Chapter 2: The Deity of His Person
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John’S Signs It is not therefore surprising that John
draws our attention to the touch of the Creator-God in the miracles (signs)
He performed. In the very first case, having turned water into wine, John
observes, "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and
manifested forth His glory" Jn.2.11. It is noteworthy that the first
plague in
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요한의 표적
그러므로 요한이 그분께서 행하신 기적(표적)에서 창조주 하나님의 손길에 우리의 주의를 돌리는 것은 놀라운 일이 아니다. 요한은 물을 포도주로 바꾼 첫 번째 사례에서 "이 처음 기적을 갈릴리 가나에서 행하사 자신의 영광을 나타내시니"라고 요한은 말한다. 주목할 것은 이집트의 첫 번째 역병은 물이 피 상태로 있었다는 것이다. 반면에 주 예수님께서 주신 첫 번째 표적은 물이 포도주가 된 것이다. 또한 다음 사항에 주목해야 한다.
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· He who said, "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place" Gen.1.9, came "walking on the sea" to His disciples, even though "the sea arose by reason of a great wind that blew" Jn.6.18,19. Matthew tells us that "they that were in the ship worshipped Him, saying, Of a truth Thou art the Son of God" Matt.14.33. On a previous occasion, the disciples said, "What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him!" Matt.8.27. The Creator of wind and wave was present!
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"하늘 아래의 물들은 한 곳으로 함께 모이고"(창
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· He who said, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life" Gen.1.20, said, "Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes" Jn.21.6. No wonder John said, "It is the Lord": He evidently remembered a similar miracle some three and a half years before.
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"물들은 생명이 있어 움직이는 창조물과 … 풍성히 내라"(창세기
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· He who said, "Let us make man in our image" and "formed man of the dust of the ground" Gen.1.26; 2.7, imparted mobility to a "man … which had an infirmity thirty and eight years" Jn.5.5. He bestowed sight to a man "which was blind from his birth" Jn.9.1, and gave life to a man who "stinketh: for he had been dead four days" Jn.11.39.
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그분은 "우리가 우리의 형상으로 우리의 모양에 따라 사람을 만들고"와 "땅의 흙으로 사람을 지으시고"(창
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· Many more illustrations of the Lord’s omnipotence as Creator are found in the synoptic Gospels. For example: He who said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind" Gen.1.11, said to the fig tree, "No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever … and in the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots" Mk.11.14, 20.
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공관복음서에서 창조주로서의
주님의 전능하심을 더 많이 보여준다. 예를 들면: "땅은
풀과 씨 맺는 채소와 자기 종류대로 열매 맺는 과일 나무 곧 열매 속에 씨가 있는 과일 나무를 땅 위에 내라"(창
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The Sabbath In connection with His work, we should
notice the words of the Lord Jesus: "My Father worketh hitherto, and I
work" Jn.5.17. God did not keep Sabbath, and the Lord Jesus continued
His work. The Jews responded to this: "Therefore the Jews sought the
more to kill Him, because He had not only broken the Sabbath, but said that
God was His (own) Father, making Himself equal with God" Jn.5.18. Compare
this with Rom.8.32, "He that spared not His own Son."
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안식일
그분의 사역과 관련하여 우리는 주 예수님의
말씀을 깨달아야 한다: "내 아버지께서 지금까지 일하시니 나도 일한다"(요
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The Firstborn But having said this, there are people who insist that while the Lord Jesus exercised power over creation, He was Himself, a created being. In support they cite Col.1.15, "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature", or "the firstborn of all creation" (J.N.D.). This statement is used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses to support their blasphemous assertion that God’s first creation was His Son. It is therefore important to rightly understand the expression "firstborn." The Lord Jesus is described as "the firstborn" on five occasions in the New Testament, namely, Rom.8.29; Col.1.15,18; Heb.1.6; Rev.1.5. The word is used in the plural in Heb.12.23, "the church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven." In the Old Testament the title "firstborn" was not synonymous with the first to be born.
