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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Life & Light
Pastor Tan
29 June 08

“In Him was life and the life was the Light of men”
When we talk about engaging the marketplace, we often mention that we want to be the salt of the world and the light of the world.

How do you go to shine your light?
Light over here means understanding, illumination. When you go into the world, you bring the solution into the world, becoming a problem solver.

How do we get this light?
The light comes out from the life that is inside of Jesus. This life was all the way in the beginning at Genesis.Genesis 5:1-2. “and called them Mankind in the day they were created”. God created mankind. Mankind means a new being that is like God, in the sense that we have a spirit. God takes this spirit and puts it into two bodies, the male and the female. When we talk about the inner man, we are talking about the spirit inside of us. When we pass away, our spirit leaves our body to go to be in the Lord. Man and women are equal in the eyes of God because our spirit is valuable to God.

When we have this spirit, this makes us what we call human beings, and not a god being. For you to be qualified to be called God, you need to be uncreated, omnipotent, omniscient.

Genesis 2:7
God put His life into Adam. Man is created in the likeliness of God in 2 areas:
  1. In image – Men has an outward resemblance to Got
  2. In likeness – Men is inwardly similar to God in spirit (Spirit life and Moral likeness). God has moral likeness, He is not just a light or a force. The moral likeness of God became His standard of holiness. The spirit life of God is where God gave Adam His presence.

For us to understand how light gives life, we need to understand the purpose of man. God created Adam first. Everything God does is intentional and meaningful. The fact that God created man first before Eve, means something. However, in the society today, the role of the man is questionable.

Who is the real man? The traditional man, the man who shares the household chores but thinks that his wife is equal with him in terms of being the breadwinner or the househusband?

Society has confused roles with purpose.

The purpose of a person/thing determines its potential, vice versa, the potential also determines the the purpose.

  1. Adam was put in the garden. Genesis 2:8
    - The first thing God give to man is His presence.
  2. Adam was given instructions Genesis 2:15-17
    - There are information, instructions and revelation.
    - Man are called to communicate and teach
    - Like a father needs to communicate and teach their children, children need the imprint of their father.
  3. Adam was given work to tend
    - So that there will be productivity.
  4. Protect the garden
    - The man to be the protector of the house and brings security.
  5. Adam was given tasked to name animals Genesis 2:19-20
    -He must have ownership and leadership towards the family or things under him.
Notice that God bless both man and woman. And only after he give all this jobs to the man then he created woman, to be a helper for man.

And here my computer says that I don’t have enough bandwidth and I missed out one whole chunk of the sermon because I usually will download part of the entire service and then watch it like 15mins later on Realplayer. Sorry peeps. :(

Why must men bring God’s life and light into the world?
  1. Claim back lost territory (God created this world for us! We need to claim back this world from the devil!)
  2. Restore back what is our original purpose (To shine for light of all to see)
  3. To deliver creation from corruption (All the world is yearning for the revelation from the sons of God. Romans 8:19-20)
  4. The women can’t wait for it

2 Cor 4:4-10
The devil is blinding the minds of the people so that we cannot see the light. When we go into this world, we are hard-pressed, we are perplexed, we are stuck down, but not destroyed. Because the life of God that is inside of us is exerting an equal amount of resistance as the pressure of the without comes in. So no matter what the world does, we will never be crushed even though we are as fragile as an earthern vessel.

God never intended for Adam to run out of His garden. Man was never meant to be away from God.

When the veil was torn, it was torn top down. God was never meant to stay in a temple. He wanted to be inside each one of us.

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Omgosh, I really love this sermon. Can someone please fill up the missing bits :( - wei

I think is something like that - Mich

Leaving a foot step - 12:26 PM

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