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Session 1

[Strange Kingdom]
In 165 AD, a devastating epidemic swept
through the Roman empire, killing 1/3 of the
population, incl. Emperor Marcus Aurelius…
In 251
  AD, another
 plague hit the
  empire, this
time both rural
   and urban
  areas were
   affected…
―Most of our brothers showed unbounded
love…never      sparing   themselves   and
thinking only of one another…Heedless of
danger,    they    took   charge    of  the
sick, attending to their every need and
ministering to them in Christ…drawing on
themselves the sickness of their neighbors
and cheerfully accepting their pains…‖

Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, AD260
―The heathen behaved in the very opposite
way. At the first onset of the disease, they
pushed the sufferers away and fled from
their dearest, throwing them into the roads
before they were dead and treated unburied
corpses as dirt, hoping thereby to avert the
spread and contagion of the disease; but do
what they might, they found it difficult to
escape.‖

Bishop Dionysius
Result?
‗Miraculous‘ healing

                Huge Conversions

Growth of Christian population

Spread of Christian love/principles
       throughout empire!
What do we need
to awake from?

   What do we
need to awake to?
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What forms of crisis do we face today?
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The kingdom of God
is like a team of
resistance
fighters, plotting
goodness
The kingdom of God is
like flying jet-planes of
love into towers of hate
The kingdom of God
is like a cigarette
smoker…feeling
fresh air in her
lungs
The kingdom of God is
living in
Wonderland…where
everything is upside
down
Jesus‘ strange kingdom…
• It‘s ―weak‖ and ―foolish‖ (1Cor 1:18-27)
• It‘s lowly and despised…it‘s something
  that is NOT (1Cor 1:28-29)
• It‘s not of this world (John 8:23)
• It fights with crazy ‗weapons‘, e.g.
  love, forgiveness, etc. (Luke 23:34)
• It‘s perfected in our weakness (2Cor 12)
Session 2

.Weak Power.
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―In order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to
torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to
take it away from me. But he said to me, ―My grace is
sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in
weakness.‖

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ‘s power may rest on me.
That is why, for Christ‘s sake, I delight in
weaknesses,       in    insults,    in   hardships,   in
persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then
I am strong.‖ (2 Cor 12: 7-10)
God withholds His power UNLESS we rely on Him
God‘s Discipline
• God knows our arrogant easily-hardened hearts

• God knows the importance of destroying pride; our
  human nature ‗naturally‘ longs to rely only on
  ourselves

• Gods wants to prove to us that our own efforts are
  insufficient

• Good news: He is always there at the ‗end‘ of the
  road
We cannot experience God‘s power unless we
feel we need to rely on Him
God‘s Frame
• Our pride tends to view our successes as
  resulting from our own efforts

• We need to see events with the eyes of
  Christ (and our weakness ‗forces‘ us to see!)

• We don‘t need miracles; we need believers

• Good news: He is already there even when
  we don‘t know it
God‘s power truly requires us to be weak
God‘s Self-Limitation
• We are intimately connected to God‘s power
  via our weaknesses (strength from weakness
  is like the irrevocability of freedom)

• Faith really moves the hands of God – why?
  Because God decided that it will.


• Good News: Weakness is raw material for
  greater faith - asking for more faith is itself an
  act of faith!
How do you
  add soya
sauce to your
   meal?
―Jesus could do
no deed of power
 there…he was
 amazed at their
    unbelief.‖

    (Mk 6:7)
God‘s power always takes the form of weakness
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God‘s Hiddenness
• God wants to teach/show us another kind of
  power, one the world doesn‘t understand

• God‘s power ―looks like‖ weakness, so our power
  also expresses itself through our weakness

• God‘s power cannot but appear weak to a sinful
  world

• Good News: Whenever there is weakness, we
  know (contra appearances) that God‘s strength is
  being perfected
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Special   Ordinary
But what we really need is…
The Purple Pill
Can we see the truth
within     illusion,    the
authentic embedded in
the superficial, the wonder
inside the ordinary, the
miraculous of the banal?
―He had no beauty or majesty to
attract us to him, nothing in his
appearance that we should desire
him. He was despised and rejected by
mankind, a man of suffering, and
familiar with pain.

