or fallen into despair, is with the arrogant flow of history today
It is impossible to count all of them, including the fact that they are still alive.
Paul said in verse 28 of this general and comprehensive providence, “As we know,
All things work together for those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
to do good,” he said.
I talked about opera before, but there are comedies and tragedies in opera.
And in the process there is success and failure, love and hate.
C. There is hope and there is also despair.
All of these things are connected and aggregated into a single work of art to become a comprehensive art.
All.
Likewise, all things intersect in an individual's life.
Success and failure, love and hate, hope and despair, light and darkness, life and death, etc.
Oh, it comes and goes.
But Paul said that all these things work together for good in the end.
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Just as high and low, long and short, strong and soft together make a wonderful song, God
Success and failure, health and disease, progress and stagnation, joy and sorrow, abundance and
By distributing the elements of poverty, peace and suffering evenly and appropriately each time,
You are creating the work of art you want.
As we walk along the path of life, whether short or long, we face the bitterness of failure, pain, despair, pain, sorrow, and retreat.
You will experience the roots, but according to the teaching of the text, it will work together for good.
It is God's providence to be fulfilled.
In other words, God's desire to make great symphonies, operas and world-class works
It is artistic creation.
1. Who will be the subject of God's artistic creation?
The text reveals two things.
First, those who love God.
It has three meanings.
1) He is obedient.
Even a domestic dog becomes docile and docile when it feels the love of its owner.
It raises the heart to be obedient. To love God means to obey
It's like.
Because Abraham loved God, he left his hometown, and told him to sacrifice his son.
He obeyed even a command that was not there.
And Samuel said, "Obedience is better than sacrifice."
It is not a sacrament of sacraments or favors that parents ask of their children. Obedience?
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Likewise, children of God who love God must obey God.
Then what is obedience? Even if it doesn't fit my will and my heart, it's right
If it is, say Amen and follow.
2) A person who accompanies you.
Genesis 5:22 says that Enoch walked with God for 300 years.
Sometimes he was scolded, sometimes he made you do troublesome things, and sometimes it didn't make sense.
He must have asked for work, but nevertheless, Enoch stayed with God for 300 years.
I went along without leaving.
And the blessing he received was, "He was not in the world because God took him.
"(Genesis 5:24). In other words, it was the first human being to receive the blessing of ascension.
will be
The event of Enoch's ascension to heaven was for those who loved God, that is, those who walked with God.
It was a shadow of the fact that only people could ascend to heaven and live with God forever.
And because this case is painful, bothersome, and doesn't fit my heart, I don't want to walk with God.
It was also a lesson that those who reject the qi will not receive the blessing of ascension.
It's easy to accompany for a while. But it's easy to accompany someone for the rest of your life.
not.
We can break up voluntarily, or we can break up by will or any physical force.
because there is
Moreover, the invisible God and the intangible God
Enoch, who has been with us for 300 years, is not a symbol of all of us.
You can not.
If we're going to accompany our friends for a long time, we're ready to kill ourselves, yield ourselves and lose
As if I had to, if I want to walk with God, I have the determination to kill myself and follow God's will.
is to go.
3) You are the giver.
To love God means to give to God.
The true value of love is revealed more when giving than when receiving.
It is the same love, but the love you give is more pleasing and beautiful than the love you receive.
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And love has a formula to give if you want to receive.
Therefore, loving God means that I cannot give because I received that love first.
It is an expression of the smallest act of giving what you have.
A heart of regret is not a heart of love. God's love is generous even for the only begotten Son.
He gave this for us. If we love God, we should not regret anything.
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Second, those who are called according to his purpose.
To call him according to his will means that God has called him according to his will.
In the same chapter, verses 29-30, God unilaterally foresaw, ordained, and called
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God calls us because He loves us and needs us.
What you love, what you value and what you need will always be with you.
The people who need you the most are always by your side and with you. Stuff is always needed and precious
One is carried with the body.
Likewise, God calls us to love and need us.
Because he cherishes it, it is because he always has it by his side.
And who always wants to be with us and make us the protagonists of great operas and art
will be
In the case of death, which is the saddest event in the course of human life, if viewed negatively, this
It is a star, sadness, and despair.
It becomes the providence of love to keep you close to you.
2. It is God's comprehensive art that all things work together for good.
Augustine said, “God makes even the sins of the saints beneficial for my salvation.
You do," he interpreted.
And Godet said, “The imperfection of the world and all suffering as a result of sin
The body is also beneficial.”
Joseph was a man who loved God. God loved him too.
However, because of the envy of his brothers, he fell into a deep pit and was sold to Egypt at a young age.
I went there and became a servant there, and then as I entered my youth, I was wrongly framed.
wrote and went to jail.
That is why, for a person who loves God, he suffered only to death, and only failure and misfortune.
It was a situation in which I could not help but be disappointed.
But it was only an overture to an opera God made. He barely
At the age of 30, he became the prime minister of Egypt.
It was a great work of art and a drama from God.
However, the opposite is also possible.
Saul was the first king of the kingdom of Israel.
He was the one who decorated the prelude beautifully.
However, as he moved on to Acts 2 and 3, he fell down as the protagonist of the tragedy.
In the end, the battle against the Philistines was defeated and the army was wiped out on Mount Gilboa.
On the other hand, his sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua were pierced by the enemy's sword in one day.
He died, and he himself was seriously wounded by an arrow shot by an enemy soldier, and while groaning, he fell asleep with his own sword.
ended up
The reason Saul and his royal family fell in this way was because they disobeyed God, disobeyed God, and were greedy.
It is because they have fallen into prejudice, envy, and lust for government.
The pain, failure, despair, or disease I am experiencing right now is not my problem.
The question is how much you love God.
Because all things work together for good to those who love God.
C. In other words, those who love God and are called by God are the synthesis of God.
Because you can be the protagonist of art.
“All things are true to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose.
work for good." Amen.