Title: Prelude to the fourth day
Contents
Source: Gwangju Eunpyeong Church Student Council
◎Genesis 1:14-19 ◎Introduction to the fourth day
Introduction (introduction in the prelude)
We all experience great miracles every day. A day begins in darkness. Especially before sunrise, everything is dark. But the sun finally rises in the morning. The sunrise in the morning is not so splendid. All darkness fades away and the glorious sunshine begins to spread.
Body (body in the prelude)
Mount Fuji in Japan is said to be the most spectacular place to see the sunrise. Thousands of people climb Mount Fuji at dawn to watch the sunrise. It is impossible to describe in words how spectacular it is when the sun rises over the eastern sea. Thousands of people bow to the rising sun from the sea with their hands together. That's why the Japanese flag has a red circle that symbolizes the sun. The moment the sun rises in the morning is truly glorious and splendid. But the sun doesn't stay up all the time. What happens when the sun goes down? Darkness begins to creep in again. And the moon, round like a tray, begins to rise very quietly. Numerous stars that have not been seen before begin to appear. If there were hundreds or thousands of stars, we would have thought of God only that much. But not hundreds, not thousands. The stars are countless. And it's colorful. Many stars are studded even in invisible places.
Miracles are happening over our heads every day. It's not uncommon to tear down the ceiling or fix the roof every morning, but great changes and miracles are happening over our heads every day.
What would the ancients have thought when they saw this wonderful secret rising from heaven? They looked at the sun and thought of an absolute god. “The sun is an absolute god. Don't touch the sun." I looked at the moon and thought of the goddess of fate. Watching the moon grow, shrink, and disappear, I said, "That's our destiny. The moon is the goddess of fate.” And looking at the stars, saying, “One star is me, one star is mother,” I thought, ‘If my star falls, I will die too’ because that star represents all of us and our destiny is engraved on that star.
All the kings of Egypt had their own stars. So when the king died, a hole was made in the pyramid and the body was placed where the king's eye and his star coincide. But now it doesn't match. Those of you who have studied well in high school will know that the Earth rotates at an angle but with a slight tremor. The angle is not that much because the earth axis moves with a little trembling. But if you convert the amount, the location is just right. The king was to die and lie down looking at his star, and return to that star.
Babylon was famous for its horoscopes. Looking at the stars, he predicted the fate of mankind and the future of the nation. In fact, the magi who came to Jesus were not doctors, but fortune-tellers who studied the stars. Astronomers today are physicists, but astronomers of old were fortune tellers. When they saw the star of Jesus, they knew that a great king had been born, and to worship the king, they crossed the fields and crossed the waters in what is now Iraq.
We experience great miracles every day. We can't live a full life until we really know how these secret changes happen and who's making them happen. The ancients looked at this and thought of the sun god. There was no God more absolute than the sun. The sun has an absolute influence on human life. If we do not see the sun for even a day, we are afraid, cold, and unhappy. So, even now, there are many women who have a bad mood on days when the weather is gloomy. Not only women but also men, if they don't see the sun god for even a day, they get restless because they can't get their job done, and there are many people who spend their time drinking innocent coffee and going back and forth for nothing.
People looked at the moon and thought about their fate. I believed that there was harmony in fate in the shape of the moon that changes day by day, and that my fate was decided by each of those stars. People couldn't help but think about their fate as they watched this tremendous change of day and night that happen every day. So, until the development of science, almost everyone was a fatalist.
A great mystery was weighing them down over their heads, and an unsolvable secret was at work. So how can you avoid falling into fatalism?
Conversely, modern people live while completely ignoring the sky. They haven't seen the stars in a long time and haven't seen the moon in a long time. Modern man is not afraid of the sun and not afraid of the moon. What they fear is rising apartment prices, not changes in the sun or moon. Because science has advanced that we know that the sun and moon are not gods. They are just shiny. When they learned that the sun and the moon moved according to a certain law of nature, they completely forgot about the sun and the moon and began to work hard to make money in this world. So I don't know how much alcohol sells. You drink it to die.
The ancients were afraid of the sun and the moon, and the modern people completely ignored it and forgot about it, living in utter pride, ignoring one or two suns.
This is the conclusion (conclusion in the prelude)
The age in which we live is a time when the importance of the sun is losing its importance due to the development of science. We should be thankful before God that we have come across this exposition of Genesis at this very important point. Listening to this sermon for especially growing youth is an opportunity to realize once again how precious the sun, moon, and stars are to us in the presence of God. I hope to see the creations of the fourth day that God created through the eyes of faith one by one.