Preacher Huijun - 18 December 2014
Applying The Gospel Effectively
We often hear believers lamenting about not having convictions from God in all that they’re doing. At times, we also doubt if the convictions we have are the one from God, or ourselves? To receive the right convictions, we need to first understand the gospel correctly. The complete gospel tells us about God’s purposeful grace, there’s no other way but only Jesus; the gospel is also universally applicable to all people and cross-cultural. Often, Satan and our flesh always deceives us and entangles us so that we know about the gospel but we do not rely enough of the gospel, as we feel that we can have Jesus and our wisdom, our talents and our ways to live a blissful and purposeful life on earth. When we’re distracted by Satan’s lies and compromise with our flesh, we’ll also rationalise and be selective in relying on the gospel, and thus not receiving the right conviction of God in all things. The gospel is the power of God, to save all those who believe. If we’re not enjoying the power of gospel, perhaps we should introspect if we’ve been relying enough on the full gospel in our lives. If we do, progressive healing will begin and potentiate from our spirit to all areas of our lives, for we hear the living and active voice of God through the truth He reveals to us.
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Sufferings in the Presence of Divine Relationship
What really torments a Christian during sufferings? There are countless answers to this question. Yet, the most direct and underlying reason behind this torment is a Christian’s “sense of abandonment”. It simply feels like, “NO ONE is on my side anymore. No one can understand or can help me. Even God has forsaken me because of my sins and mistakes. I am left alone to face the frightening consequences.” Truly, when we accept such deceptive voices into our spirit, every twinge of pain seems punitive and endless. We will try to make sense of everything except the love of God.
In the Bible, even the blameless Job could not make any sense of his sufferings. Therefore, God, in one of His greatest revelations, has given us <Romans 8>. This glorious chapter in the Bible seeks to address the sense of abandonment that children of God may experience during pain and sufferings. So yield your mind not to what you feel, but to the truth especially such times.
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