Like one from whom people hide their
faces, he was despised, and we held
him in low esteem.‖ (Isaiah 53:2-3)
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Parables of
Jesus
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―My grace is sufficient for you, for
  my power is made perfect in
           weakness.‖
Session 3

+Crazy Love+
What good is it, my brothers and
sisters, if someone claims to have faith
but has no deeds? Can such faith save
them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is
without clothes and daily food. 16 If one
of you says to them, ―Go in peace; keep
warm and well fed,‖ but does nothing
about their physical needs, what good is
it?‖

James 2:14-16
Indulgences
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We feel bad…
   thus we need to
   make ourselves
feel worse in order to
      feel better
‗Bad‘ Faith…
• Glorifies the act of believing i.e. it‘s believing
  in believing

• Is purely mental assent (like selecting boxes,
  ―Do you believe in Jesus Christ?‖)

• Ends up with false beliefs (because divorced
  from learning)

• Is a deferred form of faith; we believe
  because others believe and thus is often
  contradicted by practice
‗Bad‘ works
• Are purely ‗instrumental‘ and thus a form
  of bribery (like vote-buying)

• Are irrational and neurotic (―feeling worse
  to feel better‖)

• Are ultimately about the self, not others
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True Faith & Great Work
―By this all men will
know you are my
disciples: if you have
love for one another.‖
John 13:35
Loving Faith-Work
• Believes because of love i.e. we trust and
  relate to God as a form of love

• Insists on truth as a vehicle of love; we
  even judge out of love

• Pray, work, serve and learn out of love
  and for love
Who is God?
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There are more than
1.5 million galaxies!
Why?
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1x1x1=1
The best model I can
 think of thus far…
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love
  is
7/24
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Miracle                                                           Type            Mark     Matt     Luke     John
In all four gospels
                              1. Feeding of 5,000                nature           6.35f    14.15f   9.12f    6.5f
In three gospels
                              2. Walking on water                nature           6.48f    14.25f            6.19f
                            3. Peter's mother-in-law             healing          1.30f    8.14f    4.38f
                              4. Man with leprosy                healing          1.40f    8.24f    5.12f
                               5. Paralyzed man                  healing           2.3f     9.2f    5.18f
                          6. Man with shriveled hand             healing           3.1f    12.10f    6.6f
                             7. Calming the storm                nature           4.37f    8.23f    8.22f
                           8. Gadarene Demoniac(s)              exorcism           5.1f    8.28f    8.27f
                          9. Raising Jairus' daughter         revivification      5.22f    9.18f    8.41f
                          10. Hemorrhaging woman                 healing          5.25f    9.20f    8.43f
                          11. Demon-possessed boy               exorcism          9.17f    17.14f   9.38f
                              12. Two blind men                  healing          10.46f   20.29f   18.35f
In two gospels (Mark, Matt)
                       13. Canaanite woman's daughter      exorcism@distance      7.24f    15.21f
                             14. Feeding of 4,000                nature            8.1f    15.32f
                             15. Fig tree withered               nature           11.12f   21.18f
In two gospels (Mark, Luke)
                       16. Possessed man in synagogue           exorcism          1.23f             4.33f
In two gospels (Matt, Luke=Q?)
                        17. Roman Centurion's servant       healing@distance                8.5f     7.1f
                      18. Blind, Mute, and Possessed man        exorcism                   12.22    11.14
Only in one gospel (Mark)
                                 19. Deaf mute                   healing          7.31f
                          20. Blind man at Bethsaida             healing          8.22f
Only in one gospel (Matt)
                              21. Two blind men                  healing                   9.27f
                         22. Mute and possessed man             exorcism                   9.32f
                            23. Coin in fish's mouth       precognition/nature?            17.24f
Only in one gospel (Luke)
                             24. First catch of fish       precognition/nature?                      5.1f
                       25. Raising Widow's son at Nain        revivification                        7.11f
                       26. Exorcism of Mary Magdalene           exorcism                             8.2
                              27. Crippled woman                 healing                            13.11f
                             28. Man with dropsy                 healing                            14.1f
                           29. Ten men with leprosy         healing@distance                        17.11f
                            30. High Priest's servant            healing                            22.50f
Only in one gospel (John)
                           31. Wine miracle at Cana              nature                                      2.1f
                        32. Official's son at Capernaum     healing@distance                                 4.46f
                       33. Sick man at Pool of Bethesda          healing                                     5.1f
                         34. Healing of the Blind Man            healing                                     9.1f
                              35. Raising Lazarus             revivification                                 11.1f
                            36. Second catch of fish       precognition/nature?                              21.1f
Parable of the Prodigal
    Chinese Mum
What about God‘s judgment?
Awakening (Cameron Highlands, Dec '12)
The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount
Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of
Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and
perform his task, his alien task. (Isaiah 28:21)
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The Pattern of God‘s Judgment

