Wednesday, November 27, 2013

DAY 557 - (English podcast click here)

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DAY 557 - Are You Willing to Be Put under Jesus? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)


**NEW link for the  15th: 13th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign (We are going to use this 13th list leads up to the 15th. 13th from March 15 to June 22, 2013. 14th from June 22 to August 31, 2013, 15th from Sept. 1, 2013 to Dec. 9. 2013)

Want to know why I have been writing and recording my blogs and podcast daily since August 10, 2009? Click these three links:

Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
My MicroMacro Discipleship, A missing DNA in Discipleship Development: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/introduction-micromacro-discipleship.html
Subject Shifting Devotion Method(Inspired by John Stott in 1991: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

                               Today's Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:20-28
** If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from my Devotion on Fire blog:
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html
To use this simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link:
 .Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf

Please click this link to read 1 Corinthians 15:20-28

Bible Study

     Yesterday we talked about whether you have seen the risen Lord. I do not know how you answer that question. But, even you have seen Jesus quite often, is that enough? Well, this passage try to ask another question:
Are you willing to be put under Jesus? 
Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
     The resurrection of Jesus was the moment when the one true God appointed the man through whom the whole cosmos would be brought back into its proper order.  A human being had got it into this mess; a human being would get it out again. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:1 Corinthians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.212.

     So, no matter who we are under, if we are not willing to be put under Jesus, we would be in a mess. Only Jesus can put us into order, the right order. Only Jesus can pull us out from the mess that the one man, Adam had put us into. Are you in a mess or in order?

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 willing to be put under Jesus?

    What I got from Jesus today is a question most people do not want to hear. In reality, we are being put under lots of people. Head of our country, our boss and many other people who are on top of us. Or, if you are well off and in high rank or you own your company, then many are under you, but still you are under someone. Anyway, no matter who we are under, most Christians are not under Jesus. Why? Very simple, if there are under 10% or even 5% of Christians are having daily devotion, and many of those are having daily devotion because of guilty, duty or study, how can we say we are willing to be put under Jesus? It is just a joke!

     Jesus is asking you earnestly today, "Are you willing to be put under me?" What is your answer to your Lord and King?  

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Help us to be willing to worship you as our Lord and King and be willing to be under your total authority so that we won't be in a mess. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Matt Redman
You may choose to follow my other daily blog: 
Daily Devotion on Fire 2(2 years plan -One year New Testament, one year Old Testament): 
http://bishopsilas2.blogspot.ca/
Daily Devotion on Fire (3 years and 3 months plan, one chapter a day to finish reading the whole Bible): 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/
Break.Build (40 days daily devotion- For Renewal or First Step for new Christians): http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/

Emmanuel330 (40 weeks First Step Bible Study): 
http://emmanuel330.blogspot.ca/

This blog:

Discipler 123 (Daily devotion using N.T. Wright's NT for Everyone as source)
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

DAY 556 - (English podcast click here)

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DAY 556 - Have You Seen The Risen Lord? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)


**NEW link for the  15th: 13th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign (We are going to use this 13th list leads up to the 15th. 13th from March 15 to June 22, 2013. 14th from June 22 to August 31, 2013, 15th from Sept. 1, 2013 to Dec. 9. 2013)

Want to know why I have been writing and recording my blogs and podcast daily since August 10, 2009? Click these three links:

Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
My MicroMacro Discipleship, A missing DNA in Discipleship Development: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/introduction-micromacro-discipleship.html
Subject Shifting Devotion Method(Inspired by John Stott in 1991: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

                               Today's Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:12-19
** If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from my Devotion on Fire blog:
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html
To use this simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link:
 .Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf

Please click this link to read 1 Corinthians 15:12-19

Bible Study

     In this passage Paul gives a clear teaching about the resurrection of Jesus:
1. If Jesus has been raised, then it proves He is the Messiah. Because God has reversed the verdict of the court, which found him guilty of being a lier that He was the Messiah.

 2. If he wasn't raised from the dead, He wasn't and isn't the Messiah. His Cross had no meaning. Nothing has been changed at all. 
Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
     Paul's strongest argument in this passage is to point up the link between sin and death (verse 17).  If Jesus has been raised, the power of death has been broken, and final victory over it is assured (verse 26).  Death, as always in biblical thought, is the result of sin, as humans turn away from the life-giving God and vainly attempt to find life elsewhere (see Romans 5:12-14).  So if death has been defeated it must mean that sin has been defeated as well. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:1 Corinthians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.209.

     So, are you sure that Jesus has been raised? Why are you so sure? Have you seen the risen Lord as Paul and the others did to be so sure? 

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: Have you seen the risen Lord?

    What I got from Jesus today is a very, very important question. A question to help us moving forward in faith no matter what happen to our life. A question to lead us to be able to finish well.

