Title: Resurrection Faith/Acts 26:19-29
Every year, after the vernal equinox, the Korean church sets the Sunday following the full moon and observes it as a feast called Easter. How do you feel when you celebrate Easter once a year? It's just a repetition of our promise to have faith that expects us to rise again later because Jesus died and rose from the dead as we habitually celebrate Easter. The message doesn't even go beyond that level. The hearts of church members are also limited to having an Easter special offering and an egg distribution event.
As long as this repetition continues, Easter will become meaningless.
It cools down. So, how can we have a novel and groundbreaking Easter?
color. Served with a product (?) called 'All-in-One Evangelism' or 'Family Attendance'
We try to make a difference with new and fresh ideas.
Because I'm tired of the feast of Easter, I want something on that week.
If it becomes a meaningful meeting by introducing other programs, we
It is necessary to reconsider whether or not you are a believer.
Because for believers, the resurrection of Jesus Christ only happens once a year.
Because it shouldn't be something with beauty. Indeed, for Christians
Is the Lord's Resurrection worthless to think of only once a year?
It never is.
The Apostle Paul said that our faith would be in vain unless Christ was raised
Not only that, but we are still in our sins (1 Cor.
15:14,17). So, it's not just about keeping Easter once a year and reflecting on its meaning.
D. Resurrection faith, which always lives in the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus, must be the foundation.
will be
Nevertheless, the reason why Easter should be celebrated only once a year
Where are you? It also introduces new programs every year to get rid of the banality.
If you think that you have to design it and connect it with Easter to have a meaningful Easter, it is
It distorts the essence of Christianity and blasphemes Jesus.
If you still think that Easter should be celebrated and kept, then Jesus has not yet risen.
Don't you want to not believe that you did? That Jesus was resurrected means that Jesus
that you are still alive. However, Easter is limited to once a year.
Isn't keeping a commemoration because Jesus died? like a ritual
It's like a job.
This is what people say to me. 'Why do you celebrate all the feasts?
deny it? In the Old Testament, God gave feasts, and through it, the people of Israel
You made them grow in their faith!'
But what the Bible tells us is that now with Jesus
If you are living, you are already living in the resurrection. Therefore I
What I am trying to say is not in the sense of denying Easter, but in Christ.
always means that every day is Easter.
The Old Testament Israelites never said that their faith grew through the seasons.
not. Rather, God has given us a law called feasts and told us to keep it.
They always violated it and changed it for their own benefit.
Ultimately, what the Old Testament is trying to show is that even the law of feasts was fulfilled by Israel.
It's just that it can't be defended against. That is why Jesus came.
So He fulfilled all righteousness through the cross. Now whoever believes in him
It is in the resurrection of Christ, who is our righteousness.
Here the apostle Paul tells how he was called before King Agrippa.
The reason is that Jesus did not die, not simply a testimony for self-bragging.
He was and is still alive today. Believed in Jesus with the law before
They tried to kill people and destroy the church, but the resurrected Lord called Paul himself.
that you said it.
Verses 22 and 23 make this clear. “With God’s help, am I today?
It must be the prophets and Moses that stand up and testify before people high and low.
All that was said was that it was so, that Christ would suffer, and that among the dead
He will be the first to rise from the dead to proclaim light to Israel and to the Gentiles.
It is said."
Then Festus, who heard Paul's proclamation, said, "Paul, you are crazy.
Science will drive you crazy” (verse 24). Indeed, Festus was at the mercy of the resurrection of Jesus.
I wasn't interested in it. 25:19 says: "Only their servants
Regarding the doctrine, or what Paul claims to be, the dead of a man called Jesus
It's just litigation over one matter," he reports to King Agrippa.
Also, it doesn't seem like it will do anything to him.
But the Jews hated the resurrection of Jesus. Not interested or disliked
It is the same as not believing in the resurrection of Jesus. But here we
It must be seen that the fundamental reason why the Jews wanted to kill Paul was
is to do something. It is the apostles’ account of Jesus’ suffering, death and resurrection.
It was to convey something.
From the beginning of the book of Acts, the apostles preached the death and resurrection of Jesus on the cross.
(2:23-32, 3:14-15, 4:10, etc.). The Jews hated it. "The apostles to the people
As they were speaking, the priests, the temple officers, and the Sadducees came and taught the people.
And I hate to preach the resurrection of Jesus from the dead” (4:1,2).
uh there Do you unconditionally hate the resurrection preached by those who believe in Jesus?
