There is another evil under the heaven I see, the Christian wife, the wife usurp the husband's power and authority. The Christian wives seek equal authority with the husband in decision making and she may became a temptation, to rebel against the Lord and Savior.
In Choosing a godly woman, man is facing troubles, even hard to find one. In the end time, the Christian woman, lured the man with out look and her beauty, and in the beginning she wants love from the man. The man was attracted by the first look. He fell in love, with his first look to the woman. Man surely is weak in choosing a godly wife by his sight.
After the marriage, the wife sees that the husband is the bread finder, and so when he did not give enough, the wife will looks down on the husband, and so she usurps the husband's power in the family. She will not obey and respect the husband. Still she wants the bread from the husband, but no longer sees his husband the man she loved. She does not care how much love the husband loves her anymore. Money is more important then love in the end time.
The world taught the Christian woman to rebel against her own husband, and so she is leading her sons and daughters to rebel together against her husband. She wanted more authority in leading the family. The down fall of the society began from our home. The leaders in our society had given examples for the young men and women to follow, and they said they are creating a better future.
And I see another greater evil in our society, a husband cannot recognize his own son and daughter, who is his son and daughter? Because the man has too many out wed relationships. Some men took more and more secret wives. And they just separate after a few nights together. This is a norm in some cults, and religious groups. And they see no evil in making such evil. They say that a man's sexual desire cannot be satisfied by a single wife, so the man took many wives and keep many girl friends in stead. And men are looking for unfaithful wives in some society.
And so I knew of some secrets, where wife keeps a bottle of battery water in the kitchen, when the husband lost his temper, the wife felt hurts. She was then in anger, she revenged. She will put some battery water into his husband's drink. She serves the husband with contempt. The husband has a flash in his body after drinking that cup of drink made by his wife. The husband will be weaken, she punished her husband.
Sometimes, wife puts other funny staffs, like engine oil， Sodium borate， in her husband food, weaken and killing the husband slowly. The end time is near, the Christian wives wanted to be the leader in the family, they want independence and freedom, in their life, financially and sexually, this is a evil under the heaven.
Man, you better watch out those staffs in your kitchen! Beware of the angry Christian wife. Double precaution when your wife are buying battery water, the battery water is tasteless, but you men are not a battery any longer.
What about the church, the church had given bad example to the Christian men and women, in preaching unity, they split the congregation due to minor issues. Even sometimes they split a family into two due to a theological theory. And they still preaching family unity in their church. They had lost sight of the first love to the church. They serve the church, the body of Christ with contempt.
I say this in bringing you to Verbal Plenary Preservation (VPP), I wrote in this blog, that we believe the Bible is the inspired word of God, given by God, and penned down by Godly men, and we received the Bible, and lived with the Bible. We Christians are the people of the Bible. We believe God kept the Bible for us. And He has His time, and His way is higher than our ways.
There are roses in the world, and there is many types of roses, with many colors and shapes. Generally they are grouped into "Roses." Likewise there are many Bible translations in the world, many Bible versions, all are generally group into "Bible." Some are closest to the original, some are not, some are literal, some are not, some are dynamic, some are not. Some are easy to understand, some are not, some are faithful, some are not. But all are generally group into "Bible." We need spiritual insight in choosing the meaning of the whole Bible, and then the sentences, and then a single word.
But VPP is a perception, a theory, that claimed, they had find the perfect Bible, every single word, 100% identical with the original Bible, firstly they find in some MSS, then later they find in a TR, the Greek and Hebrew underlying the KJV, then later they concluded, KJV only. No other Bible is called Bible, accept KJV. This is a minor theory, but it break the heart of the church. And there the unity of the church is overlooked.
Watch out when the church started to quarrel about the perfect Bible, in our midst, it creates disunity among the Bible readers. We generally, believe CUV, NKJV, and KJV, ESV and others are suitable to be called the Bible, faithfully preaching not ourselves, but Christ. Even though these translations are not perfect translations, but they are very close, some are closer to the original texts. And we believe we have the truth in our hands. No doubt about it.
I hope the husband will continue to love the wife. Like Christ loved His church. And let the wives continue to obey her husband. Be peace in Christ. And the church continue to preach Christ, and show men and women, where is the way, the truth and the life.
Monday, 30 March 2009
Friday, 27 March 2009
Between Zabul and Laghman
These are two places, 2 strange and high places on earth. Do you know the meaning of "high places" in the Bible? Valley is found between 2 mountains, but the pagans like to go up to the top to worship the idol...they burned sacrifices and incenses to their Baal and idols. Highness places are not good in spiritual term. Israel were told not to worship baal and idols on those high places.
But in Ezekiel time they were told to do some strange thing.
Ezekiel 4:9 refers to a passage in the Bible that describes how to prepare bread with wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and fitches (spelt). The problem here is that the biblical recipe was intended to help survive famine during an upcoming siege, not because it tastes good or that it's healthy for you. The last ingredient is human feces! The dung is to be burn to cook the bread.
Ezekiel 4:12 Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel."
verse 13 The LORD said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them."
verse 14 Then I said, "Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."
verse 15 "Very well," he said, "I will let you bake your bread over cow manure instead of human excrement."
VPP theologians forgot that in these siege time, "Dung" mixed with straw and dried was commonly used as fuel throughout the Middle East because of the scarcity of wood. The dried dung burned slowly but gave off an unpleasant odor.
Just eat the bread.....do not be choosy! Eat ! It is edible. Peter was asked to eat unclean animals, eat, God see and pronounced them as cleansed, we have to accept the food !
If Bible is to say as a bread figuratively, and if NIV to compared to those "unclean bread," do you pick and choose not to eat?
Since you do not want to read NIV, you rather pick KJV only.
If CUV taken as a bread burned and cooked in those unclean fuel, do you refuse to eat it? You dare to say it is smelly, unclean? With your empty stomach? Dare you say that to the Lord who commanded you to take and eat!
Thank God, in the NT we knew Jesus Christ is the bread from heaven, He is the hidden manna, living bread for our soul, living water for thirsty soul like us.
Some misinterpretations and missing words in the CUV and NIV and NKJV are compared with the unclean fuel, are to refer figuratively as the unclean fuel, do these unclean fuel defiled the bread? And so you do not want to eat the bread, because of smell of the dung? You are over extra... choosy! You are going to stave to death.
Do not go to the high places like the mountain of VPP!
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Academic and Spiritual life
What we pursue and learn in the Bible College are prone to be more to the academical achievement...beside that, we have to continue to pursue growth in our spiritual life. Academic achievement and theological training are different from a personal walk with God. Academic and spiritual life, must be balanced! They are not the same thing.
What about VPP, it is more prone and swing to the Academic side....VPP is a theological perception, but a closer walk with God is more important than this mere perception. I hope all the FEBC students can differentiate the differences between academic and spiritual achievement.
Academic is academic, spiritual life is spiritual life...do not spend too much time in arguing the VPP. I think, we better read the Bible on our desk, no matter what version it is. A few missing words in a translation, does not mean the Lord is missing in that Bible version !
I hope you read the NKJV, the Lord is not missed in NKJV, He is well mentioned in NKJV.
You read the CUV, the Lord is not left out in this Bible, He is well mentioned in CUV.
You read the ESV, the Lord is not missed in ESV, He is still being mentioned in ESV...
Question is, why you read the Bible? the answer is that you wanted to find Christ, you wanted to find salvation, you wanted to find assurance, you wanted to pursue spiritual life. This is right perception about the Bible.
Please do not treat the Bible as a academic book, let the academic people do the academic thing, we as an ordinary man poor sinner, we better stick to the Bible version we have in our hands.
We better read the Bible daily...pray without ceasing...so that our inner life become stronger and stronger...In everything give thanks...forget the past...serving the Lord fervently, giving and forgiving, let us growing, and growing.
I hope the theologians know how to give space for the ordinary men to grow and be strong in the Lord. I hope the Lord is not missed ...this time in the civil court. Especially in these last days, the end time, the Lord is knocking the door, if any man hear him, and open the door, He will come in, and He will dine with him. Let him has ear hear this, there is a voice calling...prepare the way for the second coming of the Lord.
There are 10 virgins, waiting for the Lord, 5 virgins are smart, 5 virgins are foolish, they must prepare the oil, in watching the time. I wished we prepared well in watching and waiting for the Lord, hoping He is not missed this time...in our life on earth. What for keep on fighting on a few missing words, and keep on fight among us for a little academic achievement, what is the reward in pursuing that VPP?
What about VPP, it is more prone and swing to the Academic side....VPP is a theological perception, but a closer walk with God is more important than this mere perception. I hope all the FEBC students can differentiate the differences between academic and spiritual achievement.
Academic is academic, spiritual life is spiritual life...do not spend too much time in arguing the VPP. I think, we better read the Bible on our desk, no matter what version it is. A few missing words in a translation, does not mean the Lord is missing in that Bible version !
I hope you read the NKJV, the Lord is not missed in NKJV, He is well mentioned in NKJV.
You read the CUV, the Lord is not left out in this Bible, He is well mentioned in CUV.
You read the ESV, the Lord is not missed in ESV, He is still being mentioned in ESV...
Question is, why you read the Bible? the answer is that you wanted to find Christ, you wanted to find salvation, you wanted to find assurance, you wanted to pursue spiritual life. This is right perception about the Bible.
Please do not treat the Bible as a academic book, let the academic people do the academic thing, we as an ordinary man poor sinner, we better stick to the Bible version we have in our hands.
We better read the Bible daily...pray without ceasing...so that our inner life become stronger and stronger...In everything give thanks...forget the past...serving the Lord fervently, giving and forgiving, let us growing, and growing.
I hope the theologians know how to give space for the ordinary men to grow and be strong in the Lord. I hope the Lord is not missed ...this time in the civil court. Especially in these last days, the end time, the Lord is knocking the door, if any man hear him, and open the door, He will come in, and He will dine with him. Let him has ear hear this, there is a voice calling...prepare the way for the second coming of the Lord.
There are 10 virgins, waiting for the Lord, 5 virgins are smart, 5 virgins are foolish, they must prepare the oil, in watching the time. I wished we prepared well in watching and waiting for the Lord, hoping He is not missed this time...in our life on earth. What for keep on fighting on a few missing words, and keep on fight among us for a little academic achievement, what is the reward in pursuing that VPP?
The VPP richest men graded A+
....continue from the last blog, I wrote about the KJV richest men, but I forgot to mentioned about the VPP men, these are the newest richest men on earth, they are from the KJV group formerly, but later they claimed themselves as the richest men on earth, spiritually, because they own the underlying text of the KJV. In Hebrew and Greek.
They VPP men are seeing themselves get the grade A+, not B, not C, not D, not F, but a big A plus! The best of the best. The top follower of Jesus Christ. Like John, James, Peter, three of them where most beloved by Christ himself at the NT time.
So no ordinary KJV reader can compare with VPP men, they are proclaiming the Verbal Plenary Preservation, the VPP, the foundation of the KJV, they said they had found the treasure of KJV, totally kept perfectly in their hands, so they said they are the richest in spiritual term! I said they had hit the KJV jackpot.
Imagination can be exploded and becomes a doctrine ! It happened....on an VPP insland !
They VPP men are seeing themselves get the grade A+, not B, not C, not D, not F, but a big A plus! The best of the best. The top follower of Jesus Christ. Like John, James, Peter, three of them where most beloved by Christ himself at the NT time.
So no ordinary KJV reader can compare with VPP men, they are proclaiming the Verbal Plenary Preservation, the VPP, the foundation of the KJV, they said they had found the treasure of KJV, totally kept perfectly in their hands, so they said they are the richest in spiritual term! I said they had hit the KJV jackpot.
Imagination can be exploded and becomes a doctrine ! It happened....on an VPP insland !
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Poorest man on earth
When i think with my corrupted mind, my thought is not perfect, if my heart is not right with God, then how can I preach a right doctrine, how can i preach rightly? If my life is not right, how can I preach rightly? How can I write something good? My blog is a rubbish to me. In this corrupted mind, I still have this question arising, "Who are the poorest in our land?"
