Proverbs 3:1-20
My son, do not forget my teaching,but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine.
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in.
Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding.
Take wise teaching to heart: stay humble; trust God. Wisdom offers the things that money can't buy: peace, happiness, security.
Why?
God's teaching bring prosperity when we keep His commands in out heart.
No only before the God but also man we win favor when we have wisdom.
Trust in the Lord with all my heart and do not lean on my own understanding. Sometime we so not understand but God's way always be the best way to us.
Honor with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops, God does not want we devote all my wealth, but honor the Lord my first fruits, when put the Lord in the first, God will bless us in the first and give us prosperity.
No one like disciple, but God disciple those he loves.
Be generosity to give honor to the Lord.
How?
Open my heart, all I have is blessing from the Lord, so honor the Lord with my wealth. Then my barns will be filled to overflowing.
Friday, April 6, 2018
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men
Proverbs 2:1-22
If you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways.
For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
Wisdom is to be found through knowing God. It is heard won, but worth every effort. It is a safeguard against wrongdoing and bad company, both male and female. It sets out feet on the right path.
Why?
Look for wisdom, understand the word of God, have to eager to find and search like search for hidden treasure. God's word could be found like treasure. When we found it we are delight and rejoice to get it.
Reading and meditate God's word everyday and keep it in mind and practice it in our life.
How?
Search for it as for hidden treasure, for the Lord gives wisdom.
If you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways.
For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
Wisdom is to be found through knowing God. It is heard won, but worth every effort. It is a safeguard against wrongdoing and bad company, both male and female. It sets out feet on the right path.
Why?
Look for wisdom, understand the word of God, have to eager to find and search like search for hidden treasure. God's word could be found like treasure. When we found it we are delight and rejoice to get it.
Reading and meditate God's word everyday and keep it in mind and practice it in our life.
How?
Search for it as for hidden treasure, for the Lord gives wisdom.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
There is no greater folly than choosing not to 'fear the Lord'; Proverbs 1:1-33
Proverbs 1:1-33
For giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
They will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.
Proverbs opens with a statement of its purpose and basis. It is aimed especially at the young and uninstructed - but no one is too old or too wise to learn. Proverbs and sayings encapsulate wisdom, and wisdom is the path to life.
The teacher addressed his pupils as a wise father would his son. The young man has a vital choice to make: between the right course and the wrong one; between wisdom and folly; between going God's way through life and going his own. The teacher describes the two alternatives, and show where each leads. In verse 10-19 he tries to arm his pupil against temptation. The theme of every lesson is the same:"Get wisdom. "Repetition is still a good teaching method!
Every-where wisdom is crying aloud. She calls to everyone. Listen! What she says of those who refuse to learn is the simple truth. There is no greater folly than choosing not to 'fear the Lord'
Why?
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, God is the foundation of wisdom and prudence.
They will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. People have to take responsibility to what they have done and their choice.
How?
There is no greater folly than choosing not to 'fear the Lord'
For giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
They will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.
Proverbs opens with a statement of its purpose and basis. It is aimed especially at the young and uninstructed - but no one is too old or too wise to learn. Proverbs and sayings encapsulate wisdom, and wisdom is the path to life.
The teacher addressed his pupils as a wise father would his son. The young man has a vital choice to make: between the right course and the wrong one; between wisdom and folly; between going God's way through life and going his own. The teacher describes the two alternatives, and show where each leads. In verse 10-19 he tries to arm his pupil against temptation. The theme of every lesson is the same:"Get wisdom. "Repetition is still a good teaching method!
Every-where wisdom is crying aloud. She calls to everyone. Listen! What she says of those who refuse to learn is the simple truth. There is no greater folly than choosing not to 'fear the Lord'
Why?
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, God is the foundation of wisdom and prudence.
They will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. People have to take responsibility to what they have done and their choice.
How?
There is no greater folly than choosing not to 'fear the Lord'
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
I will be joyful in God my Savior
Habakkuk 3:1-19
I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish. You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot.
I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish. You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot.
I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.
Habakkuk's prayer comes with a great sigh of relief. God, his strength and joy, is God after all!
The prayer is a psalm, to be sung with accompanying instruments. This has led some to believe that Habakkuk was a Levitt, attached to the Temple.
Focus is on God himself; God approaching from the mountains of the southern desert; God wrapped about with thunder and lightening in the storm of his wrath; God setting the world trembling with a glance. Habakkuk sees the inevitability, the fury of judgment. Yet, though it means the loss of every good thing in life. God is still to be trusted. The prophet will wait for the day when God deals with the invader. He will rejoice in God, through life is stripped of all that gives natural joy and satisfaction.
Why?
After God's answer Habakkuk found his small and humble himself. God's wrath who can stand for.
God is great so he was overwhelming. Nothing can compare with the Lord Almighty.
Everything will passed away, nothing can be remember, but God who is existing forever, his word will lasting forever.
