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Mandarin Worship Service 09 Sep 12
Rev Heng

There are are rules in home, office. God also has rules for His family.

1st commandment, thou shall have no other gods besides me. God knows even if you r worshipping in secret, not to uphold anyone, even yourself.

2nd commandment, thou shall not make for yourself any graven image. God is a spirit, He do not need to be represented by any statues, He's bigger than any objects, we cannot limit Him in a statue.

3rd commanment has got to do with His names. We are not to take His name in vain. He has many names, Jehoveh Jireh, even Jesus' name.

The word "vain" means for evil purpose. Cannot use His name to tell lies. How? "I swear!" Bible says let your yes be yes, and your.no be no.. we dont need to swear, no need to challenge others to swear..

vain also means empty.. sometimes children use their fathers' name in vain.. example, child using their fathersz name to access, "my father say...." In english tv, western films, they will use "OMG!"

What is require:
1) Includes His title. eg. Bruce Almighty. this is God's title. like the group name ABBA.. Abba is a dear name to address our heavenly Father. Trinity is also another title being misuse.. in films or products.

2) God's house. In the bible, church refers to body of believers. They meet in houses of believers, as numbers grew, buildings were build and set aside for worshipping..  but we should.be careful not to set human rules.. some.poorer countries have no choice but to use it as a guest house for visitors.. be careful not to use it for anything else as well.. We can worship God anywhere. some places dont even have a place for worship.. we must be careful not to be too extreme.

3) Holy communion. Some mothers gave some of the bread and wine to their  hildren to pacify them.. parents should be training
their children to respect.

some use church bulletines to gather lottery number..

some labeled thenselves as gods.. ..."

Had to leave because of my duty church...

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Being Justified by faith (2 Sep 12)

Mandarin Worship Service
justified by faith
Job 9:2 NLT

“Yes, I know all this is true in principle.
But how can a person be declared innocent in God’s sight?

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.

Martin Luther read Romans 1:17

This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”
and was convicted in his heart, and understand that we can be righteous by faith.

Are we sure of our salvation?
This is important because we must be sure and know where we're going...

In Romans 5:1,
Justification is the work of God, which will cause the believer to be convicted that he had sins, and repent and put his faith in Christ's work.

When we accepted Christ, God unconditionally accepts us as righteous. Its a one time offer, and not repeated or over a period of time, nor based on the number of good works.

Being justified by faith is equal to all believers. It doesnt mean a pastor or elder has more righteousness, every believer is sinner saved by faith.

After being justified, its for eternal, it doesnt mean that 2mr when i sinned, i'll lose my salvation..

being justified doesnt equal to reborn. Reborn gives a new life, being justified gives us a status as children of God.

we still have sinful nature in us,
therefore we have to walk closely with God, lest we be tempted to sin.

It is our blessing to.be justified by faith.. The devil would often would accuse us of not "working our faith", or our relatives or friends would do the same, we must remember, God will say, you are already justified by faith when you first believed and accepted Jesus Christ's work of salvation.

Once a person is truly saved, the Holy Spirit will guide us NOT TO SIN...

How did God justify us, sinners?

it doesnt mean closing both His eyes while we sin, but He's always watching.
Itzs by his Grace we are justified.

Romans 3:24 NLT

Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.
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had to leave for lunch duty, gues  the message is cleared enough.. God bless!

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