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맏아들
그러나 이것을 말하면서, 주 예수님은 창조 이상의 권능을 행사하셨지만, 그분이 창조된
존재라고 주장하는 사람들이 있다. 그들을 돕기 위해 "그분께서는
보이지 아니하는 하나님의 형상이시요 모든 창조물의 처음 난 자이시니"(골
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See for example, 1 Chron.26.10-11,
"Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief (for
though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief), Hilkiah
the second ... Tebaliah ... Zechariah." The position of Joseph
illustrates the point. See 1 Chron.5.1-2, "Now the sons of Reuben the
firstborn of
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예를 들면 대상 26:10-11을 보라, “므라리의 자손 중에서 호사에게도 아들들이
있었는데 시므리가 우두머리더라. (시므리는 맏아들이 아니었으나 그의 아버지가 그를 우두머리로 삼았더라.) 둘째는 힐기야요, … 드발리야요, … 스가랴니” " 요셉의 입장이 그 점을 설명한다. 대상
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The Jehovah’s Witnesses also use Rev.3.14, "The beginning of the creation of God" to bolster their heinous doctrine that Christ is a created being. However, the word "beginning" means ‘originator.’ He is not, as they suggest, the first to be created, but the Creator! He is the ‘originator’ of creation. As "the firstborn of all creation", the Lord Jesus has both precedence and preeminence over creation.
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여호와의 증인들은 또한 그리스도가 창조
된 존재라는 가증스러운 교리를 보완하기 위해 계
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If The Lord Jesus Is God He Must Be Omniscient Amongst others in the Old Testament, Samuel noted, "The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart", 1 Sam.16.7, and Hannah said, "the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed" 1 Sam.2.3, both stressing the omniscience of God. The Lord Jesus must show this feature also and it is John who emphasises His omniscience.
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구약에서 다른 사람들과 마찬가지로
사무엘은 "주는 사람이 보는 것처럼 보지 아니하나니 사람은 겉모습을 보나 주는 마음을 보느니라"(삼상
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Nathanael asked "Whence knowest
Thou me?", and when the Lord Jesus replied, "Before that Philip
called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee", he
responded, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of
Israel" Jn.1.48,49. His omniscience is stressed in Jn.2.24,25, "He
knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for He knew what
was in man." Again in Jn.4.28,29, "The woman then left her
waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a
man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?"
Yet again in Jn.11.14, He could reveal what happened in
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나다나엘은 "어떻게 나를 아시나이까?"하며 묻자, 주 예수님이 대답하셨다. "빌립이 너를 부르기 전에
네가 무화과나무 밑에 있을 때에 내가 너를 보았노라, 하시니 나다나엘이 그분께 응답하여 이르되, 랍비여, 선생님은 하나님의 아들이시요 선생님은 이스라엘의 왕이로소이다"(요
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To this we must add that the Lord’s complete mastery of every situation, His perfect knowledge of coming events at Jerusalem in connection with the manner and circumstances of His death and resurrection, together with His perfect knowledge of events in the then far distant future, as shown in His Olivet discourse, all stress His omniscience.
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이것에 대해 우리는 모든 상황에 대한 주님의 완전한 지배력을 추가해야 한다, 예루살렘에서의 죽음과 부활의 방법과 상황에 대한 다가올 사건의 그분의 완전한 지식, 그분의 감람산 강화에 나와있는 대로 멀리 미래 사건에 대한 그분의 완벽한 지식과 함께 모든 그분의 전지를 강조한다.
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If The Lord Jesus Is God He Must Be Omnipresent The Lord Jesus emphasised this Himself in Jn.14.23, "If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him." His omnipresence is stressed in Matt.18.20, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them," and in Matt.28.20, "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Compare Mk.16.20, "And they went forth and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following."
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주 예수님이 하나님이라면 그분은 편재해야 한다.