How?
I will wait patiently for the day of God. The Sovereign Lord is my strength.
Why?
After God's answer Habakkuk found his small and humble himself. God's wrath who can stand for.
God is great so he was overwhelming. Nothing can compare with the Lord Almighty.
Everything will passed away, nothing can be remember, but God who is existing forever, his word will lasting forever.
How?
I will wait patiently for the day of God. The Sovereign Lord is my strength.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Wait for it' it will certainly come and will not delay
Habakkuk 2:1-20
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it' it will certainly come and will not delay.
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!
Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Woe to him gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gave on their naked bodies!
Vow to him who says to wood, 'Come to life!' Or to lifeless stone, 'Wake up!' Cant it gave guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it."
The Lord is in his holy temple let all the earth be silent before him.
The prophet takes his stance high on the watchtower, on the look-out, waiting with bated breath for God' response. And the assurance comes: God has not changed his nature; he has not joined sides with the wicked. When the final scores are added up, only those who trust God and remain true to him will live. God will punish all humanity's arrogant pride.
Woe betide(臨頭) those who greedily grab what belongs to others; who for selfish ends justify the cruellest means; who climb to power on the backs of others; who destroy and dehumanize; who give their worship to idols shaped by human hands. The lives of all such people are forfeit, whatever their nationality.
Why?
God's schedule is never delay! Wait for it certainly come!
All injustice things and people will be shamed and come to ruin.
How?
Do not complain to anyone, for the Lord is watching over the world. God knows heart of each man.
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it' it will certainly come and will not delay.
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice!
Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Woe to him gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gave on their naked bodies!
Vow to him who says to wood, 'Come to life!' Or to lifeless stone, 'Wake up!' Cant it gave guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it."
The Lord is in his holy temple let all the earth be silent before him.
The prophet takes his stance high on the watchtower, on the look-out, waiting with bated breath for God' response. And the assurance comes: God has not changed his nature; he has not joined sides with the wicked. When the final scores are added up, only those who trust God and remain true to him will live. God will punish all humanity's arrogant pride.
Woe betide(臨頭) those who greedily grab what belongs to others; who for selfish ends justify the cruellest means; who climb to power on the backs of others; who destroy and dehumanize; who give their worship to idols shaped by human hands. The lives of all such people are forfeit, whatever their nationality.
Why?
God's schedule is never delay! Wait for it certainly come!
All injustice things and people will be shamed and come to ruin.
How?
Do not complain to anyone, for the Lord is watching over the world. God knows heart of each man.
Sunday, April 1, 2018
得自由與永生之道 約8：31-59
約8：31-59
北投禮拜堂 林義順長老。4/1/2018
聖經不是寫給辯論用，不是來說服人。
約穌的身體可傳過牆壁，復活的身體才是承受神的國的身體。
我們不是要睡覺，乃是要改變，必朽壞的變不朽壞，必死的變不死，
耶穌要對付的是罪及死亡。
約8：31解決罪的問題,51解決死亡問題，滅亡
自由是免除了責任，我們以為自由是隨心所欲的行，有錢有閒。
有人以工作，當兵，婚姻，生孩子使他失去自由。有人以來教會服事是失去自由，有人以為受洗失去自由。
我們不是變成基督徒是恢復我們原來身份，回到家。
犯罪就使人失去自由，這是社會法律規範，耶穌更是指人的罪。犯罪後生活陷在恐懼中。罪使我們有壓力，影響健康。弟弟打破爸爸心愛的花瓶，不敢告訴爸爸，於是哥哥要求弟弟為他服務，如果不從就告訴爸爸。所以因為犯了罪就是受到罪的挾制
不寬恕人反而使人生病。心中不放過他人就是罪使人成為奴隸。
全面監控的社會雖然似乎捆綁的，但是仍然有許多地方是監控不到的。
遵守主的道似乎失去自由？吃善惡樹的果子是失去自由還是得到自由？神為什麼將分別善惡果的樹放在那裡？
Ans:放在伊甸園才使人有自由。
機器人動感情愛人的故事：最後女孩拒絕了機器人的告白，因為機器人永遠不會犯錯。
