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我们为何热愛圣经

范杰瑞和范玛丽莲

 

耶稣是活的道，圣经是上帝的成文的道！
如果我们想知道如何作为一名基督徒生活，我们来看看耶稣的生活：

  • 看看他是谁，他的性格，
  • 以及他在地上所做的事情。

但我们也有上帝的话语：

  • 而且由于圣经是真实且无误的，圣经就成为我们生活的权威，就像我们在耶稣生活中看到的一样，因为其中没有冲突。

你曾经坐过只有一条腿或两条腿的“凳子”吗？

  • 如果是这样，你会发现很难保持平衡。
  • 上次我们在一起时分享了第一条腿——祈祷。
  • 今天，我们将分享第二条腿——热愛圣经。
  • 明天早上，我们将分享——应许。
  • 如果凳子有3 条腿

弗朗西斯·谢弗的名言——“我们该如何生活？”

  • 激励我们的心去相信上帝的话语——圣经，

作为我们生活的权威

  • 并且活出最丰盛的人生

这就是我们今天早上要开始的地方，基于上帝圣言的权威，我们应该如何生活？

  • 让我们的生活充满上帝的话语和圣经，让真理进入我们的头脑：
  • 经常聆听宣讲和教导圣经。
  • 每年阅读《创世记》1：1 至《启示录》22：21。
  • 研究它。
  • 背诵它。
  • 默想 基于你所听到、阅读、学习和背诵的内容 为了将这些真理从你的头脑转移到你的内心，

 

  • 为什么？
  • 因为这些真理如果不进入你的内心，就不会在应用中发挥作用。

“…昼夜思想，这样你就会小心 按照其中所写的一切去遵行”……
[约书亚记 1:8 新国际版]
我们为何热愛圣经？

此时，我们将交替分享一些经文，说明我们喜愛圣经的原因：

玛丽莲：

  • 让我跟你们分享一下我为什么热愛圣经？
  • [耶利米书 29:11-13] – “因为我知道我向你们所怀的意念”
  • 这是上帝写给我们的一封情书。
  • [腓立比书 3:10 和合本]
  • “更加深入、更加亲密地认识他”
  • “更加强烈、更加清晰地感知、认识和理解他属性的奇妙”。
  • [诗篇 23: 1-6] – “耶和华是我的牧者”
  • 他让我安息
  • 他带领我度过最黑暗的时光
  • 他的同在——他总是和我在一起
  • 我无所求，无所畏惧

杰瑞：

  • 让我跟你们分享一下我热愛圣经的几个原因吗？
  • [约翰福音 3:16] – “神愛世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他（耶稣）的，不至灭亡，反得永生。 ”
  • [约翰福音 3:17] – “因为神差他的儿子降世，不是要定世人的罪，乃是要叫世人因他（耶稣）得救。”
  • [诗篇 119:105] – “你的话是我脚前的灯，是我路上的光” – 因此，我可以在他的话语的光中行走。

玛丽莲：

  • [诗篇 139:17-18] – “他的意念对我来说何其宝贵”
  • 它们的总和有多大
  • [罗马书 8:28] –我生活中发生的一切都是为了我的益处和他的荣耀。
  • [彼得后书 1:4] – “他已将又宝贵又极大的应许赐给我们”
  • 通过这些应许
  • 我们可以与他有份
  • 他的神圣本质
  • 脱离了世上的败坏

杰瑞：

  • [哥林多前书 13:13] – “如今常存的有信、有望、有愛，这三样，其中最大的是愛”。
  • 我曾经想知道愛怎么会比信和望更重要呢？
  • 当我沉思这一点时，我意识到，如果没有上帝对我们的大愛，
  • 我们将不再有信或望。
  • [约翰一书 1:9] – “我们若认自己的罪” ……我们知道我们的罪能得到赦免，但是如果没有十诫和我们在圣经中找到的其他真理，我们就不会知道什么是罪。
  • [哥林多前书 1:9] – “神是信实的，你们原是被他所召，好与他儿子，我们的主耶稣基督，一同得分。”所以，我们不但与神有关系，而且现在我们可以每天、每时每刻与他（耶稣）保持亲密的个人关系。

玛丽莲：

  • [箴言 3；5-6] –
  • 你要专心仰赖耶和华
  • 不可依赖自己的聪明
  • 在你一切所行的事上 认定他（给予他荣耀）
  • 他必指引你的路”。
  • [腓立比书 2:13] – 上帝在我们里面工作
  • “立志并实践
  • 为要讨他喜悦

