«Un siervo de Cristo Jesús» [Romanos 15:14–22] Al recibir este primer domingo tras el culto del 30.º aniversario de la Iglesia Presbiteriana Seungri, me hice una pregunta ante el Señor: ¿Qué mensaje nos está transmitiendo realmente Dios a nuestra comunidad de Seungri? Al reflexionar sobre esto, me vinieron a la mente dos pensamientos: (1) En primer lugar, tal como compartí con ustedes el domingo pasado, el mensaje es «dar gracias». Durante la serie de sermones del 30.º aniversario, Dios transmitió el mismo mensaje repetidamente a través de nuestros dos pastores invitados: que somos un pueblo bendecido que ya ha recibido bendiciones espirituales del cielo en Jesucristo. Y, como pueblo bendecido, nuestra responsabilidad adecuada es dar gracias a Dios. (2) En segundo lugar, el mensaje que Dios tiene para nuestra comunidad de Seungri es la propia visión de nuestra iglesia: «¡Levantar obreros!». Debemos dedicarnos a formar obreros que posean u...
Our God is the only true
God, and the true God is with us!
King
Nebuchadnezzar had a strange dream and was troubled to understand its meaning.
He
called for magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers to interpret the
dream for him.
The
astrologers said to King Nebuchadnezzar, "O king, live forever! Tell us
the dream,
and
we will interpret it for you." Interestingly, Nebuchadnezzar did not tell
them his dream
but
wanted them to reveal both the dream and its interpretation.
Why
did Nebuchadnezzar not disclose his dream to them?
Ultimately,
the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers told Nebuchadnezzar,
"What
the king asks is too difficult; no one can reveal it to the king except the
gods,
and
they do not live among humans" (Daniel 2:2-11).
When
I meditate on this passage, I believe that before God exalted Daniel in
Babylon,
He
first orchestrated a series of events: He caused King Nebuchadnezzar to have a
dream
and
made it so that the king did not disclose the dream.
Nebuchadnezzar
then demanded that all the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers,
and
astrologers reveal both the dream and its interpretation.
As a
result, they said, "No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and
such gods
do
not live among humans." The
"gods" they referred to were only God,
and
while they knew that no such gods lived among humans, God was with Daniel.
Thus,
God granted Daniel wisdom and power, and in response to his prayers,
revealed
the interpretation of the dream, that is, the mystery (vv. 11-28).
Therefore,
both King Nebuchadnezzar and all the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers,
and
astrologers came to realize that only Daniel’s God is the true God,
and
that the true God was with Daniel.
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