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[Today's Message] Faith Church of the Nazarene Rev. Kim

[서울=아시아뉴스통신] 오준섭기자 송고시간 2020-03-07 18:32

금천장로교회(Geum Cheon Presbyterian Church) 파송 김정수 선교사.(사진제공=금천장로교회)

1. Meditation texts (Ezra 5)

2. The Word of Grace (Ezra 5:12~13,NIV)
   12 But because our fathers angered the God of heaven, he handed them over to Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean, king of Babylon, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon. 
   13 However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, King Cyrus issued a decree to rebuild this house of God. 

3. Meditation Contents
The solution to all problems is to find the cause. What is the problem of the Israelites in the text? It was anger at God. God wanted the people of Israel to be a full servant of God in the land. To do this, he gave the Joshua the ‘herem(full destruction) command’ to conquer Canaan. 
There is nothing that causes the reader of the Bible to rethink God like the ‘herem(full destruction) command’, because it is so merciless and cruel. Thus, in order to relieve some scholars from the burden of the ‘herem(full destruction) command’, Joshua, the one with the highest number of the ‘herem(full destruction) command’(27 times), is considered a work for King Josiah's political purpose. But is it not more positive to think about why God gave the ‘herem(full destruction) command’ rather than the distorted interpretation of the Bible(Joshua)?
God the Creator has commanded the destruction of precious creation. Why did he do that? It will be for Israel to be a model of the kingdom of God on earth. Although Israel was baptized in the Red Sea(1 Corinthians 10:1~2), they were Israelites who were more accustomed to their sinful life, as did the ‘beggar prince’. It was the Israelites who experienced God through the wilderness, but they were Egyptians who were used to 400 years of slavery.
To them, the customs of the Canaanites (drinking and promiscuous nature worship, lustful nude abundance symbolized by snakes) must have been a very fascinating and nostalgic culture. What choice did God make in this situation? It is a 'herem (full destruction) command'.

4. Word application
As I meditate on today's Word, I realize once again that I am a sinner. God's way of keeping Israel before sin was the 'Herlem'.
God, what is my “Herm” for reaching a step in holiness that God desires?
Help the Holy Spirit to help me discover and obey the “Helem” you want for me today.

5. Apply Prayer
Thank you God of love.
A sinner who could not fully fulfill God's “Herem” stood before the Word.
Holy Spirit! you know my weaknesses.
Please guide the poor servant.
I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.


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