Mahatama Gandhi of India

Although Mahatama Gandhi was in no way the originator of the principle of non-violence, he was the first to apply it in the political field on a huge scale. The concept of nonviolence (ahimsa) and nonresistance has a long history in Indian religious thought and has had many revivals in Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Jewish and Christian contexts.

Gandhi explains his philosophy and way of life in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth. He was quoted as saying:

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always."

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."

The world is busy

I have no work to do,
Someone say there is a work,
to believe in God,
God please help me,
to truly believe and trust in You.
this is my constant prayer.....

The best of the best

Hate is stronger or love is stronger?

Absolute power or absolute love?

Why our world is living in violence?

Mohammad Ali has a pair of hands, that punch,

Pele has a pair of legs, that kick,

Can love bring them together?

Can they embrace each other?

Is there a hope in this world?

Is there any hope for tomorrow?

Is there any love in my heart?

What is the best present for this Christmas?

Love? Faith? Hope? Which one I wanted the most?

God, may You give us a little bit of love!

Let us taste it, so we can feel good about other in this Christmas day!

The world in us was so cold and empty.

May God's love come and warm us tonight.

Merry Christmas

Thank God for great is His faithfulness,
Thank God for His mercy endured,
Thank God for the Word become flesh,
Thank God for the Son of God, Emmanuel, God is with you,
Thank God for the Bible given to us, the very Word of God,
Thank God for another Christmas is approaching.

Weather you are VPP proponents or VPP supporters, or those who are opposing and refuting the teaching of VPP. You all wanted to read the Word of God, the very Word of God. Yes, the Bible is the Word of God. Jesus loves you, this you know, because the Bible tells you so.

Furthermore, you must respect Rev Timothy Tow and his brothers and sisters, for they had been showing kindness to many in God's kingdom and faithfully serving in BP movement, and they had been used by God greatly in His Timing, many had been blessed by their works. And in his old age, you must not despised them. Treat them as your own parents and honor them.

In everything work good for those who love the Lord. In this time of season greeting, beyond VPP, let you forgive one another and love one another. hoping you may wish all pastors, elders, deacons and preachers, merry merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas from a stranger.

The Book of 1 John with VPP (Part 1)

This is a short letter to the churches in Ephesus, today Turkey, a gleam into the condition at the first century churches. It is consists of teachings of doctrine and spiritual life. The writer is John, he was the disciple whom was asking fire to rain down from heaven to destroy a village (Luke 9:53-54), when he was old, under the king Domitian, he was disperse to Patmos, he wrote letters to rebuke churches’ pride and lukewarm. He had the character like a thunder. He wrote to rebuke the heretics especially the gnostics, he said they are the “antichrist” (2:18), “liars” (2:22) and “children of the devils” (3:10).

At the end of the first century there were winds of heresies and false knowledge to distract new believers. John was openly rebuking those so called ordained but in fact the disciples of the evil one. And there were also, lustful, immoral false prophets. He then explained his experience, to witness the Jesus is the Christ, he wrote that the Creator God is light, is love, and is eternal life, He wanted to save all helpless men who indulged in sins, he declared those who trusted His name will become His children, knowing Him, and dwelling in Him, God’s Word is in them, they will not continue in sinning, but rather love the brethren, sacrifice for others, overcoming sin.

The book begins with “everlasting life” (1:2) and ended with “eternal life” (5:20) if we have faith, we may come to know God and He will grant us eternal life.

Gnostics’ movement was started to influence the churches, they did not accept that the Word had become in flesh. “Gnostics” means “knowledge,” it is a knowledge which is attacking the fundamental belief of Christianity. Sound very familier to us!

Gnosticism’ statement of belief:

1. The highest God is spiritual, living in light, totally separated from darkness.

2. Cosmos is not created by God, cosmos made of material, and they believe all material beings are evil.

3. God did not related with cosmos being, cosmos was created by a secondary god, and this god does not know who is God.

4. They believe man is consists of 2 parts, only a few people had spiritual wisdom, so they need a savior to save them from the evil cosmos.

5. Jesus was only a son of Joseph and Mary, he was not born by a virgin, but his righteousness, patient, wisdom are highest among mankind.

6. After Jesus was baptized, Christ came into Him; Christ came from the Highest God.

7. Christ is in Jesus, so Jesus started to declare the unknown Father in heaven to the world, and working the miracles.

8. Those a few who were enlightened with the spiritual wisdom will come to know God, return to God the Father.

9. Before Jesus was crucified, Christ left Jesus, Christ returned to heaven, on the cross only a mere human was being crucified.

Gnosticism biggest mistake is about the truth of “the Word become flesh.” They do not believe Christ has man and God attributes. So they will purposely distort the truth and the fact that “He becomes flesh.” They made Christ without a flesh and body. And they preached that Jesus was an ordinary man, if an ordinary man was being crucified on the cross, how can He redeem all mankind?

Another mistake is to say that man consists of 2 parts, dualism, a spiritual being with a sinning body; the spiritual being is separated with the physical body. Those sins, lusts and fleshly immoral activities were belong to the physical body, they do not related with the spiritual being, so Gnostics were usually living in lust and sin.

