When we look at today’s Scripture passage in the Gospel of Mark, we can see that our Lord went to many places in the vicinity of Jerusalem with His disciples preaching and performing wondrous works, and in the evening the Lord became hungry and looked around to see if there was anything to eat. At that time, He saw from a distance a fig tree full of leaves. Jesus went to this fig tree to see if there was any fruit on the tree, but the tree had no fruit. And so Jesus pointed to this fruitless fig tree and cursed it, saying, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.”

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It’s written here in today’s Scripture passage: “Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, ‘Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.’ So Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “Be removed and be cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them’” (Mark 11:20-24). As this passage says, God wants you to have faith in Him. What God demands from all of us, is for our hearts to have faith in God.

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Today I would like to speak to you about how you ought to live out your faith as someone who believes in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. Let me first begin by raising a couple of questions first. What trials and tribulations do we face in our lives? Is it really impossible to overcome these trials unless we have faith in the righteousness of God?
I raise these questions first because it is most crucial for all of us to live by our faith in God. It should be our heartfelt desire to live the rest of our lives by placing our faith in God’s righteousness, and to serve this righteousness by faith. Otherwise everything we do will be completely meaningless, no matter how virtuous our deeds may be. Any faith that is built on one’s own work is not true faith.

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Warm greetings to you all! Today is Easter Sunday. We observe Easter Sunday to remember the resurrection of Jesus.
As we believe in the righteousness of Jesus, we have no doubt in His resurrection at all. Our Lord has indeed arisen from the dead. However, some people do doubt Jesus’ resurrection, saying in their own human thinking that they just can’t believe how it’s possible for anyone dead to be brought back to life again. Others do believe in Jesus’ resurrection, but they cannot believe in the resurrection of the saints to come.

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The Sadducees do not believe in the resurrection. As it is written in Mark 12:18-23, some of the Sadducees came to Jesus to test Him with a complicated question. But this is not the focus of today’s sermon.
Let’s go down a bit and read verses 26 and 27: “But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.” I would like to focus on this passage today.

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We just read Mark 13:1-17 for today’s Scripture reading. Here the Lord is explaining how this world would fall in the end times, what would happen to those who have received the remission of their sins at the end of the world, and what we should watch out for when this time arrives. Let us then examine the Word of God step by step, and then reach a detailed understanding of the truth about what the Lord is telling us.

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The righteous saints who are born of the Holy Spirit are called to serve the Lord by holding onto the gospel. Needless to say it twice, it is natural for all the saints to do so.
Today’s Scripture passage talks about a woman who poured costly fragrant oil on Jesus. Based on today’s passage, we can see that Jesus cherished and admired this kind of act no matter whether she poured her oil on Jesus’ head or His feet. This account is recorded in all the Four Gospels. When we look at the Gospel of John or the Gospel of Luke, we can encounter the story of a sinful woman who poured her expensive oil on Jesus’ feet wetting them with tears and washing His feet with her hair.

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Today, I would like to share the Word with you regarding your material possessions. Perhaps some of you are thinking, “It has not seemed like Pastor Jong would ever talk about money, but now I see that he is finally bringing up the subject.” But don’t worry too much, as I am not about to ask you to offer your material possessions blindly.

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This morning we are going to hold the Communion Service before we finish the discipleship training camp. Did you all sleep well last night? Let’s do some light exercise. Stand up please, hold your hands and stretch yourself. Please do not stretch excessively. We had a very starry sky last night. The stars were shining so bright as if they wanted us to stay up all night.

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Today we have just read the Gospel of Mark chapter 15 verses 1 to 15. As you see in today’s Scripture passage, Jesus was experiencing a trial in Pilate’s courtyard. It is written that the chief priests, elders, scribes as well as the Jewish council brought Jesus to account and handed Him over to Pilate.

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