Title: Man's Chaos and God's Salvation
year 2014
June
1 day
Sermon Title
Man's Chaos and God's Salvation
preacher
Old Testament text
Psalm 3:1-8
New Testament text
Mark 11:15-19
sermon video
Old Testament
1 O LORD, how many are my adversaries, for there are many who rise up against me.
2 Many say against me, saying, He is not saved by God.
3 O LORD, you are my shield and my glory, you are the lifter of my head.
4 I cry out to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me from his holy mountain.
5 I lay down and slept and awoke; the LORD upholds me.
Even if 60 million men encamp around me, I will not be afraid.
7 Rise up, O LORD, save me, O my God, for you have struck all my enemies on the cheek, and have broken the teeth of the wicked.
8 Salvation belongs to the LORD; bless your people.
new testament
15 When they entered Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple, and drove out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who sold doves.
16 He did not allow anyone to go through the temple with his belongings.
17 Then he taught them, saying, “Didn’t it say that it is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? You have made a den of robbers.”
18 When the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they plotted how they should kill Jesus, because they were afraid of him, because all the people were amazed at his teaching.
19 And as it was evening, they went out of the city.
sermon
The most perplexing problem in the Christian faith is the problem of theodicy. The word theocratic is a question of why God rules the world in a just and good way, why is there so much evil, so many misfortunes, and tragic tragedies in the world. The question of what the righteous God was doing when Hitler massacred 6 million Jews is a theodic question. Deepening this theodic question leads to skepticism about the Almighty and Good God, and in some cases loss of faith and becoming an atheist. Due to the recent Sewol ferry incident, many people are asking questions related to theodicy. When God created the heavens and the earth and created humans, He gave freedom to humans.
It is a great grace to man that God has given man freedom. The place where there is no freedom is the world of the devil. God wanted free humans, and that's why He created free humans. However, the creation of free human beings was an event that foreshadowed a great tragedy. Man began to misuse the freedom given to him by God's grace. This misuse could not escape God's judgment in the end, and in the end all mankind had no choice but to perish because of the given freedom.
When God created free human beings, he already decided to go down the path of death on his own. God was prepared for his suffering and death and created free human beings.
God decided to save mankind through the sufferings of the cross. When Hitler massacred 6 million Jews, it was Hitler killed, not God's. All evil in the world is evil done by free human beings, not by God.
God is the one who is trying to save man and the world from this evil. Racism and torture are human evils.
The evils of the Sewol ferry were also done by humans. We must overcome this evil by uniting our national strength and strength. This is God's will for us.
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