You are my all in all 你是我的一切
詩篇 89：1-10。 臺南聖教會。 高敏智牧師
思想：
因你的看見，朔造不同的你。
0-10 1928年。高進元牧師
10-20 1938 時代的戰亂
1943年關閉。1945日本投降 10／7
1949 年 300人
20-30 1948 重新建造與書院 1952高進元牧師病倒
30-60 穩定期
60-70 1988-1998 公園路成長期。500人
70-80 1998-2008 遷建與療傷的蛻變 800
80-90 2008-2017 世代中榮耀宣教的見證 1900人
90-100 2018-2027 國家與城市的建造
有人看見，然後論斷。重要是作安靜人
印記：憂傷的靈
立約的人：憑據，神所創作的一切，祂管理所有，拉哈伯：海神，作亂的。
大綱：
知道向你歡呼的那裏是有福的
米甲效應？冷漠？麻煩？自尊？面子？
為主基督而興奮，新的喜樂，觀念
兩音樂神童：莫札特，大衛。遊戲人生，驅走惡者。脫軌的人生，敬拜音樂體系。不勝唏噓的結局，永恆的詩篇
你在異象中曉諭你聖民的使命！ 我已把救助之力加在那有能力者的身上。
我就要用杖責罰他們的過犯！
責罰表示仍然要我們，是有爸媽的小孩
生命的醫治:全部10人，為主高聲歡呼 7人
為主異象爭戰：3人
憂傷認罪悔改：1-2人。這是主願意和他立約的人
挑戰：
希律心裡不安，川普？
亞伯拉漢。成為大國的應許
祝福？咒詛
Sunday, December 31, 2017
My way and my portion
Jeremiah 13:1-27
These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt—completely useless!
This is your lot, the portion I have decreed for you,”declares the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in false gods.
God makes use of many teaching methods to set his message across. The prophets sometimes act out their message. The garment Keremiah conceals so that it will be spoiled is variously translated loin-cloth, belt and shorts. Action often speak louder than words, and stick in the mind.
Here Jeremiah announces that Judah and Jerusalem will be thoroughly ruined, like his garment. He was full of grief at announcing God's vengeance, though he had earlier cried out for it: 'If you will no listen... I will carry bitterly.'
Why?
Refuse to listen to God's words is useless in eyes of the Lord. So it is completely useless, there are not mercy and grace on then.
Someone says it is my lot, my portion, but God is my way, my portion.
How?
Listen to the word of God and stands on the cross of world culture to reflect the grace of God.
These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt—completely useless!
This is your lot, the portion I have decreed for you,”declares the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in false gods.
God makes use of many teaching methods to set his message across. The prophets sometimes act out their message. The garment Keremiah conceals so that it will be spoiled is variously translated loin-cloth, belt and shorts. Action often speak louder than words, and stick in the mind.
Here Jeremiah announces that Judah and Jerusalem will be thoroughly ruined, like his garment. He was full of grief at announcing God's vengeance, though he had earlier cried out for it: 'If you will no listen... I will carry bitterly.'
Why?
Refuse to listen to God's words is useless in eyes of the Lord. So it is completely useless, there are not mercy and grace on then.
Someone says it is my lot, my portion, but God is my way, my portion.
How?
Listen to the word of God and stands on the cross of world culture to reflect the grace of God.
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Lips and heart
Jeremiah 12:1-17
Jeremiah's complaint:
You are always on their lips but far from their hearts. How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered?
God's answer:
If you have raced with men on foot and the they have worm you out. how can you compete with horses?
They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing/.So bear the shame of your harvest because of the Lord's fierce anger.
But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to his own inheritance and his own country.
But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it, declares the Lord.
The discovery leads Jeremiah to question God about the way evil people get on in the world. He is neither the first, nor the last, to puzzle over this.
In God tells him there is worse to come! Nonetheless, he will punish, and afterward restore.
Why?
People always know God on their lips, but far from heart. Show out faithfulness on our behavior.
How?
Practice our faith in our daily life. Asked the wisdom from the Lord!
Jeremiah's complaint:
You are always on their lips but far from their hearts. How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered?
God's answer:
If you have raced with men on foot and the they have worm you out. how can you compete with horses?
They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing/.So bear the shame of your harvest because of the Lord's fierce anger.
But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to his own inheritance and his own country.
But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it, declares the Lord.
The discovery leads Jeremiah to question God about the way evil people get on in the world. He is neither the first, nor the last, to puzzle over this.
In God tells him there is worse to come! Nonetheless, he will punish, and afterward restore.
Why?
People always know God on their lips, but far from heart. Show out faithfulness on our behavior.
How?
Practice our faith in our daily life. Asked the wisdom from the Lord!
Friday, December 29, 2017
God's covenant-agreement with his people
Jeremiah 11:1-23
You Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.
I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.
The terms of God's covenant-agreement with his people, made at Sinai after the exodus, are still in force. By persistent disobedience to God's law, and by idol-worship, Judah has broken that agreement and come under the curse.
Jeremiah must go and tell the people. Nor does God want him to pray on their behalf; it sounds as if God has had many such pleas from the prophet!
This chapter seems to belong to the period of reaction following Josiah's reforms.
Jeremiah's message arouse such intense anger that the people of Anathoth, his home town, were prepared to kill him if he didn't stop. It is God, keeping his promise to protect the prophet, who alerts Jeremiah to the danger.
Why?
Every town has one or more gods in Judah. Same as in Taiwan now.
People of Jeremiah's home town wanted to kill Jeremiah for he talk the word of God, his message is warning message, but people don't like to listen.
God will protect his servants and sometimes God's has his own plan. If devote our life should be worthy before the Lord.
How?
Trust and obey God's word, sometime looks unreasonable, but obey and follow it would be the best way.
You Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.
I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.
The terms of God's covenant-agreement with his people, made at Sinai after the exodus, are still in force. By persistent disobedience to God's law, and by idol-worship, Judah has broken that agreement and come under the curse.
Jeremiah must go and tell the people. Nor does God want him to pray on their behalf; it sounds as if God has had many such pleas from the prophet!
This chapter seems to belong to the period of reaction following Josiah's reforms.
Jeremiah's message arouse such intense anger that the people of Anathoth, his home town, were prepared to kill him if he didn't stop. It is God, keeping his promise to protect the prophet, who alerts Jeremiah to the danger.
Why?
Every town has one or more gods in Judah. Same as in Taiwan now.
People of Jeremiah's home town wanted to kill Jeremiah for he talk the word of God, his message is warning message, but people don't like to listen.
God will protect his servants and sometimes God's has his own plan. If devote our life should be worthy before the Lord.
How?
Trust and obey God's word, sometime looks unreasonable, but obey and follow it would be the best way.
Thursday, December 28, 2017
The living God and wooden idols
Jeremiah 10:1-25
No one is like you, Lord; you are great, and your name is mighty in power.
