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[스크랩] Jesus is my life

kaporet 2013. 6. 8. 19:20

Jesus is my life

John 1:1-5

 

People interest in life of human body for modern medicine develop. Before we thought that our length of life is given from heaven and knew that it is blessing to die own day. But nowadays, we dream that we can live long, because medicine and biotechnology develop. And we hope we get the medicine which can extend our life, even we pay much money, if we can be healthy. As this we treasure our life. Because life is only one. But our life of body will die some day. By the way, the Bible said that we have both life of body and spiritual life. The spiritual life is called eternal life. If the life of body which will die some day is precious, how precious is eternal life? We cannot buy eternal life . There is one who gives us eternal life. He is Jesus Christ. People think that Jesus is just human as like us, but they don't know about Jesus. Jesus is not only human, but also the Son of God.

 

1. Jesus who is God.

 

Jesus who is the word and God.

 

John was one of twelve disciples of Jesus. He was loved from Jesus, and he was always aside Jesus with Peter and James. He wrote the Bible of John, John's letter and Revelation. John who knew Jesus well introduced that Jesus is the Word and God. Jesus who is the Word was in the beginning. In the beginning means that declared all creation's beginning in Genesis 1:1. This means that revelation is completed form in the beginning to Jesus Christ.

 

The Word(logos) was philosophic meaning by nature, it was used for rule, meaning, contents of construction, image of universe. But in the Bible it was used the power of God(Psalms 147:15; 148:8; Hebrew 4:12) and revelation(Isaiah 2:1; Jeremiah 26:1; 1 Timothy 5:17). In here, it revealed that one who completed revelation is Jesus revealing logos' eternal nature, personality and divine nature. 'He was' means that Jesus was not created in the beginning, but he has being from eternal before. It declared that Jesus who is the Word was before the creation, and he is now.

 

“The word was with God" reveals that Jesus has friendly personal relationship with God. This is glory friendship between Jesus and God. It declare that Jesus is the Son of God through the Word equal God. Therefore in John 20:28, Tomas who is Jesus' disciple confessed to Jesus that you are my Lord my God.

 

Jesus who created all things.

 

John said that "He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made, without him nothing was made that has been made."(John 1:2,3) In other words, Jesus Christ was not only with God in the beginning, but he also attended to create all thing. All thing means universe which has been through past, presence and future. 'Through him all things were made' have a thread of connection with 'all things were by the Lord'(Romans 11:36). And it reveal intermediary role of Jesus Christ in work of creation and salvation. The work of Jesus who is the Word is not work as method of creation by God, but work with personality friendship, as we can see the word that we will make as our image and our likeness(Genesis 1:26). And 'through him all things was made' means that Jesus who is God made all things from nothing.

 

2. Jesus who came as light of life.

 

There is life in Jesus.

 

Through Jesus Christ all thing was made because there is life in him. Life often appear as eternal life(3:15, 16; 1 John 5:12). In the Old Testament, God was expressed one who killed a life and gave a life(Psalms36:9), and Lord of life(Psalms 104:29,30). Therefore John said that life is in Jesus who is the Word. And the life in Jesus is eternal life.(14:6; 17:3). Therefore those who believe in Jesus will be given eternal life. And christians become to be citizen of eternal the kingdom of God through eternal life in Jesus.(Ephysians 2:19).

 

The life in Jesus Christ is the light of people. The word called light is not just light which natural light, neither religious thought that separate light and darkness. Instead we can find idea of light in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, God was expressed one who appeared in lighting cloud or pillar of fire, one who revealed hidden things, lighting one, the Lord of light and darkness, eternal light of Israel. So that John revealed that eternal life in Jesus is true light which come to human.(1:9). Jesus came to the world as light for he give life to us. Therefore, in verse 14, John explained that the Word became flesh. Jesus came to the world as human for he save us form our sins.

 

Light shined in darkness but they could not understand.

 

Jesus who is life appeared as light of people and shined upon people in darkness, but they could not understand. Darkness which is contrasted with light is symbol of the world that there are power of death and power of Devil, and everything grow death under the power. 'Light shine upon darkness' means that Jesus who is light came into the world of sins by becoming fresh. After Jesus worked in the world and ascended to heaven, the light of life did not become extinct. John explained that the word of light is shining by using word of shine. Therefore now the light of life is shining to saints through works of the Holy Spirit. And that is suppling life and power which can fight against power of darkness as soldier of light.

