Title: Let This Nation Be
Contents
Let this be a nation
Today, its meaning is fading a lot, but it is the ninth 3·
Verse 1 is a very important event not only for our people but also for the history of the Korean church.
All. Since 1907, Christianity has been doing great spiritual awakening, repentance, and the Holy Spirit movement.
The energy erupted in verse 3, 1, and the force that gathered and exploded was the 8.15 national liberation.
It became the driving force of At that time, Korea occupied everything by Japanese colonial rule.
Although we were in despair, God's work continued.
In today's text, we see that the old Israel also had the visible temple destroyed.
Ra was taken away, but the “Kingdom of God” that is to be achieved in that history remains.
You will find out that they have continued through them. God took captive
Studying, living, and teaching the law given to Moses in ancient times among the tongue-in-cheek
He raised up those who believed in them and started a new work through them. Later, Jesus
Ezra and Nehemiah, who were the models for lawyers (scribes, rabbis) at the time, were
It was such people.
The Babylonian kingdom, which destroyed the Jerusalem Temple, came out like a comet in less than 90 years.
Fallen by the fallen Persian Empire. King Cyrus of Persia conquered
He had a friendly policy towards the nations, and the Jewish prisoners of war also benefited from it.
You will enjoy the freedom of time. Thanks to this policy, he was taken prisoner about
After 70 years, the first return takes place. Returning Jews
It was the work of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem. About 60 years after reconstruction
Shortly after, Ezra led the second return, and the first, who was in a mixed-race marriage,
Reform the society of the poor people. And Nehemiah was tasked with rebuilding the wall.
Awakened and headed for Jerusalem with the third returning captives
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Today's text explains Nehemiah's motive for going to Jerusalem.
Word. Although Nehemiah was born of a captive in a foreign country,
But, always remembering that he is a Jew, his country and
He was a man who prayed with tears for his family. Infinite from King Artaxerxes
When he, who had been trusted, was at Shushan, the winter palace of the king of Persia, his
From the brothers, the devastation of Jerusalem and the suffering suffered by the compatriots
I heard about the food. How will he react?
First, when he heard the news of his compatriots, he sat down and wept bitterly to God.
They fast and pray for me. Nehemiah was a high-ranking official in Persia.
Since a secure life was guaranteed, it was enough not to go or pretend not to know.
However, he prayed for four months, waiting for the king's heart to move.
do. The great misfortune of our time is the inability to suffer together, that is, the ability to empathize.
Could it be the loss of Of course, the times are difficult to keep
However, if there is no direct damage to me and my family,
Silence on issues of hardship, environmental destruction, and the suffering and death of the weak
Isn't it the time to do it?
Father Pierre, considered by the French to be the ‘Favorite Frenchman’,
Born into an upper-class family in Lyon in 1912, he gave up all his inheritance at the age of 19.
After entering the high school, he created a community for the poor and spent his whole life living in poverty.
I've been with the outcasts. He said, “Why were we born on this earth?
Every time I ask, “Am I me?”, I say, “To learn to love.”
I answered. On one occasion, a person working in a community asked, “What is God?”
When asked, “I spend all day repairing the attic to make a house for the elderly.
When you come back, you say, 'Father, don't you know how happy I am today?
Didn't you say 'everything'? But now you ask who God is
mean? The joy you felt at that time was so different from other joys.
Do not forget the joy. In that joy you have tasted God.”
He answered. Empathy for others is love, and love is our
is the reason he was born.
Next, Nehemiah was a criminal of the nation who could not fulfill his mission as a chosen people.
Repent to God for your sins. What did he do when he was arrested in a foreign country?
Are you repenting like this? But he knew he wasn't alone
is. Human beings and history are living beings that depend on and influence each other.
Knowing this, we sincerely repent. We also look forward to the future of our country and nation.
You must repent thoroughly. Failure to fulfill the mission of the church
What became a concern of the world, blinded by greed, saw the truth of God lightly
Indifference and neglect toward the weak, and passing on the truth of God to descendants
We must thoroughly repent of our failure to do so and our attitude of disregarding historical lessons.
All. In particular, even though humans cannot live on bread alone, they are blinded by development and greed.
After pursuing only economic interests and not interested in solidarity or environmental issues,
Repenting of our true national behavior and recklessly damaging nature, God's work of art
You have to stop. What we don't know about nature more than what we know
Because there are so many more.
Nehemiah, who repented while sharing the pain of the nation, is again
I see hope. And act. Finally, with the permission of the king, he returned to his hometown.
When Nehemiah returned, he received no salary for 12 years as governor of Judea.
He was so wealthy that he sent his servants directly to the wall reconstruction project.
He showed me that he wasn't good. Man already has his own judge
Say it. What we do, not what we say or imagine, is our
Because it shows your faith.
Jesus came as an answer to mercy, prayer, and the Word for mankind.
You saved us. This year, celebrating the 93rd anniversary of Samil Jeol, is more
We are facing a crisis at home and abroad, especially in the year of general and presidential elections.
In order for us to become a nation after God's heart, as we did at the time of the Trinity Day,
This Christian must live a life that is in harmony with God's heart. Jesus is mankind
Christians are our nation's last hope. us or
For the sake of Ra and the nation, like Nehemiah, we grieve together and repent with tears to God
I hope that you will become a source of blessing to bless the nation by living by the words of
see. Shalom!