Title: Life with Principles 1
life with principles 1
Matthew 6:31-34
2007. 6. 2. (Sat) Tel Aviv Joppa Church
A truck carrying flour to a bread factory and a truck loading cement to a brick factory were driving down the highway and stopped at a rest stop. The truck driver went to the bathroom and got on the truck, but they ended up swapping rides. Both drivers thought the same, ‘what do you know?’ and drove to their destination. The truck loaded with cement went to the bread factory, and the truck loaded with flour went to the brick factory. And the factory engineer said, ‘What do you know?’, pouring cement on the bread dough and flour on the brick dough. Bread from there was delivered to the home, and the bricks were moved to the building blocks. What would have happened? People had to grab their stomachs with their teeth hurt while they ate the bread, and houses made of rotten flour bricks collapsed.
This story is from a fairy tale by Hyeon-Joo Lee. It is a fairy tale that satirizes one aspect of our irresponsible and principled society: ‘What do I know?’
. The community in which people live has certain principles. There are things to keep and things not to do. The law is also a principle. Principles are sometimes difficult to follow. However, if the principles are not followed, the society becomes a society full of fouls, and all values and order are destroyed.
The same goes for our church and our members. There are principles that must be followed. There are principles of life. Only by following that principle can we live as saints. We believers have God-given principles for life. What is that? The commands of God, the Word of God.
In particular, the Sermon on the Mount, to which today's text belongs, can be said to be the great charter of the people of heaven and the principle of life. I would like to share with you some of the important ones. We will focus on Matthew 6, and we will divide it into several parts and share the Word for two weeks.
The first principle of life for the people of heaven is that the owner must be clear. And this has to do with wealth.
In the preceding 6:24, Jesus says that we cannot serve both God and money. The Greek word for wealth is ‘mammonas’, which is the Greek word for the Aramaic noun ‘mammon’. The word mammon does not appear in the Old Testament, but it appears in the Apocrypha, Talmud, and rabbinic texts.
And this word "mammon" is not exact, but usually "aman" (