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Thursday, March 28, 2013

DAY 353 - Are You Worshiping The Living God? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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Today's Reading: Luke 24:36-53

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Please click this link to read Luke 24:36-53

English(NIV): http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke 24&version=NIV
Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke 24&version=CUV

Bible Study

Today's passage concludes Luke's gospel. There are two very important points that Jesus wants to tell everyone:

1. The whole mission of the church

N.T. Wright says:

What Jesus has to say in his last days with them is very practical, and points the way to the whole mission of the church. People often ask me, What, after all, is the point of Jesus dying and rising again? It's no doubt very nice for him to be alive again, but what does it have to do with the rest of us? The answer is here, in a few sentences which will take a lifetime, and in fact all the history of the church, to work out. The church is to be rooted in scripture and active in mission. 'Repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all nation.' The Bible always envisaged that when God finally acted to fulfil all the promises made to Abraham, Moses and the prophets, then the whole world would be brought into the embrace of God's saving and healing love. That is what must now happen...

How well are you doing God's mission that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed? Or, you are doing all other things you think is important without proclaiming repentance and forgiveness of sins?

2. Worship of the living God

N.T. Wright says:

Jesus promised his followers that they would be equipped with power from God to engage in their new tasks; the book of Acts is the story of what began to happen as a result. But Luke's gospel ends, as it began, in the Temple at Jerusalem. Worship of the living God, now revealed in Jesus of Nazareth, is at the heart of Luke's vision of the Christian life.

Are you worshiping the living God, Jesus Christ our Lord?

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: Are you worshiping the living God?

It is wonderful and powerful that bishop N.T. Wright points out that the most important message after all in the whole gospel of Luke is to turn our eyes to Jesus so that we can worship the living God.

This is what I got today from Jesus, the living God. Without our daily intimate personal relationship with Jesus, we have no way to taste the sweetness of worshiping the living God.

If we really are worshiping the living God, then our lifestyle will be changed completely, though may be slowly. Changing towards more and more like Jesus that we can reclaim our original identity that we are created in the image of God.