Title MAN FOR OTHERS
MAN FOR OTHERS
Ephesians 3:11-13
*This is a manuscript for Sunday worship service on February 4, 2007.
For a week, I am posting manuscripts while I miss Seongam's family who have changed.
Waiting for tomorrow morning to be met with emotion and love.
We said, ‘Let’s meet Jesus with our whole body’ this year, but in reality, it is not that I can meet or not meet Jesus as I want, but ‘Jesus meets me’. Just as a person cannot freely meet God and not meet God. Jesus is knocking on the door to meet me. Why are you trying to meet me?
The God of the Old Testament did not meet people. But he finally met people on Mount Sinai. For what purpose did you break tradition and meet people? Why did you meet? In Exodus 19:6, it is recorded that God gave this command to people after meeting them. “You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy people.”
This is the biggest and number one reason why people who believe in Jesus need to meet Jesus. The greatest job we have entrusted to God is as a ‘priest of reconciliation’. The priest's job is to first create peace and reconcile between people. And it is a work of reconciliation between man and God.
When the God of the Old Testament called Abramham, he had the same meaning. This is what he promised that he would give him land and give him a prosperous descendant so that he would live there in peace, and then through his descendants the nations would bless each other and live. Jesus also gave the same office to those who followed him. That is what “he who makes the reconciliation becomes a child of God”. Jesus told his followers to come to the ends of the earth and become peacemakers. He said to create a community that achieves peace.
The Hebrews, however, misunderstood this priesthood. They misused this priesthood as a privilege of reconciliation as a ‘privilege to govern. They tried to rule over people. In such a place, peace will be broken again and discord will increase. That was the fault of Judaism.
Say it again. He never solicited the reconciliation privileges given him: forgiveness, healing, remission of sins, and love. He simply served in a humble manner. Seeing the disciples clamoring for each other to ascend to high places, Jesus said, “All the Gentiles try to ascend to high places and exercise authority, but you are not like that. He who wants to be exalted, let him go down and wash his brother's feet.” Philippians 2: As it is written, Jesus was originally equal with God, but did he not humble himself, descend into the position of a servant, and be faithful in serving him even to the point of death? That “loyalty” was loyalty for reconciliation. His life was devoted to giving himself to the poor, the sick, and the marginalized. to reconcile. is to do this. To do this, you must meet Jesus. Those who have met Jesus are not those who create discord and break the peace, but those who bring about reconciliation wherever and wherever they are. Wherever they go, there should always be peace.
The writer of Ephesians called Jesus “the scapegoat for reconciliation.” It is a person who sacrifices for reconciliation. When we refer to Jesus symbolically, we call him “the Lamb who was sacrificed for our sins.” At that time, the word 'Lamb' is not an exaltation of 'gratitude and compassion'. It means ‘became a reconciler like a Lamb’. Theologians these days call it “MAN FOR OTHERS,” which means a person who lives for someone else.
He is a person who lives a life for something, and that something is 'reconciliation' or 'peace'. Jesus is a peacemaker.
Does this mean that Jesus died on the cross as a “sacrificial lamb for reconciliation”? no. Jesus tells us to follow in his footsteps and become priests of peace. It is to reach the ends of the earth and become a priest of peace. It is to be “MAN FOR OTHERS”.
We must live as ‘priests of peace’ through our daily lives.
Then, what would it be like to use a metaphor in our daily life to live as “the apostle of reconciliation”?
1. I would like to use the hinge as the first analogy.
2. Two men were arguing very badly. I overheard them as to why they were arguing, because one man said 4*7=27, and the other man claimed 4*7=28. In the end, both of them were captured by Wonnim Goeul. After hearing both of them, Wonnim released the man who said 4*7=27, and the man who claimed 4*7=28 was beaten. How ferocious was the man who hit him. So, after I got it right, I asked the doctor. Then the Lord said this. "Hey! What's the use of hitting the 4*7=27 guy, do you understand the ones being beaten? But even if you are beaten, you know that you are being beaten, so why not stop fighting?”
3. In an old oriental classic (雜寶藏 ), it conveys seven things that people can give without money.
*There is a new poem (身施) that lifts other people's burdens or helps them with work.
It is to serve the body. Among them, the best service is the envoy dedicating oneself to one's own body (捨身行). Ultimately, it is a service that gives life.
* This is the heart poem that opens the door of the heart and gives warm affection.
* It is an o'clock that gives peace to the other person by giving a friendly gaze.
*Hwa-an-shi (和顔施) or harmonious-eyed-yeolsaekshi (和顔悅色施) is to have a soft and gentle face.
* Saying a poem (言施) or saying a poem (言辭施) is to say a kind and warm word.
* This is Sangjwasi (上座施) giving up a seat.
*Bangsashi (房舍施), it is to provide a bed for a stranger to stay overnight.
*Finally, this is a poem that helps you understand the other person's feelings without asking.
Isn't that how you want to live?
Based on the example given above, he is trying to meet us so that we can live as peacemakers and apostles of reconciliation in our daily lives. We also confess that living with him is the most valuable life, and we must meet Jesus with the devotion we long to live like that.
You are meeting us so that we can live this kind of life, do some of that work, and that you, like me, also live that way. However, the world is noisy with quarrels and conflicts because people who believe in Jesus cunningly do not meet such a Jesus and simply believe in him and ask for help from their desires.
To live as a cardinal is to live a life like a hinge.
You must end the feud by living as a spanked man on behalf of the stupid ugly man.
The world (here the world is ‘in the church’, not out of the church, and ‘those who believe in Jesus’ and not those who do not believe in Jesus) are going backwards. You are going wrong. We will believe right away and go right away. Only then can we truly become children of God and disciples of Jesus.