Title: Love Sonata of Jesus
Contents
Jesus' Love Sonata
Text: Matthew 28:1~10
Key Verse: He is not here, but has risen according to the word. Come and see where he lay (Matthew 28:6).
“A feeling that no words of a poet can write!”
“Why would you believe in Christianity if it wasn’t an emotion that no other painting by an artist could give you?”
These words were spoken by Prof. Ji Seong Lee, a professor of this age, who had been baptized for a year since he received Jesus as his Savior.
Dear saints,
Who is Jesus to you?
Professor Lee Ee-ryeong had a daughter named Min-ah Jang.
Since I was young, I was smart and moved to the United States to become a lawyer.
As a successful case in Korean society, you become a person recognized by others.
Then one day, something goes wrong with her body. It was thyroid cancer.
Plus, this time her daughter has autism again. The school he attended also dropped out, and the family was thrown into a mess overnight.
Even her thriving lawyer job is abandoned and she moves to Hawaii to treat her daughter.
But to make matters worse, they even go blind. Her life has gone down to the bottom and she is wandering in despair. One day, she meets Jesus and has faith. Miraculously, cancer is cured and her daughter recovers health.
All problems that could not be fixed with anything in the world until now can be restored and healed by the power of Jesus.
Dr. Lee Eoryeong, who was forced to watch her daughter's pain from the pain of tears, finally raises her hands in front of God.
“Please let me see the light you saw”
“My knowledge and my money did not save you. If you have truly found comfort in the Lord, if you have gained a new life, wouldn't it prove my power?"
A God whom I have never seen and never met.
A God who secretly mocked and ignored him.
That God, he confessed with tears that he would now serve as an object of worship, not as an object of knowledge.
“A feeling that no words of a poet can write!”
“Why would you believe in Christianity if it wasn’t an emotion that no other painting by an artist could give you?”
We have now read the climax of Jesus' Love Sonata.
Jesus was crucified three days ago.
Angry crowds shout for Jesus to be crucified. Pontius Pilate reluctantly offers Jesus to be crucified. When he was whipped, Jesus' flesh was torn and broken, and his whole body was stained with blood. And a hat made of thorns was pressed against his head, and his face was stained with blood. Then, with the cross on his back, he staggered up the hill of Golgotha. Eventually, Jesus' hands and feet were nailed to the cross with large nails.
The cross on which Jesus was crucified is erected high on the hill of Golgotha. Directly below, the soldiers fight each other for the clothes that Jesus wore.
mock again.
“If you are the Son of God, save yourself and come down from the cross.”
I'm mocking you again.
“He saved others, but he cannot save himself. Come down from the cross, you man who claims to be the king of Israel. Then we will believe.”
“I said to myself, ‘I am the Son of God. What is that? Try to beg for salvation.”
Jesus died on the cross after breathing hard.
After Jesus was buried in the tomb, a day or two passed, and then three days passed. The tomb is guarded by soldiers.
But at dawn there is a great earthquake, and angels come down and roll the stone of the tomb, and sit on it and say to Mary Magdalene and the other Mary.
“Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here, but is risen, just as he said. Come and see where he lay.”
With what words can a poet sing such an emotion,
With what kind of painting can an artist capture this kind of emotion on a canvas?
God beautifully draws in our hearts the emotions that no human being can draw or think of.
I can't forget the phone call last night.
“You’re a pastor, I miss you pastor.”
That voice was the voice I wanted to hear.
Those were the words I had been waiting for.
I didn't send him.
No I couldn't send it.
But he went.
I couldn't even tell him not to go.
I couldn't even tell him to come back.
But I missed it and waited.
The Lord ripped open his insides so that he couldn't bear the pain, and he made him say that he wanted to see him with a trembling voice, saying he wanted to see him, throwing away all his face and pride.
The Lord has restored our love and restored our relationship.
God is such a person.
Sometimes I feel like a God who is indifferent to me, sometimes seems to have abandoned me, and sometimes it seems like he doesn't exist.
But he does not forsake me.
You are not the one who gave up on me.
I can't understand it right now, but nevertheless he loves me and allows events to save my life.
risking your life for something other than God,
When you are content with what is not God,
To show how futile and powerless it is,
God is the one who allows suffering that I did not know or even thought of.
Is it only Professor Lee Ryong?
Today, he is the one who gives the same love and grace to us and to me.
As the psalmist earlier experienced,
God is my savior,
I confirm again that God is the One who sometimes allows pain to save me and give me life.
‘Women are running to the disciples, filled with fear and joy. Jesus follows the women and tells them.
“Are you at peace?”
“Tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there you will see me.”
Jesus whom I wanted to see in my dreams
But now Jesus, who is dead and rotting in the grave,
However, the unforgettable Jesus was alive and appeared to Mary Magdalene and the other Mary.
“My knowledge and my money did not save you. If you have truly found comfort in the Lord, if you have gained a new life, wouldn't it prove my power?"
Resurrection is thrilling.
Second, the resurrection is hope.
Jesus is crucified by the power of the Roman regime.
Buried in a tomb, the entrance to the tomb is blocked by a large stone. And outside the tomb, Roman soldiers are guarding it in armor.
But God makes them powerless, and Jesus brings them back to life.
God calls this resurrection of Jesus the firstfruits.
And then we are called.
We are resurrected like Jesus.
Not to mention the eternal resurrection after our physical death,
It is a thrilling proclamation that we are resurrected like the Lord Jesus, “here” in time and “now” in place.
Jesus was put to death by the Roman government.
Under that power, they are forced to be buried in the grave.
And the tomb is now guarded by armed soldiers.
It has been three days since Jesus was buried in the tomb.
All possibilities are gone.
But this was not the end. Rather, the grave became the beginning of eternal life.
Some of us may have gone bankrupt and have lost any possibility of being reborn.
Some of us are infected with a fatal disease, and there may be members who have no choice but to live in pain day by day without any treatment or medicine to cure the disease.
However, the resurrection of Jesus testifies to us that this situation or position is not the end but the beginning.
He died and was buried in a tomb, and soldiers guarded the tomb, but just as God raised Jesus to life, God raises us up, rebuilds us, and makes us healthy and successful in any situation we encounter. .
Therefore, the resurrection of Jesus is our hope.
Third, the resurrection is a victory.
Resurrection from the dead is Christianity.
It is God who brought Jesus back to life from the dead.
It is God who restored the sight of a woman who had lost her eyes due to cancer and was healed of cancer and made her healthy again.
I did not want to send it, and it was very difficult to send it, but it is God who makes it come back.
That God is your God.
“You will see me there”
The resurrection of Jesus is the proof of God's victory that gives us victory.
The God who gave Jesus the victory over death also gives us victory.