Pandan Flavor Coconut

This Pandan Flavor Coconut Tree has been planted at the back of my house for over 5 years now. It was only when I had been led to a Christ centered preaching Church that this Coconut Tree started to bear fruits. Thirty, sixty and hundredfold...

Short growing Pandan Flavor Coconut Tree

The husk of the coconut was removed and chilled in refrigerator for overnight. This afternoon, I had an interesting way of enjoying the juice of this Pandan Flavor Coconut with thanks giving in my heart. Surely blessings and prosperity will be mine!

Pandan Flavor Coconut with it's husk removed. The Coconut has a unique image of two "eyes" and a "mouth". The "mouth" has a soft spot where an opening can be made to place the straw.

Psalm 128

1 A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways
2 You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.
4 Thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD.
5 May the LORD bless you from Zion all the days of your life; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem,
6 and may you live to see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

Lies That Taught On Sunday

Can lies be taught in Churches? I'm glad that you ask this question. Well, Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Is your life free after you have been born again, or you have more rules and regulations to observe after you have becoming a born again Christian? Do you believe that the anointing that you received from Him is true and His anointing teaches you about all things is real?

1 John 2:21~27 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist—he denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us—even eternal life. I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.

Steve McVey of Grace Walk Ministries

It is not about who is teaching you how to live a Christian life. It is about our revelation of who Jesus is.

Ephesians 3:16~19 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Unless you have a revelation knowledge of who the Person of Grace, our Lord Jesus Christ is, and establish yourselves in His grace, you will never know what a lie is like.

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Seek Ye First...

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

What is the Kingdom of God?
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17). The Kingdom of God is not natural but supernatural.

Isaiah 55:8~9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts".

God’s ways are higher than our ways. Men use Law to administrate their kingdoms, while God administrates His Kingdom through the riches of His Grace. His Kingdom is a Kingdom of Grace. The riches of His Kingdom was manifested through the Person of Jesus in the midst of a law abiding society. Jesus' disciples were told that if they knew Him, they would know the Father as well. The manifestation of the Father's riches was demonstrated to the fullness at the Cross where the Fountain of Life was lavished as a Gift to this hopeless world.

Yet this rescuing Gift is not exactly parallel to the death-dealing sin. If Adam’s sin put many at the dead-end abyss of separation from God, just think what God's Gift poured through one Man, Jesus Christ, will do! For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one Man, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17).

Matthew 6:33 and Romans 5:17 are having the same truth and promises. The only difference is, Matthew 6:33 (seek ye first) is before the Cross while Romans 5:17 (receive the abundant provision) is after the Cross. Before the Cross, you seek. After the Cross you receive! Do you know how this provision was make possible? It was Jesus' Finished Work on the Cross that enable us to benefit from this divine provision. Is this not grace?

Our law keeping bring us no way in the Kingdom of God. There is nothing we can do to earn anything from Him because everything had already been given. If you are still seeking, SEEK first His Kingdom (Grace) and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you. For those who are very much into grace, RECEIVE His abundant provision of Grace and the gift of righteousness and you shall reign in life...

Ministry of Health

The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established in the year 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Luke 16:8 ~ So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.

It was just half a year ago that in many parts of the world, milk products are found contaminated with Melamine. Melamine by itself is non toxic in low doses, but when combined with Cyanuric Acid it can cause fatal kidney stones due to the formation of an insoluble Melamine Cyanurate. In view of this, the Health Ministry of the affected countries had to intensify their checks on imported products and their locally manufactured products which used milk as part of the ingredients.

The people in the world are very concerned with the food they are consuming and they do not tolerate any mixture of toxic substance in their dietary. The Health Ministries concerned are protecting their people by bringing in high tech instruments and their best researchers to putting up a high standard in scrutinizing all milk related products.

The Health Ministries in this world are doing a far better job than the “Health Ministries” in the body of Christ in term of dietary scrutiny. Today, Christians under the dispensation of grace are still being fed with the deadly mixture of law and grace as their main course for spiritual dietary. The world has their food products labeled with expiry date and look at the body of Christ, many still do not know what is expired at the Cross.

The preaching in many parts of the Christian bodies are not Christ centered but self centered. The preaching is not righteousness consciousness but sin consciousness. The preaching is not emphasizing on resting in the Lord because of His Finished Work on the Cross, but emphasizing on working for the Lord as if Jesus had not died on the Cross. The preaching is not emphasizing on what God had done for them at the Cross but what they can do for God. The preaching is not pointing the believers to Jesus, who is all able, all powerful, and full of grace and mercy, but pointing the believers to themselves who are unable, powerless, and full of hatred and unforgiveness. The preaching is neither hot nor cold i.e. mixing grace with Law or lukewarm. The preaching is not from the Tree of Life but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. When these preachings are diverted from the Cross, the teachings are religious and unintentionally advocating the principles of religion.