• Clearly and specifically fore-warned
• Characterised by patience and reluctance
• Happens only after repeated warnings and
  chances to repent! (e.g. Noah‘s
  time, Pharoah, etc.)
• Involves rescuing / preserving a righteous
  remnant
Hell?
―Love is patient.
     Love is kind,
  Love does not envy
 Love does not boast,
   Love is not rude
Love is not self-seeking
―Love is not easily angered,
Love does not keep records of
           wrongs,
 Love does not delight in evil,
   Love rejoices in the truth
―Love…
 Always protects,
  Always hopes,
   Always trusts
Always perseveres.
―Love Never Fails‖

(1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
We see crazy love in…
• God‘s creation (e.g. language and
  science)
• God‘s sacrifice and mercy (the life and
  love of Jesus)
• God‘s judgment
• God‘s plans for His people
• God Himself
Session 4

^Crucified King^
Columbine (USA) – April 99
Colorado (USA) – July
2012
Destructive Power
  (of Violence)
Awakening (Cameron Highlands, Dec '12)
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Deceptive Power
  (of Desire)
Black
Friday
Coca-Cola‘s Happiness Factory
You MUST
    enjoy!

 Do it NOW!

You BETTER
   enjoy!

It‘s your DUTY!
Q: How do modern
lifestyles   address   the
question of the meaning of
life?
A: By ensuring that it
never arises.
Political / Social Power
      (of Influence)
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< But what is true
power and authority? >
"You know that those who are regarded
as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over
them, and their high officials exercise
authority over them. Not so with you.
Instead, whoever wants to become
great among you must be your servant‖

Mark 10:42-43
"For he who is least among you all—he
is the greatest ‖

Luke 9:48
This is true power…
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“If you will protest courageously,
and yet with dignity and Christian
love…historians will say, „There
lived a great people – a black
people – who injected new dignity
into the veins of civilisation.”

Marin Luther King, Jr.
"The time for you and me to allow ourselves to
be brutalized nonviolently has passed. Be
nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to
you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent
racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then
I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be
nonviolent until you teach some of those
crackers to be nonviolent."

Malcolm X
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True power is the power of serving and
suffering love…
What happened on the Cross?
―Christ loved us and gave himself up for us
as a fragrant offering an sacrifice to God‖
(Rom 5:6, 8:3; Eph 5:2)
―The true light, which enlightens
everyone, was coming into the world.‖
(John 1:9, John 17:1)
―He was wounded for our
transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities: the chastisement of our peace
was upon him; and with his stripes we
are healed.―
(Isaiah 53:5, 1Peter 2:24)
―For the Son of Man came not to
be served but to serve and to
give his life as a ransom for
many‖

(Matt 20:28, Mark 10:45)
―This is why the Son of God
appeared, to destroy the works of the
Devil‖
‗Deeper Magic‘
What other metaphors?
• ―Christ is the ultimate anti-virus that cleans
  our OS‖

• ―Christ is true 1-Malaysia that unites all the
  races of Malaysia‖

• ―Christ clears the flood waters…‖

• ??
Session 5

Foolish Wisdom
―I will allure her and bring her into the
wilderness and speak to her heart‖
(Hosea 2:14)
"If you are the Son of
God, tell this stone to
become bread."