Gnostics were indoctrinating a false teaching, that only those who accepted Gnosticism and their mystical knowledge can be saved, they were enlighten, in other word, they did not depend on the salvation of Jesus Christ. They said they were born from God, they said they can converse directly with God; they said they had seen God. They said they were born sinless, they said they were working righteousness, so they said they do not need the commandments, and they do not need to follow Christ. This is also sound very familiar to us!

This falsehood had infiltrated the church, so John had to correct these mistakes. He wrote in 1 John 2:26 “These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.”

John wrote in this epistle:

1. God is light (1:5), there is no darkness in Him, the children of God must walk in the light, and those who do not walk in the light are not walking the truth.

2. God is life, through Jesus Christ, all man who repented, confessed and depending on Him will bestow eternal life. Holy Spirit is dwelling in the believers, He is teaching the truth, so that they may walk in the truth, and to live Christ’s life. (2:24-29)

3. God is love (4:8), all those who know God, must love one another, because love is from God, all those who believe the Lord must live in love, how God love us? God’s heart is shown when Jesus Christ came to the world. Those who disbelieve God’s word is to make God as a liar (5:10-11)

The contents of the book of 1 John

1. The writer rebuked those false teachers and their mistakes sharply, (2:26),

2. Without hesitation he rebukes their unrighteousness (3:8-10).

3. St. John wanted the believers to believe firmly and trust wholeheartedly that “Jesus Christ is come in the flesh”

4. God had given his believer true knowledge (5:20)

5. The believers can be bestowing the eternal life, solely knowing the truth about Christ.

Beware of those teachers who taught false teachings, some of them teach Gnosticism, they had overdo some truths, especially some had distorted the about the person of Christ Jesus, He is the “Word became flesh!” Some people had certain claims! Some are qualifying as agnosticism and some are qualifying as Gnosticism, so their rational statements that assert a factual claim about the universe that begin "I believe that ...." are simply shorthand for, "Based on my knowledge, understanding, and interpretation of the prevailing evidence, I tentatively believe that...." These scholars assert that human intelligence has a non-material, spiritual element. They affirm that “not being able to see or hold some specific thing does not necessarily negate its existence,” it is sound very familiar, the unseen underlying text!

Indeed, in most Gnostic systems the sufficient cause of salvation is this 'knowledge of' ('acquaintance with') the divine. This is commonly identified with a process of inward 'knowing' or self-exploration, comparable to that encouraged by Plotinus (ca. 205–270 AD). However, as may be seen, the term 'Gnostic' also had precedent usage in several ancient philosophical traditions, which must also be weighed in considering the very subtle implications of its appellation to a set of ancient religious groups. In essence, it had been decided that 'Gnosticism' would become a historically-specific term, restricted to mean the Gnostic movements prevalent in the 3rd century, while 'gnosis' would be a universal term, denoting a system of knowledge retained 'for a privileged elite.'

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. May the Lord grant us grace and mercy in pursuing the truth about the “Word became flesh.” Jesus Christ came to the world to save sinner. He is come to be obey. Let us adored the “Word became flesh.” Let us preach “The Word became flesh.” Worshiped Him, the Word became flesh. He, the “Word became flesh” is not come to be debated! But to obey Him, and His commandments! He commanded us to love one another!

Do we hear Him, when He said He is, the “Word became flesh,” how does this verse speak to us? When God asked us, to unite in Christ, but we separated the congregation with the perfect underlying Text of the KJV! How about that?

In another place, do not quarrel about word! 1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings.” Are THESE WORDS NOT FROM THE LORD Himself? What for the teaching about the perfect underlying text, the teaching of VPP, is it a type of Gnosticism? How about that?

The Gnostics purposely distort the truth and the fact that “He becomes flesh.” They did not look highly about, “the Word becomes flesh,” they are teaching some thing else, they replace this truth with falsehood. Some had taken lightly the truth “the Word, Jesus becomes flesh.” But they teach some thing else, they just teach the perfect Word, not relating to Jesus Christ, this is to distract people, not to learn the truth how “the Word become flesh” with pointing to the perfect underlying text of KJV, the Word in the underlying text!

John 1:1-5 in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Some had taken the UNDERLYING TR HIGHLY, until they disobey the truth? John 1:14 and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

The word of God has been perfect and preserved, even the Word can becomes flesh. The Bible is perfected and preserved by Jesus Christ. Jots and titles are fulfilled by and in the Lord Jesus Christ. The manuscripts and all the inspired Word of God were being perfected and fulfilled by Jesus Christ. Is He the perfect Word of God, and He is the living Word of God?

What about the Bible? The Bible is also called the Word of God, Westminster Confession. CHAPTER I of the Holy Scripture,

8. The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which, at the time of the writing of it, was most generally known to the nations), being immediately inspired by God, and, by his singular care and providence, kept pure in all ages, are therefore authentical[r]; so as, in all controversies of religion, the church is finally to appeal unto them[s]. But, because these original tongues are not known to all the people of God, who have right unto, and interest in the Scriptures, and are commanded, in the fear of God, to read and search them[t], therefore they are to be translated into the vulgar language of every nation unto which they come[u], that, the Word of God dwelling plentifully in all, they may worship him in an acceptable manner[w]; and, through patience and comfort of the Scriptures, may have hope[x].