Instantly in my corruptible mind, the answer is "the native people," they were the "The Real owner of this land," they are called the mountain people, they are called the "jungle people," "Natives" They had been looked down by the developed ethnics like us. I heard their cries from the mountains, "where is their land...." They are the poorest in material among us...they have no land title, they have no prolong property, they have no big income, they have no much education opportunity, they are poorest in every factors.
Their land titles at the later time was shared and later taken over by other ethnic groups of people. And they claimed the land belong to them, and they ignored the "jungle people, the forgotten owner of this land." The natives becomes poorer and poorer.
Now, I said this silently, "This is my land, and on this land I called my country a country, and this land is shared so I called this land as my home, and in this sharing I called this a nation ! Here I stand, and there only is a small flag, under it, all must solute and respect, all must be protected equally, all treated as a people, a nation is a people. One country one people. A thousand is one people, one is a thousand, the people as one. We are one. Then there is unity. then there is prosperity, then there is progress, then there is a step in mankind.."
You can called whatever name you like about this land, I still say this is my land, my country, and I said again, my home, this is a SHARED LAND ! let all the people share the goodness and greatness of the land, let the land run with milk and honey, let us all kind of colored faces, called this land a "OUR PROMISED LAND."
A decade ago, some pirates had hijacked the country and the down fall of the country is seen not far away, they ruled the land with knives and forces, in greed and selfishness, there are imperialism and favoritism, and the land is taken over, by force, and the innocent blood had been shed, every one fight among ourselves until today. Surely the judge is at the door.
Which land I am referring to? "The KJV land."
My dear fellows, friends, and theologians, who are the poorest among us? We knew the natives in the jungles are poorest in material among us. But I meant who are the poorest in spiritual term ?
Jesus said, the poor has gospel preach to them, the gospel is for the poor. Who are poor? In the Bible, the poor is referred to the spiritual poverty. These poor fellow are those who do not self contend and self content. The sinner ! The Bible said there is no one righteous, there is not one doing good. Every one is called "the poor sinner" in the Bible.
There is not mentioned at all in the Bible, such as the group ethnic called themselves as "The KJV rich men." Do you find any of this KJV rich man in the Bible ? No !
But some wanted to call themselves as "The KJV richest men"
Who are these KJV rich men, these are the men who sees themselves richer then other, because they own the KJV ! They read the KJV, they proclaimed the KJV ! They promote the King James Bible. They sees themselves richer than other spiritually. Richer than the NIV readers, richer than CUV readers, richer than the NKJV readers, richer than the ESV readers, richer than the all the people in the whole world spiritually. I try to expound their doctrine.
They live in the KJV land, they called themselves as the KJV richest men, other Bible readers cannot compared with them!
The NIV readers are taken, and compared with them, the KJV rich men said the NIV readers are the jungle people, their Bible has no taste at all. Low standard. They are the grade B people. The KJV rich men said, poor thing, poor thing, some thing!
And CUV readers are taken too, and compared with them, the KJV rich men said the CUV readers are also mountain people, they are the grade C people. The KJV rich men said, poor Chinese, poor Chinese, are you hungry, you natives. Do not play play with KJV !
And NKJV readers are taken to compare with KJV rich men, and the KJV rich men said, this is absolutely "monkey people." Lower standard, the grade D people. The KJV rich men said, poor fellow, poor fellow, why you taken my name, New KJV.
And so the TEV, ESV and many other readers are taken and compared with the KJV rich men, all are downgraded to nothing. That is why they are the richest KJV men. We are poorer compared with them. The KJV rich men said they are the grade A people in heaven. But the charismatics rich men also claim they are the grade A people in heaven..both also fight, fight, pulling hair...punching one and another. You can see what i mean when you attend their seminar, their classes, their publication. I hope the KJV rich men and charismatics rich men can give thanks to God.
My dear, you see, eggs, are graded into, A, B, C, D.. according to the size...Imagine, that our people, the Christians are grading ourselves into grade like an egg. Wonderful A, poor thing B, poor fellow C, poorest lower D! Do we the Christian has this chaste system, yes, we have this chaste system.
I see myself, as a grade F people, mine grade is "a failure," F. I rather take the poorest grade, poorest among the natives. We are pitiful than the natives people, we are the poorest among all the whole world. If Christ did not resurrected from the death, we are the poorest on earth, let it be true!
1 Cor 15:19
"If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable." Amen.
Thank God for Christ is living and resurrected for us.
Who is the most miserable among us?
We are not hopeless
Up to this hour, up to this moment, I see great evil in me, in mankind and in the world, and there is no hope at all in me, there is no hope at all under the sun, because we are living under the sins.
Blinded from the glory of God, and there is time, that His little light shine on me, stronger and stronger, the light, and I can feel His light, in this darkest hour in our lives and in this weakest moment in our world, His light is a courage to lift me up, to live on another day.
There is no hope at all under the sun, accept one, hope in the Son of God, the hope is in Jesus Christ. There is no goodness, there is no hope, only in Jesus, we find our goodness and hopes.
I have a dream, for tomorrow, that my land be changed into a better land, and the land is prepared to bear a stronger nation, where racist and poverty be no more, and the blockage of unity is broken, and the people rejoice in the Lord. Let us hope in Jesus Christ, for He is our only Hope. And let us prepare a way for Him to return...There is hope in Jesus Christ, there is still hope up to this hour, this moment, in me, in us, there is hope from above, not from this world, not from under, but from heaven, hope we can find in Jesus Christ.
Amen.
P.s.
Thank God, for we are not hopeless !
Blinded from the glory of God, and there is time, that His little light shine on me, stronger and stronger, the light, and I can feel His light, in this darkest hour in our lives and in this weakest moment in our world, His light is a courage to lift me up, to live on another day.
There is no hope at all under the sun, accept one, hope in the Son of God, the hope is in Jesus Christ. There is no goodness, there is no hope, only in Jesus, we find our goodness and hopes.
I have a dream, for tomorrow, that my land be changed into a better land, and the land is prepared to bear a stronger nation, where racist and poverty be no more, and the blockage of unity is broken, and the people rejoice in the Lord. Let us hope in Jesus Christ, for He is our only Hope. And let us prepare a way for Him to return...There is hope in Jesus Christ, there is still hope up to this hour, this moment, in me, in us, there is hope from above, not from this world, not from under, but from heaven, hope we can find in Jesus Christ.
Amen.
P.s.
Thank God, for we are not hopeless !
The angel of fire is not God
Our enemies do not worship God the Almighty, they did not worship Our Father in Heaven, but they worship an angel,
they worship an angel of fire, the angel is full with fire, with purple fire, with purple light from it.
So when the angel comes to show itself to me, I pray to God,
Almighty God heavenly Father, please pour down water to cover the fire on angel, put off the fire on the angel, switch off its power and fire, stop its light. May God sweep over the angel with your mighty waves, and flood this angel with Your great waters. In Jesus' Name, I prayed. Amen.
A year ago, in my mind, I saw a great statue of idol in the sky, a white stony idol, with a man face and man figure, standing in the sky, and I pray to God, after many prayers, months after months, until the great statue was broken into pieces, by the force of Jesus Christ. The idol was broken in my mind! May God break the evil force that attacking us.
May God grant us peace and mercy, and grace. Thank God, that I can still have breath to write this blog, I hope someone may read this blog, and be reminded that the Christians are living in a spiritual warfare, and that only God is our constant help, there is no help at all from men and women, accept God, there is no one can help us, when we are alone, but we are not alone totally, we have God our constant helper.
When my life fly away like a bird from this world, I will chant that God is our Helper, and God is our Healer, Jahweh Rapha, God is our healer.
Our land in under a charm, under a deep sleep, a dark force covering the whole land, with my bare hands, I cannot do any thing, accept cries and prayers to God, may God fight them, if you are reading this blog, please pray for our land.
Let the angels and idols be broken and defeated in our mind !
Let the light of God shine upon us.
Amen, Amen, Amen !
they worship an angel of fire, the angel is full with fire, with purple fire, with purple light from it.
So when the angel comes to show itself to me, I pray to God,
Almighty God heavenly Father, please pour down water to cover the fire on angel, put off the fire on the angel, switch off its power and fire, stop its light. May God sweep over the angel with your mighty waves, and flood this angel with Your great waters. In Jesus' Name, I prayed. Amen.
A year ago, in my mind, I saw a great statue of idol in the sky, a white stony idol, with a man face and man figure, standing in the sky, and I pray to God, after many prayers, months after months, until the great statue was broken into pieces, by the force of Jesus Christ. The idol was broken in my mind! May God break the evil force that attacking us.
May God grant us peace and mercy, and grace. Thank God, that I can still have breath to write this blog, I hope someone may read this blog, and be reminded that the Christians are living in a spiritual warfare, and that only God is our constant help, there is no help at all from men and women, accept God, there is no one can help us, when we are alone, but we are not alone totally, we have God our constant helper.
When my life fly away like a bird from this world, I will chant that God is our Helper, and God is our Healer, Jahweh Rapha, God is our healer.
Our land in under a charm, under a deep sleep, a dark force covering the whole land, with my bare hands, I cannot do any thing, accept cries and prayers to God, may God fight them, if you are reading this blog, please pray for our land.
Let the angels and idols be broken and defeated in our mind !
Let the light of God shine upon us.
Amen, Amen, Amen !
Time is near for you to pay
I pay for my water bills,
I pay for my electric bills,
I pay for my food,
I pay for my clothes,
I must pay everything...
You paid your bills..
He paid his bills,
She paid her bills...
You must pay everything....
Who paid for my sins?
Did I pay any thing for my sins?
Did you pay any thing for your sins?
No, nothing we can paid for our sins..
Who paid for our sins?
The Lamb of God paid for our sins,
He died on the cross in paying the debts of our sins,
The Lamb of God takes away the sins of the world !
He ransomed us from our sins,
He freed us from the bondage of sins,
He gave us freedom, and so He freed us from our sins...
Nothing we can do for our sins,
What is done, is done,
Our sins will be forever with us..
Unless, we let Jesus takes our sins away from us,
So let Jesus takes our sins away from us, today..
Before it is too late...
Who paid our bills, you and I,
Who paid our sins? Who?
Jesus Christ paid all for us, He shed his blood in ransoming us,
He is willing to forgive us,and God will forgive you,
He paid with a price, Jesus redeems us from our sins...
If today, harden not your heart, to listen God's order,
He orders you to receive Christ' redemption,
come, receive the forgiveness of God...before it is too late...
You better don't say, you want to pay for your sins !
If so, you will pay for your sins...
God's has His time, then that day you will pay for everything you done...
What profit is to you, even you gain the whole world,
but you lost your own soul on that last day?
That day, you have nothing to pay for !
because, you have nothing left for you !
Think about this, today...
Seek God, if today still has time for you to seek Him..
He is near to you, very near to you !
I pay for my electric bills,
I pay for my food,
I pay for my clothes,
I must pay everything...
You paid your bills..
He paid his bills,
She paid her bills...
You must pay everything....
Who paid for my sins?
Did I pay any thing for my sins?
Did you pay any thing for your sins?
No, nothing we can paid for our sins..
Who paid for our sins?
The Lamb of God paid for our sins,
He died on the cross in paying the debts of our sins,
The Lamb of God takes away the sins of the world !
He ransomed us from our sins,
He freed us from the bondage of sins,
He gave us freedom, and so He freed us from our sins...
Nothing we can do for our sins,
What is done, is done,
Our sins will be forever with us..
Unless, we let Jesus takes our sins away from us,
So let Jesus takes our sins away from us, today..
Before it is too late...
Who paid our bills, you and I,
Who paid our sins? Who?
Jesus Christ paid all for us, He shed his blood in ransoming us,
He is willing to forgive us,and God will forgive you,
He paid with a price, Jesus redeems us from our sins...
If today, harden not your heart, to listen God's order,
He orders you to receive Christ' redemption,
come, receive the forgiveness of God...before it is too late...
You better don't say, you want to pay for your sins !
If so, you will pay for your sins...
God's has His time, then that day you will pay for everything you done...
What profit is to you, even you gain the whole world,
but you lost your own soul on that last day?
That day, you have nothing to pay for !
because, you have nothing left for you !
Think about this, today...
Seek God, if today still has time for you to seek Him..
He is near to you, very near to you !
