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Peter – Letters to the churches (16)

Bro Brian.

(པེ་ཏྲོ། ༡ 5:5-11)

དེ་བཞིན་དུ་ཁྱེད་གཞོན་ནུ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འགན་ཁུར་བའི་བཀའ་ལ་ཉན་དགོས། ཁྱེད་ཚོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཉམས་ཆུང་གི་ཐོག་ནས་གཅིག་གིས་གཅིག་ལ་རོགས་བྱེད་དགོས། གང་ཡིན་ཞེ་ན།

དཀོན་མཆོག་གིས་ནི་ང་རྒྱལ་ཅན་ལ་རྒོལ།།

ཉམས་ཆུང་རྣམས་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་གནང་བར་མཛད།།

དེའི་ཕྱིར་དཀོན་མཆོག་གི་དབང་ལྡན་པའི་ཕྱག་འོག་ཏུ་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་དམའ་ས་བཟུང་ཞིང༌། དུས་ལ་བབས་པའི་ཚེ་ཁོང་གིས་ཁྱེད་ཚོ་མཐོ་བར་མཛད།

ཁོང་གིས་ཁྱེད་རྣམས་ལ་གཟིགས་སྐྱོང་མཛད་པས། ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་སེམས་ཁྲལ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཁོང་ལ་གཏོད།

རང་ཚོད་འཛིན་ནས་དོགས་ཟོན་བྱེད་ཅིག བདུད་རྒྱལ་ཏེ་ཁྱེད་ཚོའི་དགྲ་བོ་ནི་ངར་སྐད་འདོན་པའི་སེང་གེ་ལྟར་གང་སར་མྱུལ་ནས་ཟ་རྒྱུའི་མི་ཞིག་འཚོལ།

ཁོ་བཀག་སྟེ་ཁྱེད་ཚོའི་དད་པ་ལ་བརྟན་པོར་གནས། གང་ལགས་ཤེ་ན། འཇིག་རྟེན་ཡོངས་སུ་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་སྤུན་ཟླ་རྣམས་དེ་ལྟར་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མྱོང་བར་ཤེས་པའི་ཕྱིར་རོ།

ཡང་ཁྱེད་ཚོ་དུས་ཐུང་ངུ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མྱོང་བའི་རྗེས་སུ། མཱ་ཤི་ཀའི་སྒོ་ནས་རང་གི་རྟག་ཏུ་གནས་པའི་གཟི་བརྗིད་དུ་བོས་མཁན་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཐམས་ཅད་དང་ལྡན་པའི་དཀོན་མཆོག་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཁྱེད་རྣམས་ལ་སླར་གསོ་བ་དང༌། རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར། ནུས་ཤུགས། རྨང་གཞི་སྲ་བརྟན་བཅས་དང་ལྡན་པར་མཛད་ངེས་ཡིན།

 ཁོང་དུས་གཏན་དུ་མངའ་ཐང་དང་ལྡན་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག ཨ་མེན།

 

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(1 Peter 5:5-11)

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

 

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Suffering and Glory among Church Members

Peter finishes his letter of encouragement and instruction to scattered groups of believers:

‘Not only the leaders among you, but you who are young, whether in years or in belief, may be suffering – that is by experiencing personal temptations to sin, from worries about life, and also because of opposition to your faith. If you are in the vigour of your youth, you may also have strong desire to be leaders yourselves. What then? Sit beneath the elders, and alongside other men; learn from each other.

‘There is a spirit enemy called the devil who hunts all believers. He wants your desires to occupy your mind; and you to be eaten up by your self-centred worries and ambitions. He opposes God.

‘What then? Say ‘No!’ to the devil, while praying single-mindedly for help! Why? Because the devil runs in terror from Christ!

‘God has most definite plans for you to keep you in Christ, and to give you relief from suffering at his right time, and to preserve you for glory. His is the global power now, just as everlasting power is. As it is, so most certainly let it be!’

(Peter ends the main part of his letter here with this strong prayer. ‘Amen’ was a word in Jesus’ own speech which meant ‘So be it!’ Jesus is the ‘Faithful and True One, the ‘Amen’, the ‘So-be-it!’)

 

Peter – Letters to the churches (17)

Bro Brian.

(པེ་ཏྲོ། ༡ 5:12-14)

ངས་བློ་གཏད་ཆོག་པར་རྩི་བའི་སྤུན་ཟླ་སིལ་ཝ་ནུ་བརྒྱུད་ནས་ཡིག་གེ་ཐུང་ངུ་འདི་བྲིས། ཁྱེད་ཚོར་སྐུལ་ཞིང༌། ཡི་གེ་འདིར་བཀོད་པ་ནི་དཀོན་མཆོག་གི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་བདེན་པ་ཡིན་པར་དཔང་པོ་བྱེད་པའི་ཆེད་དུ་ཡིན། དེ་ལ་བརྟན་པོར་གནས་ཤིག

བ་བི་ལོན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ལ་ཡོད་པའི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཁྱེད་རྣམས་ལྟར་བདམས་པ་དང༌། ངའི་བུ་ལྟར་ཡིན་པ་མར་ཀུས་ཁྱེད་ཚོར་འཚམས་འདྲི་ཞུ།

ཡེ་ཤུའི་བྱམས་སེམས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ནས་གཅིག་གིས་གཅིག་ལ་འོ་ཡིས་འཚམས་འདྲི་ཞུ། མཱ་ཤི་ཀའི་ནང་ན་གནས་པ་ཁྱེད་ཚོ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་ཞི་བདེ་དང་ལྡན་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག །

 

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(1 Peter 5:12-14)

By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it. 13 She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings, and so does Mark, my son. 14 Greet one another with the kiss of love.

Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

 

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Closing Greetings

Just before Lo Sar we started this letter that Silvanus was writing for Peter and mentioned these last words of greeting.

Peter reminds them that they have been chosen by God, urging them to continue in the truth of the good news (v.12).

Mark, his close friend, is the writer of the Gospel of Mark. ‘She who is at Babylon’ is probably a code name for the assembly of believers at Rome who are not understood by worldly Roman people, and therefore possibly even meeting in secret for safety (v.13).

Like a fond parent he urges them to live together like a loving family; and he closes with a prayer of blessing on those who are safe in ‘Christ’.

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The Acts of the Apostles – Acts 20:1-6 མཛད་པ། 20:1-6

Bro Brian.

(མཛད་པ། 20:1-6)

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After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia. When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia. Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days. (Acts 20:1-6)

 

For help in understanding these verses see the map.

It was now unsafe in Ephesus, so Paul set off to complete his plan of land and sea travel (see Chapter 19 verse 21); this was to make a final visit to Macedonia, especially Philippi, and then further to Greece as well, including Corinth.

After that, when about to take ship to Jerusalem, he learned of the plot against him. For other Jews travelling on the same boat as pilgrims to the spring festivals in Jerusalem it would have been so easy for them to kill him at sea. Quickly he took boat in the opposite direction going back once again to Phillipi.

His party consisted of representatives from various churches; and, when they left Philippi at last to go to Jerusalem, it now also included Luke the writer of Acts.

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