Derek Tidball, The Message of Holiness: Restoring God's masterpiece, Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press, 2010
거룩에 대한 심도 있는 연구, 오랫동안 찾고 있던 주제의 책을 서가에서 발견하고 기뻤고, 믿을 수 있는 BST 시리즈여서 단숨에 책을 꺼내어 들었다. 적절한 본문 선정과 주제에 대한 광범위하고 다차원적인 연구에 감탄했다. 책이 다루고 있는 말씀들은 거룩을 향한 여정에 중요한 길잡이가 될 것이다.
Part 1. the Foundation of Holiness 1. God of the smoking mountains (Exodus 19:1-25) 2. God in Glory (Isaiah 6:1-13) 3. God in Trinity (1 Peter 1:1-2, 13-21)
Part 2. Visions of Holiness 4. Holiness as Purity (Leviticus 11:1-27) 5. Holiness as Wisdom (Proverbs 9) 6. Holiness as Justice (Isaiah 58)
Part 3. the Transformation of Holiness 7. Holiness Personified (Luke 1:35; 4:1, 34; 23:41) 8. Holiness Redefined (Matt. 5:20, 48; Mark 5:1-43; 7:1-23; Luke 14:1-14) 9. Holiness Orchestrated (John 17:9-19)
Part 4. the Dimensions of Holiness 10. Inner Purity (Psalm 51) 11. Personal Holiness (1 thessalonians 4:1-11) 12. Corporate Holiness (1 Peter 2:4-10, Ephesians 4:17-5:20) 13. Social Holiness (Micah 6:1-8)
Part 5. Pathways To Holiness 14. The Spirit of God (Galatians 5:13-6:10) 15. The Word of God (2 Timothy 3:14-17) 16. The Discipline of God (Hebrews 12:1-17) 17. Union With Christ (Romans 6:1-23) 18. Conflict With the Enemy (Ephesians 6:10-18) 19. Separation From the World (2 Corinthians 6:4-7: 1)
Part 6. the Destination of Holiness 20. To Be Like Him (1 John 3:2-3) 21. He Will Do It (1 thessalonians 5:23-24)
1.
"(We) make God in practice too available, too easy and too immediate. We drop to our knees or bow our heads and imagine that God is eagerly awaiting attention. Or we drop in casually for worship, assuming that God is always there. Most of our worship takes place well short of the mountain, where we can seize the initiative imagining God at our beck and call." (Brueggemann, "The Book of Exodus", p.838) ... We need to resotre 'weight' to God, to learn to stand at the foot of the mountain, listening attentively and humbly to the voice of God calling us to be his holy people, transformed, and transforming, for the sake of his world. (40-41)
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... There is a strong connection between holiness and fire. God often reveals himself in fire; it frequently displays his judgment and plays an obvious role in offering sacrifices. All three of these are inherent in the live coal being taken from the altar... It may have been the altar of burnt offering, signifying the renewed commitment into which Isaiah was entering. More likely it was the altar of incense which stood in the holy place and played a crucial role in the annual atonement ceremony. The mention of smoke, suggesting the presence of incense, may indicate that... In touching Isaiah's mouth, ..., at the place which symbolizes his calling as a prophet. (50-51)
3.
