Blessed 2016 ! May this be a great year, with significant and wonderful accomplishments – with God’s help.

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Jan 1, 2016 – a Brand New Year ahead of us. May we accomplish much for what we intend to do for this year – with God’s help. People sometimes feel guilty about an accomplishment or having a good time. This need not be so. We can be pleased with our accomplishments – when God is pleased with it, just as God was pleased with His work.

God said through His revealed Word in Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” Genesis 1:26

“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31

We thank God for His rescue plan (see ***) and that’s why we have the great hope today, JANUARY 1, 2016

***The 2015 Christmas day has come and gone. However, take heart, God’s rescue plan, which came in the fullness of time, on the 1st Christmas for humanity is never ‘gone’  and is still available anytime to all who wants to partake of it.  [Let’s go back to the  Chile’s 2010 33 miners incident. Click here –> 33 Chilean miners_2010 They waited and waited for that rescue and when it arrived, all accepted the opportunity to be saved from that deep underground prison – one may refuse though if that’s what one wanted.] God has provided the way for us (and one may choose to refuse the way though).

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“And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” Luke2:10-14

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 9:6

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” Matthew 1:21-23

” ..the living God… He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth..” Daniel 6:26-27

The truths is, some of our choices have great & climactic consequences. ~ Cheong Kok Weng

The truths is, some of our choices have great & climactic consequences –  the actions resulting or what happens, when we act on our interpretations or inferences. It is about what we do because we have come to a conclusion, that impacts or has an effect on how we act …actions that come from our beliefs.

There is one climactic choice we made on earth that has eternal consequences, one that determines the destination of our eternal destiny – heaven or hell and nothing in between!

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We need to bear in mind that the way to heaven, the abode of the Lord Most High, is through His terms, not ours.

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 

And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” John 11:25-26

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“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.” John 10:9-11

“No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.” John 10:18a

 

The future endows us with a kaleidoscopic maze of choices. Every choice we take becomes a part of our lives – let’s choose empowering choices. ~ Cheong Kok Weng

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Choices made follow  us – it has the power to alter

our individual compass, such is the power of choices that

God has empowered it together with free will.

“Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. ” Proverbs 18:21

“The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.” Proverbs 14:27

“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

We have this DAILY gift of the choice of CHOOSING WELL… ~ Cheong Kok Weng

 

 

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We have this DAILY gift of choice of CHOOSING WELL. May God help us to use this gift well. ~ Cheong Kok Weng

God gave us the responsibilities for writing on the pages and chapters of the book of our lives – through the power of daily choices translated into actions.

By the way – “in an enormously big way”, our eternal future and destiny rest with the choices we  made – God gave this choice to us and we have to make the choice.

Our choices today can change our today and tomorrows, for God has given this power to our choices. ~ Cheong Kok Weng

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The Choice Is Ours.

Every right choices we make impacts us positively and helps us to reverse or mitigate the wrong decisions we’ve made in the past.

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:” Deuteronomy 30:19

When God tells us to “choose life,” He’s actually showing us what wisdom looks like – it’s life-giving.

It’s so good to know we can do something to choose life.

We can consistently make good choices with God’s help.

We can do it and make right choices now.

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Genesis 2:24

Marriage as between a man and a woman was and is well understood even before and ever since the beginning of civilisation that’s why it was not needed to be defined in the Constitutional Law as it was assumed and understood to be just that, i.e., between a man and a woman.

In view of the foregoing, the Supreme Court of the US should not be given the power to redefine marriage for the US. It’s preposterous, heinous and shockingly bad that it just required 5 lawyers to redefine an institution that has existed way before the USA was founded as a nation on the 4th of July 1776. Instead of upholding what is right in the eyes of the CREATOR who alone has the right to design and define marriage, the supreme court has become lawless in its act – what a contemptible and  abominable TRAVESTY of justice and righteousness that it is supposed to uphold!

The architects’ of the US Federal Constitutional Law original intention of marriage as assumed (as understood though unstated) to be between a man and a woman, had been debased and corrupted by the 5 lawyers – 5 mere frail humans who knowingly have chosen to reject and nullify God’s design for marriage; that of between a man and a woman.  Everyone has a choice (therefore Romans 1:32 applies to the 5) but one may not choose the consequence that is attached to the choice.

The right thinking people of the US must now act and call for the law makers to make a “Federal constitutional amendment – to define marriage – as between one man and one woman” as intended, but not specified because it was deemed to be unthinkable for a same sex marriage definition, in the original Federal Constitutional Law.

Marriage between a man and a woman was instituted by God for the first human male Adam and the first human female Eve. It was not designed to be between Adam and Jim, else Eve would have been created as Jim.

God said in Genesis 2:24

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

Jesus said in Matthew 19:4-5

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”

Romans 1:18-28,32

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

 

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

 

God gave us the power of free will & choices – to turn around no matter how far we have travelled on the wrong path.

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Choices have end results – that determine our eternal destiny. We are given the liberty by the Sovereign God – to the right to choose and …freedom comes from right choices. There’s still time yet to change the wrong path we’re on as long as we are still alive on planet earth. 

We live our choices on earth, and sometimes the choices we made we live it over numerous time  – AND for our eternal choice we live it for eternity – two paths to choose (and nothing in between) – heaven or hell.

None of us will ever escape the consequences of our own choices at the end of our lives on earth – for God has said so through His Eternal word.

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:7-8

“But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8

“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;” Deuteronomy 30:19

“This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11b

“.. of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,  until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Acts 1:1-3

Jesus Ascends to Heaven.

“And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven.” Lk 24:50-51

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“This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11b“

“Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:9-11

Jesus said in Acts 1:8 ” But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 

The Coming Again of Jesus But this time it is with Great Power and Glory.

 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Matthew 24:29-31

‘Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,”  says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” ‘ Revelation 1:17-8

Revelation 19:11-20

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11 Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. 12 His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 13 He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. 15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:

KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS.

17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, “Come and gather together for the supper of the great God, 18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people,free and slave, both small and great.”

19 And I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. 20 Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

Jesus came the first time in deliberate weakness, (Philippians 2:5 -7 “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.”), He came the first time as the Saviour to die for humanity – His “robe dipped in blood; But He will come the second time in great power, with the sceptre of universal authority & dominion and He will triumph completely over all His enemies. Jesus will come the second time as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

His appearance will be worldwide and unmistakable – for as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of Jesus be. (See Matthew 24:27)

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