Title: The Castaways/John 9:35-41
Contents A few years ago, Korea and China restored diplomatic ties after 82 years. Many people welcomed and rejoiced. However, at the Embassy of the Republic of China, they had to face the humiliation of lowering the Cheongcheon 100 Ilgi. The secretary of the Taiwanese Chinese Association in Seoul sent a letter of recommendation to the home country, requesting that the Korean protests be restrained in Taiwan in consideration of the position of the overseas Chinese in Korea. And the secretary said, "How can I forget this shame today? It's a molar. It's unfortunate to be kicked out of a certain group."
A young man who had been blind from birth was expelled from the Jewish council for defending Jesus, who had healed his eyes. At that time, being excommunicated from Judaism by the Jewish council was a lot of disadvantage and humiliation.
The parents of this young man apparently had Jesus healed their blind son, and if so, then this Jesus must be the Christ, the Messiah prophesied by many Old Testament prophets. Nevertheless, when these parents come to the Jewish investigation team, they speak cowardly.
The Jews saw this son as our son, and he was born blind. But I don't know who made it. Ask the boy, and he will tell you about himself because that girl is now a grown man. It is only natural that this blind young man doesn't actually know who Jesus is when Jesus comes to him. But the parents must have seen that Jesus had come to their Son and that He was Jesus. But, as to the reason why he did not reveal the fact that it was Jesus who opened his eyes and did not tell him, he shifted the blame to the son who had just opened his eyes and avoided an answer. 9:22
<The nurse said these things because whoever confessed that Jesus is the Christ was afraid of them, because they were determined to go out of school.> But this young man will not be able to open my eyes to the Jews except the Messiah whom God has sent . Hearing this, the Jews decided to expel this young man from school.
In today's text, verse 35
Focusing on the words <Jesus heard that they drove the man away, he met him and said, Do you believe in the Son of Man>, I will tell you about God who came to the people who were driven out.
People are kicked out of the community, kicked out of the family, kicked out of the church, kicked out of friends, kicked out of work, kicked out from husband, kicked out from school, etc. There are many cases in which people are kicked out of the community.
1. Why did we humans get kicked out?
God created Adam and Eve and created the Garden of Eden where they could live, and they lived there. However, when Satan tempted Eve's heart, greed began to work. When we saw the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil without greed, it would have been neither disgusting nor desirable. Did the serpent come and God really said not to eat? This is a word that stimulates Eve's greed. And the moment he saw the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden, Genesis 3:6
<When a woman saw that the tree was good for food, it was pleasing to the eye, and it was a tree desirable enough to make one wise.> Both desirable, tasty, and desirable are phenomena that occur when looking at things with the eyes of greed. As a result, their ears became darkened by greed and they forgot the promises of God. As a result, the couple were driven out of the garden.
Adam's attributes still remain with us.
Greed begets sin, and sin is driven out of life, and we grind our teeth in the darkness outside, and we become sad.
Even in our community, if you satisfy your greed, you will be automatically kicked out.
Among the trees in Indonesia, there is a tree called Upas. This tree grows well and is very lush. Small trees and weeds grow under this tree to a certain extent, but at some point it will wither all the plants under the tree. Today, there are people like this Upas. There is no such person who makes them grow under the shade until they grow up to a certain extent, and when they become disadvantaged, they make the people under them miserable. This greed will eventually be abandoned as a human group and you will be kicked out.
2) If you despise or envy others, you will be kicked out.
(1) Hagar despised Sarai and was driven out.
*(Reference) { Genesis 11 The House of Terah
77 years old +---------+----------+
| | | (Chaldaeur
Abram + Sarai / Nahor + Milcah Haran to Terah
| die before)
+-----------+---+----+
| | |
Lot milchah
Terah's Family in Haran
Old Terah (died at 205)
Abram and Sarai, who had no children
Lot without a father
After the death of his father Terah in the town of Cheonri,
Abram had a childless wife and fatherless nephew.
Hear the voice of God. You are your native relatives and fathers.
Leave the house and go to the land I have shown you.}
At Sarai's request, her maid, Hagar, conceives Abraham's son. After that, Hagar's attitude changed. Rather, he despises his master Sarai. After 13 years, Hagar is driven out of Abraham's house.3) This young man who appears in today's text was not driven out because of greed. It is not an eye when he envy or despise others.
Only because he wanted to follow Jesus. The Bible tells us that people are hated because of Jesus, persecuted because of Jesus, and driven out because of Jesus.
This blind young man was not the only one who was driven out by Jesus' will.
