Path of the Roadless
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Bible Text: Mark 1:40-45
path of the roadless
There are those who make the way and there are those who block the way. There are people who go when there is a way, and when there is no way, there are people who make a way and go. There is a saying in our proverb, “Shall we leave the road and go to the mountains?” There is no road, so you go to the mountains.
“I will make all my mountains a way, and I will build my highways; Sing, O heavens; Rejoice, O earth; Rejoice, O mountains; Sing for joy” (Isaiah 49:11,13) Isaiah said that he would make every mountain a road.
Here is a pathless man. He is a leper. He is a pathless man. There is no medicine to cure him, no doctor to cure him. But he made a road without a hole in it. He was healed of leprosy. The path of the pathless, with what can the pathless make a path?
It is “supplication”.
The supplication of faith is the tool that clears the way. The prayer of faith is bold. Extreme beliefs lead to extreme results. The Bible shows a scene where a person without a way makes a way. “A leper came to Jesus and knelt down and begged him.” He went to Jesus and knelt down. “I begged.” We are praying boldly with great faith. He is making Jesus do things that he cannot do on his own. They thought that if Jesus had mercy on them, they could be healed.
Someone said that his son was possessed by a dumb demon and took him to Jesus' disciples, but he could not heal him. This time, he took the child and went to Jesus. When they see Jesus, they have convulsions. He rolls on his stomach and bubbles. The father said to Jesus, “If you can do anything, have mercy on us and help us.” “Jesus said to him, “If you can, what do you mean? Nothing is impossible for those who believe.” Immediately the child’s father cried out, “I believe; help my unbelief.” Jesus rebuked the demon and said, “You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of the child and do not enter again.” The demon cried out and went out (Mark 9:22-26).
I believe! My father's screaming prayer made the demon scream and go out.
If you pray small, you will become small; if you pray big, you will become large. Jesus said, “It shall be done according to your faith.” We need bold prayers, big prayers. We must seek what is impossible with the human mind. Pray to restore broken relationships. Pray to reconnect what is broken. Pray that you will be healed from illness. In order to receive the blessing God has prepared, we must be able to pray more daringly.
The goal of prayer is to speak aloud to God. Prayer is not to inspire people, but to move God. Jesus' prayer was a prayer of effort and effort. It was desperate. He stayed up all night praying (Luke 6:12).
While the Red Sea was in front of them and Pharaoh's army was pursuing them from behind, Moses prayed, and the Red Sea parted to make a way. That was the prayer of the pathless. A man without a way made a way through prayer. Let's not limit God! Let's not limit ourselves.
The leper did not focus on his despair. He ran to Jesus and knelt down. It means you are focused on Jesus. I'm not going to focus on my problem. I need to focus on the one who will solve my problem. Jesus is the answer, and Jesus is the way.
No one is without problems. However, if you only think about problems, your life will be full of problems. Even if you do not see a way to live because you do not have money, you just need to look to Almighty God and run to Him, get on your knees and pray. Psychologists who study the theory of hope also say that focusing on the answer, not the problem, makes you feel better and recharges your ability to achieve your goals.
Pray boldly. In boldness lies talent, strength and mystery.
is a “word”.
The word of faith makes way for those who have no way. “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean” (verse 40), he said. He handed over his problem to Jesus. He asked Jesus to solve his problem.
Words of faith make the way. “Jesus, having compassion on him, stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, ‘I want to, be cleansed’” (verse 41). Bold words, words of faith, moved Jesus. First, the heart of Jesus moved. It is “pity to you”. Then Jesus' hand moved. “He stretched out his hand and touched him.” Then Jesus' mouth moved. “I will, be cleansed”
“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain to move from here to there, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you” (Matthew 17:20).
It is the power of words that moves mountains. say you can Say yes. There are problems, but there are also answers. Words have creative powers. You have the power to do what you say.
Say you're pretty and look in the mirror. you'll fall backwards. Why? It's so pretty. Say you hate it and look in the mirror. You will get angry and crush it.
