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1、Come Follow To You, Vol 4Reflections on Jesus of NazarethTalks given from 21/12/75 am to 31/12/75 amEnglish Discourse series11 ChaptersYear published:Originally the series was published as Come Follow Me, Vols 1 + 2. Later in 1991 republished as four volumes under the title Come Follow To You.Come F
2、ollow To You, Vol 4Chapter #1Chapter title: This in remembrance of me21 December 1975 am in Buddha HallArchive code: 7512210ShortTitle: FOLL401Audio: YesVideo: NoLength: 87 minsJohn 131 NOW BEFORE THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER, WHEN JESUS KNEW THAT HIS HOUR WAS COME THAT HE SHOULD DEPART OUT OF THIS WOR
3、LD UNTO THE FATHER, HAVING LOVED HIS OWN WHICH WERE IN THE WORLD, HE LOVED THEM UNTO THE END.Matthew 2617 NOW THE FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS, SAYING UNTO HIM: WHERE WILT THOU THAT WE PREPARE FOR THEE TO EAT THE PASSOVER?18 AND HE SAID: GO INTO THE CITY TO
4、SUCH A MAN, AND SAY UNTO HIM: THE MASTER SAITH, MY TIME IS AT HAND; I WILL KEEP THE PASSOVER AT THY HOUSE WITH MY DISCIPLES.19 AND THE DISCIPLES DID AS JESUS HAD APPOINTED THEM; AND THEY MADE READY THE PASSOVER. 14Luke 2214 AND WHEN THE HOUR WAS COME, HE SAT DOWN, AND THE TWELVE APOSTLES WITH HIM.15
5、 AND HE SAID UNTO THEM: WITH DESIRE I HAVE DESIRED TO EAT THIS PASSOVER WITH YOU BEFORE I SUFFER:16 FOR I SAY UNTO YOU, I WILL NOT ANY MORE EAT THEREOF, UNTIL IT BE FULFILLED IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.17 AND HE TOOK THE CUP, AND GAVE THANKS, AND SAID: TAKE THIS, AND DIVIDE IT AMONG YOURSELVES:18 FOR I S
6、AY UNTO YOU, I WILL NOT DRINK OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINE, UNTIL THE KINGDOM OF GOD SHALL COME.19 AND HE TOOK BREAD, AND GAVE THANKS, AND BRAKE IT, AND GAVE UNTO THEM, SAYING: THIS IS MY BODY WHICH IS GIVEN FOR YOU: THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.20 LIKEWISE ALSO THE CUP AFTER SUPPER, SAYING: THIS CUP IS
7、 THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MY BLOOD, WHICH IS SHED FOR YOU.THE great German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, was on his death-bed in much pain and suffering. One evening, just before he died, he cried loudly,Ah, my God!The doctor who Was attending to him was surprised because there was no place for God
8、in Schopenhauers philosophy. So he said, Sir, is there any place for God in your philosophy?Schopenhauer opened his eyes and said,In suffering, philosophy without God is insufficient.The word insufficient is very significant. Let us contemplate on it a little more. Even on his death-bed, Schopenhaue
9、r remains a philosopher. A philosopher goes on thinking about God, at the most, as a hypothesis: sufficient or insufficient? But God remains, more or less, a hypothetical thing. God is not reality. Maybe the concept is needed because it is difficult to explain many things without it, but the hypothe
10、sis is a hypothesis and can be discarded at any moment. Any moment that we can explain life without Him, We will be ready to explain life without Him.God is not life. Rather, He is a hypothesis to explain the mystery of life. A hypothesis is a need of ignorance. When man becomes more and more knowle
11、dgeable, the darkness of ignorance is pushed away more and more. God will be thrown, God will be dethroned because then He will not be needed.Schopenhauer says,In suffering, a philosophy without God is insufficient. In suffering man feels his helplessness: fear, death, pain, and there is no explanat
12、ion for it. The suffering is so much, and unexplained. Then one cries out of fear, anguish, anxiety, Ah God, my God! But this God is bogus. It may be a need of human frailty, human limitation; it may be a need of human weakness, human helplessness, but it is not reality. It is not that you have come
13、 to realize the truth of it. At the most, it is NEEDED. You feel too much alone, in the dark, without the concept of God. At the most, it is a make-believe. It helps, it consoles, it gives a certain comfort when comfort is needed. It is what Marx calls the opium. In suffering, opium is needed - some
14、thing through which you can forget the suffering - but this is not the true God. The God of the philosophers is not a true God.Then there is another God - the true God. The true God is not a hypothesis, it is a realization. And the true God reveals more when you are celebrating than when you are in
15、suffering.Just try to understand this: whenever you are happy you dont need God. Who needs God when one is happy and enjoying life, full of energy and vigor? When life is a fulfillment who needs God? Then the philosophy is sufficient without God. In happiness, nobody remembers God. If you remember G
16、od when you are happy, there is more possibility to know Him than when you remember Him in suffering, because in suffering everybody remembers. It depends more on suffering than on you. It is part of a suffering mind that it feels helpless. If you can remember God while celebrating, it is not natural; it is supernatural. While you are perfectly happy and feeling fulfilled, each moment of life is being lived in delight, you are flowing, nothing seems impossible,
