*** Important to Jesus religion are

"not formality of religion but content,"

"not perfunctory justice but love,"

"not theory but practice."

After all, we have been taught that peace is not words but action of peace, not dogmatic instruction but human life itself.

However active women's movement is in 21st century, in reality the world order has been ruled through masculine theories of ruling such as violence, submission, performance(effect), command or ideology in most global areas so far as today.

Human history has the end at the end.

Matthew 5:9 says, 'Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.' Even if it is the Sermon on the Mount that was neither achieved nor will hereafter by human race, we may hand down the way, the truth and the life to the descendants only by the time when we have this spirit as a fundamental principle of human world.

In fact, it is the most important that Christians, Muslims, advanced countries, under-developed countries, haves, have-nots, normal persons, handicapped ones,..everybody gathers together into a world for ourselves.

We have come to a point where it should be remembered that the peacemakers - the children of God - cannot be practical history-transmitters and life-imparters until everybody meets together to make the peace ourselves not as you or me, which is the project remaining to current human race that we must consider.

The word 'we' includes as far as the future and posterity concepts. In order to touch on future and posterity, we should previously treat of 'war,' 'economy,'..problems together with the words, 'environmental pollution,' 'natural resources shortage' and such.'

'The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!' is the sermon collection that tried to be treated of these problems lying in humans.

'Meaning of Book Publication'

*** Human life doesn't mean today.

Man cannot tell history until he is on the belief that ‘there was yesterday, is today and will be tomorrow too.'

21 century should be the time when the three words I, you and we are balanced and harmonized according to the 'global age.' And in so being, these three words should prevail over and be encouraged in all areas of human life as well as theology. This dreamer-like belief is what I have.

I think culture is a product of the times and the key that draws the times at the same time. Because of that, I think it is natural to emphasize historical mind, social consciousness, contemporary situation, reinterpretation, meaningful delivery and application in the sermon that leads Christianity culture.

Only if so, the audience can have the rightful spirit of the Good News planted, and can transmit 'their history of human personality, their history made by humans and their environment connecting the human history' down to the descendents of tomorrow. With this in mind, I am writing down this exclusive sermon of mine.

From Text P.8-9

*** "Come to think of how many years I've been away from home

My youth days are now gone~ in about ten years since this strange land

~Omission~

The willow at home village might be also green this spring

Yet, I miss those good old days~ blowing the flute with a willow twig"

If Go Boksu sings 'In The Strange Land' passionately, there are women shedding tears here and there in the performance and afterwards even men turning reddish around the eyes. (What is as similar as Go Boksu's is the part 'Going home' in Dvorak's 'New World Symphony.' A mere difference is, the displaced people in 'Going Home's backdrop are Czech folks, not Korean.)

Their 'weariness in strange lands,' 'bitter tears in strange lands,' and 'desperation and emptiness in the strange lands,' which they had hidden inside their bosoms, were absorbed in the lyrics of 'In The Strange Land,' finally leading to but few of them killing themselves. That is not the kind of popular song that we now think.

For, Go Boksu expressed the 'life in the strange land' a stranger wished to whine about only too relevantly. Without knowing such bitterness in the strange land, the part which one could not even explain of is Isaiah 40-50.

From 'See Thy God!' Text P.44

*** In old times, they regarded it as wise to live one's best within not straying from the right path as a human, by combining God and man. But in modern times where man lost nature, there is 'nature' added.

These three sit together in the organic relationship.

The Christianity of today and tomorrow requires each faithful human to lead one's life by bearing his or her own mission on the shoulder as an <entity before God> as an <entity among neighbors> and as an <entity in nature>.

From 'Wisdom' Text P.123

*** What is associated with hearing these words is the opposite situation, namely, the people that had a dreadful war, the people that have lost the war, the vineyard that has been plundered, the families that have their members killed in youth and scattered apart, and the society where they fight and quarrel against each other to live where there is no effort rewarded and no prayer answered. You should first surmise these realities sit as the historical context in the text in order to interpret rightly.

