Title: Tigers live in the mountains
1. Introduction / Today's text says that the central theme of the <Christian identity> issue is the birthplace of
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Jesus said that Christians are like salt. Salt is salt, soy sauce is in its saltiness. If salt loses its saltiness, it becomes worthless and is thrown away on the road. If a Christian loses his Christian taste, he or she is a Christian. is no longer a Christian. Just as salt has its own identity, saltiness, and acts as a preservative, revealing the benefits of its existence to all people, Christians must live a Christian life in themselves, in society, and in the church community to become a Christian before God and people. It is said that the value of Today, we would like to share grace while meditating on this topic by connecting it with <Tiger>.
2. Tigers live in the mountains
Tigers live in the mountains. A tiger that has left the mountain is no longer a tiger. There is no crucian carp in bungeoppang, and there is no curry in India, so there are tigers that look like tigers in the zoo, but there are no real tigers. Blue eyes blazing, jumping from mountain to mountain, ivory fangs flashing in its reddish jaw, climbing a thousand-year-old rock in a pine forest and swallowing a crescent moon, a tiger roaring loudly as if the whole mountain was about to leave. It is said that a tiger who lives on the dead meat thrown away or loose is not a tiger. The elegant pure white 白磁 shines when it sits neatly on a neat doorcase covered with hwamun stone. Aren't the best plum blossoms in the snow?
People are like him. Back support is important for a soldier, but still, a soldier is a soldier who stands in the forefront with bullets flying around, cannons exploding, and intense tension in his eyes. If you are a student, with a single suit, a lunch box and two bus tokens, you feel like you have conquered the whole world, and it is like a real student when you vomit about academics, poetry, and arrogance. It is the true quality of a pastor to go out like a rhinoceros with a big heart that cares about the world with the heart of Jesus without getting caught up in any kind of world.
3. Tigers drive the wind
When a tiger appears in the bamboo forest, the bamboo forest is shaken by the wind driven by the tiger. Tigers always travel with the wind. When a tiger appears, something is different. Have you ever seen a tiger in the mountains, like in the animal kingdom? What does it look like? A tiger has the dignity and dignity that only a tiger has. Even for the same product, the quality of the product is different depending on the person and company who made it. It's the same Beethoven sheet music, but the emotion is different depending on who plays it. Because the wind that the product or music drives is different.
So are people. It's the same person, but the wind they drive is different. You know Mahatma Gandhi, who wears shabby cotton clothes, skinny body, and thin gold-rimmed glasses? Gandhi weighs about 40 kg. But when that humble Gandhi says one word, 500 million people all over India listen and listen. For what? It is because of the wind that his great soul in his small body is driven by. Mahatma means great soul. Gandhi was driving a great wind that moved people. Not only Gandhi, but everyone drives the wind. The one who drives the evil and mean wind, the one who drives the second and most frivolous wind, the one who blows the cold wind, the one who drives the gloomy and dark wind, the one who drives a wind that is just plain and has no feeling. There is.
4. The Christian's wind is not the wind of a dead mystery, but the wind of a new spirit
Jesus is not a dead question, but the one who carried the wind of a new spirit. Wherever Jesus went, the sick were healed, freed from the oppression of sin, those who had suffered for free, found new meaning, and those who were trembling in fear were driven by winds of courage. Just as a tiger drives the wind, Christians are the ones who drive the wind of Jesus.
So, are we really carrying the wind of Jesus? You will have to examine yourself deeply. If we do not have such a desire, we should ask the Lord who does not rebuke us and is pleased to give us generously. Ask, seek, and you must get that wind from the one who said to knock on the door. So wherever we go, we must let that very wind of Jesus swirl with power. Just as a tiger appears in a bamboo forest and the wind that the tiger drives shakes violently, so when a Christian appears in a forest full of sorrow, anger, pain, foolishness, doubt, lies, inferiority, fear and cowardice, the freedom that a Christian drives We must allow the work of the Spirit of Jesus to shatter all of them into pieces like earthen vessels with an iron rod. This is the second part of being Christian.
5. Closing Story /
He said that if salt loses its saltiness, it is thrown out and trampled by people. It is said that when Christians lose their holy worship and holy wind, they are trampled on by people. It means being laughed at. It means being insulted. Lord! It can't be. Oh Lord, here I am. Help me!