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CHRIST, KNOWING OFYou Know the Psalm - Knowing the Author of the BibleDate: 6/2006.101 2 Sept 2006 - YOC Camping - Eph 4:7-13 ~ Gifts of a believer 12 Oct 2008 DCFC English "We have a dream..." Eph 4:11-13 - Candle in the Darkness 2-4 Apr 2010 ACBC Revival Meeting (Mandarin) – [Growing in Love, Building the Church] Eph 4:1-16 The Growth of the Church
But one night, just before the actor was to offer his customary recital of Psalms 23, a young man from the audience spoke up. "Sir, do you mind if tonight I recite Os 23?" The actor was quite taken aback by this unusual request, but he allowed the young man to come forward and stand front and center of the stage to recite the psalm, knowing that the ability of this unskilled youth would be no match for his own talent. With a soft voice, the young man began to recite the words of the psalm. When he was finished, there was no applause. There was no standing ovation as on other nights. All that could be heard was the sound of weeping. The audience had been so moved by the young man's recitation, that every eye was full of tears. Amazed by what he heard, the actor said to the youth, "I don't understand. I have been performing Psalms 23 for years. I have a lifetime of experience and training - but I have never been able to move the audience as you have tonight. Tell me, what is your secret?" The young man humbly replied, "Well sir, you know the psalm... but I know the shepherd." Application: It's not enough to just know the content of the Bible & its stories, its sayings and its teachings. Unless you know the author, the Bible is nothing more than just another book. But when you put your faith in Jesus Christ and have entered into a personal relationship with God the Father, the Bible truly becomes "living and active - sharper than any double-edged sword." (Hebrews 4:12) CHRIST, LORDSHIP OF,$160 GiftDate: 3/2008.101 3 Mar 2008 DCFC English Mark 8:27-38 - No Fool Disciple Personal 2 years ago I was on a mission trip to Saipan an island in the Pacific ocean which belongs to the US. There are quite a number of clothing factories there and they hire seamstresses from Mainland China. Their salary is only about $1.60 per hour, that is 4-5 times lower than the minimum wage in US. Whatever they earn in the first year goes to the agent and they only have two more years to earn money for themselves. So most of them come with one objective in mind - to make as much money as possible! But they never expected to encounter God. And their lives are so radically change that we just cannot help but get infected by their joyous faith in the Lord. We were teaching them of giving Jesus lordship over their lives, but they had taught us so much more with their lives. When we were about to leave, two of the sisters came up to me and gave me an envelope. I opened it and saw $160 inside. I could not accept it, but they insisted and just ran off. $160 may not be much to us, we would probably blow that in a week - but it means 100 hours of manual labor for them I was really touched & humbled. They lived out for me what I could only tell them in words. For people whose only objective when they left home was to earn money, this was a picture of the lordship of Christ over their lives. A Man Called PeterDate: May 2014 Then, I guess I might as well give up and go to bed," as if he could think of nothing so awful. Somehow, he succeeded in taking God into his recreation. He knew perfectly well that there are plenty of good, sincere Christians who do not approve of any card games, and while he respected their views, he could not see it that way. Being somewhat of a game connoisseur, he thought of contract bridge as a fine game, exactly as he considered chess a fine game. His viewpoint on this matter was expressed in one sermon he called "Do Whatever He Tells You": . a God of singing, as God is a God of laughter, as well as prayer. well as of tears. God is at home in the play of His children. He loves to hear us laugh. We do not honor God by our long faces ... our austerity. God wants us to be good—not "goody-goody." There is quite a distinction. We must try to make the distinction between worship and work and play less sharp.. . . If God is not in your typewriter as well as your hymnbook, there is something wrong with your religion. If your God does not enter your kitchen there is something the matter with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation there is something wrong with the way you play. If God, for you, does not smile, there is something wrong with your idea of God. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum .. . the commonplace ... the everyday. The proof that Peter succeeded in taking God into his recreation is that often people's lives were literally redeemed by the contact they had with him at such times. This might be a revelation to those who feel that certain games are wrong, per se. A friend asked Peter if he would be willing to play bridge some evening with a couple whose marriage was on the rocks. The bridge, of course, was only a camouflage. The real point of the evening was to bring Peter and the couple together. In this case, the husband and wife had been separated for two years, but were still on friendly terms. The real trouble was materialism. The husband had a $3,ooo-a-year job in the Department of Agriculture; the wife, being a very clever woman, was earning several times that much elsewhere. Money had become the woman's first love. The husband, feeling unable to cope with such a rival, had left her. Sometimes God has so prepared a human heart for His help that even one or two sentences spoken at the right moment work the needed transformation. It turned out to be so in this case. During that evening, Peter privately asked the wife two questions: "What good is a beautiful house," he asked, "filled with expensive furniture, if there isn't any love between those who live inside the house? What good are expensive clothes and beautiful adornment if there aren't love, contentment, and happiness in the hearts of the people wearing the clothes?" Those simple questions suddenly stabbed the woman's consciousness with a shaft of inner illumination. For the first time she saw clearly just how foolish she had been. Her attitude toward money and the things money could buy changed completely. The marriage was saved and has lasted. At another time, a bridge game was also the initial contact Peter used to help a prominent Washington attorney who was rapidly drifting into alcoholism. I shall call the lawyer "Bill." Bill was rapidly losing both his health and his law practice. His wife appealed to Dr. Marshall for help. " But, Dr. Marshall," she said, "you'll have to slip up on Bill's blind side. My husband is wary of preachers. He's been to church about three times in ten years. He would never agree to come to your study to talk about this." Larry Flynt07 May 2017 QBC English [Kingdom Parables] Matt 13:24-43 Parable of weeds 14 May 2017 QBC Chinese [Kingdom Parables] Matt 13:24-43 Parable of weeds Flynt was the founder of Hustler magazine. He claimed to be an evangelical Christian for one year, "converted" in 1977 by evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, the sister of President Jimmy Carter. He said he became "born again" and that he had a vision from God while flying with Stapleton in his jet. He continued to publish his magazine. Finally they confronted him with the fact that being a Christian meant he would have to give up his friends and his profession. The logic of his response was this: there are “Christian football players, Christian cowboys, Christian politicians; why not a Christian Hustler?” He wanted to continue to “hustle for God”. He has since declared himself an atheist. Your Latte & Your FaithDate: 3/2008.101 3 Mar 2008 DCFC English Mark 8:27-38 - No Fool Disciple 07 May 2017 QBC English [Kingdom Parables] Matt 13:24-43 Parable of weeds 14 May 2017 QBC Chinese [Kingdom Parables] Matt 13:24-43 Parable of weeds Personal
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