THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’ SAYING 7b
LỜI PHÁN CỦA ĐỨC CHÚA JÊSUS 7b
Kinh thánh: Mác 2: 1-12
Câu gốc: GIA-CƠ 5: 16 – Vậy, hãy xưng tội cùng nhau, và cầu nguyện cho nhau, hầu cho anh em được lành bịnh: người công bình lấy lòng sốt sắng cầu nguyện, thật có linh nghiệm nhiều.
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THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’ SAYING 7b
Bible: Mark 2: 1-12
Verse: JAMES 5: 16 – Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
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MATTHEW 9: 2 – Some men brought to Him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the man: Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.
MA-THI-Ơ 9: 2 – Nầy, có người đem lại cho Ngài một người đau bại nằm trên giường. Đức Chúa Jêsus thấy đức tin của các người đó, thì phán cùng người bại rằng: Hỡi con, hãy vững lòng, tội lỗi con đã được tha.
– Jesus knew the paralytic came to be healed, but He said first that his sins had been forgiven.
– That’s means his paralysis was caused by his sins in the past.
– By saying the sins of the paralytic was forgiven, Jesus let us know that some diseases happened because of human sins:
DEUTERONOMY 28: 58-59 – If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God, the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses.
PHỤC TRUYỀN 28: 58-59 – Nếu ngươi không cẩn thận làm theo các lời của luật pháp nầy, ghi trong sách nầy, không kính sợ danh vinh hiển và đáng sợ nầy là Giê-hô-va Đức Chúa Trời ngươi, thì Đức Giê-hô-va sẽ giáng cho ngươi và dòng giống ngươi những tai vạ lạ thường, lớn lao và lâu bền, nhựng chứng độc bịnh hung.
– Therefore, in order to be healed a particular disease, the patient must first confess his sins and promise a repentance.
– Confessing a sin is hard, but keeping the promise of repentance is harder.
– Psychologically, humans tend to blame others for their sins. Only a few actually and truly confess that they committed sins on their own.
– For example, bank robbers blamed their life hardship made them robbing a bank. Adulterers blamed their spouses did not love them anymore.
– Some Christians even claimed that some kinds of vice were not sins, like smoking, drinking, gambling, divorcing and adultering.
– It seems that no Christians actually study the whole Bible on these subjects. They just used some of verses that support their own ideas and from there claimed that those vices were not sins.
– Moreover, nowadays many Christians never want to hear anything about sins, so they just forget confession completely. Like the warning in the Bible, at the end of times, Christians would rather like to hear silly myths and fake news more than truth:
2TIMOTHY 4: 3-4 – For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
2TI-MÔ-THÊ 4: 3-4 – Vì sẽ có một thời kia, người ta không chịu nghe đạo lành; nhưng vì họ ham nghe những lời êm tai, theo tư dục mà nhóm họp các giáo sư xung quanh mình, bịt tai không nghe lẽ thật, mà xây hướng về chuyện huyễn.
– Just have a look at all churches nowadays, no ministers mentioned of sins anymore. All they said in their sermons was blessing, thought of God as a fortune Spirit Who would never judge and punish anyone for whatever sins they did in this life.
– That’s why nowadays Christians go to churches and instead of hearing truth in the Bible, they hear social news of people doing their daily works, even news of their private lives.
– That’s why many Christians go to churches almost all of their lives and never grow up spiritually in Christ. They continue to live with thoughts, actions, habits and behaviors like unbelievers, nothing is different.
– But if confessing a sin is hard, keeping the promise of repentance is harder, or for some people, it’s impossible.
– According to the Bible, true repentance means never committing that kind of sin again, like what Jesus said to the woman who committed adultery:
JOHN 8: 10-11 – Jesus straightened up and asked her: Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? No one, sir, she said. Then neither do I condemn you, Jesus declared, go now and leave your life of sin.
GIĂNG 8: 11 – Đức Chúa Jêsus bấy giờ lại ngước lên, không thấy ai hết, chỉ có người đàn bà, bèn phán rằng: Hỡi đàn bà kia, những kẻ cáo ngươi ở đâu? Không ai định tội ngươi sao? Người thưa rằng: Lạy Chúa, không ai hết. Đức Chúa Jêsus phán rằng: Ta cũng không định tội người; hãy đi, đừng phạm tội nữa.