What the craftsman and goldsmith have made is them dressed in blue and purple - all made by skilled workers. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King.
Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.
They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish. He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, the Lord Almighty is his name.
Lord, I know that people's lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps. Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure - not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
Idols made by human hands, no matter how elaborate they may be, are lifeless, powerless, motionless, speechless. Not so the God of Israel. It was he, not they, who created earth and sky.
Now this same God is poised to destroy them. Jeremiah can hear the enemy coming, as he prays.
Why?
God's name is Almighty, God is great and wonder, he created everything in his wisdom.
God is the living God, it is not like idols can not speak, hear or speak.
Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure: God will discipline me for my good and life growing. Training me to learn the knowledge. Don't be a senseless man.
How?
For my Lord is the living God, so fear the Lord and obey his command is the way in my life, knowing his great name is my blessing.
No one is like you, Lord; you are great, and your name is mighty in power.
What the craftsman and goldsmith have made is them dressed in blue and purple - all made by skilled workers. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King.
Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.
They are worthless, the objects of mockery; when their judgment comes, they will perish. He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the Maker of all things, the Lord Almighty is his name.
Lord, I know that people's lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps. Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure - not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
Idols made by human hands, no matter how elaborate they may be, are lifeless, powerless, motionless, speechless. Not so the God of Israel. It was he, not they, who created earth and sky.
Now this same God is poised to destroy them. Jeremiah can hear the enemy coming, as he prays.
Why?
God's name is Almighty, God is great and wonder, he created everything in his wisdom.
God is the living God, it is not like idols can not speak, hear or speak.
Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure: God will discipline me for my good and life growing. Training me to learn the knowledge. Don't be a senseless man.
How?
For my Lord is the living God, so fear the Lord and obey his command is the way in my life, knowing his great name is my blessing.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Boast about they have the understanding to know the Lord
Jeremiah 9:1-26
They do not acknowledge me declares the Lord.
Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. In their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me, declares the Lord.
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?
It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.
Let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight, declares the Lord.
I will punish all who are circumcise only in the flesh.
It is not always clear here whether the speaker is Jeremiah, God or the people. Jeremiah shares God's own deep grief at his people's sin and its tragic consequences. Society is sick; sick as a direct result of the nation abandoning God and his laws and going their own way. So inevitable has judgment become that the professional mourners can already be called in.
Why?
Deceit is sin before the Lord and detestable thing among people. No one like lier, people like the truth, but people are always do not know what is the truth for there are many sins among society.
Circumcise is a ceremony in the flesh, God like us be circumcised in the heart, let the whole man whole heart belong to the Lord.
Who is wise man? Who can boast? What can I boast? Only those who understand the Lord is Almight God, Only boast for the God's great mercy and grace on me. I can boast nothing excep the Lord.
How?
Be humble and boast the grace and righteousness of the Lord.
They do not acknowledge me declares the Lord.
Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. In their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me, declares the Lord.
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?
It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.
Let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight, declares the Lord.
I will punish all who are circumcise only in the flesh.
It is not always clear here whether the speaker is Jeremiah, God or the people. Jeremiah shares God's own deep grief at his people's sin and its tragic consequences. Society is sick; sick as a direct result of the nation abandoning God and his laws and going their own way. So inevitable has judgment become that the professional mourners can already be called in.
Why?
Deceit is sin before the Lord and detestable thing among people. No one like lier, people like the truth, but people are always do not know what is the truth for there are many sins among society.
Circumcise is a ceremony in the flesh, God like us be circumcised in the heart, let the whole man whole heart belong to the Lord.
Who is wise man? Who can boast? What can I boast? Only those who understand the Lord is Almight God, Only boast for the God's great mercy and grace on me. I can boast nothing excep the Lord.
How?
Be humble and boast the grace and righteousness of the Lord.
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Condemned by God
Jeremiah 8:1-21
But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.
How can you say,"We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely.
The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped.
Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all.
The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved. Since my people are crushed, I am crashed; I mourn, and horror grips me.
The people refuse to repent. They are aided and abetted(教唆) by religious smooth-talkers: the scribes, the 'wise' to whom they turned for advice, the prophets and the priests. All alike are motivated by self-interest.
Why?
God felt sorrow for his people do not repent and do not know the requirement of the Lord.
What is wise? It is not the knowledge , not the laws or the church, but the heart fear the Lord and obey God's word.
Wise man will be put to shame for their proud.
How evil a man? How harder a man, even suffered so many trouble, their heart do not turn to the Lord.
How?
Be aware of the warning of the Lord, repent and turn to the Lord.
But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.
How can you say,"We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely.
The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped.
Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all.
The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved. Since my people are crushed, I am crashed; I mourn, and horror grips me.
The people refuse to repent. They are aided and abetted(教唆) by religious smooth-talkers: the scribes, the 'wise' to whom they turned for advice, the prophets and the priests. All alike are motivated by self-interest.
Why?
God felt sorrow for his people do not repent and do not know the requirement of the Lord.
What is wise? It is not the knowledge , not the laws or the church, but the heart fear the Lord and obey God's word.
Wise man will be put to shame for their proud.
How evil a man? How harder a man, even suffered so many trouble, their heart do not turn to the Lord.
How?
Be aware of the warning of the Lord, repent and turn to the Lord.
Monday, December 25, 2017
Personal attitude is more important and speak the law
Jeremiah 7:21-34
God did not ask just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices, but gave them this command: obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you. But they did not listen or pay attention.
Therefore say to them, 'This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.
Security and well-being rest on obedience to God.
Why?
God do not like burnt offerings and sacrifices, instead God like his people obey him, walk in obedience to all God command. So the truth and justice are lost in people of Judah. The desolation was came to them.
They must cut off their hair : either in mourning, or as a sign that they are no longer pledged to God.
How?
In stead of going to the church, God like us fear God and doing good things. Personal attitude is more important and speak the law.
God did not ask just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices, but gave them this command: obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you. But they did not listen or pay attention.
Therefore say to them, 'This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.
Security and well-being rest on obedience to God.
Why?
God do not like burnt offerings and sacrifices, instead God like his people obey him, walk in obedience to all God command. So the truth and justice are lost in people of Judah. The desolation was came to them.
They must cut off their hair : either in mourning, or as a sign that they are no longer pledged to God.
How?
In stead of going to the church, God like us fear God and doing good things. Personal attitude is more important and speak the law.
