Title: The Wounded Healer (Luke 4:16-19)
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Why did Jesus Christ come to this earth?
In a word, it is to destroy the power of the devil.
This is to make us, who were children of the devil, live as children of God.
How did Jesus Christ come to this earth?
That is the ministry of today's text.
In a word, it is 'to heal the wounded'.
Let's read verses 18-19 of the text once again.
Shortly before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the surrounding houses were built to expand the stadium.
I started to dismantle it and found a lizard hammer pierced by a nail.
So I asked the owner of the house what was going on, and the owner of the house said he wanted to repair the house three years ago.
I've nailed it, but I haven't nailed it since. Then, for three years, I investigated how this lizard was able to live.
Another lizard was asking for food countless times.
So the lizard was removed from the nail and treated so that it would not be hurt, and the two lizards ran away with joy.
I do not know whether the relationship between this lizard, etc. is a friend, a lover, or a parent-child relationship.
Having someone in a good relationship could have saved a life like this.
Another thing we'll notice is that the lizard can bring food, but pull the nail.
It was impossible to give.
It is the same with us humans.
There are things we can do and things we can't.
So says the Danish philosopher Kiero Kegaard.
‘To be human is to ride the train of despair, pass through the tunnel of pain, and
At the end of the day, this is the limit of our human beings.
But that's it. Our Lord Jesus Christ transcends our limits.
And he tells us to go beyond our limits. I hope you believe it.
Today's text is also from Isaiah 61:1-3 in the Old Testament.
In other words, during the time of the prophet Isaiah, Isaiah chapters 1-39 deal with the chastisement and judgment of the Israelites who left God.
However, chapters 40 to 66 tell the words of God's salvation and comfort.
Our Bible has 66 books. In other words, Books 1 to 39 speak of God's judgment in the Old Testament, but the 27 New Testament books, 40 to 66, speak of comfort and salvation through the fulfillment of the prophecies of Jesus Christ.
However, as Jesus Christ began his public life, Isaiah 61:1-3 speaks of his public ministry.
In a word, it is a word of comfort, saying, 'I will heal the wounded'.
In fact, no one is harmless.
However, some people become discouraged and despair because of their wounds, and others because of those wounds.
On the contrary, it does well.
How is this possible?
It was because he had the skill to react to the wound.
Just as life requires strategies and skills, wounds also need these strategies and skills.
'Paul Tournier', a doctor and author, wrote the first sentence in his book 'Human Healing' like this:
Start.
'There is no death in man. Only humans kill themselves.”
In other words, 'Humans don't hurt, they just hurt themselves'
If a person smokes, they continue to smoke even though they know they are at a higher risk of developing lung cancer.
If you smoke, the person is killing himself.
If a person with a bad liver continues to drink alcohol even though he knows that it is life-threatening if he continues to drink, he kills himself.
Continuing to engage in the act even though the affair destroys the family and increases the risk of contracting AIDS
You must know that you are not only killing yourself, but harming the health of your descendants as well.
A young man smokes a lot and the doctor warns him to stay away from cigarettes because his health is very bad.
gave But an old man passed by and saw this young man smoking a cigarette.
It is said that 'the doctor told you to stay away from cigarettes' so he was smoking.
People are bound like this.
Also, when someone sees a pretty woman, he chases after him, so his wife scolds him, saying, "Why do you keep following other women?" Then, now this man doesn't follow women, but when a pretty woman passes by, he turns his head, turns his eyes, and starts looking at him. Then his wife says: Honey, please don't do that.. Then this man said
They said, 'You can't even see the menu because you're fasting'.
What a terrifying obsession?
We need to get rid of this obsession and bondage.
That's right. I can tell you that healing wounds is the same way.
If you leave it unattended even though it can heal the wound, you will become ill because of the wound and
It will kill you.
But everyone! God does not leave us alone.
He actively solves our problems.
Jeremiah 8:22 “Is not there brimstone in Gilead, and is there not a physician in it?
How can my people not be healed?"
Here is our hope.
God has prepared a doctor who can heal our wounds.
That doctor was a prophecy about Jesus Christ, and God has appointed Jesus Christ to be the doctor for us.
And it is to heal us by pouring out the brimstone Spirit of Gilead in this Jesus Christ. I hope you believe it.
Dear all!
God has established Jesus Christ as the healer of the wounded.
This is also the purpose of Jesus Christ's coming to this earth.
So, doesn't the book 'Hen Rauwen's Wounded Healer' speaks of the Messiah like this? 'Rabbi Joshua ben Levy' met the Prophet Elijah by chance at the entrance of the cave 'Rabbi Simeron ben Yohai'. He asks Elijah.
