“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
비열함이 인생 중에 높임을 받는 때입니다(시 12:8).
경건한 자가 끊어지고 충실한 자들이 인생 중에 없어지고 있습니다(1절). 그런데 거짓을 말하는 자들, 아첨하는 자들, 두 마음으로 말하는 자들은 더욱더 많아지고 있습니다(2-3절). 그러므로 가련한 자들이 눌림을 당하고 궁핍한 자들이 탄식을 하고 있습니다(5절). 그 때에 순결한 하나님의 말씀이 그들을 단련할 것입니다(6절). 그리고 하나님께서는 가련한 자들과 궁핍한 자들을 안전한 지대에 두실 것입니다(5절). 그리고 하나님께서는 그들을 영원히 지키시고 보존하실 것입니다(7절).
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