“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...
열매로 그 나무를 알 수 있듯이 ... 열매로 그 나무를 알 수 있듯이 선한 사람은 마음 속에 쌓인 선으로 선한 말을 하지만 악한 사람은 마음 속에 쌓인 악으로 악한 말을 합니다 . 바리새인들과 같은 교인들은 마음에 가득찬 것이 악이기에 결코 선한 말을 할 수가 없습니다 ( 마태복음 12:33-35, 현대인의 성경 ).