(Matthew 4:3)
3 Reasons Why Jesus Should‘ve
          Made Miracle Bread

• He was hungry, what‘s so bad about using
  His power to feed Himself?

• He had already fasted for quite some time

• He can eat now, then focus on other
  things later
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Sin is the ‗Cutting
    Short‘ of a
kingdom process!
"If you are the Son of God…throw
yourself down.        For it is written:

'He will command his angels concerning
you, and they will lift you up in their
hands, so that you will not strike your
foot against a stone‖


(Matthew 4:6)
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4 Reasons Why Jesus
           Should‘ve Jumped

• He will obtain supernatural proof of God‘s
  protection
• He can show Satan how much power He
  has
• He can ‗flex His muscles‘ and have
  sensational news to tell of
• He can build confidence
'He will
command his
angels
concerning
you…‖
Thou shalt not
BLACK-MAIL the
Lord your God!
―All this I will
 give you!‖
"All this I will give you," he
said, "if you will bow down
and worship me."

(Matthew 4:9)
3 Reasons Why Jesus
   Should‘ve Bowed Down To Satan

• He was going to rule the world anyway!

• It would save SO MUCH trouble and pain

• He can always ‗pretend‘ to worship Satan,
  then later repent
Idolatrous ‗victories‘ are
    the worst defeats
The 3 Temptations
• It‘s foolish to go to the desert for wisdom
• It‘s foolish to not use your power to get
  what you want/need
• It‘s foolish to not demand for ‗proof‘
• It‘s foolish to seek easier ways to get what
  you‘ve already been promised
―For the message of the
cross is foolishness to
those        who         are
perishing, but to us who are
being saved it is the power
of God.‖

1st Cor 1:18
Foolish Message
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to put our trust in a man hanged
  on a cross
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to see our weakness as the
  perfecting of God‘s power
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to give ourselves for people and
  the world
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to rely on the power of service
  and forgiveness (and to believe that this is
  true power)
• It‘s ‗foolish‘ to place ourselves in God‘s hands
  when there are ‗easier‘ ways to get things
  done
Power of God
• It‘s powerful to live on the basis of Christ‘s
  work for us
• It‘s powerful to draw on God‘s strength even
  when it requires our weakness
• It‘s powerful to serve, to forgive, to love – for
  only then are hearts truly changed
• It‘s powerful to let God‘s work be complete in
  us, to not short-circuit God‘s soul-building
  process
• It‘s powerful to follow God‘s (‗slow‘ and
  ‗painful‘) approach
• It‘s powerful to worship God
Comfort

Care-Free

Luxury

Security


Dreams
DIVINE INTERRUPTION!
<God Bless You>

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Awakening (Cameron Highlands, Dec '12)