杰瑞：

  • [腓立比书 3:10 和合本] 这节经文的最后几句话是
  • “这样我就可以分享他的苦难 不断改变 [在灵里成为他的样式] 甚至对自己死， [都充满盼望]
  • 这份盼望是——充满信心的期待
  • 有一天我们会复活
  • 效法耶稣，与他一起生活在天堂
  • 永远[永恒]。

玛丽莲：

  • [哥林多前书 2:2] – “因为我曾定了主意，在你们中间不知道别的，只知道耶稣基督并他钉十字架”。
  • [希伯来书 12:2] — “仰望耶稣”… — 我们必须时刻注视着耶稣。
  • [罗马书 12:2 ] – “不要效法这个世界，只要心意更新而变化，叫你们察验何为神的善良、纯全、可喜悦的旨意。”

问题：

  • 你为什么喜愛圣经？
  • 你最喜欢圣经里的哪一节经文？

（这是范杰瑞和范玛丽莲在11/20/24 小石城以马内利华语浸信会清晨祷告会上的分享。特此感谢）

WHY WE LOVE THE BIBLE
Jerry & Marilyn Fine

 
JESUS IS THE LIVING WORD & THE BIBLE IS THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD!
IF WE WANT TO KNOW HOW TO LIVE AS A CHRISTIAN, WE LOOK AT THE LIFE OF JESUS:

  • TO SEE WHO HE WAS, HIS CHARACTER,
  • AND WHAT HE DID HERE ON EARTH.

BUT WE ALSO HAVE THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD:

  • AND BECAUSE THE BIBLE IS TRUE AND WITHOUT ERROR, THE BIBLE BECOMES THE AUTHORITY IN OUR LIVES AS WELL AS WHAT WE SEE IN THE LIFE OF JESUS, BECAUSE THERE IS NO CONFLICT.

Have you ever sat on a 1 OR 2 LEGGED “STOOL”?

  • If so, you found out it was hard to keep your balance.
  • The LAST TIME we were together we talked about THE FIRST LEG – PRAYER.
  • TODAY we will talk about the SECOND LEG – LOVE FOR THE BIBLE.
  • TOMORROW morning, we will talk about – PROMISES.
  • It is easier to stay BALANCED AND UPRIGHT IF THE STOOL HAS

3 LEGS
FRANCIS SHAEFFER’S FAMOUS QUOTE – “HOW SHALL WE THEN LIVE?”

  • STIRS OUR HEARTS TO BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD, THE BIBLE,

AS THE AUTHORITY IN OUR LIVES

  • AND LIVE LIFE TO IT’S FULLEST

AND THAT IS WHERE WE WILL START THIS MORNING, BASED ON THE AUTHORITY OF GOD’S WORD HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?

  • SATURATING OUR LIVES WITH THE WORD OF GOD, THE BIBLE, GET’S THE TRUTH INTO OUR HEAD:
  • HEAR IT PREACHED & TAUGHT REGULARLY.
  • READ IT FROM GENESIS 1:1 THROUGH REVELATION 22:21, EVERY YEAR.
  • STUDY IT.
  • MEMORIZE IT.
  • MEDITATE ON WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD, READ, STUDIED, AND MEMORIZED TO MOVE THESE TRUTHS FROM YOUR HEAD TO YOUR HEART,

WHY?

  • BECAUSE THESE TRUTHS WILL NEVER WORK THERE WAY OUT IN APPLICATION UNTIL THEY GET TO YOUR HEART.

“…MEDITATE ON IT DAY AND NIGHT, SO THAT YOU WILL BE CAREFUL TO DO EVERYTHING WRITTEN IN IT” …[JOSHUA 1:8 NIV84]
WHY WE LOVE THE BIBLE?
AT THIS TIME, WE WILL ALTERNATE BACK AND FORTH  ARE
SOME SCRIPTURES WHY WE LOVE THE BIBLE:

MARILYN:

