My Sunday Scritpure 2010.11.28.
The text: Matthew 24:37-44
'As it was in Noah's day, so will it be when the Son of man comes.
For in those days before the Flood people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, and they suspected nothing till the Flood came and swept them all away. This is what it will be like when the Son of man comes.
Then of two men in the fields, one is taken, one left;
of two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, one left.
'So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming.
You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house.
Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
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My Reading Notes:
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The point is: Staying Awake.
But how do I know that I am awaken? not sleeping?
To stay awake, is to know what is going on.
Do I know what is going on in China?
Do I know what is going on in the world?
Do I know what is going on above the world?
And that is a big big challenge.
2010年11月27日 星期六
2010年11月16日 星期二
Today you will be with me in paradise
My Sunday Scritpture 2010.11.21
The Text: Luke 23:35-43
The people stayed there watching. As for the leaders, they jeered at him with the words, 'He saved others, let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.'
The soldiers mocked him too, coming up to him, offering him vinegar,
and saying, 'If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.'
Above him there was an inscription: 'This is the King of the Jews'.
One of the criminals hanging there abused him: 'Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well.'
But the other spoke up and rebuked him. 'Have you no fear of God at all?' he said. 'You got the same sentence as he did,
but in our case we deserved it: we are paying for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong.'
Then he said, 'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.'
He answered him, 'In truth I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.'
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My Reading Notes:
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Yes. The important thing happens right now. If one has found the truth, then, in the same day, one will be in paradise.
The most important thing is now. What is in your mind now.
The Text: Luke 23:35-43
The people stayed there watching. As for the leaders, they jeered at him with the words, 'He saved others, let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.'
The soldiers mocked him too, coming up to him, offering him vinegar,
and saying, 'If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.'
Above him there was an inscription: 'This is the King of the Jews'.
One of the criminals hanging there abused him: 'Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us as well.'
But the other spoke up and rebuked him. 'Have you no fear of God at all?' he said. 'You got the same sentence as he did,
but in our case we deserved it: we are paying for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong.'
Then he said, 'Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.'
He answered him, 'In truth I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.'
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My Reading Notes:
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Yes. The important thing happens right now. If one has found the truth, then, in the same day, one will be in paradise.
The most important thing is now. What is in your mind now.
Every thing will be destroyed
My Sunday Scripture 2010.11.14
The Text: Luke 21:5-19
When some were talking about the Temple, remarking how it was adorned with fine stonework and votive offerings, he said,
'All these things you are staring at now -- the time will come when not a single stone will be left on another; everything will be destroyed.'
And they put to him this question, 'Master,' they said, 'when will this happen, then, and what sign will there be that it is about to take place?'
But he said, 'Take care not to be deceived, because many will come using my name and saying, "I am the one" and "The time is near at hand." Refuse to join them.
And when you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be terrified, for this is something that must happen first, but the end will not come at once.'
Then he said to them, 'Nation will fight against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
There will be great earthquakes and plagues and famines in various places; there will be terrifying events and great signs from heaven.
'But before all this happens, you will be seized and persecuted; you will be handed over to the synagogues and to imprisonment, and brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name
-and that will be your opportunity to bear witness.
Make up your minds not to prepare your defence,
because I myself shall give you an eloquence and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to resist or contradict.
You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.
You will be hated universally on account of my name,
but not a hair of your head will be lost.
Your perseverance will win you your lives.
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My Reading Notes:
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Those are the most terrible things to happen. And those things are happenning and will happen again and again, wars, famines and presecutions, and the most unbearable at all, is that the betrayals from your love ones.
And this is nothing but an opportunity to bear witness to God.
And by perseverance, one will save himself.
Every thing will be destroyed. But, may I dare to ask: Why? What will happen after the solar system? or all systems? What is the purpose of life?
The Text: Luke 21:5-19
When some were talking about the Temple, remarking how it was adorned with fine stonework and votive offerings, he said,
'All these things you are staring at now -- the time will come when not a single stone will be left on another; everything will be destroyed.'
And they put to him this question, 'Master,' they said, 'when will this happen, then, and what sign will there be that it is about to take place?'
But he said, 'Take care not to be deceived, because many will come using my name and saying, "I am the one" and "The time is near at hand." Refuse to join them.
And when you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be terrified, for this is something that must happen first, but the end will not come at once.'
Then he said to them, 'Nation will fight against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
There will be great earthquakes and plagues and famines in various places; there will be terrifying events and great signs from heaven.
'But before all this happens, you will be seized and persecuted; you will be handed over to the synagogues and to imprisonment, and brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name
-and that will be your opportunity to bear witness.
Make up your minds not to prepare your defence,
because I myself shall give you an eloquence and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to resist or contradict.
You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.
You will be hated universally on account of my name,
but not a hair of your head will be lost.
Your perseverance will win you your lives.
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My Reading Notes:
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Those are the most terrible things to happen. And those things are happenning and will happen again and again, wars, famines and presecutions, and the most unbearable at all, is that the betrayals from your love ones.
And this is nothing but an opportunity to bear witness to God.
And by perseverance, one will save himself.
Every thing will be destroyed. But, may I dare to ask: Why? What will happen after the solar system? or all systems? What is the purpose of life?
2010年11月6日 星期六
What is heaven like?
My Sunday SCripture 2010.11.7.
The Text: Luke 20:27-38
Some Sadducees -- those who argue that there is no resurrection -- approached him and they put this question to him,
'Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.
Well then, there were seven brothers; the first, having married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children. Finally the woman herself died. Now, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since she had been married to all seven?'
Jesus replied, 'The children of this world take wives and husbands, but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are children of God.
And Moses himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him everyone is alive.'
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My Reading Notes:
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The Scripture today has given us a clue: what is Heaven like? Do we still have marriage life or other every day life like earth in heaven?
Jesus has given us a hint:
That in heaven, every thing is not the same.
There might not be sex, or time, or life and death, or anything imaginable on earth. Heaven is a place we might be going, and only those who had been good can go there----or can reach that kind of feeling------, and those who can not reach to the same level might not be going. And that is heaven.
The Text: Luke 20:27-38
Some Sadducees -- those who argue that there is no resurrection -- approached him and they put this question to him,
'Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.
Well then, there were seven brothers; the first, having married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children. Finally the woman herself died. Now, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since she had been married to all seven?'
Jesus replied, 'The children of this world take wives and husbands, but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are children of God.
And Moses himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him everyone is alive.'
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My Reading Notes:
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The Scripture today has given us a clue: what is Heaven like? Do we still have marriage life or other every day life like earth in heaven?
Jesus has given us a hint:
That in heaven, every thing is not the same.
There might not be sex, or time, or life and death, or anything imaginable on earth. Heaven is a place we might be going, and only those who had been good can go there----or can reach that kind of feeling------, and those who can not reach to the same level might not be going. And that is heaven.
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