Title: The Journey of Faith
Contents
Subject: The Journey of Faith
Bible text:
Genesis 9:8-17 God's Duty to Remember (Burden)
Mark 1:9-15 The journey of faith from baptism through temptation to faithfulness
Genesis 9:8-17 God's Duty to Remember (Burden)
The text should be read in the context of a flood. The Flood was the first attempt to uproot evil from the world as a purifying banishment without the volume of water for God to cover the earth because of human sin. The text is interpreted in two ways only as the failure of the Flood in fact. The Flood, YHWH's decision, is a complex mistake. God's promises are a time of imagining human frailty as a complex being rather than a symbol of unchanging and good things in the end. The text that focuses on human-centered evil tendencies is repeated. This repetition emphasizes that the defilement within the human heart cannot be washed away by the flood, and that God could not determine the color of creation through his work of defilement.
The text goes from the sacrificial dharma to the story of the flood, which continues in the priest's perspective rather than the divinely determined succession of YHWH. The mistake and basis for the flood that the early priests predicted was because they placed the account of a change from human sin toward God. The Flood was YHWH's account from a human point of view, and was a meaningless and tragic expulsion from human darkness without change. To make the story more meaningful in that God can change this tragic exile, the Flood could be read with a view of God as a priestly decree. The text scrutinizes the changes in God after the flood.
The text sees the flood as the priest's discourse. Separate into two parts.
1-7 Focused on humans in front of the Flood.
The God who blessed Noah did not portray humanity as an active and positive character. God tolerated the Flood to introduce the prohibition on killing other people and drinking their blood by allowing human beings to leave the ark to eat vegetarian food instead of meat. The end result of this situation is that man devises the harbingers of death and terror beyond the break of creation.
8-17 Transformation of focus from man to God
8-11 Introduce the motive of the covenant.
12-17 The rainbow is a sign of the covenant.
What are the ways and duties of change in God's character? First, the content of the covenant entrusts destruction and is legally reflected along with the covenant. Second, it is a mark that determines destruction in a covenant that is out of condition, and God is not free in that sense. It is a promise that there will be no floods “never again.” Third, liberating destruction, God has commissioned this world to create a hope for the future.
The meaning of the flood, compiled for the priests, indicates that God will not leave this world long, but will exercise his duty. The rainbow in text 112-17 is a sign of God's power to remind us of this duty. God has entrusted the YHWH account of the Flood as a symbol that must be good for man. Here is hope. Hope is represented by a rainbow of cleanliness. So the rainbow is treated as an important function in the context of the covenant. God is constantly obligated to the world, bringing about change through the process of destruction. Our hope is in God rather than being recognized in ourselves.
Mark 1:9-15 The journey of faith from baptism through temptation to faithfulness
Through baptism the body dies and the spirit lives. This meaning speaks of Noah saved through the flood in the light of entering the kingdom of God, along with Christians saved through baptism. After the report of the ministry of John the Baptist (2-8) and the opening of the gospel (1), Mark reveals Jesus himself. Jesus is baptized (9-11), tempted (12-13), and has the power to preach (14-15). This power begins with evangelism, which speaks of passion in chapters 14-16.
Mark 1:1-11 is the story of Jesus' ministry. We introduce the problem of retelling the baptism of Jesus. 12-13 describes what happened between the beginning of Jesus' own public ministry and the ministry of John the Baptist in the first week after Hyeonjeong Joo. 14-15 begins preaching Jesus' words and explains the essence of Jesus' ministry (floating).
In this text we must learn the ministry through temptation in baptism, including the experience of Jesus. In this order we see color in action, not solidarity, emotion, or ideology with the followers of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit, who moved to the ministry only after that through the temptation signified by the beginning of the power of baptism.
How did you tempt Jesus Christ? Why did you tempt Jesus Christ? Symbolically, Jesus' temptation was a cosmic clash between the forces of evil and the forces of the good kingdom of God. The people of the first century where Jesus lived saw the wilderness as a place of temptation from the level of the wild beast. Animals were often viewed as demonic demons. During his temptation, Jesus was cared for by angels of God and harassed by Satan. On the face of temptation, the power of our Lord's Holy Spirit, through the grace of God's helping, is prepared for public life and manifests itself in the triumphant journey.
Mark tells us many things and explains them. But to proclaim the two items, first, the presence of the power of the Holy Spirit and the baptism do not isolate themselves in a real militant confrontation with the forces of evil. Christian faith is not immune from temptation. Rather, baptism and the grace of God are provided and prepared for a real encounter with evil as experience in this world. Second, during temptation, God is with us on our journey. Temptation is not the result of God's action, nor is it God's guide action. Instead, God may risk using Satan's temptations to guide, motivate, prepare, purify, and strengthen us to accomplish His will. The promise of faith is that God will wipe away every tear, but the present of destruction and death is with us, so that in the process of ultimately defeating death and destruction, God's grace to rise up from shame and grow from shame is with us. will be.
The message of grace is the gospel for Christians, both in temptation and honor as the Lord symbolized with us in Jesus Christ. His promises in our lives are an economy from God and not conquered by evil. Rather, we who profess the Lordship of Jesus Christ are called to walk safely through life on a journey of faithfulness related to the will of God.
If humanity does not forget the meaning of the rainbow in order to receive innumerable blessings of understanding God's cognition in the sacraments in the mystery of redemption, we may remember the promise of dealing with the temptations of this world with God's faithfulness. Lent is a time of sacrifice and devotion that accepts its meaning in relationship to God.
Believers, since when?
Believer, why is he a believer?
Believer, what should he do?
Believer, how does he express his humanity?
Believer, where and with whom does he live?
Believers, have you ever reflected on whether you fit the standards of the Bible and the constitution of the denomination?
Believers, are you confirming that by being born again the body dies and you are living by the Spirit?