Title: Healthy Family / Psalm 128:1-6
Contents Healthy Family / Psalm 128:1-6
May is the month of the family, and in our country, the church, and the family, we talk about family problems. The family system was created by God. The home must be sacred. "A home is a place to store happiness, not a place to mine it. A family made to gain will fall, and only a family made to give is a happy family.
“(A word of appreciation from Japanese villagers) Today’s family problems are abandoning children, abandoning parents, and the breakdown of the family due to the rapid increase in the divorce rate (one in seven couples in our country divorces), causing many social problems. There is.
1) Exemplary Jesus’ Assumption
Adam's home, the first family, was destroyed by Satan's temptation. Cain, the first murderer, is also his son. Jesus gave the family to restore this family. When he gave birth to Jesus Christ through Mary, who was betrothed to a man named Joseph, it went through a mysterious process.
Joseph spoke as a righteous man (Matthew 1:19), and he obeyed after knowing that Mary was also conceived under the direction of an angel. He went up to the temple to perform rites by faith, taught according to the law, and learned the prophets. He considered labor sacred and did carpentry work. Jesus' family is a clean family of faith, love, learning the Word, love of work, morals and ethics.
2) The secret to a healthy family
The secret to a healthy family is to have a good spiritual side first. The text says, "Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord and walks in his ways." In Hebrew, the word of reverence is called "kybeth," which also refers to the middle of a person's internal organs. It has such an important meaning.
Deuteronomy 28:1- Below is the secret to receiving blessings. It is said that if you obey the Word, you will excel among your children, your profession, and the peoples of the world. When Jehovah builds a house, he says it is healthy (Psalm 127:1)
Matthew 19:6- What must a rich young man do to inherit eternal life? asked Jesus a question. At this time, give what you have to the poor and follow me, and you will have treasure in heaven. As a rich young man a slave to wealth, he denied the spiritual aspect. Cornelius's family was a happy family with good faith.
We're in a really terrifying situation right now. It is as if King David had a bad child.
Today, the famous King David had to be rebelled against by his son because he was not able to communicate well in the family even though he ruled the country well.
David had several sons by several wives. Among them, there was a son who was greatly loved, and that was [Absalom]. He had a flawless, beautiful appearance from head to toe. In particular, his long hair was a burden.
Absalom was full of the desire to be king. But King David was completely unaware of this fact, and he poured out his love for his son only.
Absalom showed kindness whenever he had the opportunity to win more favor from the people than his father David. One day Absalom went to his father David and begged him to send him to the region of Hebron. When the time came, Absalom would lead his army and advance to Jerusalem, where his father was.
Then a servant went to David and told him what Absalom was planning in Hebron. David was greatly astonished and began to worry. It was unthinkable that his son Absalom, whom he loved so much, would rebel against his father. Also, David, foreseeing that God would bring great calamity, did not know what to do, even if what his son was doing was successful. David thought that the only way to save Jerusalem without destroying it was to leave Jerusalem in haste. Then he took all his family and crossed the Gadron and gathered them in the wilderness. David went up to the Mount of Olives and wept bitterly as he thought about Absalom's betrayal.
Meanwhile, Absalom entered the almost empty city of Jerusalem. And he was desperate to find David.
David had never been so sad. But David was still a king and a fighter, so he calmed his heart and calmly led his army across the Jordan River at night to Mahanaim City, and gathered the warriors there, organized three troops, and gave Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, who had experience in battle, commanders, respectively. and prepared for Absalom's invasion. But he had no intention of harming his son, only to stop the rebellion. At the begging of his men, David had them stay in the rear, but ordered that Absalom be treated leniently.
Both armies clashed head-on in the Valley of Ephraim. In the end, the battle was won by David's army, and Absalom rode a mule and fled from place to place, when his long hair got caught in a branch and hung from it. A soldier who saw this reported this to Joab and suggested that he treat him graciously as David had commanded, but Joab did not listen and took out three spears and stabbed Absalom three times in the chest, which was hung from an oak tree.
David, who waited curiously for the war situation, wept loudly over the death of his beloved son rather than the news of victory. The rebellion was crushed, and David returned to Jerusalem, but he hid his face and wept for many days. So the joy of that day's victory was lost, and all the people were filled with sorrow.
Tolstoy, a world-class writer, and Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, had an unhappy family life. Therefore, it is only after the death of Tolstoy that Tolstoy's wife realized her fault, and confessed in front of her children that she was the cause of her husband's death, and bitterly confessed that what she had done was the act of a madman. It is also said that Lincoln, forced to deal with his wild and rude wife, increasingly distanced himself from his family and continued his unhappy life in inns.
What kind of family was taught and raised by faith?
Elder Kyu-Jin Kyu's family: One day, a guest came to Elder Jeong's house and they stayed there for one night. The daughter-in-law came into the guest room with a dinner table, and overturned the table when it got caught in the ear of a grain bale piled up next to the door. At that time, the father-in-law elder said, "Son, it happened because I had bales piled up there." Hani has a mother. "No. My daughter-in-law was carrying what I should have taken with me, and it happened." The daughter-in-law said, "No, it's not your father's or mother's fault. It happened because I was careless." It is said that I got a better impression than I received and ate a delicious meal.
3) The result of a healthy family life
Text:2 says, "You shall eat according to the labor of your hands, and you shall be blessed and prosper. God must give you health to work. Jesus said, “The Father is working until now, and I am working.” The Lord is sacred to doing work, spiritual or labor. Paul said that those who do not want to work should not eat.
In Proverbs 31:1 and below, we see a happy family life. King Lemuel's mother spoke to her son about a virtuous woman. It is said that a family is blessed when they love work, take care of family affairs, raise their children well, increase their wealth, focus their energy on raising their husbands, and build up their virtues and receive praise. A happy family apart from God said that children are like an olive tree, a wife is like a fruitful vine, and you can enjoy the blessings of Jerusalem for the rest of your life. "Blessed are those who fear the LORD."
Even a great person becomes an unhappy person if the family is unhappy, and an ordinary person becomes a happy person if the family is happy. Some people, even if their family is unhappy, I don't know if I would choose a career out of my family because I want to become a great person. But no one is great until the end of life. Even if you live an extremely ordinary life, those who live for a happy family will become happy people until the end and come to the Lord.