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The Living Life Series is dedicated to Lord (武天) Bo Tien. The doctrine is in His image. The image is the doctrine. He who sees, understands and effects the doctrine sees and knows Him. He who does not see, know and effect the doctrine sees not and knows not the saint even if the saint or His image is beside him. The far may be near and the near may be far. Let the doctrine and the saint be part of our life. The lord saint in your life can be any heavenly saint of any religion, sect or school. The doctrine of truth is behind all and this is the Inner Truth that leads all (regardless of their religious affliliation or even if none) to inner peace and heaven on earth here and now and not just in the after life. The ideal worship and devotion is to know and effect the doctrine of God and the saints. The best gospel is the gospel of life. We learn from our life and the lives of others. The true temple is the world we live in. The sky is the roof of the temple and religions and sects are the pillars of the temple. All under Heaven are in the temple. The whole wide world and web is the temple and must be regarded as a sacred place --- a temple for living and learning. It is more important that everyone that counts plays a role in this universal temple if due focus is to be given to the Mission of Heaven. Men must not be distracted by the agenda of men and end up serving the mission of man. That would be a far cry from the Mission of Heaven.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Learn from the failings of men of God

Learning Point No 340




What would you think and how would you react if men in charge of a temple or a church got carried away by their good faith and erred? You may say that this won't happen if men are grounded in faith in God and saints above. 

But it is because they have faith that they think that as long as what they did were in good faith and done in the name of God and saints, nothing would happen to them and all would be well if they did not do their administrative house keeping correctly. 

They might think that what mattered was that they are brethren and family of God and saints. They might hold the view that God and saints would be with them. 

They might become bold, careless and indiscreet by not keeping to the laws and regulations of the land. They might think that as long as the congregation and cadres condone and didn't mind, what could the government of the day do to them? They had good faith in God and saints and were prepared to do the unthinkable out of good faith.

This possibility cannot be ruled out in any temple church or mission. It can even happen to any Bo Tien mission related center or temple. 

It is with hindsight and trepidation that the core pioneers of the mission realized why the lord saint Lord Bo Tien said that men must abide by the laws of the land as much as they want to abide by the laws of Heaven. 

Inner truth netizen 2 the writer cannot help recalling the biblical teaching when he was in a mission school that the bible says that men must give to Caesar what is due to Caesar and to God what is due to God. 

Thus in the running of a temple, church or center, men need to draw the line and be right or else they may actually bring problems to themselves. They  would then be no longer role models for other men who look up to them out of good faith in God and saints. 

This is sadly because of their good faith but lacking in wisdom and lacking in grounding in the Word of God. God forgives them for their wrongs.

Blame not the flower for insects coming to it for nectar. This the lord saint Lord Bo Tien said with regards to his mission. The flower may wilt but the fruits and seeds that result will ensure new flowers. 

People will learn from the mistakes of others and be wiser not to repeat them. This will be the fruitful outcome.

But then there will always be the same problem because men are still men and not God and saints. Men often claim they know allot but actually they either do not know enough or do not practise what they know. This, like it or not, applies to ourselves as well for we are yet to be saints.

The weaknesses of men of good faith are but lessons and chapters in the gospel of life. Hopefully there will be men who wake up and make good. 

But in the process they may hurt their brothers in faith but it is better that their brothers be hurt and be wiser and better off in the end. 

Praise the lord. Praise God.



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