English District of Hall 41 Church in Taipei

28/10/2024

https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/ns/290

24/10/2024

Many young people have come to me, asking about such things as smoking, attending the movies, eating, dressing, and marrying...Whenever a young person comes to me with such a question, I always turn the question to him and say, “Why do you ask me whether or not you should smoke? You know better than I do. You shouldn’t come to ask me, for you already know the answer...Tell me the truth, don’t you already know whether or not you should smoke?” Once he admits that he already knows, I go a little further and ask him, “How do you know? Where do you know?”They always tell me that they have something within them that knows.

We know because we have been born into the kingdom of God. ...When we called on the name of the Lord, the divine Spirit came into us, regenerating us and causing us to be born into the kingdom of God.Although you may know very little about the kingdom of God, your spirit within you knows about the kingdom. The divine life in your spirit knows the kingdom of God.

Col. 1:13 Who delivered us out of the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

許多青年人到我這裏來問到吸菸、看電影、喫喝、 穿着、婚姻的事。...每當青年人來問我這樣的問題， 我總把這樣的問題轉過來問他說，『爲甚麼問我該 不該吸菸?你比我更清楚。你不該來問我，因爲你已經曉得答案了。...告訴我實話，你豈不是已經知 道該不該吸菸了麼?』一旦他承認他已經知道了， 我就追問他，『你怎麼知道?你從那裏知道?』他 們總是答說，他們裏面有個東西知道。

我們所以知道，因爲我們已經生入了神的國。 ...當我們呼喊主的名， 那神聖的靈就進到我們裏面，重生我們，把我們生入了神的國。雖然你對神國的事知道得很少， 在你裏面的靈卻知道這國的事。在你靈裏神聖的生命認識神的國。

西一13『祂拯救了我們脫離黑暗的權勢，把我們遷入祂愛子的國裏』

23/10/2024

https://youtu.be/q4FcSfDw9B4

(chorus)Kiss the Son, kiss the OneWho for love to me has come,Cheering me, charming me,And has died upon the tree,He died for me, saving me,Now His Spirit jo...

23/10/2024

https://youtu.be/xLsOWNGecgQ

Oh! the joy of having nothing,Being nothing, seeing nothingBut a living Christ in gloryAnd being careful for nothing.Oh! the joy of having nothing,Being noth...

17/10/2024

Rom. 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who call upon Him;

The Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him. The Lord is rich and rich to all who call upon Him. The way to enjoy the riches of the Lord is to call upon Him. The Lord is not only rich, but also nigh and available as mentioned in verse 8 of the same chapter because He is the life-giving Spirit. As the Spirit, He is omnipresent. At any time and in any place we may call on His name. When we call on Him, He comes to us as the Spirit, and we enjoy His riches. When you call on Jesus, the Spirit comes.

Paul tells us how to enjoy Him. The way to enjoy the Lord is to call on His name. Whenever we say, “Lord Jesus,” we drink of Him, the life-giving Spirit. Whenever we call, “Lord Jesus,” He comes as the Spirit. If I call a person’s name, and if he is real, living, and present, then that person will come to me. The Lord Jesus is real, living, and present. He is always available. Whenever we call on Him, He comes.

羅十12 因為猶太人和希利尼人並沒有分別，眾人同有一位主，祂對一切呼求祂的人是豐富的。

萬有的主對一切呼求祂的人是豐富的。主是豐富的，祂對一切呼求祂的人是豐 富的。享受主豐富的方法是呼求祂。主不但是豐富 的，而且同章八節說，祂也是相近且便利的，因爲祂是賜生命的靈。祂是靈，所以是無所不在的。隨 時隨地，我們都可以呼求祂的名。當我們呼求祂， 祂這靈就臨到我們，我們就享受祂的豐富。當你呼求耶穌，那靈就來到。

保羅告訴我們享受祂的方法就是呼求祂的名。 每當我們說『主耶穌』，我們就飲於祂這賜生命的靈。每當我們呼喊『主耶穌』， 祂這靈就臨到我們。我若呼喊一個人的名字，他若是真 的、活的，又在旁邊，就必到我這裏來。主是真的、活 的、同在的，祂對我們總是便利的。所以每當我們呼求， 祂就來了。

11/10/2024

John 14:2 In My Father’s house are many abodes; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

According to the natural concept, most Christians think that the Father’s house must refer to the third heaven where God the Father dwells. But we must not interpret the Bible according to our natural
concepts. Rather, we must interpret the Scripture with the Scripture…

In 2:16, My Father’s house clearly denotes God’s temple on earth. Since the temple is the type of the body of Jesus, the body of Jesus is the tabernacle, the temple, for God’s dwelling place on earth.

