My Sunday Scripture 2011.9.25.
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The Text: Matthew 21:28-32
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What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, 'Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.'
He said in reply, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and went.
The man came to the other son and gave the same order. He said in reply, 'Yes, sir,' but did not go.
Which of the two did his father's will?" They answered, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
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My Reading Notes:
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The most important things here is the action, not the words.
It does not matter if he say yes or no, but whether you have go.
And that is the difference between a true Christian and a false Christian.
And the question is: Did you really go? Did you performed yourself in your life?
Did you live your life?
2011年9月25日 星期日
2011年9月18日 星期日
What is the meaning of first and last
My Sunday Scripture 2011.9.18
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The Text: Matthew 20:1-16a
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1 'Now the kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard.
2 He made an agreement with the workers for one denarius a day and sent them to his vineyard.
3 Going out at about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place
4 and said to them, "You go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage."
5 So they went. At about the sixth hour and again at about the ninth hour, he went out and did the same.
6 Then at about the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing around, and he said to them, "Why have you been standing here idle all day?"
7 "Because no one has hired us," they answered. He said to them, "You go into my vineyard too."
8 In the evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his bailiff, "Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last arrivals and ending with the first."
9 So those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came forward and received one denarius each.
10 When the first came, they expected to get more, but they too received one denarius each.
11 They took it, but grumbled at the landowner saying,
12 "The men who came last have done only one hour, and you have treated them the same as us, though we have done a heavy day's work in all the heat."
13 He answered one of them and said, "My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius?
14 Take your earnings and go. I choose to pay the lastcomer as much as I pay you.
15 Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why should you be envious because I am generous?"
16 Thus the last will be first, and the first, last.'
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My Reading Notes:
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I will learn not to worry if i am the last. For I know that God had given me enough to live for. In that case, first and last are the same. What not the same is my effort. If i have dedicate enough, i will be with God.
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The Text: Matthew 20:1-16a
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1 'Now the kingdom of Heaven is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire workers for his vineyard.
2 He made an agreement with the workers for one denarius a day and sent them to his vineyard.
3 Going out at about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the market place
4 and said to them, "You go to my vineyard too and I will give you a fair wage."
5 So they went. At about the sixth hour and again at about the ninth hour, he went out and did the same.
6 Then at about the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing around, and he said to them, "Why have you been standing here idle all day?"
7 "Because no one has hired us," they answered. He said to them, "You go into my vineyard too."
8 In the evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his bailiff, "Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last arrivals and ending with the first."
9 So those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came forward and received one denarius each.
10 When the first came, they expected to get more, but they too received one denarius each.
11 They took it, but grumbled at the landowner saying,
12 "The men who came last have done only one hour, and you have treated them the same as us, though we have done a heavy day's work in all the heat."
13 He answered one of them and said, "My friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius?
14 Take your earnings and go. I choose to pay the lastcomer as much as I pay you.
15 Have I no right to do what I like with my own? Why should you be envious because I am generous?"
16 Thus the last will be first, and the first, last.'
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My Reading Notes:
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I will learn not to worry if i am the last. For I know that God had given me enough to live for. In that case, first and last are the same. What not the same is my effort. If i have dedicate enough, i will be with God.
2011年9月10日 星期六
none of us
My Sunday Scripture 2011.9.11
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The Text:
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Reading 2, Rom 14:7-9
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7 For none of us lives for himself and none of us dies for himself;
8 while we are alive, we are living for the Lord, and when we die, we die for the Lord: and so, alive or dead, we belong to the Lord.
9 It was for this purpose that Christ both died and came to life again: so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
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My Reading Notes:
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Paul said: "For none of us lives for himself and none of us dies for himself";
Take note on the word: "None". He is searching the basic element of mankind.
Life itself is not life. You need to have a reborn, then you will know what is life. To reborn, is to know the real meaning of life, is to know life is not only flesh, but the fighting spirit inside. It is this spirit that lives, the body is helping the spirit to work. It is important to have the spirit enlightened---that we could say, is re-born.
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The Text:
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Reading 2, Rom 14:7-9
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7 For none of us lives for himself and none of us dies for himself;
8 while we are alive, we are living for the Lord, and when we die, we die for the Lord: and so, alive or dead, we belong to the Lord.
9 It was for this purpose that Christ both died and came to life again: so that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
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My Reading Notes:
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Paul said: "For none of us lives for himself and none of us dies for himself";
Take note on the word: "None". He is searching the basic element of mankind.
Life itself is not life. You need to have a reborn, then you will know what is life. To reborn, is to know the real meaning of life, is to know life is not only flesh, but the fighting spirit inside. It is this spirit that lives, the body is helping the spirit to work. It is important to have the spirit enlightened---that we could say, is re-born.
2011年9月3日 星期六
They might be wrong
My Sunday Scripture 2011.9.4.
The Text: Matthew 18:15-20
15 'If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
16 If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: whatever the misdemeanour, the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain the charge.
17 But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a gentile or a tax collector.
18 'In truth I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19 'In truth I tell you once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three meet in my name, I am there among them.'
My reading Notes
the message to day is only one line:
They are human, and they might be wrong.
The Text: Matthew 18:15-20
15 'If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
16 If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you: whatever the misdemeanour, the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain the charge.
17 But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a gentile or a tax collector.
18 'In truth I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19 'In truth I tell you once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three meet in my name, I am there among them.'
My reading Notes
the message to day is only one line:
They are human, and they might be wrong.
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