Sunday, December 24, 2017
東方博士的奇妙旅程
路2：8-14。 臺南聖教會。 高敏智牧師
思想
博士來的路上是辛苦的
從東方來的博士…我們在東方看見他的星，特來拜他。
他們看見那星，就大大的歡喜，進了房子，看見小孩子和他母親瑪利亞，就俯伏拜那小孩子。
放下-自己的位置
建立-旅隊，運補，安全
聯絡-耶城…希律
追尋-東方之星
黃金乳香沒藥的預備
大綱
一、「或走或停或消失」…引導的東方之星
在我們心中有東方之星引導我們。無須知道目標，只要知道角色
二、「獻黃金乳香沒藥」…俯伏拜那小孩子
怎麼在這地方？小孩和媽媽。以為是在某尊貴的地方。他們沒有停滯，大大歡喜。我們在神面前付出什麼代價？
博士獻上的態度是歡喜！
真哪達香膏獻給耶穌時却被說浪費！
來教會敬拜時請用君王之禮
三、「不要回去見希律」…在夢中被主指示
希律用什麼心來度量？如同亞蘭王將軍乃縵帶心信來見以色列王
博士要這小孩不要希律這君王，繞路回去要走更遠。
耶穌降生晚上各人的心情？
32歲出來牧會，看到年輕牧者，不是不勝唏噓，是感慨萬千，有這麼多年輕人同行
挑戰
耶路撒冷合城的人也都不安
雲柱火柱…相同的引路意義
今天也有雲柱火柱，不動看不見，走同方向有喜樂，走不同方向神憂傷。天國今天有存款在我們身上，是神的恩典臨到我們身上。
來到教會就有雲柱火柱，傳道人無論年紀，被神用，我們就聽他們。摩西和百姓都看雲柱火柱。
全世界都是六天工作，一天休息，休息是敬拜神，不是為自己。神不要我們律法而要態度。
思想
博士來的路上是辛苦的
從東方來的博士…我們在東方看見他的星，特來拜他。
他們看見那星，就大大的歡喜，進了房子，看見小孩子和他母親瑪利亞，就俯伏拜那小孩子。
放下-自己的位置
建立-旅隊，運補，安全
聯絡-耶城…希律
追尋-東方之星
黃金乳香沒藥的預備
大綱
一、「或走或停或消失」…引導的東方之星
在我們心中有東方之星引導我們。無須知道目標，只要知道角色
二、「獻黃金乳香沒藥」…俯伏拜那小孩子
怎麼在這地方？小孩和媽媽。以為是在某尊貴的地方。他們沒有停滯，大大歡喜。我們在神面前付出什麼代價？
博士獻上的態度是歡喜！
真哪達香膏獻給耶穌時却被說浪費！
來教會敬拜時請用君王之禮
三、「不要回去見希律」…在夢中被主指示
希律用什麼心來度量？如同亞蘭王將軍乃縵帶心信來見以色列王
博士要這小孩不要希律這君王，繞路回去要走更遠。
耶穌降生晚上各人的心情？
32歲出來牧會，看到年輕牧者，不是不勝唏噓，是感慨萬千，有這麼多年輕人同行
挑戰
耶路撒冷合城的人也都不安
雲柱火柱…相同的引路意義
今天也有雲柱火柱，不動看不見，走同方向有喜樂，走不同方向神憂傷。天國今天有存款在我們身上，是神的恩典臨到我們身上。
來到教會就有雲柱火柱，傳道人無論年紀，被神用，我們就聽他們。摩西和百姓都看雲柱火柱。
全世界都是六天工作，一天休息，休息是敬拜神，不是為自己。神不要我們律法而要態度。
Deal with each other justly
Jeremiah 7:1-20
If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.
In this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.
The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger.
The people had a superstitious faith in the Temple. They thought God would always protect Jerusalem as he has done in 701 because his Temple was there.
They were wrong. God sends Jeremiah to stand at the Temple gate and tell them that God knows the difference between religious ritual and real religion. He sees all that goes on. Jerusalem is no more sacrosanct than Shiloh, the sanctuary the Philistines destroyed. Even now, if they will stop what they are doing, change their ways, God will let them go on living in the land he gave them.
Queen of heaven: The fertility goddess Ashtoreth.
Why?
Temple, church is not most important, it is the heart of the followers trust in the Lord or not. Does their actions and their ways are deal with each other justly.
In Taiwan, there are many people worship to the Queen of Heaven, same as in Judah 2000 years ago.
How?
Turn our heart and eyes on the Lord, deal with each other justly. Fear the Lord for God is righteous and with love.
If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.
In this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.
The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger.
The people had a superstitious faith in the Temple. They thought God would always protect Jerusalem as he has done in 701 because his Temple was there.
They were wrong. God sends Jeremiah to stand at the Temple gate and tell them that God knows the difference between religious ritual and real religion. He sees all that goes on. Jerusalem is no more sacrosanct than Shiloh, the sanctuary the Philistines destroyed. Even now, if they will stop what they are doing, change their ways, God will let them go on living in the land he gave them.
Queen of heaven: The fertility goddess Ashtoreth.
Why?
Temple, church is not most important, it is the heart of the followers trust in the Lord or not. Does their actions and their ways are deal with each other justly.
In Taiwan, there are many people worship to the Queen of Heaven, same as in Judah 2000 years ago.
How?
Turn our heart and eyes on the Lord, deal with each other justly. Fear the Lord for God is righteous and with love.
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Ask where the good way is
Jeremiah 6:16-30
Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.
I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’. But you said, ‘We will not listen.’
Hear, you earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.
I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.
They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.
They are called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
Why?
God has made Jeremiah and other prophets as watchman and warned them, but they did not repent and did not listen so the disaster came to them.
Because they have not listened to God's word and have rejected God's law so God rejected them.
Rejected silver is useless to describe God does not care them, their heart are dead like iron and bronze.
Where is my heart and eyes focus on? Is the way of the Lord or the way of this world?
We may ask the Lord where the good way is?
How?
Dear Lord, show me the way and please bless my heart pure and my eyes focus on you. You are my way and my life.
Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.
I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’. But you said, ‘We will not listen.’
Hear, you earth: I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to my words and have rejected my law.
I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.
They are all hardened rebels, going about to slander. They are bronze and iron; they all act corruptly.
They are called rejected silver, because the Lord has rejected them.
Why?
God has made Jeremiah and other prophets as watchman and warned them, but they did not repent and did not listen so the disaster came to them.
Because they have not listened to God's word and have rejected God's law so God rejected them.
Rejected silver is useless to describe God does not care them, their heart are dead like iron and bronze.
Where is my heart and eyes focus on? Is the way of the Lord or the way of this world?
We may ask the Lord where the good way is?
How?
Dear Lord, show me the way and please bless my heart pure and my eyes focus on you. You are my way and my life.
Friday, December 22, 2017
Jerusalem under siege
Jeremiah 6:1-15
Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! Arise, let us attack at noon! arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!
This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.
Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.
To whom can I speak and give warning? who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensives to them; they find no pleasure in it.
They have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush(臉紅). So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them, says the Lord.
All God's warnings have fallen on deaf ears. His call to walk 'the good way' has met with flat refusal. So God has rejected his people and turned them over to the invading armies. Even Jerusalem will be besieged.
Why?
Nation's fall because of their wicked things and their town filled with oppression.
