DAY 649 - Nothing Will Happen When ... (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Ephesians 2:1-7

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Bible Study

     Paul shows us one of the most important piece of puzzle why we as human beings, families, churches, societies and nations have so many problems. 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      Simply following the desires of the physical body, and equally of the mind, will lead you to ruin.  The problem is, though: even if you recognize this, what can you do about it?  If you are already 'dead' as a result of all this - already heading the wrong way down the road, with no hope of turning off, let alone turning back, and apparently no brake on the car to enable you to stop - what hope can there be?…
      In verse 2 Paul shows that there are forces which pull you, lure you, compel you to go in the wrong direction.
      First, there is the present age: the way the world is now is not the way God intends it to be in the age to come.  What seems right, especially to those who are simply 'going with the flow' of the world around them, actually isn't.
     Second, there is the 'ruler of the power of the air'. This seems to be a way of referring to the satan, the devil, and a way of suggesting that his deadly ideas, his schemes for defacing God's beautiful creation and particularly his image-bearing human creatures, are, as we say, 'in the air'.
      

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Te Prison Letters. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.19.

     So, nothing will happen when you are not willing to die in your sins. And, nothing would happen even you are willing to die in your sins becausesatan is going to pull you back to the wrong route, your old self. What can you do? 

     

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Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Nothing will happen when ...

    What I got from Jesus today is a life or death warning to our present state:
1. Nothing will happen when you are not willing to die in your sins.
    You know well how easy you can turn back to the old route, your old-self and let your anger, your bitterness … all kinds of sins to control you again that you become one of the instruments for the Deceiver to destroy God's wonderful work.

2. Even if you are willing to die in your sins but you can't stay long. Why? Because you cannot win Satan. Only Jesus can.

    So, what is the answer. The answer is in yesterday's passage and message. Jesus is the true King, the only one who can protect you and take you through all kinds of Satan's deadly trap. Whenever you do not have Jesus with you.  Whenever you are not following Jesus as your King, listen and obey to His call, you are done and back into the darkness.

     How can you let point 1 and 2 to become a reality of your life? 

Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to following you in a real sense that you can cast off the deadly scheme of Satan and that we can be your true disciples. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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