Sunday, May 9, 2010
Hebrews Chapter 1 enjoyment
Hebrews 1:9 [You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of exultant joy above Your partners]
Hebrews Chapter 10 enjoyment
8 Saying above, "Sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You did not desire nor delight in'' (which are offered according to the law),
9 He then has said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will.'' He takes away the first that He may establish the second,
10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily, ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never remove sins;
12 But this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on the right hand of God,
13 Henceforth waiting until His enemies are made the footstool for His feet.
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after having said,
16 "This is the covenant which I will covenant with them after those days, says the Lord: I will impart My laws upon their hearts, and upon their mind I will inscribe them,''
17 He then says, "And their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall by no means remember anymore.''
18 Now where forgiveness of these is, there is no longer an offering for sin.
29 By how much do you think he will be thought worthy of worse punishment who has trampled underfoot the Son of God and has considered the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay''; and again, "The Lord will judge His people.''
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;
33 On one hand, being made a spectacle both in reproaches and in afflictions, and on the other, having become partakers with those who are treated the same.
34 For you both sympathized with those in bonds and accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better possession and one that abides.
35 Do not cast away therefore your boldness, which has great reward.
36 For you have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, you may obtain the promise.
37 "For in yet a very little while the Coming One will come and will not delay.
38 But My righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, My soul does not delight in him.''
39 But we are not of those who shrink back to ruin but of them who have faith to the gaining of the soul.
9 He then has said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will.'' He takes away the first that He may establish the second,
10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily, ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never remove sins;
12 But this One, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down forever on the right hand of God,
13 Henceforth waiting until His enemies are made the footstool for His feet.
14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after having said,
16 "This is the covenant which I will covenant with them after those days, says the Lord: I will impart My laws upon their hearts, and upon their mind I will inscribe them,''
17 He then says, "And their sins and their lawlessnesses I shall by no means remember anymore.''
18 Now where forgiveness of these is, there is no longer an offering for sin.
29 By how much do you think he will be thought worthy of worse punishment who has trampled underfoot the Son of God and has considered the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine; I will repay''; and again, "The Lord will judge His people.''
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But call to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;
33 On one hand, being made a spectacle both in reproaches and in afflictions, and on the other, having become partakers with those who are treated the same.
34 For you both sympathized with those in bonds and accepted with joy the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better possession and one that abides.
35 Do not cast away therefore your boldness, which has great reward.
36 For you have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, you may obtain the promise.
37 "For in yet a very little while the Coming One will come and will not delay.
38 But My righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, My soul does not delight in him.''
39 But we are not of those who shrink back to ruin but of them who have faith to the gaining of the soul.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Hebrews chapter 6 - Be diligent :) We have the anchor in us, both secure n firm
10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name in having ministered to the saints and in ministering still.
11 But we desire earnestly that each of you show the same diligence unto the full assurance of our hope until the end,
12 That you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and long-suffering are inheriting the promises
18 In order that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us,
19 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, both secure and firm and which enters within the veil
20 here the Forerunner, Jesus, has entered for us, having become forever a High Priest according to the border of Melchisedec.
Those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come have already laid the foundation, at the time they believed. If they fall away and turn back, there is no need for them to lay the foundation again (v. 1); there is only the need to go on, to be brought on to perfection, to maturity. There is no need for them to repeat repentance, for it is impossible for them to renew themselves unto repentance. Verse 1 indicates that it is not needed; v. 4 says that it is not possible; and vv. 7-8 show that it is not right.
11 But we desire earnestly that each of you show the same diligence unto the full assurance of our hope until the end,
12 That you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and long-suffering are inheriting the promises
18 In order that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we may have strong encouragement, we who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us,
19 Which we have as an anchor of the soul, both secure and firm and which enters within the veil
20 here the Forerunner, Jesus, has entered for us, having become forever a High Priest according to the border of Melchisedec.
Those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come have already laid the foundation, at the time they believed. If they fall away and turn back, there is no need for them to lay the foundation again (v. 1); there is only the need to go on, to be brought on to perfection, to maturity. There is no need for them to repeat repentance, for it is impossible for them to renew themselves unto repentance. Verse 1 indicates that it is not needed; v. 4 says that it is not possible; and vv. 7-8 show that it is not right.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
oneness of the body
Ephesian 4:3-6 [Being diligent to keep the oneness of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace; One Body and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism; One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.]
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Favourite maxims :)
日子是拿来过的，而不是拿来算的。
别为了过去而放弃现在。：）
什么都可以输，就是不可以输掉信心。
要摸清它，自然就会仲意它!
Discouragement will not be allowed to taint my positive self-image, my desire to succeed or my capacity to love.
Beginning today, I will open my mind and my heart. I will welcome new experience. I will meet new people. I will not expect perfection from myself nor anyone else. Perfection does not exist in an imperfect world. But i will applaud the attempt to overcome human foibles.
