Title: What God Does
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As Jesus was going, he saw a man blind from birth. The disciples asked him, "Rabbi, whose sin is it that this man was born blind, or is it him or his parents?" Jesus answered, "It was not because of this man's or his parents' sins, but to show him what God was doing. called Spirit. Imagine the day when yet hath sent me, we will be unable to appeal one night a duck that you work when no one else. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud, put it on his eyes, and said, "Go to the pool of Siloam and wash." (Siloam literally means sent) So he went and washed, and came with bright eyes. Neighbors, and those who had seen him before, said, "Isn't this the one who sat and begged? Some say it's him, and some say he's like him. But they said I am." They asked, "Then how are your eyes opened?" But a man named Jesus made clay and put it on my eyes, and he said to me, “Go to Siloam and wash.” So I went and washed, and I was able to see (John 9:1-11).
Today's text is the story of Jesus opening the eyes of a man who was born blind. The content of this Bible is that the Pharisees led a man who was born blind to Jesus and asked, "Is this man blind because of his own sin or the sins of his parents?" At this time, Jesus answered, "It was not his own sin, nor his parents' sin, but that God might show what God was doing through him." This is an event that opened your eyes. And the controversy of these events filled John 9. The lesson we want to learn from this Bible today is that, first, humans are not beings who live under the control of fate, but are creatures who create their own destiny.
Being born blind is not a human tragedy, but the question of what humans do as a blind person is a matter of human existence. The meaning of our existence is determined by the circumstances under which we are today and what we do today. Today's situation is therefore not fate, but material and material for what I do. Therefore, in Christian theology, the fatalism of human beings is denied. It is the position that humans can create their own destiny. I would like to make it clear to all of you who are in various situations today that the given situation is not an inevitable fate. This is because Jesus is saying that it is not the sin of him or his parents.
Then the next question is what to do. What humans should do, that determines what humans are. Who I am is a matter of what I am a human being. What I do determines the fate of my human being, and the value of my existence. Jesus said that this is to reveal what God is doing. When I do what animals do, I become an animal. When I do what I ought to do as a person, I become a person. However, since human attributes are created in the image of God and also include human attributes, if we do God's work, we become like God.
When a person does what God wants him to do, he becomes a son or daughter of God. Sons and daughters of God who do the work of God will overcome death and enter eternal life. This blind young man became an instrument to reveal the works of God. Human beings are instrumental in the work that God wants them to do. If a person with a black dagger in his hand stabs a person to death, he becomes a murderer, and if he cuts off a person's stomach or bone and amputates the disease, he becomes a doctor with ninjutsu. People become sons and daughters of God when their work is God's work.
We will decide our fate this year as well, but what will you do to determine your destiny? What is God's work? What this Bible implies is that first, the blind man himself meets Jesus, secondly the blind have their eyes opened, and thirdly, the blind man who opens his eyes testifies that Jesus is the Son of God. Here, in the beginning of verse 1 of this Bible, “Jesus was going on his way” is closely related to the event that opened the eyes of the blind. The need to open your eyes is because you have to follow the path Jesus took. The only way to go is the way Jesus is going. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In conclusion, the way Jesus is going is the way of life doing God's work.
Then, as this Bible teaches, to do God's work is to depart from the way of Jesus. It is to bring people's bodies and minds to Christ. It is to bring human history, culture, thought, art, and civilization to Jesus. Today's mission is to bring people and the problems they see to Jesus. A person who was born blind has no knowledge of the world he sees with his eyes open and the case of those who have opened his eyes. Therefore, he himself cannot know his situation by comparing him to others. That is the situation of the world and of humans today. Humans do not know their situation right away until they meet Jesus. But when we meet Jesus, the core of the problem is revealed. Therefore, God's work is to bring people and their problems to Jesus. Your bringing people to Jesus is the first step in creating the greatest of your destiny by identifying yourself as a son and daughter of God.
The next step is to open your eyes and follow the right path when you meet Jesus. Awakening your eyes is essential for your body to walk, but it is also proof that you can see and walk on the path of life. When Jesus meets humans, he blesses them, makes them know what to do, and teaches them which way to go. Although each person's situation is different, it is to make them walk the best path for their situation. The work of God is to believe in God and Jesus Christ. It is God's job to see the way and to follow it.
Third, this young man testified to many people that Jesus had opened his eyes despite the difficulties. It is the most precious thing for human beings to meet and believe in Jesus and to testify to others of the evidence they have received. We see popular Korean celebrities believing in Jesus and testifying to the grace they received through the media. When a person realizes that I have become a child of God, that I have become a worshiper of God, and that I am able to do God's work, I know that there is no greater grace and blessing than that. To prove that fact to others. If we witness joy and spread blessings, joy will spread and blessings will overflow. Let's set this year as the year of God's work as a tool to reveal God's work in our lifetime. If you know the things of God, you become a man of God, if you do the works of the flesh, you become a man of the flesh, and if you do evil with an evil purpose, you become a devil. What we do determines our destiny and our life.