I hereby command you. Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God with you whereever you go. 【Joshua 1:9】我豈沒有咐吩你嗎?你當剛強壯膽,不要懼怕,也不要驚惶,因為你無論往哪裡去,耶和華你的上帝必與你同在。【約書亞記1:9】
疫情和政治 Polictic and pandemic
In 2019, COVID has begun to spread through the world. Not only the virus mutated to evade our immune system but also the measurements governor and health policy maker revised in order to control the situation. The world is constantly changing.
Extradiction rule of Hong Kong revised after handover to mainland China more than 20years ago. Admist the changing population, difference in legal system, and life-style between the places, such rule forced Hong Kongners to expression their political view and unsatisfaction by protesting.
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”Vladimir Ilyich Lenin J Hepatol
Anxiety, and fear grow alongside the social, economic and political turmoil. Behavior of escape, denied and fear results. The situation make us feel so strange, the hope and faith to the future is easily fade, the presence of God is forgotten.
什麼東西是人應該追尋的?
透過口喝的身理需求來指出撒瑪利亞夫人對婚姻的不滿。素未謀面的耶穌了解這位夫人的過去,了解她們族人的信仰。「耶穌說:你去叫你丈夫也到這裡來。婦人說:我沒有丈夫。耶穌說:你說沒有丈夫,是不錯的,你已經有五個丈夫,你現在有的,並不是你的丈夫,你這話是真的。」
耶穌希望把真理說給她聽,真正能滿足人的是真理的活水而非夫人一直去尋找的東西。(The water that I will give him will become in hime a spring of water welling up to eternal life)當門徒回來井邊,問耶穌是否餓時,耶穌的回覆卻是 (My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work) 【John Chapter 4: 4-43】
Prayer with fasting and alms with uprightness are better than riches with iniquity. Better to practise alms giving than to hoard up gold.
【Book of Tobias Chapter 12: 1-22】
靈裡vs. 肉體的生命 Life in the Spirit vs. fresh
Free from condemnation, law of sin and death 免去讉責、法律和死亡
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit which brings us to Holiness, Righteousness Life and peace 定精於肉體上會死亡;定睛在靈性上,帶來聖化、正義和平安。
Paul says that since we have the Spirit, we can now live for God (Romans 8:9), but we must make the choice to do so, for even though the Spirit of life is in us, the body of sin is still there as well, seeking to lead us back into death, decay, and destruction (Romans 8:10-15).
Please God and belonging to Jesus Christ 取悅主和屬主的
【Roman Chapter 8: 1-17】
The High Priestly Prayer 上帝的禱告
為自己禱告 Jesus Prays for Himself (1-5) : glorify God
為門徒禱告 Jesus Prays for His Disciples (6-19): I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
為信徒禱告 Jesus Prays for All Believers (20-26): I made known to them your name, and I will continuoue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
如何在崇拜中經歷上主的同在?
How do you experience the existence of God during worship? 在禱告如何聽到上帝的聲音?
How do you listen the God's voice during your prayer? 您在黑暗中有經歷過主的光嗎?
In your time of darkness, did you experience God presence?