Gospel—Mats Hong
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Welcome everyone to the Gospel this evening, and let's start with a.
#18 at the back of this new book.
Most of us.
First few most good songs that we haven't learned.
18 in the back.
Jesus loves me.
Jesus loves me.
Yeah.
The Bible tells me so.
Maybe you die ever escape to open wide you will. Why shall away my sin?
Little child coming.
Yes.
I was made. Your dreams are smiles me.
Yes.
Shining. Oh my God.
He will watch me where I live.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
Yes.
Why don't tells me so?
Inside this flowers made rose beside me all the way.
And I trust in should I die?
Good news.
Really is the greatest love story.
For us, the love that God had for us doesn't matter who you are, doesn't matter what you did.
But you're full and rich. You're famous or not, whether you're young or old or.
All the things you did.
But God, stuff is the same for you tonight.
Opportunities once again to open God's Word once again to share God's love story to us.
Ask God to help us.
A God and Father we.
Thank you once again.
For the love that you have bought.
Even though we were another goal.
10 Lord Jesus die voice.
The weekend.
So that we can have a home in heaven.
Just pray for help. Just reopen your word, the Bible, tonight.
That's we open, Yes, open heart.
To see you.
Yes, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we pray.
Do you believe in God?
But that is the first thing.
You might if you don't.
Then this probably weird thing.
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Will not mean much to you.
This is the will of God.
And let's start from the very beginning.
Genesis chapter one.
With one.
Genesis chapter one, verse one.
In the beginning.
God created the heaven and the earth.
Whether you believe in God or not does not change.
Will God tell us though?
Not by my opinion on the will of God.
And as we look at the wonderful beauties around us in this island.
And at the main stars.
And see this wonderful creation.
And.
Even as sometimes you look at the animals around us.
At this time of year, you know how to work. There's lots of Canada gear stuff. I **** ***.
You see them in the nice patterns.
You ever seen?
Even the very well trained snowboard pilots. Sometimes accident happens.
In God's marvelous creation.
Everything in harmony and perfection.
Even we only get only small claims of.
Now let's turn to Psalm 139.
Oh, 139.
And worse.
14.
I will praise you.
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Marvelous are their works.
You can see the creations around us.
We've seen much wonderful creation within us.
It's really scientists research more and more.
Into subjects that your DNA.
The complexity of it.
Do you believe in God?
You know, I was one at one point.
There's no.
No.
Sometime, I guess when I grew up, I learned from school seemed to be very contrary to what's teach in the Bible.
It seemed like things just came into being.
Dennis.
And he in his perfect wisdom.
Created us the complexity and the wisdom that go into all the creation.
It is more than.
Let's turn to Romans chapter one.
Romans chapter one. Let's read first.
20.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world I clearly sin, being understood by the things they have made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.
Even if you have never read the word of God.
Yet God's creation is a testimony.
Him.
Today in this country with the freedom and liberty.
We also have the kids to work back here.
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It was don't get more than single.
Let's turn to Genesis again, Chapter 2.
Read about God created heaven and the earth.
Genesis chapter 2.
Read about.
After God created.
And here is.
After God created Adam and here is the.
What the instruction gave to.
Genesis chapter 2, verse 15.
And the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying of every tree of the.
Of the tree of the knowledge of good, and shall instead of thus.
And then we turn to Chapter 3.
So gone.
Got in a meeting, it will be everything.
You got an except one. Put up one tree.
But here we read about how things came into this world in chapter 3.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had been.
And he said unto the women.
Yay, that God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
Women said unto the servant, We may eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden, of the food of the tree which is the midst of the garden. God has said, He shall not eat of it, neither shall he touch it. This he died. And the serpent said unto the world, Ye shall not surely die.
For God that knows that in the day he is there, and your eyes shall be opened.
And ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the women saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took off the foot there off, and they eat, and gave also unto her husband with her. And he did he.
There's five in this chapter.
Surfing.
Said that.
He shall be as God.
Here.
He is the serpent.
What means a lot?
Say is the creator of the.
Big news, you bring in something that's not true.
And bring doubt into Adam and Eve.
That's what I'm saying.
To God's Word.
Oh, you mean?
It's time to Romans chapter 3.
Roman chapter 3.
23.
Of all that sin and.
Come short of God.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Hey, we look into our hub.
Even a little child doesn't take long.
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Another child.
I want to standard we all come fell short. We understand, all have seen sure the glory of God.
Tonight if I ended the meeting here.
Just bad news, not good news. The glory of God.
Thank you. Thank you God.
Is, by the way, to save us from our sins?
So let's turn to Genesis chapter 3.
After Adam and Eve.
Saying.
Provide a picture.
In Genesis chapter 3.
You eat from us.
21.
Unto Adam also, and to his wife, did the Lord God for me.
Of skins and cold stuff.
Animal.
Die still dumb, so let's let's chat.