      If your answer is NO, then you are in danger of experiencing your faith second hand or more but not first hand. Your life would not have the power to change and renewal because only Jesus can help you to do that, not learning, not from other family members, other people or other source.

      If you have seen the risen Lord, have experienced His presence, then death is no more a threat to you and sin cannot grasp you into darkness. But, quite a number of Christians are still talking and sharing about their born again experience or a renewal experience happened many years ago. That is not enough! Once the experience of the risen Lord becomes a past tense, then you are in danger of returning to the sinful mode and have the world as you Lord and not Jesus as your Lord.

      Jesus is Lord! Have you seen the risen Lord daily? 

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Open our eyes to see you daily that we won't be grasp by sin and death cannot threaten us any more. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us -

一首愛歌


10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Matt Redman
You may choose to follow my other daily blog: 
Daily Devotion on Fire 2(2 years plan -One year New Testament, one year Old Testament): 
http://bishopsilas2.blogspot.ca/
Daily Devotion on Fire (3 years and 3 months plan, one chapter a day to finish reading the whole Bible): 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/
Break.Build (40 days daily devotion- For Renewal or First Step for new Christians): http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/

Emmanuel330 (40 weeks First Step Bible Study): 
http://emmanuel330.blogspot.ca/

This blog:

Discipler 123 (Daily devotion using N.T. Wright's NT for Everyone as source)
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Monday, November 25, 2013

DAY 555 - (English podcast click here)

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DAY 555 - Open My Eyes to See You Lord (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)


**NEW link for the  15th: 13th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign (We are going to use this 13th list leads up to the 15th. 13th from March 15 to June 22, 2013. 14th from June 22 to August 31, 2013, 15th from Sept. 1, 2013 to Dec. 9. 2013)

Want to know why I have been writing and recording my blogs and podcast daily since August 10, 2009? Click these three links:

Confirmation from John Stott in 2009: 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
My MicroMacro Discipleship, A missing DNA in Discipleship Development: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/introduction-micromacro-discipleship.html
Subject Shifting Devotion Method(Inspired by John Stott in 1991: http://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

                               Today's Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
** If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from my Devotion on Fire blog:
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html
To use this simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please click this link:
 .Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf

Please click this link to read 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Bible Study

     After several chapters stating how to deal with the problems in Corinth, Paul comes to a point so crucial and critical in Christian faith- the resurrection of Christ. Some in Corinth have a problem with this and Paul wants to make it clear that Jesus was really resurrected and appeared to many including to him personally. 
Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
     We have seen over and over again that Paul is trying to get the Corinthians to understand where they are, and who they are, in God's long story.  They are in danger of forgetting their roots - the roots which they have because they belong to the Messiah, who has brought Israel's long story to its climax.  They have to learn to live 'according to the scriptures' (verse 3 and 4): not in the sense that they must take little bits and pieces of the Bible as their guide to life but in the much larger sense that the whole Bible tells a story which has now exploded into new life with the Messiah, particularly with his death and resurrection.
     If they understand where they belong in this story, so many other things that have troubled them will be seen in the correct light. 

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:1 Corinthians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.200.

     Do you understand where you belong in the story of the Gospel? Do you know you belong to Jesus and not to your church? Are you able to see Jesus quite often if you really belong to Him? 

 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: Open my eyes to see you Lord!

    What I got from Jesus today is an invitation for us to have a daily prayer to ask Jesus to open our eyes so that we can see Him. Of course you can't see Jesus as those people mentioned in today's passage because they really saw Jesus in His physical appearance after His resurrection. But, we should be able to see Jesus in a sense that we can feel His presence, His loving words and His guiding hand. 

      Yes, if we can tell our story like that and experience Jesus like that, I don't think you would have those problems as those Corinthians had. Because just as Bishop N.T. Wright says, "so many other things that have troubled them will be seen in the correct light." 

     May you be able to see Jesus each day!

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Open our eyes to see you each day that we can be able to see things in the correct light. You are the light of the world, in you we can see. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us -

一首愛歌


10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Matt Redman
You may choose to follow my other daily blog: 
Daily Devotion on Fire 2(2 years plan -One year New Testament, one year Old Testament): 
http://bishopsilas2.blogspot.ca/
Daily Devotion on Fire (3 years and 3 months plan, one chapter a day to finish reading the whole Bible): 
http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/
Break.Build (40 days daily devotion- For Renewal or First Step for new Christians): http://www.breakbuild.blogspot.ca/

Emmanuel330 (40 weeks First Step Bible Study): 
http://emmanuel330.blogspot.ca/

This blog:

Discipler 123 (Daily devotion using N.T. Wright's NT for Everyone as source)
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