Title Who is Jesus (Luke 6:27-36)
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Who is Jesus (Luke 6:27-36)
Today, those who claim to believe in Jesus are making themselves and society unhappy with their wrong beliefs. We must know and believe who Jesus is and who He is.
1. Jesus sought out those who were cast out and cast out by the law.
The era of Jesus' activity was the era when the Roman Empire ruled Israel. Those days were waiting for a savior who would one day save them. They also organized youth zealots and terrorized the anti-Roman Empire. Under these circumstances, Jesus lived in Nazareth, a poor village in Galilee.
At the age of 30, he left Nazareth and fasted for 40 days in the wilderness of Judah, resisting the three painful temptations of the devil and realizing the divine mission. In other words, Jesus sought out the poor fisherman, the outcast and despised, and the sick, the beggars, the blind, the lepers, and the demon-possessed, who were cast out by the law and treated as sinners by society.
The Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus' disciples why is your teacher like tax collectors and sinners? When Jesus heard it, he said, “Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, but the sick.” He said that I did not come to call a physician, but sinners (Mark 2:16-17).
Jesus willingly accepted the prostitute, whom people despise. When Jesus was served by the Pharisees, when a prostitute wept at his feet, washed his feet with tears, and broke the alabaster, the Lord knew her sorrow. And, saying that those who love much are forgiven much, He forgave the prostitute and showed mercy (Luke 7:36-38, 47). Today, the Lord finds those who suffer in darkness and sin, makes them realize their sins, and gives them a mission in life.
2. The legalists viewed Jesus as the Sabbath destroyer.
As Jesus' popularity grew, lawyers were sent to investigate the evidence against Jesus. In particular, he thought that he was a destroyer of the Sabbath, which the Jews regarded as life. Even today, Jews have a great reverence for the Sabbath, and even today, they do not eat at home and even when they travel abroad, they keep it to such an extent that they do not eat at hotels.
However, Jesus thought that the Sabbath day was mainly for healing the sick (Mark 3:2, Luke 13:10-14). Especially when Jesus declared that he was the Lord of the Sabbath, saying that man did not exist for the Sabbath, but that the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27-28), the Jewish leaders were filled with anger and how did they deal with Jesus, the destroyer of the law? They discussed with each other whether to kill them (Luke 6:1-11).
Jesus also proclaimed the people of the kingdom of God to those who had been lawfully cast out according to the law and had no hope. At that time, religious leaders assumed that Jesus was a new heretic. Jesus forgave sins by intervening in God's own identity and position, without a traditionally inherited position and position.
This was the blasphemy of God by the defenders of the law and of the faith, and decided to be crucified. In this war too, Bush, who claims to be the defender of the faith, started a war in the name of God based on his religious beliefs. The values of the religious defenders of the Jewish law and the fundamentalists of the Bush administration are ultimately committing the sin of not receiving Jesus on the cross again today.
3. The legalists defined Jesus, the revolutionary of love, as a heretic.
Religious leaders realized that they could not be put to death if they were convicted of breaking the law and wanted to condemn Jesus as an anti-Roman revolutionary. So, to trap Jesus, they asked if it was right or wrong to pay taxes to Caesar (Matthew 22:17, Luke 20:22).
If you ask them to pay their taxes, they will be stoned by the Jews, and if they do not, they will be charged with rebelling against Rome. At that time, Jesus resisted the temptation by saying, “Give God’s things to God and Caesar’s things to Caesar” (Luke 20:25). Also, on the day of the Passover, when Jesus performed the miracle of five fish in the wilderness, a large crowd wanted to make Jesus king and oppose the Roman army.
But Jesus said, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who curse you. And if someone slaps you on the cheek, return the other cheek, and if someone takes your cloak, give him your underwear as well (Lk 6:27-29). The principle of Jesus' love is in direct opposition to the teachings of the Jewish law.
Jesus clearly told us to love our enemies, not to bomb them with missiles. Even if it is an enemy, it is not a devil. Rather, the evil heart that condemns the enemy as the devil is demonic. Since all human beings have a sinful nature, just as good overcomes evil when evil and good collide within us, so the teaching of Jesus is to help the enemy neutralize the evil within by doing good to him and find the original heart of man.