Title: Who Can Live with the Lord?
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Who can live with the Lord? (Psalm 15:1-5)
2010,12,19.
*** Dorothy Day, author of the book “Confessions,” “To a student who asked to summarize the connection between the starting point and the ending point of her life, she explained in detail:
“When I was your age, women could not vote. And the poor had nothing to depend on but the alms of the rich. I remember asking my mother when I was a girl.
Why aren't people getting better? Why do the few have so much and the many have little or nothing? My mother only said, "It's not like that for any reason, it's just unfair."
I think I'm explaining why it's unfair. I think I've spent my life trying to change things up a little bit. I believe that's what people like me should do.
We are the people who are blessed with good conditions in this world. Aren't you supposed to help others see it too!
First, who will dwell with the Lord? (Psalm 15:1)
“Lord, who can live where you are? Who will remain on your holy mountain?”
The ‘tabernacle’ was the place where the ark of God was placed before the temple was built, and the ‘Holy Mountain’ refers to Mount Zion, and there was also God’s tent, and the temple was built there in the time of Solomon after David.
All of these refer to the temple where God resides, and in the New Testament era, the “body of the saints” is said to be the temple. (1 Corinthians 6:19 “Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. You have received the Holy Spirit from God and have it in you. Do you not know that you are not your own?”)
Second, the qualifications to dwell with the Lord (Psalm 15:2-5)
1, Positive character (virtue) (Psalm 15:2)
“A person who lives a clean (honest) life, one who practices justice (justice), one who speaks the truth with his heart,”
1), 正直性 (Honesty): ‘Honesty’ means innocence without lies, and it is to pursue a purpose in which thoughts and actions are consistent. It is always thinking as if you are with God and not being double-minded.
2), Justice: ‘Justice’ means doing God’s will. We do not walk according to our own thoughts or lusts, but we do righteousness according to our faith.
3), 眞實性 (truthfulness): ‘Truth’ means that the inner life and the outer life coincide. The truth is transparent, the inside and the outside are one. His prayers, confessions, and promises to God and man are not false.
4), 剛直性 (Rigidity): Believers ‘despise deceitful people’. A profane person is a person who is proud in the sight of God by doing evil things. To “despise” them does not mean that they do not respect them as human beings, but rather that they do not recognize their social prestige, status, wealth, etc., which they have earned through wickedness.
Christians are to judge people by virtue and piety, and to have pity on those who are profane.
5), 謙遜 (humility): Believers should be humble not only to God but also to everyone. Even the poor and lowly should not underestimate those who fear God.
6), Confidence: A wish is a promise. A promise is sacred because it secures one's whole personality as collateral. Although there is loss of honor, property, and life because of that promise. You must keep it though.
*** From “Dorothy Day” Confession Is Difficult
Confession is difficult. It is difficult when there is a confession of sin and difficult when there is not.
The sin of not showing mercy. the sin of breaking fidelity. criticism. sloth. the sin of greed. I am having a hard time figuring out which sins I should confess first.
I want to bury my daily insecurity and trivial sins, but in the end, I try to bring these little sins out as the first step in receiving the forgiveness of other sins.
Even a righteous person without the world falls seven times a day. said.
2, Passive virtue (Psalm 15:3~4)
“He who does not reveal faults with his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who does not insult his friends 4. He despises those who are rejected by God, respects those who fear the Lord, Even if the sun goes down, he is a person who does not change.
1), not accusing (accusing): ‘accusing’ means going around and harming people with words. Since believers are the source of blessing, their mouth must be a mouth that produces blessings and a mouth that produces truth.
2), Do not sabotage: ‘Disrupt’ means slander, slander, gossip, insult, etc. Christians are people who believe that people who have no relationship with me are neighbors.
3), Do not do evil: You must not harm or hurt your friends mentally or physically. You must not do anything that damages your friend's honor, property or happiness.
*** “Dorothy Day” From When God
From a very young age, we are right and wrong. He had a sense of good and evil. My conscience was clear. There were ethical and religious concepts.
Stealing cucumbers from Aunt Lynch's garden on Cropsy Street was a bad thing.
It was also bad to sneak money out of my mother's wallet to buy drinks. From an early age, we lost our sense of ownership.
mine and yours! This concept of possession begins in infancy.
“It’s mine.” Just hold it in your hand and it will be mine.
Ownership itself is almost a law. We've been possessive like this since the days of preschool, when we used to fight. In preschool, power was justice. Of course, he was not old enough to discern the sari. But at the age of four I knew it was wrong to steal. confessed
3, you should not expect undue profits. (Psalm 15:5)
“He does not lend money for interest, and he does not take bribes to harm innocent people. Such a person will never be shaken.”
1), Do not take unfair advantage: Christians must not take advantage in an unfair way. It is forbidden by God to pay through patent interest.
2), not accepting bribes: A person who takes a bribe and harms an innocent sin is against social justice. A bribe makes the righteous a sinner, and a wrong thing into a right thing. Bribery paralyzes the human conscience. A bribe takes away righteousness from the righteous.