Wednesday, December 18, 2013

DAY 27 - New Job Description: Scary! Would Jesus Say Not Knowing You? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)


Today's Reading: Matthew 7:21-23

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Bible Study
     
     Remember the first two warnings?
1. First warning: Not easy to follow Jesus 
2. Second warning: Be careful who you are following
Today, we have the third warning:
3. Third warning: Scary! Would Jesus says not knowing you?

    The only thing Jesus says He knows you when you complete your job on earth is that you do the will of God. 

    What does it means by that? It's like an examination after a few months of being in class. And, the examination is about whether you understand what Jesus teaches in the Sermon on the Mount and whether you can live that out.

    Starts with your daily repentance so that you can become a better new being, having a new doing and then being transformed to have a new standard. That's all you have to live out! That's your new job description. Easy? Difficult?

    Well, if you consider that's how you pass this examination then it worth everything you've got to make it. If you can't fulfill your job description you might have a chance to get a warning letter or even being fired. But, you can find a new job and start over again. If you can't pass this examination, you know what would happen. That's how Jesus gives us His third warning. And, that's a big, big warning! Do you think you can make it?

    Remember, everything starts with your daily repentance, the new being, new doing and new standard will come naturally if you are in His Kingdom having Jesus as your Lord and King. Right? 

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"



Spiritual Journal

     The topic I received from Jesus today is : 
     New Job Description: Scary! Would Jesus say not knowing you?

      Can you believe Jesus would one day say to those seemingly powerful and gifted people that He does not know them and tell them to go to hell. And, those people can prophesy, drive out demons, perform miracles and more. We call those people super Christian leaders! Why? Because their lives can not be a witness to other people that they live out the Beatitudes, having the new doings as in giving, praying and fasting but in other doing on their own terms, then have not been transformed to start a new standard to let God be God and not taking God's role to be a judge. They do not have the simple and true relationship with God as their father.

     Scary! Yes, it is really scary! 

Dear Lord Jesus,
      Lead us to be able to do the will of God as says in the Sermon on the Mount so that when the day comes you will welcome us with your loving arms to your eternal Kingdom.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Questions for group discussion


New Job Description: Scary! Would Jesus Say Not Knowing You?
新的工作範疇: 耶穌唔認你?

Passage: Matthew 7:21-23

Questions for group leaders
1. Read Matthew 7:15-20 again now. Do you think Jesus would one day say to those seemingly powerful and gifted people that He does not know them and tell them to go to hell? Why?

2. Do you think He will say that to you? Why not? 

3. How can you prevent that to happen to you? What is your new job description really? 

4. What is your highlight in today’s session? 

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