The first eight days of June was super hectic. I preached for 7th consecutive Sunday. After next Sunday I shall be taking a week break to prepare for the End-Time seminar. Yesterday, we celebrated Pentecost Sunday with just over 100 worshippers. Our one unit shop-lot church hall could hardly hold anymore. It started with a dance and tambourine presentation with the song, "Yahweh Elohim..." and it was most powerful as my soul shook a couple of times as I sat there meditating on God's love and power. Then we had a wonderful worship with three songs then came the Bible reading of Revelation 11:1-12.
After that I conducted the Lord's communion with two texts 1 Cor 2:9-10 and 1 Cor 12 "baptised into one body" as I prepared the three baptismal candidates for baptism after the service. Then we continued with one worship song before I started preaching at 9.50am and I finished at 10.32am about 42 minutes' long sermon. I preached on Pentecost from Exodus 34; why it was called Feast of Weeks, 7 weeks, the number of 7, the wheat harvest, the blessings God gave Israel and the promise if they kept the three major Feasts, God will enlarge their territory.I applied that to our current situation in Sabah where the percentage of Christians is decreasing fast, from at least 35% from early 1990s to the current census of 24% and I told them probably less than 15% actually go to Church on a Sunday. By comparison Singapore's Christian numbers increased in the past 20 years and it is now at 20% and South Korean used to be 40% Christians 10 or 15 years ago and they have dropped slightly to 35% which is still a great number. I told the church that we should be growing, enlarging our territory not losing ground if we understood the Pentecostal message.
When the Spirit came down, the disciples received power to be witnesses and from Jerusalem they reached out to Judea, Samaria and until the ends of the world. For the first time, I told the church that with technology and online medium we can reach the nations with the Gospel and the Word of God, I told them my blog has been read by over 500,000 readers over two-thirds of the land mass. And my book on Revelation is found in nearly 500 libraries around the world in all continents from New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China, South Korea, Japan, most Europe countries, Canada, USA, South Africa, Jordan, Israel and a few Middle Eastern countries and many more.
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