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1월 “하나님 보다 앞서지 마십시오!”
[하나님의 뜻인지 분별하기 힘들 때]
January "Don't Get Ahead of God!"
[When it's hard to discern God's will]
: My Utmost for His Highest
[알림] “My Utmost for His Highest” 묵상내용이 매일 올라오는 영문 싸이트가 있네요. 많은 활용바랍니다. 아래 링크를 연결했습니다.
[Notifications] There's an English site with a daily devotional called "My Utmost for His Highest." I hope you enjoy it. I've linked to it below.
Your Word / Key Verse - 중심 구절
예수께서 그에게 말씀하셨다. "내가 진정으로 진정으로 너에게 말한다. 누구든지 다시 나지 않으면, 하나님 나라를 볼 수 없다."
Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”
(MSG) Jesus said, "You're absolutely right. Take it from me： Unless a person is born from above, it's not possible to see what I'm pointing to--to God's kingdom."
함께 읽는 구절 / Read along with
(요 3:1-16)
[1] 바리새파 사람 가운데 니고데모라는 사람이 있었다. 그는 유대 사람의 한 지도자였다.
[2] 이 사람이 밤에 예수께 와서 말하였다. "랍비님, 우리는, 선생님이 하나님께로부터 오신 분임을 압니다. 하나님께서 함께 하지 않으시면, 선생님께서 행하시는 그런 ②표징들을, 아무도 행할 수 없습니다."
[3] 예수께서 그에게 말씀하셨다. "내가 진정으로 진정으로 너에게 말한다. 누구든지 다시 나지 않으면, 하나님 나라를 볼 수 없다."
[4] 니고데모가 예수께 말하였다. "사람이 늙었는데, 그가 어떻게 태어날 수 있겠습니까? 어머니 뱃속에 다시 들어갔다가 태어날 수야 없지 않습니까?"
[5] 예수께서 대답하셨다. "내가 진정으로 진정으로 너에게 말한다. 누구든지 물과 성령으로 나지 아니하면, 하나님 나라에 들어갈 수 없다.
[6] 육에서 난 것은 육이요, 영에서 난 것은 영이다.
[7] 너희가 다시 태어나야 한다고 내가 말한 것을, 너희는 이상히 여기지 말아라.
[8] 바람은 불고 싶은 대로 분다. 너는 그 소리는 듣지만, 어디에서 와서 어디로 가는지는 모른다. 성령으로 태어난 사람은 다 이와 같다."
[9] 니고데모가 예수께 물었다. "어떻게 이런 일이 있을 수 있습니까?"
[10] 예수께서 대답하셨다. "너는 이스라엘의 선생이면서, 이런 것도 알지 못하느냐?
[11] 내가 진정으로 진정으로 너에게 말한다. 우리는, 우리가 아는 것을 말하고, 우리가 본 것을 증언하는데, 너희는 우리의 증언을 받아들이지 않는다.
[12] 내가 땅의 일을 말하여도 너희가 믿지 않거든, 하물며 하늘의 일을 말하면 어떻게 믿겠느냐?
[13] 하늘에서 내려온 이 곧 인자 밖에는 하늘로 올라간 이가 없다.
[14] 모세가 광야에서 뱀을 든 것 같이, 인자도 들려야 한다.
[15] 그것은 그를 믿는 사람마다 영생을 얻게 하려는 것이다.
[16] 하나님께서 세상을 이처럼 사랑하셔서 외아들을 주셨으니, 이는 그를 믿는 사람마다 멸망하지 않고 영생을 얻게 하려는 것이다.
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(John 3:1-16, NIV11)
“「1」 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.
「2」 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
「3」 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.*” / *The Greek for again also means from above; also in verse 7.
「4」 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
「5」 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
「6」 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit* gives birth to spirit. / *Or but spirit
「7」 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You* must be born again.’ / *The Greek is plural.
「8」 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”* / *The Greek for Spirit is the same as that for wind.
「9」 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
「10」 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things?
「11」 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.
「12」 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?
「13」 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven - the Son of Man.
「14」 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
「15」 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
「16」 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
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(John 3:1-16, MSG)
“「1」 There was a man of the Pharisee sect, Nicodemus, a prominent leader among the Jews.
「2」 Late one night he visited Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we all know you're a teacher straight from God. No one could do all the God-pointing, God-revealing acts you do if God weren't in on it."
「3」 Jesus said, "You're absolutely right. Take it from me： Unless a person is born from above, it's not possible to see what I'm pointing to--to God's kingdom."
「4」 "How can anyone," said Nicodemus, "be born who has already been born and grown up? You can't re-enter your mother's womb and be born again. What are you saying with this 'born-from-above' talk?"
「5」 Jesus said, "You're not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation--the 'wind hovering over the water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life--it's not possible to enter God's kingdom.
「6」 When you look at a baby, it's just that： a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can't see and touch--the Spirit--and becomes a living spirit.
