You will not certainly die

 Genesis 3:1-7 

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Why?

This word lets us know that the word of the Lord can not be modified or suspected.

God's word is the truth and love and righteousness.

No certainly dying is not about the physical life but the spiritual life. The relationship between us and the Lord.

Knowing good and evil, but losing the trust in the Lord.

How?

God's word is worthy and is the way and life for us!

you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die

Genesis 2:4-25

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones  and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Why?

There is a rule to follow: to obey the word of the Lord and to respect the honor of the Lord. Love others and I have no right to judge others.

There was not one animal suitable to Adam as his helper, so the Lord made a woman from Adam's bone, so my wife is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

How?

Love and take care my wife for she is the bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

The seventh day he rested from all his work.

 Genesis 1:26-2:3

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Why?

The Lord created the earth and human and all universal, then rested from all his work on the seventh day.

The first Human being is created in the image of God. and let man manage all other creatures.

We should let seven day rest to serve and meditate the job of the Lord.

How?

We have the image of the Lord so we should work with the Lord and manage this environment better and beautifully keep the state when the Lord created.

Hebrew 11:17-22 By faith

 Hebrew 11:17-22

By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[ Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

By faith Joseph, when his end was near, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones.

By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.

By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient.

默想：

我的信仰是建立在肉眼可見的神蹟奇事上，或是上帝話語的信實與祂的應許上呢？

你曾被神試驗嗎？相信每個人都會被神試驗，只是有些人像腓力，從頭到尾都不知道神正在試驗自己。當你受試驗時，神其實在問：第一，你信得過神嗎？第二，神信得過你嗎？首先，無論在你生命中有任何事發生，請問你還能繼續信靠神嗎？在事奉中，你會受到傷害，遇到挫折，甚至在孤獨沮喪中；在這種光景中，你仍然能信得過神嗎？其次，也是更深的問題，神能信得過你嗎？在每天生活中，神交托給你的事，祂能信得過你嗎？你能在神面前說，神所託付的事，你會終身順服來完成嗎？

祈禱：

親愛的天父，因著祢話語的信實，在我的生命中顯明祢的恩典，使我有信心盼望終末，相信祢必逆轉世界結局的應許。奉主耶穌的名祈禱，阿們。

I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds

Hebrew 10:1-39

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.

Then he adds “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Why?

Jesus brought a new law to us, this salvation is eternal erased our sins because Jesus has shed his blood for our sins. So if we still fall in the sins how much more severely to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot.

How?

Keep this love and let the word and spirit of the Lord living in our heart and mind.

Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many

For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. ²⁵ Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. ²⁶ Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

He gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper.

 Hebrew 9:1-10

Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.

When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.

Why?

In the Old Testament, there was the Holy place,  tabernacle, and priest service there once a year in the Most Holy Place, but it has not gotten rid of our sins in history.

Right now an external regulation applies until the time of the new order, which is Jesus Christ devoted himself as sacrifice to get rid of our sins. So we can come close to the Lord with a closer relationship. Built a son and father relationship.

How?

Let me live as with Jesus Christ and honor His Holy name in every daily life.