No one listen to the word of the Lord, they have no shame at all, they do not even know how to blush, so the angry of the Lord poured on them.
God's word is truth and will come on his time.
How?
Be careful to listen the word of the Lord and do the right thing on the way of God.
Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! Arise, let us attack at noon! arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!
This city must be punished; it is filled with oppression.
Take warning, Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land desolate so no one can live in it.
To whom can I speak and give warning? who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensives to them; they find no pleasure in it.
They have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush(臉紅). So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them, says the Lord.
All God's warnings have fallen on deaf ears. His call to walk 'the good way' has met with flat refusal. So God has rejected his people and turned them over to the invading armies. Even Jerusalem will be besieged.
Why?
Nation's fall because of their wicked things and their town filled with oppression.
No one listen to the word of the Lord, they have no shame at all, they do not even know how to blush, so the angry of the Lord poured on them.
God's word is truth and will come on his time.
How?
Be careful to listen the word of the Lord and do the right thing on the way of God.
Thursday, December 21, 2017
God assures us of the regular weeks of harvest
Jeremiah 5:20-31
You foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
These people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.
Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.
Should I not punish them for this? declares the Lord.
God who gives autumn and spring rains in season who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.
Why?
People of Israel and Judah did not fear the Lord and turn away from the Lord,, wrongdoings and sins have turned aside and gone away from the bless of the Lord.
All of the season and the harvest are under blessing of the Lord.
Don't be a foolish and senseless man, careful watching and listening.
How?
Fear the Lord and worship his holy name.
You foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
These people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away.
Your wrongdoings have kept these away; your sins have deprived you of good.
Should I not punish them for this? declares the Lord.
God who gives autumn and spring rains in season who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.
Why?
People of Israel and Judah did not fear the Lord and turn away from the Lord,, wrongdoings and sins have turned aside and gone away from the bless of the Lord.
All of the season and the harvest are under blessing of the Lord.
Don't be a foolish and senseless man, careful watching and listening.
How?
Fear the Lord and worship his holy name.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Nation corruption
Jeremiah 5:1-19
If you cab find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.
They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.
The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be down to them.
Because the people has spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.
God searches in vain for a vestige of truth and justice among his people. The nation is steeped in idolatry: happy with a rotten society: untroubled by conscience. God and his prophets alike are disregarded. It is false prophecy the people want to hear. God has no option but to punish.
Why?
There was not one in Israel and Judah seek the truth and honestly in his heart so the Lord has not option to punish these nations.
Poor and prophets and officials are lie and refused to repent, their face are harder than stone, they do not know what is shame. So they will be consumed like wood.
God's word become fire in their mouth for they deceived others.
When a nation and his people away from the Lord and his word will be ruined.
How?
Repent to the Lord, God is the sovereign Lord, fear the Lord is the wisdom.
If you cab find but one person who deals honestly and seeks the truth, I will forgive this city.
They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I supplied all their needs, yet they committed adultery and thronged to the houses of prostitutes.
The prophets are but wind and the word is not in them; so let what they say be down to them.
Because the people has spoken these words, I will make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.
God searches in vain for a vestige of truth and justice among his people. The nation is steeped in idolatry: happy with a rotten society: untroubled by conscience. God and his prophets alike are disregarded. It is false prophecy the people want to hear. God has no option but to punish.
Why?
There was not one in Israel and Judah seek the truth and honestly in his heart so the Lord has not option to punish these nations.
Poor and prophets and officials are lie and refused to repent, their face are harder than stone, they do not know what is shame. So they will be consumed like wood.
God's word become fire in their mouth for they deceived others.
When a nation and his people away from the Lord and his word will be ruined.
How?
Repent to the Lord, God is the sovereign Lord, fear the Lord is the wisdom.
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
They know not how to do good
Jeremiah 4:19-31
My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.
My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.
This is what the Lord says:“The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.
Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above grow dark, because I have spoken and will not relent, I have decided and will not turn back.
Jeremiah is given a preview of the nation's collapse before the Babylonian army which fills him with unspeakable horror.
Why?
People of Israel are fools for they do not know God, they rely on their talent and man.
They will be destroyed by their evil, they know not how to do good means their heart are filled with evil mind.
How?
Dear Lord, please give me a pure heart and love you, give me the understanding to know what is your way for me.
Monday, December 18, 2017
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts,
Jeremiah 4:1-18
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts, you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire.
Jeremiah said to the Lord: Sovereign Lord! How completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying,'You will have peace,' when the sword is at our throats!"
How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?
Tell this to the nations, proclaim concerning Jerusalem: 'A besieging army is coming from a distant land, raising a war cry aginst the cities of Judah. They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me, declares the Lord.
Even now God will save his people if they really repent. He will bring them back from exile a united nation whose worship is a living reality, not a mere ritual.
All Jewish boy babies were circumcised when they were eight days old, as a sign that they had entered into covenant relationship with God.
Destruction and devastation are about to fall on Judah.
Why?
Circumcise is a ceremony but more important is curcumcise heart, which bring our the action of repent and faith.
You will fave peace is sweet word people like to hear it, but it deceived man when they turn away from the Lord, there is not peace among them.
God is waiting for Judah and Jerusalem turn back to Him, but they are still living among wicked behavior like bort stay in wicked harbor.
How?
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts, do not worship the Lord by mount but with all my heart!
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts, you people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my wrath will flare up and burn like fire.
Jeremiah said to the Lord: Sovereign Lord! How completely you have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying,'You will have peace,' when the sword is at our throats!"
How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?
Tell this to the nations, proclaim concerning Jerusalem: 'A besieging army is coming from a distant land, raising a war cry aginst the cities of Judah. They surround her like men guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me, declares the Lord.
Even now God will save his people if they really repent. He will bring them back from exile a united nation whose worship is a living reality, not a mere ritual.
All Jewish boy babies were circumcised when they were eight days old, as a sign that they had entered into covenant relationship with God.
Destruction and devastation are about to fall on Judah.
Why?
Circumcise is a ceremony but more important is curcumcise heart, which bring our the action of repent and faith.
You will fave peace is sweet word people like to hear it, but it deceived man when they turn away from the Lord, there is not peace among them.
God is waiting for Judah and Jerusalem turn back to Him, but they are still living among wicked behavior like bort stay in wicked harbor.
How?
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, circumcise your hearts, do not worship the Lord by mount but with all my heart!
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Only acknowledge your guilt
Jeremiah 3:1-25
In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord. The Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will frown on you no longer, or I am faithful,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt—you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’declares the Lord.
In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel,and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me.
We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors; from our youth till this day we have not obeyed the Lord our God.
Why?
Jeremiah has showed the future image of Israel and Judah will come back together from north to worship the Lord and call God 'Father".
Pretense is more worse then faithless. Unfaithful Judah did not return to God with all her heart.
Acknowledge our guilt is the only way back to the Lord and get the mercy of the Lord. God will not be angry forever!
