破釜沉舟

破釜沉舟典故出自秦末的巨鹿之战。项羽为报叔父项梁之仇，亲率二万精兵进攻章邯。渡江前命令兵士打破煮食用的釜镬，渡江后凿沉舟只，只带三天干粮。最后于巨鹿大败秦军。


后以“破釜沉舟”表示下定决心，义无返顾。

Point of No Return.

No returning back, no regrets

No holding back, no reservations.

If I perish, I perish.- Esther ~ 475 BC

Sell All and Empty the Cup, for the Pearl of Great Price.

Unbelief, self, pride, lust, sloth, ill-discipline.. and literally everything else.

Mat 6:22-24 "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Psa 36:9 For with Thee is the fountain of Life: in Thy Light shall we see Light.

2Co 4:3-4 "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

Joh 1:5 "And the Light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

Mat 13:23  "But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."

John 1:6-7 "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe."

Php 3:7-17 "But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample."

Psa 82:5-8 "They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations."

 

Mat 20:30-33 "And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David. And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David. And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you? They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened."

But if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

Been reading up pastor's divers tract in his defence and contention for the Reformation legacy and heritage.

Saw that personally, when and after I resisted the overtures to honour my spiritual father and the call to imbibe the Calvinistic culture and Puritanical ethics in my life, my lifestyle became literally barbaric for being worse than the heathens, morally, socially and academically decadent, despite the given opulence and technological convinience of living in Moscow. I too had become like unto the liberals and leftists.

"Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate." (Psalm 34:21).

No sense of responsibility, loyalty, morality, kindness, productivity.

O God please emancipate me from my lawlessness and sin, to serve Thee in holiness and righteousness.

Reformation Day 31st October 1517

Sola Scriptura! Sola Fide! Sola Gratia! Sola Christus! Soli Deo Gloria! Papacy is the Antichrist!

Need to first seek the personal and experimental power of these reformational doctrines in my life: to repent and reform. 

Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546)

John Calvin (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564)

John Knox (c. 1510 – 24 November 1572)

Ulrich Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531)

William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 1536)

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

- George Santayana 1906.

Isa 1:22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

The cup is still alloyed, I am found a dross and tare among the land of the upright, and my attendance on the means of grace is an abomination in the sight of God.

"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood." (Isaiah 1:11-15)

Isa 1:16-20 "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. "

"Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed." (Isaiah 1:24-28)

Empty the cup.

Empty dad, mum, sister, myself, books, past alloyed understanding, cultures, family background, childhood upbringing, experiences, worldly mentality and attitude, etc. etc. etc.

KOSONGKAN SEMUA!

Mat. 18:3 "Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."

Got to learn everything again, starting from crawling. Hohoho.

"Huh? Walk? What on earth is that?"

Whoredom

Jer 2:33 "Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways."

Jer 4:30 "And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life."
  

Hos 2:16 "And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali."

I will go and return to my first husband (Hosea 2:7)

NOTE:

a) Ishi אישׁ - man, husband.

b) Baali בּעלי - my master.