주 예수님은 "사람이 나를 사랑하면 내 말들을 지키리니 내 아버지께서 그를 사랑하실 것이요, 우리가 그에게 가서 우리의 거처가 그와 함께 있게 하리라"(요
그분의 편재는 마
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If The Lord Jesus Is God, He Must Be Utterly Holy Hannah said "There is none holy as the Lord …" 1 Sam.2.2, and therefore the Lord Jesus, having said to His accusers, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do", continued, "Which of you convinceth Me of sin?" Jn.8.46. The word "convinceth", or ‘convicteth’ implies, not only that they were unable to successfully charge Him with sin to the satisfaction of a court, but that He was not convicted of sin in His own conscience. This, of course was impossible, for "in Him is no sin" 1 Jn.3.5. Compare Jms.1.13, "God cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth He any man." It is vitally important to remember that the wilderness temptations were not intended to prove whether or not the Lord could sin, but to demonstrate that He could not sin.
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주 예수님이 하나님이라면 그는 완전히 거룩해야 한다.
한나는 "주와 같이 거룩한 분이 없으니 ..."(삼상
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If The Lord Jesus Is God His Communications Must Be Unique John writes, "He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: He that cometh from heaven is above all … For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him" Jn.3.31,34. Therefore, it is not surprising that "the officers sent to take Him" reported their failure with the words, "Never man spake like this man" Jn.7.32,46. He said, "I speak that which I have seen with My Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father" Jn.8.38.
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주 예수님이 하나님이라면 그분의 대화는 독특해야 한다.
요한은 다음과 같이 썼다. "위로부터 오시는 분은 모든 것 위에 계시고 땅에서 난 자는 땅에 속하여 땅의 것을 말하느니라. 하늘로부터 오시는 분은 모든 것 위에 계시느니라 ... 하나님]께서 보내신 분은 하나님의 말씀들을 말하나니 이는 하나님께서 그분에게 성령을 한량없이 주시기 때문이라"(요
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If The Lord Jesus Is God Therefore Death Cannot Hold Him Thomas, confronted with mortal wounds in a living body, exclaimed "My Lord and my God" Jn.20.28. The crowning evidence of the Lord’s Deity is His resurrection, which vindicated every claim He made. If He were not God, He would still be in the grave. But He was "made of the seed of David according to the flesh (the word "made" means ‘entering into a new condition’); and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead" Rom.1.4. |
주 예수님이 하나님이라면 죽음이 그를 붙들 수 없다.
도마는 생명체의 죽음의 상처에 직면하여 "나의 주 나의 하나님"(요
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The apostles made this the hallmark of their preaching. See Acts 2.24-36, "Whom God hath raised up … this Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father … For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, the Lord said unto my Lord …".
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사도들은 이것을 전도의 특징으로 삼았다. 행
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Believers today should be "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" ("our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ" J.N.D.) Titus 2.13. We gladly acknowledge His Deity as we wait for Him to come, and Israel will do so as well at His subsequent manifestation: "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation" Isa.25.9.
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오늘날의 신자들은 해야 한다 "저 복된 소망과 위대하신 하나님 곧 우리의 구원자 예수 그리스도의 영광스런 나타나심을 기다리게
하셨느니라"("위대하신 하나님과 구주 예수 그리스도"JND)(딛
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In eternity the saints will gaze upon their Redeemer and say with Paul, "The Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." It is perhaps not too fanciful to say that words akin to the much-loved hymn will be heard in heaven: True image of the Infinite, Brightness of uncreated light, The heart of God revealed. Worthy, O Lamb of God, art thou, That every knee to Thee should bow! (Josiah Condor)
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영원에서 성도들은 구속의 주를 바라보고 바울과 함께 "나를 사랑하고 나를 위해 자신을 주신 하나님의 아들"이라고 말할 것이다. 아마도 많이 좋아했던 찬송가와 비슷한 말들이 하늘에서 들려 올 것이라고 말하는 것은 과언이 아닐 것다.
끝이 없는 진정한 형상,
누구의 실체가 숨겨져 있는가?
생성되지 않은 빛의 밝기,
드러낸 하나님의 마음.
합당한 자, 오 하나님의 어린 양이로다.
당신께 모든 무릎이 머리 숙여야 한다!
(조시아 콘도르)
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In the meantime, since "He is the true God, and eternal life" 1 Jn.5.20, (J.N.D.), we must ensure that He has our entire devotion. As "the true God" He must have no rival in our hearts and lives. Hence John concludes his First Epistle by saying, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."
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그 동안에 "그분은 참 하나님이시요 영원한 생명이시니라"(요일
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