13/9 Gospel Rally

The preacher of this rally is this brother called Rev Dr Stephen Tong, a renowned reformed speaker who is 68 years old. I hereby address him as Old brother Tong... Hee...

God's words will never be binded by the forces of the world. Many times, we tend to tune our frequency to the world's frequency. We start to package the truth so that it will be accepted by the world. And sometimes, packaging blurs the truths instead. God's ministry should never be a market-driven ministry. It should not be about what people want and enjoy. God's truth is not about magic, healing, prosperity. One should approach God's truth as one who 1) Fears God, 2) Respect the Holy Spirit, 3) Study the history.
John the Baptist spoke of REPENTENCE in the wilderness... Something that was not popular yet CRUCIAL. People who truly seeks the truth went even to the wilderness to listen. There was no publicity, no comfortable and prosperity message, but a message of repentence, because the Kingdom of God is near.

Jesus. The self-existing One. The Logos, Word, 道... (At this junction, he starts talking about lao zi, kong zi, the different sociologists and philosophers.) Conclusion. LOGOS was the central principle of all things. 万有的总原则！

Science and Jesus. Science, "SCIO" in Latin, meaning "I know". And how do you "know"? Through research, experiment and analyse, we wil lead on to DISCOVERY.
Yet, the existence of these discovered knowledge are independent of the discovery. Discovering something through science simply means you have UNCOVERED another knowledge that has ALREADY BEEN THERE. It just mean you are more knowledgable. Even if you talk about invention, it is also simply creating something out of what has ALREADY BEEN CREATED.

The analogy of the boy who found food. "One day, a young boy smelled some food, so he went to the kitchen. He opened the pot and saw spaghetti. Then he opened another pot and saw creamy mushroom soup. Then he opened another pot to see steamed prawns. And he ran into the living room, filling with excitement, he announce to his family "EVERYONE! I DISCOVERED something great! There are spaghetti, mushroom soup and even prawns in the Kitchen!!!!! Dinner is on me tonight!" Suddenly his mum stood up and hit his head! "Crazy boy, I cooked the food!"

Similarly, God has already created the world that embodies all the mysteries that will soon be discover by Science. But these mysteries being discovered by man DOES NOT undermine the power of God. Science only helps increase our understanding of God, increasing our meaning in life. Yet, Science is only restricted to the studying of the natural world.

Yet. Even to people like Newton, on one hand, he will discover the natural science, on the other hand, he receives the supernatural. "一方面研究自然，另一方面领受超自然"

Tying back to what he spoke for the past 2 nights, (in which i wasn't around) 1st on the words of Jesus and 2nd on the morality of Jesus, he now talks about this Jesus who surpasses all the mention "philosophers, scientists, sociologist, religious leaders" in speech and morality, the "WORD" Himself became flesh. “道可道，非常道”the true WORD cannot be explained in words. Those can be explained are not the WORD. What did God do? God knows that we cannot understand this word, as seen from how the Israelites, His chosen people keep deviating from the truth and leading decadent lives despite hearing God's words. So what did God do?
Instead of continually telling us about the WORD through prophet, the WORD BECAME FLESH, the infinite coming into the finite world, to REVEAL God in person, to seek the lost, to be an example of the lost.

P.S. There are many things that Jesus Proclaims about Himself that revealed to us He is really the Being who surpasses time and space. Morality wise, no one could find any fault with Him