Sunday, 22 March 2009
Psunami
The enemies in a governing body wanted to turn over me. How to turn over me? They knew i had kept a young sheep, and they stole it from me, to let me down. They knew i had kept 14 lambs, and they wanted to steal them from me, to put me into a corner, and hammer me. They knew i am poor and weak, they still wanted to hurt and harm me.
They wanted to turn over me with so many devices and plans.
They wanted to turn over me to be a crazy and mad guy. THEY TORTURED US MENTALLY DAY AND NIGHT.....I am helpless, and down to dung and pit hole. This is not the end yet..
I pray to my God, and He promised me, that He will turn over my enemies. THERE IS NO TURNING BACK, may GOD COME TO THIS LAND, AND TURN OVER THE ENEMIES, LET GOD PREVAIL, LET ADONAI PREVAIL, AMEN.
May God forgive me, this sinful creature! The whole country must be turned over! In Jesus' Name I prayed.
My dear, our enemies are strong, but God is stronger than them,
do not let them turn you over from our faith and love in God and man. Let us lay down like those reformers, God had done nothing wrong to us, let us be faithful to Him.
DO NOT LET THE THEOLOGIANS TURN YOU OVER,
TO BELIEVE IN THEIR DOCTRINE OF VERBAL PLENARY PRESERVATION,
Let us turn them over, let God turn them over.
The ending is real, and you will see, the B-P churches will be split into 2 and a half.
There is another psunami coming forward, this time the psunami of the governing bodies in third world country. These countries must be cleansed, and a newer generation will arise to turn over the older.
To prepare the end of the world, I pray to God, let it be true. Amen.
They wanted to turn over me with so many devices and plans.
They wanted to turn over me to be a crazy and mad guy. THEY TORTURED US MENTALLY DAY AND NIGHT.....I am helpless, and down to dung and pit hole. This is not the end yet..
I pray to my God, and He promised me, that He will turn over my enemies. THERE IS NO TURNING BACK, may GOD COME TO THIS LAND, AND TURN OVER THE ENEMIES, LET GOD PREVAIL, LET ADONAI PREVAIL, AMEN.
May God forgive me, this sinful creature! The whole country must be turned over! In Jesus' Name I prayed.
My dear, our enemies are strong, but God is stronger than them,
do not let them turn you over from our faith and love in God and man. Let us lay down like those reformers, God had done nothing wrong to us, let us be faithful to Him.
DO NOT LET THE THEOLOGIANS TURN YOU OVER,
TO BELIEVE IN THEIR DOCTRINE OF VERBAL PLENARY PRESERVATION,
Let us turn them over, let God turn them over.
The ending is real, and you will see, the B-P churches will be split into 2 and a half.
There is another psunami coming forward, this time the psunami of the governing bodies in third world country. These countries must be cleansed, and a newer generation will arise to turn over the older.
To prepare the end of the world, I pray to God, let it be true. Amen.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
The lights are switched off...
There is another great evil under the heaven, and this time the Charismatics pastors, and I see them. May God help us.
The Charismatic pastors were united to fight the fundamentalist, even thought they say publicly, they are Christian like the fundamentalist, because, innerly, on the other hand, they felt the fundamentalists who practise the Separatist stand is actually a cult.
So they had many devices and plans to attack the fundamentalists. One day they send a pastor to invite the fundamentalist to serve in a ministry. The fundamentalist joined them, after many invitations, but the Charismatics dislike the fundamentalist, actually they are playing a fool on him. Let me tell you how they play the fool, time frame is a year.
One night, the fundamentalist was invited for the first committee meeting, to discuss the work in that ministry. The Charismatics pastor invited all the committee members together at his church. That night, he purposely turned off all the lights in front of his church, like others, the fundamentalist parked his car in front the church.
After the meeting, the fundamentalist went home, but the car manoeuvre in a strange way, the front wheels are not align, the car keep running to the the right, the fundamentalist spent some money to repair his car. He still does not know what happened to his car.
After few months, at the next committee meeting, the fundamentalist find the same thing happened to his car. he had to repair his car again. So he felt something is wrong. Few weeks after that meeting, he drove his car to the Charismatics Church to see the surrounding, and he saw that all the lights were switched on. All those meeting he joined, all the lights were off, the place he parked his car, was no light at all, but all the while, there were lights. Daily, they switch them on at night. They purposely switched off the light when the fundamentalist came to the church! Why? What they were doing to his car?
The fundamentalist continue to serve with the Charismatics pastors, every time, the committee meeting, he parked his car in front the Charismatic Church, the parking place was very dark. Few days later, he had to repair his car again, something is fishy, he started to realise, he was played a fool by the Charismatics pastors and his committee. He was very sad, but he persevered, until 5th times he repaired his car. At last the fundamentalist, stopped from going to serve in that ministry, since then his car has no those problems any longer. The fundamentalist saved more money, rather than repairing his car, now he has more money to buy food for his children. Why border with those charismatics pastors and their ministry.
Almighty God, the heavenly father, so many Charismatics pastors on earth, most of the time, they will not say they dislike the fundamentalist, in in front of the fundamentalist. But they will tell the fundamentalist in another way, such a cruel and inhuman way.
If you are a charismatic pastor, why you treated the fundamentalist like that, you may have your reason, what they had done to you, until they force you to react like that to them? The war is in Christianity, this is such an evil, I haven't seen on earth before. Christianity has a long way to go, before they can live in peace with one another! Only God can answer us, when it is, when we can sit together in peace, maybe, when we meet Him in heaven.
Let God speak to the Charismatics....
What about the fundamentalist?
The fundamentalist is fighting among themselves over a Bible!
First, The King James Version. They thought they can be at peace. No!
But what happened to KJV readers?
The KJV reader figth with the KJV readers, silly, over a few mistake in the translation. Hair split, church split!
There come, the heroes, and the enemies, over the Verbal Plenary Preservation,
with the banner of "VPP," they invade the Bible Presbyterian Churches,
Fight, over a few perfect TR, fight, over a few better MSS,
Fight, fight, fight, until split! This too, not enough! Fight, again,
KJV cannot unites the fundamentalist! :(
The KJV readers fight, their theologians said, "on," the pastors said "on," the elders said, "on..." together they said, "FIGHT IS RIGHT..." fight...
Then, this KJV is not enough in the fighting,
one Bible, is not enough, for the fighting, to continue, they need more players,
The next Bible, get involved is the NIV,
The KJV readers are fighting with the NIV readers over a few missing words.
Fight, fight, fight...no end,
After this fight, this is too, not end yet,
The KJV readers fight again, fight, fight, fight, every day, the fighting is on,
Next, the CUV is involved, no end...consuming...
The CUV readers are fighting with the KJV readers over a few clauses in the Church constitution. They split...fighting is on, fight,
This fighting becomes bigger and bigger, fight, fight, fight some more, some more,
so the KJV readers continue to fight,
next, the ESV also involved into the fight,
The ESV readers are fighting with the KJV reader over a few mistakes in the translation.
The fighting is never end,
even in the circle of fundamentalism.
One Bible cannot unite the fundamentalist, KJV failed to unite them,
Two Bibles also cannot unite the fundamentalist, NIV also failed to unite them,
Three Bibles also cannot unite the fundamentalist, CUV too failed to unite them
Four Bibles also cannot unite the fundamentalist..NKJV also failed to unite them,
How many Bible do we need to unite the fundamentalist?
Ask the KJV readers, which Bible can unite the fundamentalist? None!
The fundamentalist have an interior complexity like me, they had the VPP problem.
Figting cannot unite the fundamentalist! Agree?
They thought no one see and hear the fighting over the Bible, in their house,..since they had turned the light off... but we heard and see it loud and clear!
How many times we need to repair our car, until we broke?
How many times we have to repair our relationship with God?
How many times we have to tell ourselves, too many fighting is not good!
The Charismatic pastors were united to fight the fundamentalist, even thought they say publicly, they are Christian like the fundamentalist, because, innerly, on the other hand, they felt the fundamentalists who practise the Separatist stand is actually a cult.
So they had many devices and plans to attack the fundamentalists. One day they send a pastor to invite the fundamentalist to serve in a ministry. The fundamentalist joined them, after many invitations, but the Charismatics dislike the fundamentalist, actually they are playing a fool on him. Let me tell you how they play the fool, time frame is a year.
One night, the fundamentalist was invited for the first committee meeting, to discuss the work in that ministry. The Charismatics pastor invited all the committee members together at his church. That night, he purposely turned off all the lights in front of his church, like others, the fundamentalist parked his car in front the church.
After the meeting, the fundamentalist went home, but the car manoeuvre in a strange way, the front wheels are not align, the car keep running to the the right, the fundamentalist spent some money to repair his car. He still does not know what happened to his car.
After few months, at the next committee meeting, the fundamentalist find the same thing happened to his car. he had to repair his car again. So he felt something is wrong. Few weeks after that meeting, he drove his car to the Charismatics Church to see the surrounding, and he saw that all the lights were switched on. All those meeting he joined, all the lights were off, the place he parked his car, was no light at all, but all the while, there were lights. Daily, they switch them on at night. They purposely switched off the light when the fundamentalist came to the church! Why? What they were doing to his car?
The fundamentalist continue to serve with the Charismatics pastors, every time, the committee meeting, he parked his car in front the Charismatic Church, the parking place was very dark. Few days later, he had to repair his car again, something is fishy, he started to realise, he was played a fool by the Charismatics pastors and his committee. He was very sad, but he persevered, until 5th times he repaired his car. At last the fundamentalist, stopped from going to serve in that ministry, since then his car has no those problems any longer. The fundamentalist saved more money, rather than repairing his car, now he has more money to buy food for his children. Why border with those charismatics pastors and their ministry.
Almighty God, the heavenly father, so many Charismatics pastors on earth, most of the time, they will not say they dislike the fundamentalist, in in front of the fundamentalist. But they will tell the fundamentalist in another way, such a cruel and inhuman way.
If you are a charismatic pastor, why you treated the fundamentalist like that, you may have your reason, what they had done to you, until they force you to react like that to them? The war is in Christianity, this is such an evil, I haven't seen on earth before. Christianity has a long way to go, before they can live in peace with one another! Only God can answer us, when it is, when we can sit together in peace, maybe, when we meet Him in heaven.
Let God speak to the Charismatics....
What about the fundamentalist?
The fundamentalist is fighting among themselves over a Bible!
First, The King James Version. They thought they can be at peace. No!
But what happened to KJV readers?
The KJV reader figth with the KJV readers, silly, over a few mistake in the translation. Hair split, church split!
There come, the heroes, and the enemies, over the Verbal Plenary Preservation,
with the banner of "VPP," they invade the Bible Presbyterian Churches,
Fight, over a few perfect TR, fight, over a few better MSS,
Fight, fight, fight, until split! This too, not enough! Fight, again,
KJV cannot unites the fundamentalist! :(
The KJV readers fight, their theologians said, "on," the pastors said "on," the elders said, "on..." together they said, "FIGHT IS RIGHT..." fight...
Then, this KJV is not enough in the fighting,
one Bible, is not enough, for the fighting, to continue, they need more players,
The next Bible, get involved is the NIV,
The KJV readers are fighting with the NIV readers over a few missing words.
Fight, fight, fight...no end,
After this fight, this is too, not end yet,
The KJV readers fight again, fight, fight, fight, every day, the fighting is on,
Next, the CUV is involved, no end...consuming...
The CUV readers are fighting with the KJV readers over a few clauses in the Church constitution. They split...fighting is on, fight,
This fighting becomes bigger and bigger, fight, fight, fight some more, some more,
so the KJV readers continue to fight,
next, the ESV also involved into the fight,
The ESV readers are fighting with the KJV reader over a few mistakes in the translation.
The fighting is never end,
even in the circle of fundamentalism.
One Bible cannot unite the fundamentalist, KJV failed to unite them,
Two Bibles also cannot unite the fundamentalist, NIV also failed to unite them,
Three Bibles also cannot unite the fundamentalist, CUV too failed to unite them
Four Bibles also cannot unite the fundamentalist..NKJV also failed to unite them,
How many Bible do we need to unite the fundamentalist?
Ask the KJV readers, which Bible can unite the fundamentalist? None!
