Nothing Wrong With Me.

NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
(Preached on 29/1/12)

24 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’ (Mt 25:24-25 NKJV)

Shared a fictional story of someone who found descriptions and directions to treasure in a far flung country in the east. This guy sold everything he had and said his good byes and left. Upon reaching the destination, he begun his search. He starts by getting a description of the treasure and begins to search. You see this treasure when found will be hot in his hands. Similar to everything that is on the ground, he had a hard time uncovering the treasure that would change his life. Everything he picked-up looks like it but was cold to the touch. So he threw everything over the cliff. He has been doing that over and over again. SUDDENLY, he picked-up an item on the ground. It was warm unlike the others. To his shock, the next thing he did was throw it over the cliff!!! 

You see in the parable of talent, we know that the Kingdom of God is God giving us abilities and the means to apply our lives for His glory. In this story, each of the 3 servants received "talents". The one that received 5, traded it got back double - 10. The next guy who received 2, traded it and got back double - 2. 

When the master returned he commended the same thing to both of these fruitful guys. He said, "well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord ". (Mt 25:21) 

The one that received 1 talent, did nothing. Why ? It was obvious he was familiar with his master's ways. In that familiarity, he became numb in fear. He hid the 1 talent and gave the master his 1 talent upon his return. 

In the end he lost everything. How often we reject our greatest rewards and blessings and breakthroughs just because we have become familiar with life and throw our blessings over the cliff just because that was how it was done ? How often we throw everything away just because we cannot see the possibility of anything in the little that is in our hands ?

God always begins with small and little with anything He does through us. Many great companies today had very humble beginnings. Many well-known people today had humble, poor beginnings. 

The key to it all is found in the commendation of the master over the other 2 that were successful - "FAITHFUL". Be reliable, dependable, responsible. Do the ordinary well...do it unto the Lord even if no one is looking. Because the Lord who sees in the secret will reward you in the open !

What is in your hands ?


Edwin Koh

Salted - LOT

SALTED

But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
(Gen 19:26)

This is an excerpt of my sermon preached on 22/1/12 at Word of Life Church. I don't know about you, but I had always wanted to know what Lot's wife became a pillar of salt ?

God had spoken to me the day before to find out how salt is made. With the understanding that Jesus calls us Salt and Light. Light is the life of Christ in us. Remember God breathe His life into us. 

Salt is made by a process called crystallization where brine (salted water) is evaporated by Sun Light. Water which is 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen (H2O) and Salt is NACL - Sodium Chloride. Salt never exist on its on in the natural. As water evaporates, all that is left is NACL - Sodium Chloride. That's where you get sea salt. 

When God judged Sodom and Gomorrah, it was a process where LIGHT was seen. When Lot's wife turned back, she became a pillar of salt because the all the life that was in her was taken away ! . All that was left was the salt (Salt and Light).

You see our eyes reveal much of our lives. What we choose to fix our eyes on, our focus..that's where our treasure is. Lot's wife's focus was not God but what's the past. 

Lot and the rest were saved because they focused on getting to where God has allowed them to go. Imperfect they were, they kept their eyes on Zoar. However as we read the rest of Genesis 19, we realised that Zoar was a compromised on Lot's part. God allowed it because God will never violate our will.

Lot questioned God's choice of refuge (the mountain) by putting blocks of fear and worry in front of him.  When he reached Zoar, he realised Zoar was not pleasant at all. Eventually, he ended up in the mountain..but because of his partial obedience which is also disobedience, he ended up bringing compromise into his family.

So you see, keep our eyes on the Lord and stop complaining. We can trust Him. Jesus knows what He is doing.

Parenting - Who to Blame ?

PARENTING - Who to Blame ?

24 So Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done to him. 25 Then he said “Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren.”(Genesis 9:24-25)

From Noah to Eli to David, the Bible is filled with examples of parenting gone wrong. Fathers choosing and deciding without consideration of the impact of their decisions on their children and future generations.

I am a dad to 2 young boys and face it, children are the reflection of us- good and bad. Somehow our children tend to magnify our flaws as though its the front page of the newspaper.

Many parents non-parents have this perception that it is the school and society that shapes their children's character and personality. However I find this thinking to be flawed. The apple does not fall far from the apple tree. So our lifestyles, actions, habits, how we relate and react and respond both good and bad, is what our children learn the most. Therefore it is the parents personality and character our children shows to the world.

So its not hard to conclude that what we go through is what they will go through. Without allowing change that the Holy Spirit brings into our lives, we will live the lives our parents live be it in a new time and era...but the results will be the same.