  • 2. In 165 AD, a devastating epidemic swept through the Roman empire, killing 1/3 of the population, incl. Emperor Marcus Aurelius…
  • 3. In 251 AD, another plague hit the empire, this time both rural and urban areas were affected…
  • 4. ―Most of our brothers showed unbounded love…never sparing themselves and thinking only of one another…Heedless of danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need and ministering to them in Christ…drawing on themselves the sickness of their neighbors and cheerfully accepting their pains…‖ Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, AD260
  • 5. ―The heathen behaved in the very opposite way. At the first onset of the disease, they pushed the sufferers away and fled from their dearest, throwing them into the roads before they were dead and treated unburied corpses as dirt, hoping thereby to avert the spread and contagion of the disease; but do what they might, they found it difficult to escape.‖ Bishop Dionysius
  • 6. Result? ‗Miraculous‘ healing Huge Conversions Growth of Christian population Spread of Christian love/principles throughout empire!
  • 7. What do we need to awake from? What do we need to awake to?
  • 9. What forms of crisis do we face today?
  • 18. The kingdom of God is like a team of resistance fighters, plotting goodness
  • 19. The kingdom of God is like flying jet-planes of love into towers of hate
  • 20. The kingdom of God is like a cigarette smoker…feeling fresh air in her lungs
  • 21. The kingdom of God is living in Wonderland…where everything is upside down
  • 22. Jesus‘ strange kingdom… • It‘s ―weak‖ and ―foolish‖ (1Cor 1:18-27) • It‘s lowly and despised…it‘s something that is NOT (1Cor 1:28-29) • It‘s not of this world (John 8:23) • It fights with crazy ‗weapons‘, e.g. love, forgiveness, etc. (Luke 23:34) • It‘s perfected in our weakness (2Cor 12)
  • 26. ―In order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, ―My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.‖ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ‘s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ‘s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.‖ (2 Cor 12: 7-10)
  • 27. God withholds His power UNLESS we rely on Him
  • 28. God‘s Discipline • God knows our arrogant easily-hardened hearts • God knows the importance of destroying pride; our human nature ‗naturally‘ longs to rely only on ourselves • Gods wants to prove to us that our own efforts are insufficient • Good news: He is always there at the ‗end‘ of the road
  • 29. We cannot experience God‘s power unless we feel we need to rely on Him
  • 30. God‘s Frame • Our pride tends to view our successes as resulting from our own efforts • We need to see events with the eyes of Christ (and our weakness ‗forces‘ us to see!) • We don‘t need miracles; we need believers • Good news: He is already there even when we don‘t know it
  • 31. God‘s power truly requires us to be weak
  • 32. God‘s Self-Limitation • We are intimately connected to God‘s power via our weaknesses (strength from weakness is like the irrevocability of freedom) • Faith really moves the hands of God – why? Because God decided that it will. • Good News: Weakness is raw material for greater faith - asking for more faith is itself an act of faith!
  • 33. How do you add soya sauce to your meal?
  • 34. ―Jesus could do no deed of power there…he was amazed at their unbelief.‖ (Mk 6:7)
  • 35. God‘s power always takes the form of weakness
  • 37. God‘s Hiddenness • God wants to teach/show us another kind of power, one the world doesn‘t understand • God‘s power ―looks like‖ weakness, so our power also expresses itself through our weakness • God‘s power cannot but appear weak to a sinful world • Good News: Whenever there is weakness, we know (contra appearances) that God‘s strength is being perfected
  • 39. Special Ordinary
  • 40. But what we really need is…
  • 42. Can we see the truth within illusion, the authentic embedded in the superficial, the wonder inside the ordinary, the miraculous of the banal?
  • 43. ―He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.‖ (Isaiah 53:2-3)
  • 47. ―My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.‖
