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  Day 18: Proverbs 9:8, Amos 5:13-15, Micah 6:8       How should we live in this evil time?       We are living in a time where we dislike those who rebuke honestly within love.  Therefore, the wise advise us not to rebuke the arrogant, lest they hate us (Prov. 9:8a).  Even in the time of the prophet Amos, leaders and judges would pronounce judgments and decrees at the city gates, but the arrogant people of Israel did not acknowledge them, rather, they despised them.  Another wickedness that occurred in his time was that judges took bribes and oppressed the poor.  Referring to such times, in Amos 5:13, it is called a time of evil.  In this time, similar to when Amos lived, how should we live?   Firstly, we should learn from the wise and remain silent.  This silence serves as a judgment against the arrogant.  Secondly, we should not seek evil, but pursue goodness.  By hating evil and lo...

‘Thanks be to God’         [Romans 6:15-18]                        Let us review Romans 6:12-14 again [Title: The result of resurrection with Christ].   Just as Jesus Christ died to sin once for all and lives for God forever (v. 10), so we also consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.                    First, we must live as dead to sin.                   We must not allow sin to have dominion over our bodies (v. 12).   We must not obey the lusts of the body (v. 12).   Here, it was said at the Wednesday prayer meeting last week that the word “lust” was translated into eight Greek words, but in fact, it was translated into more than ten.   Among those translations, it was also tran...