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So interesting, I’ve never seen a Chinaman witness or preach in real life I think. Its wonderful that God saved people across cultures! Just thought that cos there’s this guy either doing discipleship or sharing the gospel in chinese.. in their usual Chinese way of talking. Haha.. and we find them so annoying sometimes. Quite bad man.

In school! Wonderful school!

Headed to school school school what about youuuu youuuu youuuu…

Mathew 18 + 1 Corinthians 13 = Church Discipline

Mathew 18 – 1 Corinthians 13 = Good Riddance

Isn’t that tragic? that we are so fast to amputate over a blister? Cut off a nose because it runs? Chop off the head cos of a migraine? Without first considering 1 Corinthians 13? Without it, we are just giving ourselves an excuse to seperate. “Don’t start it if you’re not willing to go through all the way to seperation?”  no… don’t start if you’re not willing to Love. To love extravagantly and exceedingly.

It is important to note how after giving the proceedure of discipline in Mathew 18:15-20, paul gives a stark reminder of our own sinfulness and more importantly, God’s grace to us in Mathew 18:21-34. Probably to remind us not to be so proud of ourselves for mustering the guts to cut off something from our own bodies or shooting ourselves in the foot.

Sigh. Why does God even bother with us sometimes.. It is wonderful he is not like man.. ready to write off in an instant, ready to seperate for the slightest cause, not willing to give up our pride. Compare that attitude to him giving his son for us, the sinners. Would you give your son/daughter’s/own life for the other party you view as the enemy now? You don’t view them as the enemy? it sure looks like it.. your actions are too loud.. I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Thinking God needs us to contend for his truth and we must do it for him any old way we like? Even if it goes against the other truths in the bible? That would be so ironic! If true sin has been committed? hmm? aren’t we supposed to be christlike? Not going to forgive and straightaway cut off? hmm? Everyone say forgive already? Try already? Actions too loud again, I can’t hear what you’re saying. Saying doesn’t mean anything further than.. well.. meaning it.

Hot lazy afternoon.. wish I could go ikea to have a nice cup of coffee. Sommore lecture notes cal out my name.. Printed a ton of them.. heading back to it now..

Japan is such a beautiful place with infinite photo opportunities.

Its 1:36am and I’m thinking of food. Actually, Sakae sushi in particular. Although they serve up nonsense, sometimes eating nonsense food is in a way as pleasing as eating top quality food. Like maggi mee, it has its place in the mental health diet. har har har.

Anyway, they bear striking similarities and dis-similarities to one another!

Similarities

• Can consume as much as you want (assuming amount of food tend to infinity considering amt of food >> Stomach space anyway)
• You can’t eat today for tomorrow (to some degree)

Differences

• Can’t pick and choose stuff from the bible like a buffet
• Everything in the bible is always good, unlike buffets
• You can overeat in a buffet but that almost can’t happen for bible study
• Buffets cost money each time you eat, the bible is free (as long as you have one)

Simple math will tell you one Kushinbo dinner can buy you a very nice leather bound small bible. And yet, one day later, you have to pass out everything you ate in the dinner out while the bible would last as long as the material holds together. I think some bible even got lifetime guarantee for the binding.

Nonsense? maybe.. haha.. Back to study for me.

Argh! my Nike sportsband went totally nuts! Shall need to head back to Nike to change.. boo..

In school again.. for an hour. Had a nice chicken rice lunch with aunty and mom. Took a photo or two with the Rollei. I only took 12 shots with it so far! haha.. the going is slow but that’s good also.

I’ve read it many times over and I think this is my favourite book in the bible so far but I never noticed the “.. and his commandments are not burdensome” in 1 John 5:3 came from here. Also even more strangely, I never noticed the test the spirits thing came from here in 1 John 4:1-6. Truely this guy was the apostle of Love with a capital L. For the whole book oozes with it.

This ”test the spirits” comes to my mind for no reason other than the fact that I happened to see it while trying to read 1 John 5:3 in context of the whole book. It bears great similarity to Galatians 2:4-5 and Acts 15. In which some people suggested circumcision was required for salvation.

I think it would be safe to suggest that the bible contains these passages to tell us to avoid false gospels in specific and it is not a call to question things that fall into the realm of personal conviction or opinion, neither is it a verse we use to discount/question another’s conviction and treat it in the same extreme manner we would treat a false gospel because we have passages that already deal with personal liberty in Christ elsewhere.

I then thought about the berean christians. They “received the word with all readiness of mind” which is zeal, earnest, alacrity and “searched the scriptures daily to see if these things were so”. I guess.. they search to see “if it was so”, not “if it was not so”. One could imply the other.. but my guess would be that if the searching was done with an open mind and a ready heart, they wouldn’t be jumping naysayers ready to shoot other people’s thoughts and ideas down.

This really leads me to ask myself, how far can I take the word of God to imply something? Hmm. For now I’d rather not and just take it at face value. That is, in context with the rest of the book and the bible, with the culture of that day and reading no further than what it plainly says. What do you think? How much can a verse say beyond what is spelt out?

Sigh.. so so tired.. still have to stay up late to wait for my friend return stuff at 1am, then have to get up early tomorrow at 8am