08 God Remembers Us

The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

- Exodus 2:23-25

Nicolas Poussin : Crossing of the Red Sea

1634, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

넷, 처음과 끝

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Genesis 1:1

Michelangelo Buonarroti : Creation of the Sun, Moon, and Plants

Fresco, 1511, Cappella Sistina, Vatican

He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen. - Revelation 22:20-21

Michelangelo Buonarroti : The Last Judgment

Fresco, 1511, Cappella Sistina, Vatican

07 Freedom in Christ

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. - Galatians 5:1

셋, "I am Who I am"

Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'

- Exodus 3:13-14

Domenico Fetti, Moses before the Burning Bush, 1613-14

Oil on canvas, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

둘, 믿음

Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." - John 20:29

Caravaggio, The incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601-02

Oil on canvas, Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam

06 Honor Your Mother

"Honor your father and mother"-which is the first commandment with a promise-"so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth." - Ephesians 6:2~3

Michelangelo, Pieta, 1499

Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican

05 Let The Little Children Come To Me

Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them. Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." - Mattew 19:13-14

Rembrandt, The little children being brought to Jesus

1647-49, Etching and drypoint, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

04 Love Builds Up

Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know. But the man who loves God is known by God. - 1 Corinthians 8:2-2

Raffaello, St Paul preaching in Athens, 1515

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

03 The Greatest Commandment

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself." - Matthew 22:36-39

Phlippe de Champaigne, Moses with the Ten Commandments

1648, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

02 Humility : the Christian attitude

5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.8And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-even death on cross! - Philippians 2:5,8

5너희 안에 이 마음을 품으라 곧 그리스도 예수의 마음이니 6그는 근본 하나님의 본체시나 하나님과 동등됨을 취할 것으로 여기지 아니하시고 7오히려 자기를 비워 종의 형제를 가지사 사람들과 같이 되셨고 8사람의 모양으로 나타나사 자기를 낮추시고 죽기까지 복종하셨으니 곧 십자가에 죽으심 이라. - 빌립보서 2:5,8

Tintoretto, Christ washing the feet of his disciples

c.1547, Museo del Prado, Madrid

01 Worship

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from Worship Service, March 25th 2012

하나, 만나(Manna)

1내가 오늘 명하는 모든 명령을 너희는 지켜 행하라 그리하면 너희가 살고 번성하고 여호와께서 너희의 조상들에게 맹세하신 땅에 들어가서 그것을 차지하리라. 2네 하나님 여호와께서 이 사십년 동안에 네게 광야 길을 걷게 하신 것을 기억하라 이는 너를 낮추시며 너를 시험하사 네 마음이 어떠한지 그 명령을 지키는지 지키지 않는지 알려 하심이라. 3너를 낮추시며 너를 주리게 하시며 또 너도 알지 못하며 네 조상들도 알지 못하던 만나를 네게 먹이신 것은 사람이 떡으로만 사는 것이 아니요 여호와의 입에서 나오는 모든 말씀으로 사는 줄을 네가 알게 하려 하심이니라.


1Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors. 2Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Tintoretto, the miracle of manna

c.1577, Oil on canvas

Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice