Make a new path with Jesus, the Way
Make a new path with Jesus, the Way
I. Japanese poetry
1. Title: 道程 (どうてい): Roadside
2. Writer: 高村光太郎 (たかむら こうたろう)
3. Poetry: "There is no road ahead of me. "If I go, it'll be the way."
(Interpretation: Pastor Lee Bang-seok)
II. The Bible
Jesus, the way (John 14:6)
1. I am the way
2. and the truth and the life
3. No one comes to the Father except through me
III. Reinterpretation of Japanese Poetry through the Bible
1. If I go (If I go in the Lord)
1) Union with the Lord (John 15:7)
If you remain in me (Union with the Lord in reality)
2) If I go, united with the Lord
2. It becomes a way: I can make any way
1) a way to salvation
2) a way to victory
3) a way to cure
4) a way to holiness
5) a way to fruiting
6) a way to the fullness of the Holy Spirit
7) a way to the World Mission
8) a way to 弘益人間 (to benefit all the people)
9) a way to restoration of the lost land of Dongi people (East Asian) around the world
(the Land of Manchuria, of Mongolia, of the Central Plains, of Old Turkey, of Dongi among the United states, and South America (ex: Bolivia))
10) The United States: The Western Eagle
Korea: The Eastern Eagle
Two Eagles Save the World
IV. the coming of an age when prophecy is fulfilled(Genesis 9:27)
1. the extention of Japheth
1) "May God extend the territory of Japheth"
2) Globalization of White People (Greece, Rome, Europe, Spain, Catholic of the UK, Protestantism of the US)
2. the tents of Shem
בְּאָהֳלֵי־ Ola: home (1), owned (1), side pillar (1), tent (285), and tents (56).
the tents of Shem: the Tent of God, the temple of God
1) "May Japheth live in the tents of Shem"
2) the tents of the Dongi tribe
a. Not Western Christianity
b. Neither Catholic nor Protestant
(the tents of Jabeth = Western Christianity represented by the US)
c. Korean Christianity must be born
We should set up the tents of Shem and embrace the extended West
There is no road ahead of me
If I go with the Lord, it will be a new road
Conclusion
1. We need to make Eastern Christianity, not Western
2. To do so, we should be fully united with the Lord
3. And should make a new path, even if there is no path
4. Jabeth, extended but exhausted, with no place to live in,
1) a spiritually impoverished
2) ideologically hollow
3) material and not spiritual
4) with the limits of capitalist democracy
Plato: Democracy is the Lowest Political System, fighting all the Time
5) with the socialist fiction of equal distribution of wealth
6) Toward the Western civilization and Western Christianity, who are weary and burdened
5. What the Semitic Jesus (not white) says
1) Come to me,
2) you who are weary and burdened,
3) and I will give you rest.
I will give you true rest, eternal rest!