Beginning today, I will be responsible for my own happiness and I will do things that make me happy... admire the beautiful wonder of nature, listen to my favourite music, soak in a bubble bath, lay down on the grass, walk by the lake....
Pleasure can be found in the most simple of gestures.
Beginning today, I will learn something different. I will savour all the various flavours life has to offer. I will change what I can and the rest I will let go.
Hebrews 1:9 [You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of exultant joy above Your partners]
Hebrews 2:1 [Therefore we ought to give heed more abundantly to the things which have been heard lest perhaps we drift away]
Perfect through sufferings~~
Running water does not flow back. So is life, make it happy. :)
Let the doctors handle your body, let God handles your life, but be in charge of your own moods.
Before middle age, DO NOT FEAR. After middle age, DO NOT REGRET.
If worry can cure your sickness, go ahead and worry;
If worry can prolong your life, go ahead and worry;
If worry can exchange for happiness, go ahead and worry.
Matthew 11:22-24 ["Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours]
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
Lord, be with me in whatever I am doing now. Thanks for being so available to me that I can simply take you in by a simple turn to the Spirit. :)
别为了过去而放弃现在。：）
什么都可以输，就是不可以输掉信心。
要摸清它，自然就会仲意它!
Discouragement will not be allowed to taint my positive self-image, my desire to succeed or my capacity to love.
Beginning today, I will open my mind and my heart. I will welcome new experience. I will meet new people. I will not expect perfection from myself nor anyone else. Perfection does not exist in an imperfect world. But i will applaud the attempt to overcome human foibles.
Beginning today, I will be responsible for my own happiness and I will do things that make me happy... admire the beautiful wonder of nature, listen to my favourite music, soak in a bubble bath, lay down on the grass, walk by the lake....
Pleasure can be found in the most simple of gestures.
Beginning today, I will learn something different. I will savour all the various flavours life has to offer. I will change what I can and the rest I will let go.
Hebrews 1:9 [You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of exultant joy above Your partners]
Hebrews 2:1 [Therefore we ought to give heed more abundantly to the things which have been heard lest perhaps we drift away]
Perfect through sufferings~~
Running water does not flow back. So is life, make it happy. :)
Let the doctors handle your body, let God handles your life, but be in charge of your own moods.
Before middle age, DO NOT FEAR. After middle age, DO NOT REGRET.
If worry can cure your sickness, go ahead and worry;
If worry can prolong your life, go ahead and worry;
If worry can exchange for happiness, go ahead and worry.
Matthew 11:22-24 ["Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours]
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
Lord, be with me in whatever I am doing now. Thanks for being so available to me that I can simply take you in by a simple turn to the Spirit. :)
Friday, March 12, 2010
Why is there a need for Word to become flesh as mentioned in John 1:14? What is the reason for Christ's incarnation and death?
John 1:14 [And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.]
John 1: 16-17 [For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ. ]
John 1:14 tells us that the Word became flesh. The Word is God Himself. The Word became flesh to dispense God into us. Incarnation is for dispensing. If God had never become incarnated, He would have remained in His divinity, and there would have been no way for Him to dispense Himself into us. Incarnation was the initiation of the divine dispensing; it was the first step of God's dispensing of Himself into us. When God was incarnated, He came full of grace and reality. He did not come empty-handed.
Grace is God enjoyed by us. Reality is God gained by us. In the entire universe, nothing is real. Solomon told us that everything is vanity. Houses and cars are vanity; they are not reality. Only God gained by us is reality. In His incarnation God came to us full of grace and reality for us to receive.
John 1:29 [The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!]
John 19:34 [But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.]
After His incarnation, Christ lived on this earth for more than thirty years. Then He went to the cross and was crucified there. This was the second step of God's dispensing.
Fist, in His crucifixion, Christ as the Lamb of God first took away our sin.
Second, as the brass serpent, Christ destroyed Satan, the source of death and the ruler of this world.
Third, as the grain of wheat, Christ released the divine life within Him for the producing of the many believers by imparting, that is, dispensing, the divine life into them. By this He made all the believers His members and the many grains of wheat.
Many Christian do not realize that Christ's death, like His incarnation, was for His dispensing. He died on the cross to release His divine life for His dispensing.
At the cross, when the soldier pierced the side of Christ, blood and water came out. The blood symbolizes the redeeming aspect of Christ's all-inclusive death, and the water that came out of Christ symbolizes the life-imparting aspect of Christ's all-inclusive death. This one death did two works: it redeemed us from our sins, and it released the divine life of God into believers.
The death on the cross was the release of God and the termination of man and all negative things. In Christ's death God passed through death in man to be released, and man died in God to be terminated.
The cross is not only the center but also the circumference of God's holy building. The cross is implied in the gate, in the eating of the sacrifices, in the boiling houses, and in the tables on which the sacrifices are slain. Thus, the cross spreads in every direction and to every corner of God's building. If we wish to contact God and enjoy his riches in His house, we must pass through the cross.