When will the Messiah come? Go and ask him directly. Elijah answers.
Then the rabbi, where is he? When asked, Elijah sits at the gate.
Again the rabbi asks: How can I know him? Then Elijah sat among the poor, who had scars all over their body. People heal their wounds all at once and then bind them all together, but He heals them one place at a time and then binds them again.
And he'll probably need me, so I won't delay even for a moment.
You must always be ready,' you're probably talking to yourself.
Dear all! Jesus Christ He is wounded.
But he does not suffer from his own wounds, but rather heals the wounds of others.
Jesus Christ uses his own wounds as the source of healing power to heal our wounds. I hope you believe it.
His wounds are those of poverty. It is the wound of being rejected. It is the wound of betrayal.
It is an abandoned wound. It is a wound that has been despised and despised.
Look at the wounds of Jesus Christ. Then our own wounds will look shabby.
But remember. The fact that Jesus hurts our small wounds and wants to heal them. Amen-
Another is to long for the grace of God that makes wounds glorified.
Dear all!
We must bring our wounds under the grace of God.
The same thing depends on whose hands it is entrusted to. A knife is also a surgical tool when the doctor hears it
But when a robber hears it, it becomes a murder weapon.
Even the same song tastes different depending on who is entrusted with it.
The same story depends on which author's hand makes a great work, and it is not.
'In whose hand we put it, our wounds change and our future changes.'
So if you have a wound, bring it to Jesus Christ and He will change it for you.
In Kim Seok-gyun's praise, there is a song called 'Why am I the only one suffering hardships?'
1. Don't complain about why I'm the only one who suffers. The blessings from the Lord behind the hardships.
Thanks for the preview.
2. Don't blame yourself for why you came to this sadness. The grace you received from the Lord rather than what you lost
Thank you for more.
If you bring the ugly wounds of suffering, sorrow, and pain to the Lord, I believe that He will bind them beautifully.
Ruth is a woman grieving over the loss of her husband, but when he received God's favor, he married Boaz and gave birth to Obed, David's grandfather, wasn't it? Hallelujah-
The same is true of the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15. When the second son, who received his father's umbrella in advance and spent all his money in a foreign country, wasted his money, remembered God's grace and said, 'Your father's house has plenty of food.
That's why today's text verses 18-19 speak." Let's read it.
Dear all!
Freedom and liberation are what those who are captive to sin and death most need.
In John 8, the Lord freed the woman caught in adultery, saying, 'Neither will I condemn my sin, do not sin again.'
And we used to be blind to money, fame, power, health, so we could see Jesus Christ.
I couldn't see the kingdom of God, but now I see Jesus Christ with my eyes open and see God
Those who see the country. I wish you this kind of joy.
And the Lord gives freedom to the oppressed. Looking at the death of Lazarus in John 11, we can see that the Lord gave joy to the family who were oppressed by this sorrow by saying, 'Lazarus, get up.' You can tell that you are free. I hope you believe it.
Wounds are on everyone.
But the best way to overcome this wound is to live a life of death and resurrection
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That is why the Apostle Paul said in Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives.”
I want you to kill yourself on the cross.
So please don't stress and get hurt.
Chuseok, a unique holiday, is approaching in 6 days.
MBC conducted a survey on this holiday.
That is, there are the best 5 lies between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law.
Among them, the 5 best lies mother-in-law tells daughter-in-law
Fifth - Sleep a little more, I'll make breakfast for you
Fourth - when I was a daughter-in-law, I did more than that
Third - I must die quickly so that you guys will be comfortable.
Second - let's eat my birthday table as it is already there
Now guess the mothers-in-law. What is the first?
First - sweetheart. I think of you as a daughter.
Conversely, the best 5 lies a daughter-in-law tells her mother-in-law
Fifth- I want to become a mother-in-law like a mother
Fourth - I kept calling, but he said he wasn't there.
Third- The food that my mother made is the most delicious
Second - I'm sorry for giving you less pocket money.
Now, shall the daughters-in-law answer?
First - mother. I'll go already. Stay a few more and go.
Don't be fooled. Don't say things that aren't inside.
William James, a professor of psychology at Harvard University,
'Wisdom is knowing what to overlook'
Do you think the wound will heal now?
Then live the life of the wounded.
The greatest glory of a person who has been healed is to care for the wounded.
Jesus Christ healed us as a wounded healer.
Then let us heal others as wounded healers.
Why? Because there is no one in this world without wounds...
This Chuseok, we share the gospel of the resurrection of Jesus Christ to our friends and neighbors in our hometown.
I sincerely pray that you will become a little Jesus and live the life of a wounded healer.
I sincerely pray that this grace of God overflows upon you.