  • 49. What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, ―Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,‖ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?‖ James 2:14-16
  • 52. We feel bad… thus we need to make ourselves feel worse in order to feel better
  • 53. ‗Bad‘ Faith… • Glorifies the act of believing i.e. it‘s believing in believing • Is purely mental assent (like selecting boxes, ―Do you believe in Jesus Christ?‖) • Ends up with false beliefs (because divorced from learning) • Is a deferred form of faith; we believe because others believe and thus is often contradicted by practice
  • 54. ‗Bad‘ works • Are purely ‗instrumental‘ and thus a form of bribery (like vote-buying) • Are irrational and neurotic (―feeling worse to feel better‖) • Are ultimately about the self, not others
  • 61. True Faith & Great Work
  • 62. ―By this all men will know you are my disciples: if you have love for one another.‖ John 13:35
  • 63. Loving Faith-Work • Believes because of love i.e. we trust and relate to God as a form of love • Insists on truth as a vehicle of love; we even judge out of love • Pray, work, serve and learn out of love and for love
  • 68. There are more than 1.5 million galaxies!
  • 69. Why?
  • 74. The best model I can think of thus far…
  • 80. Miracle Type Mark Matt Luke John In all four gospels 1. Feeding of 5,000 nature 6.35f 14.15f 9.12f 6.5f In three gospels 2. Walking on water nature 6.48f 14.25f 6.19f 3. Peter's mother-in-law healing 1.30f 8.14f 4.38f 4. Man with leprosy healing 1.40f 8.24f 5.12f 5. Paralyzed man healing 2.3f 9.2f 5.18f 6. Man with shriveled hand healing 3.1f 12.10f 6.6f 7. Calming the storm nature 4.37f 8.23f 8.22f 8. Gadarene Demoniac(s) exorcism 5.1f 8.28f 8.27f 9. Raising Jairus' daughter revivification 5.22f 9.18f 8.41f 10. Hemorrhaging woman healing 5.25f 9.20f 8.43f 11. Demon-possessed boy exorcism 9.17f 17.14f 9.38f 12. Two blind men healing 10.46f 20.29f 18.35f In two gospels (Mark, Matt) 13. Canaanite woman's daughter exorcism@distance 7.24f 15.21f 14. Feeding of 4,000 nature 8.1f 15.32f 15. Fig tree withered nature 11.12f 21.18f In two gospels (Mark, Luke) 16. Possessed man in synagogue exorcism 1.23f 4.33f In two gospels (Matt, Luke=Q?) 17. Roman Centurion's servant healing@distance 8.5f 7.1f 18. Blind, Mute, and Possessed man exorcism 12.22 11.14 Only in one gospel (Mark) 19. Deaf mute healing 7.31f 20. Blind man at Bethsaida healing 8.22f Only in one gospel (Matt) 21. Two blind men healing 9.27f 22. Mute and possessed man exorcism 9.32f 23. Coin in fish's mouth precognition/nature? 17.24f Only in one gospel (Luke) 24. First catch of fish precognition/nature? 5.1f 25. Raising Widow's son at Nain revivification 7.11f 26. Exorcism of Mary Magdalene exorcism 8.2 27. Crippled woman healing 13.11f 28. Man with dropsy healing 14.1f 29. Ten men with leprosy healing@distance 17.11f 30. High Priest's servant healing 22.50f Only in one gospel (John) 31. Wine miracle at Cana nature 2.1f 32. Official's son at Capernaum healing@distance 4.46f 33. Sick man at Pool of Bethesda healing 5.1f 34. Healing of the Blind Man healing 9.1f 35. Raising Lazarus revivification 11.1f 36. Second catch of fish precognition/nature? 21.1f
  • 81. Parable of the Prodigal Chinese Mum
  • 82. What about God‘s judgment?
  • 84. The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task. (Isaiah 28:21)
  • 88. The Pattern of God‘s Judgment • Clearly and specifically fore-warned • Characterised by patience and reluctance • Happens only after repeated warnings and chances to repent! (e.g. Noah‘s time, Pharoah, etc.) • Involves rescuing / preserving a righteous remnant
  • 89. Hell?
  • 90. ―Love is patient. Love is kind, Love does not envy Love does not boast, Love is not rude Love is not self-seeking
  • 91. ―Love is not easily angered, Love does not keep records of wrongs, Love does not delight in evil, Love rejoices in the truth
  • 92. ―Love… Always protects, Always hopes, Always trusts Always perseveres.
  • 93. ―Love Never Fails‖ (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
  • 94. We see crazy love in… • God‘s creation (e.g. language and science) • God‘s sacrifice and mercy (the life and love of Jesus) • God‘s judgment • God‘s plans for His people • God Himself
  • 97. Colorado (USA) – July 2012