「7」 "So don't be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be 'born from above'--out of this world, so to speak.
「8」 You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it's headed next. That's the way it is with everyone 'born from above' by the wind of God, the Spirit of God."
「9」 Nicodemus asked, "What do you mean by this? How does this happen?"
「10」 Jesus said, "You're a respected teacher of Israel and you don't know these basics?
「11」 Listen carefully. I'm speaking sober truth to you. I speak only of what I know by experience; I give witness only to what I have seen with my own eyes. There is nothing secondhand here, no hearsay. Yet instead of facing the evidence and accepting it, you procrastinate with questions.
「12」 If I tell you things that are plain as the hand before your face and you don't believe me, what use is there in telling you of things you can't see, the things of God?
「13」 "No one has ever gone up into the presence of God except the One who came down from that Presence, the Son of Man.
「14」 In the same way that Moses lifted the serpent in the desert so people could have something to see and then believe, it is necessary for the Son of Man to be lifted up--
「15」 and everyone who looks up to him, trusting and expectant, will gain a real life, eternal life.
「16」 "This is how much God loved the world： He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why： so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.”
중심 주제 문구 / Key
“모든 것에 대해 항상 새롭습니까?
- Are you fresh for everything?"
영으로 다시 태어난 사람 (거듭남)
“때때로 우리는 기도 모임을 위해 마음을 새롭게 하지만 남의 신발을 닦아야 한다고 하면 결코 신이 나지 않습니다”
성령으로 거듭나는 것은 실수가 없으신 하나님의 놀라운 사역입니다.
신자의 거듭남이 언제 시작되는지 알지 못하며 신자의 삶에 깊이 숨겨져있다: (8절”)”바람은 불고 싶은 대로 분다. 너는 그 소리는 듣지만, 어디에서 와서 어디로 가는지는 모른다. 성령으로 태어난 사람은 다 이와 같다."
거듭난 삶은 하나님의 생명으로 끊임없이 새롭고 감격이 있다.
끊임없이 새롭고 감격하지 않은 삶은 영적 침체의 특징으로 하나님과 멀어져 있다는 표시가 됩니다.
강박관념은 영적 침체의 첫번째 표시입니다. 즉 마음이 나누어진 가운데 뭔가 해야 한다는 부담감 때문에 의기소침하게 되는 것입니다.
신선함(Freshness)은 자신의 순종(행함)에서 오는 것이 아니라 성령으로 부터 오는 것입니다. “지금 이순간 당신의 영혼은 새롭게 되었습니까? Are you freshly born this minute?”의 질문을 하며 자신을 살펴보아야 합니다.
마음을 다해 하나님과의 관계를 잘 지켜야 합니다.
언제나 예수 그리스도께 모든 삶을 열어 놓으십시오. 주님과 다투지 마십시오. 하나님이 아닌 다른 것으로부터 삶의 생기를 얻으려고 하는 것이 아닙니까?
성령으로 거듭나는 것은 신자가 일반적으로 생각하는 것보다 훨씬 많은 의미가 있습니다.
거듭남은 하나님의 생명으로부터 공급되는 끊임없는 은혜에 의해 신자에게 새로운 비젼을 주고 신자로 하여금 언제 어디서나 완벽한 생기를 유지하게 합니다.
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Born Again in the Spirit
"Sometimes we renew our minds for prayer meetings, but we never get excited when we're told we have to shine other people's shoes"
Being born again of the Spirit is an amazing work of God who makes no mistakes.
We do not know when a believer's new birth begins and it is deeply hidden in the believer's life: (verse 8") "The wind blows where it pleases. You hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. Everyone who has been born of the Spirit is like this."
The born-again life is constantly new and thrilling with the life of God.
A life that is not constantly renewed and thrilled with the life of God is characterized by spiritual stagnation and is a sign of distance from God.
Compulsion is the first sign of spiritual stagnation-a feeling of being overwhelmed by the need to do something in the midst of a divided heart.
Freshness does not come from your own obedience (works), but from the Holy Spirit. You need to examine yourself, asking, "Is your soul renewed this minute? Are you freshly born this minute?"
You need to guard your relationship with God with all your heart.
Always keep your whole life open to Jesus Christ. Do not argue with the Lord. Are you trying to get life from something other than God?
Being born again of the Holy Spirit means much more than believers usually realize.
The new birth gives the believer a new vision and keeps the believer in perfect vigor at all times and places by the constant grace supplied by the life of God.
말씀과 기도
오늘 읽고 묵상한 말씀을 가지고 기도문을 작성합니다.
(Write a prayer using the words you read and reflected on today).
*”거듭난 그리스도인의 삶이 명분만 붙드는 삶이 되지 않게 하소서. 신실하신 하나님께서 주시는 하늘의 생명으로 인해 생기가 완변하게 유지되게 하소서”*"Don't let the life of a born-again Christian become a life of justification. Let it be fully sustained by the heavenly life that you faithfully give."
[나의 기도 - My Prayer]