Claim OwnershipThe Beautiful Book Series with Dr. Paul Choo
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The Beautiful Book Series by Dr. Paul Choo challenges us to re-think our assumptions about The Bible. This series aims to turn the discipline of reading the Bible into a delight. We need God's word to be transformed not just be informed. We need to read the Bible because it's the most important thing we can ever do.
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#AFL: A Live Conversation with Paul Choo
📮24 Nov 2020 @ 7:30pm - 9:00pm Philippines | Singapore via Facebook Live
📮Hosted by: Pastor Nazario Sinon - GLCC Singapore Pastor Leo Decinal - Goducate Laguna
Thank you for joining us. And see you 8th Dec 2020! Be encouraged. Be enlightened. Be equipped.
🚩10 November @ 7:30pm-9:00pm Philippines | Singapore via Facebook Live.
🚩Key Highlights: *Crisis Leadership vs. Church Administration *Are you LEADING or MISSING?
🚩Hosted by: Pastor Nazario Sinon - GLCC Singapore & Pastor Leo Decinal - Goducate Laguna.
🚩The Vital 7C’S for Effective Pastoral Leadership in #COVID: A Live Stream Conversation with Paul Choo.
🚩Hosted by: Pastor Nazario Sinon - GLCC Singapore Pastor Leo Decinal - Goducate Laguna .
🚩10 November @ 7:30pm-9:00pm Philippines | Singapore via Facebook Live.
🚩Key Highlights: *Crisis Leadership vs. Church Administration *Are you LEADING or MISSING?
Lesson 20: A Holy Facebook | Conclusion.
God has not given us another religion but has restored His relationship with us through Jesus Christ. A relationship is characterized by communication. Christ lives in us. We can have constant communication with Him all the time. God invented instant communication long before Facebook but few of His children know how to use this Holy FB. Treasure your relationship with God. The greatest thing in this life and in the next life is to know God and to enjoy Him forever. John 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou have sent. Enjoy this & enjoy your journey with Jesus! Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
Lesson 18: Holy ATM | Lesson 19: A Personal Love Letter.
The victorious Christian is one who realizes that the way to success is not to try harder but to trust more. The victorious Christian is not exhausted from trying to imitate Jesus but excited by watching what Jesus is doing through him. Jesus meets me as I step forward in faith. Have you learned to use the Holy ATM of Jesus? There is no book like the Bible. It is God's personal love letter to each of his children. It is alive & strong (Heb. 4:12 “the word of God is living & powerful”). Set aside time read & re-read your personal love-letter from God. He has a new message for you today!
Enjoy this & enjoy your journey with Jesus! Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
Lessons 16: It's impossible to be alone | Lessons 17: Super Partnership.
We have a very intimate relationship with God! He has chosen to live in us so that He can be our constant Partner as we go through life on this earth. Are you enjoying your relationship with Jesus who lives in you? Christians trust Jesus to pay for the sins on the Cross. But many of these same Christians do not trust Jesus to help them to overcome their sins as they live their daily lives. Are you living a lonely losing life? You should be living a victorious Christian life with Jesus. Enjoy this & enjoy your journey with Jesus! Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
Lesson 14: Jesus' DNA | Lesson 15: Many Taufik Hidayats
God commands all Christians to “work out their salvation” (Phil 1:12). Many misunderstand this verse to mean that we have to “work for our salvation. ” This is impossible because no one can work for his salvation because “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). Furthermore, if we could work for our salvation then there was no need for God to give His only begotten Son.
Jesus on the Cross said “It is finished.” The work of salvation is complete. It has been earned by Jesus on the Cross. Our job is not to earn our salvation but to “work out” our salvation.
Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus!
Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
Lesson 12: Can my sin cause me to lose everlasting life | Lesson 13: Licensed to Sin?
Blessed Holy Trinity! Blessed God the Father – who loves us and gave us His only Son. Blessed God the Son – who sacrificed His life for us on the Cross. Blessed God the Holy Spirit – who lives in our hearts to be our daily Partner.
Can any other “god,” other than the Holy Trinity ever do this amazing work of salvation?
Enjoy this & enjoy your journey with Jesus!
Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
Lesson 10: No computer can calculate these numbers! | Lesson 10: Sudah Selesai!
Indeed, all who have received Jesus as their personal Saviour will have everlasting life – the first part on earth and the next part in Heaven. There will be no interval between the 2 parts. Our salvation is not based on how good we are. Our salvation is based on the perfect work of a perfect Saviour. Are you sure that you will not perish?
Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus!
Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
Lesson 8: It's a Gift | Lesson 9: If a King became an Ant
There are many religions to follow.
But there is only ONE SAVIOR to receive.
Are you following a religion? Or have you received a Saviour?
Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus!
Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
Lesson 6: One Solution Only. | Lesson 7: The Deadliest Traffic Jam.
On that day 35 years ago, I realized that though I had known and memorized John 3:16, I had never believed it. But the Bible tells us that merely knowing the promise in John 3:16 is useless. What is important is believing John 3:16.
Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus!
Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
Lesson 4: Humans need 2 Births. | Lesson 5: Blind leading the Blind.
Have you asked yourself this question: “How can I be born again?” This is the most important question you can ever ask in your life. Ignorance of the answer is a sure way to go to hell!
Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus!
Author: Dr. Paul Choo
Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
This book is written for 21st Century Asian Christians who live in the fast-paced progress and excitement of this age but find themselves in a faith that seems stuck in the past. This book is not written to promote any church or denomination but to help us to know & love Jesus more.
About the Author: Dr. Paul Choo was born in Singapore in 1947. He graduated as a Medical Doctor from the University of Singapore (now renamed National University of Singapore) in 1971. He received his Doctor of Divinity from Bob Jones University (USA) . Dr. Paul Choo is the founding Pastor of Gospel Light Christian Church in 1987, and was the Senior Pastor for the first 18 years. He currently chairs the Missions Board, and is actively pouring his life into overseas missions. A man of wisdom, faithfulness and compassion, he is also well-loved for how he genuinely “walks the talk.” He has preached in hundreds of churches and Christian conferences in Asia, USA, Europe, Australia and Africa. For his services to the poor in Asia, he was selected by Channel News Asia in 2012 as one of the “Asians of the Year”.
Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus!
Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas
We now come to chapter 22, the last of the Book with the purpose of motivating men to make the right choice. Especially to whom John wrote who were debating. Fearful. Do I bow to say Caesar is God & forget about God? Or would you prefer eternity? Make something else your god? Or make God your God?
Make sure you don’t miss it. Prepare for it! Unless you plan to go to hell, so you better because it’s totally dark there just the Lake of Fire. What can we learn about bucket list?
The main goal: No need to argue with things, start preparing for eternity. Welcoming & leading others by your life, testimony, ministry, & preaching. As you look forward to put the tears, sorrow, & pain of this sinful world behind forever.
Hope you can say this is the greatest love story you've ever read. God Loves You! Plans for you! And finally, the Bride (us) is prepared for our Creator. It took a long time. The Beautiful Book was written by a wonderful God. He loved His Son so much that many sons in the New Heaven & New Earth all bearing the image of His Son, who bears the image of the Farther. And in all eternity, enjoying & worshiping our God.
May this Book bless you! May the last Book of the Bible bless you most of all!
Chapter 21 describes the New Heaven & the New Earth. This is a very little description of this perfect eternal place that we all yearn for. It’s just the end of a love Story, “And they live happily ever after.” Period. It’s placed in our hearts. You & I already have this idea of heaven, but has been damaged by the great thinking that it would be spiritual. Then I saw a new heaven & new earth (21:1) sounds like Gen1:1, In the beginning, God created the heaven & the earth. The new here simply means perfectly Renovated.
The most amazing of these 2 chapters is that God comes to be with us. Heaven comes to us. What is heaven? Heaven is a place where God is. Heaven is a realm. He is not a passive God. It's much more about a person than a place. It’s always about the Creator, Jesus. The world will come to an end. That’s true. The End is to be with a Person. Who is this world coming to? Is the better question. It’s coming back to its Creator who was separated. The end of the world is the beginning of eternal time with a Person, my Creator, my Lover, Jesus Christ.
Make sure your name is in the Lambs Book of Life, inscribed on the heart of Jesus. May you say in your heart I want to be with this Amazing God in this amazing place for all eternity where my heart will be filled with the River of Life if you trust the one who conquered your sins on the cross.
In Rev. 21 & 22, the New Heaven & the New Earth is described. There's a yearning in every human heart for what we have lost, The Garden of Eden. Instinctively, men go everywhere looking for paradise. Making the tourist industry, a multi-billion-dollar industry. Satan destroyed the Garden of Eden, God will make one much more beautiful, The New Earth. God wins mightily!
Including the so-called “agnostics”, unbelievers or atheists believe & yearn that when they die, they go somewhere some nice place. God made our soul Immortal. God made man in His image. God put eternity in man’s heart.