[r]. Matt. 5:18; Ps. 119:89
[s]. Is. 8:20; Matt. 15:3, 6; Acts 15:15; see II Tim. 3:14-15
[t]. John 5:39; Acts 17:11; Rev. 1:3; see II Tim. 3:14-15
[u]. Matt. 28:19-20; see I Cor. 14:6; Mark 15:34
[w]. Col. 3:16; see Exod. 20:4-6; Matt. 15:7-9
[x]. Rom. 15:4

The Bibles are therefore authentical! It is authentical! Means the Bibles are Genuine. Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register. [1913 Webster] Nothing about perfection of a Bible translation here! Nothing about the perfection of the underlying text, nothing about a perfect single TR, nothing about a perfect KJV, nothing about a perfect version. It means the Bibles are authentical, traced to the first hand writer, that is all it means here. Kept pure until they are authentical. Not perfection in a translation or version.

The theologians are like those 'gnosis' universally, had spend so much time and efforts to fight for the perfect underlying text, those time wasted can be used to defend the truth about the Lord, “The Word become flesh,” and time can be spent to defend the perfect Jesus Christ, to defend the truth about the perfect Christ, to teach the doctrine about Jesus Christ and His salvation.

Confession

Dear God, Thou are there, when I called thee, and I had sinned against thee, I had disqualified to be thy child and not able to serve Thee anymore, please bring me closer to Thee.

God, if Thou are listenning to my confession, give me new life from Jesus Christ. Bless me this moment, when I seek, please let me find Thee, when I down and near to death, guard me to read the Bible, bless me so that I can become Thy child and servant.

Dear God heavenly Father, please bring the theologians and the pastors together so that the old pastor may sleep in peace. Let all the young and old rejoice to see death of Thy saints.

Dear Lord, God the Saviour, save me from my sins and guilts, without Thy salvation, in death and sorrow I laid down and perish. Protect me from evil and harm because I am dead and hopeless, and because all power belong to Thee.

As my self examination, finding myself in want, in sorrow, in loneliness, in darkness, in hopeless, in failures, in poverty, in weakness, in sickness, in depressions, in oppressions, in persections, I failed and fellen asleep.

My Lord, if Thou are my Lord and my God, please help me, in doubts, in sins, in sadness, in faults, in mistakes, in wrongdoings, in hypocrycy, in lost, in separations, in wickedness, in sorry, in self pitiness.

My God, in doubts, cannot transform myself, had fellen into this traps and pit hole, and cannot arise anymore, please hear my prayer in sorrow. Bless me with your promise, Rejoice in Thee always, bless and forgive me. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Majority of What? When? Where?

As is usually the case with historical documents, the older something is, the fewer examples tend to survive. At the same time, older copies are generally believed to be more accurate renditions where variations exist. The thinking is that a fifth generation copy (written four hundred years after the original autograph) is likely to be far more accurate than a twelfth generation copy written fourteen hundred years after the original. TR/MT advocates would have us believe the exact opposite is true. Yet, the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are second-century copies predating the MT by hundreds of years, substantiated the accuracy of earlier non-majority text. The fact is that the MT are only a selection of Greek texts from a particular area of the world during a particular time period in only one of the many languages that the New Testament had been preserved in.

Interested? please visit:

http://www.gotquestions.org/verbal-plenary-preservation.html

The Book of 2 Peter with VPP

The writer explained that the scriptures are inspired words of God in 1:21, all the Words are inspired Word of God, the Bible is inspired, inspired by the Holy Spirit. St Peter wanted the readers to grow and developing good virtues after reading the inspired Word, (1:5-8). And at the same time, he was warning against those “hurtful and harmful heresies.” (2:16). lastly he mentioned the Lord is coming soon, without the interference from the Lord, the world may had long before been destroyed. (3:8-12). It is God who had preserved the world until today.

There are some Peter called them as “wells without water,” “clouds that are carried in the mist of darkness is reserved forever,” “the pig returned to the mud again.” May God forgive some like us the unprofitable servants, God is merciful, and may God make us to be a well with water, a cloud which carries rain!

There are times in the past, God’s people had strayed from the truth, denying Christ, like Peter, 3 times he denied Christ until the crock crow, there were those who were fulfilling their lust like those Corinthian Christians, and some of them even did not believe the Lord is coming soon. Else where and there are still some who are walking in the way of “Balaam,” and these people will surely perished in fire and living in total darkness one day. (2:17-3:3-7)

Peter said “to know Christ is our glory, hope, dependence and power!” The writer was departing soon, he was at the end of his life, as he wrote in 1:14, he was living under the King Nero, and the king was persecuting the church. To Peter, King Nero is not the biggest threat to the church, there is another bigger threat, Peter point out what was that, “heresies, beware the false teachers and false prophets!”