Defeating words should not come out of your mouth. Bless your future. Declare what you will look like 5 years from now.
Even though I went to church, there was always a woman who complained because everything was not going well. In my third person's view, it was enough to live happily ever after, but I was always complaining about what was not enough. Someone from our church spoke to me. Which university do you go to? When did you go to school, which university did you go to? “To me, you look like a student in the department of irritability at Geumgyeong University, but you go to Happy University with me. In our university, there are many happiness departments, such as the Department of Appreciation, the Department of Whistle, the Department of Shinbaram, the Department of Jaduk, and the Department of Beauty.
When you say negative things, you end up being a negative person. If you talk about misery and failure, you cannot go out with happiness and victory. We should say thanks and hope. You must change the language of defeat into the language of victory. When I change my words, I change and things change.
People create their future with their words. “Let the weak say, I am strong!” (Joel 3:10) Is it wrong to say that we are weak because we are weak and bad because we are bad? Even if I am weak, I am strong! I'm happy! I hope to live by shouting.
God said that there should be light toward the darkness that will create the heavens and the earth, and there is light. “If you will, you can make me clean.” These words went out and gave rise to the words, “I will, be cleansed.” The word “clean” came out and created “clean”. A man without a way made a way with his words.
It is “radio wave”.
If a person without a way finds a way, if a person who has no way to live finds a way and only he knows the way, then that person is a bad person.
Those who have eaten delicious food say that the food is delicious when they go home. People gather by word of mouth. “Immediately the leprosy departed from the man, and he was cleansed, and as soon as he sent him away, he gave severe warnings, saying, ‘Be careful and say nothing to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and since you are clean, offer what Moses commanded, and prove it to them’” (42-42). verse 44)
No medicine is needed to cure leprosy, and the word to be cleansed was enough. He touched him and told him to be cleansed, and he became clean.
The leper symbolizes sin-sick mankind. Everyone has sinned. Jesus said to his disciples, “The word I spoke to you was already clean.”
Why did Jesus tell the healed leper not to say anything to anyone? Jesus was afraid to be known by people as a magician who performed miracles. He blocked the possibility of misunderstanding about Jesus. Doing miracles makes you famous. But he did not want to gain fame for performing miracles. The purpose of Jesus' coming into the world was not to cure diseases, but to forgive sins and save them. So he gave a strict warning to say nothing to anyone and to show only to the priest.
“But the man went out and preached many things and spread them widely” (verse 45). The church should not stop at gathering. We need to go from the gathering church of the ‘ecclesia’ to the church where the ‘diaspora’ is scattered. A person who had no way to live found a way to live. He couldn't help but talk about the Jesus he had met and the way he had found. Jesus “strictly warned” not to speak, but he “preached”.
To spread is to spread widely. It's about spreading rumors. It is an active announcement. The pathless man found the way, so he had no choice but to tell the way.
After the apostles Peter and John raised the lame, they were taken to court. It is a good thing to raise the lame, and I testified that the person was healed in the name of Jesus. The rulers called Peter and John, threatened and warned them not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus. They replied, “Judge in the sight of God whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God.” It cannot be” (Acts 4:16-20). Evangelism is to show the way to those who do not know the way.
A person who eats only rice and sits idle is called a “carnivore”. There are people who are over 30 and only study. It's called "Hakchung". There are thousands of students who have received master's and doctoral degrees in the United States, but have not been able to enter due to lack of space.
What are the saints who receive only grace and do nothing? It is “Eunchung”. Chickens that eat only feed and do not lay eggs, and cows that eat only feed and produce no young or milk are a problem. I hope you get the favor and pay the ransom.
A pathless man, a leper, found his way by supplication. He made the way through the words of faith. He was cleansed. He preached.
Jesus healed a man who had been possessed by a demon and had run away from the tomb. “Go home and tell your family how the Lord has done for you.” He returned home and told the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him (Mark 5:19-20).