All.
Why do they dislike them? On this matter, 4:7 says,
They brought the apostles to the council, and the Jewish religious leaders said, "What authority and who
Did you do this for a reason?” That is, they say that Jesus is not dead.
It was about what authority and by whose name was this being preached.
Resurrection of Jesus simply means that Jesus died and rose again.
I mean that wasn't what it was doing. To keep preaching in the power and name of Jesus
This is because it assumes that Jesus is alive and continues to work.
is. From the point of view of the Jewish leaders, they were the ones who took the initiative to kill Jesus.
It is true that Jesus continues to preach the way of the cross while saying that Jesus is alive.
as a serious matter.
The Apostle Paul said that even before King Agrippa, only Jesus
It means that we have no choice but to preach the suffering, death, and resurrection of here tied up
The fact that I was even there was able to preach the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ
Paul understands that it is for this purpose.
In other words, it is possible to preach the gospel here and here, or
It means that the one who does this is the risen and living Lord. he is still
It means that you have no choice but to tell because you are alive.
No force in the world can block the risen Lord and thwart the Lord's gospel.
is that it cannot. So, so far, Paul has been telling the story of his past.
is. In the past, they tried to turn the work of Jesus and the church into nothing with the law.
is. But Paul is now bound because the risen Lord has called him.
We have no choice but to show Jesus as it is.
Nevertheless, Paul felt no shame in himself to be bound.
It was something that could not be thought of as a thing, an inconvenience, or even suffering.
I did. Jesus was judged in that way, and Jews and Gentiles were united.
It reveals that he was killed by force.
So, what does the resurrection of Jesus mean to us today? Paul
You can reveal the gospel and testify of the cross of the Lord even in your bondage like
are you? We easily think of the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus as sentimental.
tend to do. The Resurrection of Jesus was just an easy, random thing.
no. It happened in the scene of suffering and death.
Now that my environment is good, we can testify of the Lord's gospel as much as we want
I think. My husband is still in good health and the children do not have any problems.
Don't think that you can easily testify to the cross of the Lord in your thoughts. therefore
Don't assume that I can live like Paul did. we can live like that
There is not.
Because Paul was also holding on to the resurrected Lord, even in his bondage
I was able to preach the gospel of the Lord regardless of the circumstances. it's the Lord
ability. It is the power that holds us from the living Lord. Even now
When the living Lord has full control over us, we preach the gospel as the gospel.
It is something that can prove that the Lord is Lord.
That is why Festus or King Agrippa, who did not know the resurrection, or the wisdom of Judaism
In the eyes of the priests, they can only see Paul as crazy. me without resurrection
In the eyes of anyone in the world, preaching the cross of Christ is crazy.
is made to appear.
There was an incident where the members of the Geumran Church surrounded the broadcasting station and started a protest.
Due to this problem, PC communication is also very noisy. Most of the comments
It is that the MBC broadcasting station is misrepresenting and oppressing Christianity.
I am not interested in However, from my personal point of view,
All. Because of that incident, not only Geumran Church, but the entire Korean Church
It is the fact that the truth of who you believe in has been fully revealed.
was believing in That is what is being revealed through this case.
Of course, the world doesn't know. But everyone who believes in Jesus Christ
It is the direction of the city cross.
In the world of the resurrection, when we see in the Lord, the Lord of the resurrection holds us
Because you are there, I see the cross every day and see Jesus Christ who was crucified.
It is to see and realize that it is possible to deliver. we say
To deal with writing is to confirm that kind of grace of the Lord.
Our belief in the resurrection of Jesus simply means that my resurrection will be accomplished in the distant future.
It is not a vague expectation that it will turn out well. In the resurrection world of Jesus at this moment
It must be confirmed by the word that we live in. Jesus' resurrection is death
When the kingdom of new life without death has come to this earth
Door.
Like Paul, even if you are bound like this, you will die every day and be raised to life anew.
Living as a being who is not afraid of the death of the world if you are a believer who experiences
is. We should call it the resurrection faith.
Resurrection faith is a new special program for Easter.
It is not of the nature to be refreshed or to have a new faith that was not there.
Resurrection faith means dying on the cross with the Lord every day and living anew by God.
It has to be just a living by taking it.
Even if I fall or fail, I do not accept it as mine, and my whole life is still alive.
A believer is one who lives by acknowledging that it belongs to God. Such a person preaches the gospel
Whether people hear it or not, it only preaches the gospel of the Lord.