The title Resurrection is “No!” it started from
Resurrection “No!” it started from
Text/ Mark 2:27-28
1. Introduction
In 2008, Lent is 40 days from February 6 (Ash Wednesday) to the day immediately before March 23 (Easter Sunday) (this period excludes Sundays). The Four Seasons (Lent) is a concrete and realistic scene of life, such as the home, school, work, human relationship, and social system that each person faces as we believers deeply meditate on the words of Jesus the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. (Site im Leben), “How to live as a disciple of Jesus?” It is a time to renew and reorganize our resolve with a sense of problem. In this sense, during Lent, I think it will be beneficial to set a certain period according to each person's circumstances and peruse the four Gospels along with special fasting prayers, morning prayers, and all-night prayers.
During this Lenten season, we would like to share the grace of Jesus as we holistically meditate on the events of Jesus' life, crucifixion, and resurrection.
2. Jesus said, “No!” He suffered on the cross because he said
In the Gospels, the first chapter of Jesus' public life was, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel" (Mark 1:15). At the heart of this verse is “repentance” (repentance includes both personal and social meanings). What is repentance? Here, repentance has a greater positive meaning than simply the negative meaning of confessing and sincerely repenting of each person's hidden sins (sins) from an ethical and moral perspective. Here, repentance means “no!” to the current structure of consciousness, lifestyle, and social institutions, personally and socially. It means that we have to deny this and change to the structure of consciousness-life attitude-social system of Jesus level. Jesus called the change the Kingdom of Heaven-The Kingdom of God.
John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way for Jesus as a voice in the wilderness before Jesus, preached “the baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins,” and it is thought that the baptism of repentance he preached was largely individual-existential repentance of each person. The crowd that came to receive the baptism of repentance said, “Then what shall we do? When asked, "John the Baptist answered and said, "Whoever has two coats, let him give to the one who has no clothes, and whoever has food, let him give to the one who has nothing. -Soldiers should not rob the people of their property, do not oppress them by force, and live knowing that their salary is sufficient” (Luke 3:7-10).
But if we read the entire Gospels, Jesus says, “No!” to John the Baptist’s repentance of personal-existential sins as well as social-systemic sins. He called for eschatological repentance.
3. What did Jesus say, “No!” did you
first. “No!” to personal-existential sin. You did. To the younger brother (Luke 12:13-21) - the rich young man (Mark 10:17-31), who came to sue one older brother for monopolizing his father's inheritance, "Beware of all covetousness. A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. ” he said. He said to the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11), “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.” Disciples who struggle to be first among the crowd (Luke 22:24-30) - Pharisees who love to be treated (Matthew 23:6-7) “Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Whoever does it must be a servant of all.” To the rich man (Luke 16:19-31) who was indifferent to the beggar Lazarus - to the goats (Matthew 25:31-46) who were indifferent to one of the least of them, he said, “Whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” . Jesus said, “No!” to our personal-existential love for wealth-sex-honor-pleasure and indifference to the poor. You did.
second. He said “No!” to religious-social-institutional-customary sins. One of the themes that runs through the four Gospels is the confrontation between Jesus and the priests, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes, the scribes, and the Herodians. In sociological terms, it is a sharp confrontation between Jesus and the privileged establishment. According to the Gospel of Mark, this conflict begins from the beginning of Jesus' public life (Mark 2:1-12). If we divide this conflict by type,
(1) Confrontation over the problem of healing on the Sabbath: On the one hand, a man with a withered hand (Mark 3:1-9) A woman who had been curly for 18 years (Luke 13:10-17) - A 38-year-old sick man from Bethesda (John 5) :1-18)-The blind man of Siloam (John 9:1-14), etc. (2) Confrontation due to social-religious system issues: The sin of distorting the law of Moses for their own interests under the name of the elders’ inheritance and tradition ( Mark 7:1-23) - Rebuking the sins of the socially privileged class (Mark 12:38-40, Matthew 23:1-36) - The sin of making God's temple a window for money (Mark 11:15-18), etc. (3) Their God was a terrible God who punishes those who break the law, but the God of Jesus is a merciful Father-God who forgives the prodigal son who has returned tens of thousands of times. (4) Friendship with sinners Confrontation caused by problems: meals with sinners and tax collectors (Mark 2:13-17), etc. -Jesus said, “No!” to all these religious-social-institutional-customary sins. You did.
third. Jesus’ “No!” As they grew older, their conspiracies deepened. Those priests - Pharisees - Sadducees - scribes - scribes - Herodians unite and blaspheme Jesus (Mark 2:7) - They began to peek (Mark 3:1) - They borrowed the power of the devil for all the miracles of Jesus. (Mark 3:22) - Rebuke Jesus' words (Mark 12:13) - Set a snare and test him (Matthew 22:18) - Finally catch Jesus with a trick and kill him (looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him (Mark 14:1) was saved. Therefore, it is said that Jesus' "Cross-Resurrection" event started with "No".