Title: Lord of Peace
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Text: Ephesians 2:11-22
Recently, the biggest issue in the world is the North Korean nuclear issue.
It is also directly related to the issue of peace on the Korean Peninsula. ‘Peace’, this is everyone’s wish. But this time is not peaceful. Labor-management problems, left-right conflict, selfishness, regionalism, group action by gangs, corruption, etc.
A strange monk comes to a medieval monastery and knocks on the monastery's door.
“Who are you looking for?”.
The seeker answers.
“I have come to find peace”.
That person was Dante, who wrote “The Divine Comedy”.
This single word “finding peace” has very large and important implications in our reality, where all the world's attention is focused on the North Korean nuclear issue.
Historically, our people suffered 970 invasions and wars over 4000 years, which means war was fought once every four years. If you win, you will be lucky, but if you lose, you will die, your property will be taken away, and the peace will be broken by giving birth to disabled people, widows, orphans. However, since the US military was stationed on this land for 50 years since 6.25, we have lived without war and achieved sustained economic growth. However, the recent emergence of forces that sympathize with or actively support anti-US propaganda, such as “national cooperation” and “national harmony” that North Korea insists on, shows its intention to accept unification as well. This will drive 70 million Koreans under Kim Jong-il's dictatorship under the guise of unification, leading to starvation and oppression of religious freedom and death.
Dear brothers and sisters, please be on the lookout for evil disguised as good. The Bible also says that the devil's work disguises himself as an angel.
Some lawmakers are blocking work for peace with the words ‘conservative reaction’ and ‘cold war logic’, while opposing North Korean human rights issues, aggression to the South, and the North Korean nuclear issue, and even opposing the dispatch of peacekeepers to Iraq.
Folks, communism is a devilish ideology.
In the Old and New Testaments, “the servants of the Lord” awakened the people by speaking the right voice in each era. Therefore, in the Old Testament era, many servants of God, including the prophet Isaiah, were killed (Acts 7:52), and in the New Testament era, we see that John the Baptist, James, and others went on the path of martyrs.
Dear saints, do not be deceived.
Many countries are changing from a communist state to a social state, and from a social state to a democracy, and our country is moving from a democratic state to a social state, and furthermore, to a communist state. In particular, I hope that young people, who are divided into the 386 generation, will establish a national view with a thorough Christian spirit.
Everyone seems to be looking for peace, but why isn't it?
It is the ‘consequence of sin’. In Genesis, the broken trust of the couple between Adam and Eve and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden are the result of sin.
Then there is only despair under sin without peace?
no. Jesus came to this earth as the Lord of peace and gave us peace. In verses 11-12 of today's text, we are Gentiles, not Jews, but outside Christ, and without God. Before Jesus came, Gentiles were the object of contempt of the Jews. It was between enemies. However, he broke down the barrier in the middle of verse 14 and made us one in Christ through the gospel. The saints of the Ephesians church in the text also lived in a world where that peace was broken, “(verse 13) we are drawn near by the blood of Jesus, (verse 14) who is our peace, who made the two one, and broke down the wall in the middle, ( Verse 16) that he might be reconciled to God”.
As I read these words, I think of our people.
“The two made one” does not mean that they must become one.
Likewise, this divided nation must be united in Jesus through peace and the gospel.
"God! May the north and the south be unified through the gospel of Christ.”
In verse 14, “You broke down the barrier in the middle,” the ‘wall’ refers to the barrier between Jews and Gentiles”. We must bring the season of Christ to our North Korean compatriots, dispel the concerns of all people in the world, and unite as a nation that is flying high on the flag of world mission.
I do not pray for unification so that our country can live well.
You can live well like this.
I do not pray for our country to become a world power.
When it becomes a powerful country, it is easy to make the mistake of armed aggression.
I pray for unification so that Korea may become a leader in world missions.
We pray that we will become a nation of missionary Israel with God.
Dear Mokyang Church members,
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