How?
Commit our sins and return to the Lord, for God is our help and savior.
In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord. The Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will frown on you no longer, or I am faithful,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt—you have rebelled against the Lord your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’declares the Lord.
In those days the people of Judah will join the people of Israel,and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your ancestors as an inheritance.
I thought you would call me ‘Father’ and not turn away from following me.
We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors; from our youth till this day we have not obeyed the Lord our God.
Why?
Jeremiah has showed the future image of Israel and Judah will come back together from north to worship the Lord and call God 'Father".
Pretense is more worse then faithless. Unfaithful Judah did not return to God with all her heart.
Acknowledge our guilt is the only way back to the Lord and get the mercy of the Lord. God will not be angry forever!
How?
Commit our sins and return to the Lord, for God is our help and savior.
Saturday, December 16, 2017
You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord
Jeremiah 2:20-37
Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, "I will not serve you!'
I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?
As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced.
In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction.
You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord.
You say,'I am innocent; he is not angry with me.' But I will pass judgment on you because you say,' I have not sinned.'
Why?
Long ago God had planed to save us and protect us. Do not forget God's grace on us.
I am a choice vine connect to the Jesus Christ, if leave the root I can do nothing. Become wild vine.
God's punishment is sever so let turn to the Lord for his grace and love endure forever.
This generation must consider the word of the Lord. God's word is my way.
When we have way we can get the victory and peace and prosper.
All of us have sinned so we need Jesus Christ.
How?
Consider and mediate God's word everyday.
Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, "I will not serve you!'
I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine?
As a thief is disgraced when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced.
In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction.
You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord.
You say,'I am innocent; he is not angry with me.' But I will pass judgment on you because you say,' I have not sinned.'
Why?
Long ago God had planed to save us and protect us. Do not forget God's grace on us.
I am a choice vine connect to the Jesus Christ, if leave the root I can do nothing. Become wild vine.
God's punishment is sever so let turn to the Lord for his grace and love endure forever.
This generation must consider the word of the Lord. God's word is my way.
When we have way we can get the victory and peace and prosper.
All of us have sinned so we need Jesus Christ.
How?
Consider and mediate God's word everyday.
Friday, December 15, 2017
God is the spring of living water
Jeremiah 2:1-19
God remember the devotion of Israel youth . But now they did not ask "Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of Egypt."
The priest did not ask, 'Where is the Lord?' The leaders revelled against God. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.
Be appalled(懾)at this, you heavens, and shudder (不寒而栗)with great horror," declares the Lord.
My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Chapter 2-24 are all prophecies against Judah and Jerusalem. and Jerusalem. Jeremiah begins with a tender portrayal of 'first love': the time when the nation was faithful to God, when God led them towards their new land, protecting them from harm. But in Canaan Israel betrayed against them. The heathen(異教徒) nations are at least loyal to their idols. Not so the people of the living God. Their offence is set before them in a series of vivid pictures.
They prefer their own polluted water to God's fresh spring. They would sooner turn to Egypt and Assyria for help than to God.
Why?
People are easy forget the living God have done to them, and when they fall, they try to find the help by themselves.
God is full of mercy, God remember the royalty of Israel when they were young, so God sent Jeremiah to warning his children turn back before his angry pour down on them.
God gives us living water, alway come to get the living water to rest and gain strength when we are tired and weary. Search help from the Lord instead from man.
How?
Remember God is my living water, my savior and my shield.
God remember the devotion of Israel youth . But now they did not ask "Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of Egypt."
The priest did not ask, 'Where is the Lord?' The leaders revelled against God. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.
Be appalled(懾)at this, you heavens, and shudder (不寒而栗)with great horror," declares the Lord.
My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Chapter 2-24 are all prophecies against Judah and Jerusalem. and Jerusalem. Jeremiah begins with a tender portrayal of 'first love': the time when the nation was faithful to God, when God led them towards their new land, protecting them from harm. But in Canaan Israel betrayed against them. The heathen(異教徒) nations are at least loyal to their idols. Not so the people of the living God. Their offence is set before them in a series of vivid pictures.
They prefer their own polluted water to God's fresh spring. They would sooner turn to Egypt and Assyria for help than to God.
Why?
People are easy forget the living God have done to them, and when they fall, they try to find the help by themselves.
God is full of mercy, God remember the royalty of Israel when they were young, so God sent Jeremiah to warning his children turn back before his angry pour down on them.
God gives us living water, alway come to get the living water to rest and gain strength when we are tired and weary. Search help from the Lord instead from man.
How?
Remember God is my living water, my savior and my shield.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Before you were born I set you apart; Jeremiah
Jeremiah 1:1-19
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Do nto say, 'I am too young."You must go to everyone I send you and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with your and will rescue you", declares the Lord.
Jeremiah see the branch of an almond tree: my word is fulfilled.
A pot that is boiling, it is titling toward us from the north: From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.
All nations and people of the land will fight against Jeremiah but will not overcome him, for God is with him and will rescue him.
The date is 627BC. Jeremiah is a young man, probably is his early twenties, and as reluctant to become God's spoken man as Moses before him.
But about one thing he has no doubt. His message was a word from God himself. "The word of the Lord came to me' runs as a refrain right through the book, from first to last. In this lies his certainty, and his compulsion.
Straightway Jeremiah is given vision. God shows and explains to the prophet what he is going to do; what Jeremiah must tell the people. They will not want to hear. They will be against Jeremiah from the outset. But God will protect him. The pattern of Jeremiah's whole life is set out in this initial encounter with God.
Almond : The two words sound alike in the Hebrew: 'shaqed/shoqed'
Why?
Jeremiah was appointed as priest of the Lord.
God's word alway people don't like it, but it is good to us and warning us not go astray.
How?
Do not be arfaid when I say God's word with love and stand firm on the truth.
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Do nto say, 'I am too young."You must go to everyone I send you and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with your and will rescue you", declares the Lord.
Jeremiah see the branch of an almond tree: my word is fulfilled.
A pot that is boiling, it is titling toward us from the north: From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land.
All nations and people of the land will fight against Jeremiah but will not overcome him, for God is with him and will rescue him.
The date is 627BC. Jeremiah is a young man, probably is his early twenties, and as reluctant to become God's spoken man as Moses before him.
But about one thing he has no doubt. His message was a word from God himself. "The word of the Lord came to me' runs as a refrain right through the book, from first to last. In this lies his certainty, and his compulsion.
Straightway Jeremiah is given vision. God shows and explains to the prophet what he is going to do; what Jeremiah must tell the people. They will not want to hear. They will be against Jeremiah from the outset. But God will protect him. The pattern of Jeremiah's whole life is set out in this initial encounter with God.
Almond : The two words sound alike in the Hebrew: 'shaqed/shoqed'
Why?
Jeremiah was appointed as priest of the Lord.
