Reverend IP Ming-han
When I read about it everywhere, there are always people who are curious and ask, "How can you learn fortune-telling as a priest?" I said, "It is not a priest who goes to learn fortune telling, but a fortune teller who is called to be a servant of God."
In the era when I was born, the older generation always looked for a fortune teller to write a life book for their children, and my father was no exception. When my eight characters come out in a row, even if my father decides that my life is hard, it is the standard "nemesis" for my father, mother, brother and brother.
After my mother was pregnant with me for ten months, my brother was three years old and my sister was one year old. She was ill when she was pregnant with me, so she had to go to Taipei MacKay Hospital and gave birth to me when she was in hospital. Because my mother was seriously ill, I was isolated. My father found a wet nurse to raise me in Ruifang town. I lived in the wet nurse's house for 2 months, and my mother took me home after her illness. After returning home, my mother gave birth to two younger brothers and two younger sisters, both of whom died at the age of one. Sure enough, before I was seven years old, my brothers and sisters died of acute illness in succession. I had no brothers and sisters in the world. When I was ten years old, my father suffered from stomach cancer, and my father died when I was fifteen. After my father died, I really realized that I was really the "big nemesis" of my family.
From then on, I began to study life science seriously. I wanted to know why I was so accurate, and more importantly, I wanted to find a way to change my destiny, so I went everywhere to learn for advice. Once I met an elder from the mainland by chance. He used to be an official. He taught me a set of principles of life science, so I began to meet people, in order to confirm the accuracy of life science. In those few years, I became an amateur fortune teller, and I was quite famous. I actively wanted to transform my destiny and break through the limit of "nemesis" fate.
At this moment, I suddenly found myself ill, just like my father. I thought to myself, if I died after five years' delay like my father, this family would be dragged down by me. I tried my best to change myself from death with the principle of life science, but it didn't help after hard work. Finally, in order not to drag down my mother and family, I wanted to kill myself.
When I was about to commit suicide, God appeared to me and called me to follow him and serve him all my life. I answered his call and dedicated my dying life and weak body to God and became his servant. It is amazing that when I put myself in the hands of God, my illness actually went away without medicine, and my life's fate changed.
I, a "nemesis", have become a evangelist everywhere and a witness of God, actively spreading my personal experience: if a person is willing to accept Christ, his life will be blessed and changed wonderfully.
according to the survey, it is found that: "the fortune-telling behavior is not only increasing nowadays, but also the higher the education level, the more the rate of fortune-telling." In fact, according to the general idea, it should be like what Mr. Qu Haiyuan said: "The more you receive modern education, the more rational you should be about your destiny, and the less you will be able to tell your fortune." However, according to the investigation and analysis, the result is the opposite.
In the past, we thought that the theory of "fate" could only have an impact on the young, the old, the young, the women, the children and the villagers, but today's newspapers and magazines tell us that many people from all walks of life, such as heads of state, political dignitaries, representatives of public opinion, industrial and commercial people, are addicted to it. If it doesn't work, the "fortune telling" thing will naturally disappear. Why is it getting worse? Especially in this era of high civilization and scientific prosperity, can it still be popular?
On the other hand, the values, morality and ethics of today's society are constantly changing. Most people measure their achievements by fame, status and money. In order to pursue these vain wealth, people often downplay the valuable marriage relationship and ignore the basic principles of family happiness. Coupled with the rapid changes in domestic economy and culture in recent years, changes and changes in political and economic figures have made people feel unable to grasp the fame, status, money and marriage. Therefore, in order to ensure tomorrow's status, maintain today's achievements, and keep the ideal marriage and money. We have to rely on "fortune telling", which is a major reason why it can still flourish today.
another major factor is that "numerology" has been deeply studied and analyzed by many senior intellectuals in recent years, and the program has even been written down and input into the computer, which has made a great breakthrough in "astrology and fortune-telling". Therefore, the business of "fortune-telling and fortune-telling" is even more powerful, attracting many intellectuals and politicians to try and accept it. Coupled with the hype of newspapers and magazines, it has turned into an unstoppable phenomenon.
Everyone knows the principle that there must be "truth" before "falsehood" appears. Moreover, the "fake" must be exactly the same as the "real" in order to achieve the purpose of "confusing the fake with the real". This trick of "making things real" has always been Satan's means to sell himself.
