Unity of The Brethren

BIBLE STUDY
Study on Psalm 133

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! 
It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;  
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. (NASB)


This song of King David opened with a word of "Behold. . .". A word that urges us to pay attentions to the song that followed. A word that wanted to tell us that something very important, such as a secret would be revealed, something that can’t be ignored.
Right after the psalmist got the attentions of his readers, he followed by words of ". . . how good and how pleasant . . ."; circumstances that describe what would happened then. When we carefully study those words though, we would found two different conditions that’d been described.

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Zacchaeus

BIBLE STUDY
Study on Luke 19:1-10

Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.
A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
He wanted to see who Jesus was, but being a short man he could not, because of the crowd.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.”
So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a ‘sinner.’ ”
But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” (NIV)



I’m sure, it is not the first time we read and study the above story of Zacchaeus. Even, may be in our childhood when we went to Sunday-school, we had often heard the story of Zacchaeus. But, for me, it’s precisely shows the richness of our Bible, that each time we read and study the passages of the Bible, dig it again and deeper again, we always encounter new thoughts; new thoughts which we can understand and draw some principles of truth from them.

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