Cheng Yu (Traditional Chinese literary saying that alluded to something else) Format: 1. Cheng Yu, 2. literal translation, 3. brief meaning, 4. original story, 5. example of usage, 6. Christian idea 7. Application ===================================================== 1. kou3shi4xin1fei1, <> xin1kou3ru2yi1 2. mouth speaks, heart disagrees <> heart-mouth agree 3. hypocrite <> righteous man 4. 5. 6. Matt 5:33-37 -- "Let your Yes by Yes and your No be No." 6.2 James Faith without Works is dead 6.3 Matt 6 -- Pray do not be like hopcrits 6.4 Parable 2 sons. 7. Are we honest in our dealings? Need to remember in this society. 1. yu4bang4xiang1zheng1 2. when the Snipe and the Clam Grapple, the Fisherman profits 3. if we fight amoung ourselves, we will be destroyed 4. pg. 74 5. yubangxiangzheng,yuwangdeli.lianggefanduideshihou,beiderentoule,pangbianderennengshuo. 6.1 John 14:"You are to be one, as I and my Father are one" 6.2 A divided house cannot stand, if Satan is fighting Satan... 6.3 James 4:1-2 6.4 about fish eating each other 7. If Christians are divided then we are easily destroyed by Satan. Unity 1. jie1lai2zhi1shi2 2. Food Handed Out in Contempt 3. 4. pg 99. 5. suiranwodeqingkuang4bu4hao,danshiwobuyuanyishoudaonide...... (buhaode bangzhu,bulimao) 6. 7. A beggar starving for what he can have but is too proud to take.... wen4yi4de2san1,=1 question, 3 answers,use one question to glean much information 1. zhuan1xin1zhi4zhi4 2. Single hearted devotion 3. if work single-heartedly then succeed over equal. 4. Mengzi (pg 8): Yi Qiu once gave lessons to two men. One listened attentively, while the other daydreamed. Thus despite having the same lesson together and equal intelligence, one succeeded much better than the other. 6.1 Matt 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 6.2 Luke 16:13 No servant 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. 6.3 This may also relate to the parable of the talents--God was angry with the man who did not use their talents. 6.4 The parable of the 10 virgins also comes to mind--They were all equal intelligence but some prepared but others did not bother. 6.5 Matt 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. 6.6 "Don't take hands off plow.. 6.7 Heb 11:32 -- 1. ba2miao2zhu4zhang3, 2. try to help shoots grow by pulling 3. 4. pg 14. 6. do we do this is teaching the gospel (ie in forcing a decision), or do we err by not giving enough water. We need to be balanced. How? 6.1 Parable of Sower 1. mai3du2huan2zhu1, 2. Buy the case but return the pearl 3. buy outside and fail to recognize the valuable 4. p36 6.1 I Sam 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. {outward...: Heb. eyes} 6.2 Prov 31:30 Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. 7. young men see outside of girl but we should look at the heart (Pascal). throw away a good girl but keep and outside beautiful girl. (ie XiaoZhang: bosses boss wants to fire her because not tall beautiful, but her boss wants to keep her since she works hard, knows English) 1. san1ren2cheng2hu3 2. Three Liars Make a Tiger 3. 4. pg 57 5. 6.1 Rm 1:29; II Cor 12:20 6.2 Gossip condemned with murder. Careful with what we say. 6.3 Careful in what we hear. 6.4 James 3:6- Tongue setting world on fire. 1. ye4gong1hao4long2, 2. love the shape of a dragon but not real dragon 3. liking the form of religion but not wanting the real thing--the power 4. 6. I Tim 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: 7. the Pharisees; do we play at religion. ceremonies but would we want Gods intervention. 1. fu4shui3nan2shou1, 2. spilt water cannot be retrieved 3. once something done:cannot return to before 4. pg 168 5. 6.1 Heb. 9:27: "But it is appointed unto man once to dry, but after this the judgement" 6.2 Gal 6:7: "Do not be deceived, bretheren, whatsoever a man sows, that shall he reep." 6.3 even with much pleading...much tears 1. gua1tian2li3xia4, 2. in a melon patch:under a plum tree 3. Keep away from the appearance of evil. 4 P196. JunziXing's poem:a gentleman always seeks to prepare for possible troubles. he does not put on his shoes in a melon patch(ie people may think he has been stealing melons) nor adjust his hat under a plum tree (people think he was jumping to steel plums) 5. Usage in Tang: Shortly after a man's 2 beautiful daughters had visited the palace the King appointed their father to a good position. A court official questioned this decision and the King replied that he had not met the young ladies. The court official replied with this proverb stating that people would not understand the reason for his decision. 6. I Thess 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. 7. In China:.... 1. yi4chang3chun1meng4, 2. as transient as a sweet dream 3. everything passes away quickly 4. (p222)HouQingLu:(said to a former palace official who was now old and in the fields)"When you were serving as a palace scholar you enjoyed both riches and honour, but all this has gone, as transient as a sweet dream." 6. James 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. {It...: or, For it is} 15 For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 7. Kansas song:"Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind". What about our work? is it also transient 6.1 Trial by fire.wood/hay/stubble he2dong1shi1hou3,(place name)lion roars, a nattering wife 1. yan3er3dao4ling2 2. Plug one's Ears While Stealing a Bell 3. 4. (pg54) 5. 6. John 3:3 "But men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil" 7.1 Why love darkness? We can't see so we think God also can't see!!! 7.2 Is this not what we are doing when we do evil? We first try to convince ourselves that it is not wrong. We are only fooling ourselves. Even if we convince ourselves we are alright, our real condition is obvious to God, if not to other people. 1. hui4ji2ji4yi1 2. Delusion over Health and Evasion of Treatment 3. 4. (pg45) 5. 6.1 I John 1:8 -- If we say we have no sin.... 6.2 "I have not come to call the healthy but the sinners to repentances" 7. women shuo women shi4 hao3 ke shi wo men you zui. People not willing to accept because others will look down on them.