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Be Quick to Respond to God

2025-02-23 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 12:16-24.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Kings 12:16-20 (NIV)
16  When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse’s son? To your tents, O Israel! Look after your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home.
17  But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.

On verses 16-20:  Now that King Rehoboam has rejected the people’s plea for a lighter workload, the Israelites, other than the tribe of Judah, reject Rehoboam as their king.  Rehoboam tries sending Adoniram his messenger to appease the people, but the people kill Adoniram and nearly kill Rehoboam.  The people appoint Jeroboam as their new king instead, in rebellion against the house of David.

Before You Make A Big Decision

2025-02-21 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 12:1-15.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!

1 Kings 12:1-5 (NIV) 
1 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all the Israelites had gone there to make him king. 
2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from Egypt. 
3 So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: 

On verses 1-5:  Israel is about to make Solomon’s son Rehoboam the next king of Israel.  While in Egypt, Jeroboam hears about this, returns to Israel at this crucial juncture in Israel’s history.  Jeroboam reconnects with the Israelites and together they approach the king with a request:

鸡叫的时候

2025-02-21 in , /by

彼得在外面院子里坐着，有一个使女前来，说：「你素来也是同那加利利人耶稣一伙的。」

彼得在众人面前却不承认，说：「我不知道你说的是甚么！」

既出去，到了门口，又有一个使女看见他，就对那里的人说：「这个人也是同拿撒勒人耶稣一伙的。」

彼得又不承认，并且起誓说：「我不认得那个人。」

过了不多的时候，旁边站着的人前来，对彼得说：「你真是他们一党的，你的口音把你露出来了。」

彼得就发咒起誓地说：「我不认得那个人。」

立时，鸡就叫了。彼得想起耶稣所说的话：「鸡叫以先，你要三次不认我。」他就出去痛哭。（马太福音26:69-75）

信主的人啊！你是否是同十架上耶稣一伙的？曾否几次不认得耶稣？曾否听见鸡叫？曾否因想起耶稣所说的话而痛哭？

God Looks For THIS Kind of Person to Bless

2025-02-20 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 11:26-43.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Kings 11:26-30 (NIV)
26  Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah.
27  Here is the account of how he rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and had filled in the gap in the wall of the city of David his father.

On verses 26-30:  Here we read of Solomon’s greatest human adversary, Jeroboam.  Jeroboam came from a tough background.  His mother Zeredah was a widow, probably meaning that Jeroboam’s father Nebat was not around for significant parts of Jeroboam’s life (v26).  Nonetheless, Jeroboam was a leader, becoming one of Solomon’s officials (v26). 

进窄门

2025-02-20 in , /by

「你们要进窄门。因为引到灭亡，那门是宽的，路是大的，进去的人也多；引到永生，那门是窄的，路是小的，找著的人也少。」（马太福音7:13-14）

…耶稣对众人说：「你们要努力进窄门。我告诉你们，将来有许多人想要进去，却是不能。…

你们站在外面叩门，说：『主啊，给我们开门！』

家主回答说：『我不认识你们，不晓得你们是哪里来的！』

那时，你们要说：『我们在你面前吃过喝过，你也在我们的街上教训过人。』

他要说：『我告诉你们，我不晓得你们是哪里来的。你们这一切作恶的人，离开我去吧！』…

Hurt People Hurt People

2025-02-19 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 11:14-25.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go!

1 Kings 11:14-25 (NIV)
14  Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
15  Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom.
16  Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom.
17  But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father.

On verses 14-25:  In verses 14-22 we read of Hadad, an Edomite prince who, despite coming from a royal family, endured some incredible hardship.  When Hadad was just a young boy, Hadad lost his parents and his family when the Edomites were at war with the Israelites.  Hadad would flee to Egypt and be given many of the material comforts that royalty would come to expect.  Still, there was a pain in Hadad’s heart that none of those material comforts could heal, and a drive to get revenge on the country that was responsible for killing his parents. 

