But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. 2 Peter 3:18 Amen! 오직 우리 주님과 구세주 예수 그리스도의 은혜와 주를 아는 지식이 자라감으로 하나님께 영광이 지금부터 영원까지 있으리로다. 베드로후서 3:18 아멘! 우리가 무엇을 잘해서 성공함으로써 하나님께 영광이 되는 것으로 착각하기 쉽다는 것을 본문을 통해 깨닫습니다. 받을 자격이 없는데 거져 주신 하나님의 은혜! 즉, 예수 십자가의 사랑! 그리고 그 은혜에 감사해서 예수님의 말씀을 잘 듣고 행함을 통해 전능하신 하나님을 아는 지식과 명철과 지혜가 성장함으로써 하나님께 영광이 된다는 것입니다. 나에게 있어 하나님은 누구이신가? 지금까지 내 과거의 행적을 돌아보며, 마음속으로 깊이 저며들어 오는 애끓는 아버지의 사랑이 나로

Give me neither poverty nor riches, Feed me only my daily bread. Lest I be full and deny You, And say, "Who is the LORD?" Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God. Proverbs 30:8(b),9 나를 가난하게도, 부하게도 마옵시고, 오직 필요한 그 날의 양식으로 먹여주옵소서. 혹 내가 배불러서 주님을 부인하여, "여호와가 누구냐?" 혹 가난해서 도적질하여 내 하나님의 이름을 욕되게 할까 두렵나이다. 잠언 30:8(하),9 아멘! 잠언 지혜서의 말씀가운데서 절정에 이르러 우리의 영혼을 깨우는 말씀이라고 생각합니다! 이 말씀은 예수님께서 우리에게 주신 기도문을 설명해 주고있습니다. "Give us this day our daily bread!" 내일과 모레와 장래를 위한 안위와 풍족함을

Yet in church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue. 1 Corinthians 14:19 그러나 교회안에서 내가 다른 사람을 가르치기 위하여 나의 명철한 다섯 마디의 말이 일만 마디의 방언보다 나으니라. 고린도전서 14:19 아멘! "my understanding" 우리 말로 성경적인 해석은 "나의 명철" 을 뜻합니다. 주님께서 잠언에 지혜와 명철 (understanding)은 하나님을 경외함이 근본임을 여러번 강조하십니다. 성령운동이라고 집회하는 교회의 첫번째를 방언으로 꼽습니다. 그래서 방언을 사모하라고 말하면서 가르치기도 합니다. 가르친다고 배워서 방언하는 것은 가짜입니다. 사도 바울 선생님은 고린도교회를 향해 질책하셨고, 지금 우리에게 말씀하십니다. 하

But he who prophecies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. 1 Corinthians 14:3 예언하는 사람은 덕을 세워 격려와 안위를 사람들에게 말하느니라. 고린도전서 14:3 아멘! 어제에 이어, 사랑과 신령한 은사를 사모하되 특별히 예언을 간절히 구하라고 하신 이유를 말씀하십니다. 예언은 방언과는 달리 자기 자신의 덕을 세우는 것에서 머므르는 것이 아니라 교회 공동체나 이웃에게 하나님의 도리에 맞는 덕을 끼쳐 사람을 변화시켜 주님의 뜻을 이루기 때문입니다. 신령함은 세상에 드러나 유명해지는 것이 아니라 감춰진 하늘의 보화라는 생각을 합니다.^^ Continuing from yesterday, Apostle Paul explains the reason why we seek especially prophecy. This is because, unlike speaking

Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. 1 Corinthians 14:1 사랑을 추구하고, 신령한 은사들을 사모하되 특별히 예언의 은사를 구하라. 고린도전서 14:1 아멘! 예수님께서 승천하시기 전에 남겨진 제자들과 따르는 사람들에게 보혜사 성령님(the Paraclete) 보내주셨습니다. 그래서 우리 믿음의 사람 역시 하나님의 거룩한 영 보혜사 성령의 인도하심에 따라 믿음의 여정, 의의 길을 갑니다. 여러가지 성령의 은사들 가운데 방언은 알아듣지 못하는 비밀을 하나님께 말하며 자신을 향상시킵니다. 하지만 예언은 자기 향상을 넘어 교회 공동체를 향상시키는데 덕을 끼칩니다. (14:4) 알아 듣지 못하는 방언기도하면 혹시 굉장히 신령한 사람으로 자신을 포장하기도 하고, 사람들이 그렇게 왜곡하기도 합니다. 사단이 이를 이용해서 진정 하나님께 드리는

