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pleasant for our flesh. 旷野的经历对我们的肉体来说是不好受的。
It’s a remote
place emotionally or physically, 这是现实生活里，或精神上的独自一人的地方，where God allow us to go through
difficulties and trials. 在那里上帝允许我...
...f this identity? 这段经文提醒我们：1，耶稣是谁，他为我们受了怎样的苦难？2，我们的身份是什么？3，就这身份而言，我们要做什么？1, who
Jesus Christ is and what did he suffer for us? V.4, it tells us that Jesus
Christ is the living stone who suffered ...
...ntance in faith and accepting the gospel
借着人在信心中悔改并接受福音, the Kingdom
of God is in us now神的国就进入我们里面. That’s why Jesus
said这就是耶稣所说, “nor will people say, ‘Here it is’ or ‘there it is’人也不得说：...
...ll us to stand before him to be judged, 祂会召我们站在祂面前受审判，because he wants to reward His faithful servants. 因为祂要奖赏那忠心的仆人。The one who got five talents earned five more. 领了五千的又另外赚了五千。The one with two talents gai...
...er the next 20 minutes….接下来的20分钟里，你们要暂时忍受我的中式口音了。Let’s read the passage first. 让我们先来阅读经文。James 3:1-12（雅3:1-12）, My friends我的弟兄们, not many of you should become teachers不要多人做师傅. As you know, we...
...promises us a trouble-free life when we accept Him as our saviour.我们接受耶稣为救主时，耶稣从未应许我们会没有困难。 But He said, “In this world you will have
trouble, in Me you may have peace. 但祂又说，“在世上，你们有苦难；在我里面有平安...
...，since they had received Jesus as their
personal saviour,既然已经接受了耶稣作他们个人的救主，they had already achieved spiritual resurrection. 他们就已经得着了属灵的复活。Because of their misunderstanding
of the promise of a future bodily resurrection, 因...
...ousness will be peace, （in the time when
Jesus was suffering当主耶稣受苦时, he still stayed in peace and forgiveness他仍然是平安和饶恕,）and the effect of
righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. Isaiah 32:17公义的果效必是平安，公义的效验必是平稳。（...