For me, I let the Holy Spirit always examine and allow the consuming fire of the Holy Spirit reveal and remove that which is not right in me. I want to succeed and suceed well and definitely, I want my kids to have a great spring board to their future.

What is the Time ?

What is the Time ?

20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

(Romans 5:20-21)

In getting ready to preach at our watchnite service at the end of 2011, my "ears" were open to hear what God has to say. One thing God made me understand is that we are really walking towards the end and then the beginning. What do I mean ?

God gave me a RHEMA through the verse above. As sin abounds...grace too will abound. Remember Jesus talks about wheat and weeds. God showed me that SIN will increase. Many many will turn away from God. Sin will abound which means evil will increase. The Godless and Sinfull will increase. Just like Sodom and Gomorrah, people accepting "the SINFUL FRUITS" as normal and part of the "modern" contemporary lifestyle. Things are not going to get any better economically, politically and socially.

However the good news is, as

2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, 

And deep darkness the people; 

But the LORD will arise over you, 

And His glory will be seen upon you. (Isaiah 60:2)

sin abounds, there is another growth taking place in life. It is the people of God. The people that believe and live in the light. A year where the light of Christ will be seen in us and through us.

Its time to drink overflowing the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name ! Worship and Serve the Lord with all of your life ! ..This is not time to close-up and be unavailable. Its time to open-up and drink drink drink of the Lord !..Fresh anointing is poured down into your lives !  Its your year in the Lord.

Go deeper in the Lord

(c) Luv Edwin 7/1/12

Don't This Don't That.

Don't This Don't That

1 The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?"

2-3 The Woman said to the serpent, "Not at all. We can eat from the trees in the garden. It's only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, 'Don't eat from it; don't even touch it or you'll die.'"

4-5 The serpent told the Woman, "You won't die. God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you'll see what's really going on. You'll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil." (Gen 3:1-3, MSG)

At Eden, Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because they wanted to be like God. However, they need not know what is good and evil or what is right or wrong, because they have been told by God. The pursue of knowledge and the having it did not do Solomon any good because he did not have long life (a satisfied, fulfilling) life.

God had already told them, you eat of the fruit of that tree, death beckons. Its not that God is judging or condemning man. God just told Adam and Eve, what is right to do and what is wrong. What is good and what is evil. God did not withold this from them. He was telling them, with every action the consequences is already known.

For example, we don't cross the road without looking right and left because getting knocked down is no fun. We do not put our fingers into fire, because we know we'd get burnt. Yet man till today, spend hours and hours and hours pursuing knowledge.

Instead of pursuing knowledge and judgement of self and others..pursue God. In God is long life and riches and honor. Faith in Jesus alone, delivers us from the world.

8 Exalt her, and she will promote you; 

      She will bring you honor, when you embrace her. (Prov 4:8)

Jesus is wisdom. Jesus is Jireh...Jesus is not the means to...Jesus IS.

Luv Edwin (7/1/12)

Important Scriptures for 2012

Psalm 127

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

A. ¹ Unless the LORD builds the house,
         They labor in vain who build it; 
         Unless the LORD guards the city, 
         The watchman stays awake in vain.
 ² It is vain for you to rise up early,
         To sit up late, 
         To eat the bread of sorrows; 
         For so He gives His beloved sleep. 

^{B. 19} Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner.(James 5:19)

^C.10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’” (Mt 4:10)

^{D. 18} ‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. ¹⁹Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety. 

²⁰ ‘And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?” ²¹ Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. ²² And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the oldharvest. (Lev 25:18-20)

Don't Be A Scrooge

Don't Be A Scrooge

The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl

44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

45 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. 46 When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. 

                                                                                                       (Mt 13:44-46)


Its the Christmas season already. Christmas is always the season for giving and forgiving. However its also in Christmas that Scrooge found his fame too. Scrooge to me is someone that is so full of the grumps !. Someone that lives in his narrow minded, self absorb world of just himself. He finds joy in criticizing and looking down on others because all he sees is ..himself.

Many of us may have ended up like this if all we do is trying to survive, trying to protect what is ours, trying to live ! We make decisions that benefits us only forgetting that our God given life has its purpose very much in connecting and being with others...our families, friends ..with people. We are no good on our own.

This year, God showed me one thing that I will truely treasure and remember for life. He revealed Himself to me in ways I've knew but never known ! If you read the previous blog about the Christmas Gift Box, you will understand this. God showed me, His kingdom is far greater and less complicated than ours. He showed me that, our effectiveness is not in living to ourselves and being boxed within the 4 walls of Church.

He showed me, He can effectively move through me and use me more when we are outside those 4 walls ! And the effectiveness of the gospel we preach is magnified in the field and not in the shelter !
 