If Christians can't produce the real thing and insist that others' is fake, who can believe you? You know, God forbids us to tell fortune or fate, but it doesn't mean telling people that there is no fate or that they are untrustworthy. On the contrary, only when there is a real product will there be a counterfeit. It is because there is such a thing as fate that Satan can juggle the "fake with the real" tricks from it.
Why can fortune telling make people believe it? If we can learn from the Bible, we can find out the true revelation of the Bible to fate. Then, we can have the foundation of truth to distinguish between true and false. Because only in the light of truth can we see the blind spot of folk belief and uncover the truth.
Most people who can "tell fortune and meet fate" want to know and determine whether their "fate" is good or bad.
Their motives can be divided into:
1. Out of curiosity, they want to know their future, which is everyone's mentality.
2. I want to use fortune telling to determine favorable life goals.
3. Try to get rid of the difficulties and bad luck.
In a word, people go to fortune-telling and fortune-telling, almost all for their own peace and interests, prestige and wealth. Why is the life of "people" so unhappy that it is necessary to constantly resort to various methods to change the transportation?
Because "sin" destroys everything, when did the sovereignty of the world fall into the hands of Satan, the king of evil? It is what happens when Adam, the ancestor of mankind, accepts Satan's criminal plan. Since then, people's fate has been plagued and destroyed, and the painful and tragic fate has been endless.
Since Satan's power entered the world, people have been controlled by Satan and lost their freedom under the rule of "sin". Therefore, people must live under Satan's rules. Every year, the almanac will become the most popular book in China. What is the reason? Because people live by looking at the faces of these ghosts and gods every day.
don't think that Satan's power only runs in our people. In fact, in all countries and ethnic groups, Satan has a different way to rule people's hearts. Satan introduced "sin" into the world and people's lives, destroying this beautiful world and ruining people's pure life.
Although, today, many people are desperately studying life science, trying to strive for a better fate for mankind; Unfortunately, numerology will not change people's fate. What it can know and detect is just beating around the bush in the "life" process of human body for decades. It can't change the essence of human life, nor can it tell you the real value and purpose of survival. It can detect some phenomena that will happen in your life, but it can't reverse or master the situation that will happen.
Satan makes people believe that the end of fate is death, which is an unchangeable fact, so people can devote all their energy to living in this world for a short time. This is Satan's plan for human beings, which makes people lose sight of the eternal hope and value of life.
when I was preaching in the mining area, one day, an elder's wife came crying and told me that her 17-year-old daughter had been kept crying in her room for days, and she didn't eat or go to school. She asked her why she refused to tell me. Finally, my brother insisted on asking her, and she said, "I'm going to die. What's the use of eating and going to school?"
Later, the girl told her mother the whole story, only to know that there was a classmate in this girl's class who would tell fortune. Her father was a very famous fortune teller, and this classmate inherited his father's mantle and learned this skill. It happened that the teacher asked for leave that day, and the girls rushed to ask this classmate to show his skill and help several classmates with fortune telling, which was all very accurate.
It's the elder's daughter's turn. She didn't want her to do the math, but other students pushed Lala and said, "Never mind! It's fun! Don't want money, what are you afraid of? " She was curious herself, so she let her do the math. As a result, the fortune-telling classmates told her very accurately in the past, and the girl asked, "What about me in the future?" The classmate calculated for a long time and said to her, "I'm sorry! Nothing in the future, destiny takes a hand, you are 17 years old and have a lot of doom. I am afraid you can't escape this. " The elder's daughter decided that she would die at the age of 17, and she was locked in her room all day without eating or going to school.
after listening to the words of the elder's wife, I prayed to the Lord in my heart: "This child has been cornered by fate. How can I help this child?" Ask God to give me wisdom and opportunity. "
Then, Mrs. Elder went back to bring her daughter. I asked her: Your classmates not only told you about the past, but also told her that there was a great fate at the age of seventeen, and you couldn't escape it, didn't you? She nodded and began to cry again. I asked, "Are you too scared to die?" She nodded again, and I asked, "Didn't your classmate tell you how to resolve this bad luck?" She shook her head and cried, "I'm doomed to die, there's nothing I can do!" "
So I witnessed to her how God saved me from death and became his servant. Now I have a new life, and the old fate has no effect on me.
When I finished my testimony, I said to her, "Only Jesus can solve the difficulties you are facing today, because there is no other name under heaven, and only the Lord of Life can give you new life."
