4)One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek affer, That I may dwell in the house(tabernacle) of the LORD (in my heart) all the days of my life, To see the LORD's beauty, And to inquire in his temple.
5)For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock (of Christ's foundation).
6)Now my head will lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
Tabernacle put in our heart = Hiding place of our heart
7)Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.
8)When you said, "Seek my face," My heart(renewed by the Spirit)said to you, "I will seek your face, LORD."
9)Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help(Holy Spirit=Helper). Don't abandon me, Neither forsake me, God of my salvation(Christ).
10)When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the LORD will take me up.
11)Teach me your way, LORD. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
12)Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.
When once the master of thehouse has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
There will be weeping and gnashing of teerh, when you see Avraham, Yitzchak, Ya'akov, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves being thrown outside.
29)人々は、東からも西からも、また南からも北からも来て、神の国で食卓に着きます。
They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will sit down in the Kingdom God.
30)いいですか、今しんがりの者があとで先頭になり、いま先頭の者がしんがりになるのです。」
Behold, there are some wjo are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last."
最初、私たちが信仰を持ったとき、キリストは私たちをありのままの罪人として受け入れて下さいました。
When we first came to faith, Christ accepted us as sinners as we were.
That is why the Holy Spirit, our Helper, lives within us, always speaking to our hearts and trying to guide us in the right direction so that we can finally become the new person God wants us to be, rather than the sin-ridden old person we were.
私たちは、信仰が成長するにつれて、聖霊様によって、信仰の初期段階から出発しなければなりません。 We must depart from the beginning of our faith, by the Holy Spirit, as we grow in faith.
肉の欲望をそのままにして、ありのままの古い自分であってはならないのです。
We must not be our old selves as we are, leaving the desires of the flesh untouched.
だから、イエス様はルカ13章24節で、"努力して狭い門から入りなさい "とおっしゃっているのです。
So Jesus said in Luke 13:24, "Striveto enter in by the narrow door." He is saying.
Go through, go through the gates; prepare you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.
Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the eretz, Say you to the daughter of Tziyon, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
1)Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases! For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
2)They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
3)May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things,
4)Who have said,"With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?"
5) "For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise," says the LORD;
6)The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7)You shall preserve them from this generetion forever.
8)The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the aons of men.
Psalm 14
1)The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, there is none who does good.
2)The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
3)They have all turned aside (from God), they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, no, not one.
Isaiah 57
1)The righteous perishes, and no man takes it to heart; merciful men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is taken away from evil.
2)He shall enter into peace; they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
Micah 7
1)Woe is me! For I am like those who gather summer fruits, like those who glean vintage grapes; There is no cluster to eat of the first-ripe fruit which my soul desires.
2)The faithful man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; Every man hunts his brother with a net.
Isaiah 24
1)Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, distorts its surface and scatters abroad its inhabitants.
12)In the city destolation is left, and the gate is stricken with destruction.
13)When it shall be thus in the midst of the land among the people, it shall be like the shaking of an olive tree, like the gleaning of grapeswhen the vintage is done.
Obadiah 1:5
If thieves had come to you, if robbers by night- oh, how you will be cut off!- Would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape-gathers had come to you, would they not have left some gleanings?
Revelation 3 (HNV)
2)Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
3)Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent.If therefore you won't wahtch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
1Thessalonians 5
1)But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.(On the flip side, it implies that those who are spiritually awakened will know this.)
2)For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night (for those who are not spiritually awake).
2Peter 3
9)The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all (who are alive at the time)should come to repentance.
10)But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night(toward to those who are spiritually asleep); in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the eretz and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Saints, righteous by God, faithful people.
First ears, ripe grapes, first-fruits figs
Spiritually awakened Christians
Foolish people who do not seek God
Fruits left behind
Those who are spiritually asleep
We are now at a time when we must not waste this time, but rely on God and discern carefully, guided by the Holy Spirit, what is true and what is not true.
なぜなら、この見極めの違い一つで、私たちの運命が変わってしまうからです。
Because one difference in this discernment can change our destiny.
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition. -2Thessalonians 2:3-