My Sunday Scripture, 2009.9.27
At that time, John said to Jesus,
"Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name,
and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us."
Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him.
There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name
who can at the same time speak ill of me.
For whoever is not against us is for us.
Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink
because you belong to Christ,
amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.
"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,
it would be better for him if a great millstone
were put around his neck
and he were thrown into the sea.
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.
It is better for you to enter into life maimed
than with two hands to go into Gehenna,
into the unquenchable fire.
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off.
It is better for you to enter into life crippled
than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna.
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.
Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye
than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,
where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'"
Saint Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
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My Reading Notes:
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Preventing people to do good deeds, is the major evil nowadays
Only because those people is not in the same sect, then
all their deeds are to be stopped.......
And what does it mean?
It means that those who prevent others doing good, are in fact
not doing anything good at all.
I dont know why my blog is not allowed in China.
I mean no harm, but I am prevented to say anything.
2009年9月26日 星期六
2009年9月18日 星期五
Whoever welcomes a child such as this
My Sunday Scripture 2009.9.20
After leaving that place they made their way through Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know, because he was instructing his disciples; he was telling them, 'The Son of man will be delivered into the power of men; they will put him to death; and three days after he has been put to death he will rise again.' But they did not understand what he said and were afraid to ask him. They came to Capernaum, and when he got into the house he asked them, 'What were you arguing about on the road?'
34 They said nothing, because on the road they had been arguing which of them was the greatest. So he sat down, called the Twelve to him and said, 'If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all.' He then took a little child whom he set among them and embraced, and he said to them, 'Anyone who welcomes a little child such as this in my name, welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me, welcomes not me but the one who sent me.'
Saint Mark 9:30-37
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My Reading Notes:
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Whoever welcomes a child such as this in my name, welcomes me.
And this is the point exactly the same as Zheong Zi, who had mentioned about a theory of the unity of man and heaven(天人合一). If anyone "welcomes" a child, is to take the child as his own, is to treat the child as his own. And this is the unity of man and heaven, or the unity of man and Jesus.
If you welcome a child, you welcome Jesus into your mind, you had put heaven into your own mind, you had united yourself with the universe.
If you love your neighbour, you will love Jesus, you will love the whole world.
In this scripture, Jesus had taught us the wonderful idea about how to unite man and heaven.
If anyone who could understand this, he will not mind being the last. For his mind is not in himself, but the children of the world, but Jesus, but the whole universe.
After leaving that place they made their way through Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know, because he was instructing his disciples; he was telling them, 'The Son of man will be delivered into the power of men; they will put him to death; and three days after he has been put to death he will rise again.' But they did not understand what he said and were afraid to ask him. They came to Capernaum, and when he got into the house he asked them, 'What were you arguing about on the road?'
34 They said nothing, because on the road they had been arguing which of them was the greatest. So he sat down, called the Twelve to him and said, 'If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all.' He then took a little child whom he set among them and embraced, and he said to them, 'Anyone who welcomes a little child such as this in my name, welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me, welcomes not me but the one who sent me.'
Saint Mark 9:30-37
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My Reading Notes:
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Whoever welcomes a child such as this in my name, welcomes me.
And this is the point exactly the same as Zheong Zi, who had mentioned about a theory of the unity of man and heaven(天人合一). If anyone "welcomes" a child, is to take the child as his own, is to treat the child as his own. And this is the unity of man and heaven, or the unity of man and Jesus.
If you welcome a child, you welcome Jesus into your mind, you had put heaven into your own mind, you had united yourself with the universe.
If you love your neighbour, you will love Jesus, you will love the whole world.
In this scripture, Jesus had taught us the wonderful idea about how to unite man and heaven.
If anyone who could understand this, he will not mind being the last. For his mind is not in himself, but the children of the world, but Jesus, but the whole universe.
2009年9月12日 星期六
Why should the Christians take up the cross?
My Sunday Scripture 2009.9.13
Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"
They said in reply, "John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets."
And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter said to him in reply, "You are the Messiah."
Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days.
He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."
He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.
Saint Mark 8:27-35
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My Reading Notes:
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To take up the cross, is to take up the burden, take up the work.
It is the job for those who forgets about himself, who could think in the way of the universe, who could know the ultimate secret of life, who could know that life is but a flame of fire, not the running body machine outside the fire, and that life is a purpose to serve.
Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"
They said in reply, "John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets."
And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter said to him in reply, "You are the Messiah."
Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him.
He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days.
He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."
He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.
Saint Mark 8:27-35
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My Reading Notes:
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To take up the cross, is to take up the burden, take up the work.
It is the job for those who forgets about himself, who could think in the way of the universe, who could know the ultimate secret of life, who could know that life is but a flame of fire, not the running body machine outside the fire, and that life is a purpose to serve.
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