9th January 2015
Dear brothers and sisters,
Everything goes back to normal after the Christmas and New Year holiday, whether studying or working. Wishing you all good health and safety!
We gathered before the Lord to worship Him with praises, thanksgiving, confessions, gifts and listening to His Word on 4 January, the first Sunday of 2015. May we all abide in the Lord and bear fruit in the New Year.
We observe the Lord’s Supper in the first Sunday of each month, meditating on the Lord who loves us and died for us on the cross and rose from the grave. We remember Him, love Him, and reflect on ourselves of any hidden sins. We thank the Lord for making us His people, being brother and sisters, we keep the covenant and look upon the Lord to walk on the path of heaven together. We eat this bread and drink this cup to proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. (1Cor 11:25-26)
I spoke on ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin’ in Swansea in the afternoon. It’s God’s warning to us in 2015:
Mene: God has counted our days on earth.
Tekel: God weighs us on scales of our transgressions.
Parsin (Peres): God will judge and punish, an united country is divided into two, a complete life is divided.
The wage of sin is death. Death is separation. The most terrible thing is the death of the soul and to be separated from the everlasting Lord forever. The greatest meaning in life is ‘to know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You sent, this is eternal life.’ (John 17:3)
‘Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.’ (Ps 90:10,12)
Let us encourage each other in 2015!
In Christ,
Sam Wong