Title Can You Hear This Moan?
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Romans 8:19-30
When you look at a person, you need to be able to see both the outside and the inside of that person. Most of people's stalling comes from not grasping the truth of the facts right away. It is said that if a doctor directly diagnoses a patient's disease, it is the same as curing the disease. To see directly is to see the whole thing or event as a whole. A Christian must be able to see this nature, history, and even the spirit world as a whole. Even if you believe in Jesus, if you do not see this right away, you will not be able to establish a foundation for right behavior and will lead a wrong life.
As the number of shotguns increases, even crows, magpies and sparrows become difficult to inhabit, and all the romance of nature is disappearing. Nature is now groaning heavily. They curse human civilization and resent human cruelty.
The apostle Paul said that these natures were weeping and waiting for the appearance of the sons of God. But it is because humans who make nature cry are servants of the devil. In Isaiah 11 of the Old Testament, it is said that on the day the Messiah comes, the kingdom of God will be established, a world where lions and lambs graze together, and even if a child puts his hand into a serpent's den, there is no damage. The world in which God's people rule and live, and the society that God's children build, means that the groaning nature must be renewed and liberty, peace, love and harmony must be restored. Christianity's salvation is not only the salvation of man, but it also includes the salvation of nature as well as the salvation of man.
Third, the Apostle Paul said that not only nature weeps and people weep, but the Holy Spirit offers an intercessory prayer for us with groans that cannot be expressed in words. We cannot live or see only the voice of the Spirit with our physical eyes or ears. However, the apostle put off the heart of Jesus Christ, and through the revelation of the Holy Spirit, God still kneels in the Garden of Gethsemane and prays with blood and sweat, and prays intercession with tears and groaning, hoping that we humans will become true sons and true daughters of God. I found out that I was giving. Until a person believes in Jesus and becomes a child of God, and until a messenger who has already believed becomes a person of true faith, until his faith grows and becomes a mature faith It means that you are praying for intercession.
Today, in the forest of the Garden of Gethsemane, we still do not hear the voice of the intercessor who weeps and prays for me, or the sound of the Lord's groaning to atone for our sins as he shed his blood and tore his flesh on the cross that stood on the hill of Golgotha. If we do not hear it, we cannot still say that we are children of God and disciples of Christ. A French modernist, in all his religious paintings, painted Christ still being pierced with a spear, wearing a crown of thorns, and suffering. He said that even in the present day, the so-called late Christian era, and in the midst of Western civilization, which is called Christian civilization, and in this age when civilization dominates the world, Jesus has not yet been glorified, but was pierced with a crown of thorns, pierced with nails and spears It means that you are walking towards Golgotha, walking through the heart of human history in the 20th century, bleeding.
For whom is the Holy Spirit weeping? The Holy Spirit is weeping because the sons and daughters of God cannot live like sons and daughters. The Holy Spirit is praying for him with silent groans so that they may become sons and daughters of God. After the creation of God, the world that humans were commanded to manage well became polluted and polluted by human sin and corruption, so the earth groans and waits for God's sons and daughters to appear. In order for a human being to become a true son and a true daughter of God, in order for our society to become a society where people live according to the will of the true God, the mountains and plants are weeping and waiting without saying a word. The Holy Spirit is praying with silent groanings.
I recall a passage in a corner of Seo Jeong-ju's poem, "It must have been that the little bird has cried like that since spring to make a single chrysanthemum flower."
The whole universe, nature, humans, and even the Holy Spirit are weeping and waiting for the appearance of one Son of God and the creation of the world of God.