All religions are self centered. They emphasize on sin consciousness and what they can do for God. They do not have the Cross and somehow, they are still looking and waiting for somebody to save them. That is why they teach you how to be good and how not to be bad. They teach you how to do good and how not to do evil. Religions do all these because they do not have life. Whereas we are different; we have life because Jesus comes to give us life and life more abundantly. We have a Savior who is not only willing to help us but had died for us on the Cross. Before we are born into this world, He had already finished doing everything and brought forth all the heavenly blessings for us when He cried out, “It’s Finished!” two thousand years ago. What He had finished on the Cross are not only the bad things that our peanut size brains can think of, but that God can think of. Is this not grace?

Do Christians still practice religion as if the Lord they worship had not died on the Cross? Yes… Do you think Apostle Paul was preaching legalism to get approval from men and please them in the Book of Galatians? No… He was preaching GRACE and obviously the religious people were not happy with him!

Galatians 1:10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 5:7~12 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth? That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. "A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough." I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be. Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

If Apostle Paul was preaching GRACE, and obviously that is true, because he was called to be the Apostle to the Gentiles who preached the Gospel… Hey, he was not trying to win the approval of men but GOD!!! If Apostle Paul's teaching had God’s approval, I think grace is the right spiritual dietary for the body of Christ and moreover, Paul himself confirmed that there is no other Gospel!

Galatians 1:6~9 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

Spiritual dietary for the believers in this dispensation has not been wisely scrutinized. The "Health Minister" concerned do not pay close attention to the expiry date of their dietary. These lukewarm or expired dietary have brought much harm to the new covenant believers in term of the growth of their faith and leaving them in the state of spiritual malnutrition. It is high time for the “Health Ministers” in the Body of Christ to refer to the instructions written by Apostle Paul (who wrote two third of the New Testament) and bring in the CROSS and Jesus' Finished Work, to scrutinize what has been accomplished by the Lord, which covenant has been expired on the Cross and perform their duty of “rightly dividing the Word” diligently, in the context of the light of New Covenant.

Grace and truth is on the side of Jesus. Grace is the lingo of the New Covenant. When we appreciate His grace, we will have the revelation knowledge of the truth. If we continue to FAST and keep feeding on grace based, Christ centered teaching, we will have the revelation knowledge on what is good for eating and what is not...

Watch out for what you are eating... watch out for the sign "Do Not Consume After The Expire Date". Your dietary can affect your spiritual health...

25 Random Things About Me

This note on 25 Random Things About Me was originally posted at my Facebook in respond to the tags from Lydia Grewell, Jamie Weeks and Felicia Chew. After I have received their notes on the 25 Random Things About Themselves, I have no idea on what to write about myself.... 25 random things about myself, that's a lot!!! It was until yesterday morning, when I was confessing God's word and this beautiful idea came to my mind... hey, this is me, this is the REAL me!!!

Somehow, I felt led to post the note here because these words of God are good food for our spirit-man. Let us confess (Homo Logo) the same thing that God say about us...! Let us identify ourselves with Him. Let us FEAST and FEED our spirit-man. The Holy Spirit will bear witness to the truth that we confess and transform us from glory to glory!!!


1) I’m His Beloved and was saved by grace through faith.

2) I’m highly favored, greatly blessed and deeply loved.

3) I’m the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

4) I’m the apple of His eye.

5) I’m a New Creation. Born again, Spirit filled, tongue speaking and devil chasing.

6) As Christ is, so am I in this world.

7) I walk by faith, not by sight!

8) I love because He first loves me.

9) I’m the disciple whom Jesus loves.

10) I was given the ministry of reconciliation and I’m Christ’s ambassador.

11) I’m also a royal priesthood.

12) I want myself to be the least of all, for the Bible says: from the least to the greatest, they will know Him!

13) I'm blessed in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ and I 'm blessed to be a blessing.

14) I know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though He was rich, yet for my sakes He became poor, that I through His poverty might become rich!

15) I want my heart to be strengthened by grace.

16) The LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not be want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for He is with; His rod and His staff, they comfort me. He prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies. He anoints my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

17) He was pierced for my transgressions, He was crushed for my iniquities; the punishment that brought me peace was upon Him, and by His wounds I am healed.

18) His grace is sufficient for me, for His power is made perfect in my weakness.

