💙 예수님은 우리의 화평
✝ 에베소서 2:11-22
"그는 우리의 화평이신지라 둘로 하나를 만드사 원수 된 것 곧 중간에 막힌 담을 자기 육체로 허시고" [에베소서 2:14]
텔레마코스라는 수도사는 조용한 삶을 살았지만 4 세기말 그의 죽음은 세상을 바꾸어 놓았습니다. 동부에서 로마를 방문했던 텔레마코스는 검투사 경기장에서의 피를 쏟는 스포츠를 보고 경기장 벽을 뛰어넘어 들어가 검투사들이 서로 죽이는 것을 막으려 했습니다. 그러자 분노한 군중들이 그 수도사를 돌로 쳐서 죽였습니다. 그러나 호노리우스 황제는 텔레마코스의 행동에 깊은 감동을 받고 500년간 이어져 왔던 검투사 경기를 종식시키는 법령을 내렸습니다.
바울이 예수님을 “우리의 화평”이라고 부른 것은 이제 유대인과 이방인 사이에 있는 적대감의 종언을 의미합니다(에베소서 2:14). 하나님의 택하신 백성이었던 이스라엘은 다른 민족들과 구별되어 특정한 특권들을 누렸습니다. 예를 들어, 이방인은 예루살렘 성전에서 예배를 드릴 수는 있었지만 벽으로 나뉘어 죽음의 형벌의 장소였던 벽 바깥쪽에서만 가능했습니다. 유대인은 이방인을 부정하게 여겼고 그들은 서로 적대감을 갖고 있었습니다. 하지만 지금은 예수님의 죽음과 부활이 모든 사람들을 위한 것이기 때문에 유대인과 이방인 모두 주님을 믿는 믿음에 따라 자유롭게 하나님을 예배할 수 있게 되었습니다(18-22절). 나누는 벽은 더 이상 없으며, 어느 집단이 다른 집단보다 더 특권을 누리는 것도 없습니다. 둘 다 하나님 앞에서 평등하게 되었습니다.
텔레마코스의 죽음이 검투사들에게 화평을 가져왔듯이, 예수님은 그의 죽음과 부활을 통해 주님을 믿는 모든 사람들의 화평과 화해가 가능케 하셨습니다. 예수님께서 우리의 화평이 되셨으니 우리가 서로 다르다고 해서 갈라서지 않도록 합시다. 주님은 그분의 보혈로 우리를 하나 되게 하셨습니다.
모든 사람들과 더불어 화평하다는 것을 어떻게 드러낼 수 있을까요? 혹시 인종이나 신분, 특권 같은 문제가 그것을 가로막고 있지는 않습니까?왜 그렇습니까?
<사랑하는 화평의 하나님, 우리를 예수님 안에서 하나로 만드신 것을 깨닫고 그렇게 살 수 있도록 도와주소서.>
💙 Jesus Is Our Peace
✝ Ephesians 2:11-22
"For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility." [ EPHESIANS 2:14 ]
A monk named Telemachus lived a quiet life, but his death at the end of the fourth century changed the world. Visiting Rome from the East, Telemachus intervened in the blood sport of the gladiatorial arena. He jumped over the stadium wall and tried to stop the gladiators from killing each other. But the outraged crowd stoned the monk to death. The emperor Honorius, however, was moved by Telemachus’ act and decreed the end of the 500-year practice of gladiator games.
When Paul calls Jesus “our peace,” he refers to the end of hostility between Jews and gentiles (EPHESIANS 2:14). God’s chosen people Israel were distinct from the nations and enjoyed certain privileges. For instance, while gentiles were allowed to worship at the Jerusalem temple, a dividing wall restricted them to the outer court – on punishment of death. Jews regarded gentiles unclean, and they experienced mutual hostility. But now, because of Jesus’ death and resurrection for all, both Jew and gentile can worship God freely through faith in Him (VV. 18.22). There’s no dividing wall. There’s no privilege of one group over the other. Both are equal in their standing before God.
Just as Telemachus brought peace to warriors through his death, so Jesus makes peace and reconciliation possible for all who believe in Him through His death and resurrection. So, if Jesus is our peace, let’s not let our differences divide us. He’s made us one by His blood. CON CAMPBELL
How do you reveal you’re at peace with all people? What issues. such as race, status, or privilege – sometimes get in the way? Why?
<Dear God of peace, You’ve made us one in Jesus. Help me to know it and live it.>
11. Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men) -- 12. remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. 14. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15. by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, 16. and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 19. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20. built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. |
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