Showing posts with label 天父. Show all posts
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October 11, 2013

Journey to see God: see the Father in heaven as spoken by Jesus

Study on our heavenly 'Father' in the words spoken by Jesus, the Son of God
  1. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
    Matthew 5:15-17 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  2. so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
    Matthew 5:44-46 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  3. You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
    Matthew 5:47-48 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  4. so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
    Matthew 6:3-5 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  5. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
    Matthew 6:5-7 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  6. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
    Matthew 6:7-9 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  7. Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
    Matthew 6:8-10 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  8. For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,
    Matthew 6:13-15 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  9. that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
    Matthew 6:17-19 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  10. Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
    Matthew 6:25-27 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  11. For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
    Matthew 6:31-33 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  12. If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
    Matthew 7:10-12 (in Context) Matthew 7 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  13. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
    Matthew 10:19-21 (in Context) Matthew 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  14. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
    Matthew 10:28-30 (in Context) Matthew 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  15. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
    Matthew 23:8-10 (in Context) Matthew 23 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  16. Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done.”
    Matthew 26:41-43 (in Context) Matthew 26 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  17. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
    Luke 6:35-37 (in Context) Luke 6 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  18. [ Jesus Rejoices in the Father's Will ] In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was Your gracious will.
    Luke 10:20-22 (in Context) Luke 10 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  19. And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.
    Luke 11:1-3 (in Context) Luke 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  20. If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
    Luke 11:12-14 (in Context) Luke 11 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  21. Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
    Luke 23:45-47 (in Context) Luke 23 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  22. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
    John 5:44-46 (in Context) John 5 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  23. They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know My Father also.”
    John 8:18-20 (in Context) John 8 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  24. I speak of what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
    John 8:37-39 (in Context) John 8 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  25. Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
    John 8:41-43 (in Context) John 8 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  26. Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
    John 12:27-29 (in Context) John 12 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  27. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
    John 14:25-27 (in Context) John 14 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  28. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
    John 15:15-17 (in Context) John 15 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  29. In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;
    John 16:25-27 (in Context) John 16 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
  30. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
    John 17:10-12 (in Context) John 17 (Whole Chapter) Other Translations
     

March 7, 2012

End Times Watchman Bible Study: “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

The watchman and his class found a dilemma in this verse. "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!" (Mark9:24)

How can one have faith and still has doubt and unbelief at the same time? 

This requires immediate investigation. Many cannot receive the healing and deliverance from their diseases and weaknesses because of this contradiction in them. The watchman's study notes are in brackets.

Mark 9:14-32 

A Boy Is Healed

14 And when He came to the disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and scribes disputing with them. 15 Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people were greatly amazed, and running to Him, greeted Him. 16 And He asked the scribes, “What are you discussing with them?”
17 Then one of the crowd answered and said, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. 18 And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not.”

(A great multitude was there and they observed the physical condition of the sick boy and the failure of Jesus' disciples to cast out the mute demon from him. They were even arguing with the 'specialists' -scribes over the treatment of this medical or mental case. The disciples had been given authority and power by Jesus previously and had been successful in their healing ministry. So why did they fail this time? The patient's father of course complained to the master healer Himself. It was natural to react the way he did to failure and disappointment.) 

19 He answered him and said, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me.” 

(Jesus was not addressing the faithless crowd of bystanders or the patient and his father. They did not know Him or His power. Many had not even heard the full Gospel of the Kingdom of God and of Christ. Jesus was addressing His own disciples who had followed Him and lived with Him and witnessed His supernatural power and deeds. They had heard the full Gospel. They had been given authority and power by Him. Note how Jesus described them.)

20 Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth.
21 So He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?”
And he said, “From childhood. 22 And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
23 Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”

(Note the conversation between the patient's father and Jesus. How can anyone be believing and not believing at the same time?  Was he telling lies? But the poor man was in tears. He was in front of a big crowd. Yet he continued pleading to Jesus to heal his son. So he must have heard of Jesus' power and believed that Jesus could do it. Yet, he admitted that he had unbelief. Amazing. This is the theme of today's message. Can we have faith and unbelief at the same time?)

25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it: “Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more!” 26 Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, “He is dead.” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.

(Note how simple the matter was. Jesus merely commanded and the evil spirit obeyed and came out of the boy. The boy might have looked terrible when he was possessed. But Jesus saw the evil spirit and not the patient. In the spiritual realm Jesus' authority is recognized and obeyed.

28 And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
29 So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting." **

(Note the conversation between the disciples and Jesus. The disciples were still obsessed with their job failure. They were looking at the physical  (body and soul -mind and emotion) realm, the humiliation and inadequacy they felt in not delivering the required result.) But Jesus did not answer them about this 'job' or 'performance assessment'. He revealed the true condition of their spirits. They were still living within the paradigm of their physical and natural world. they were unable to believe that Jesus' Father (God)'s world is real, even though they could not see it. Jesus had taught them and demonstrated to them the reality of God and that He is from God. But their hearts were hardened by their preoccupation with the physical and natural and unbelief of the spiritual reality.)

Those who are not spiritually discerned cannot understand the things of God. God is Spirit. The Pharisees and Scribes cannot understand. Christians are expected to know and understand. But Many cannot. Why? Spiritual discernment comes from diligently seeking God, belief in the spiritual reality of God (and His word), being led by faith and not by sight. These are all essential in order to know and understand the matters of God, that is, the matters as revealed by the Holy Spirit (often through the word of God).


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**Notes on FASTING: This does not mean certain evil spirits are so powerful that the disciples cannot cast it out even by Jesus Name. The fasting is for the disciples to cast their own flesh and unbelief of God’s spiritual reality. Unbelief nullifies their use of the Name of Jesus and the authority therein over spiritual beings (e.g. evil spirits). They did not believe because they were walking by sight and not by faith. Their hearts were hardened by the world and worldly knowledge. They could not discern spiritual matters because they were not led by the Spirit.

Fasting deals with our flesh and carnal man.  
Being a disciple means we need to deny ourselves (body, mind and emotion and everything that makes up us in the physical natural realm), take up our cross and follow Christ daily. Only sons of God are led by the Holy Spirit. Only when we walk and live by the Spirit, can we discern spiritual matters and war in the spiritual realm, taking the authority of the name of the Son of God, Jesus effectively.


 

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