Title: Jesus Testified by John (2010.2.7)
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Date: February 7, 2010
Word: Matthew 11:2-9
Title: Jesus Testified by John
Contents:
There is a thing called sight. It can be completely different depending on which eye you see it from and from which side you look at it. What kind of person is John looking at Jesus? The woman was the greatest among the better ones. Jesus, whom John sees, is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
How people see John and people see Jesus are different depending on each person's point of view. This is the time I looked at Mary who broke the alabaster jar. Judas Galat saw it as a waste of waste, and Jesus saw it as a devotion, a sacrifice in preparation for His death. When John the Baptist was living in the wilderness, he ate locusts and sagebrush, made clothes from camel skins, and baptized those who came to him while witnessing while he was living in the wilderness to prepare for the coming of Jesus as the Messiah, and he was imprisoned. In the end, the beheading of the head became a sacrifice for martyrdom whose purpose was to testify to the Messiah, and it is to confirm that Jesus, who is standing in front of you now, is the Messiah.
1. John the Baptist in prison
John the Baptist was caught by Herod and Herodias and imprisoned while living only as the voice of a cryer in Gwangyang who prepares for the coming of the Messiah.
At first, he had a firm belief, but his faith in Jesus Christ seems to have been shaken. So they wanted to send someone to hear more convincing evidence of Jesus. And if the Messiah is certain, it is an implicit appeal to act quickly.
2. Jesus' Answer
Say that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the gospel is preached to the poor.
3. What did you go out into the wilderness to see?
The reason people flocked to the wilderness was to hear about the Messiah preached by John the Baptist. Jesus asks, “To see them, the rich and the powerful, and those who love luxury?” Jesus asks, referring to the meaningless crowds with reeds that are common in the wilderness.
The reason they went out into the wilderness was to hear the preaching of John the Baptist. John the Baptist's sermon is a sermon about the Messiah. Therefore, the focus is only on the Lamb Jesus. That Jesus is right in front of us.