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Friday, April 27, 2012

不要同负一轭

Do you know what is yoke? A yoke is a crossbar with two U-shaped pieces that encircle the necks of a pair of oxen or other draft animals working together, example, in ploughing the land.

However, in order for the work to be done, both oxen must work together, in the same direction. If either one of them walking to the other direction, or stop walking, the work cannot be done, since the yoke bind both of them together.

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. 
For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? 
Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? 
What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 
What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? 
2 Corinthians 6:14-16

So in the same way, we, as believers in Christ, should not yoke together with the unbelievers. Don't misunderstand what I mean. I do not mean that believers cannot befriend with the unbelievers. An ox can become friend with other ox. What I mean is a believer cannot commit into a certain task, work, or something else that required commitment, with unbeliever, since their direction and principle is different. A pair of oxen that are yoked together, if they walk in different direction, nothing can be accomplish. 

A simple example is business. How can a believer work with an unbeliever, who willing to be dishonest in dealing business? Another example is marriage. How can a believer married with an unbeliever, when both of them walking towards different direction?

Another analogy is bird and fish (飞鸟和鱼的故事). How can these two creatures live together, when both of them living in different biosphere?

你们和不信的原不相配,不要同负一轭。
歌林多後書 6:14
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Leviathan cannot fly into the sky, Phoenix cannot dive into the sea.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Lose to find. Crucified to live. Give up to gain.

我选择放弃,
我选择离开,
我选择抛开,
我选择忘记,

那一切虚幻,
那一切假想,
那一切负担,
那一切牵挂,
那一切无谓,

为了守住所交托的信心和真理。 

Whoever finds his life will lose it, 
and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Matthew 10:39  

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. 
The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, 
who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20
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He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep 
to gain that which he cannot lose.
- FH -

Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Story of Palm Sunday

                                               

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"Hosanna to the Son of David!" 
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Hosanna in the highest!"
Matthew 21:9