"22 Then He came to Bethsaida; and they brought a blind man to Him, and begged Him to touch him. 23 So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town. And when He had spit on his eyes and put His hands on him, He asked him if he saw anything. 24 And he looked up and said, “I see men like trees, walking.” 25 Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly. 26 Then He sent him away to his house, saying, “Neither go into the town, nor tell anyone in the town.” (Mk 8:22-25)

Jesus took this blind man out of town and restored him. Jesus needs to take us out of town where its so busy, so complicated, so many opinions, so many methods, so many programs..to clear our sight !

We use to see men like trees. GOd wants us to see people as He sees them..People He gave His only begotten Son to go to the cross for. Jesus Loves them as much as He loves You !

(c) Edwin Koh 23/12/11

So Simple Is His Kingdom

So Simple Is His Kingdom

¹⁵ Call upon Me in the day of trouble;

         I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.” (Psalms 50:15)

For the past few months, we've been so stressed out with outstanding payments yet to be settled. We did some renovations to our church building. It only costs us RM2,600.00. We've managed to settled a portion through the offerings in Church. But had RM1,500 left. 

We've prayed and cried and wailed in faith for the past 3 months. God just kept saying its coming. And one thing God said was, "Things will change". This change includes all that pertains to our live and ministry.

The contractor has been patient but pursuing his money. It was this week that was the final dateline or else, he will come and take back everything he put up. So prayed hard..fasted..It was on Thursday morning in my devotion time (22/12/11) that God showed me Psalms 50:15. 

There's nothing I could do about it but pray and trust. I felt led to share our concerns to our ministry friends. Requesting them to pray for our situation.

HALLELUJAH ! we've received an sms in the afternoon that they want to bank-in the RM1,500.00 into our account. By the end of the day, God enabled us to settle the payment ! PHEW ! Praise Abba !

(c) Edwin Koh 23/12/11

Why Don't I Do Just That !

Why Don't I Do Just That !

  ¹EXCEPT THE Lord builds the house, 

they labor in vain who build it; except the 

Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain.

 ²It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, 

to eat the bread of [anxious] toil--

for He gives [blessings] to His beloved in sleep.(Psalms 127:1-2 AMP)

Nearly 2-3 months ago before Christmas this year, God moved our hearts to start a Gifts Collections project for an orphanage in Johor Bahru. As a Church, we've been wanting to embark on social works, but timing and not having the right people to do it caused us to KIV this. However, we have been going once every two weeks to an orphanage in town to minister, play games and just to be an encouragement to them. 

So when we embarked on the Christmas gifts Box Collection, we specified the gifts to be new and according to the wishes of the children at the home. I was concern though, because our church, Word of Life, does not have many people. So I was wondering how would we be able to fulfill the wishes of these children. You can read our experience in the previous blog post.

To cut the long story short, God moved so powerfully. The word that God gave me to stand on was in Psalms 68:5 -"He is the father to the fatherless...". God moved through people that are not even in our Church. From America, to Singapore..the contributors came. And amazing how God moved so quickly and decisively for these precious children. One group even took the kids out and treated them to goodies and gifts ! 

My wife and I were totally in awe ! at how evident was the hand of God in this project. This was a new experience we have with Jesus. I remember one prayer, I said to God.."Lord if moving in what you love to do, go where you love to go makes it easier to be blessed !...why don't I do JUST THAT !".

And that brings me to the scripture verse above...unless the Lord builds, those that builds, labor in vain ! I like how the message Bible puts this verse...The Lord gives us sleep..we always think sleep is sleep..as in ZZZZzzzzzzz...but actually the Lord gives us "rest" in the midst of the "work"..Why ? because we do what He wants us to do...we go where He wants to go. 

SO SIMPLE to be blessed ! Just flow with Him..FLOW FLOW FLOW with the Lord !

Don't struggle anymore..just go with the Lord...

Pray pray pray..listen listen listen..and go go go with Him.

  ^1-2 If God doesn't build the house, the builders only build shacks.
   If God doesn't guard the city,
      the night watchman might as well nap.
   It's useless to rise early and go to bed late,
      and work your worried fingers to the bone.
   Don't you know he enjoys
      giving rest to those he loves?(Psalms 127:1-2 Msg)

(c) Love Edwin Koh Boon Leng 17/12/11

What can I do with so little ?

WHAT CAN I DO WITH SO LITTLE ?

Word of Life is a fairly young church with handful of worshippers. I used to struggle  wondering early on what could we do with so "little" but struggles are aplenty..We struggled with paying the electric and water bills. Don't even talk about rental. But by God's grace, we've always made it..However pioneering a Church is more than paying bills..it is winning souls and edifying the lives in God's house. What can we do with so little ? 