But there's a void of understanding about the New Heaven & the New Earth. In the church, it’s rarely being preached. In the Bible, discover the 3 dimensions of heaven. Heaven is more than we know! This is about a union. Christ came to unite everything together, to reconcile man to God. Man to man.
Earth is where we prepare for heaven. Heaven is the fulfillment of what we have prepared for, a place where you will reign/rule. Jesus was God incarnate in the flesh walking among men. I hope you spend your life being faithful in doing things that you'll be faithful much in heaven & be full like a lake, filled with perfect Satisfaction forever & ever & ever!
The White Throne Judgment is mentioned in Rev 20, there are no other references in any part of the Bible. The judgment of everyone who died without Knowing & trusting Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. To those who denied God's existence, the One who made & loves them. He asked them to believe in Him for thousands of years but insistently denied Him.
Jesus Christ, the Great Creator of the World, the Son of Man, the Perfect Man will be sitting on the Great White Throne. White is holiness. He will judge by His Holy Standards. Are you pure white on that day? Have you received the righteousness of Christ?
This is the 2nd resurrection. Dead, small, & great stand before God. All those who thought they were moral, religious will stand before God. Books were opened which accounts every single deed man has done. It's of Christ’s infinite wisdom, everything will be judged on that day. For the believers of Christ, all will be judged according to what Christ has done.
Another book is opened, The Book of Life. Those names not found therein are thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is The Final Judgment of God! Very precise. Most people didn’t want to know God even seeing His creation. If you have nothing to do with God, your wish will be granted in full measure. Everything God has seen, God will judge fairly.
Adam was given the role to tend the Garden of Eden but made wrong choices. Jesus, the second Adam, the Son of God, the Perfect Man, the Righteous Ruler will reign in the millennial kingdom... someone we never ever had, perfect righteous ruler. No selfishness. No War. The curse is removed. No sickness. Life will be much longer.
What's the point here? Even after having a perfect environment, the human heart if given a choice, still has rebellion & says, “Satan made me do it.” But Satan is bound. God wants us to know that there is rebellion in our hearts. We don’t blame anyone else. We just thank & praise God that we are saved. When we get to heaven, we just say for all eternity, Thank You, God, for Your amazing grace.
Learn about the Millennial Kingdom. Believe the prophecies. It’s true! Don’t spiritualize everything away. TheBible is real. Hope this helps us to prepare for the Millennium, to be eternally thankful for The New heaven & New Earth. May you know God's amazing plans for you, so that you'll be totally satisfied forever & ever. God bless you!
We continue with the millennial kingdom, Christians have different views, it can be very divisive. May this encourage you to be humble, there are many things in the Bible we can agree to disagree with. Contend for the faith graciously & with humility. What are the 3 views on the Millennial Kingdom?
If you read the whole Bible, you'll realize this rule (Millennium) is very special to God. When God makes a promise, He keeps it. When Jesus came the 1st time, Jews rejected Him even if they saw His life. Jesus conquered the world by dying for us on the cross, He gained to sit on the Throne. That’s God’s way. God is Holy! God is Love! If you know one day you'll reign with Christ in the Millennial Kingdom & rule over people, preparation for life is needed.
This life is not an intermission but a critical preparation for the Millennial Kingdom & eternity. 90% of Christians don’t know the end (Rev 20-22). So, prepare now for your position there. The Millennial Kingdom is not an academic subject. It’s so true! May this help us see the whole Beautiful Book & most of all the one true God.
Chapter 20 speaks of the millennial kingdom, this has caused more controversy in the church than any other topics. Though it's the last 3 chapters of the Bible, it's most critical to know what's the whole ending about.
John sees an angel coming with the key to the bottomless pit & a massive chain. The Angel binds Satan & thrown to the bottomless pit so he cannot deceive the nations for a thousand years. Satan is TOTALLY helpless. All sources of power come from God. How does Satan deceive the nations? And we all have fallen into this trap.
Then John sees people seated on the thrones & a group of resurrected martyrs who didn't worship the mark of the beast. The first resurrection, saints who trusted Christ resurrected & martyrs from the great tribulation are resurrected to be part of this ruling authority in the millennial kingdom. Those who didn't trust Christ were not resurrected yet.
After 1,000 years Satan is released, manages to deceive a huge number of people like the sands of the sea. Who are these survivors? Satan gathers these forces for the last battle against the restored Jerusalem. Fire comes down from heaven. Satan is sent to the lake of fire to be tormented forever & ever with the Anti-Christ & false prophets.
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