Here are some of the descriptions about the heresies and the teachers, Peter said they did not witness the Lord Jesus who had saved them (2:1), they were not afraid of anyone and they were stubborn (2:10), they are lustful (2:13), they are adulterous, they are the fornicators and the greedy some (2:14), and then they are boastful (2:18), lastly and finally they are servants of destructions (2:19). These men were more dangerous than 10 King Nero, they endangered the spiritual growth of a church. These men were more dangerous than the Roman Empire which persecuted them. May God preserves and lead us, so that we will not become a false teacher or false prophet.

Dear God heavenly Father,have mercy on me, this weak and poor sinful man, I do not want to become one of them!

2 Peter 1:1, Knowing Christ is a blessing, a theme in Christianity, this is the medicine and remedy to defend and fight against those false teachers and their heresies.

1:2, Peter wrote 4 times “epignosis,” 3 times “gnosis,” knowing is not only knowing the mere knowledge of the world, but knowing Christ, there are blessings from God to them who know Christ, God bless us with grace, peace and even the eternal kingdom if we truly know Christ. What else we should murmur until we complaint about the inspired scriptures! What is the purpose of a perfect Bible is it not for knowing Christ?

1:3, by knowing Christ, He is called Lord, Lord over the theologians and all the pastors, and only He can fulfills all our spiritual needs. Peter said that Christ Whom he knew is a Glorious Lord, and Glorious God.

1:4, Christ promised us that we can be delivered from the bondage of lust and sin. A free man with the dwelling of the Holy Spirit, He can then enjoy and developing the virtues of God. In that man, the glory of God is shining from; he becomes the light in the world.

1:5, Peter agreed with Paul that faith must come with works, faith without works is death. Simple faith in Christ will bring along good morale in a man, by knowing God, a man may have self control, long suffering, and continue to live a devoted life, and continue in loving his brethren, and at last loving all men like loving God!

1:8, Christian must grow in these few virtues, and to be holy and perfect in faith. Freed from sins, and continue to be trained in pursuing good things until they can be called children of God.

1:9, there were some of them who said that a man can come to know God without the morale laws. So they disobey the morale laws, these morale laws are from the scriptures, even thought they said they believe the Bible totally, some of them said they believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, but they were liars, they choose to obey some scriptures, and choose to disobey some scriptures, strange! Peter said without the morale laws we are still in darkness!

1:10, Christians must live in and by morale laws, faith with works, spiritual life with good virtues, so that they can say they are elected, called and chosen, belong to God.

1:13-14, St. Peter exhorted us, “NOT TO be wavering,” his departing word?

1:15, traditionally people said, Mark was recording Peter’s sermon, and put in the Gospel of Mark, so Mark is closer with Peter than Paul, once Paul was angry with Mark, there was a quarrel in his missionary journey.

1:16-18, some say it is at the Mount Hermon the Lord shown His transfiguration, and Peter, James and John were up there watching with their open eyes, seeing the glory of God. Mount Hermon is a blessing for them.

Read Psalms 133:3 as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

But if we wanted to receive that blessing, there is a condition, read Psalms 133:1 A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psalms 133:2 it is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments.

Knowing Christ? We all know Christ? We said we know Him, what the scriptures required of us? Brethren to live in unity! Unity is more important or the theological debates? Paul and Peter also united with Mark at last, what about us? Are we cleverer than them? Are we more fundamental than Peter? Mount Hermon is still there, it brings what blessing to us today? Unity or debate? Debates only?

Christ’s transfiguration is to show the glory of God, likewise, brethren, be transformed in knowing Christ, if we can live in unity, then we can show others the glory of God in our Christian fellowship. We need that glory of God and brethren’s unity from Mount Hermon! Not debates! Only debate we want? What is the value of debate, if we lost our glory?

1:19, the Bible is a long prophecy about Christ, and a lamp onto our feet, so that we may see where we are heading!

1:20, Peter knows someone had misinterpreted the scriptures in his time, even in the first century, with the manuscripts at hands, there were people making misinterpretation. Peter said we cannot interpret the scriptures with our likings; we cannot interpret the Bible scripture out of context. Who are we to judge the mss with a few verses taken from here and there?

Psalm 12, for example, this psalm is a spiritual song, how come it had become a song of lament for many because of the teaching of VPP? How come a spiritual, awakening song, sung by the Jew, lament about human oppression, being misinterpreted to a “debate” about Holy Scriptures by some theologians? Only debate in Psalm 12, nothing else?

In the context of Psalm 12, the Psalmist laments the decrease of good men. The pride and deceit of the wicked provokes God's wrath, whose promise to avenge the cause of pious sufferers will be verified even amidst prevailing iniquity.

The scripture is inspired by God, every word is from God. God dwell with men, they wrote the scripture, men were co-labor with God, the Holy Spirit, taught by the Holy Spirit, the scripture is without errors. But Peter said there is the danger of misinterpretation! What about us, let us reduce the misinterpretations and increase the unity!

