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Love God wholeheartedly and receive eternal blessing
Psalm 16/Revelation 11:5

In Rev. 11/3 God said that He would rise up His “two witnesses” at the end time. These are the two olive trees. The word of God to them is like the olive. Day and night they meditate on the word of God. The more they chew it, the more they get the taste of it. Their lives are edified a lot when they meditate on the word of God in this way. These are the two lampstands. (more…)

Thirst For The Word Of God, And See His Glory
Psalm 8/ Revelation 10:8

In Rev. 10:8 we read that the voice from heaven spoke once more, “Go, take the scroll…” Scroll stands for the Holy Bible. This Holy Bible is the most important thing to every child of God. In Luke 10:41, Jesus told Martha, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed, Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken away from her.” When Martha was busy for many thins, Mary put this one thing as the first thing—sitting at the Lord’s feet and listening to what He said. (more…)

One Beautiful Thing, One Wrong Thing, And One Evil Thing
2 Samuel 6/ Mark 14
3 Sections V.8 vs. V.25

David gathered 30 thousand chosen men to bring up the ark of God from the house of Abinadab. The ark of God was captured by the Philistines when Eli was still a priest of Israel. (1 Samuel 4: 11) Then God showed His glory and forced the Philistine to return the ark of God to Beth Shemesh, Israel. But the men of Beth Shemesh was scared, therefore it was taken to the house of Abinadab since then. It was there for a very long time. When Saul was king, he did not care about it. Now David was king, he decided to bring up the ark of God to Jerusalem. (1 Chronicles 13: 1-4) Everyone agreed with him and thought it was a right thing. (more…)

Watch and Pray! Do not fall into temptation
Esther 4/2 Timothy 3

Esther 4/1-8: Know how dangerous it is, pray earnestly, and preach at a risk of one’s life.

When Mordecai learned that the enemy of the Jews had set a date to destroy all of the Jews, he cried loudly and bitterly. There were many Jews also fast and cried bitterly because of that. But Queen Esther did not know the danger of her people because she lived safely in the palace. When she heard that Mordecai was in sackcloth and ashes, she was very upset. Esther sent clothes to Mordecai, but he would not take it. Then Esther sent a eunuch to find out why Mordecai was sad. Mordecai then asked the eunuch to tell her everything that the enemy had planned wickedly to destroy all of God’s children. Mordecai instructed her to plead earnestly to the king for her people. (more…)

Keep God’s words will be highly honored; the wicked will come to a complete ruin
Esther 6/ Titus 1

The book of Esther records things happened when the Jews were captives in Persia. Esther a Jewish orphan became a queen of Persia when Queen Vashti was removed from her position. After this event, Haman an enemy of the Jews was put in a high position by the King of Persia. Haman wanted to destroy all the Jews in the kingdom of Persia because Mordecai would not bow down to honor him. Haman set a date for slaughter and made it into a law by the power of the king. Esther then decided to go to the king and plead for her own life and her people’s lives, even if it would take her life. She fast three days or nights and asked all the Jews in Susa to fast for her. God answered their prayers. He used Esther to deliver her people from destruction. (more…)

Blessed to those who obey the Bible by faith. Woe to he who throws away the Bible and worships other gods
2 Chronicles 34/Ephesians 2

2 Chronicles 34/1-7: Do right things, seek God and get rid of idols all over the place.

King Josiah did what was right in the eyes of God. He looked for the Lord. He got rid of every other gods or idols in the Holy Temple and in the land of Judah. (more…)

Woe to he who follows wickedness; blessed to those who follow good
2 Chronicles 22/ 2 Corinthians 9

2 Chronicles:

King Ahaziah reigned in Judah. His mother Athaliah was a daughter of King Ahab of Israel. King Ahaziah listened to his mother’s advices and walked in the wicked ways of the house of Ahab. King Ahab was like the leader of a church that associated with the world. He married Jezebel. Jezebel worshipped idols and she killed many prophets of God. King Ahaziah went with King Joram son of Ahab to war against King Aram. Joram was wounded by the enemy. Later Ahaziah went down to see him. This visit became his downfall. God had anointed Jehu to destroy the house of Ahab. Jehu met the leaders of Judah, and he killed them. King Ahaziah went to hide in Samaria. He was also killed by Jehu. He should have sheltered in the Lord. This is the consequence of following the advice of the wicked. He reaped corruption. The house of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom. (more…)

2 Chronicles 21: He who does evil will have great disasters
2 Chronicles 21/2 Corinthians 8

1. King Jehoram murdered his own brothers who were better than he. (v. 4 and v 13)

2. He walked in the ways of evil. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord. (v. 6)

3. He also built high places so that he led Judah to commit a spiritual adultery. “High places” look like a worship of true God. But it is a worship of other gods. For example, some people do not keep God’s commands completely by faith. They add and subtract from what God has commanded us. They even mix other teachings with the Bible. High places can also mean different gospel, which is no gospel at all. For example, there are so called “Pentecost” churches. They put miracles and signs higher than Jesus Christ. Some churches depend on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. Some churches worship Mary or other saints in addition to Jesus Christ. All of these teachings are false doctrines. They do not agree to the pure doctrine of godly teaching. They lead God’s children away from the truth. In fact, they lead churches worship other gods. This is adultery in the eyes of God. (more…)

Blessed are those who prepare themselves, lead people to God and follow what is good
1 Chronicles 29/ 1 Corinthians 3

King David had prepared a lot of materials for building up God’s temple. Paul tried his best to nourish the church in Corinth. The main lesson we learn from these two chapters is: Blessed are those who prepare with every effort, lead people to God and follow what is good. (more…)

Blessed Is He Who Humbly Believes In God’s Words; The Proud And The Disbelief Gets Nothing
2 Samuel 9/ Luke 1

2 Samuel 9:1

David wanted to show kindness to those who were left in the house of Saul because of Jonathan.

Luke 1:1-7

Luke had carefully investigated everything from the beginning and wrote an orderly account, so that people may know the certainty of the things they have been taught. There was a priest and his wife who were honest in the sight of God. They observed all the commandments and regulations blamelessly. But they had no children. (more…)