Thursday, July 06, 2006

It all points to problem with man..

When God first created the earth, the earth was perfect. Everything was perfect. But it was us, man, who chose to rule our own life, to go against God, therefore we sin against God. Is that the end of mankind?

There's still a way to enter into the kingdom of God. Which is to have faith in God, in everything that he has done. There's no way that we can earn it, as our God is a sovereign God, He does everything for the best of us, according to His own will. Before entering the kingdom, we need to be born again, born again by God, born again by Spirit and water.

From Ezekiel 36:24-29, we can see what God has promised us, believers. He promised that He will gather us together, no matter where we are, that he will cleansed us and give us a heart of flesh and He will be our God. In John Chapter 1, we saw that Jesus is delcared as God's son, the center of God's promises to us. Jesus is the Messiah, the anoited one, the one who will usher in the day of restoration

In John 3:16-21, Jesus is explanation the Gospel to Nicodemus. From the few verses, we can learn many things about God, Jesus, Believers and Non-believers.

We can see that God loves the world, he gave his ony and only Son for us. He did not send Jesus to condemn the world but to save it and that God is sovereign and everything is done through him. We also see that Jesus is God's one and only Son, his purpose here is to save the world, he is the light of the world.

How about us believers?? We believers will not perish and have eternal life, we will not be condemned, we live by the truth, love the light and our deeds are all done through God, so glory will be given to God and there is nothing that we can boast about. In opposite, non believers will perish, eternally condemned and they their own things, controling everything themselves..

We people always like to go for things that is free. There will always be a queue when there free gifts given away. 1 thing I don't understand, why can't we mankind treat this salvation and gosepl, that was given to us freely, with the same attitude with the free gifts?? All we need to do is to believe in Jesus's death on the cross.

From John 3:22-36, we saw why we can depend on Jesus,
- he comes from above (heaven)
- Jesus speaks the word of God
- the Father loves him and He is God's Son
- God had placed everything in Jesus's hand
- Jesus is the Christ
- whoever do not believe in Jesus with accumulate God's wrath

Therefore, how should we live our lifes in response to what God has done? Place our faith in Jesus, he is the one and only way to God's kingdom.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Germany are in the semis!!!!

Oh what a night it was. Watched Germany VS Argentina with Charissa, Pix, Edwin, Justin, Amos and some of my sec sch friends. Good chance to catch up with them, since most of us busy with national service. I even went to have a Germany flag drawn across my nose ah!! Pix got her on her cheek...



if Germany lose it will be so paiseh for me, but thank God that Germany won. What a match it was, for Klose to score a headed goal at the 80th minute. It was his first headed goal since 3 years ago. haha.. Was shouting my throat for Germany.. Till now no voice. OH NO.. Tmr will be worst, my fav England VS Portugal. Guess that match will really cause my voice to leave me. Must bring more peh pak gao liao.

Well wanna thank Isabelle for reserving the seats for us. And also letting me cut queue for the goodie bag. Know that it is not right, but got no choice, my friends are sending me and Charissa home, so need to rush, ppl send u home how can make them wait for you right. LOL..

After the match some malays were celebrating Germany's victory, and started to pop the long balloons that was given to us. But who knows the loud popping sound scared pix. Then made her cry. haha sorry pix for what happened. Hope you wont blame them cos they dun know bout yr problem plus that's how crazy soccer can be. Hope everything is alright with you.

Ok, got to go prepare for singspiration. Still got some last minute touch up to do. Bye!! GO ENGLAND GO!!