哥林多前書 I Corinthians 9:26-27
所以,我奔跑不像無定向的;我鬥拳不像打空氣的。我是攻克己身,叫身服我,恐怕我傳福音給別人,自己反被棄絕了。
Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
詩篇 Psalms 3:3-6
19 弟兄們、我們既因耶穌的血、得以坦然進入至聖所、 20 是藉著他給我們開了一條又新又活的路從幔子經過、這幔子就是他的身體. 21 又有一位大祭司治理 神的家. 22 並我們心中天良的虧欠已經灑去、身體用清水洗淨了、就當存著誠心、和充足的信心、來到 神面前. 23 也要堅守我們所承認的指望、不至搖動.因為那應許我們的是信實的. 24 又要彼此相顧、激發愛心、勉勵行善。 25 你們不可停止聚會、好像那些停止慣了的人、倒要彼此勸勉.既知道〔原文作看見〕那日子臨近、就更當如此。 26 因為我們得知真道以後、若故意犯罪、贖罪的祭就再沒有了.
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near ...
正確敬拜的重要 The Importance of Worshiping Right
創世紀 Genesis 4:7
你若行得好,豈不蒙悅納?你若行得不好,罪就伏在門前。他必戀慕你,你卻要制伏他。」
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.”
稱謝進入他的門 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
詩篇 Psalms 100:4
當稱謝進入他的門;當讚美進入他的院。當感謝他,稱頌他的名!
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
起初的愛 Must Not Forsake the Love You Had at First
啟示錄 Revelations 2:4-5
然而有一件事我要責備你,就是你把起初的愛心離棄了。所以,應當回想你是從那裡墜落的,並要悔改,行起初所行的事。你若不悔改,我就臨到你那裡,把你的燈臺從原處挪去。
Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.
聖靈裡的信心 We Must Come Before God with Faith and Believe that He Exists
希伯來書 Hebrews 11:6
人非有信,就不能得神的喜悅;因為到神面前來的人必須信有神,且信他賞賜那尋求他的人。
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
約書亞的成功祕訣 To allow God to roll away the reproach of Egypt and to keep the Passover
約書亞記 Joshua 5:9
耶和華對約書亞說:「我今日將埃及的羞辱從你們身上輥去了。」因此,那地方名叫吉甲(就是滾的意思),直到今日。
Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal to this day.
Read More哥林多前書 14:1-2 你們要追求愛,也要切慕屬靈的恩賜,其中更要羨慕的,是作先知講道(原文作:是說預言;下同)那說方言的,原不是對人說,乃是對神說,因為沒有人聽出來。然而,他在心靈裡卻是講說各樣的奧秘。Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries with his spirit.
Read More感恩信心的重要 The Importance of Thanksgiving Faith
路加福音 Luke 17:17 -19 耶穌說:「潔淨了的不是十個人嗎?那九個在那裡呢?除了這外族人,再沒有別人回來歸榮耀與神嗎?」就對那人說:「起來,走吧!你的信救了你了。」Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?” Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
Read More心靈誠實的敬拜 The Importance of Worshiping In Spirit and In Truth
約翰福音 John 4:23 時候將到,如今就是了,那真正拜父的,要用心靈和誠實拜他,因為父要這樣的人拜他。」Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
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