 

But even Jesus came to the world as life, darkness can not recognize it. The world did not recognize Jesus but they killed him on the Cross. John said that the world could not recognize Jesus who came as light of life, because of their spiritual ignorance. People of the world thought that Jesus was just son of Joseph who was carpenter. Therefore when Jesus declared gospel of the Kingdom of God, they thought that Jesus did not have authority to declare the word of God and opposed him. So that they thought that Jesus who said himself the Son of God was arrogant, and killed him on the Cross. And in the Book of Revelation, the Bible said that the world which was involved by power of dark will be judged. Therefore this text make christians who live in the world to recognize reality of wicked power who do not recognize gospel, and show the fact that wicked power cannot win the power of the light which belongs to Jesus Christ.

 

3. Jesus Christ who came into the world for gives life.

 

Jesus who saved his people form their sins.

 

Jesus who is light of life came into the world for gives life us. He came into the world to save his people from their sins(Matthew 1:21). Therefore Jesus who is God had to come into the world as son of man who had not sin. Because if He have sin, he cannot save the human. So Jesus wasn't born through sexual relations with father and mother as like other people, but was born through a body of Mary was virgin by the power of God. Because God need the man who have no sin for He wanted to save Adam who committed sin and the human who are his descendant. Adam and all of Adam's descendant must die because of sins which Adam disobeyed God, and they must be judged, and receive eternal punishment. God cannot overlook the human who disobeyed God and committed sins, because God is divine. The human who committed sins must be judged and receive punishment(Hebrews 9:27). But God loves us. God who loves the human must judge them but He seek the way to save them. It is that a man who have no sin die instead of all the human who committed sins. So that the human who committed sins can be saved. But there is no one who have no sin in the world. Because the human who are Adam's descendant are all sinner for they are born in the sins because of Adam's sin. God could not create other man instead of Adam. Because he who was created instead of Adam can not substitute Adam. Therefore the savior who save the human must come into the world as the descendant of Adam and he must have no sin. Jesus must be born through body of virgin Mary for He be born as a descendant of woman in no sin.

 

Jesus who gave life through the Cross.

 

The way which Jesus gives us life is only through the Cross. The cross is the place where God judge the human. Jesus must be judged and die for the human who was born in sins because of Adam's sin. After God saw that Jesus' death, God forgiven and recognized that we have no sin. The justice of divine God judged all sins of the human through the cross of Jesus, and recognized that the human have no more sin. And God showed righteousness of Jesus making Jesus to rise on third day from death, and recognizes that those who believe in Jesus are righteous. Therefore we must confess ourselves sinner, and be judged before God, receive eternal punishment, but if we believe that Jesus died for our sins and revived, we are forgiven and receive salvation. If we believe in Jesus as our savior, the Holy Spirit gives eternal life in our heart. Because God loved us, and sent Jesus who is one and only Son, and decided that if we believe in Jesus, he give us eternal life(John 3:16).

 

Conclusion

 

Lovely brothers and sisters! Jesus came into the world as the light of life for he gives us life. Now how do we do for we live with Jesus who came as light of life? First, We need to believe in the name of Jesus Christ and receive him as our savior. We recognize that Jesus is one who came as light for gives us true life, and we receive him in our heart as our savior. At that time the Holy spirit gives us faith and life in our heart, and gives us the power to become children of God. We will live with Jesus Christ who is light as changed status to become children of God.

Second, we need to throw out darkness, and go into light. It means that we need to change our lifestyle. Even though we want to live with Jesus Christ who is light, if we stay in darkness, we never live with Him. What we stay in darkness is that we live by the lifestyle of the world. What we stay in light is that we live obeying to words of God. If we live by the way of the world, we try to live with Jesus, it is nonsense. Therefore we can live in the light after we throw out darkness. If we live still by old habit, we never live with Jesus Christ who is light. Therefore we need to receive forgiving from our sins through thorough repentance, we need to try to be saint through suffering to break our selves.

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