So the new heaven and earth is the world opposite from the society of these realities, namely, the society where Jehovah's justice, Jehovah's compassion and Jehovah's reign prevails.

From 'New Heaven and Earth,' Text P.149

*** In God's people's eyes, the redemption period didn't dawn since after the exilic period. The promise of redemption written in Isaiah(down from 40) was certainly not come to pass. Especially the details written of the redemption period to come forth still did not come to pass.

But faith is like this,

'to them crying in the hardships had Yahweh God granted them salvation. Faith is to acknowledge and endure that God lives and acts in the history only in that process of redemption' (See the Exodus 2:23-25)

The Isaiah 61:1-3 is proclaimed again in the Luke 4:16 through reinterpretation.

Though not in the prophet's period, Isaiah's proclamation has eventually been fulfilled through perdurable vitality, which can be told.

The reason why we repeat studying Israeli history through sermon is so that we shall learn their 'perdurable vitality' through the history of hardship that Israel suffered. For, it is only in the process in which Israel prolongs its vitality with perdurability that we can learn that God of life acts in the history through His word.

The Bible works for us to learn in the middle of principle of dynamics and principle of paradox. What is important is, today's text has influence on up to us through the history of 'reinterpretation.'

If a kingdom of priests or a chosen generation(comparison between Exodus 19:6 and 1 Peter 2:9-10) applies to each of you, the 'Hephzibah' among words of today's text the Isaiah 62:1-5 can be interpreted as 'my joy is in you' to dear you.

Dear everybody! You are the chosen people. Please be proud to be yourself the people of the kingdom!

From 'My Joy Is In You,' Text P.178-179

*** Spirit or trend of thought(-ism) is a product of the times. It is not inadvertently formed.

It is said that the kingdom of Heaven has begun by Jesus' coming down on the earth. That is, to emphasize the 'presentness of the Kingdom of Heaven' is a product of 'rationalism.' The word of heaven that Jesus sowed produced seedlings among people. Through the efforts of his disciples and other Christians, the seeds of Heaven have borne fruit as 60-or-100-times-or-more expanded kingdoms. (See Mark 4:8)

The interpretation by rationalism is, the expansion of heaven as well will produce a good result like the seeds that grow into grains through human endeavor and will.

In the meantime, there are rather often cases that man’s wisdom brings any destructive result. (Consider what Genesis 3,4,11 mean.)

Through the cream war in Europe(1854~1856, one that gave motive to the Worldwide Red Cross Movement), through the 'World War I' 1914~1918, and through the 'World War II' 1939~1945, they began to reflect on 'rationalism's opinion that puts importance on man’s reason, or man’s power.

They saw that the man's power and man's wisdom that had been pursued by man resulted not in goodness, but in 'destructiveness.' So people began to reconsider the thinking that the word that Jesus sowed on the earth becomes the seed that shall grow still greater(4:30~32) and more expansive.

From 'Even At Night You Sleeps,' Text P.256-257

*** Even though man thinks, contrives and acts, there is God hiding beyond human behavior, but it is God who plans, proceeds with and attains his own providence of human salvation. This is what 'God hiding behind=the Savior' is for.

Bible writers try to remind their descendants that although hiding in the Bible verses such as today's text Isaiah 45:15, Exodus 2(Story of Moses) and others, there is yet always God's providence in human history.

Through the Isaiah 40~55, one can see God who conceives(Isaiah 44:24), gives birth(42:14), brings up(46:4), prepares(49:1) and create(45:9-10), that is, God who emphasizes the attribute of the mother.

The writer tried to remind readers of God's amazing compassion through the symbol of 'the Savior=God hiding behind man' who is greater than the mother of apprehensive, heartwarming and devoted love.

From 'The Savior, Dear God Hiding Behind Us!' Text P.278-279