Title: Let's Live Together / Romans 12:10-18
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let's live together
Romans 12:10-18
We, the Korean people, are a single nation. We have lived in this cramped land for more than 5,000 years with one face and one culture while writing one language and one writing. As a result, the biggest flaw is that the ‘technology to live together’ is very immature. Yesterday, one of our alumni family moved. As I unloaded my luggage and moved it to the elevator, the resident of the villa suddenly said: “If you break the light, you will have to pay for it” ‘We moved into an aisle and we are welcome to live together/Can I help you with something?
When the spirit of Goguryeo spread to mainland China, our people did not do this. Then, the border line was pushed to the Amnok River and the Tuman River, and finally, even this small Korean peninsula was divided in two by the Imjin River and the Armistice Line. What is the meaning of Gyeongsang-do and Jeolla-do in this southern land of only 1/10 of California? Why do we need administrative maps again in this small land? If North and South Korea are reunified, Seoul is precisely the central point of the country, so why waste an unimaginable budget?
Nevertheless, our two Koreas still distrust each other. I doubt it. We are consuming each other's power. 63 B.C., this year was a year that had to leave a disastrous record in the history of the Jews. At that time, the ruling class of Israel that ruled the Jews was the ‘Hasmon’ royal family. Meanwhile, General Pompey of the Roman Empire advanced into Judea and captured Jerusalem. As a result, Israel became subject to the Roman Empire. Israel, which was destroyed by the Roman Empire in 63 B.C., was restored to an independent state on A.D. 1948.5.15. The destruction of Jerusalem and the disastrous destruction of the temple caused by biting and eating each other continued for 2,000 years.
I. If we want to live together, we need to broaden our minds like the sea.
Look at verse 10! They were told to love one another, to be kind to each other, and to respect each other first. How can you love your brother without expanding your heart like the sea? Here, brother is a generic term for a variety of believers. There may be many who do not like me. I tell you to love even my brother who is picky and sometimes breaks my heart. Not only love, but even ‘respect’. Look at verses 13-14!
To love and respect others, how can I love my 'brother' without expanding my heart like the sea? Here, ‘brother’ is a generic term for various believers. There may be many people who do not like me. I tell you to love even my brother who is picky and sometimes breaks my heart. Not only love, but even ‘respect’.
Look at verses 13-14!
To love and respect others, there is no other way than to expand my heart like the sea.
1 Kings 4:29 says, “God gave Solomon a ‘broad heart’, like the sand on the seashore.”
Why does it have to be ‘a heart like the sea’? The Korean word ‘sea’ means ‘to accept everything’. “Like a mother” (sea) accepts everything. It is impossible to love and respect a brother without a heart as wide as the sea. If it's a brother who fits my heart, it's possible to some extent! But how can we handle it only with our “narrow breasts” that we should love and even respect our brothers who are not? Among those unbelievers' disparaging words, there is a saying, 'A Christian's heart is a new heart'. Birds are so small and meager that they can be said to have no breasts. It really hurts my pride why unbelievers say this to us. Unbelievers can fight and get rid of it quickly or even get rid of it all in a glass of makgeolli, and we are often really shy.
That's why 2 Corinthians 6:11-13 says, “Corinthians, open your hearts”...John 4:9,27 Jesus was talking to the Sararian woman alone for a long time! Furthermore, what kind of great person is that woman?... It was a shocking practice at the time. Therefore, even the disciples could not hide their anxiety and were acting erratically (John 4:27). Even today, Jesus' radical approach will not be easily understood. However, Jesus was convinced that the sinful Samaritan woman was also a soul to be taken with God before God. It is not only with people who are soft, gorgeous, clean, and holy.
∏. In order to live together, we must have compassion for one another as the Lord had compassion on us (Exodus 20:1; Deuteronomy 24:21,22).
Look at verse 13! If you have compassion for those in need, you can help and share. Look at verse 14! If anyone persecutes me, I tell him to have pity on him. So don't curse, but bless. When someone persecutes me, I want to take revenge on that person, and I want to curse. But God, surprisingly, says that such a person is also something to live with. Look at verse 15! A heart that can rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep is a heart of compassion for one another.
Look at verse 16! To be of the same mind, to not set your heart on high things, but rather to be lowly and to behave humbly is to have compassion for one another. Look at verse 17. Do not return evil for evil to anyone, but to do what is good in the sight of everyone is to have compassion for one another. Because you can get revenge because you want to get revenge, if you take revenge and get revenge on everyone, in the end, no one will survive.