  • LET ME SHARE WITH YOU WHY I LOVE THE BIBLE?
  • [Jeremiah 29:11-13] – “FOR I KNOW THE PLANS I HAVE FOR YOU”
  • IT IS GOD’S LOVE LETTER TO US.
  • [Philippians 3:10 AMPC] –
  • “TO KNOW HIM MORE DEEPLY & INTIMATELY”
  • “TO PERCIEVE, RECOGNIZE AND UNDERSTAND THE WONDERS OF HIS PERSON MORE STRONGLY AND MORE CLEARLY”.
  • [Psalms 23: 1-6] – ‘THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD”
  • HE GIVES ME REST
  • HE LEADS ME IN THE DARKEST OF TIMES
  • HIS PRESENCE – HE IS ALWAYS WITH ME
  • I HAVE NO WANT – NO FEARS

JERRY:

  • LET ME SHARE WITH YOU A FEW REASONS WHY I LOVE THE BIBLE?
  • [John 3:16] – “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOEVER BELIVES IN HIM (JESUS) SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.” …
  • [John 3:17] – “FOR GOD DID NOT SEND HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO CONDEMN THE WORLD, BUT THAT THE WORLD THROUGH HIM (JESUS) MIGHT BE SAVED.”
  • [Psalm 119:105] – “YOUR WORD IS A LAMP TO MY FEET AND A LIGHT TO MY PATH” – THEREFORE, I CAN WALK IN THE LIGHT OF HIS WORD.

MARILYN:

  • [Psalm 139:17-18] – “HIS THOUGHTS ARE PRECIOUS TO ME”
  • HOW GREAT IS THE SUM OF THEM
  • [Romans 8:28] – EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN MY LIFE IS FOR MY GOOD AND HIS GLORY.
  • [2 Peter 1:4] – “HE HAS GIVEN TO US EXCEEDINGLY GREAT & PRECIOUS PROMISES”
  • THAT THROUGH THESE PROMISES
  • WE MAY BE PARTAKERS
  • OF HIS DEVINE NATURE
  • HAVING ESCAPED THE CORRUPTION THAT IS IN THE WORLD

JERRY:

  • [1 Corinthians 13:13] – “AND NOW ABIDE FAITH, HOPE, LOVE, THESE THREE; BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE”.
  • I USE TO WONDER HOW CAN LOVE BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN FAITH & HOPE?
  • BUT WHEN I MEDITATED ON THIS THOUGHT, I COULD SEE THAT WITHOUT GOD’S GREAT LOVE FOR US,
  • WE WOULD NOT HAVE FAITH OR HOPE.
  • [1 John 1:9] – “IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS” …WE KNOW THAT WE CAN HAVE FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS, BUT WE WOULDN’T KNOW WHAT SIN IS IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE TEN COMMNDMENTS AND OTHER TRUTHS WE FIND IN THE BIBLE.
  • [1 Corinthians 1:9] – “GOD IS FAITHFUL, BY WHOM YOU WERE CALLED INTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.” SO, WE NOT ONLY HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD BUT NOW WE CAN HAVE AN INTIMATE AND PERSONAL FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM (JESUS) DAY BY DAY AND MOMENT BY MOMENT.

MARILYN:

  • [Proverbs 3;5-6] –
  • ‘TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART
  • DO NOT LEAN ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING
  • IN ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM (GIVE HIM THE GLORY)
  • & HE WILL DIRECT YOUR PATH”.
  • [Philippians 2:13] – GOD IS WORKING IN US
  • “TO WILL AND TO DO
  • FOR HIS GOOD PLEASURE”

JERRY:

  • [Philippians 3:10 AMPC] – THE VERY LAST WORDS OF THIS VERSE ARE
  • “AND THAT I MAY SO SHARE HIS SUFFERINGS AS TO BE CONTINUALLY TRANSFORMED [IN SPIRIT INTO HIS LIKENESS EVEN] TO HIS DEATH, [IN THE HOPE)
  • THAT HOPE IS – A CONFIDENT EXPECTATION
  • THAT ONE DAY WE WILL BE RESURRECTED
  • LIKE JESUS AND LIVE WITH HIM IN HEAVEN
  • FOREVER .

MARILYN:

  • [1 Corinthians 2:2] – “FOR I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING AMONG YOU EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED”.
  • [Hebrews 12:2] – “LOOKING UNTO JESUS” … – WE MUST ALWAYS KEEP OUR EYES ON JESUS.
  • [Romans 12:2] – “AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MINDS, THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS THE GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE & PERFECT WILL OF GOD.”

QUESTIONS:

  • WHY DO YOU LOVE THE BIBLE?
  • WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE VERSE IN THE BIBLE?

(We are grateful to Jerry and Marilyn Fine for their sharing at our early morning prayer meeting of LRICBC on 11/20/24)