人有犯錯的可能，機器人不會犯錯。若神拿走分別善惡樹的果子的樹，亞當就成為上帝的機器人。永遠不會犯錯。耶穌成為完全的人來到這個世界，會肚子餓，會難過，哀傷。耶穌沒有犯罪，他忍受各種試探，因為他也會犯罪所以撒但旦試探他。在客西馬尼園受試探，他勝過了。神使人有自由的意志，神這是為了愛。神要的是真心的愛。我們會愛永遠會愛我的機器人嗎？那是愛自己。
我常常說我應該要讀經、禱告、參加聚會、參加…裝備，服事神…神要給我們的是真正的自由！
因為車後貼魚的貼紙，人們知道我是基督徒所以遵守交通規則? 因為看見我穿或戴十字架的衣服、項鍊，而力求好形象? 為什麼不拿掉貼紙而是心中願意行，無論別人是否看到、知道。
北投禮拜堂 林義順長老。4/1/2018
聖經不是寫給辯論用，不是來說服人。
約穌的身體可傳過牆壁，復活的身體才是承受神的國的身體。
我們不是要睡覺，乃是要改變，必朽壞的變不朽壞，必死的變不死，
耶穌要對付的是罪及死亡。
約8：31解決罪的問題,51解決死亡問題，滅亡
自由是免除了責任，我們以為自由是隨心所欲的行，有錢有閒。
有人以工作，當兵，婚姻，生孩子使他失去自由。有人以來教會服事是失去自由，有人以為受洗失去自由。
我們不是變成基督徒是恢復我們原來身份，回到家。
犯罪就使人失去自由，這是社會法律規範，耶穌更是指人的罪。犯罪後生活陷在恐懼中。罪使我們有壓力，影響健康。弟弟打破爸爸心愛的花瓶，不敢告訴爸爸，於是哥哥要求弟弟為他服務，如果不從就告訴爸爸。所以因為犯了罪就是受到罪的挾制
不寬恕人反而使人生病。心中不放過他人就是罪使人成為奴隸。
全面監控的社會雖然似乎捆綁的，但是仍然有許多地方是監控不到的。
遵守主的道似乎失去自由？吃善惡樹的果子是失去自由還是得到自由？神為什麼將分別善惡果的樹放在那裡？
Ans:放在伊甸園才使人有自由。
機器人動感情愛人的故事：最後女孩拒絕了機器人的告白，因為機器人永遠不會犯錯。
人有犯錯的可能，機器人不會犯錯。若神拿走分別善惡樹的果子的樹，亞當就成為上帝的機器人。永遠不會犯錯。耶穌成為完全的人來到這個世界，會肚子餓，會難過，哀傷。耶穌沒有犯罪，他忍受各種試探，因為他也會犯罪所以撒但旦試探他。在客西馬尼園受試探，他勝過了。神使人有自由的意志，神這是為了愛。神要的是真心的愛。我們會愛永遠會愛我的機器人嗎？那是愛自己。
我常常說我應該要讀經、禱告、參加聚會、參加…裝備，服事神…神要給我們的是真正的自由！
因為車後貼魚的貼紙，人們知道我是基督徒所以遵守交通規則? 因為看見我穿或戴十字架的衣服、項鍊，而力求好形象? 為什麼不拿掉貼紙而是心中願意行，無論別人是否看到、知道。
God is good and righteous; Habakkuk 1:1-17
Habakkuk 1:1-17
Habakkuk complained God do not listen to his prayer. Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
The law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
The Lord's answer, For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
The prophet Habakkuk is battling with much the same problem as Job and the writer of Psalm 73: the fact that while the good, the innocent, suffer, the wicked flourish. So Habakkuk, believing that God is just and good, asks his questions. Why, God, Why?
O God, why are you deaf to my prayer? Why don't you do something about the breakdown of law and order, about the wickedness in the land? the prophet cries.
God's answer seems only to aggravate the problem: 'My punishment will be an invasion of savage Babylonian soldiers!'
Why?
So Habakkuk replies, 'How can you, the all-good, the just God, use such a vicious instrument of judgment - you who cannot bear the sight of evil? Will you let Babylon fish the sea of humanity for ever?
These questions are existing in this world, people asked why such evil doer do not be punished? How long they can prevail in this world? Where is the justice of the Lord?
The Lord give them chance to repent, to turn back, even us sometime is not good enough. Because God loves us, the right of just is belong to the Lord. No one can judge other.
How?
Pray and listen the word of God, for God is good and righteous. God's work never late or delay, God has his schedule and plan.
Habakkuk complained God do not listen to his prayer. Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
The law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
The Lord's answer, For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
The prophet Habakkuk is battling with much the same problem as Job and the writer of Psalm 73: the fact that while the good, the innocent, suffer, the wicked flourish. So Habakkuk, believing that God is just and good, asks his questions. Why, God, Why?
O God, why are you deaf to my prayer? Why don't you do something about the breakdown of law and order, about the wickedness in the land? the prophet cries.
God's answer seems only to aggravate the problem: 'My punishment will be an invasion of savage Babylonian soldiers!'
Why?
So Habakkuk replies, 'How can you, the all-good, the just God, use such a vicious instrument of judgment - you who cannot bear the sight of evil? Will you let Babylon fish the sea of humanity for ever?
These questions are existing in this world, people asked why such evil doer do not be punished? How long they can prevail in this world? Where is the justice of the Lord?
The Lord give them chance to repent, to turn back, even us sometime is not good enough. Because God loves us, the right of just is belong to the Lord. No one can judge other.
How?
Pray and listen the word of God, for God is good and righteous. God's work never late or delay, God has his schedule and plan.
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