Title K-K-K-Yo!
Lent Meditation (4)-Kick-Kit-Yo!
Text/ Matthew 26:31-35, 69-75
1. Introduction
Today, I would like to share grace while meditating on “Meditation on Lent (4) About the Dawn Rooster”. Passion Week (March 29-April 3) is the last week of Lent. It was still dark and cold at 5 am, I got dressed, washed my face, and sat neatly in front of my desk. The rooster next door announces the dawn of dawn with a clear and transparent sound.
I lifted up the sound of a chicken at dawn, and suddenly, unlike the Korean church, I lifted my head high toward the eastern sky instead of a cross on the spire of a European church and said, “Cuckoo!” It reminded me of a picture of a landscape with a rooster standing there. The rooster said at dawn on that dreadful and dark day of torment, “I don't know him! I swear to deny it, and I do not know him! He cursed and swore, saying, "I do not know the man." It is the rooster that wept for Peter, who said he did not know Jesus three times.
The rooster standing on the steeple of a European church makes the viewer say, “Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven; and whoever denies me before men, I also deny him before my Father who is in heaven. I will do it (Matthew 10:32-33).” I think it was built to remind us.
2. Before the rooster crows tonight, you will deny me three times!
*Jesus said to his disciples, "Tonight you will all forsake me. But after I am raised, I will go before you to Galilee..." Peter answered and said, "Even if they all forsake the Lord, I will never forsake you. I tell you, tonight before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times. Peter said to him, “Even if I die with you, I will not deny you” (Matthew 26:31-35).
*Peter was sitting in the outer courtyard, and a servant came up to him and said, "You were also with Jesus the Galilean." But Peter said, "You denied it in front of everyone," he said, "I don't know what you are talking about." A man was with Jesus. Peter took an oath and denied it, saying, “I do not know the man.” After a while, those standing by said to Peter, “You are truly one of them, and your voice speaks out to you.” But Peter cursed and swore, saying, “I do not know the man.” Immediately a rooster crowed. So Peter remembered what Jesus had said, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” So he went outside and wept bitterly (Matthew 26:69-75).
3. Knock-kick-yo! What will we remember whenever the morning rooster crows?
first. It's an identity issue. At Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked: “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” When Jesus heard this answer, he greatly praised it. But soon after, Jesus said, “I will now go up to Jerusalem and suffer at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day rise again. When he revealed the identity of his belief that believing in me is denying himself, taking up his cross, and following me, Peter's confession was revealed to be a "fiction (fiction) without existential truth" (Matthew 16) :13-27).
In the text, even though Jesus turned and looked straight at Peter (Luke 22:61), Peter's denial three times, saying, "I do not know that man," also It was an extension of “fiction”. In other words, the identity of Peter's faith was “Jesus of glory without the cross.” Every time a rooster crows, what is the identity of our faith today? I think we need to look back deeply.
second. Why, Peter said, “K-K-K-Y!” Did the morning rooster crow and weep bitterly?
<Reference: Endo Shusaku, Munhye Gong, Silence, Seongsa Hong, pp. 226-230.
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third. Why, not the daytime chicken, but the dawn chicken's "K-K-K-Yo!" is it?
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I am very ashamed and embarrassed to believe that “In the coming years, whenever the dawn rooster crows, in the tears of my weeping, that He is always resurrected”, I fall down in front of the cross again and pray (Reference: Taek-Myeong Kwon, listening to the cello) 1 Peter 2, Gathered)
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