Last Sunday, I taught on 2 Kings 17. The main lesson which I found was God is not a God that we can mock. He does not tolerate our hypocrisy forever. We cannot pretend to be His disciples. We cannot say we follow the Lord but our actions and deeds are contrary to His Word and Will.
God expects us to repent of our sins and obey Him promptly. If we don't, we will face His judgment and suffer His punishment like the disobedient hypocritical Israelites did in the book of 2 Kings 17.
"O Lord God, please have mercy upon us. Forgive us our sins. Reveal to us our secret sins and may we repent promptly and thoroughly. We want to obey you, O Lord. So, help us, God. Amen."
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Happy Chinese New Year 2011!
To all our dear Chinese brothers and sisters in Christ:
Happy New Year!
May we be first and foremost Christlike, manifesting the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Let us always obey God and His Word. OBEDIENCE to Our Lord God is the BOTTOM-LINE of our religion. Everything else is secondary. We may sing, shout, praise, dance, pray, read, meditate, write, preach, etc, etc...,but what counts is the actual execution of God's commands, living it out in our daily lives, wherever we are.
Actually, the first and foremost commandment of God is to love Him with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength. The second is to love our neighbors as ourselves. The kind of love being referred to here is agape, the God kind of sacrificial love, the kind of love that Jesus Christ demonstrated unto us, even unto His most cruel unjust death on the cross.
God said in His Word, that if we love Him, we will obey His commandments (John 14:15). So, the bottom-line of the true Christian religion is to OBEY God and His Word, to practice it, to live it out. All the rest is futile without this true genuine obedience to Our Lord God.
May God help us to truly live according to His commandments! Amen.
Happy New Year!
May we be first and foremost Christlike, manifesting the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). Let us always obey God and His Word. OBEDIENCE to Our Lord God is the BOTTOM-LINE of our religion. Everything else is secondary. We may sing, shout, praise, dance, pray, read, meditate, write, preach, etc, etc...,but what counts is the actual execution of God's commands, living it out in our daily lives, wherever we are.
Actually, the first and foremost commandment of God is to love Him with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength. The second is to love our neighbors as ourselves. The kind of love being referred to here is agape, the God kind of sacrificial love, the kind of love that Jesus Christ demonstrated unto us, even unto His most cruel unjust death on the cross.
God said in His Word, that if we love Him, we will obey His commandments (John 14:15). So, the bottom-line of the true Christian religion is to OBEY God and His Word, to practice it, to live it out. All the rest is futile without this true genuine obedience to Our Lord God.
May God help us to truly live according to His commandments! Amen.
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