上個主日，我講道的主題是『當感恩的事』。什麼是我們最當感恩的事呢？我想是神把聖經給我們。聖經傳到我們手中經過一段非常不容易的歷史。許多人為了把聖經傳遞給下一代，或翻譯聖經，犧牲了自己的生命，如今藉著聖經，我們可以認識神，學習真理，給我們人類帶來方向與希望。然而有多少人知道，人類的盼望在聖經裡？特別是日本人，他們是否知道呢？
日本人可以說是非常喜歡閱讀的民族，許多國家實體書店都漸漸關門倒閉，我家本來在台灣也是開書店的，台灣看書的人是越來越少。然而日本人讀那麼多的書，大多數的人對聖經可能連翻都沒翻過。日本需要有人去向他們分享、解釋、傳遞聖經的內容。在這感恩節的時刻，思想神的恩典，我們真要感謝主，賜給我們藉著聖經認識祂的機會。也懇求主給日本人開闊的心，更多的機會，來打開人類歷史上最重要的一本書。聖經。因此他們真正明白真理，而真理能使他們得著真正的自由。

『凡你們所作的，無論是言語或行為，都要奉主耶穌的名，藉著他感謝父　神 』(歌羅西書 3:17)

Last Sunday I preached a sermon title, "the things we should be most thankful."  What is the things that we should be most thankful? I think it is the bible. God gave us His word. I briefly survey through the history, we learned that bible did not come easily.  Many people sacrifices their lives in order to translated the word of God. Today, through the bible, we can know who God is, and learn the truth, so we can have purpose and direction in live.  Yet how may people really know, the the hope of the human race is in the bible? What about Japanese? do they know?
I learn that Japanese people are very much like to read.  In many countries, physical bookstore are closing business, yet not Japan.  However, even though Japanese read so much, they probably never flip a page of the bible.  Japan need people to share, to interpret, to preach the bible message to them.  
In this thanksgiving, as I reflect on God's goodness, I was moved to thank the Lord, because He gave us the opportunity to know Him through the bible.  Let us ask the Lord to open the heart of Japanese people and give them more exposure to the bible, and have a desire to study God's word, so they might find the truth, and the truth will set them free.

"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
Colossians 3:17 (ESV)