The fundamentalist have an interior complexity like me, they had the VPP problem.
Figting cannot unite the fundamentalist! Agree?
They thought no one see and hear the fighting over the Bible, in their house,..since they had turned the light off... but we heard and see it loud and clear!
How many times we need to repair our car, until we broke?
How many times we have to repair our relationship with God?
How many times we have to tell ourselves, too many fighting is not good!
Policy Man
There is another great evil under the heaven, the policemen and I see them, may God help them.
When I was young, I used to play at a railway station nearby, happily watching the trains went and fro. And there, came two policemen in grey uniforms, with their bicycles. And they stopped at the station, they walked around. They kept the town safer for us. I noticed in those days, more policemen were on patrol, with bicycles and by wakings.
Most of them were carrying 0.38 pistol with a few bullets. Their salary was not much, but they give us, a kind of protections and security. They are the guardians on this land. We saluted them in our hearts. Whenever i met them, i will keep my eyes on those pistols, the darken metallic one, looked real and solid, the policemen came with powers.
Now a day, the policemen come with bigger cars, with sun glasses, and with bigger shot gun and rifles. But this time, they are changed, there are some racist policemen amidst, and they are catching the robbers and thieves according to their skin colour. They will close their eyes, if they are paid enough, bribery is a norm to a policeman. I think their salary is still not enough for their own survival? How are they going to protect the country? How are they going to catch those criminals?
So, we see greater evil and increasing crime rate in the land? Why? Where are those policemen with bicycles, if they cycle around the town, around the clock, it is better than driving around. It is better for them to go patrolling, combing the town slowly, with bicycles. We need more policemen like those days, with bicycles and smaller shot guns. They wore thinner uniforms under the sun, easier for them to move around.
God, you know who are those faithful policemen, protect them and increase their salary, so that they will not take in any bride, not any more. Please protect the land and may the racism and its evil be stopped according to God's will.
There are rumours of wars at the end time! We have responsibility to protect ourselves, and our country! Arise! Lets us buy a bicycle, for we love the country, and comb the town ourselves, be a volunteer for the country, keep watching with the policemen.
Sometimes, i do patrolling at my neigborhood, carrying a long stick like Gandhi. India was walked and comb by Ghandhi himself. I am not a Ghandhi to my country. I just pretending to love my country. At those patrollings, they thought I was a thief walking by night! Some of them even thought there was something, went wrong with my mind!
I hope I can walk for Jesus....
Monday, 16 March 2009
scorpion
Scorpion is a venomous insect. I caught a big one at a mini zoo, as big as my palm, I dare not to keep it, because it comes with a sting at its tail.
A group of singer called themselves, "Scorpion," and cars owner sometime put on sticker of "a scorpion" on their cars; It is well mentioned in the Old Testament and New Testament, in Ezekiel 2:6
"And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or terrified by them, though they are a rebellious house."
And then in the New Testament, Luke 10:19
"I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you." Jesus Christ said this to his disciples.
Luke 11:12
Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
But at the end times....we must not forget scorpions!
Revelation 9:5, They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
Scorpion, nearly every week I see it ....
Multiply and barren
There are 2 pastors in a small town, each of them have
8sons and daugthers. Why they raise a big family like that?
They told the congregation why, that according to the Bible, God wanted human to multiply on earth...so both pastors bear many sons and daugthers, to increase the number of Christians on earth...the pastors qouted Genesis 9:7, "As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."
But then in another place, at the later time, in New Testament, the Bible say in...Luke 23:29
"For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!"
Galatians 4:27
For it is written: "Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."
Whenever I see them, I will think about the number of children, I will also keep on thinking about these few verses in the Bible.
Wondering...wondering..wondering...the pastors' application...how to increase the number of Christians on earth..
8sons and daugthers. Why they raise a big family like that?
They told the congregation why, that according to the Bible, God wanted human to multiply on earth...so both pastors bear many sons and daugthers, to increase the number of Christians on earth...the pastors qouted Genesis 9:7, "As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it."
But then in another place, at the later time, in New Testament, the Bible say in...Luke 23:29
"For the time will come when you will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!"
Galatians 4:27
For it is written: "Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband."
Whenever I see them, I will think about the number of children, I will also keep on thinking about these few verses in the Bible.
Wondering...wondering..wondering...the pastors' application...how to increase the number of Christians on earth..
The Old Machine is started
A South Korean friend was leaving the country, so he sold his Mercedes Benz to the local, a "Masterpiece," very cheap, it is about 20,000 bucks. The car was a nice looking and comfortable, prestige and well build car. I liked it in black.
But the Mercedes Benz has a bigger engine capacity, so it's road taxes and insurance are higher than a smaller capacity vehicle. I rather buy a smaller, low powered car, than this bigger, gasoline consuming car. We know Mercedes is still a good car for some rich men.
But compared with Mercedes Benz, the local made, "VPP" car is not so good, because it has a huge engine, broom, broom, broom, with a lower energy output. This is not economical for us. Rather I stick to my home made CUV, than pursuing a bigger name tag, with a higher cost of keeping the VPP. Headache ?
Stop buying this kind of huge car, like the "VPP!"
Buy a smaller car like the "CUV".....in stead!
But the Mercedes Benz has a bigger engine capacity, so it's road taxes and insurance are higher than a smaller capacity vehicle. I rather buy a smaller, low powered car, than this bigger, gasoline consuming car. We know Mercedes is still a good car for some rich men.
But compared with Mercedes Benz, the local made, "VPP" car is not so good, because it has a huge engine, broom, broom, broom, with a lower energy output. This is not economical for us. Rather I stick to my home made CUV, than pursuing a bigger name tag, with a higher cost of keeping the VPP. Headache ?
Stop buying this kind of huge car, like the "VPP!"
Buy a smaller car like the "CUV".....in stead!
The wicked teachers
I see there is another great evil under the heaven, there are teachers who are racist and money minded, they treated their students according to their skin colour. Yellow, brown and black....They, in fact, do not like to teach at all, let me explain like this...
These coloured face racist teachers, usually do not go into their classes to teach, they skip classes, for they wanted to venture into their own window shoppings, home carvings, eatings, meetings, chit chatings and time wasting with many excuses.
In the classes, the students are left behind without the teacher. These teachers at the end of the month, will open their mouths, food will be slapped into their mouths, and money being put into their pockets, and they will smile with a greedy face. These teachers are a kind of money minded and at the same time also racist, this is great evil done under the flag of education. They induced hates and racism into these students.
The students are oppressed like these day in day out, so much so, to follow up the courses, the study and the syllabus, their parents have to pay money to bring them, the students to tuition's classes. Great evil done by these wicked teachers, time is near, that I see the fallen angels being punished for their wrong doings, that the share holders will throw away their shares, until the share composite index to be cut into half, so that they will repent from these wickedness.
One day, one of them, the wicked one, a racist headmaster is being tested, some one asked him about the poor result in the examination, and the wicked headmaster told us, "The student's poor result is nothing to do with the teacher's absent in the classes..." This saying is a strong sign of their wickedness, they are deeply indulged in their evil and blinded ways, but they still say they had the truth in their hands, they never regret a bit for what they done to the students. Something will be changed, the world system will be changed, and the education evil must be dealed with.
This time the teachers, the headmasters will be caned publicly. How long these wicked and lazy teachers will wake up and be stopped from murdering the students?
About the VPP teachers, I hope they will not skip classes, continue to teach right doctrines, rather I hope they will skip the VPP lessons in their syallbus, and not to teach the Verbal Plenary Preservation any longer. Do not corner their students. Let the students learn what they should learned. Why induced hates into their young hearts? Who will be blamed, when fundamentalists failed to attract followers?
And I pray that the students will skip those VPP classes, and absent from these VPP classes, rather let them venture into Orchard Roads, there are some clowns waiting and dancing like me at the end of the road! Lets go out and see for yourself...who is the actual clown in town!
These coloured face racist teachers, usually do not go into their classes to teach, they skip classes, for they wanted to venture into their own window shoppings, home carvings, eatings, meetings, chit chatings and time wasting with many excuses.
In the classes, the students are left behind without the teacher. These teachers at the end of the month, will open their mouths, food will be slapped into their mouths, and money being put into their pockets, and they will smile with a greedy face. These teachers are a kind of money minded and at the same time also racist, this is great evil done under the flag of education. They induced hates and racism into these students.
The students are oppressed like these day in day out, so much so, to follow up the courses, the study and the syllabus, their parents have to pay money to bring them, the students to tuition's classes. Great evil done by these wicked teachers, time is near, that I see the fallen angels being punished for their wrong doings, that the share holders will throw away their shares, until the share composite index to be cut into half, so that they will repent from these wickedness.
One day, one of them, the wicked one, a racist headmaster is being tested, some one asked him about the poor result in the examination, and the wicked headmaster told us, "The student's poor result is nothing to do with the teacher's absent in the classes..." This saying is a strong sign of their wickedness, they are deeply indulged in their evil and blinded ways, but they still say they had the truth in their hands, they never regret a bit for what they done to the students. Something will be changed, the world system will be changed, and the education evil must be dealed with.
This time the teachers, the headmasters will be caned publicly. How long these wicked and lazy teachers will wake up and be stopped from murdering the students?
About the VPP teachers, I hope they will not skip classes, continue to teach right doctrines, rather I hope they will skip the VPP lessons in their syallbus, and not to teach the Verbal Plenary Preservation any longer. Do not corner their students. Let the students learn what they should learned. Why induced hates into their young hearts? Who will be blamed, when fundamentalists failed to attract followers?
And I pray that the students will skip those VPP classes, and absent from these VPP classes, rather let them venture into Orchard Roads, there are some clowns waiting and dancing like me at the end of the road! Lets go out and see for yourself...who is the actual clown in town!
Friday, 13 March 2009
Methodist and the Word of God
TRAC President's Message (December 2008)
THE ESSENTIAL MELT-DOWN
If there is one thing that we must learn from the current meltdown in the financial markets, and a shaking of the world’s economy, is that we cannot trust the various systems of this world. Our trust must be in our God. It is ironic that the starting point of this turmoil started in a country where the dollar note states “In God We Trust.” Yet that is exactly what we did not do. Instead we have placed our faith in money, and man’s ability (or rather clearly revealed now, his inability) to manage it.
A ‘melt-down” is probably the most accurate word to use. Before we can get pure gold, the ore has to be melted down in liquid form, and from this we will be able to extract a very refined state of the element. Our trust in the world’s system has melted down, and it is the correct time for us now to extract from this situation the pure kind of realities we need in order to overcome.
In the light of eternity, our money and material wealth are worth nothing, and cannot be carried forward into our future. Most of us know this for a fact. Yet, when it comes to living day by day, our worldview is framed by what we see in this world and what we work with in this world, even though we know that they will not last for eternity. We become dependent and in a large way have placed our trust in money in order to survive, even though we say we trust God.
What will last in eternity are the things of God, especially the Word of God. The Living Word of God is God Himself. In communicating to us, this Living Word comes to us in the written Word. God has allowed Himself to be understood in the written words of Holy Scripture. However, these written words are not to be understood only as coloured words printed on a white sheet of paper. Neither is it to be understood only as English, or any other human language. The Word, in written words, is more than just what we see on the pages of the Bible. They commit to us the very truth of God. The words in the Word are the truths of God, truths that last for eternity. When we believe these truths, we receive eternity into our lives.
For us to arise out of the ashes of the crumbling world systems, we must construct our lives now with these eternal elements of God’s truth. They are not tangible to our physical senses, but they are eternal realities just as cash is what we can feel when we rub them between our fingers. The truths of God are real, not imaginary. They are not simply even thoughts or ideas we have conceived in our minds. They are spiritual realities. They are the very substance that make up and shape our eternal destiny. When our bodies turn to ashes and all our cash as well, what remain of us are the eternal realities that we have received into our lives.
Hence, if our financial stockpile has vanished, what will see us through is the truth of God that says, “I will open the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessings that there will not be enough room to receive it” (paraphrasing Malachi 3:10). The blessings that we will receive from this heavenly storehouse will come to us as tangible earthly substance we can use here in this material world. Yet the source of where it came from is eternal spiritual heaven. Heavenly realities were transformed to produce material that we can need here on earth. But for that to happen, we must meet the terms and conditions of that written word in Holy Scripture to “bring all the tithes in the storehouse (of God) that there may be food in My house” (Malachi 3:10, italics mine).
