We are all missiological people because mission is the heartbeat of God.
Lake Baikal is the largest fresh water lake in the world. Elder Wee worked with the Mongolian people there.The Omul fish is found there.
Joh 4:34 My food, said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
The true currency of heaven are souls. As kingdom people, we must invest into the kingdom of God.
Elder Wee recognized the Dream Centre as a world class facility of powerful preaching, worship, prayer and healing.
Jesus died for the whole world.
Joh 3:16-17 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (17) For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
The Kingdom of God is all inclusive. Everyone can come into the Kingdom of God. We just have to say yet to God and no the the devil. Christ came to save us, only the blood of Jesus can save us.
8 miraculous signs of Jesus
- His miraculous birth – virgin birth,
- Sinless.
- His miraculous life – the miracles he performed. He healed every disease and sickness. He is the perfect God-man. He came to tell us about the Father. He told us the precepts of the Kingdom. He prepared His disciples for the Holy Spirit.
- His miraculous death – he did nothing wrong. He was crucified for the sins of the world. the Cross represents death, pain, suffering, condemnation and punishment for the worst criminals. When Jesus went on the Cross, it represents love, life and forgiveness.
- His miraculous burial. He was buried in a rich man’s grave.
- His miraculous resurrection. He appeared to the disciples in many places. He gave them the Great Commission. The price of salvation has been paid. There can be reconciliation with God.
- His miraculous ascension.
- His miraculous return – Jesus is coming back again!
God is our Father – we are children of God. We have privilege. We can live a miraculous life based on the promises of God.
Elder Wee accepted Jesus at the age of 13. He became very successful in his business at the age of 30 but he had no joy. He found no success in his evangelistic attempts. God called him to mission works. He received the power of the Holy Spirit and he started to share the Gospel with power.
God is not a respecter of people. His disciples were ordinary people. Yet, they were trained by Jesus and when they received the power of the Holy Spirit and they preached with power.
Smith Wigglesworth was a plumber and he stuttered but his wife spoke good English. D.L. Moody started with Sunday School. He has compassion for the children but his English was limited. His wife was an English teacher.
We are qualified because we have the Word of God with us. We need to obey. We need to be FAT (faithful, available an teachable) in the Kingdom of God.
William Carrey smuggled his family in to India under great risk. His wife almost went crazy. They ran out of money. He was a person of faith and passion. He translated the Bible into 3 major Indian languages and 27 other oriental languages. He started 280 mission schools. He helped abolished the sati and also infant sacrifice. “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” ~William Carrey
Jim Elliot convinced 5 friends to go to a mission in Ecuador. All of them were killed. His journal recorded this famous quote “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
Hell appeared in the Bible 300+ times.
Rev 20:10-15 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (11) Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. (12) And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. (13) The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. (14) Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. (15) If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Because heaven and hell is real, we need to preach the Gospel. Heaven is a beautiful. The foundation is diamond. There are plenty of precious stones. There is no night.
On 23/12/2003, tsunami devastated Aceh. On 11/03/2011, 25000 perished in the tsunami in Japan. Where do they go?
If we do not know the eternal God, we do not have an eternal destiny. If we can answer the question of life after death, we know how to go to heaven. Jesus promised to prepare a place before us. Christianity answers the question of identity, creation, who God is and destiny.
We preach the Gospel because of God’s promises and blessings. Kingdom life is a supernatural life. When we come into the Kingdom, we come in to a supernatural life. Jesus said the work that he did we could do and we could do more. Through Christ, we are heirs to the Abrahamic covenant.
We cannot say we love God and then do not love him.
The greatest life we can have is to serve God. God is a rewarder.
Mission involves three things, Commitment, Going and Prayer
Rom 1:14-16 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. (15) That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome. (16) I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
Half a billion people speak Russian. It’s an important language. God loves the Russians. They have suffered much under communism. “In Russia I saw there will come a general all-encompassing, national spiritual awakening, so great that there could never be another like it. From Russia, I saw the awakening spread to many European countries. Then I saw an all-out awakening followed by the second coming of Christ.” ~Hudson Taylor
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