  • 98. Destructive Power (of Violence)
  • 101. Deceptive Power (of Desire)
  • 104. You MUST enjoy! Do it NOW! You BETTER enjoy! It‘s your DUTY!
  • 105. Q: How do modern lifestyles address the question of the meaning of life? A: By ensuring that it never arises.
  • 106. Political / Social Power (of Influence)
  • 109. < But what is true power and authority? >
  • 110. "You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant‖ Mark 10:42-43
  • 111. "For he who is least among you all—he is the greatest ‖ Luke 9:48
  • 112. This is true power…
  • 115. “If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love…historians will say, „There lived a great people – a black people – who injected new dignity into the veins of civilisation.” Marin Luther King, Jr.
  • 116. "The time for you and me to allow ourselves to be brutalized nonviolently has passed. Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent." Malcolm X
  • 118. True power is the power of serving and suffering love…
  • 119. What happened on the Cross?
  • 120. ―Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering an sacrifice to God‖ (Rom 5:6, 8:3; Eph 5:2)
  • 121. ―The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.‖ (John 1:9, John 17:1)
  • 122. ―He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.― (Isaiah 53:5, 1Peter 2:24)
  • 123. ―For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many‖ (Matt 20:28, Mark 10:45)
  • 124. ―This is why the Son of God appeared, to destroy the works of the Devil‖
  • 126. What other metaphors? • ―Christ is the ultimate anti-virus that cleans our OS‖ • ―Christ is true 1-Malaysia that unites all the races of Malaysia‖ • ―Christ clears the flood waters…‖ • ??
  • 128. ―I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak to her heart‖ (Hosea 2:14)
  • 129. "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread." (Matthew 4:3)
  • 130. 3 Reasons Why Jesus Should‘ve Made Miracle Bread • He was hungry, what‘s so bad about using His power to feed Himself? • He had already fasted for quite some time • He can eat now, then focus on other things later
  • 132. Sin is the ‗Cutting Short‘ of a kingdom process!
  • 133. "If you are the Son of God…throw yourself down. For it is written: 'He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone‖ (Matthew 4:6)
  • 136. 4 Reasons Why Jesus Should‘ve Jumped • He will obtain supernatural proof of God‘s protection • He can show Satan how much power He has • He can ‗flex His muscles‘ and have sensational news to tell of • He can build confidence
  • 138. Thou shalt not BLACK-MAIL the Lord your God!
  • 139. ―All this I will give you!‖
  • 140. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." (Matthew 4:9)
  • 141. 3 Reasons Why Jesus Should‘ve Bowed Down To Satan • He was going to rule the world anyway! • It would save SO MUCH trouble and pain • He can always ‗pretend‘ to worship Satan, then later repent
  • 142. Idolatrous ‗victories‘ are the worst defeats
  • 143. The 3 Temptations • It‘s foolish to go to the desert for wisdom • It‘s foolish to not use your power to get what you want/need • It‘s foolish to not demand for ‗proof‘ • It‘s foolish to seek easier ways to get what you‘ve already been promised
  • 144. ―For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.‖ 1st Cor 1:18
  • 145. Foolish Message • It‘s ‗foolish‘ to put our trust in a man hanged on a cross • It‘s ‗foolish‘ to see our weakness as the perfecting of God‘s power • It‘s ‗foolish‘ to give ourselves for people and the world • It‘s ‗foolish‘ to rely on the power of service and forgiveness (and to believe that this is true power) • It‘s ‗foolish‘ to place ourselves in God‘s hands when there are ‗easier‘ ways to get things done
  • 146. Power of God • It‘s powerful to live on the basis of Christ‘s work for us • It‘s powerful to draw on God‘s strength even when it requires our weakness • It‘s powerful to serve, to forgive, to love – for only then are hearts truly changed • It‘s powerful to let God‘s work be complete in us, to not short-circuit God‘s soul-building process • It‘s powerful to follow God‘s (‗slow‘ and ‗painful‘) approach • It‘s powerful to worship God

Notas del editor

  1. - How falling is love requires ‘more than we are’