God’s eternal word is that we must trust. That word is what will see us through. That word is recession proof, unchangeable, and it is activated by our faith in it.
This Advent season is a reminder to us of how God did just that more than two thousand years ago. The Christ Child came into this world in a similar process. The baby (earthly being) was conceived when the Holy Spirit (eternal reality) came upon the virgin, through the eternal Word (another eternal reality) announced by Gabriel, and received in faith and submission by Mary (Luke 1:26-38).
It pays eternal dividends to know God’s Word, and receive it by faith.
Have a very blessed Christmas, and may all the eternal realities that the Christ Child came to bring on earth, be yours to enjoy as well.
Shalom
Rev Dr Wee Boon Hup
TRINITY ANNUAL CONFERENCE (TRAC) SINGAPORE
copied from http://www.trac-mcs.org.sg/index.cfm?GPID=61
THE ESSENTIAL MELT-DOWN
If there is one thing that we must learn from the current meltdown in the financial markets, and a shaking of the world’s economy, is that we cannot trust the various systems of this world. Our trust must be in our God. It is ironic that the starting point of this turmoil started in a country where the dollar note states “In God We Trust.” Yet that is exactly what we did not do. Instead we have placed our faith in money, and man’s ability (or rather clearly revealed now, his inability) to manage it.
A ‘melt-down” is probably the most accurate word to use. Before we can get pure gold, the ore has to be melted down in liquid form, and from this we will be able to extract a very refined state of the element. Our trust in the world’s system has melted down, and it is the correct time for us now to extract from this situation the pure kind of realities we need in order to overcome.
In the light of eternity, our money and material wealth are worth nothing, and cannot be carried forward into our future. Most of us know this for a fact. Yet, when it comes to living day by day, our worldview is framed by what we see in this world and what we work with in this world, even though we know that they will not last for eternity. We become dependent and in a large way have placed our trust in money in order to survive, even though we say we trust God.
What will last in eternity are the things of God, especially the Word of God. The Living Word of God is God Himself. In communicating to us, this Living Word comes to us in the written Word. God has allowed Himself to be understood in the written words of Holy Scripture. However, these written words are not to be understood only as coloured words printed on a white sheet of paper. Neither is it to be understood only as English, or any other human language. The Word, in written words, is more than just what we see on the pages of the Bible. They commit to us the very truth of God. The words in the Word are the truths of God, truths that last for eternity. When we believe these truths, we receive eternity into our lives.
For us to arise out of the ashes of the crumbling world systems, we must construct our lives now with these eternal elements of God’s truth. They are not tangible to our physical senses, but they are eternal realities just as cash is what we can feel when we rub them between our fingers. The truths of God are real, not imaginary. They are not simply even thoughts or ideas we have conceived in our minds. They are spiritual realities. They are the very substance that make up and shape our eternal destiny. When our bodies turn to ashes and all our cash as well, what remain of us are the eternal realities that we have received into our lives.
Hence, if our financial stockpile has vanished, what will see us through is the truth of God that says, “I will open the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessings that there will not be enough room to receive it” (paraphrasing Malachi 3:10). The blessings that we will receive from this heavenly storehouse will come to us as tangible earthly substance we can use here in this material world. Yet the source of where it came from is eternal spiritual heaven. Heavenly realities were transformed to produce material that we can need here on earth. But for that to happen, we must meet the terms and conditions of that written word in Holy Scripture to “bring all the tithes in the storehouse (of God) that there may be food in My house” (Malachi 3:10, italics mine).
God’s eternal word is that we must trust. That word is what will see us through. That word is recession proof, unchangeable, and it is activated by our faith in it.
This Advent season is a reminder to us of how God did just that more than two thousand years ago. The Christ Child came into this world in a similar process. The baby (earthly being) was conceived when the Holy Spirit (eternal reality) came upon the virgin, through the eternal Word (another eternal reality) announced by Gabriel, and received in faith and submission by Mary (Luke 1:26-38).
It pays eternal dividends to know God’s Word, and receive it by faith.
Have a very blessed Christmas, and may all the eternal realities that the Christ Child came to bring on earth, be yours to enjoy as well.
Shalom
Rev Dr Wee Boon Hup
TRINITY ANNUAL CONFERENCE (TRAC) SINGAPORE
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Thursday, 12 March 2009
Revelation Chapter 2, the Ephesus with VPP
2:1, Ephesus was a big sea port, it was a business and religious center. Paul founded a church there. There was a pagan Goddess and her temple in Ephesus. Paul nearly being killed by these opponents.
2:2, To know, weather a truth we heard is true or false, weather a prophet is real or fake, or weather a teaching is correct or not, all these must take time and gone through many testings.
John wants us to test, test the spirit, weather the spirit is from God or not. (1 John 4:1) Paul even taught this in 1 Thess 5:21. This apply also to Verbal Plenary Preservation.
2:4, "The love at first." Where is your love at first, at the moment you came to believe the Lord. Where is it now? This is more important than tracking the first century MSS!
Now, we are self content, and self contend, we are proud about ourselves, we had lost the vitality, the depending, the pickup, the zeal.
That first love had been replaced by a routine, some dogmas, some creeds, like the humanists, we must repent from this coolness, we are suppose to say we had lost the love toward mankind and Christ.
2:5, we may say, we do not know what is that "the love at first."
LET US DO SOMETHING TODAY, IN CASE, TO SAY WE LOVE THE LORD CHRIST, LET US GO BACK TO THE BASIC, THE CROSS, SACRIFICING IN THE MINISTRY, AND CONTINUE TO WITNESS AND PREACHING IN ZEAL. If not the lamp stand may be removed from us. The church will becomes a skeleton.
2:6, there was a group of people called, the Nicolaitans, these are those called themselves Christian, they were compromisING with the world, they worship the idols and live in lusts. They were in the church in Ephesus, they had rejected the gospel truth, their characters and behaviours were clearly seen. And some of them were teaching in the church. (rf. Rev 2:15) How can this be?
2:7, Christ is speaking to the church, through the Holy Spirit. Even until today. He wanted us to overcome. How? DEPEND ON THE RESURRECTED CHRIST, TO OVERCOME OUR INNER WEAKNESSES. AND TO OVERCOME OUR OUTER TEMPTATIONS.
You are promised,
1. to eat the the fruit on the tree of life. (2:7)
2. no more second death. (2:11)
3. given the hidden manna and a new name on the white stone. (2:17)
4. given the authority and the morning star. (2:27-28)
5. to wear the white robes, and name written on the book of life. (3:5)
6. to be a pillar in the temple of God, God's Name written on him. (3:12)
7. All of those who overcome, they will sit together with the Christ Jesus, and they will enter the heaven to enjoy the eternity with Him.
The Christians who served the Christ with zeal, they are promised a perfect and complete salvation. At the end, he will not be separated from God, like in the garden of Aden, he will live with God, and live in freedom and peace. All these promises, are to be claimed by us, only through Christ, we can receive these promises. No other way!
Thoughts for today,
We must test the teaching of Verbal Plenary Preservation. Right or wrong?
What is the important of the first love, comparing with the perfect scripture text to Ephesians? Which is more important to them?
Why Paul mentioned the first love, why he did not mention they had lost the autographs, the first hand writing manuscripts?
Who are those called Nicolaitans? What they were teaching actually?
How Christ speak to us today?
What He commanded us today, did He command us to seek the first century, the perfect, the 100 %, the autographs, and print it out ? So that we can out print the NIV, ESV, CUV...? Think about this, seriously Today!
Christ commanded us to overcome, to conquer what?
Did Christ promised us a perfect KJV?
Did Christ promised us a perfect underlying text?
Did God promised us a perfect Bible version?
Did God promised us a perfect hand copied Bible? No.
Did God promised us a perfect machined printed Bible? NO!
So...
Where is our first love?
Where is our first Bible?
Answer is......
2:2, To know, weather a truth we heard is true or false, weather a prophet is real or fake, or weather a teaching is correct or not, all these must take time and gone through many testings.
John wants us to test, test the spirit, weather the spirit is from God or not. (1 John 4:1) Paul even taught this in 1 Thess 5:21. This apply also to Verbal Plenary Preservation.
2:4, "The love at first." Where is your love at first, at the moment you came to believe the Lord. Where is it now? This is more important than tracking the first century MSS!
Now, we are self content, and self contend, we are proud about ourselves, we had lost the vitality, the depending, the pickup, the zeal.
That first love had been replaced by a routine, some dogmas, some creeds, like the humanists, we must repent from this coolness, we are suppose to say we had lost the love toward mankind and Christ.
2:5, we may say, we do not know what is that "the love at first."
LET US DO SOMETHING TODAY, IN CASE, TO SAY WE LOVE THE LORD CHRIST, LET US GO BACK TO THE BASIC, THE CROSS, SACRIFICING IN THE MINISTRY, AND CONTINUE TO WITNESS AND PREACHING IN ZEAL. If not the lamp stand may be removed from us. The church will becomes a skeleton.
2:6, there was a group of people called, the Nicolaitans, these are those called themselves Christian, they were compromisING with the world, they worship the idols and live in lusts. They were in the church in Ephesus, they had rejected the gospel truth, their characters and behaviours were clearly seen. And some of them were teaching in the church. (rf. Rev 2:15) How can this be?
2:7, Christ is speaking to the church, through the Holy Spirit. Even until today. He wanted us to overcome. How? DEPEND ON THE RESURRECTED CHRIST, TO OVERCOME OUR INNER WEAKNESSES. AND TO OVERCOME OUR OUTER TEMPTATIONS.
You are promised,
1. to eat the the fruit on the tree of life. (2:7)
2. no more second death. (2:11)
3. given the hidden manna and a new name on the white stone. (2:17)
4. given the authority and the morning star. (2:27-28)
5. to wear the white robes, and name written on the book of life. (3:5)
6. to be a pillar in the temple of God, God's Name written on him. (3:12)
7. All of those who overcome, they will sit together with the Christ Jesus, and they will enter the heaven to enjoy the eternity with Him.
The Christians who served the Christ with zeal, they are promised a perfect and complete salvation. At the end, he will not be separated from God, like in the garden of Aden, he will live with God, and live in freedom and peace. All these promises, are to be claimed by us, only through Christ, we can receive these promises. No other way!
Thoughts for today,
We must test the teaching of Verbal Plenary Preservation. Right or wrong?
What is the important of the first love, comparing with the perfect scripture text to Ephesians? Which is more important to them?
Why Paul mentioned the first love, why he did not mention they had lost the autographs, the first hand writing manuscripts?
Who are those called Nicolaitans? What they were teaching actually?
How Christ speak to us today?
What He commanded us today, did He command us to seek the first century, the perfect, the 100 %, the autographs, and print it out ? So that we can out print the NIV, ESV, CUV...? Think about this, seriously Today!
Christ commanded us to overcome, to conquer what?
Did Christ promised us a perfect KJV?
Did Christ promised us a perfect underlying text?
Did God promised us a perfect Bible version?
Did God promised us a perfect hand copied Bible? No.
Did God promised us a perfect machined printed Bible? NO!
So...
Where is our first love?
Where is our first Bible?
Answer is......
Martin Luther on Justification by Faith
有關16世紀“人文主義 humanism”的正確定義是繁複的，它與今日我們所瞭解的“人文主義”定義不同。Timothy T. Wengent指出16世紀人文主義的特徵，是一種注重文獻（text）與藝術的運動，它強調歷史、修辭學與古典語文的研究，例如希伯來文、希臘文。Alister McGrath認為16世紀的人文主義是一種文化與教育的運動，主要是關心怎樣有效地通過傳講及書寫去闡明或說服別人的觀點。
Far Eastern Bible College, 远东神学院讲师和教授，我想大概已掉入16世紀“人文主義 humanism”的运动里。
请读 Timothy T. Wengent, Philip Melanchthon's Annotations on Johannen in Relation to its Predecessors and Contemporaries (Geneve: Libraivie Droz S.A., 1987), p.121.