...Father, Spirit and Son have distinct, if comlementary, roles in initiating Christians into a holy status and to holy living. (57)
Biblical holiness is never about withdrawing from the world in order to keep oneself from being contaminated; it is always about engaging in the world and its relationships in a way that displays the character of God. (64)
That image (the image of God) became marred through sin but holiness is the adventure by which that broken image is being restored in our lives. (64-65)
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It suggests that God is not a God to be kept confined to the tabernacle but a God who has relevance for every area of life. Holiness is as much to do with what happens in the kitchen as the tabernacle. And as the rest of Leviticus demonstrates, it has as much to do with the meternity unit and the market place, the sick room and the bedroom, the law court and the farmyard as it has to do with the sanctuary. God looks for holiness in every dimension of our lives. (72)
Holiness is a matter of ownership, a response to grace, an objective to attain, a relationship to be repaired. (71-75)
Holiness is ultimately measured by one's love for God and neighbour (Leviticus 19:18) (76)
5,
Wisdom is something we must vigorously pursue, and yet remains a gift from God, just as holiness is both something we pursue and a gift from God.... To be wise is to be holy. To be holy is to be wise. (92-93)
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A holy God requires a holy people and to be holy is to display compassionate justice in our dealings with others. (94)
7,
Jesus is holiness personified... If we want to understand what it is to be holy, we need do more than look to Jesus Christ. (109)
Matthew, with his emphasis on righteousness, presents Jesus as the one who fulfils all righteousness. Mark, with his emphasis on the arrival of the kingdom and the resulting conflict of powers, shows him as exhibiting the awesome power of God. Luke, with his emphasis on the Holy Spirit and compassion for sinners, displays him as the fulfilment of the prophetic vision of holiness as justice. John associates holiness with the glory of God and presents Christ as both glorifying his Father on earth and being glorified by his Father. (109)
All too often our holiness teaching starts in the wrong place... It is too man-centered, too self-oriented, too sin-concerned. The place to begin is with Jesus Christ and his perfect adequacy. (Chick Yuil, Cited by Brower, Holiness in the Gospel, p43)
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By the time of Jesus, holiness had come to mean something very specific to the Jews. Holiness was understood as separation from everything impure and Israel’s public life was driven by the quest for purity… The sect of the Pharisees, the most influential group in Jewish society, sought to put up with the power of Rome but maintain as much internal distance from them as possible by hedging the key institutions of the day around with rules and regulations designed to preserve their purity. The three primary institutions that defined their way of life were the Sabbath, the temple and the meal table. (120) When Jesus was discussing the Sabbath, healing the sick, challenging the rules about eating and calling into question the role of the temple, he was dealing with the questions of holiness. (121)
Holiness as perfect righteousness (Matthew 5:20; 48), holiness as authentic purity (Mark 5:1-43), holiness as inclusive compassion (Luke 14:1-14).
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Holiness arises from being in the closest of relationship with Jesus who, in turn, is in the closest relationship with his Father. It involves intimacy with the Trinitarian God. (144)
10.
Holiness.. is about God restoring his image in our fallen lives, about the re-formation of our inner character so that we have a willing spirit to sustain us in worship, love, service and obedience. (158)
11.
Sexual Sin: The sexual dimension of our lives is very significant to our created identity as human beings and many find the sexual drive very powerful. Sexual practice has to do with who we are as people and reaches deep into our personalities. So, Paul expained to the Corinthians that while sexual sin is not more serious than other sins, it is of a different kind. 'All other sins people commit', he writes 'are outside their bodies, but those who sin sexually sin against their own bodies' (1 Corinthians 6:19). Sexual expressions and identity are intimately connected and affect the whole person. And since our identity is now determinded by our being joined to Christ and being temples of the Holy Spirit.... (167)
Thessalonica Church: ... Thessalonica took a very lax view about all kinds of sexual practices... Innkeepers and shopkeepers kept slave girls to provide sexual entertainment for their customers. The worship of Aphrodite, Dionysis and other gods would have involved sexual activity. The cult of Cabirus which had a pronounced sexual character was especially popular in Thessalonica. Cecero described those who thought youths should not have affairs as 'eminently auster', Adultery was common. And so on. (167)
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But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9)
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We must open the doors and let holiness invade the social and public sphere, just as surely as Micah saw God move out from his holy temple into his hurting world to bring abouth the reform and renewal it so desperately needed. (199)
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You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. (Galatians 5:13-6:10)
Believing in Christ and receiving the Spirit were synonymous in Paul's view, as Romans 8:9-10 confirms.
We need the powerful life of Holy Spirit within to expel those sinful desires that cling tightly to us. (207)
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