God's word alway people don't like it, but it is good to us and warning us not go astray.
How?
Do not be arfaid when I say God's word with love and stand firm on the truth.
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Sin of tongue - lies
Psalm 120
Call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me. Save me, Lord from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
What will he do to you, and what more besides, you deceitful tongue?
Too long have I lived among those who hate peace. I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
The whiplash(揮鞭) of wagging tongues.
Many psalms, like this one, are full of references to the sins of the tongue - lies, scandal, slander, hypocrisy. The follower of God may suffer as much from what people say as from what they do.
Why?
There are may lies, scandal, slander and hypocrisy in our living environment. Sometime we may suffered by those evil things. Pray to the Lord and call on God. Help us to identify the true and deceitful tongue. And let me do not greedy, for greedy is easy fall into the deceitful pit.
How?
I am for peace and like the truth, hate the deceitful tongue. Pray to the Lord is my way under distress.
Call on the Lord in my distress, and he answers me. Save me, Lord from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
What will he do to you, and what more besides, you deceitful tongue?
Too long have I lived among those who hate peace. I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
The whiplash(揮鞭) of wagging tongues.
Many psalms, like this one, are full of references to the sins of the tongue - lies, scandal, slander, hypocrisy. The follower of God may suffer as much from what people say as from what they do.
Why?
There are may lies, scandal, slander and hypocrisy in our living environment. Sometime we may suffered by those evil things. Pray to the Lord and call on God. Help us to identify the true and deceitful tongue. And let me do not greedy, for greedy is easy fall into the deceitful pit.
How?
I am for peace and like the truth, hate the deceitful tongue. Pray to the Lord is my way under distress.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Rejoice in God's promise
Psalm 119:161-176
I rejoice in your promise like one who finds great spoil.
I obey your precepts and your statutes for all my ways are known to you.
Give me understanding according to your word.
May my supplication come before you; deliver me according to your promise.
For 1)God teach me decrees, 2)all God's commands are righteous, 3)I have chosen God's precepts and 4)God's law gives me delight, so I praise you and long for your salvation.
Why?
God's promise is confirmed and trust worthy. To those who obey God's word may rejoice in God's promise and pray may come before the Lord.
We need God give understanding to read his decrees and meditate God's grace and grate works.
Pray to the Lord 7 times a day mean always pray to the Lord, keep close relationship with the Lord.
Do I long for God's salvation? Yes, I do. I long for God's salvation and love everyday.
How?
Pray to the Lord everyday, everything in my daily life. I am yours, O Lord!
I rejoice in your promise like one who finds great spoil.
I obey your precepts and your statutes for all my ways are known to you.
Give me understanding according to your word.
May my supplication come before you; deliver me according to your promise.
For 1)God teach me decrees, 2)all God's commands are righteous, 3)I have chosen God's precepts and 4)God's law gives me delight, so I praise you and long for your salvation.
Why?
God's promise is confirmed and trust worthy. To those who obey God's word may rejoice in God's promise and pray may come before the Lord.
We need God give understanding to read his decrees and meditate God's grace and grate works.
Pray to the Lord 7 times a day mean always pray to the Lord, keep close relationship with the Lord.
Do I long for God's salvation? Yes, I do. I long for God's salvation and love everyday.
How?
Pray to the Lord everyday, everything in my daily life. I am yours, O Lord!
Monday, December 11, 2017
rise before dawn and cry for help
Psalm 119:145-160
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.
My eyes stay open through the watches of the night(夜更未換將眼睜開), that I may meditate on your promises.
Preserve my life according to your laws, according to your promise, according to your love.
To see it broken genuinely distresses him. His glad obedience, love and regard for God's will provide a constant challenge for every believer. The psalm's focus on the truly happy life as one deep-rooted in reverence for God connect it with other 'wisdom' psalms.
Why?
Psalmist rise up in the early morning to pray and meditate God's word and promises.
Pray to God preserve my life for his laws, his promise and his love. God is faithful, righteous endure forever, has endless love.
Meditate God's word and promise may calm down my heart and give me more understanding.
How?
Rise before dawn and cry for help, read God's word and meditate his promise.
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I have put my hope in your word.
My eyes stay open through the watches of the night(夜更未換將眼睜開), that I may meditate on your promises.
Preserve my life according to your laws, according to your promise, according to your love.
To see it broken genuinely distresses him. His glad obedience, love and regard for God's will provide a constant challenge for every believer. The psalm's focus on the truly happy life as one deep-rooted in reverence for God connect it with other 'wisdom' psalms.
Why?
Psalmist rise up in the early morning to pray and meditate God's word and promises.
Pray to God preserve my life for his laws, his promise and his love. God is faithful, righteous endure forever, has endless love.
Meditate God's word and promise may calm down my heart and give me more understanding.
How?
Rise before dawn and cry for help, read God's word and meditate his promise.
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Give me understand that I may live
Psalm 119:129-144
The unfolding of your words gives light it gives understanding to the simple.
Make your face shine upon your servant and teach me your decrees.
Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed.
Though I am lowly and despised, I do not forget your precepts.
Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true.
Give me understand that I may live.
Why?
God's word is the light to me, but we need God gives me understanding, so I may live.
May God's face shine upon me so that teach me the decrees of the Lord!
With mercy and compassion to those who do not obey God's statues.
Yes, Lord, your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true, it is never shaking. Stand from on your word will not shame.
How?
Dear Lord, please give me understand that I may live and be living water to others.
The unfolding of your words gives light it gives understanding to the simple.
Make your face shine upon your servant and teach me your decrees.
Streams of tears flow from my eyes, for your law is not obeyed.
Though I am lowly and despised, I do not forget your precepts.
Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true.
Give me understand that I may live.
Why?
God's word is the light to me, but we need God gives me understanding, so I may live.
May God's face shine upon me so that teach me the decrees of the Lord!
With mercy and compassion to those who do not obey God's statues.
Yes, Lord, your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true, it is never shaking. Stand from on your word will not shame.
How?
Dear Lord, please give me understand that I may live and be living water to others.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Don't be a double-minded man
Psalm 119:113-128
I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
Put my hope in your word.
Sustain me, uphold me and I will be delivered; I will always have regard for your decrees.
Ensure your servant's well-being; let not the arrogant oppress me. Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees.
I am your servant; give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.
Because I love your commands more than gold, more than pure gold.
I hate every wrong path.
Why?
Double-minded men can't do anything. No matter before the Lord and in the world. They think they are wise.
My hope is in the Lord, my well-being and be delivered are rely on God. He is my refuge and my shield.
Pray to the Lord according to God's love and his word for I am servant of God.
God's word is better than gold, if I have gold but lose my life what else I have?
Love and hate should be distinguished, there is not compromise point.
How?
Don't be a double-minded man, for I am servant of the Lord. Please give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.
I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
Put my hope in your word.
Sustain me, uphold me and I will be delivered; I will always have regard for your decrees.
