JY Bible Notes 聖經小筆記

  "You will know the truth” 你必曉得真理 From:  JACK WILKIE   https://jackwilkie.co/p/certainty-isnt-a-sin   Translation & Edition 翻譯＆編輯： Joyce Yang As both bad guys and good guys get pushed out of their respective black and white and into a gray, neutral territory, this same kind of thinking seeps into our doctrine. 當壞人和好人都被逼著秀出各自的黑與白時，好與壞進入了一個灰色的中立領域，這種想法也滲透到我們的教義中。 Who are we to say someone definitively isn’t saved? Isn’t it arrogant to say we have right doctrine? Won’t people be turned away if we don’t come to them with ambiguity and a willingness to admit we might be wrong about Jesus? Certainty and “thus saith the Lord” kind of talk are off-putting, right? We don’t want to be “ dogmatic ,” do we? 我們憑什麼說某人絕對沒有得救？聲稱我們有著正確的教義，這不是傲慢嗎？如果我們不模棱兩可地來到人們面前，不願意承認我們可能錯看了耶穌，人們就會感到被拒之門外嗎？確信和「主如此說」之類的話是令人反感的，對吧？我們不想變得「教條化」，是嗎？ Because of all of this, David repeatedly calling for God to crush his enemies while maintaining his own righteousness makes us seriously uncomfor...

Don Blackwell Translation & Edition 翻譯＆編輯：Joyce Yang  1. Pray.  Pour out your heart to God (I Thes. 5:17). 2. I count my blessings. It’s amazing how it changes my mindset when I focus on my blessings and not my bruises (Psalm 103:2). It transforms me from pitying myself to thinking that I am richly blessed. I go from thinking I have it worse than anyone to thinking that I have it better than anyone. 1. 禱告。 向神傾訴你的心聲（帖前 5 ： 17 ）。 2. 數算我的祝福。 令人驚訝的是，當我專注於我的祝福而不是我的傷痕時，它如何改變我的心態（詩篇 103 ： 2 ）。它把我從自艾自憐，轉變為我得到了豐盛的祝福。從認為我遇到比任何人都糟糕的事，到認為我遇到比任何人都好的事。 3. Don’t live in the past. This always takes me to a bad place (Phil. 3:13). 4. Christianity changes everything. It gives me a purpose, a goal, a reason to live, and something to look forward to (I Cor. 15:58). I have to remember why I’m here. This life is not about my comfort, it’s about serving the Lord. I may be able to do that better in my broken situation. 5. Spend time in the Word (Psalm 119:27). It’s amazing how it cha...

  Warren E. Berkley Translation & Edition  翻譯： Joyce Yang Built in to the message of the prophets was the appeal to repent. These men were sent by God to expose sin and urge the guilty to repent. Often the appeal was framed as a challenge to return to the Lord (Isaiah 6:10; Jeremiah 3:1; Malachi 3:7). For instance, Joel’s appeal to Judah was for the people to repent of their sins. “So rend your heart”, and “return to the Lord your God” (Joel 2:13). Through the distribution of His judgments (locusts, drought, desolation), God admonished His people to come out of their sin and back to Him. It was His loving purpose to prompt a change in their direction. The essential definition of repentance has not changed through the dispensations. We can, therefore, use Joel’s statement as the basis for our understanding of returning to the Lord. And this study can find application for those who have been baptized but left their God. 先知的信息中內含著悔改的呼籲。這些人是神派來揭露罪惡、敦促有罪之人悔改的。這種呼籲常常被界定為 “ 歸...