So that life was made that time.
It's a picture that God has.
That's in order for God to save us from our sins.
There will be a substitute for this.
Let's turn to Matthew.
Matthew, Chapter one.
First time he won.
God has the plan since the beginning.
Here.
We come into place.
God chapter in Matthew chapter one, verse 21.
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall say his his people from their sins.
We cannot save us.
We all come short before you come.
But God in his love and grace.
And his son to be.
Another man be born.
Jesus.
He shall save his people from their sins.
Let's read John chapter 19.
The Lord Jesus lived on this earth for 33 years. Live a perfect life.
He's perfect. Late alarm on this earth.
That's why we need to turn to here.
Chapter 19.
He went on to the course.
And he suffered.
Handsome man.
More importantly.
He was on the cross.
Doing those three hours of darkness.
He also suffered.
The righteous judgment of God of our sins.
And at the end of those three hours, we can't.
In John chapter 19 verse 30.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said It is finished, and he bowed his head.
The ghost is finished.
The work of redemption.
The work to for us to peace with God.
Lord Jesus, and accomplish on the force the gift of salvation is able to freely offer to you.
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The question would you and me?
Let's turn to 1St Corinthian.
15.
First Corinthians chapter 15 verse.
Free, for I deliver unto you first of all that which I also receive at that price. Die for our sins, according to the scriptures.
And that he was buried. And then he rose again the third day according to scriptures.
And he and that he was Saint of cyclists. Then of the 12 after that he was seen.
Of the vote 500 reading at once.
Of whom the greater part remain under this present.
But some are fell asleep. After that he was seen of jeans and of all the apostles.
Last of all, it was saying of me also as of one point of due time, the apostle Paul wrote.
The Lord Jesus, you die on the frogs. And then he was there.
God rose him from the dead.
The V1 over sin and death.
And he was seen by witnesses.
Any witnesses?
After he rose from the day as a proof.
His country overseeing.
And this message.
Today about the gospel, the good news, the gift of God, of salvation.
It's only been offered since.
Over 2000 years.
It has its effect on people.
Some except this gift of salvation, say yes to the Lord Jesus. Say no.
Let's just read some of the example. Let's turn to Acts chapter 16.
X16 verse.
26.
Here for and one of us was in the.
It gets put into jail. Point silence was put into jail. Here again, verse 26.
Suddenly there was a quick earthquake, so that the foundations for the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were open and everyone stands to produce. And the keeper of the prison awakened all of his sleep, and seeing the prison door open, he drew out his soul and would have killed himself, opposing that the prisoners had been threatened.
The Paul cried with a loud voice saying, do thyself no harm, for we are all here.
And he called for life. Yeah.
Bring in came trembling, and fell down before Paul and silence, and bought them out and said, Sir, what must I do, you say?
I mean this question been asked by many people.
Sir, what does I do to be safe?
And they said, indeed, under law, Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
That helps.
And they spoke unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night to wash their stripes, and was baptized in all his straightway. And when he had bought them into his house, he said, Meet before them and rejoice, believing God with all his health.
Earlier than that, he was the one that laid the spade for his silence.
Now he was rejoicing to wash their wounds.
His life and his family's name was changed.
Oh, that, that kid for salvation.
He asked what he can do. I think he need to do.
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No money you can pay that, no work you can do to have peace with God yourself.
In sponsorship it's all finished, just like I read the Lord Jesus, the last pride before his death is finished the work of.
Redemption is all complete.
Now we see we need to accept it and believe.
And then we hear Paul Rd.
And.
The gospel message of how he.
One time he was the one that prosecute Bishop.
He was the one that put them in jail. He was the one at the scene of stoning.
Of Stephen, first murderer.
He was dead.
God met him on his way to Damascus.
And he he was flying for three days.
But he split your eyes open. He was able to see beauty in the Lord Jesus, the Son of God.
Instead of prosecuting the Christian, he became a Christian and went on suffer many things to preach the gospel, to tell others about the Lord Jesus and how to appease with God and how to have their sins wash away. He was changed.
Also read in First Thessalonians.
All.
First Thessalonians chapter one. Sorry.
And the Thessalonians testimony?
Nine or they themselves show of us what manner of anything in what we had unto you, and how you trust how you turn to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, when He raised on the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Here the Thessalonians.
People saw changes in their life.
They turn away from worshipping idols into worshipping the One.
To go and to wait.
But the Lord Jesus to come, is he come home to heaven?
Turn to God of idols.
I was the one at one point. Where's your life?
We are in Hong Kong.
I was the one that brought them to golden images that were important.
In a sense, I'm like the Thessalonians.
Turn to God from idols.
As I mentioned.
Also, at one point I didn't believe God.
But there's other things. Perhaps turn you away from God, just like I did.
You know, at one point.
In the 80s.
There was civil war in Lebanon.
I know enough about the Bible as I went to.
School.
But in the war, civil war in Lebanon.
