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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.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

The worst things in life may happen in a temple

Learning Point No 416

Some of the worst conflicts of men arise in the house of God and saints. This is not the making of God and saints but the making of men who are like insects who come to a flower for nectar. 

 Blame not the flower for insects coming to it. This parable was used rather aptly by Lord Bo Tien in one of his past annual messages.

 Men may be attracted to religion but once in the very house of God and saints, they may take matters into their own hands and do what they ought not to do. 

They are supposed to love their neighbors but they may not even love their brothers in the same temple or religion. 

They literally clobber their brothers and elders. Elders may even bash the young who take over the managing of their temple or church. Where have all the religiosity and the doctrine of God and saints gone to? 

Isn't this pathetic? Like what the lord saint Lord Bo Tien said in one of his messages that when it rains, it would be like Heaven shedding tears in pity. Men should know better having learnt the doctrine in the very house of God and saints. 

Heaven is benevolent and will wait patiently for men to learn. But men of faith and even of the same church forget the Word thinking that they know best. 

They forget that the Word is God and when they do not live in the Word and act not in accordance with the Word, what would we expect? Some of the worst things in life happen in a temple or rather in the house of God and saints. 

Wars are waged in name of God. Wars do take away many lives. Terrorism may well still surface despite the best of supposedly spiritual intentions. 

Men plunder the wealth of congregations. Adultery and divorce too are not uncommon in the house of God. 

All these are not because God is not there but because men are there. Men often get carried away when they live not in the Word. 




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