Title [Breaking the Curse of Death]
Contents
[Breaking the curse of death] Luke 7:11-17 2007.10.28. Sunday worship service
1) In Leviticus, the rules of uncleanness and purity are found. These rules of uncleanness include spills, bleeding of blood, leprosy, and contacts with the dead. Just as a person with leprosy is quarantined outside the camp because he is unclean. Because death separates us from God and comes as the wages of sin, the dead are considered unclean, and the corpse is viewed as the root of uncleanness. And anyone who touched or touched the dead body was also considered unclean. Those who became unclean had to be cleansed and redeemed cleanly.
2) Denial was a serious problem in the sense of being cut off from God and from the people, the community of God. The procedure to belong to such uncleanness and to restore holiness was the rule of sacrifice and chastity. Leviticus tells us that such a sinful person should go before God and make atonement for their sins before God. Death is the greatest of these denials that God takes seriously. The fact that a person dies is a stark reality, but God confirms by the law that anyone who comes into contact with an unclean person in front of the reality of death will become unclean because of how frightening that reality is. How heavy is the curse of death? All people are under the weight of this death.
3) Today's protagonist in Luke's Gospel is a poor widow. As a young widow, she raised a son, who died suddenly at the age of a young man. How great was this widow's weeping? In that place, the Lord came and changed the curse of death that binds us to life again. This work of the Lord, which took place in the village of Nain, shows us that God's grace is life and eternal life.
1. Death is a chain that drives people to hell.
1) Last week, the chains of curses we saw through the suffering sick man with leprosy come to us today as chains of death through the Gospel of Luke. Even though man could have eternal life in God's Garden of Eden, he was expelled from Eden because of his sins, and as God declared that you are from dust, return to dust, man became a creature bound to death. Death is a sorrow and pain that strikes the heart and an unavoidable suffering for all, whether poor or rich, emperor or widow, old man or child. So death is inevitable.
2) I don't know what caused the death of a young man like a living thing in Nain Castle, but his blood boiling heart and heart full of grand ideals cooled and stopped. He must let go of his precious son, like the widow's mother who raised him, and we must weep and send him to Hades. How could a mother let her son go? Death comes to everyone and meets us everywhere. However, there is nothing that is not sad and there is nothing that is not painful when we meet everyone everywhere. They meet wearing masks and sometimes come to them in their terrifying form. It is a chain of curses that makes the widow's mother and her acquaintances with tears following her, not only the death of the young man, but also all those who follow him as they see his own death and grieve and suffer.
3) The Lord has made this very sad for us. How heartbreaking it is to see a young, boiling blood, who has lived for a long time to melt the world and beautify it with its scorching heat, died cold and became immobile. Who and what caused him to be thrown into the dark like this? The power that causes people to die and leads them to the curse of hell, that is, the power of death, the power of darkness and the curse. It is because of our sins that we must reign in us, and that man must be made in God's image, have fellowship with God, and become his children, but all these relationships with God are destroyed.
2. The Lord stopped the procession of death and turned it into life.
1) A dead person becomes a corpse and cannot move. I cannot hear or speak. His heart becomes cold and the blood in his heart begins to pool and harden. A dead man cannot move, so people have to put him in a coffin and tie him up to bury him. How much more can he come before the Lord? A person with leprosy can come to the Lord at the cost of criticism and stones. But those who are already dead cannot. In that sense, those who are bound by this chain of death are more miserable.
2) The Lord came to such a miserable person and broke that miserable chain, saved his life, and made hot blood circulate in the young man's heart again. Standing in the way of death in the city of Nain, Jesus stands in the way, he breaks the chains of our miserable death and gives us new life.
(1) First, the Lord had compassion on the widowed mother and the young man lying in the coffin, who were crying before the death of their son. This assures us that the Lord has come in mercy and mercy for us. Jesus, who had compassion on people's suffering in the chains of death, and stood in the way of the burial procession going down to the tomb, He has compassion on our suffering.
(2) The Lord came near to the dead young man and touched the coffin. Instead of putting your hand on the coffin, it means that the Lord touched the young man's body when he raised the dead. Since the Lord had compassion on him and touched his body, according to the Jewish custom and the words of Leviticus, just touching the coffin will make the person who touched it unclean. Uncleanness is something the Jews want to avoid, and it is a violation of the law. Nevertheless, the Lord did not mind the uncleanness and touched the coffin. Lord, you were prepared to be unclean, and you did it to save a life in the chains of death and going to hell.
(3) After that, the Lord said, ?쏽oung man, get up.??A young man whose life is brighter than the days he has lived, a poor young man who died on the road of death, the Lord's call to him, ?쏽oung man,??has such a deep meaning. Young man, shake off the power of death and live again. . Come alive and live the beautiful and sunny days of life that your God gives you. It is a command to restore the image of God and enjoy the blessings and graces that He has given us.
3) Gentlemen, we are not people to die. We are a people who have received eternal life from God according to God's promise. In that sense, we can all be called ?쐙oung people?? But are we dying and chained to hell? We believe the Lord is calling us, ?쏽oung man, get up.
3. Then, as the Lord commanded, the dead young man arose.
1) First the coffin was opened. A tightly closed coffin is the boundary between one's life and death, and it is also a gateway. But the door, which was tightly shut, was opened, and the power of the Lord opened it. According to the word of the Lord, the funeral procession leading to the burial site stopped, the coffin was opened, and the chains leading to death were broken. If death is the result of a curse, the chains of the curse are broken and life is restored.
2) It is said that he got up and sat down. The corpse, unable to move, sat up and was no longer a corpse. He became a man who could hear and move again. This miraculous power came from the Lord.
3) And he spoke. A dead man cannot move and cannot speak, but if he sat up and spoke, he must have been alive. Words are the proof that a person is alive. Just as God created the life in His image, and the Word changed life. The Lord restored that very word to the young man.
Everyone, what did the young man of Nainseong say when he came to life and spoke? Perhaps, seeing that crying mother, mother, I have lived. I would have done it, and I recognized the Lord who saved me, and I thank the Lord. would have said This was the glory he gave to God in verse 16. ?쏣veryone was afraid, and gave glory to God, saying,??He survived. He glorified God for that. As my son survived, tears of pain became tears of joy.
What does it mean to live like a human being? It is to give thanks to God for saving and releasing us without going to the place of death tied up under the chains of a curse and exalting His grace. Such grace and blessings were possible because the Lord came and touched him.
Conclusion.
1) The Lord stopped the young man's death path, saved his death, and made him live like a human being. He opened the door of the tomb of Lazarus, who had died, cried out, ?쏬azarus, come out!??and saved him. Go to the girl who collapsed from a fever, hold her hand, and get up after running. He healed me to work while standing upright as a human. The coming of the Lord was an event that broke the chains of death, disease, and suffering, gave us joy, and worked as life.
2) If we, like that young man, are bound under the chains of the curse of death, then all the chains we are bound by, whether it be death, curses, disease, anger or tantrums in our hearts, that bring us to death. I believe the chains will break.
2) I pray that this Lord will come into our hearts today. Guys, are we, by any means, bound under the chains of this curse? If there is a chain of curses that kills us and leads us to hell, I pray that you will accept it and break it with the power of the Lord. If there is a chain of curses attached to our family, I believe that by believing in Jesus, my generation will be cut off and the river of blessing and grace will flow.
I bless you in the name of the Lord for this grace to come.