We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

The prophet Isaiah says all of us are like wandering sheep. We've all gone astray. Every one of us has followed our own sinful path and the Lord gathered all the iniquity of all of us and laid it on Him. This is the amazing reality that Jesus Christ, God's Son, is the sinless substitute for our sins. He offered Himself, the sinless One, for the sinful one. Every person has sinned, and for everyone who puts trust in Jesus Christ, that sin is paid for. This is at the heart of the Christian gospel, Jesus the sinless one, dying as a substitute for sinners... God, the judge, determining what the punishment must be, and executing it on his own Son. Then when we put our trust in Him, with His death applied to us, our sins are forever covered, and the righteousness of Christ is given to us. It is in this great truth of the Christian faith, in which, we rejoice supremely. This rescues us from eternal judgment and gives us eternal peace with God.
John MacArthur

[We must not let] the foundation for our morality…shift from the objective truth God has given to us in His Word to the subjective notions we create in our minds. Even when we don’t realize the implications of our ideas, we inescapably come to one conclusion: whatever seems right to me or feels right to me is right for me… We turn from worshipping God to worshipping self.
David Platt

Bible – chinese – 新标点和合本 歌罗西书 2

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我愿意你们晓得,我为你们和老底嘉人,并一切没有与我亲自见面的人,是何等地尽心竭力;
要叫他们的心得安慰,因爱心互相联络,以致丰丰足足在悟性中有充足的信心,使他们真知 神的奥秘,就是基督;
所积蓄的一切智慧知识,都在他里面藏着。
我说这话,免得有人用花言巧语迷惑你们。
我身子虽与你们相离,心却与你们同在,见你们循规蹈矩,信基督的心也坚固,我就欢喜了。
基督里生命的丰盛
你们既然接受了主基督耶稣,就当遵他而行,
在他里面生根建造,信心坚固,正如你们所领的教训,感谢的心也更增长了。
你们要谨慎,恐怕有人用他的理学和虚空的妄言,不照着基督,乃照人间的遗传和世上的小学就把你们掳去。
因为 神本性一切的丰盛都有形有体地居住在基督里面,
10 你们在他里面也得了丰盛。他是各样执政掌权者的元首。
11 你们在他里面也受了不是人手所行的割礼,乃是基督使你们脱去肉体情欲的割礼。
12 你们既受洗与他一同埋葬,也就在此与他一同复活,都因信那叫他从死里复活 神的功用。
13 你们从前在过犯和未受割礼的肉体中死了, 神赦免了你们+一切过犯,便叫你们与基督一同活过来;
14 又涂抹了在律例上所写、攻击我们、有碍于我们的字据,把它撤去,钉在十字架上。
15 既将一切执政的、掌权的掳来,明显给众人看,就仗着十字架夸胜。
16 所以,不拘在饮食上,或节期、月朔、安息日都不可让人论断你们。
17 这些原是后事的影儿;那形体却是基督。
18 不可让人因着故意谦虚和敬拜天使,就夺去你们的奖赏。这等人拘泥在所见过的+,随着自己的欲心,无故地自高自大,
19 不持定元首。全身既然靠着他,筋节得以相助联络,就因 神大得长进。
基督里的新生活
20-21 你们若是与基督同死,脱离了世上的小学,为什么仍像在世俗中活着、服从那「不可拿、不可尝、不可摸」等类的规条呢?
22 这都是照人所吩咐、所教导的。说到这一切,正用的时候就都败坏了。
23 这些规条使人徒有智慧之名,用私意崇拜,自表谦卑,苦待己身,其实在克制肉体的情欲上是毫无功效。

+ 2:13 或译:我们
+ 2:18 有古卷:这等人窥察所没有见过的