When I started believing and stepping out, quite alot actually ! Faith in Him takes you there !

Let me share one example with you. We've been going to minister and bless an orphanage in Johor Bahru. With Christmas around the corner, God just moved my heart to meet their needs to bless them. When God said that, I was wondering what can we do ? Looking at the children, God gave me the idea of a Christmas Gifts Box. But the greatest fear I had, what if nobody fulfills the wishes, then we will be left with kids with no gifts..These kids at the home are precious already. So I challenged myself to dig deep and pray hard. 

God gave me this verse to hang on. 

A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling.

(Psalms 58:5)

Since then till today, people from all walks of life, people that are not even in Word of Life. People that are not even in Malaysia. They have committed themselves to buy the gifts for the children. Recently, we've just received 2 MP3s from USA ! PRaise GOd ! God told me this, "my world is greater than your small narrow world". When God moves, He calls on all corners of His universe to do great great stuff !. 

Word of Life Church although not many people yet, but the testimonies are tremendous itself. Can you imagine, when we first started..I nearly died being electrocuted..God saved me..gave me a word "Tsunami"..and that alone spurred me forward. When we moved into Bukit Indah, we had no money, no electricity, no grills, no water..nothing ! YET people just came and worship on Sundays. Funny thing is..every Saturday night..it would rain..and Sunday morning would not be so hot. 

The other worry I had initially, because we had no grills or gate to close our premise. We were concerned that people would just come in and take all our sound equipment and stuff. But we found out, every night, someone would sleep on the stairwell leading to our sanctuary. It was a vagrant. We would find beer bottles there too..but every night, Church was secure ! It's God's angels to me !

And there's sooooo much more to tell ! ...If you look at the numbers in the church, you would be dissapointed..but when you look to God and listen..you will see amazing stuff happening all around you.

When you use the easy way out in solving every problem, you won't discover your purpose in life...stop depending on Money and other comfort zones ..depend on God and STEP OUT !

 Having no money to solve every problem is a blessing most of the time..Think abit more, squeeze that God given creativity..see who is with you..ALOT can be done...best of all..callings are discovered like that.

 If God called you, He would already have equipped you..All you need to accomplish the task, is rely on what you already have and who is already with you...No need always spend money..use faith instead !

PRay alot, Depend on God with your life...feed of God's Word..and never leave His presence. You'll be fine.

Luv Edwin Koh

Jonah - The Lesson of Grace

Jonah - The Lesson of Grace

a. Introduction

Matthew 12:40-42

New Living Translation (NLT)

⁴⁰ For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

⁴¹ “The people of Nineveh will stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for they repented of their sins at the preaching of Jonah. Now someone greater than Jonah is here—but you refuse to repent. ⁴² The queen of Sheba will also stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for she came from a distant land to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Now someone greater than Solomon is here—but you refuse to listen.

As usual, the New Testament is the Old Testament unveiled. According to scripture, Nineveh was a great city (Jonah 1:1-2). To Jonah it was a city whose people do not deserve mercy but wrath. Nineveh was an Assyrian city that constantly tormented and troubled Israel. Jonah knew that in being sent to Nineveh, if by any chance the people “repented” , God would relent and spare this “irritant” of a nation. Jonah was a man of  God…but his heart was Loyally attached to Israel. So Jonah would have nothing to do with this.

B. Jonah Ran from God

1. Instead of going to Nineveh, he ran towards Tarshish. His goal, was to run from the presence of the Lord – Jonah 1:3. Can one run from God and God is omnipresent?

Through the storm, Casting Lot and eventually being thrown overboard, God responded in grace and kindness to those around him..something that Jonah could not see..why ? He was blinded by his “traditions”, “culture”, “fears” and “people”. He failed to see that God’s might and fame was not just limited to Israel, but “others” have come to know of God too !

Jonah also failed to see also how God would not relent at wanting to move through Jonah…to the point when Jonah was being swallowed up by the seas, God prepared a fish to be Jonah’s home for  3 days and 3 Nights !

Jonah relented not because he wanted to go willingly, but he wanted to get out of the fish’s belly !

Jonah gave up on Nineveh because of his hatred towards them and the "sins" Nineveh have commited against Israel. God instead "saved" the sailors by stopping the storm when Jonah was thrown into the ocean. God moved through Jonah even though he was an unwilling servant. If we were God, we would have been pleased the "difficult" servant would have been swallowed by the ocean and eaten by the fish. Good riddance to an annoying person. 

But no God reacted differently..He DID NOT JUDGE Jonah nor the Sailors !