2:1, furthermore, with more and more misinterpretations of the scriptures, without delay, Peter warned us; there come the false teachers and false prophets, even the whole New Testament gives warnings about the false teachers and prophets in the church. Do not be surprised. At the end of the world, some even dare to use Christ’s name, in order they may cheat their disciples (Matthew 24:3, Act 20:29-30, Gal 1:6-9, Phil. 3:2, 1 Tim 1:3-7 and Jude 3-4)

These men with impure motives, preying for weaker believers who may be misled and taught with false teachings and false prophecies! Their characteristics are:

1. Denying Christ (2 Peter 2;1)
2. Denying the second coming of Christ (3:3-4)
3. Denying authority and disobey the authority (2:10)
4. Denying holiness in living (2:12-16)
5. Denying morale laws (2:18-22)

All heresy is harmful! The teachers are liars! The prophets are false. They will perish with their false teachings.

Matthew 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

Matthew 13:27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

2:2, Peter knew who were these men who sow the tares among the wheat, they were living in sin, disgrace Christ’s name and His truth!

2:3, their motives are to make profit from the debates, make gains from the statues, selling truths to make money!

2:4, God’s judgment is sure and perfect! Fair and just, He will judge those false teachers and prophets accordingly. Sinful and fallen angels are sending to the lake of fire! No excuse. What about us?

2:5, Peter gave an example, Noah was a prophet, preaching about righteousness, a perfect and needed truth in his time, at the end of preaching, only 8 persons, his family and him know the way to the ark! The rest perished together with the flood!

2:7, another example is Lot, he was imperfect, and he was not called to work like Noah, he also did not manage his house whole wisely, but Peter called him “a righteous man.” Lot does nothing, just laments! He lamented for the sinful world! Lament, for the end is coming soon! Sodom and Gomorrah were then perished with the brimstone and fire from the sky! Lot was saved with fears and trembling, losing his wife and properties.

2:8-9, St Peter comforted us, not to be torn down by those false teachers, false prophets, misinterpretations, debates. We are living in these ungodly generations, God know how to save those devoted single hearted men and women! Do not start to worry, and try to save ourselves! Follow Christ example, when He took His cross and walk His way to the hill.

2:10, but those who spread harmful and hurtful heresies and false teachings, they will be punished, perished like Sodom and Gomorrah.

2:11, Peter said, the angels do not rebuke! Rather, because the seriousness of the false teaching, even a donkey was provoked to rebuke Balaam.

2:12, Peter said, there were those heretics, more or less, the “Gnostic” they thought they had the mystical knowledge about the whole cosmos. But they had none of the simple truth!

2:13-14, these false teachers and false prophets had joined the feast of the agape, but they continue to tempt those weaker in faith to follow their false teaching and heresies.

2:15, Peter said, they were following “the way of Balaam,” it is a way of compromise, self seeking, even the donkey was touched with their falsehood and became angry, the donkey rebuked Balaam. Even donkey cannot tolerant these false teachings!

2:17, they were descript as “well without water,” useless.

2:18, the spiritual babes were easily fallen in prey by these heresies.

2:20-21, if a man is born again, he will not left Jesus Christ, whom he had believed, and become a reprobate! (John 10:27-30, Rom 8:28-39). Do not like Judas Iscariot, he had been following Christ, and he heard the truth, but he chooses not to obey, but he like money more than his Lord!

2:22, animal cannot change its animal instinct.

3:1, the purpose of Peter’s writing his epistle is to “remind” and “motivate us.”

3:2, Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles were called and sent to tell people about God’s commandment, they had the higher authority, and what they taught is from the Lord Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit.

3:3-7, all those prophecies about the end time will be fulfilled, at those moment, false prophets will arise, and come to deny the coming of the Lord, they scorned that God will never intervene the history of mankind. The Bible tells us God will destroy the earth and the ungodly. He is the creator of the whole universe and He will put an end to the wickedness!

3:8, quoting from Psalm 90:4, a thousand years is like a day in God’s prospective. God is not delaying, He is mercifully forgiving and forgiving, He is giving opportunities for us to repent.

3:9, so let us look at God’s will in 3 different ways:

1. God’s sovereignty (Isaiah 46:9-11, Daniel 4:17, 35; Hebrew 2:4, Rev 17:17)
2. God’s morale laws (Rom 3:20, Eph. 6:6, Heb 13:21)
3. God’s love (Ezek 33:11, Matt 23:37, 2 Pet 3:9)

There are a lot of people who are not saved in the end. (Rev 21:8) Do not blame the CUV, and NKJV Bible! They had chosen not to follow Christ, and they had chosen not to know Christ!

3:10, Christ is coming soon, it is called the day of Yahweh. (Joel 1:15) Our knowledge of His coming is limited:

1. The Lord is sure to come at another time, only God know the time. (Matt 24:36)
2. Suddenly He will appear, and cannot be expected (1 Thess 5:1-3)
3. It is the time when God judge the world (Act 17:31)

Peter said the whole world will be destroyed with a loud noise (2 Pet 3:12) What about those manuscripts, those manuscripts in goat skins, and the TR? Paper printed Bible like KJV Bibles, the text books in all the reformed bible colleges? Who is going to take care of them? Why quarrel now for the underlying texts?

