Reading. Isaiah 3:5-26, GNB Isaiah 3:5-26[5]Everyone will take advantage of everyone else. Young people will not respect their elders, and worthless people will not respect their superiors.[6]A time will come
Reading Ephesians 2:11-22, NIV Map: uncircumcised-separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise…in Christ Jesus…once were far away…brought near through the blood
Reading Matthew 5:17-20 Map: not to abolish the law but to fulfill it; practises and teach these commands…called great in the kingdom of heaven (vs 19, NIV); …be reconciled to
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils (vs 22, NIV) Reading Isaiah 2:6-22 Isaiah 2:6-17,19-22[6]O God, you have forsaken your people, the descendants of Jacob!
Reading Ephesians 2:1-10, NIV Made alive with Christ..dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved (vs 5). For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and
Reading Matthew 5:13-16, NIV Map: salt loses saltiness-useless; light-let it shine not hidden …may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven (vs 13-16, NIV) Matthew 5:13-16, GNB[13]“You
Reading Isaiah 2:1-5, NIV Map: Prophesy:..Lord’s temple will be established…all nations will stream to it; He will teach us his ways; He will judge between the nations and will settle
Reading Matthew 5:1-12, NIV Map on Blessed: 1. poor in spirit-kingdom of heaven (humility in spirit?); 2. mourn-comforted (grief, repentenance?); 3. meek-inherit the earth(humble); 4. hunger and thirst for righteousness-be
Reading Isaiah 1:21-31 Map: Paint images of before (faithful city), now (become a harlot); before (was full of justice), now (murderers); loves bribes; do not defend the cause of the
Thought: one country, 2 systems like HK; it appears that God had already chosen some but we have a free will to choose God as well. Just like Jesus’disciples and