In Him was Life and the Life was the Light of Man

 What does it mean that Jesus was the light of man? I asked

God yesterday (21/1/21). 

There is only 2 points to interpret Scripture as founded in Genesis 1 2 and 3. You see beyond Genesis 3 is the life of man in sin and God working to bring His son through the line of Abraham. So to know what life is with God before the fall, its all in Genesis 1 and 2. 

Man had everything given to Him. A purpose, supply, security and his freedom with God. That tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was God's point of tithe for man to pay unto the Lord. Man could have everything except he could not consume the fruit of that one tree ! In it was boundary set between man and God. God is God. Man is not god and can never be.

1. God is God and we are not

2. "GOD SAID" is authority and Reality. Means God's word is authority because HE SAID , all were created and done. He said and the fruition of that is our REALITY. This is the fundamental basis of faith. Jesus is the living word..Jesus is the image of the Father to us. Why did Jesus have to come? because man had to see the Father in person...in HIS SON !

So lets not digress but Jesus is life and our light (John 1:4) What does it mean?

God brought me back to Genesis 1 and 2.You see when God first made man what did HE SAID?

God's plan and reality.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

(Genesis 1:26-28,NKJV)

This is how He did it

7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. 

(Genesis 2:7)

GOD SAID let us made man. When man was formed of dust (WE ARE MERE DUST), man was dead - DARKNESS - no light, NO LIFE. It was ONLY WHEN GOD breathed into man the breath of life (HOLY SPIRIT) that man became a LIVING BEING.

What did GOD breathed in to man ? the SPirit of HIS WORD ! The Holy Spirit. No wonder one of the important steps to take after accepting Jesus the WORD of LIFE and being born again, one needs to ask God for the Holy Spirit ! thats when you come ALIVE !

So man is in darkness without LIGHT. ONLY WHEN THE BREAD OF LIFE only WHEN THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE comes into our live, we CAN SEE ! because in HIM is LIFE ..and THIS LIFE is OUR LIGHT ! .

TRUE LIFE flows when we come to God as worshipper as children. Not as playing god.Remember Eli told a young Samuel ...When you hear Him call, say "SPEAK LORD (acknowledging His authority over you) your SERVANT (posture of our hearts-and the reality of our life in GOD) listens.

THANKS FOR READING. HOPE YOU ARE BLESSED TOO !

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GOD BLESS

WITH MY BROTHER IN LAW AT HIS FINAL BREATH AND BURIAL

I have not blogged for awhile but since its MCO 2.0 in Malaysia now, I tot I take time to blog-down one of the most life changing moments in my life in 2020. Ministry and exprience with God.

As a Pastor and being in ministry for a long time now, I have been to and experience many moments of people's lasts moments on earth. However this one with my brother in law really impacted me alot more. Maybe because it was during COVID and with the many SOPs, what we could do was limited.

This story has two parts.

First part was the day before he passed away.I felt the need to visit my in laws and see what was going on.John by now was unconscious in hospital . When we were there, we just prayed together with my in-laws for Johns situation.Suddenly God led me to conduct communion with my in-laws.After communion, I ask my father-in law if he had been keeping any idols or prayer emulets. His initial reply was NO. But I knew he had because the Holy Spirit told me so.So I just left it at that.

So we went for dinner. When we drove back to drop off my sister in law, my mother in law told us, my FIL wants to give up his prayer booklet and rosary.He did this for the sake of breaking every forseeable bondage over the family.This was such a breakthrough.My wife and sister in law went ahead to burn and smash and break in prayer in Jesus name.

The Second part was the following early morning.

We received an urgent phone call from the hospital to be at the hospital as they said John was not going to make it.

When we reach the ward and saw John, his eyes were bloodshot and shut. He was dying from multiple organ failure. My wife was talking to the nurse and she was also doing video calls with John's wife and children that were stuck in Singapore. Remember this was Covid season, borders between Singapore and Johor Bahru were shut.

Caroline wanted to give his family a chance for closure as they have gone through alot of strive due to John's jobless, drinking and all other problems.You see to the family, John was not the most hopeful of individuals. Going to heaven to was unsure at least to us. However Caroline did lead him in the sinners prayer at a previous time when he was admited into hospital.

Now what was impactful to me was the moments from this point on.In the past, I have always assisted Pastors, but now I am the Senior Pastor. Alot of things were and still are new.

I proceeded to pray for John. I remember noticing the heart monitor and that it was not showing a strong heart beat. As I prayed for John, I knew he was struggling and may even be standing between the threshold of life and death.

SUDDENLY, God spoke to me in a very audible voice . He said "TELL JOHN TO WALK TOWARDS JESUS". So I said to John, "JOHN Do you see Jesus? If you do walk towards Him". I also said its ok to go. He has been a good father and all of us will be ok.

Then I proceeded to read Psalms 23 to him. "The Lord is my Shepherd and You shall not lack, He makes you to lie down in green pastures..." When I finished with my "tasks", I saw the heart monitor go flat. At that time , the nurses came in to check and they signal to each other that I knew to be - he is dead.

Why this impacted me till to day?

You see I saw God's mercy for a person who never loved him personally but knew him from a religious point of view.Someone who led his life haphazardly wasting away. Did he qualify for heaven ? To us, most likely not.However to GOD YES ! 

I saw how God used John's struggle to even set his own father and family free from the bondage of idolatry and corruption that comes through religiousity. 

I saw how God did what John eventhough he was not able to serve his family well but he tried. But God did for the family, in a few days what John himself wished to do.

I saw how God made beautiful what was a hard life and in Jesus, made it beautiful according to Him. God's mercy and love is like if you have a stone and his mercy is an endless ocean..When you throw the stone in, it will never reach bottom.

Wow ! never judge who gets to heaven. We were never made for such. We were just made to be loved by Him.

Here's a link to the funeral - https://fb.watch/38_ItNLYGS/

21 January 2021

@Pastor Edkoh