There was a tree, with 7 roots it was being planted. When the tree grown up to be a tall tree, all the birds came to settle on it, happily all the birds dwell on that tree, but sadly one day, a man who watered the tree came, and he shoot all the birds away, and he said to his companion, “from this day onward, only white myna is allow to settle on my tree!” Why only white myna?

He forget to read Mark 4:32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

We may not forget the 7 roots tree, but it is better for us to look for our better inheritance in heaven!

3:11-13, Peter wrote there is a new heaven and new earth, this is what the prophets in the Old Testament was hoping and looking for! The present civilization will be changed, the bright future is ahead, and God will come into human history, making history, His Story.

3:15, God is still forgiving, there is still hope for salvation until that Day, for all mankind, life and death of the world is in God’s hands.

Lastly, in this epistle, Peter called Paul as a beloved brother, they were together at last in heaven, very close in Christ, and they had quarreled once on earth, but they never quarrel all the way to heaven. They were well known for their life and works, and they were well respected in heaven, they stop quarrel on heaven or on earth?

3:16, how holy we live our life? This is an important question Peter will ask us today. The Holy Scripture is called a “Holy” scripture because it is holy, why it is holy, because it is teaching us how to live a holy life. Does your Bible in your hand teach you to live a holy life? If the Bible in your hand teaches you to live a holy life! The Bible in your hand is inspired and inerrant word of God. There were people who do not trained in the Gospel truth, lacking of the foundation of the truth, and they are those who easily misinterpret the Bible.

3:17, St Peter reminds the readers, false teachers and false prophets had come to the world, beware of them, there are those who fall way. But God is able to carry us through, until we meet with Him face to face. (Jude 24, 1 Peter 5:10)

3:18, finally Peter ended his letter, he wishes all to grow in spirit, to become a mature Christian, and he concluded, “KNOWING GOD IS OUR GLORY, DEPENDENCE AND POWER!” Only God is able to give us true life, and bring us into His kingdom.



Question:

1. Why Knowing Christ is blessing?
2. What is more dangerous than 10 king Nero?
3. NOT TO be wavering, why Peter said so?
4. What was the misinterpreted the scriptures in Peter’s time?
5. Who are false teachers and false prophets?
6. Why donkey cannot tolerant Balaam?
7. The purpose of Peter’s writing his epistle is?
8. Why KNOWING GOD IS OUR GLORY, DEPENDENCE AND POWER!

Time is near !

My Lord, the Great one of Israel, The God of Heaven and earth, all praises and all knees must bow down to you!

Our eyes had seen your great works! Thank Lord God, our Saviout, Eternal Lord Jesus Christ, The Great and Living, one who die for us on the cross!

Time is near, all night waiting to You, until You sent down your armies here, thousands and thousands had been killed, the Chineses and Indians had been killed, I called onto You, the Great Savior, please vindicted and save us! How long we had to wait? Oh Lord Jesus Christ, You are the Great One, in Your hand is judgment!

All men, wait unto the Lord, for He is merciful! Take courage, time is near that Your revenge is for those oppressed and killed! And that sudden fear will be pour down like hot oil on those killed and hurt innocent men. Four generations will be punished for them who hate the Lord, and kills and murders.

All men, wail unto the Lord, for He is merciful! Take courage, time is here, our land will be changed until they repent! Surely Great is the mercy of Our Lord, to thousand generations, He loves those who repent from killing and murdering, to them who show mercy, mercy will be shown.

Time is near that tear will be change into laughters! You who mourned will be comforted in Him eternally! Woe onto the land who kill and murder innocent men and women, their bloods are crying out from the Land.

Please help us, Great and Migthy God, please help us, Great and Mighty one of Israel!

Unkind doctors, out there!

Doctor and Medical doctors? Who are they? There is a Specialists Center, it is full with evil and greedy doctors, these doctors were graduated from top universities overseas, with MD, DO, MB, MBBS, MBChB, MDCM, etc some with master degree. If you visit their rooms, you can see many certificates on the walls, with many qualifications shown on the walls, some of these doctors were honored by the king with medals!

These rich doctors are proud and arrogant! But actually who are they? Why they are becoming scorn and thorn in the earth. Here are some stories about them. These doctors usually like money, more than a human life. When a sick man came to see them, they will try to make money from the sick man, until they are broke, at the end, the sick man is helpless, then they will tell the truth to the family, “Bring him back to your home, let him die there, no point to let him stay here,” in other words, let him wait for his death, finished! After few days under the specialist doctors, many discouraged of sickness which can be cured, but thousands of thousands of dollars were spent, money is gone, people suffer and sometimes die, the family members were cheated in this way.

Many sad and cruel stories were told among the people about these inhuman doctors! People hate these “doctor”, they are not doctors, and they are the predators! People said they do not heal; they do not steal, but kill to earn money! More and more money they earned! People were told not to send their sick there! Because these doctors will tell the patients, the sickness is helpless, “please pay your bills,” wait and die. Later they went to another hospital, other doctors tell the patients another fact about their sickness, and there their sickness is healed.

