Title But we say:
Among these famous sermons of Jesus, which he gave one day on a low hill by the shore of the Sea of Galilee, I would like to pay special attention today to murder or adultery. It is not a surprising interpretation or content of the legal issues of divorce, oaths, retaliation, and enmity. What we want to reflect on today is <Did you hear that? But I say this> is a usage. This is because this phrase, which at first glance seems meaningless, has a great meaning. This is because in the usage of <But I say this>, we find the dangerous challenge of Jesus against the world. Because in these words we discover the meaning of his existence as an antithesis to the existing order and ideology that oppresses life. It is because we see the saving power of Jesus in his words that fundamentally shake and awaken the main life, entangled in the old law. This is because the great passion of Jesus, which he faced at a young age, was also conceived here.
It's a great challenge. It is an unbearable insult and challenge for the scribes and followers who have taken the existing laws and teachings as life. Looking back on the response of our society that was sparked by the National Security Law controversy last year, we can fully imagine what the reaction of the legal scholars and Pharisees would have been at the time.
Some challenge the law of success. Modern people live by the law of success. We risk our lives to succeed and we are unhappy. The more elite, the greater the sprint to success and the more unhappiness it entails. I've recently seen the unfortunate deaths of some of the most successful young people around us. As personalization, globalization and informatization progress, the law of success will haunt our young people more and more. We know very well what that success is for many. There are people who say <but I say this> about our concept of success.
what is success
Ralph Waldo Emerson
laughing often and a lot
respected by the wise
to be loved by children
Hear the praises of honest critics
Enduring the betrayal of a friend
know how to discern beauty
finding the best in others
give birth to a healthy child
Whether you are gardening
improve the social environment
before he was born
Make the world a better place to live
make and leave
Because he once lived here
To make even one person happy
This is real success.
The new path of history toward the kingdom of God has been created by the saviors of the age who resembled Christ, who cry out, “But we say this.” At the end of the Lunar New Year holiday, we had to listen to North Korea's announcement of nuclear weapons. Once again, the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia is leaning to the brink. On the Korean Peninsula, where a nuclear vortex has arisen and the energy of war is once again, what should we Christians shout about, and how, <But we say this>? At this time of the 60th anniversary of the division, in this gloomy situation, where 60 years of division may pass, and 70, 80, or 100 years of division, our followers of Jesus (expression of Brother Han Wan-sang) are about what and how <However, we Should I shout > I say this?
Let me offer a silent prayer for a moment.