Alister McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (Oxford:Basil Backwell, 1987), p 33.
從哲學的觀點而論，16世紀的人文主義可分為兩種︰北歐與南歐的人文主義。後者是指義大利文藝復興的人文主義，它是西方人文主義的泉源，它是屬世的。最傑出的佛羅倫斯代表人物包括Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Leone Ebreo。G. Boas認為以上人物都是備受新伯拉圖哲學所影響。Feldmeth解釋，南歐的人文主義對人的理智能力與文化上的成就充滿信心。Michael Rogress認為16世紀的人文主義屬於一種生命哲學，它過度榮耀人性的美善，例如人理會的能力及自由意志。另一方面，北歐的人文主義傳佈於阿爾卑斯山以北的國家，N. Abbagnano認為，雖然北歐的人文主義對人性的看法與南歐類同，但前者較傾向以神為中心，引發出中世紀後期的神秘主義與敬虔主義的思想，它的代表人物為以拉斯母。
请读 Michael Rogness, Philip Melanchthon: Reformer without Honor (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1969), p.2. N. P. Feedmeth, "Humanism," in New Dictionary of Theology, eds., S. B. Fergrson & D. F. Wright (Ill: IVP), p.322. N. Abbagnano, "Humanism," in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1976).
然而，路德指出，聖經教導我們，亞當以後的人在每一個範疇都被罪惡影響，活在罪惡之下（《羅》3：9），以致人所做的善工都不足以為自己製造多餘的功德去彌補其它的罪行（註6），人需要的是完全的改造，否則在上帝的眼裡，“沒有義人，連一個也沒有。”（《羅》3：10） “所以凡有血氣的，沒有一個因行律法（的善工）能在上帝面前稱義。”（《羅》3：20）換句話說，人無力拯救自己，不能靠自己所作的獲取神的義，只有透過信心才能稱義。
路德說：“這（神的義）是透過信心藉著歸算（imputation）而得以成就的，按此，我開始緊緊抓住基督；基於基督的緣故，神把不全的義看為完全的義，把罪看為不是罪，縱使罪確實是罪。因此，他強調要向所有的信徒教導十誡，並要他們遵守十誡。他更說明那些遵守十誡的人必蒙上帝悅納，並且他們的信心必得著堅固. 由此可見，路德並非否定善行在信徒生活的重要，他只是強調善行是得救者必然流露出來的果子，卻非引致得救之不可缺乏的原素。
為什麼信徒的得救與生活都必須憑著信心呢？路德解釋當人因信被稱義以後，有兩個不可分隔的效果發生。第一，神的義會加諸於人，人的罪或過錯因而得著上帝的赦免；第二，人將會成為新造的人，與上帝破裂的關係將會和好，由不信轉化為信，由不順服轉化為順服，由無知變為對上帝有正確的認識。以上兩個稱義的果效都是憑相信基督耶穌而引發的，所以世人未曾因信稱義以前，他的“善工”絕不被上帝視為美善。
很可惜，差不多五百年後的今日，羅馬天主教仍然未能對路德所提出的指責，加以檢討；依然守著中古時期的傳統，誤以為若要得著上帝的義，人必須依靠神的恩典，然後再加上人的善行。這觀點與聖經所說的福音（單靠神的恩典而得救）大相逕庭。
另外，天主教所謂“相信”而稱義，是指相信自己的善工必為自己成就救恩，與聖經所教導單相信耶穌而稱義乃截然不同。保羅在《加拉太書》指責天主教的看法，他說︰“義若是藉著律法得的，基督就是徒然死了。無知的加拉太人哪！耶穌基督釘十字架，已經活畫在你們眼前，誰又迷惑了你們呢？”（加2：21-3：1）”。
然而，有些人卻是聽不明白保羅在《加拉太書》的教導，也忘記了路德對“因信稱義”的正確詮釋，路德認為這教義是神的教會的“唯一堅固的磐石”（註13），“若這教義保持純正，基督教世界將會在這美麗的和諧中保持純正，並沒有任何分裂；然而，若這教義不能保持純正，我們便不可能逐退任何錯誤或異端之風”（註14）。路德此言實在真確，盼今日的基督徒在一片教會合一的運動聲中（註15），仍能明白“因信稱義”之理念，並堅守福音之真相。
今日的世界信義會聯合會（Lutheran World Federation）、世界衛理公會協進會(World Methodist Council）及羅馬天主教於2006年7月23日在南韓漢城簽署了《因信稱義聯合聲明》文件。此聲明被譽為具有歷史性的“合一的新標誌”。羅馬天主教主管合一事務的樞機主教Walter Kasper認為這簽署是“合一對話的重要成就”，並引用教宗本篤十六世的話，認為這是“信仰裡完全可目睹的聯合”（full visible unity in faith）。世界信義會聯合會總幹事Ishmael Noko指出：“這聲明為日後合一關係打開了大門。”然而，《因信稱義聯合聲明》的重點只表示各方面在理解上達成協議，但並非在"因信稱義"的教義上彼此接納。
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Far Eastern Bible College, 远东神学院讲师和教授，我想大概已掉入16世紀“人文主義 humanism”的运动里。
请读 Timothy T. Wengent, Philip Melanchthon's Annotations on Johannen in Relation to its Predecessors and Contemporaries (Geneve: Libraivie Droz S.A., 1987), p.121.
Alister McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (Oxford:Basil Backwell, 1987), p 33.
從哲學的觀點而論，16世紀的人文主義可分為兩種︰北歐與南歐的人文主義。後者是指義大利文藝復興的人文主義，它是西方人文主義的泉源，它是屬世的。最傑出的佛羅倫斯代表人物包括Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Leone Ebreo。G. Boas認為以上人物都是備受新伯拉圖哲學所影響。Feldmeth解釋，南歐的人文主義對人的理智能力與文化上的成就充滿信心。Michael Rogress認為16世紀的人文主義屬於一種生命哲學，它過度榮耀人性的美善，例如人理會的能力及自由意志。另一方面，北歐的人文主義傳佈於阿爾卑斯山以北的國家，N. Abbagnano認為，雖然北歐的人文主義對人性的看法與南歐類同，但前者較傾向以神為中心，引發出中世紀後期的神秘主義與敬虔主義的思想，它的代表人物為以拉斯母。
请读 Michael Rogness, Philip Melanchthon: Reformer without Honor (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1969), p.2. N. P. Feedmeth, "Humanism," in New Dictionary of Theology, eds., S. B. Fergrson & D. F. Wright (Ill: IVP), p.322. N. Abbagnano, "Humanism," in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1976).
然而，路德指出，聖經教導我們，亞當以後的人在每一個範疇都被罪惡影響，活在罪惡之下（《羅》3：9），以致人所做的善工都不足以為自己製造多餘的功德去彌補其它的罪行（註6），人需要的是完全的改造，否則在上帝的眼裡，“沒有義人，連一個也沒有。”（《羅》3：10） “所以凡有血氣的，沒有一個因行律法（的善工）能在上帝面前稱義。”（《羅》3：20）換句話說，人無力拯救自己，不能靠自己所作的獲取神的義，只有透過信心才能稱義。
路德說：“這（神的義）是透過信心藉著歸算（imputation）而得以成就的，按此，我開始緊緊抓住基督；基於基督的緣故，神把不全的義看為完全的義，把罪看為不是罪，縱使罪確實是罪。因此，他強調要向所有的信徒教導十誡，並要他們遵守十誡。他更說明那些遵守十誡的人必蒙上帝悅納，並且他們的信心必得著堅固. 由此可見，路德並非否定善行在信徒生活的重要，他只是強調善行是得救者必然流露出來的果子，卻非引致得救之不可缺乏的原素。
為什麼信徒的得救與生活都必須憑著信心呢？路德解釋當人因信被稱義以後，有兩個不可分隔的效果發生。第一，神的義會加諸於人，人的罪或過錯因而得著上帝的赦免；第二，人將會成為新造的人，與上帝破裂的關係將會和好，由不信轉化為信，由不順服轉化為順服，由無知變為對上帝有正確的認識。以上兩個稱義的果效都是憑相信基督耶穌而引發的，所以世人未曾因信稱義以前，他的“善工”絕不被上帝視為美善。
很可惜，差不多五百年後的今日，羅馬天主教仍然未能對路德所提出的指責，加以檢討；依然守著中古時期的傳統，誤以為若要得著上帝的義，人必須依靠神的恩典，然後再加上人的善行。這觀點與聖經所說的福音（單靠神的恩典而得救）大相逕庭。
另外，天主教所謂“相信”而稱義，是指相信自己的善工必為自己成就救恩，與聖經所教導單相信耶穌而稱義乃截然不同。保羅在《加拉太書》指責天主教的看法，他說︰“義若是藉著律法得的，基督就是徒然死了。無知的加拉太人哪！耶穌基督釘十字架，已經活畫在你們眼前，誰又迷惑了你們呢？”（加2：21-3：1）”。
然而，有些人卻是聽不明白保羅在《加拉太書》的教導，也忘記了路德對“因信稱義”的正確詮釋，路德認為這教義是神的教會的“唯一堅固的磐石”（註13），“若這教義保持純正，基督教世界將會在這美麗的和諧中保持純正，並沒有任何分裂；然而，若這教義不能保持純正，我們便不可能逐退任何錯誤或異端之風”（註14）。路德此言實在真確，盼今日的基督徒在一片教會合一的運動聲中（註15），仍能明白“因信稱義”之理念，並堅守福音之真相。
今日的世界信義會聯合會（Lutheran World Federation）、世界衛理公會協進會(World Methodist Council）及羅馬天主教於2006年7月23日在南韓漢城簽署了《因信稱義聯合聲明》文件。此聲明被譽為具有歷史性的“合一的新標誌”。羅馬天主教主管合一事務的樞機主教Walter Kasper認為這簽署是“合一對話的重要成就”，並引用教宗本篤十六世的話，認為這是“信仰裡完全可目睹的聯合”（full visible unity in faith）。世界信義會聯合會總幹事Ishmael Noko指出：“這聲明為日後合一關係打開了大門。”然而，《因信稱義聯合聲明》的重點只表示各方面在理解上達成協議，但並非在"因信稱義"的教義上彼此接納。
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Jerome and Augustine
耶柔米
耶柔米在西方教會中獨樹一格，在拉丁教父中，極少人像他這樣熟悉希臘文與希伯來文。他是首屈一指的聖經學者，寫作許多聖經註釋，翻譯希臘教父的著作成拉丁文。他捲入不少爭議，對敵人毫不留情；在靈命品格來說，他不如安伯若修與屈梭多模。但是，他作為學者與聖經翻譯者而言，對西方教會的貢獻與影響是長遠的。
奧古斯丁在北非
《懺悔感恩錄》卷首說到：人被造的目的是為了認識神與愛神，所以我們的心“沒有安息”直到在他裡面得到“真正的安息”。人犯罪遠離神，墮落在錯誤導向的愛中。如此的彎曲悖逆，深藏在人內心裡，甚至人自己都意識不到。所以，要校正此墮落的心，是人自己無能為力的，甚至連選擇悔改的心願，也是全然喪失。所以，唯有神的主權恩典與慈愛，奇妙的運作在罪人之心（超乎人所能意識與理解的），才能改變悖逆之心，將人心奪回使之都順服基督，重新歸正愛神，唯有如此，人心才能真正得到永遠的平安。
奧古斯丁於32歲悔改信主，33歲受洗，37歲受聖職，41歲按立為主教，43至46歲間寫下《懺悔感恩錄》傳世不朽的名著。這是他人生下半場的開始。他在希坡主教職位上任重道遠，在面對“多納派之爭”與“伯拉糾派之爭”，駁斥摩尼教，寫作《三位一体論文集》等各方面，都忠於聖經持守真道。
奧古斯丁的中心信念，正如《懺悔感恩錄》所表明的：“人的罪與神的恩”，使得他一生都是“唯獨神的恩典，只為神的榮耀”。16世紀的改教家路德與加爾文，都是歸回奧古斯丁所持守的救恩真理；今日我們這些“宗教改革”的子孫焉能數典忘祖呢？
作者現在北加州灣區聖經歸正教會（ http://www.biblerc.org/ ）牧會，並在基督工人神學院兼課。
耶柔米在西方教會中獨樹一格，在拉丁教父中，極少人像他這樣熟悉希臘文與希伯來文。他是首屈一指的聖經學者，寫作許多聖經註釋，翻譯希臘教父的著作成拉丁文。他捲入不少爭議，對敵人毫不留情；在靈命品格來說，他不如安伯若修與屈梭多模。但是，他作為學者與聖經翻譯者而言，對西方教會的貢獻與影響是長遠的。
奧古斯丁在北非
《懺悔感恩錄》卷首說到：人被造的目的是為了認識神與愛神，所以我們的心“沒有安息”直到在他裡面得到“真正的安息”。人犯罪遠離神，墮落在錯誤導向的愛中。如此的彎曲悖逆，深藏在人內心裡，甚至人自己都意識不到。所以，要校正此墮落的心，是人自己無能為力的，甚至連選擇悔改的心願，也是全然喪失。所以，唯有神的主權恩典與慈愛，奇妙的運作在罪人之心（超乎人所能意識與理解的），才能改變悖逆之心，將人心奪回使之都順服基督，重新歸正愛神，唯有如此，人心才能真正得到永遠的平安。
奧古斯丁於32歲悔改信主，33歲受洗，37歲受聖職，41歲按立為主教，43至46歲間寫下《懺悔感恩錄》傳世不朽的名著。這是他人生下半場的開始。他在希坡主教職位上任重道遠，在面對“多納派之爭”與“伯拉糾派之爭”，駁斥摩尼教，寫作《三位一体論文集》等各方面，都忠於聖經持守真道。
奧古斯丁的中心信念，正如《懺悔感恩錄》所表明的：“人的罪與神的恩”，使得他一生都是“唯獨神的恩典，只為神的榮耀”。16世紀的改教家路德與加爾文，都是歸回奧古斯丁所持守的救恩真理；今日我們這些“宗教改革”的子孫焉能數典忘祖呢？
作者現在北加州灣區聖經歸正教會（ http://www.biblerc.org/ ）牧會，並在基督工人神學院兼課。
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Revelation chapter 1 and VPP
Chapter 1
1:1, to reveal the second coming of the Lord. A semaino, a sign.