生命中的云彩

2025-02-19 in , /by

在旧约里，「云彩」常被用来形容神的降临、同在及引领。洪水过后，神与挪亚和他的儿子立约说：「…我把虹放在云彩中，这就可作我与地立约的记号了。…」（创世记9:12-16）

以色列人行在旷野，神在云彩中呼召摩西上西奈山（出埃及记24:16），在山上晓谕摩西律法；以色列人建造会幕，云彩停在其上，遮盖会幕，并且耶和华的荣光充满了帐幕（出埃及记40:34-35）；云彩也代表了以色列人行在旷野时所倚靠的神的同在与引领：
每逢云彩从帐幕收上去，以色列人就起程前往；云彩若不收上去，他们就不起程，直等到云彩收上去。日间，耶和华的云彩是在帐幕以上；夜间，云中有火，在以色列全家的眼前。在他们所行的路上都是这样。（出埃及记40:36-38）

在福音书里，耶稣带着门徒上了高山，在门徒面前变了形像，并有摩西、以利亚显现跟耶稣说话。说话之间，忽然有一朵光明的云彩遮盖他们，且有声音从云彩里出来，说：「这是我的爱子，我所喜悦的。你们要听祂！」（马太福音17:5）

使徒行传记载耶稣升天：门徒正看的时候，祂就被取上升，有一朵云彩把祂接去，便看不见祂了。（使徒行传1:9）

Don’t Settle for Less Than God’s Best

2025-02-18 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 11:1-13.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Kings 11:1-13 (NIV)
1  King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter–Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
2  They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.
3  He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray.

On verses 1-13:  As wise and as rich as Solomon had become by God’s grace, here we see Solomon’s fatal flaw: his insistence on being romantically involved with women who did not worship the LORD.  The LORD had already commanded that kings must not take on many wives (Deuteronomy 17:17).  Even more, the LORD had commanded the Israelites not to marry people who did not worship Him, knowing that the Israelites would be led astray from their faith in Him if they did.

沿路寻得宝藏，恩典一生伴随

2025-02-18 in , /by

马太福音 28:20  凡我所吩咐你们的，都教训他们遵守。我就常与你们同在，直到世界的末了。」

有个人将宝藏图送给他的三个好朋友，兴奋的说：「有人送我这张图，我觉得很宝贵，也送给你们，与你们分享。」

第一个朋友拿了那张宝藏图，感谢的说：「谢谢你给我这么好的礼物。」然而，心里却想：「我的朋友给我这张宝藏图，他有没有拿到宝藏啊？看起来不像！他还是穷酸酸的…。」于是，他将它裱起来挂在墙上，因为宝藏图外表看起来很有历史味道，同时也可以表示他重视且珍藏朋友的好意，不会失礼。

第二个朋友将宝藏图平铺在桌面，拿起放大镜细看，沿路有深峻的河谷、几座悬浮的吊桥、有好大一片的沙漠，还有…哇！看起来这条路不好走，要走到那里才能找到宝藏呢？怪怪，宝藏图上并未标示终点，找不到宝藏的位置。他想：「这是张画的很细致的地图，我应该多看看，多了解…，既然看不见宝藏位置，路途走起来又不轻松，要不要沿途寻宝，那就缓缓再说囉！」

Jesus’ Splendour > Solomon’s Splendour

2025-02-17 in /by

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 10:14-29.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Kings 10:14-29 (NIV)
14  The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,
15  not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the land.
16  King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred bekas of gold went into each shield.

On verses 14-29: Previously Solomon had prayed for a wise and discerning heart.  God was so pleased with Solomon’s request that He decided to grant Solomon not only a wise and discerning heart but riches and honour as well, such that in terms of wisdom there would never be anyone like Solomon and in terms of riches Solomon would have no equal in his lifetime (1 Kings 3:12-13).