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Matthew 16

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1 Những người Pha-ri-si và Sa-đu-sê đến cùng Ðức Chúa Jêsus, có ý thử Ngài, thì xin làm cho xem một dấu lạ từ trên trời xuống.

2 Nhưng Ngài đáp rằng: Khi chiều tối đến, thì các ngươi nói rằng: sẽ tốt trời, vì trời đỏ.

3 Còn sớm mai, thì các ngươi nói rằng: Hôm nay sẽ có cơn dông, vì trời đỏ và mờ mờ. Các ngươi người biết phân biệt rõ sắc trời, mà không phân biệt được dấu chỉ thì giờ ư!

4 Dòng dõi hung ác gian dâm nầy xin một dấu lạ; nhưng sẽ chẳng cho dấu lạ chi khác ngoài dấu lạ của đấng tiên tri Giô-na. ồi Ngài bỏ họ mà đi.

5 Khi môn đồ đi đến bờ bên kia, quên đem bánh theo.

6 Ðức Chúa Jêsus phán cùng môn đồ rằng: Hãy giữ mình cẩn thận về men của người Pha-ri-si và Sa-đu-sê.

7 Môn đồ suy nghĩ và luận cùng nhau rằng: Ðây là vì chúng ta không đem bánh theo.

8 Ðức Chúa Jêsus biết điều đó, thì phán rằng: Hỡi kẻ ít đức tin, sao các ngươi tưởng rằng ấy là vì cớ các ngươi không có bánh?

9 Các ngươi há chưa hiểu, cũng không nhớ năm cái bánh cho năm ngàn người, và các ngươi lượm được mấy giỏ đầy bánh thừa sao?

10 Lại há không nhớ bảy cái bánh cho bốn ngàn người, và các người lượm được bao nhiêu giỏ đầy bánh thừa sao?

11 Các ngươi sao chẳng hiểu rằng không phải về bánh mà ta muốn nói đâu? nhưng hãy giữ mình về men của người Pha-ri-si và Sa-đu-sê.

12 Bấy giờ môn đồ mới hiểu rằng Ngài chẳng bảo giữ mình về men làm bánh, nhưng về đạo của người Pha-ri-si và Sa-đu-sê.

13 Khi Ðức Chúa Jêsus đã vào địa phận thành Sê-sa-rê Phi-líp, bèn hỏi môn đồ, mà rằng: Theo lời người ta nói thì Con người là ai?

14 Môn đồ thưa rằng: Người nói là Giăng Báp-tít; kẻ nói là Ê-li; kẻ khác lại nói là Giê-rê-mi, hay là một đấng tiên tri nào đó.

15 Ngài phán rằng: Còn các người thì xưng ta là ai?

16 Si-môn Phi -e-rơ thưa rằng: Chúa là Ðấng Christ, con Ðức Chúa Trời hằng sống.

17 Bấy giờ, Ðức Chúa Jêsus phán cùng người rằng: Hỡi Si-môn, con Giô-na, ngươi có phước đó; vì chẳng phải thịt và huyết tỏ cho ngươi biết điều nầy đâu, bèn là Cha ta ở trên trời vậy.

18 Còn ta, ta bảo ngươi rằng: Ngươi là Phi -e-rơ, ta sẽ lập Hội thánh ta trên đá nầy, các cửa âm phủ chẳng thắng được hội đó.

19 Ta sẽ giao chìa khóa nước thiên đàng cho ngươi; hễ điều gì mà ngươi buộc dưới đất, thì cũng sẽ buộc ở trên trời, và điều gì mà ngươi mở dưới đất, thì cũng sẽ mở ở trên trời.

20 Ðoạn, Ngài cấm môn đồ đừng nói cho ai biết rằng Ngài, Ðức Chúa Jêsus, là Ðấng Christ.

21 Từ đó, Ðức Chúa Jêsus mới tỏ cho môn đồ biết rằng mình phải đi đến thành Giê-ru-sa-lem, phải chịu tại đó nhiều sự khốn khổ bởi những người trưởng lão, thầy tế lễ cả, cùng thầy thông giáo, và phải bị giết, đến ngày thứ ba phải sống lại.

22 Phi -e-rơ bèn đem Ngài riêng ra, mà can rằng: Hỡi Chúa, Ðức Chúa Trời nào nỡ vậy! Sự đó sẽ không xảy đến cho Chúa đâu!

23 Nhưng Ngài xây mặt lại mà phán cùng Phi -e-rơ rằng: Ớ Sa-tan, hãy lui ra đằng sau ta! Ngươi làm gương xấu cho ta; vì ngươi chẳng nghĩ đến việc Ðức Chúa Trời, song nghĩ đến việc người ta.

24 Ðức Chúa Jêsus bèn phán cùng môn đồ rằng: Nếu ai muốn theo ta, thì phải liều mình, vác thập tự giá mình mà theo ta.