Chapter twenty of the Gospel of John, tells us after His death, this Christ entered into resurrection, and in resurrection He changed His form and became a life-giving Spirit. In incarnation He changed His form from the form of God to the form of man. In resurrection, He as the last Adam changed His form again, from the form of the human flesh to the life-giving Spirit.
The word life-giving implies dispensing, because to give is to dispense. Christ as the life-giving Spirit is dispensing life as food to His believers. Within our physical food there is medicine; the nourishment in the food kills germs. Within Christ as the food there is the real "medicine" that kills all the spiritual germs.
On the night of His resurrection, the Lord came back to visit His believers. He did not give them a message of any teaching or instruction. He did only one thing: He breathed into them (John 20:22). By breathing into them, He breathed Himself into them. At that time Christ was the life-giving Spirit. Thus, by Christ's breathing, all the disciples received Him as the life-giving Spirit.
Reference: The Economy and Dispensing of God.
John 1: 16-17 [For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ. ]
John 1:14 tells us that the Word became flesh. The Word is God Himself. The Word became flesh to dispense God into us. Incarnation is for dispensing. If God had never become incarnated, He would have remained in His divinity, and there would have been no way for Him to dispense Himself into us. Incarnation was the initiation of the divine dispensing; it was the first step of God's dispensing of Himself into us. When God was incarnated, He came full of grace and reality. He did not come empty-handed.
Grace is God enjoyed by us. Reality is God gained by us. In the entire universe, nothing is real. Solomon told us that everything is vanity. Houses and cars are vanity; they are not reality. Only God gained by us is reality. In His incarnation God came to us full of grace and reality for us to receive.
John 1:29 [The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!]
John 19:34 [But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.]
After His incarnation, Christ lived on this earth for more than thirty years. Then He went to the cross and was crucified there. This was the second step of God's dispensing.
Fist, in His crucifixion, Christ as the Lamb of God first took away our sin.
Second, as the brass serpent, Christ destroyed Satan, the source of death and the ruler of this world.
Third, as the grain of wheat, Christ released the divine life within Him for the producing of the many believers by imparting, that is, dispensing, the divine life into them. By this He made all the believers His members and the many grains of wheat.
Many Christian do not realize that Christ's death, like His incarnation, was for His dispensing. He died on the cross to release His divine life for His dispensing.
At the cross, when the soldier pierced the side of Christ, blood and water came out. The blood symbolizes the redeeming aspect of Christ's all-inclusive death, and the water that came out of Christ symbolizes the life-imparting aspect of Christ's all-inclusive death. This one death did two works: it redeemed us from our sins, and it released the divine life of God into believers.
The death on the cross was the release of God and the termination of man and all negative things. In Christ's death God passed through death in man to be released, and man died in God to be terminated.
The cross is not only the center but also the circumference of God's holy building. The cross is implied in the gate, in the eating of the sacrifices, in the boiling houses, and in the tables on which the sacrifices are slain. Thus, the cross spreads in every direction and to every corner of God's building. If we wish to contact God and enjoy his riches in His house, we must pass through the cross.
Chapter twenty of the Gospel of John, tells us after His death, this Christ entered into resurrection, and in resurrection He changed His form and became a life-giving Spirit. In incarnation He changed His form from the form of God to the form of man. In resurrection, He as the last Adam changed His form again, from the form of the human flesh to the life-giving Spirit.
The word life-giving implies dispensing, because to give is to dispense. Christ as the life-giving Spirit is dispensing life as food to His believers. Within our physical food there is medicine; the nourishment in the food kills germs. Within Christ as the food there is the real "medicine" that kills all the spiritual germs.
On the night of His resurrection, the Lord came back to visit His believers. He did not give them a message of any teaching or instruction. He did only one thing: He breathed into them (John 20:22). By breathing into them, He breathed Himself into them. At that time Christ was the life-giving Spirit. Thus, by Christ's breathing, all the disciples received Him as the life-giving Spirit.
Reference: The Economy and Dispensing of God.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Why do Christians call on the name of the Lord?
There is the basis, definition, history, purpose and practice of calling on the Lord in the website below:
http://www.callingonthelord.org/index.html
I think it's a really good site to share with our friends who might be wondering why we call on the Lord so much. There is even a chart http://www.callingonthelord.org/basis/ot.html which lists all the instances in the Bible where people called on the Lord's name.
http://www.callingonthelord.org/basis/ot.html -- old testament
http://www.callingonthelord.org/basis/nt.html -- new testament
Praise the Lord for such a simple way, we can turn to Him just by calling on His precious name. O Lord Jesus! :)
http://www.callingonthelord.org/index.html
I think it's a really good site to share with our friends who might be wondering why we call on the Lord so much. There is even a chart http://www.callingonthelord.org/basis/ot.html which lists all the instances in the Bible where people called on the Lord's name.
http://www.callingonthelord.org/basis/ot.html -- old testament
http://www.callingonthelord.org/basis/nt.html -- new testament
Praise the Lord for such a simple way, we can turn to Him just by calling on His precious name. O Lord Jesus! :)
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