C. THE NUMBER 3

3 Always always represents the purpose and will of God. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit ..they are 3 in person..but 1 in existence, in will, in purpose, in everything…so right here…the person on the stage, the focus of this is not Jonah, the fish …but God Himself and His plan to Save mankind !

Salvation is of the Lord and never the best intentions of man !

 D. JESUS BETTER THAN JONAH

Why did Jesus say in Mt 12:40, that someone better than Jonah is here...Someone better than Solomon is here ? 

Jonah represented the Law and people who live to perform their way to righteousness and heaven. The Law will always place demands on us...whereas Grace will supply the righteousness and save us ! God brings us to repentance by His word and His love for us..not through demands.

Hebrews 10 –Tells us how in the Old Testament, even if the priest offers the sacrifices, it can never take away the guilt of the errors.

Jonah represented the OLD COVENANT – THE LAW – Demands, Kills..because it has no power o save nor help man fulfill anything…Its like our roads having speed limits..without enforcement, education..it is just words that warn us..tell us what is right to do..but no power to help us do it..in the end ..speeding will kill.

God on the other hand Jonah shows the greatness of His heart by what He said to Jonah  at the end …

 ¹⁰ Then the Lord said, “You feel sorry about the plant, though you did nothing to put it there. It came quickly and died quickly. ¹¹ But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn’t I feel sorry for such a great city?” Jonah 4:10

God’s grace always qualifies the unworthy…God is not angry with people, He is furious with Sin.

⁶ He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life. (2 Cor 3:5)

So what does Jesus mean when He told the Israelites looking for a sign to think to Jonah..and then instead of leaving his audience at Jonah, He tells them..just like Jonah..God has someone better for you ! – Jesus

Jonah was an unwilling servant. Jesus came as a willing sacrifice in sacrifice He loved you first. Jonah wanted judgment on the people, Jesus wanted grace and forgiveness on the people. Solomon could give the best wisdom but no life. Jesus is your wisdom and in His word is Spirit and Life !Jonah spent 3 days and 3 nights as an unwilling servant in the belly of the whale..Jesus spent 3 days and 3 nights in the depths of hell, as a willing servant who sacrifice Himself because He loved YOU and I.

Hebrews 10 –Tells us when Jesus paid the price, He sat down ! When someone sits down from, it means the WORK IS DONE..It is finished !  Jesus is the Perfect Sacrifice ! Jesus paid the price for you to be reconciled back to God and forever will you be accepted. Jesus took your sin and on the cross cried out "MY GOD MY GOD..what have you forsaken me"...So that we can cry out "ABBA FATHER, why have you so bless us !".

E. THE PRODIGAL SON – Luke 15:13

In the story of the prodigal son, when the lost son came back to His dad, the dad never judged Him but clothe him and restored him. It was the lost son's older brother that felt left out and that his younger brother do not deserve this (the Jonah mentality). Can you see the difference between how humanity views errors and Sin ?..and how God views not sin but the Person who does not know what is right or wrong ? God never judge..so we should not too !

F. THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU !

The best act of God in showing He has accepted us is giving us the Holy Spirit. If you read the account of Peter's experience at Conelius household in Acts 10, you will realised that Peter could testify of God accepting the gentiles is because God gave the gentiles the same "Pentecost" experience as God had given them in Acts 2:4. 

Acts 10, Acts 15.

⁷ At the meeting, after a long discussion, Peter stood and addressed them as follows: “Brothers, you all know that God chose me from among you some time ago to preach to the Gentiles so that they could hear the Good News and believe. ⁸ God knows people’s hearts, and he confirmed that he accepts Gentiles by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us. ⁹ He made no distinction between us and them, for he cleansed their hearts through faith. ¹⁰ So why are you now challenging God by burdening the Gentile believers^[ with a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors were able to bear? ¹¹ We believe that we are all saved the same way, by the undeserved grace of the Lord Jesus.” (ACTS 15:7-10)

CONCLUSION 

Jesus is the seal of the new covenant..in this covenant is the promise of life..Not just the promise but the grace to live in it and inherit all that God has for His children, we are His children. You see friends, God has not judged you. Scripture tells us God loved us first. God love us and knew us while we were in the womb. God loves You !.

Friends, Jesus can to destroy all the works of evil on our lives. He has done it by dealing a final blow to the root of it - SIN. Sin is turning ourselves away from GOd. When we walk in darkness, we open the door to sin. Sin will produce its fruits - lying, cheating, murder, jealousy etc.  But when we turn back to God, and yield our lives to God, it is God that keeps us. Stay in His presence, stay in Him !

-----END----Edwin Koh