It is true about their greed and cruelty, one of the patients, told his story, one day, he came to see those doctors in that Specialist Center, the doctors admitted him into the wad in the specialist center, and then he was put under the care of the nurses, and day after day, the nurse fed him with many kinds of medicines, but no doctor came to attend to him in the wad room, the nurse become his only aid! He was discharged, and thousands of dollars were collected from that sick man, when the family members knew those doctors, mistreated the sick, only waiting to collect money at the end of the stay, and discharged them out of the ward, and the sick is a money making business, money! What kind of doctors are these doctors? Are they acted justly to the sick? The family members become angry, these doctors are not doctors at all!

And another sick old man, tells his story, these doctors will treat the sick without love, he was facing a serious stroke, and he was admitted into the wad at that specialist center, and there, he was laid on the bed for three days three nights, nothing had been done to him, and later he realizes something is not right, thousands dollars billed to him, he discharged from the wad, and he went to another private hospital, and there he was treated better, but it is too late to treat his stoke! He is now paralyzed.

What about those general hospitals? There are also strange doctors, in the government hospital, who just know how to prescribe, paracetamol, nothing else! When you go to see these doctors with all kinds of pains and all kinds of sickness, they will give you 10 tablets of paracetamol, and they will let you go home and do nothing; even if you had waited for the doctor that whole morning in pains and sickness! And those doctors are more interested to look at what color of your skin is, brown, black, yellow, white, grey… and by these colors, then they adjust their characters and cares, treatment is accorded to races and colors of the skin, rather than the sickness and weakness! These are discriminations the sick faced every day! You cannot complain about your skin color.

And what about those private clinics, are they any better? The doctors charged people with a reasonable sum of money for treatment, some are good doctors, but they are not expert, not all these doctors are good! And some doctors like to switch doctors, sometimes at night, they will let funny doctors, particularly psychiatrists, take over their clinic, are these doctors know every sickness, besides mental illness. These doctors will look at you like looking at their mentally ill patients! They will smiles at you and comfort you and ask you to go to another clinic at another time! Funny doctors, they treat us like a sick donkey! You have to pay for their smile. Pay your visit another time, no way! If I perish, I perish!

One day, I met a vet, an animal doctor, he told me that he is cleverer than all the ordinary doctors; I asked him why he says so? He said, “I can treat a cow and goat, and heal their sickness. And these animal do not know how to talk to me, do not know how to complain about their sickness but I know their sickness. I am cleverer! Compare to those doctors in the hospital, they treat human beings, and you know, human can talk, they can tell what sickness and pains they had, so the doctors can easily diagnose and find out the sickness, but I can heal animals which do not know how to talk, so I am cleverer than the doctor in the hospitals.” I hear with admiration and surprise, speechless like a donkey! I went back home, and I asked myself, indeed, he is speaking the truth or lies? I answer my self, human sickness is more complicated from cows and goats. A lot more people die of HIV compared with animals!

I can not understand these doctor, sometimes they are clever, sometimes not! If you are a doctor of theology, what kind of doctor do you want to be? Do you treat your students like treating sick horses? Do you ask your students to shut up, do not talk, just listen, and follow instructions, and sometimes you scold them, “do not talk too much, I am speaking God’s commandment.” How do you treat the phobia of “KJV only?”

Acts 5:34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space…..

Please pray for more and more good doctors!

The Book of 1 Peter with VPP

This is an epistle written by St Peter to the believers in Turkey. They were living under persecutions, Peter encourages them to live in lively hope and holiness. The simple plan of salvation had accomplished through the Lord Jesus Christ, so believers are to return cursing with the blessing since they had been blessing by Christ.

1:1-2, Peter was called Simon, he was an apostle who saw the coming of the Holy Spirit, like a tongue of fire at the Pentecost. Here Peter induces and reminds the believers they were cleansed by the blood of the Lamb of God.

1:3, by the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, they have the perfect salvation. They have the perfect joy from the perfect salvation. A new man living with new hope!

1:4-5, the believers are living in a warfare with the devils and demons, sometimes they were up sad, by faith they can lean on God, and God preserved them in peace.

1:6, all those suffering and persecutions were temporary.

1:7, they must face suffering like Christ, they are suffering in glorifying the Lord.

1:8-9, they must build their faith in Christ, faith build on Christ can save us, and by faith, we can unite with Him.

1:10-12, there are prophecies even after the Pentecost, and for the last 2 thousand years, the church prophecy truth of the Gospel and preach Christ, not ourselves. VPP is only being debated in the last few years! Which is more important? Debates or the truth?

1:13, the hope of eternal life motives us to live in holiness. God is holy, so Christian must lives in holiness, grow in spirit when Christ comes, He will bless us, perfecting everything.

1:14, obedient is better than sacrifices. Lust is pulling us away from faith.

1:15-16, be separated from unholy and unclean things.

1:17-19, God will judge us according to how holy we live. Christ offered His blood, like a lamb in the Old Testament.

1:20, even before the creation, Christ prepared Himself for us, this is revealed to us now.

