Title: What God Requires
Contents
2007.02.18 Word
Deuteronomy 10:12 ~ 10:12
Today is the Lunar New Year of our nation. We keep this New Year's Day as the biggest holiday of our nation, and we want to understand what God requires through the Word and live the life that God requires.
Origin of the first Lunar New Year
The origin of the Lunar New Year is closely related to the establishment of the calendar. In Korea, there is a fact that the Buyeo people used the calendar method in the Three Kingdoms (三國志).
It can be said that our people did not simply imitate the Chinese calendar, but had indigenous national or natural powers. There was a custom of scissors (嘉俳) or Surinday, which can be said to be the independent festivals of Silla.
However, it can be considered that the Lunar New Year was established as a standard based on the solar calendar since China adopted the solar lunar calendar at least before the 6th century. The Silla people saluted each other in the morning as it was called Wonil, and the king held a feast to gather the military gods and banquet them.
In the Samguk Sagi (Samguksagi), it is said that a ceremony was held in the first month of the 5th year of King Goi of Baekje (238), and in the second year of King Cheokgye (287), King Dongmyeong, the founder, served at the shrine. It is not possible to confirm whether the New Year's rites at this time are related to today's New Year's Day. In the Joseon Dynasty, Seollal, Korean food, Dano, and Chuseok were called the four major holidays, and they have firmly established themselves as important national holidays like today.
Second, what God requires of his people (verse 12).
1. It is to fear God. Why should we fear God?
Because there is no other god but one God. Therefore, it is said in Deuteronomy 6:4, “Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is only one, the LORD.
Only one means one, first. Not only that, but God is a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 4:23 Beware of yourselves, and forget your covenant, the covenant the LORD made with you, and you shall not sculpt any image of any image which the LORD your God forbids. .
Therefore, only God should be feared.
2. It is to follow all the Ways and not turn to the left or the right. (In verse 12, in Deuteronomy 5:32)
Believers must keep the commandments for their own happiness. However, believers should fear God without considering their own happiness or not. (Daniel 3:16-18) This is because it is man's duty to fear God (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
And the saying not to turn to the left or to the right means not to deviate from the law in any way. (Deuteronomy 17:11, Joshua 1:7)
Third, those who fear God must honor their parents and elders (Leviticus 19:32, Deuteronomy 5:16).
This is morality for social order. You shall stand up before a strong head, and honor the face of the old man, and honor your God; I am the Lord (Leviticus 19:32).
You must live a life of honor. Because the fear of God is the highest ethic in the world, and it involves exalting and treating the human person.
In Proverbs 20:29, it is said that the glory of the young is their strength, and the beauty of the old is their gray hair. However, through the Lunar New Year holiday on the 3rd of this year, the number of overseas travelers increased by 40% compared to 2006, and the elderly living alone and the elderly living with their children He said that he was not happy with the Lunar New Year holiday as his body and mind became increasingly exhausted.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korean Society for Health and Social Affairs surveyed 5,368 elderly people and found that depression (9,9%), insomnia (7,7%), hallucinations, and auditory hallucinations (3,4%) trouble the elderly. The survey was higher among the elderly living with children than the elderly living alone. (Focus Newspaper dated February 13, 2007) It is quite natural for young people to treat adults with respect and respect the old.
Conclusion All that God requires on the Lunar New Year is to fear God, practice the Way, serve God without turning left or right, honor parents and elders, and pay homage to each other in the morning, so that it will be a joyful and happy holiday.