1:2, the Word of God is OT and NT. They are one, a whole book is the Word of God..
1:3, this book has 7 blessings, here is the first. The rest is at 14:13, 16:15, 19:9, 20:6, 22:7,14. By faith we received the prophecies. The time is near !
1:4, the writer is John. And his caller is the LORD, Jahweh, in Exodus 3:14, He had called Moses. "I am who I am" He is eternal. He is the Only One, Universe Controller. The Judge is at the door.
The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit, The triune God. The trinity is forever and ever.
1:6, those years, God had made a covenant with him at Sinai. A kingdom belongs to priesthood and holiness. (Exodus 19:6) Jesus Christ is our King. We are His nations and His servants.
1:7, Those Jews and Romans will see Him. They had crucified Him on the cross. Amen. This is truth.
1:8, Alpha and Omega, He is the beginning of the world and He is the ending of the world. Jesus Himself confirmed this in Rev 22:13.
1:9, there are "tribulations" with the "kingdom" and "patient" is needed. "The End" is coming. He will come to restored His kingdom on earth. The difficulties and tribulations are a must for his followers. The conditions are becoming worst and worsen. Because of Immanuel, the follower lived in peace. God gave the power to endure.
The church was persecuted, the more the persecutions, and the more the Word becoming real to us, and the revival comes. Even John saw visions.
1:10, The Lord's day. The first day, the Sunday. The resurrection of the Lord Jesus is on this day. They did not followed the Sabbath day, the Saturday, like the Jewish brothers any longer. They changed the habit of Sabbath day, from Saturday to Sunday.
They changed it to the first day, to remember the salvation and resurrection of the Lord. (Act 20:7, 1 Cor 16:2) The Word of Sabbath is still in the OT, and also in NT, but the meaning of keeping it already changed. The meaning is more important than mere word! John heard the sound like a trumpet, what does it means?
1:11, Seven churches were mentioned. They were in a circle. Jesus Christ is in the middle. The center!
1:12-14, seven lamp stands are seven churches. John saw a figure looked like a man. He is the Glorious Jesus Christ. He is wearing the garment like a priest. He is living, resurrected, highly saluted and worshipped. (Daniel 7:9) He has wisdom, reverence, and eyes like a fire, in His hands are the seven stars.
1:17, when John saw this scenery, he fell down. God revealed Himself to John. He is in fear and happiness. "Do not fear, do not afraid to die." He overcomes death. No matter what happened in our surroundings, He gives us a brighter tomorrow. A bigger hope.
1:19, John said he saw, and he wrote what he had seen. The things in the future. In the vision. Those things must happened.
1:20, seven stars, what does it means?
Thoughts:
The word of God is a sign in this book. What is that sign?
The time is nearer, but Jesus only mentioned two words, Alpha, omega in Greek!
The word "sabbath" is sabbath, a perfect word is a perfect word, what does it means, is more important than mere word it self.
The sound of the trumpet, what doest it means?
Seven stars, what is this means to us?
Seven lamp stands, where they are?
Conclusion, even we had the perfect manuscripts in our hands we dare not to interprete this chapter according to our understanding,
the meaning is more important than the word!
I hope the VPP theologians are very sure about the meaning of each word.
The Brown War.
And there is a war coming forward, the brown will fights and makes war with the brown and then there is a repentance from his racism after that. I called this as "The Brown War."
God, God, God...
One day a man goes up to see his God, he asked God for his rewards, where is his rewards after he bombed, murdered, killed, cheated, lied, and bullied many human beings on earth.
He say to God, "God is great, God is surely great, I had done so many things for you, I had preached your truth, I had done so many good deeds in your name, and I had fasted in your name, I had prayed in your name, I had done what you wanted me to do, and I had followed you whole my life. Show me what is my rewards for all my works."
On that great Day, God the merciful will be in heaven, and His Son will probably tell the man, "Go away, you terrorist, I do not know you, you are not one of my disciple. I do not asked you to murder from the begining, but to love. You had done nothing for God. Go away into the eternal damnations."
Many will try to go into heaven but many are refused. There are wars on earth, but the terrorists had fight the wrong wars for wrong reasons, but it is too late for them to know it even until the end of this world.
He say to God, "God is great, God is surely great, I had done so many things for you, I had preached your truth, I had done so many good deeds in your name, and I had fasted in your name, I had prayed in your name, I had done what you wanted me to do, and I had followed you whole my life. Show me what is my rewards for all my works."
On that great Day, God the merciful will be in heaven, and His Son will probably tell the man, "Go away, you terrorist, I do not know you, you are not one of my disciple. I do not asked you to murder from the begining, but to love. You had done nothing for God. Go away into the eternal damnations."
Many will try to go into heaven but many are refused. There are wars on earth, but the terrorists had fight the wrong wars for wrong reasons, but it is too late for them to know it even until the end of this world.
Monday, 9 March 2009
Roja phu
There was a Indian man called Rajah, one day his Indians friend asked him to go for a reunion at the Curry House, one of his friend asked him, "Rajah, Rajah, you want us to respect you, but when did you respect us?"
Another friend start to reply for him, "Roja phu, roja phu, you want us to hug and kiss you, but when are you going to put away your thorns? Roja poojaki panikiraani poovu." (Roja meaning rose in Tamil) All his friends were looking at him and started to smile at each other.
Rajah felt very sorry after he heard his closest friends spoke like that, "Sorry, sorry, sorry, I will try to respect you from now on. Please give me a break."
His friend said, "No just try to, but make it happen! You must learn how to respect other before other will respect you? Are you still want to behave like a roja phu to us?"
Then they all happily chated, ate the fragants rice, with curry mutton on the banana leaf, and they drank milk, they continued to reunion until late night before they departed from the curry house. Rajah started to respect other from that day onward. He won his respect at last!
When did you respect other ?
Another friend start to reply for him, "Roja phu, roja phu, you want us to hug and kiss you, but when are you going to put away your thorns? Roja poojaki panikiraani poovu." (Roja meaning rose in Tamil) All his friends were looking at him and started to smile at each other.
Rajah felt very sorry after he heard his closest friends spoke like that, "Sorry, sorry, sorry, I will try to respect you from now on. Please give me a break."
His friend said, "No just try to, but make it happen! You must learn how to respect other before other will respect you? Are you still want to behave like a roja phu to us?"
Then they all happily chated, ate the fragants rice, with curry mutton on the banana leaf, and they drank milk, they continued to reunion until late night before they departed from the curry house. Rajah started to respect other from that day onward. He won his respect at last!
When did you respect other ?
Friday, 6 March 2009
Thank God for every thing !
Thank God for the poor,
Thank God for the rich,
Thank God for another new day,
Thank God for the Whites,
Thank God for the Browns,
Thank God for the Yellows,
Thank God for the Blacks,
Thank God for the Reds,
Thank God for the human,
Thank God for the inhuman,
Thank God for the policeman,
Thank God for the fireman,
Thank God for the teacher,
Thank God for every one,
Thank God for every day,
Thank God for every moment,
Thank God, for God is good to you,
Thank God, for God is good.....
Thank God.....
Thank God for the rich,
Thank God for another new day,
Thank God for the Whites,
Thank God for the Browns,
Thank God for the Yellows,
Thank God for the Blacks,
Thank God for the Reds,
Thank God for the human,
Thank God for the inhuman,
Thank God for the policeman,
Thank God for the fireman,
Thank God for the teacher,
Thank God for every one,
Thank God for every day,
Thank God for every moment,
Thank God, for God is good to you,
Thank God, for God is good.....
Thank God.....
No turning back
There is no turning back for the event coming, it must happened to the country? This is what the price? And we must pay for this unity? for the future, for our generations to come, so that the event will be cut deep into their history and their swords will be cut into their own hearts and their swords will be broken into pieces? And they will be revoked to fight, and then repent from pride, they will be humbled for the blood they had shed those generations. Blood cannot be avoided! Unless they apology and repent from the wickedness they had done to the people openly.
The Chinese had shed their blood, may God intervene the event, please protect them this time, may your will be done.God, You know who is the head of the terrorist, God help us, fight for us until he is defeated!
Heavenly Father, stop the sunshine for us a time, and may You cast out the evil spirits from the land, return them to the original place in the sea, the spirit of the pirates and spirit of the darkness...return to your original place! They are the fishermen in the beginning, but they had turned into pirates, may God stand for us, in Jesus Name I pray.
Where the money gone to, in this Shunamy 2009, the money are being cut down from the rich, some are being sent to the poor, some are gone into the wind. But this is not enough, more money in this country must be given to the poor. Before the shunamy end! There is no turning back, because, the answer is us, we caused this to happen. No turning back, it is too late. Brown is brown, your coloured face cannot be whitened to become yellow and white! You cannot fool God any longer.
Our Bible say this:
One day, the sun will give no light.....
There is No turning back. Read the Bible before it is too late for you... when there is no perfect Bible for you to read, you just read CUV, KJV, NKJV, ESV, NIV...the sun will give no light that time, do not be so choosy fellow, just read what version you have.
Stop quarrelling about the VPP for a time, please be considerate a bit for the poor this moment! This is not the time for you to quarrel about the 15th century Bible Text. Even you saluted the lawyers, not all lawyers are telling the truth, some are not considerate even what Bible versions are all about, please withdraw the lawsuit for the sake of the young generations, and new believers, settle the problem in the synod, the lawyers cannot form a synod to help you! Or you are becoming one of them?
The Chinese had shed their blood, may God intervene the event, please protect them this time, may your will be done.God, You know who is the head of the terrorist, God help us, fight for us until he is defeated!
Heavenly Father, stop the sunshine for us a time, and may You cast out the evil spirits from the land, return them to the original place in the sea, the spirit of the pirates and spirit of the darkness...return to your original place! They are the fishermen in the beginning, but they had turned into pirates, may God stand for us, in Jesus Name I pray.
Where the money gone to, in this Shunamy 2009, the money are being cut down from the rich, some are being sent to the poor, some are gone into the wind. But this is not enough, more money in this country must be given to the poor. Before the shunamy end! There is no turning back, because, the answer is us, we caused this to happen. No turning back, it is too late. Brown is brown, your coloured face cannot be whitened to become yellow and white! You cannot fool God any longer.