Ensure your servant's well-being; let not the arrogant oppress me. Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees.
I am your servant; give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.
Because I love your commands more than gold, more than pure gold.
I hate every wrong path.
Why?
Double-minded men can't do anything. No matter before the Lord and in the world. They think they are wise.
My hope is in the Lord, my well-being and be delivered are rely on God. He is my refuge and my shield.
Pray to the Lord according to God's love and his word for I am servant of God.
God's word is better than gold, if I have gold but lose my life what else I have?
Love and hate should be distinguished, there is not compromise point.
How?
Don't be a double-minded man, for I am servant of the Lord. Please give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.
Friday, December 8, 2017
My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.
Psalm 119:97-112
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth. I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.
Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on mt path.
Accept , Lord, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws.
Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.
My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.
Why?
God's word are sweet to me, let me gain understanding, is my lamp and light in my life. For God's word gives me wisdom and understanding in these world.
Praise to the Lord accept my willing praise of my mouth, each word come out from my mouth are good praise to the Lord.
Set heart on where my eyes look in on.
How?
Set mt heart on keeping God's decrees to the very end.
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth. I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.
Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on mt path.
Accept , Lord, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws.
Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.
My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.
Why?
God's word are sweet to me, let me gain understanding, is my lamp and light in my life. For God's word gives me wisdom and understanding in these world.
Praise to the Lord accept my willing praise of my mouth, each word come out from my mouth are good praise to the Lord.
Set heart on where my eyes look in on.
How?
Set mt heart on keeping God's decrees to the very end.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
In your unfailing love preserve my life
Psalm 119:81-96
Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees. How long must your servant wait? When will you punish my persecutors?
In your unfailing love preserve my life, that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.
Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.
To all perfection I see a limit, but your commands are boundless.
The will of God expressed in his teaching governs the psalmist's life-style and his conduct, gives him hope and peace, leads him into life and liberation. His confidence it is unboundary.
Why?
How long must your servant wait? God is the Lord, schedule and time are under authority of the Lord. Waiting is pain but it gives us practice the faith and trusted heart.
For God's unfailing love preserve my life so I may obey the word of God.
This world is limited, but God's word are boundless. His words is the way, the life and my salvation.
How?
Trust in the word of God, it can save my life.
Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees. How long must your servant wait? When will you punish my persecutors?
In your unfailing love preserve my life, that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.
Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.
To all perfection I see a limit, but your commands are boundless.
The will of God expressed in his teaching governs the psalmist's life-style and his conduct, gives him hope and peace, leads him into life and liberation. His confidence it is unboundary.
Why?
How long must your servant wait? God is the Lord, schedule and time are under authority of the Lord. Waiting is pain but it gives us practice the faith and trusted heart.
For God's unfailing love preserve my life so I may obey the word of God.
This world is limited, but God's word are boundless. His words is the way, the life and my salvation.
How?
Trust in the word of God, it can save my life.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees
Psalm 119:65-80
Do good to your servant according to your word, Lord. Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I trust your commands.
It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.
May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.
May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant.
May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees, that I may not be put to shame.
Why?
Teach me knowledge and good judgment because we know nothing or we know part of the truth.
For I trust your commands, according to your promise to your servant so I may pray to the Lord give me love and comfort.
Affliction is uncomfortable, but it may make me learn God's decrees. So everything I met should thanks God and pray to the Lord, for he is my hope.
How?
I will wholeheartedly follow God's word so that I may not be put to shame.
Do good to your servant according to your word, Lord. Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I trust your commands.
It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.
May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.
May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant.
May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees, that I may not be put to shame.
Why?
Teach me knowledge and good judgment because we know nothing or we know part of the truth.
For I trust your commands, according to your promise to your servant so I may pray to the Lord give me love and comfort.
Affliction is uncomfortable, but it may make me learn God's decrees. So everything I met should thanks God and pray to the Lord, for he is my hope.
How?
I will wholeheartedly follow God's word so that I may not be put to shame.
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
In the night, Lord, I remember your name
Psalm 119:49-64
Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.
In the night, Lord, I remember your name,that I may keep your law. This has been my practice: I obey your precepts.
You are my portion, Lord; I have promised to obey your words.
I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts.
Why?
Remember God's word day and night. It is easy to forget God when we are enjoy our joy after dinner.
Keep God's law and become my practice is good way to obey God's precepts.
You are my portion, all I have is your gift to me.
All who fear you are my friend, who are my brother and sister like family.
How?
Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.
Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.
In the night, Lord, I remember your name,that I may keep your law. This has been my practice: I obey your precepts.
You are my portion, Lord; I have promised to obey your words.
I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts.
Why?
Remember God's word day and night. It is easy to forget God when we are enjoy our joy after dinner.
Keep God's law and become my practice is good way to obey God's precepts.
You are my portion, all I have is your gift to me.
All who fear you are my friend, who are my brother and sister like family.
How?
Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.
Monday, December 4, 2017
Turn my eyes away from worthless things
Psalm 119:33-48
Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart.
Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.
May your unfailing love come to me, Lord, your salvation, according to your promise.
I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame
Why?
I may keep the law of God is not foll or just the word, but meditated it and understanding the real meaning to me, let me can keep God's word forever.
We are easy focus on worthless things because of it fancy and beauty, pray to the Lord keep my eyes away from worthless thing.
Before the kings I will not fear speak God' s statutes for God's word is true and it will not be put to shame.
How?
I will speak of God's statutes before kings and others with truth and wisdom.
Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart.
Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.
May your unfailing love come to me, Lord, your salvation, according to your promise.
I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame
Why?
I may keep the law of God is not foll or just the word, but meditated it and understanding the real meaning to me, let me can keep God's word forever.
We are easy focus on worthless things because of it fancy and beauty, pray to the Lord keep my eyes away from worthless thing.
Before the kings I will not fear speak God' s statutes for God's word is true and it will not be put to shame.
How?
I will speak of God's statutes before kings and others with truth and wisdom.
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Your satutes are my delight
Psalm 119:17-32
Psalmist pray to the Lord for he obey God's word, asked the Lord for God's word.
I am stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.
Your satutes are my delight; they are my counselors.
Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.
Chose the way of faithfulness, set my heart on your laws.
I hold fast to your statutes, Lord; do not let me be put to shame.
In the psalm we see how eagerly and persistently he applies himself to the task of understanding the law. He learns it by heart. He longs for more.
Why?
God's word is my way and my counselors. It let me know more about the Lord.
God's word let me meditate the wonderful things God has made.
God's word is my foundation of faith and way.
How?
Do my best and obey of the word of God in my life persistently.
Psalmist pray to the Lord for he obey God's word, asked the Lord for God's word.
I am stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.
Your satutes are my delight; they are my counselors.
Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.
Chose the way of faithfulness, set my heart on your laws.
I hold fast to your statutes, Lord; do not let me be put to shame.