The second time that this phrase is used in the same Gospel, it must have the same definition as the first time it is used. Thus, the Father’s house
in chapter 14 must also mean God’s dwelling place on earth. It cannot mean the third heaven.

Now we have the proper interpretation of the phrase My Father’s house: it is the Body of Christ, that is, the church.

約十四 2『在我父的家裏，有許多住處；若是沒有，我早已告訴你們了；我去是爲你們豫備地方。』

按照天然的觀念，大多數基督徒都認爲，這所說父的家必是指父神所住的第三層天。但我們不可按照我們天然的觀念解釋聖經。我們必須用聖經解釋聖經。

在二章十六節，『我父的家』清楚的指神在地上的殿。殿旣是耶穌身體的豫表，耶穌的身體就是帳幕，就是殿，作神在地上的居所。

這辭在同一卷福音書中第二次用到時，必須與第一次用到時意義相同。所以，在約翰十四章裏父家的意思，也必定是神在地上的居所，不會是第三層天。

…現在我們有了『我父的家』這辭正確的解釋，就是基督的身體，也就是召會。

30/09/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewV2HVpgCkQ

I am a tree, with roots byThe river of living water,Trials still may comeBut they end in victory;And even in the wildernessWhen there’s no hope at all,I have...

26/09/2024

2 Cor. 1:9 “Indeed we ourselves had the response of death in ourselves, that we should not base our confidence on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. ”

A brother becomes seriously ill. His case is considered hopeless, but God has mercy on him and works a miracle on his behalf so that he recovers. Thereafter, he testifies to the fact that God is the living God….Even when he is living in the world, he still remembers that God is the living God and that God preserved his life from death. But he has experienced no increase of divine life; he has experienced only a miracle of healing.

Another brother becomes ill. Day after day passes without a vestige of improvement. For a long time he keeps hovering at the edge of the grave. Then, when he has completely despaired of living, in the depths of his being he gradually becomes aware of God. Resurrection life begins to work within, and he awakens to the fact that this resurrection life is a life that can overcome all affliction and can even swallow up death. He is still conscious of much weakness and is sorely tested….If this second brother gives a word of testimony, there is nothing sensational about it, and there is no stress on the healing, yet you meet God in his life.

What is the distinction between the living God and the God of resurrection? when the living God has performed some act on your behalf, after that act as before it, He is still He, and you are still you... On the other hand, when the God of resurrection works, He communicates Himself to man by that which He does for him.

林後一 9『自己裏面也斷定是必死的，叫我們不信靠自己，只信靠那叫死人復活的神。』

一位弟兄病得很嚴重，被認爲無可救藥了。然而神憐憫他，爲他行了神蹟，使他痊愈了，從此他就見證神是活神這個事實...他卽使活在世界裏，仍舊記得神是活神， 記得神保守他的生命脫離死亡。然而他並沒有經歷神聖生命的加增，僅僅經歷了病得醫治的神蹟。

另一位弟兄病了。日子一天天過去，病情絲毫 沒有起色，很長一段時間他都在墳墓邊緣徘徊。 然後正當他完全絕了活命的指望時，他全人深處卻漸漸對神有了感覺，復活生命開始在他裏面作工。他領悟到一個事實，這復活的生命是能勝過 一切患難，吞滅死亡的生命。他仍舊感覺非常輭弱，仍在極大的試煉中...這位弟兄若作見證，不會說撼動人心的事，也不會強調神醫，別人卻能在他的生命中遇見神。

活神與復活的神之間的區別?活神雖然可以爲人作許多事，在那之後，和先前一樣，祂還是祂，你還是你。...另一面，當復活的神作工時，祂就藉着爲人所作的事，把自己傳輸給人。

26/09/2024

https://youtu.be/CU2BM0EGBeU

1. The church is the building upOf all God’s chosen and redeemed,Regenerated and transformed people,The ultimate work of God,His counterpart, the new man,The...

19/09/2024

John 7:38-39 He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water. But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

When John said “the Spirit was not yet”, he meant that the Spirit was not yet to flow out of the believers as rivers of living water.According to the typology seen in Genesis, the way to God as the tree of life was closed by the requirements of God’s glory, God’s holiness, and God’s righteousness. A fallen, sinful, unclean man was altogether unable to take the tree of life, to take God in as life, until Christ’s death fulfilled these requirements.

