Title: True Man (John 19:28-30)
Content "I faintly heard the sound of music calling me. It was screaming to live from high up. I think I heard the sound of angel wings. But soon I will stay in the world with a vague thought of a lost traveler. Everyone feels unfamiliar. A soul in me There is such a thing as this, and it bothers me to go back to the garden from which I left, but I have no memory of the garden.
Life eats something hard, but isn't it just an unfortunate existence that starts with pain and ends with pain? Isn't this a picture of a madman that has colors here and there, but is drawn out of order, leaving nothing behind. In this way, should I not end under one stone monument? Who am I and what should I become?” It is probably Nietzsche’s writings. I worried a lot about my only life, but now that I believe in Jesus, the life I have no regrets is the greatest. It can't be a question
The answer is simple. Look at Jesus and think. He lived his life on earth as a purely human. He was truly a real person. He truly lived a wonderful life with no regrets. Like Nietzsche and philosophers, he did not wallow in trouble, not knowing where he came from and where he was going.
He was full of power, but never wielded it. He was indeed a free man.
He was poor but wealthy, weak and limited like any other human being, yet he was too free. There were many people who tormented him, there were many incidents that made him unfair, and there were many people who betrayed him, but he was always full of love and lived as a God in human form. It is at peace. There is no grave for him, nor a great tombstone, but he lives in us now. He is indeed our Lord.
His life as an ordinary human is not impossible. The apostle Paul was living the life of a certain new Jesus. “Calling as servants of God, endure much, tribulation, privation, affliction, beatings, imprisonment, tumult, toil, sleeplessness, inability to eat, cleanliness, knowledge, longsuffering, kindness, the influence of the Holy Spirit, and without deceit. In the word of love and truth, and in the power of God, it is said to be “a weapon of righteousness”. He raised the dead and saw the third heaven.
"Of glory and dishonor, of evil and beautiful names, as deceitful, yet true, as unknown, and not slain; as sorrowful, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things. ." (2 Corinthians 6:4-10) He was already living a life like Jesus. He was enjoying a life that made many people rich with everything he had with a beautiful name before God and his chosen people.
Then, the life of Jesus who made Paul like this is divided into two parts. One side was to live the life of the Son of God on his own. It was a life he could live. Because he was not an ordinary man, but a son of God and a sinless man, he was able to live a perfect life. So, at the moment of death, he could say “It is finished” with satisfaction. It was truly an ideal, heroic life that was perfectly accomplished.
In fact, he was born under absolutely no happy circumstances. He was a second-class citizen of the Roman Empire and, above all, the son of a poor carpenter. His character wasn't great and he wasn't well educated. But no one has ever fully fulfilled God's command like that. He was a man free from all evil situations. Poverty, adversity, fraud, betrayal, injustice, and all curses could not help him. He never lost peace and joy.
He was like God, even in tears. His love for mankind never faded. He was a friend to the abandoned, a neighbor to the poor, and a doctor to the sick. He was everyone's help.
He had nothing, but lacked nothing. It was because his roots were connected with God. He loved everyone. He forgave his enemies who crucified and insulted him, and was free from hatred, sorrow, and injustice.
He was also free from death. There was nothing in the world that could stop him. There was nothing to stop him from his power, his joy, his peace, and his vigor. He became a god and was resurrected. Because God Himself was in him and provided all of God's things, he lived like God and became like God. Was it the level of life that humans blinded by the world's honor and riches could imagine? Does he not exist forever as a resurrected body?
To him, love itself was joy. If we understand this love, the joy will never stop. How can we be happy while serving and sacrificing others? But God's love is more and more abundant than we can give. This was the practice of love that Jesus experienced. Without understanding this love, you will never experience the joy of Jesus. Jesus loved everyone as himself.
Next, another aspect was a life that helped those who followed him to live such a life. This did not stop with just showing the pattern. In fact, he made that life possible by taking on their sins and curses and giving them power. He forgave sins toward the paralytic.
Then he got up and ordered him to go with the merchants so that he could experience healing and a new life. Even today, Jesus gives all his followers the power to live like himself.
The only way Jesus lived such a life was faith. He believed that he could live such a life because God was in him. God is the God of faith, and Jesus is the Jesus of faith. We too must be people of faith. God is already in the believer and wants to start such a great life. All we have to do is believe and act. Believe this fact, think as it is, speak and act according to this fact. Jesus is helping it.
Many people have a misconception about being filled with the Holy Spirit. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, you are afraid and you think that seeing the secrets of heaven, performing miracles, and prophesying will come naturally. Man thinks that God uses man like a machine even if he does nothing. Was Jesus a robot of God because he was filled with the Holy Spirit? He had his own thoughts and will. By obeying the word of God and acting as a child of God, he was making the fruit of being filled with the Holy Spirit by himself.
God puts His will in us and causes us to do it. He never works by force. It is we who obey him. He never works by force. It is we who obey him. To obey him means to trust and obey his words more than our sensory experience. Jesus always lived his word.
Words always came out of his mouth, and he acted on them. Even now, God has a will in us through His Word and causes us to act.
What did his words say? It has already made us new for our salvation and made us able to participate in the great life of Jesus. Like Jesus, we can make ourselves in the great work of saving others. Jesus now wants us to continue that life in us. We begin to participate in that great life. It is to remember that we are like Jesus and begin to live that way.
First of all, we can be free like Jesus. From hatred, from anxiety, from sin and evil, from all lack... We act in imitation of Jesus. Jesus never made a mistake, but we repeat our mistakes and sins. Nevertheless, we are never discouraged. It is always getting up again and continuing in the way of Jesus. Then we come to realize that the power and life of Jesus are gradually taking over our lives. Like Jesus, we are happy, at peace, and free.
What is freedom We must be free from sin, sickness, and poverty to earn a lot of money, become famous, and become like a happy pig. We must also be free from vain greed. I would rather love the source of that wealth and glory and pass it on to others. In the process, you experience true freedom.
John Rockefeller (1839-1937), America's most denial, donated countless amounts of money to charitable causes after believing in Jesus. He and his son withdrew from the front lines of work for philanthropy and missionary work. He founded the University of Chicago and contributed more than $410 million. From that university came great figures from America. To the east of the University of Chicago is a church built to commemorate him. This great church is the main building of the university, where graduation ceremonies are held.
Today, the Rockefeller Foundation is the largest philanthropic organization in the United States. Numerous charitable organizations across the United States honor his name. On 123rd Street in Manhattan is the colossal riverside church. Built by Rockefeller, this is America's most iconic church. Led by some of the country's greatest preachers, the church has over 70 bells playing beautiful music. Every time they hear this music, they can't help thinking of Rockefeller. The true man, Jesus, was alive in Rockefeller.