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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

OT DAY 150 - Have You Kill Someone Lately? (請按此處收聼廣東話 )

Let us praise the Lord:

All the earth worships you
and sings praises to you;
they sing praises to your name.”

Psalm 66:4

Today's Reading: Exodus 20:13

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Bible Study

The sixth Commandment forbids killing. Certainly we know that we cannot kill because we'll be in death sentence or life sentence. What is killing in a broader sense that concern with our daily life?

Let's take a look at what Professor John Goldingay says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

It presupposes that relationships can get so fraught in the family and the community that one person might want to kill another, and it looks that reality in the face.

John Goldingay. Exodus & Leviticus for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.81.

So, have you hurt someone or destroy relationship with someone lately that is equal or similar to killing? Have you "kill" someone lately in this kind of sense?

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 Felix Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song played by one of the greatest violinist Isaac Stern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yj3RSxZmBQ

Spiritual Journal

The title I heard from Jesus today is: Have you kill someone lately?

What I receive from Jesus today is a question that only you can answer, no one can answer for you. Or, may be you do not know how to answer because you do not think you have killed someone lately.

What I receive from Jesus now is His Word from the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 5: 21-26

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. 23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. 26 Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny."

So, according to how Jesus explains this Commandment "Do not kill", quite often we would commit this sin. Quite frequently we angry with someone, insult someone or say something against someone, all these kinds of broken relationship that requires reconciliation is equal to "killing".

Have you kill someone lately? What do you have to do so that reconciliation can happen? What is the way the Holy Spirit is prompting you to do now?

Dear Holy Spirit,
Shine your light upon us that we can have a deep discernment. Help us to be your ambassador of reconciliation that we won't kill someone anymore. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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