25 Vì ai muốn cứu sự sống mình thì sẽ mất, còn ai vì cớ ta mà mất sự sống mình thì sẽ được lại.

26 Người nào nếu được cả thiên hạ mà mất linh hồn mình, thì có ích gì? Vậy thì người lấy chi mà đổi linh hồn mình lại?

27 Vì Con người sẽ ngự trong sự vinh hiển của Cha mình mà giáng xuống cùng các thiên sứ, lúc đó, Ngài sẽ thưởng cho từng người, tùy việc họ làm.

28 Quả thật, ta nói cùng các ngươi, trong các ngươi đứng đây, có một vài kẻ sẽ không chết trước khi thấy con người ngự đến trong nước Ngài.

   

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True Christian Religion # 483

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483. V. Without free will in spiritual matters the Word would not be of any use, nor in consequence would the church be.

It is well known throughout the Christian world that the Word is, broadly speaking, the Law, that is, a book of laws in accordance with which a person must live, in order to be granted everlasting life. Is there anything it says more often than that man must do good and not evil, and he must believe in God and not in idols? The Word is also full of commands and exhortations to these actions, with blessings and promises of rewards for those who do so, and curses and threats of punishment for those who do not. Unless man had free will in spiritual matters, that is, in matters concerned with salvation and everlasting life, what would all this be but empty words serving no use? And if anyone were to cling to the idea that he lacked any power or freedom in spiritual matters, so that he was without any will-power in these matters, would not Holy Scripture look to him like a blank piece of paper with no letters on it, or like a piece of paper over which a whole pot of ink had been emptied, or just serifs and dots with no letters, that is to say, a book with nothing in it?

[2] There would hardly be any need to prove this from the Word, but since present-day churches have plunged so deeply into mental inanity in spiritual matters, citing certain passages in support which they have wrongly interpreted, I am obliged to quote some passages which tell men how to act and believe. These are:

The kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that produces its fruits, Matthew 21:43.

Produce fruit worthy of repentance; at any moment now the axe is put to the root of the tree. So every tree which does not produce good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire, Luke 3:8-9.

Jesus said, why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and not do what I say? Everyone who comes to me and listens to what I say and does that is like a man building a house upon rock. But one who listens and does not do it, is like a man building his house on soil with no foundation, Luke 6:46-49.

Jesus said, My mother and my brothers are these who hear the Word of God and act upon it, Luke 8:21.

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone worships God and does His will, He listens to him, John 9:31.

If you know these things, you are blessed if you act upon them, John 13:17.

He who possesses my commandments and does them is the one who loves me, and I will love him, John 14:21.

In this is my Father glorified, by your bringing forth much fruit, John 15:8.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I bid you. I have chosen you to bear fruit, and for your fruit to keep, John 15:14, 16.

Make the tree good; by its fruit the tree is known, Matthew 12:33.

Produce fruit worthy of repentance, Matthew 3:8.

The one who sowed seed on good land is the one who hears the Word and bears fruit, Matthew 13:23.

He who reaps receives his wage, and gathers the fruit for everlasting life, John 4:36.

Wash yourselves, cleanse yourselves, put away the wickedness of your deeds; learn to do good, Isaiah 1:16-17.

The Son of Man is to come in the glory of His Father, and He will then deal with each according to his deeds, Matthew 16:27.

Those who have done good deeds will go forth to be resurrected to life, John 5:29.

Their deeds accompany them, Revelation 14:13.

Behold, I come soon and my reward is with me, so that I may give to each according to what he has done, Revelation 22:12.

Jehovah, whose eyes are open, to give to each in accordance with his behaviour; He deals with us according to our deeds, Jeremiah 32:19; Zechariah 1:6.

[3] The Lord teaches the same lesson in the parables, many of which imply that those who do good are accepted and those who do evil are rejected: as in the parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 21:33-44), that of the talents and minas, with which they had to trade (Matthew 25:14-30; Luke 19:13-25). Likewise Jesus said about faith:

He who believes in me shall never die, but live, John 11:25-26.

This is the Father's will, that everyone who believes in the Son should have everlasting life, John 6:40.

He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; he, however, who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him, John 3:36.

God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life, John 3:15-16.

Furthermore:

You are to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. And you are to love the neighbour as yourself. The law and the prophets depend upon these two commandments, Matthew 22:37-40.

These are a minute selection from the Word and like a few pints of water drawn from the sea.

  
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Luke 19

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1 He entered and was passing through Jericho.

2 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.

3 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.

4 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.

5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house."

6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.

7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner."

8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much."

9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."

11 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.

12 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

13 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'

14 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'

15 "It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business.

16 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.'

17 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'

18 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.'

19 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.'

20 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,

21 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'

22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

23 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'

24 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.'

25 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'

26 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"

28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

29 It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

30 saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.

31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'"

32 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them.

33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

34 They said, "The Lord needs it."

35 They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Jesus on them.

36 As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way.

37 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"

39 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"

40 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."

41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

44 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."

45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,

46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"

47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

48 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.