فقط الذين وُلدوا من الله، بعدما قبلوا يسوع المسيح، النور الحقيقي، لا يستسلمون للخطية، بل يغلبون العالم بالسلطان الذي أُعطي لهم ليصيروا أولاد الله، ويثمرون ثمر القداسة « كَانَ النُّورُ الْحَقِيقِيُّ الَّذِي يُنِيرُ كُلَّ إِنْسَانٍ آتِيًا إِلَى الْعَالَمِ . كَانَ فِي الْعَالَمِ، وَكُوِّنَ الْعَالَمُ بِهِ، وَلَمْ يَعْرِفْهُ الْعَالَمُ . إِلَى خَاصَّتِهِ جَاءَ، وَخَاصَّتُهُ لَمْ تَقْبَلْهُ . وَأَمَّا كُلُّ الَّذِينَ قَبِلُوهُ فَأَعْطَاهُمْ سُلْطَانًا أَنْ يَصِيرُوا أَوْلَادَ اللهِ، أَيِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ بِاسْمِهِ . الَّذِينَ وُلِدُوا لَيْسَ مِنْ دَمٍ، وَلاَ مِنْ مَشِيئَةِ جَسَدٍ، وَلاَ مِنْ مَشِيئَةِ رَجُلٍ، بَلْ مِنَ اللهِ » ( يوحنا 1: 9–13). (1) عندما قرأت نص اليوم، يوحنا 1: 9–13 ، في الكتاب المقدس الكوري وفي النص اليوناني، كان أول سؤال خطر في ذهني هو : لماذا دعا الرسول يوحنا يسوع « النور الحقيقي » [τ ὸ φ ῶ ς τ ὸ ἀ ληθιν...
God who helps me [Psalms 121] Once, during a gathering of Westminster Theological Seminary alumni, I had the opportunity to have a meal with a missionary couple serving in China, along with their four children. As the children were all boys, while the missionary pastor was interacting with them, his wife shared a unique aspect of her mission work in China. She explained, showing us pictures, that she took an interest in reaching out to women engaged in the profession of prostitution. The pastor would travel by bus for about ten hours and then walk for two more hours to teach in a remote valley where foreigners were a rare sight. The people there showed genuine affection, and upon witnessing this, the pastor confessed that he, in fact, received grace from them. After a brief period of engaging in mission work, when the pastor's wife made a prayer request for us, she expressed her desire to bec...