Invitation - 2015 Start Your Year “FAST”! 禁食禱告週 This week (1/11-17) Any # of meals / Any # of Days or any category of food (Biblical Fast = Food) [other things, like negative comments, FB, games, etc.]

How Do We Do It? Start with a meal first – something you can handle! 2. Drink a lot of WATER, or liquid/juice/soup. 3. Praise God, Repent, Read the Bible, Ask/Intercession 求/代求, And Yield: Have quiet quality time with God 4. Fast with Purpose – Make a Prayer List 5. Send your testimony to me!

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Psalms & Wisdom Literature 詩歌智慧書 Orientation 根源: Tidy Theology 簡單黑白分明的神學 By Walter Brueggemann

Leviticus 26:3-4, 7 你們若遵行我的律例，謹守我的誡命，我就給你 們降下時雨，叫地生出土產，田野的樹木結果子…你們要追趕仇敵 ，他們必倒在你們刀下 If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit…  You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Leviticus 26:14, 16-17 你們若不聽從我，不遵行我的誡命… 我待你們就要這樣：你們也要白白地撒種，因為仇敵要吃你們所種的。 我要向你們變臉，你們就要敗在仇敵面前. But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, I also will do this to you: And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.  I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies.

Proverbs 2:21-22 (the conclusion) 正直人必在世上居住； 完全人必在地上存留。 惟有惡人必然剪除； 奸詐的，必然拔出。 For the upright will dwell in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;  But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

Psalm Ecclesiastes詩篇 傳道書 Psalms & Wisdom Literature 詩歌智慧書 Orientation 根源: Tidy Theology 簡單黑白分明的神學 Disorientation 脫離根源: Untidy Theology 複雜的灰色神學 Proverbs 箴言 Job, Psalm (Ecclesiastes) 約伯記、詩篇 (傳道書) Reorientation 重新回到根源: Mentality – Praise & Trust Psalm Ecclesiastes詩篇 傳道書 By Walter Brueggemann

I. It’s OK if Proverbs Do Not Make Sense in Your Life Now What is your season in life?

Proverbs 箴言 1:1-7

(新譯本) 1大衛的兒子以色列王所羅門的箴言： 2要使人曉得智慧和教訓，了解充滿哲理的言語； 3使人領受明慧的教訓，就是公義、公正和正直； 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2 To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding, 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity; (NKJV)

4使愚蒙人變成精明，使少年人獲得知識和明辨的能力； 5使智慧人聽了，可以增長學問， 使聰明人聽了，可以獲得智謀； 6使人明白箴言和譬喻， 懂得智慧人的言詞和他們的隱語。 4 To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion— 5 A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, 6 To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles.

7敬畏耶和華是知識的開端， 但愚妄人藐視智慧和教訓。 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

7敬畏耶和華是知識的開端， 但愚妄人藐視智慧和教訓。 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. What is the Difference bt/ Knowledge & Wisdom? 知識與智慧有什麼不同？ What is the Difference bt/ Smart/Intelligent & Wise? 聰明與智慧有什麼不同？

Knowledge 知識: Knows a lot of useful facts Smart/Intelligent 聰明: Sharp, Quick, the ability to acquire / apply (use) knowledge. Wise 智慧: Discern Right vs. Wrong – good judgment 判斷對錯

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 to know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding, 3 to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgment, and equity; 4 To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion: 5 A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, 6 to understand a proverb and an enigma, the words of the wise and their riddles. ------------------------------------------------------------- 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

1大衛的兒子以色列王所羅門的箴言： ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2要使人曉得智慧和教訓，了解充滿哲理的言語； 3使人領受明慧的教訓，就是公義、公正和正直； 4使愚蒙人變成精明，使少年人獲得知識和明辨的能力； 5使智慧人聽了，可以增長學問， 使聰明人聽了，可以獲得智謀； 6使人明白箴言和譬喻， 懂得智慧人的言詞和他們的隱語。 --------------------------------------------------------------- 7敬畏耶和華是知識 (knowledge)的開端， 但愚妄人藐視智慧(wisdom)和教訓 (instructions).

Proverbs 箴言 9:10 敬畏耶和華是智慧的開端，認識至聖者就是聰明。 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding (or “intelligent”).

Knowledge 知識: Knows a lot of useful facts Smart/Intelligent 聰明: Sharp, Quick, the ability to acquire / apply (use) knowledge. Wise 智慧: Discern Right vs. Wrong – good judgment 判斷對錯 – do the right thing , say the right thing, at the right place and time Holistic View 整全的觀念

It’s OK if Proverbs Do Not Make Sense in Your Life Now Rely on God’s Wisdom in Everything in Life

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Genesis 創世記 39:2 約瑟住在他主人埃及人的家中，耶和華與他同在，他就百事順利。他主人見耶和華與他同在，又見耶和華使他手裡所辦的盡都順利. The LORD was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all he did to prosper in his hand. 41:39 法老對約瑟說：神既將這事都指示你，可見沒有人像你這樣有聰明有智慧。 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Inasmuch as God has shown you all this, there is no one as discerning (understanding, intelligent) and wise as you.

Daniel 但以理 1:19-20 王與他們談論，見少年人中無一人能比但以理、哈拿尼雅、米沙利、亞撒利雅，所以留他們在王面前侍立 Daniel 但以理 1:19-20 王與他們談論，見少年人中無一人能比但以理、哈拿尼雅、米沙利、亞撒利雅，所以留他們在王面前侍立. 王考問他們一切事，就見他們的智慧聰明比通國的術士和用法術的勝過十倍. Then the king interviewed them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; therefore they served before the king. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his realm.

It’s OK if Proverbs Do Not Make Sense in Your Life Now Rely on God’s Wisdom in Everything in Life

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