His mother Rebekah knew that Jacob had God's will, and while trying to solve it in a human way, he was kicked out of his father's house and kicked out of his maternal uncle Laban's house. I was kicked out unfairly. Paul was driven out by fellow Jews because of the mission that the Lord met in Damascus to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, and wherever he went, the Jews were driven out of Paul's city.
When the gospel came to Korea, they were cast out by their families just as the early church was cast out.
2. What is the situation of the person who was kicked out like this?
1) For whatever reason, those who are kicked out are lonely and lonely.
2) Those who are kicked out are ashamed.
3) Those who are kicked out are suffering.
3. God is the one who hears that he has been cast out and finds the person.
In verse 35
?쏻hen Jesus heard that they had driven the man away, he found him and said to him, ?쏡o you believe in me???
1) When you feel lonely and lonely because of Jesus, God will meet you.
Jacob tried to fulfill God's will for Jacob, which his mother Rebekah saw, in a human way, but instead made his brother and his father uncomfortable. Leaving Beersheba and heading for Haran, we came to a place where the sun had set and there was nowhere to lie down, so we cut stones and fell asleep. God appeared in a dream and blessed Jacob.
?쏧 am with you, I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land, and I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.??
Jacob wakes up and realizes that he is precious at dawn. <The Lord is indeed here, and I do not know it.>
Being lonely and lonely, there is no way to relieve this loneliness and loneliness through other encounters in the world. Meet the Lord and listen to His word. Do you believe in the Son of Man, Lord, who is he?
You have seen him, but it is he who speaks to you now. Hear our worship, hear our hymns, and believe that the One who speaks to us knows our loneliness and finds us.
2) The Lord who came to us after hearing the word of being cast out examines and listens to our circumstances.
Hagar, who went in as a male servant and listened to the master's words, tried to give birth to Abram's son, but despised his master, but instead was abused by his master and kicked out.
At this time, Hagar named this spring as follows. The God who met me at the well of Beer-la-hai-roi means that he sees everything in my life. When I thought that I was cast out of my life, God did not cast us out, but rather led us out. You are watching more closely.
3) Hearing that we were cast out, God hears our prayers.
If you were to pick the most outstanding king among the kings of Israel, you would probably recommend King David.
However, there will be fewer kings who were exiled and chased out as much as King David. When Samuel is anointing one of Jesse?셲 sons who will become king, the seven sons of Jesse are nervous about becoming king. God tells Samuel that there is no one he likes here. People look at the appearance, but I You said you see the center. Among the candidates, there was a son that Jesse put aside. That son was Jesse's eighth son David. When David returned from the battle with Goliath, people sang a folk song that people respected David more than King Saul. Saul killed a thousand thousands and David killed ten thousand ten thousand. Because of this, David was pursued by his father-in-law and hid in a cave and took refuge in the enemy country. Not only that, he was driven out of Jerusalem by his son Assassin's rebellion. There is a poem written by King David while being chased by his son. Psalm 3
Verse 1 ?쏮y enemies, O LORD, are so many; for there are many who rise up against me.??Verse 4 ?쏧 cry out to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me from his holy mountain.??David became a great king who overcame many afflictions because he believed in God who hears prayers in the midst of this chase.
If the blind man had not been satisfied with simply having his eyes opened and had not experienced the difficulties, suffering and humiliation of being expelled from the Jews, he would not have been in the class of blessing to meet Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
God sometimes puts us in a place where we are driven out. God meets us in difficult situations in the lonely situation of life.
Do you sometimes feel alienated in your hometown, at home, among friends?
Are you struggling with your economic life? This is the time when God's meeting is ready.
Aren't we missing out on the opportunity that is right in front of us?
If you do not see God at the moment when you are driven out about everything, you can breathe, eat, and sleep, but in fact, he is almost dead.
*Quoted from the book "Let's meet at the top"
Born in 1950, Perry, at the age of 34, accidentally misread another person's blood test by a doctor. You are now leukemia.
I gave up my marriage, I gave up my job, and I spent tens of thousands of won in the hospital to pay for treatment and live in the hospital. Rather than drinking and hanging out with other people day and night, I was preparing to die alone.
After the initial diagnosis was made, the test was repeated 5 years later. A diagnosis was made that there is no disease. In fact, a person named Harry has not been buried for the past 5 years, but I was actually a dead person.
Satan kicks us out of the way from health to success at work. But we do not mean that the expulsion is the end. Rather, the chase is a vicious trick of Satan who tries to make us like the dead by misguided misdiagnosis in us who are alive.
Although I was driven out of the Jews, I pray for the blessing of meeting Jesus Christ and meeting Jesus Christ like this young man.