[Lets go and let them know]
2King 7:3~11
This years motto is Lets establish a place to live. I pray that churches and families will be built, and a house for the body will be built. And now we have to go. There are many mission areas where we need to spread the gospel of the history of redemption. Now that we have a life full of words and sharing, we have to go and announce this news. Today, we will do THINK about Lets go and announce it.
First, deathly hardship is an opportunity.
Israel has nothing to eat or to eat in and out of the walls of the Aram army. And there are four lepers, the main characters of today who are nowhere to go and are not cared for by the community amid extreme hunger. Through the physical lepers who are insensitive to pain, lepers appear under the heat to see ourselves like spiritual lepers. In many places, the Talmud of the Jews is called Gehashi and his sons. He also gave me the grace to open my eyes, but he must have been in despair to see himself return to his evil and obscene nature without being able to digest the grace. He must have wanted to die as he was in the midst of the seemingly dying hardship of the leprosy, but he was taken away together and eventually becomes a tremendous beginning of salvation. In contrast, King Jehoram even cut off his desire for God, asking, 'Wait for more Jehovah' from the disaster that Aram invaded and was covered in blood. Even an able minister did not believe in Elisas prophecy, saying, 'How come this will happen?' Thats why its important who is next to me and what kind of community we have together. Neither a divorce that breaks what God has erased nor a suicide that ends its own life, which is the image of God, is an evil sin against God. The conclusion is eternal judgment. Is there a hardship that seems to be dying here and there, too? These hardships are not a reason to die, but an opportunity to be reborn and experience the gospel. Thats why we have to stay alive even with blood and keep a broken marriage. God takes responsibility if He shoot an arrow. Its training. Please endure the path. The Lord will fully recover and save you.
Second, it is news that the salvation received for nothing will be announced.
These four lepers, who refused to wait until they died in the hardships of death, got up from the spot. Then I went to the Aram camp and found that not only food, weapons, silver, gold, and clothing, but also horses and donkeys were still there and empty. The Aram army made them hear the sound of soldiers, horses, and the sound of the loud army (v.6) The Aram army managed to flee, mistaking that huge Israeli reinforcements were coming that they could not dare to fight against. The Lord God of Manchuria, the king of the king, appears and drives out the troops surrounding Samaria in an instant. We will announce the news of this worthless salvation. The news of my achievements through my strength and hard work, such as passing, employment, promotion, and success, is, in the end, showing off my strength. Such pride seems to be blowing a balloon, so I make up something that I exaggerate, but eventually, it explodes and falls apart in one try. In Chapter 11 of Second Corinthians, Apostle Paul says, Even if I get to brag about my weakness, I will boast only of my weakness. This is because when I boast of my weakness, the Lords strong ability to achieve salvation is spread. The only beautiful news we need to know is the salvation the Lord has given in grace to a sinner like me. The more you brag about salvation, the bigger you get and the more you cover up your sins. Woori community, Moksang is the first bridgehead for missionary work, and attending one is a gathering that informs the salvation that has been received for nothing and boasts of weakness.
Third, I also need to inform the person who gave me a hard time.
Four leprosy patients were eating, drinking, and hiding things together, and they came to their senses and said, 'We shouldnt do this.' I remembered a fellow citizen suffering from starvation, and I found it wrong to keep this beautiful news from Samaria Castle. I came to think of salvation beyond silver, gold, and clothing. I return to Samaria Castle, where there are people who have abandoned them, and call for a gatekeeper. The gatekeeper represents a person who has given me a hard time as a person who symbolizes the exclusion and ridicule of the whole society toward them with the leprosy. The more I was raised by what you said, the more I realized that the person who gave me a hard time was the one who eventually suffered the most because of my salvation. God does not announce this beautiful news through the king, the minister, or the prophet Elisa, but through the lepers quarantined outside the castle. Rather, he informs you of the beautiful news through a life that has nothing to do but a broken life, a life without hope, and a life of evil to boast about, so that you know that it is only the grace of the Lord. The mission of setting up a place to live in is not to expand the church. It is a restraining historical remark. Lets create a meditation movement to solve the problem of the restoration of the family and the demographic cliff. The fertility rate in Korea is 0.72, and Seoul is 0.59, which is serious. However, when we calculated how many children each Mokjang has between the ages of 19 and 49, the fertility rate came out to be 1-2%. Since human rights are king, abortion hospitals are crowded with people, and they dont marry at will, and divorce, so we have to meditate on words and apply concrete applications to save the country.
Its a community confession. In order to stop their son and his wife from getting divorced, the father-in-law called his wife and his in-laws and spoke candidly. He talked about how difficult his divorce was, and he cried and begged his son on his knees, saying it was his fault. And when he said, 'I wont straighten my knees until you drop the divorce,' he finally got it. I think this is the power of our church, true missionary work.
The first step in the mission is for you to go to the small church community called Mokjang.