"Then my God put it into my heart to gather the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be registered by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of those who had come up in the first return, and found written in it:" Nehemiah 7:5 그러자 나의 하나님께서 내 마음을 감동하사 귀족들, 통치자들, 그리고 백성들을 모아서 그들을 계보로 등록되게 하신 고로, 첫 번째 귀환 때 올라온 사람들의 계보 기록을 발견했는데, 거기에는 다음과 같이 적혀 있었더라. 느헤미야 7:5 BC 444에서 445년, 무너진 예루살렘 성벽을 52일만에 재건하는 느혜미야의 성실한 리더쉽을 말씀하십니다. "하나님께서 내 마음을 감동하사" 하나님의 사람은 하나님의

"But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. "To him the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. John 10:2,3 Amen! Hallelujah! We can all picture this scene in our minds! ✝️🐑 In the Israelite pastoral system, there are shepherds who tend their own sheep, and there are shepherds who, having no sheep of their own, care for them in place of the shepherds for money. Like sheep, we are the inheritance a

However, regarding the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, whom they sent to him to inquire about the wonder that was done in the land, God withdrew from him, in order to test him, that He might know all that was in his heart. 2 Chronicles 32:31 Hezekiah was a righteous king of faith in the southern kingdom of Israel, Judah who experienced God’s miracle of causing the sun’s shadow to move back ten degrees. However, instead of boasting about God, he boasted about his own we

there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. Esther 4:3(b) Will we sometimes "drag" the bad situations we faced at the time out into the world? Or will we "bring" them before God? How does a person of faith react amidst tribulation on the brink of death? This reaction is absolutely not something that happens overnight! I believe it emerges from the unconscious, ingrained lessons and life habits that are late

Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning. You have the dew of Your youth. Psalm 110:3 Amen! Hallelujah! David revealed in many ways that Jesus, the coming Son of God, is the Christ. He expressed Jesus as "the womb of the morning"—the very new of life! And he portrayed the youthful Jesus as the "dew"—bright, clear, and shining in the morning sunlight. We, too, shall come before God as clean and holy chi

"And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me." John 11:42 Amen! Jesus wept and prayed at the tomb of His beloved Lazarus, who had been dead for four days and already had an odor. In verse 37, someone among the crowd at Lazarus’s funeral said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" I reflect deeply on these words. When I am going through sufferi

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. 1 Peter 4:14 Amen! I pray for the underground churches in Iran and North Korea, where persecution of those ministering in the name of Jesus Christ is particularly and blatantly perpetrated. In Matthew 5:10,11, Jesus proclaims that the cross of victory has been promised to them and that they are thos

The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1 Amen! "A sinner," it is said, refers not to a violator of worldly morals and ethics, but to one who does not believe in Jesus, the Son of God (John 16:9). For this reason, they are trapped in fear and flee from the light. However, a person of faith lives as a child of light, a royal priest as bold as a lion, possessing the courage to confront the darkness. "Let there be light," and there

If we receive the witness of man, the witness of God is greater for for this is the witness of God which He has tested of His Son. 1 John 5:9 Amen! The Bible noticed that "the witness" is mentioned three times, and including "testify," it is emphasized four times in a single passage. What is this testimony about His Son, Jesus, that God emphasizes so intensely? Verse 11 tells us: "And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is only in the Son of Go

So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God." Mark 11:22 Amen! The Lord curses a fruitless fig tree that is full of leaves but it was not the season of pigs(13, 14) It is easy to misunderstand that Jesus cursing a tree that failed to bear fruit because it was not yet the right time is unjust. To aid understanding, biblical scholars explain that fig trees bear fruit twice a year, in spring and late summer. They say that Mark recorded it as not being ready because th

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of affliction, The Gentiles shall come to You from the end of the earth and say, "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, Worthlessness and unprofitable things." Jeremiah 16:19 Amen! It is stated that the tribulations of Israel and the Gentile nations, fallen into unrighteousness and idolatry, are caused by the evil of their ancestors. Although the tribulations of the world unfold endlessly, Jesus cuts the people of fa

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith. 2 Thessalonians 3:2 Amen! "This is a letter in which the Apostle Paul asks the Thessalonian church to pray that the word of God may spread rapidly and be glorified, while also warning them to discern wicked men. He commands them to keep away from disobedient believers who merely pretend to have faith, recognizing that not everyone stands in true faith. Yet, he admonishes them not to regard

"For my york is easy and my burden in light!" Matthew 11:30 Amen! Why does Jesus say that the yoke He places is easy, and the burden He gives is light? Is your lives actually easy, my friend, and is the weight of your lives light? I expressed the yoke as "lives". Then, what is the meaning of the "yoke" spoken of in the Bible? A yoke is literally something placed on my back. In verse 29, Jesus says, "Take up my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and y