Our Bible say this:
One day, the sun will give no light.....
There is No turning back. Read the Bible before it is too late for you... when there is no perfect Bible for you to read, you just read CUV, KJV, NKJV, ESV, NIV...the sun will give no light that time, do not be so choosy fellow, just read what version you have.
Stop quarrelling about the VPP for a time, please be considerate a bit for the poor this moment! This is not the time for you to quarrel about the 15th century Bible Text. Even you saluted the lawyers, not all lawyers are telling the truth, some are not considerate even what Bible versions are all about, please withdraw the lawsuit for the sake of the young generations, and new believers, settle the problem in the synod, the lawyers cannot form a synod to help you! Or you are becoming one of them?
Thursday, 5 March 2009
The Manchurian Emperors
The Manchurians Emperors were not Chinese, but the Chinese said they were Chinese Emperors! This is Imperialism.
On the order hands they continue to oppress the Chinese in Taiwan and Tibet, this is communism.
Time is near, that the Communism must be punished for what they had done to us the Chinese! If they are reading the blog now, the People Republic of Chine, will be punished for the wrong they had done to us the Christian. like me a small Chinese business man, nearly killed by their secret agent, they know what I meant.
Manchurians are Manchurians, they are not Chinese! The Communists are Communists, are they Chinese? If yes, they are Chinese, why they oppress the Chinese? What is the meaning of civilizations for the Chinese?
I noticed that many Chinese are Communist! They are shouting the slogan of democracy. Clever?
Some one had touched you in Si Chuan, that is the pain I felt when I was under your secret agent. I had no regret about Si Chuan event, my people were suffered under you iron fist, and they too are painful.
God, why we are troubled by being a Chinese?
On the order hands they continue to oppress the Chinese in Taiwan and Tibet, this is communism.
Time is near, that the Communism must be punished for what they had done to us the Chinese! If they are reading the blog now, the People Republic of Chine, will be punished for the wrong they had done to us the Christian. like me a small Chinese business man, nearly killed by their secret agent, they know what I meant.
Manchurians are Manchurians, they are not Chinese! The Communists are Communists, are they Chinese? If yes, they are Chinese, why they oppress the Chinese? What is the meaning of civilizations for the Chinese?
I noticed that many Chinese are Communist! They are shouting the slogan of democracy. Clever?
Some one had touched you in Si Chuan, that is the pain I felt when I was under your secret agent. I had no regret about Si Chuan event, my people were suffered under you iron fist, and they too are painful.
God, why we are troubled by being a Chinese?
At last
This is the name calling in the Christian Dom..
The charismatics call the fundamentalist as ......."funny mental," the charismatics say they are a sort of funny funny people !
The fundamentalists cannot keep quite about this, so they also, think, what should they call the charismatics!
The fundamentalists call the Charismatics as ......."careless matics," careless, careless, they said the charismatics must be careful about the tongue speaking!
Soon, there are some modern theologians to be called as ...."funny careless mathematicians"
Why ? They said the 0.01 % is missing! Missing, missing, missing, missing, we find it, at last, at last, we find it, we find it, at last 100 % is found, 100 is find ! 100 % ! 100 % and even perfect. At last, at last, the 100 % is found !At last, at last, we have found the first century book, at last! The first become the last! The last become the first! At last, at last, we are the first! We are the first to say about the VPP, not Dr Martin Luther, not John Calvin, not even Wang Ming Tao and John Sung, but at last we had find the perfect TR, at last.
And we can said proudly like Jesus said on the cross, "It is finished." At last.
A las, what is this all about? Mathematics? History? A perfect text book, about who? A las, a las, a las, why quarrel about a few missing words, a las, a las, why quarrel for a few missing words.
A las, a las, a las...
Aren't we will missed each other at last?
Aren't we will meet each other at last?
Aren't we will see each other at last?
No? Why?
Because of that 0.01 % missing words?
The charismatics call the fundamentalist as ......."funny mental," the charismatics say they are a sort of funny funny people !
The fundamentalists cannot keep quite about this, so they also, think, what should they call the charismatics!
The fundamentalists call the Charismatics as ......."careless matics," careless, careless, they said the charismatics must be careful about the tongue speaking!
Soon, there are some modern theologians to be called as ...."funny careless mathematicians"
Why ? They said the 0.01 % is missing! Missing, missing, missing, missing, we find it, at last, at last, we find it, we find it, at last 100 % is found, 100 is find ! 100 % ! 100 % and even perfect. At last, at last, the 100 % is found !At last, at last, we have found the first century book, at last! The first become the last! The last become the first! At last, at last, we are the first! We are the first to say about the VPP, not Dr Martin Luther, not John Calvin, not even Wang Ming Tao and John Sung, but at last we had find the perfect TR, at last.
And we can said proudly like Jesus said on the cross, "It is finished." At last.
A las, what is this all about? Mathematics? History? A perfect text book, about who? A las, a las, a las, why quarrel about a few missing words, a las, a las, why quarrel for a few missing words.
A las, a las, a las...
Aren't we will missed each other at last?
Aren't we will meet each other at last?
Aren't we will see each other at last?
No? Why?
Because of that 0.01 % missing words?
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
A scar
Have you ever seen a scar before, any of those caused by the Samurai sword in the Second World War?
Even after 67 year, the scar is still can be seen until today. The scar of the Japanese's Samurai sword is real, once the sword nearly cut off the head of a chinese victim, but the victim used his hand to stop the samurai sword. The samurai sword cut the victim's finger, the victim escaped death, he lived with the scar until he died. His son will not forget that Samurai sword too, because he is born with a scar on his finger, a scar looks alike his father's scar. Strange! The son remembered the owner of the samurai sword! Japanese!
The Word of God is like a doubled edges sword, as a theologian, you are not advisable to use that sword, like the Japanese used their Samurai sword! To murder and kill, you are advice to use the Word, Spiritually, for edification. Do not use the sword of the Spirit, to attack the church like the VPP theologians.
Put down the samurai sword, be a Christian immediately!
Put down the sword, be a Christian immediately!
Put down the samurai sword, be a Christian immediately!
Put down the killer's sword, be a Christian today.
The temple
This is another story to tell to our sons and daughters before the dawn...There is a man called Beni Jacob, one day, a man came to tell him how to build his temple,
The man said to Beni Jacob like this.
"Son of Jacob, Son of Jacob, your enemies wanted to wipe you out from this world, you go and tell him, if you want to wipe me out of this world, I will do this to you. Tell him frankly...I know where is your house...I know what colour is your house...I know what shape is your house...If you attack me, we will be in war, we are not for peace, first thing I will do is, I will destroy your house, that square and black house, where your people like to gather ...And your people will run away and many will be killed, think about this before you attack me."
Beni Jacob hear this from the man, weather he is telling the truth or not, Beni Jacob say, "Wait and see." Beni Jacob has find some words to tell his enemies. The man say this again, "After that, call your best friend Nehemiah, together arise to build a house, the house for Adonai, arise, arise. Make haste! Make haste."
Beni Jacob tell the man, "My enemy came at night, and he put dust and dirts into my house under the door and through the window." The man say to him, "You better close your doors and windows tightly after night fall."
Beni Jacob tell the man again, "My enemy came to disturb my plantations, and they put poison even onto my flower pot." The man say to him, "You better remove your plant and flower pot away from the fence and border, and place them nearer to your door, where you can see them clearly."
Beni Jacob tell the man again, "My enemy is using psychology, biological, radioactive in warfare onto me and my family." The man say to him, "You better pray to Adonai, Jahweh the Almighty, and He will protect you until to another time."
After that the man left him for a time, and Beni Jacob pray to God, until the temple is being build....
the story continue...
How about the theologians who say the KJV is inspired, compared to NIV and NKJV or CUV...But Dr Martin Luther said even the New Testament writer omitted many words from the Hebrew Old Testament when they were quoting from it. (The meaning is still there.)
We accept the NT as inspired Word of God, even though it has omitted many Hebrew Words from the Hebrew Bible. How about NKJV and ESV, CUV, compared with KJV, they are not verbatim with KJV, but the meaning is there. NIV is more closer to the original text, the older text, the words are lesser, compared with the new manuscripts. Any how the meaning is there. Dr Martin said, the NT Evangelists did not care much for the words, but they care much for the meaning!
No matter what the version is, the meaning is more important than a few missing words!
A few missing words are missing! Big deal?
The theologians did not see this,let me point out this,
The 99.9 % of the Bible Words can build up a house, but sad to say, they did not see that 99.9 can build up the church! But the theologians are looking for the missing words, insisting that 00.01 % missing words of the whole Bible can destroy the church! What kind of faith is this? Faith from which Bible?
The church had been build on the everlasting Rock.
The House of God must be build on this everlasting Rock.
Who is this Rock refer to to...where you find the answer!
Tell the church frankly....you do not go to find the answer in those missing words, you know the answer from the 99 % of the Bible! In the CUV you can find and you know the answer, in the NKJV, you know the answer, in the NIV you can find the answer!
The answer is not in the 00.01 %........ the missing words!
Suppose One day, Beni Jacob comes to look for that answer from you, tell him frankly what you know about the everlasting Rock.....
The man said to Beni Jacob like this.
"Son of Jacob, Son of Jacob, your enemies wanted to wipe you out from this world, you go and tell him, if you want to wipe me out of this world, I will do this to you. Tell him frankly...I know where is your house...I know what colour is your house...I know what shape is your house...If you attack me, we will be in war, we are not for peace, first thing I will do is, I will destroy your house, that square and black house, where your people like to gather ...And your people will run away and many will be killed, think about this before you attack me."
Beni Jacob hear this from the man, weather he is telling the truth or not, Beni Jacob say, "Wait and see." Beni Jacob has find some words to tell his enemies. The man say this again, "After that, call your best friend Nehemiah, together arise to build a house, the house for Adonai, arise, arise. Make haste! Make haste."
Beni Jacob tell the man, "My enemy came at night, and he put dust and dirts into my house under the door and through the window." The man say to him, "You better close your doors and windows tightly after night fall."
Beni Jacob tell the man again, "My enemy came to disturb my plantations, and they put poison even onto my flower pot." The man say to him, "You better remove your plant and flower pot away from the fence and border, and place them nearer to your door, where you can see them clearly."
Beni Jacob tell the man again, "My enemy is using psychology, biological, radioactive in warfare onto me and my family." The man say to him, "You better pray to Adonai, Jahweh the Almighty, and He will protect you until to another time."
After that the man left him for a time, and Beni Jacob pray to God, until the temple is being build....
the story continue...
How about the theologians who say the KJV is inspired, compared to NIV and NKJV or CUV...But Dr Martin Luther said even the New Testament writer omitted many words from the Hebrew Old Testament when they were quoting from it. (The meaning is still there.)
We accept the NT as inspired Word of God, even though it has omitted many Hebrew Words from the Hebrew Bible. How about NKJV and ESV, CUV, compared with KJV, they are not verbatim with KJV, but the meaning is there. NIV is more closer to the original text, the older text, the words are lesser, compared with the new manuscripts. Any how the meaning is there. Dr Martin said, the NT Evangelists did not care much for the words, but they care much for the meaning!
No matter what the version is, the meaning is more important than a few missing words!
A few missing words are missing! Big deal?
The theologians did not see this,let me point out this,
The 99.9 % of the Bible Words can build up a house, but sad to say, they did not see that 99.9 can build up the church! But the theologians are looking for the missing words, insisting that 00.01 % missing words of the whole Bible can destroy the church! What kind of faith is this? Faith from which Bible?
The church had been build on the everlasting Rock.
The House of God must be build on this everlasting Rock.
Who is this Rock refer to to...where you find the answer!
Tell the church frankly....you do not go to find the answer in those missing words, you know the answer from the 99 % of the Bible! In the CUV you can find and you know the answer, in the NKJV, you know the answer, in the NIV you can find the answer!
The answer is not in the 00.01 %........ the missing words!
Suppose One day, Beni Jacob comes to look for that answer from you, tell him frankly what you know about the everlasting Rock.....
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