Notice the walls between different groups.
And one other group.
Group of Christian militant. That's how the news reported so to me.
You know, that's one thing that turned me away from Christianity.
OK, someone with the name Christian. And they are really, you know, killing each other.
That's like, I know.
Just because someone or some group and the work Commission.
Doesn't mean they are true believers of the Lord Jesus.
You know, like all those questions sometimes, you know.
Some of my teacher I for democration, but.
No, I'm not happy with their behaviors. I wasn't pleased with it, you know, are they really Christians?
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What we need to realize that?
There's only one desk. Perfect.
Pieces and.
To have peace with God is to have relationships with God and through His Son, the Lord Jesus, we are now.
Following the religion.
Christianity in general.
You have to accept the gift of salvation yourself and to have your personal relationship with God who the gift of salvation to have peace with Him.
Religion does not say.
Does not give us a home in heaven, only the Lord Jesus and what He did on the cross.
And give us peace with God.
As we talk about the people in the Bible that who the German and Paul and the Thessalonians who have their life changed after they.
And today, even in this audience.
This one.
Turn not to serve themselves or to have idols of this world may not be the physical idols that we have. I have maybe other things that you're not like anything that put us between US and God.
So let's turn to.
John, Chapter 14.
John chapter 14, verse 6.
I am the way and the truth and the life.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
I'm the way.
Jesus.
Is the only way?
The only way for us.
To have a relationship with God, the only way for us to peace with God because the home in heaven.
I'm the truth.
This word is in our hands, the Word of God.
The Lord Jesus God cannot lie.
For he promised in his word.
True.
The standard.
Around us, on the standard, we face changes all the time.
What is right and what is wrong changes.
Standard.
Last year.
It's wrong. It's illegal.
To iron. But this year it's OK, it's right, it's legal to do that.
When my wife When my wife grew up.
It was OK. It was to read the word of God at school.
It's not longer than true today. The standard.
Of land changes.
The right and wrong changes.
Change.
Jesus the same yesterday, today and forever.
That give us comfort and peace knowing that.
You know.
Is give us salvation that was offered 2000 years ago. How to be safe? It's still the same today. You have to be safe.
In Africa.
Have to be saving locks. Harbors have to be saved in.
Do is the same. It's the first unit. It's universal.
And.
Let's turn to.
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And a light.
I am the way, the truth, and the life. He is the only one.
That can offer us eternal life.
And let's turn to John, chapter 18.
John, Chapter 18.
Yes, another person selected.
And the decision he made?
John chapter 18, verse 38. Pilot said unto him, What is true?
And when he has said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and sat unto them. I find in him no for at all.
For the striking thing to me.
Unto the Lord Jesus here say what is true, and when he has said this, he went out.
Are you truly seeking the truth?
The truth of the gift of salvation, the truth about how to be, how to meet as a Christian according to the will of God. There's many truth that's in the word of God.
The pilot asked the question, what is true?
But he didn't want to hear the answer. Are you ready to hear the answer tonight?
He simply woke up. He was in front of the.
The only truth.
If you didn't.
Not wounding.
Listen for the answer. Same thing. What? Oh, the presence of the Son of God and the truth.
And for him?
He never obtained as regret the.
Before that, he can simply wash his scenes away by water.
I mean you and me. No that.
Not simply have peace, but.
It's only by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus that was shared on the clothes that we can.
Questions knowing that.
We take the gift of foundation.
So.
How do we know?
Today fake news. That what I said tonight.
First, who said the will of God for the Bible?
And also, it's a consistent message. It has been for 2000 years, the same message we preach.
It's the same the speech in many parts of the world. And it has to.
That changed people's life as we read today on some.
2000 years ago.
And I also appreciate Nigeria from, Kenya from.
You from Canada, all in US state?
Doesn't matter where you come. The same message that give us peace with God.
But you have to make a decision, just like Pilot.
He asked for the truth, but he didn't.
Willing wasn't willing to really listen to the answer.
Are you looning?
Open your house.
Accept Jesus into your eyes.
There's nothing you can do.
Just like that chill. All you need to do is send it release and accept.
Doesn't matter who you are, doesn't matter what you did. Come just as you are.
Let's read Let's sing number 88 in.
88 just as I am.
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In my soul.
My love, my own has proven everything every time.
Doesn't matter what baggage you have.
Jesus open up. Welcome to accept.
This call in heaven to be to his families.
Just need to simply come. God knows you already better than you know yourself.
It's nothing.
Stop.
It's a decision for you to make.
You have to decide.
Jesus missed the trip.
You be the judge tonight, and you will.
OK.
If you judge, this is not true.
There will be a date. God will be the judge for your judgement.
Let's pray God and that pardon.
Hanging for the gift of salvation.
And eat that.
This is still the day of.
Just pray for each one here.
Except this great gift of salvation.
Pray for your blessings.
I just came up, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.