DAY 689 - Hijack! Beware! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Four years ago today, April 9, 2010, Michelle went to see her family doctor and was told that she got leukaemia. She was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital the next morning. On this day, I would like to invite you to join us in a 100 days of prayer (From April 9 to July 17) for Michelle, our family and my ministry. Please click this link to join us to pray:

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                               Today's Reading: Colossians 2:8-12

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Bible Study

     Paul continues with his message of how we need to move forward with Jesus and in Jesus. In this passage, he warns the Colossians just like he warns the Galatians of how the Jewish zealots put in a false message that the new Christians who are Gentiles need to have circumcision just like the Jews to fulfill the law of Moses. 

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
     The main problem with it is that it's 'not in line with the king'.  Whatever new idea someone comes up with, this is the acid test: does it have Jesus, the Messiah, the Lord, as its centre and focus?  If not, beware. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:The Prison Letters. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.162, 166-167.

     Do you have someone in your church or elsewhere trying to put in false messages pulling people away to somewhere but that is not in line with the King, our Lord Jesus Christ? Do they have Jesus as its centre and focus? Is that building up the body of Christ, that is your church, or dividing and destroying the body of Christ?  
     

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage 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

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Hijack! Beware!

    The message I got from Jesus today is a warning in case we are being hijacked to a place we do not want to go. The suspected hijack of Malaysian Airline is still a puzzle. Is it really a terrorist hijack or more than that? No one knows! 

    What we can see here in this passage is a "spiritual hijack" of some Jews insisting that every Christian needs to have circumcision. We can see in this two thousand years of church history there are numerous "spiritual hijack". That's how Martin Luther led the Protestant Church movement because the Church was being "hijack" from the Pope at that time to move the Church away from the truth, not in line with King Jesus.

    I have seen quite a number of "spiritual hijack" splitting a Denomination or a church using all kinds of deceiving tricks. The sad thing is that those people are being deceived do not know that is a "spiritual hijack" scheme, and some leaders even support the hijacker to destroy the body of Christ.

     Have you been there before? Beware! Don't let anybody successfully to hurt and destroy the body of Christ! That's Paul's mission and that should be your mission too. 

Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to be aware of the Deceiver's cunning scheme to destroy your body. Help us to be faithful servants of you guarding our church from all kinds of hijack.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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