– Although the Lord Jesus taught us to forgive others 70 times 7, but He did not means the forgiveness of one sin that committed over and over 490 times, because if it’s the case, it would become sinning deliberately. And also according to the Bible, those who deliberately sinned are enemies of God:
HEBREWS 10: 26-27 – If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
HÊ-BƠ-RƠ 10: 26-27 – Vì nếu chúng ta đã nhận biết lẽ thật rồi, mà lại cố ý phạm tội, thì không còn có tế lễ chuộc tội nữa, nhưng chỉ có sự đợi chờ kinh khiếp về sự phán xét, và lửa hừng sẽ đốt cháy kẻ bội nghịch mà thôi.
– This particular verses were recorded after Jesus was nailed on the cross as an offering for humans’ sins, therefore it means that those who were already forgiven in Christ would not be forgiven again if they deliberately committed the same kind of sins as before:
HEBREWS 6: 4-6 – It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace.
HÊ-BƠ-RƠ 6: 4-6 – Vì chưng những kẻ đã được soi sáng một lần, đã nếm sự ban cho từ trên trời, dự phần về Đức Thánh Linh, nếm đạo lành Đức Chúa Trời, và quyền phép của đời sau, nếu lại vấp ngã, thì không thể khiến họ lại ăn năn nữa, vì họ đóng đinh Con Đức Chúa Trời trên thập tự giá cho mình một lần nữa, làm cho Ngài sỉ nhục tỏ tường.
– In churches there are always those who said Christians did not need to worry about sins because God would forgive them all disregarding how many times they committed. Those false teachers are trying to lure Christians into the way of damnation forever. We should avoid them at all cost.
– Back to the paralytic’ story, although Jesus saw the way they came to Him and wishing their friend to be healed from the paralysis, but Jesus also knew he already repented his sins, meaning he never wanted to commit them again, so Jesus said his sins were forgiven instead of his paralysis was healed.
– But those present day preachers never actually knew those who came to them for healing were truly repentant or not but they kept asking God to heal them like they were masters of Him. We must avoid those false preachers, too, and never have anything associating with that kind of blasphemy.
– When sickness came from sins, in order to be healed, we must confess our sins first and make a promise of repentance that we never commit those sins again, no matter what.
– That is the way some sickness would be healed, as it was recorded in the Bible as such:
JAMES 5: 16 – Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
GIA-CƠ 5: 16 – Vậy, hãy xưng tội cùng nhau, và cầu nguyện cho nhau, hầu cho anh em được lành bịnh: người công bình lấy lòng sốt sắng cầu nguyện, thật có linh nghiệm nhiều.
– According to Jesus’ teaching, recommitting a sin will make thing worse for that person, or in other words, make the sickness to be more severe than before:
JOHN 5: 12-14 – So they asked him: Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk? The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him: See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.
GIĂNG 5: 12-14 – Họ hỏi rằng: Người đã biểu ngươi: Hãy vác giường và đi, là ai? Nhưng người đã được chữa lành không biết là ai, vì Đức Chúa Jêsus đã lẫn trong đám đông tại chỗ đó. Sau lại, Đức Chúa Jêsus gặp người đó trong đền thờ, bèn phán rằng: Kìa, ngươi đã lành rồi, đừng phạm tội nữa, e có sự gì càng xấu xa xảy đến cho ngươi chăng.
– Because Christians don’t often take heed from Jesus’ teaching on this particular subject of healing, so there have been many sick people in churches and many of us don’t have a healthy life, like what happened in the earthly church:
1CORINTHIANS 11: 30-31 – That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.
1CÔ-RINH-TÔ 11: 30-31 – Ấy vì cớ đó mà trong anh em có nhiều kẻ tật nguyền, đau ốm, và có lắm kẻ ngủ. Nếu chúng ta biết xét đoán lấy mình, thì khỏi bị xét đoán.
– Thus, in order for us to have a healthy life, we must recognize right away whatever sins we have committed and we must make the confession to God, at the same time promise to repent completely.
– May God give us wisdom and strength to humbly do just that then our lives in the year 2019 will certainly be better than those already passed. May God bless us abundantly as a reward. Amen.