Friday, November 29, 2013

DAY 559 - Do You Fear Death? Why? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)


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                               Today's Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:35-49
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Bible Study

     Paul explains here even for those who were eaten by the wild animals and die for Christ, they would have received the resurrection body. Many people thinks that this passage brings an argument of what kind of body could have when we die. Not so. 
Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
     Throughout the passage so far, Paul has been echoing Genesis 1, where God creates the sun, the moon and the stars, and particularly trees and plants that have their seed within them.  The underlying theme of the whole chapter, remember, is new creation, new Genesis: God will complete the project he began at the beginning, and in the process he will reverse and undo the effects of human rebellion, especially death itself, the great enemy that drags God's beautiful world down into decay and dissolution.  Paul will now move to the climax of Genesis 1, the creation of human beings in God's own image (Genesis 1:26-28).  As with Jesus' resurrection, so with ours: this will not be a strange distortion of our original humanity, but will be the very thing we were made for in the first place.  

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:1 Corinthians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.223.

     How are you doing in returning to God's original purpose and that is in God's own image. One word: Christlikeness. What have you got today? 

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    What I heard from Jesus today is: Do you fear death? Why?

    What I got from Jesus today is a very scaring question. So many people including Christians fear death causing all kinds of sadness and worries. Actually I am in the moment talking to my mother helping her to remove her fear about death. She is now 87 and she just told me her mother and grandmother all died when they were 88. So, do you know what she means? Please pray for my mother to courageously face her unknown future.


    So, how can we get away from the fear of death? What I received today is a simple way that every Christian should know but cannot live out. Do you know what it is now? The more closer to Jesus, your daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus will lead you to be more Christlike. Just as Paul says in verse 49: "Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven."

     The message today is very important:
To be Christlike now and will be Christlike forever.

     This is what I received today. Praise the Lord! That's the key to get away from the fear of death, even to be eaten by wild beasts. 

 Dear Lord Jesus, 
Lead us to be more closer to you each day so that we would never fear death. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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