In the psalm we see how eagerly and persistently he applies himself to the task of understanding the law. He learns it by heart. He longs for more.
Why?
God's word is my way and my counselors. It let me know more about the Lord.
God's word let me meditate the wonderful things God has made.
God's word is my foundation of faith and way.
How?
Do my best and obey of the word of God in my life persistently.
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless
Psalm 119:1-16
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart.
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Meditate in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. And meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
This is the longest psalm of all - and the most form; and elaborate in concept. There are 22 eight-verse sections. Each section begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and each verse within the section begins with the same letter.
Within this stylized pattern the psalmist makes a series of individual, though not isolated or disconnected, statements about the 'law' and the individual - interspersed with frequent prayers. He uses ten different words to describe it: God's la, his testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, ordinances, word, way, promises and judgments. And one or other of these descriptions occurs in all but a very few verses. He seems to have taken the same delight in the discipline set by this complex poetic form, as he did in the study of the law itself. True freedom is found through constraint, in both cases.
Why?
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, like Daniel, not one can found his fault in his way.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek God with all their heart.
Mediate God's way and his word and his way is the best way to keep our way pure.
How?
Living according to God's word and meditate God's word and what God has done to me!
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart.
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Meditate in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. And meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
This is the longest psalm of all - and the most form; and elaborate in concept. There are 22 eight-verse sections. Each section begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and each verse within the section begins with the same letter.
Within this stylized pattern the psalmist makes a series of individual, though not isolated or disconnected, statements about the 'law' and the individual - interspersed with frequent prayers. He uses ten different words to describe it: God's la, his testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, ordinances, word, way, promises and judgments. And one or other of these descriptions occurs in all but a very few verses. He seems to have taken the same delight in the discipline set by this complex poetic form, as he did in the study of the law itself. True freedom is found through constraint, in both cases.
Why?
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, like Daniel, not one can found his fault in his way.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek God with all their heart.
Mediate God's way and his word and his way is the best way to keep our way pure.
How?
Living according to God's word and meditate God's word and what God has done to me!
Friday, December 1, 2017
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man
Psalm 117-118
The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me. He is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
I will give you thanks , for you answered me; you have become my salvation.
The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
117:The psalmist calls all nations to praise the Lord. I his love and constant care for Israel he shows his purpose for every nation.
118:The hymn was sung in processing by king, priests and people. As they approach the Temple, the king recalls the victory won with God's help.
The procession, carrying branches, moves from the gateway to the altar.
Why?
The Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes: The despise nation of Israel has become the great power. By Jesus' day Israel, in turn, had forfeited(沒收) their privilege position.
God is my helper, he is with me, so I will not be afraid.
God is my strength, my song and my salvation. God gives me faith so I have strength, I will praise to the Lord for he gives me triumph, God saves me in every situation.
How?
Give thanks to the Lord, trust in the Lord insted of man. God is my strength, my song and my salvation.
The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me. He is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
I will give you thanks , for you answered me; you have become my salvation.
The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
117:The psalmist calls all nations to praise the Lord. I his love and constant care for Israel he shows his purpose for every nation.
118:The hymn was sung in processing by king, priests and people. As they approach the Temple, the king recalls the victory won with God's help.
The procession, carrying branches, moves from the gateway to the altar.
Why?
The Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes: The despise nation of Israel has become the great power. By Jesus' day Israel, in turn, had forfeited(沒收) their privilege position.
God is my helper, he is with me, so I will not be afraid.
God is my strength, my song and my salvation. God gives me faith so I have strength, I will praise to the Lord for he gives me triumph, God saves me in every situation.
How?
Give thanks to the Lord, trust in the Lord insted of man. God is my strength, my song and my salvation.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
God saved my life
Psalm 116
I love the Lord for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.
The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The Lord protects the simple hearted; when I was in great need, he saved me.
Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.
How can I repay the Lord for all his goodness to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.
Saved from death in answer to prayer the psalmist comes to make his thank-offering in the Temple. The memory of that terrible time when the grave 'closed in' on him, with fear and danger all around, is vividly present as he pours out his heart in gratitude to God.
Why?
The Lord is full of compassion and he saved me for his mercy, God is living for he heart my voice.
Be at rest, O my soul for the Lord has been good to me, God has given the way to me.
How can I repay to Lord? Praise his holy name and lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.
Even I am simple hearted man God protected me. Be humble and fear the Lord!
How?
Be at rest once more, O my soul! for God is gracious and righteous.
I love the Lord for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.
The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The Lord protects the simple hearted; when I was in great need, he saved me.
Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.
How can I repay the Lord for all his goodness to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.
Saved from death in answer to prayer the psalmist comes to make his thank-offering in the Temple. The memory of that terrible time when the grave 'closed in' on him, with fear and danger all around, is vividly present as he pours out his heart in gratitude to God.
Why?
The Lord is full of compassion and he saved me for his mercy, God is living for he heart my voice.
Be at rest, O my soul for the Lord has been good to me, God has given the way to me.
How can I repay to Lord? Praise his holy name and lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.
Even I am simple hearted man God protected me. Be humble and fear the Lord!
How?
Be at rest once more, O my soul! for God is gracious and righteous.
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The one, true, living God
Psalm 115
Our God is in heaven; he does whatever please him.
But their idols are silver and gold made by the hands of men. Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.
You who fear him, trust in the Lord - he is their help and shield.
God will bless those who fear the Lord - small and great alike.
May the Lord make you increase, both you and your children.
The one, true, living God
This psalm gives an indication of the way many psalms must have been sung - with a single voice leading and the congregation joining in the response. A powerful contrast is drawn between God - almighty, loving, faithful - and the lifeless, impotent idols of ' the nations'. From the response of trust and confidence in God's blessing the psalm comes full circle back to God and his people.
Why?
Our God is the true God, who does whatever please him. But the idols could not speak, smell and walk. Trust the living God who listen my prayer and loves us.
The Lord is my help and my shield. God is my hope and my fortress.
God makes us increase and prosperity in my home and my work.
How?
Praise the Lord, give thanks to the Lord!
Our God is in heaven; he does whatever please him.
But their idols are silver and gold made by the hands of men. Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.
You who fear him, trust in the Lord - he is their help and shield.
God will bless those who fear the Lord - small and great alike.
May the Lord make you increase, both you and your children.
The one, true, living God
This psalm gives an indication of the way many psalms must have been sung - with a single voice leading and the congregation joining in the response. A powerful contrast is drawn between God - almighty, loving, faithful - and the lifeless, impotent idols of ' the nations'. From the response of trust and confidence in God's blessing the psalm comes full circle back to God and his people.
Why?
Our God is the true God, who does whatever please him. But the idols could not speak, smell and walk. Trust the living God who listen my prayer and loves us.
The Lord is my help and my shield. God is my hope and my fortress.
God makes us increase and prosperity in my home and my work.
How?
Praise the Lord, give thanks to the Lord!
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