1:22-25, Love one another, why? We are born again and our heart is born again, so we love one another. New life grows in God eternal Word, must love one another. Verse 24 is quoted from LXX, Isaiah 40:6-8. Even Peter used LXX?

2:1-3, Sin hindered man to love one another, put away sin and bitterness, by taking in the spiritual milk. Like a babe craving for simple truth, the truth is good. When we are growing we will love one another. Christ is our spiritual milk.

2:4, we are God’s temple. Christ is also the living Rock, under the Rock, there is the Living Water, whosoever thirst may come to drink freely, and live like Israelites when they have the perfect Word, but they asked for water in the wilderness. Christ is the Living Water.

2:5, we are called to be a priest, redeemed by the Great High Priest. We are to live like a living sacrifice, offering our body, money and good works to bring people to Christ.

2:7, some men are predestinated to fall away; they do not and refused to believe the prophecy. God had made election some to be saved in Christ. Content, do not quarrel with mere “words.” Why quarrel for the genealogy of English Bibles and underlying texts?

2:9-10, we are precious, separated from the world, brought into the Kingdom of God as Children of God.

2:12, so live rightly doing good works. When we are being slandered, do not be discourage and retaliate, do not return them with evil words or works. Return evil with love and profit, so that they may give glory to God in seeing our life.

2:13 respect the government and those have high authority. Even King Nero they had to obey, authority is from God, but rather obey God rather than obeying man. The end is near.

2:14, surely the evildoer will be judged one day.

2:15, Christians are called to be good citizens on earth.

2:16, live in holiness, by this we are free.

2:17, furthermore we are called to respect all men, love brethren in Christ, in this we fear God, do not fear kings and terrorists. (Matt 10:28)

2:18, treat the servants justly, servants also must do good, to be an example, one day the servants will be rewarded in heaven.

2:21, following Christ, He was suffering from saving and redeeming sinners like us.

2:23-25, Christ is sinless, but He was even be nailed. He did not retaliate when He was being nailed. He died, so we live. He resurrected to take care, protect, feed and oversee us. He is the Shepherd of shepherds.

3:1-2, a wife must influence his husband by her good characters.

3:3, inner beauty is more important than mere outlook.

3:7, a husband must love and respect his wife, she is weaker physically, by this his prayer will be answered without hindrances.

3:8, St. Peter laid out the rules in true Christian’s life:

1. same heart (Rom. 15:5)
2. sympathizing (Rom 12:15)
3. love one another (Rom 12;10)
4. be merciful (Eph 4:32)
5. be humble (Eph 4:2)

3:9-12, bless those who curse and persecute us. (Luke 6:27, Rom 12:14, 1 Thess 5:15). The blessing is not enough, St. Peter said, we must pray for them!

3:13, no Christian is really hurt and killed, because Christian’s inheritance is in heaven.

3:14-16, the world will hate us, because we do not live like them, so we suffer for a little while. God is our shield and protection. (Isaiah 8:12-13)

Be prepared to give answers, defending the truth in love, gentleness, and humbleness.

3:17, better to suffer in doing good works than doing evil.

3:18, Christ endured sufferings in doing well, until He was crucified on the cross.

3:21-22, first we are called to die with Christ, and later to live with Him.

3:22, fervently serving the Lord, nothing can harm us!

4:1-6, St. Peter reminded us when we are living in suffering, beware the worldliness.

4:7-11, seeing Christ is returning soon, we must behave, be sensitive, MOST IMPORTANT IS LOVE ONE ANOTHER, in loving one another, we have to forgive and cover their sins (1 Cor 13:4-7).

4:17, God’s house is the church, and judgment begins there! God cleansed His house through the persecutions!

4:18, this verse is quoted from the LXX, Proverb 11:31, by faith and grace, the ungodly are saved by God!

4:19, God preserved our souls.

5:4, Christ is the Head of all the shepherds! He is the good Shepherd! We shall not want.

5:5, humbleness is a virtue, if we really know ourselves; we have nothing to boast about! In God’s eyes, we must be humbled. Even Christ humbly washed Peter’s feet.

5:7, quoting from LXX, Psalm 55:22, God cares, so depend on God totally.

5:8 fear not our enemy! (1 John 4:4). Brethren become our enemy?

5:9, a reminder, remember all the brethren!

5:12 do not forget God’s grace is free!

5:13, Mark is closer with Peter than to Paul?



Thought:

What are Christ’s sufferings?

How holy we live?

What are the rules in true Christian’s life?

As a church leader, like Peter, what he sees as the most important thing, Christian must do in the end time?

How to love one another?

What are the 2 great commandments taught by Christ Jesus?

Lips Service !

Matthew 15:8

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Mark 7:6

He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

These people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, by putting the commandments of men on a level with the divine requirements, their whole worship was rendered vain--a principle of the deep moment in the service of God. "For," it is added in Mr 7:8, "laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do." The driveling nature of their multitudinous observances is here pointedly exposed, in contrast with the manly observance of "the commandment of God"; and when our Lord says, "Many other such like things ye do," it is implied that He had but given a specimen of the hideous treatment which the divine law received and the grasping disposition which, under the mask of piety, was manifested by the ecclesiastics of that day.