Heb. 10:20 “Which entrance He initiated for us as a new and living way through the veil, that is, His flesh,”

Hebrews 10 reveals that the death of Christ opened the way, a new and living way, so that we can go into the Holy of Holies to partake of God as the tree of life. In His death He fulfilled all the requirements of God’s glory, holiness, and righteousness; then in resurrection He changed in form to be the life-giving Spirit. Today we can take the tree of life and drink the water of life so that the Triune God can flow out from our innermost being as rivers of living water.

約七 38-39『 信入我的人，就如經上所說，從他腹中要流出活水的江河來。耶穌這話是指着 信入祂的人將要受的那靈說的;那時還沒有那靈， 因爲耶穌尚未得着榮耀。』

約翰說，『還沒有那靈，』 他的意思是說，還沒有那靈從信徒的腹中，如同活水的江河流出來。 按照我們在創世記所看見的豫表，通往神這生命樹的道路， 因着神榮耀、聖別和公義的要求，而被封閉了。在基督的死滿足這些要求之前，墮落、犯罪、不潔的人完全不能取用生命樹，接受神作生命。

來十 20『 是藉著祂給我們開創了一條又新又活的路，從幔子經過，這幔子就是祂的肉體，』

希伯來十章啓示，基督的死開了一條又新又活的路，使我們能進入至聖所，有分於神作生命樹。在祂的死裏，祂滿足了神榮耀、聖別和公義的一切要求;然後在復活裏，祂改變形狀成了賜生命的靈。今天我們能喫生命樹並飲生命水，使三一 神能從我們最深處如同活水的江河湧流出來。

12/09/2024

John 6:33 For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.

The Lord’s words clearly show the form in which He came to the earth, His status, the purpose He wanted to fulfill, and the relationship He wanted to have with people in the world.

The Lord came to the earth in the form and status of food. His work on the earth was for Him to be eaten by man to be man’s life.

The primary purpose for which the Lord Jesus came down out of heaven to the earth was not to perform signs and wonders or to ask people to labor and work, was to accomplish one central matter—to give Himself to us as food—the bread of life—so that He could be eaten by us as spiritual nourishment and be digested by us to become our constitution.

約六 33『因爲神的糧，就是那從天上降下來賜 生命給世人的。』

主的話清楚的給我們看見，祂是以甚麼形式、甚麼身分來到地上，祂想要達到甚麼目的，以及祂要和世人有甚麼關係：

主乃是以食物的形式和身分來到地上。祂在地上的工作就是要給人喫到裏面成爲人的生命。

主耶穌從天上降到地上來，最主要的目的，不是要行神蹟奇事或是叫人勞苦作工，是要成就一件中心的事，就是把祂自己當作食物（生命的糧）賜給我們，好使我們能喫祂作屬靈的養分，並消化祂而使祂成爲我們的構成。

06/09/2024

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

How can God, who had no humanity in eternity past, have humanity in eternity future as His dwelling place?

John 1 refers to Christ, with the two sections of eternity and the bridge of time, in the five greatest events in the history of the universe—creation, incarnation, redemption, anointing, and building.

In these five universal, historical events, Christ, the Word of God— as: (1) the Creator in creation, (2) the man who tabernacled among us in incarnation, (3) the Lamb in redemption, (4) the anointing Spirit in transformation, and (5) the ladder in joining earth to heaven for God's building—defines, explains, and expresses the invisible God

Once God has traveled from eternity past, through the bridge of time, and into eternity future, He will declare, “Finished!”

約一 1『太初有話，話與神同在，話就是神。』

這位在已過的永遠裏沒有人性的神，如何能在將來的永遠裏有人性作祂的居所?

約翰一章所論到的基督，乃是聯於永遠的兩段與時間的橋梁，並在於宇宙的歷史中，創造、 成爲肉體、救贖、施膏、和建造這五件最大的事。

在這五件宇宙的歷史事件上，神的話基督——作爲:(一)在創造時的創造者;(二)在成爲肉體時的 人，支搭帳幕在我們中間;(三)在救贖時的羔羊; (四)在變化時施膏的那靈;(五)在爲着神的建造把地聯於天時的梯子——解釋、說明並彰顯那看不見 的神。

一旦神從已過的永遠，行過時間的橋梁，進入將來的永遠，祂就要宣告說，『成了!』