Medan, Day Five...

This is the final day of our class. And as usual, we have wonderful praise and worship before the class started. Though the songs were all in Indonesia language, we just flowed with their music in the Spirit. The students are all gifted in their music and singing.

Brother Bartholomew and Elder Alex
Waiting for our Coach at the Hotel's entrance

Pastor David (Pastor Octavianus' Brother) and Elder Alex

Today we are touching on the topic "Jesus Conscious vs Sin Conscious" in the first session of the class and a controversial topic on "Can A Christian Lose His Salvation" in the second session. This controversial topic exposed a few sacred cows among the students during the Q&A session.

But the situation was better than what we expected. They all questioned with what if... what if... what if... and their questions were all well answered. They finally concluded that it is impossible for a believer to go to hell!

Think about it, if a "problem" can be greater than the Good News, can we still call the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Good News? Good News is the Person of Jesus and the Bible in the Book of Philippians says God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Is your problem having any name? If there is a name, then your problem shall bow down to Jesus' Name. This is Good News!

There is now no condemnation

A demonstration of the position of the defense council, the judge and the prosecutor in a court environment.

In the New Covenant, after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, He is now seated at the right hand side of the Father and there is no seat at the left hand side of the Father.

Hebrews 9:12 ~ He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

Elder Alex, Gola, Alan & Bartholomew
A photo with Gola before our Brother departed for the mountain where their youth camp is situated.

After the class, Susan brought us to a restaurant call Ikan Goreng Cianjur which is owned by a Brother by the name of Joshua S. Liem. He is operating nine restaurants in Medan and the Island of Sumatra and he told us that God is going to give him twenty of such restaurants. Next month, he is going to open his first branch in Penang, a Malaysian State which is very near to Medan. We have a "sesat" (sesat means lost) encounter with this Brother and we end up calling him "Pak Sesat"!

Fish Satay

"Sesat"

Brother Joshua (Pak Sesat) told us that he received the grace message personally from the Lord ten years ago. With this grace encounter, he started to share the Gospel of Grace with others, and every one departed from him and called him "sesat"! But when Pastor Peter Youngren came to Medan to preach the grace message 5 years ago, all his friends woke up and came back to addressed him as Prophet. When Joshua shares his grace encounter, we could see tears in his eyes... It was heart warming and encouraging.

We have a wonderful "sesat" time together though we have never met before and we "sesat" in a way as if we knew each other for a long time. Is this not Grace? Is this not His Goodness? It is indeed biblical that only a "sesat" person can find grace and after all, we are all "sesat" in His grace...

This kind of fellowship usually make you "sesat" in time too and we have forgotten that we had an appointment with Pastor David at 6.00pm this evening for our sharing at his radio station. We have to say goodbye to Pak Sesat and he asked his driver to rush us back to Hotel and get ourselves ready...

We will be back with more good report. So till then, bye... :)