Title: Sea of Anxiety, Sea of Power
We are now living in an era of uncertainty. In a predictable and certain era, we can live a stable life, but in a world where everything is uncertain, we can't help but be anxious all the time. Therefore, the age we live in can be called the <Age of Anxiety>. And when the semantic cognates of this <anxiety> are fear, dread, concern, worry, worry, etc., the age we live in is indeed <the age of uncertainty, anxiety, worry, fear, concern, worry>.
Wouldn't one day be suddenly given a huge sentence by a doctor? Will the person I love now change his mind? A gas explosion, a building collapse, a bridge collapse, or a subway explosion? Will I be unemployed? It's okay to be like that for now, aren't you going to end up in a situation where you have to take poop and pee? Will our children be able to live in this world properly in the future? Aren't my parents going to get divorced? El Ni o, La Ni a, global warming, and air pollution, will not this earth be destroyed soon? Isn't our economy on the brink of catastrophe? Isn't my child being drawn to drugs, suicide, violence, and criminal gangs? Will my business prosper in the future, or will it be bankrupt? Doesn't my life just end in vain like rust powder crumbling down while floating around? Can you live like this and go to heaven?
All of us are anxious, anxious, fearful, anxious, worried, anxious about these problems. Theologian Paul Tillich understands all these anxieties as the first anxiety about fate and death, the second anxiety about the emptiness and meaninglessness of life, and the third anxiety about guilt and condemnation.
2. Anxiety itself is a bigger problem than the condition of anxiety
# People who died on the battlefield during World War II were more anxious and afraid of war from the rear.
There were more dead.
# A person is trapped in a refrigerating vehicle by accident. Three days later, the man was found dead.
All. The refrigeration car was a broken car. He did not die of freezing, but of anxiety and fear.
will be
# In Medieval Europe, a farmer is going to his castle and meets a wife who stops her wagon. that wife is
is a plague, and I will only kill 10 people in your castle, so I ask you to burn it. a carriage approaching the castle
There are already dozens of tubes coming out. A farmer protests against his wife. No, about 10 people.
didn't you belong? But what is this? Mrs. Yeom Byeong, I haven't even entered the castle yet.
is it sound They were terrified to hear that I was leaving and died.
Anxiety and fear of losing a job rather than losing a job itself destroys people more than losing a job itself. Anxiety itself, fear itself, is a bigger problem than the object or condition of anxiety. The reality is completely different from what we feared when confronted with it.
3. God's Word on <Anxiety Syndrome>
# Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; You are with me.
Your rod and your staff comfort me (Psalm 23:4).
# I know the thoughts I have toward you, says the LORD, and not calamity, but peace.
To give you hope for the future (Jeremiah 29:11)
# It is not the intention of the Lord to cause trouble and sorrow in life (Lamentations 3:33).
# Therefore I say to you, for your life, what you will eat, and what you will drink,
Do not worry about what you will wear (Matthew 6:25-34)
# Do not let your hearts be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me (John 14:1)
# In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage, I have overcome the world (John 16:33).
# God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind
ni ( 2 Timothy 1:7 )
4. The message of the text - Sea of Anxiety, Sea of Power
Read the text carefully and feel the situation in your body. After Jesus had preached all day (Mark 4:1-9), he taught the disciples' questions in detail (Mark 4:10-34), and this time he went to the other side of Galilee and boarded a boat to preach the gospel. The tired Lord is sleeping on a pillow in the stern of the ship.
After rowing the boat for a long time, when they reached the middle of the sea, a gust of wind, a mad wind, blew up and a mountain of waves crashed over the boat. The disciples are engulfed in extreme anxiety with the fear and dread of death. The disciples said, ?쏷eacher, do you not care that we are dying? > and shakes the sleeping Jesus to wake him up. For the disciples, this sea is a sea of fear and anxiety about death.
When Jesus woke up and rebuked the wind, he commanded the sea, ?쏝e still, be still.??The wind stopped and the sea became calm. And he said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Why do you have no faith?" For Jesus, this sea is not a sea of fear and anxiety, but a sea of power in which Jesus' power is revealed.
5. Closing story / The disciples shook the Lord and woke him up as much as the situation was. We would have done the same with the disciples. But Jesus rebukes him by saying, ?쏻hy are you so afraid? Why do you have no faith in Idaji???Why are you rebuking me?
Jesus rebuked us for not believing in the God of power that gives us hope and not death, but life-giving power, and for not being able to boldly fight the storms and great waves that are the object of fear and anxiety, but rather being immersed in fear and anxiety that we are ?쐂ead now?? . Why couldn't you trust God and face the problem with courage? It is a rebuke. Do you have a fearful and anxious problem? Jesus said, <Believe in God, believe also in me, and with that faith, conquer and rule the problem itself.>