"Have you ever received his new life and let the Holy Spirit manage your life? Do you have the experience of rebirth? " She shook her head. I said, "So, are you willing to confess your sins, accept Jesus and receive a new life today?" She nodded happily. So she opened her mouth to pray, confessed in tears before the Lord, accepted Jesus as her personal savior, and asked the Lord to take charge of her life and make her a new person in Christ.
Since then, her life has changed. She not only escaped the fate of being 17 years old, but also married and had children and moved abroad. After more than 2 years, we still keep in touch with each other.
people generally believe that "fate" is predestined from birth and cannot be changed. Therefore, people attach great importance to good luck. Therefore, in folk religions and various customs, there are many rituals of "changing and replenishing transportation", but there is no custom of "changing life". For example, when a person who has been wrongly imprisoned comes home, his family will immediately cook a pig's foot noodle for him to eat, or ask him to shave his head to get rid of bad luck and make up for it. There are also many people who go to the temple to do an "An Tai Sui" ceremony in the first month of the first month, so that they can be lucky in the new year. Although it is a question mark whether this "An Tai Sui" ceremony has any effect, it has settled their hearts.
why do folk people think that fate cannot be changed? Because they know that people's lives are not ordained by the gods they worship, but by "heaven" As the saying goes, "Immortals can't save people who have no life" and "Everything is life, and nothing can be done by people" (Minnan dialect), which means that people's lives have already been set, and nothing needs to be forced.
Let's take a look at how ordinary people in Taiwan Province deal with the dead, and we will know the views and influence of the "Destiny Thought" in their hearts. Usually, if there is a funeral at home, first of all, the family should carry the deceased to the hall, which is usually a place to worship the gods and their main cards. Before carrying out the dead, you must first take some laundry baskets or white cloth to cover up the gods and idols worshipped on the God's table. Keep them from seeing the dead.
These idols dare not even look at this ardent and devout believer before his death. Why? It is not that these gods and idols are heartless, but that they are incompetent. Because, life and death of people are not in the charge of the gods and idols of ordinary people. Therefore, in this case, the general gods and idols can not only do nothing, but also avoid it quickly. It can be seen that ordinary people still believe that there is a greater almighty in charge of the fate and life and death of people. They don't know who it is, so they call it "Tian", and the word Tian is the word "one" plus "big character", which means the biggest god. Christians know very well that this almighty God is the true God who created everything in the universe as introduced in the Bible.
Therefore, at best, people's "changing their luck and making up their luck" can't change their lives after all. In this world, there is really no god who can change people's lives except the God who creates and gives them life. Because life is created by God, he can renew, heal and change. The whole Bible explains that God has prepared ways for salvation and new life for mankind.
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me."
Because only Jesus Christ can redeem mankind from the power of Satan, so that we don't have to be threatened by Satan. More precious, he moved us to the kingdom of God, as the Bible says: "He saved us from the power of darkness and moved us to the country where he loved his son, in which we were redeemed and our sins were forgiven." (Col. 1: 13 ~ 14) So that we can live in the salvation grace of Jesus Christ without suffering from bondage.
Not only that, God has given our life a new chance. Originally, we faced the fate of extinction. Through the salvation of Jesus Christ, our life has changed direction, not only from the fate of extinction, but also into the fate of eternal life. Therefore, if a person is willing to confess his sins and believe in the salvation of Jesus Christ, what a great blessing it is. In order to become the scapegoat of mankind, Jesus Christ redeemed people from the power of Satan and allowed them to enter the kingdom of God. As long as people are willing to believe and accept Jesus with their hearts, then the grace of forgiveness will come to that person.
Although God loves mankind deeply, he can't go against his holy and righteous nature just because he wants to forgive people's sins, and he can't ignore his own principle of blood atonement. Because God's love is based on faithfulness and righteousness; Because love without faithfulness and justice is doting, but judgment with faithfulness and justice is cruel. Therefore, in order to show his justice and love, God himself accepted the judgment and criminal law of sin for mankind. He died on the cross, which ended the power of sin on human beings and saved us from the proper ending of crime. It's as if the father took full responsibility for the mistakes made by his young and ignorant children and accepted the sanctions and retribution they deserved for them.
Some people also ask, "Since God is omnipotent, why bother to bear human sin?"? Sure! God may be able to atone for people in other ways, but in order to show that he loves mankind, he is willing to sacrifice himself for us.
I remember that around Christmas last year, my second child took us to the most exclusive department store in Houston, and we saw a very touching picture. There is one person.