“和撒那!和撒那!” 我仿佛看到了耶路撒冷的居民在路旁搖著棕樹葉歡迎耶穌的情景。主耶穌是萬王之王,也是我們的贖罪祭。祂是神,卻成了人的樣式來到世間,爲了贖我們的罪而心甘情願地被釘在十字架上。
二十多年前,當第一次聽到耶穌受難的真正原因和所經歷的痛苦之後,我被震驚了,世界觀被徹底顛覆了!從那一刻起,我就決定跟隨耶穌,永不回頭!
感謝耶穌的救贖,賜我新的生命,讓我在世上的日子裏充滿感恩和喜樂。
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From time to time we saw some people were labelled as “ dump or coward”. The reason was these people were being labelled as some group or category. People judged them superficially but not in-depth. Such as Jesus was judged as a prophet but not as a leader. Obviously, he did not look like a king or even God. That was the judgement from the secular world point of view. In the secular world, a king should be born from the palace. Jesus was greatly misunderstood. An earthly king would save them from Rome, but Jesus was much more. He was King of Kings and our sacrifice – God in the flesh, willingly embracing the cross to save us from our sins—a purpose prophesied centuries earlier.
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在這棕樹節的主日,我再次思想主耶穌騎著驢駒進入耶路撒冷。歷代以來,許多的君王以武力和強暴來統治他們的子民。主耶穌是萬王之王。祂不是用武力強迫他人來信服衪,而是用和平和愛並犧牲祂的生命來使人信服祂。
感謝神在基督耶穌裡的救贖,讓我的生命不但蒙拯救,也可以得著並經歷主復活的大能, 在祂裡面因信而擁有活潑的盼望來面對我的每一天。感謝讚美主!
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猶太人要一位拯救他們脫離羅馬統治的,在政治、軍事,在地上的王。感謝神!祂賜給我們一位“遠超過一切執政的、掌權的、有能的、主治的,和一切有名的;不但是今世的,連來世的也都超過了。”(弗1:21)的萬王之王。這位萬世之王不但祂自己從死裡復活,還叫我們從死裡復活,並且將我們遷到祂的國度裡,直到永永遠遠。哈利路亞!
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