19) Christ in me, the hope of glory!

20) Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all I ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within me.

21) He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for me, how shall he not with Him also freely give me all things?

22) My God shall supply all my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

23) God is able to make all grace abound to me, so that in all things at all times, having all that I need, I will abound in every good work.

24) I ask God to fill me with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

25) As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

Amen!

Fasting

I was quickened by the Spirit to realize that I have been fasting for the past five years ever since the Lord has enlightened me with His teaching on grace. This revelation shocked me a bit but I was immediately comforted by a fresh insight on fasting.

Please bear with me for awhile and if you feel this is misleading, you are welcome to throw stone at me at the end of this sharing. So be cool…

With this fresh insight for a rather controversial topic in the body of Christ, I went around asking for answers from the average believers with charismatic background, the purpose for fasting. The answers I gathered are as followed:-

1) To restrain and weaken our flesh so that our spirit can grow stronger.
2) Spiritual discipline.
3) To be closer to God and hear His voice.
4) To obtain spiritual power.

Hmm… what is your answer?

I don't think fasting is what we used to think as restraining ourselves from eating our meals for certain period of time and achieve the purpose of weakening our flesh to gain spiritual power or to make God obligated to move in the area of our needs. If this is so, any other religion that practices fasting would also achieve the same purposes. In fact, they claimed to have the same result too!

The only thing that sets Christianity apart from the rest of the religions is God's grace. Grace is not natural but supernatural. We need the Holy Spirit to understand grace and most of all, Christianity was born by the grace of the Father through the death of the His beloved Darling Son. If only we can have the revelation knowledge of this truth, we will be led by the Spirit to understand more including the meaning of fasting.

Those of us, who are so much into grace, are very familiar that our flesh is edified by legalistic and performance oriented doctrine which is self centered and based on law abiding. It is this self righteousness doctrine that give strength to our flesh! The preaching of law is the food to our flesh!!! The moment we embark ourselves on Christ centered, grace based doctrine, that is the moment we start our FASTING!!! Because we have restrained ourselves from exposing to legalistic and performance oriented teaching, we have stopped supplying “FOOD” to our flesh. I think this is a more biblical way to define fasting in the light of the New Covenant.

Can you find evidence in the bible to support your claim? (You may ask…)

Let’s go on…

Matthew 4:1~4 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." But He answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.' "

So, after being baptized at the River Jordan and before Jesus started His earthly ministry, He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting for forty days and forty nights, He was hungry…!

Jesus was born under the law and was brought up in a legalistic, law abiding Jewish society. This was the darkest era in the history of Jewish culture. After the baptism, He was immediately led to the wilderness to stay away from the law abiding, legalistic environment. He restrained for forty days and forty nights. John the Baptist was growing up in the wilderness and was isolated from Jewish legalistic society. Paul, the Apostle of Grace to the Gentiles, was led to Arabia to be away from Jerusalem which was their religious center and Judaism's stronghold.

The number 40 here is the representative number for one generation. It was not what we literally think as our forty days and forty nights. The Israelite were wandering in the wilderness for forty years while Moses was up in Mt. Sinai for forty days and forty nights.

The devil was quick to draw Jesus’ attention back to the “stone” again right after Jesus' fasting by saying, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Jesus said, “It is written: ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.”

Do you think this kind of dialogues are dialogues of our human nature? I don’t think so… A spiritual being was talking to a SPIRITUAL BEING; I think these dialogues are spiritual!

The devil was quick to point Jesus in turning the Ten Commandments (Two tablets of stone) into His food. The devil was asking Jesus to feed on Law... How did Jesus reply him? Jesus said man does not live on bread only (the bodily man), but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (the spirit-man). As far as the devil is concerned, if our flesh is strong, our spirit will be weak. As such, Jesus expounded the existence of spirit-man in man that the spirit-man lives on every word that comes from the mouth of God. He was in the wilderness, being far away from the legalistic environment, He was there to receive words direct from the Father.

What kind of word did the Father minister to Jesus? At Mt. Sinai, God was showing Moses the beautiful story of the Tabernacle which is a typology of Jesus. The Father was ministering grace to Jesus in the wilderness just like Jesus Himself ministered grace to Apostle Paul in Arabia.

However, as I continue with this passage, the phrase “He was hungry” caused a bit of doubt in my mind… What about you? Hey, the Bible says He was hungry you know...? Well, I was "asked" to put this phrase aside and continue with the reading... So, let’s go on.

Let us look at what Jesus talked about fasting in replying to the Scribes and Pharisee...

Luke 5: 33~38 Then they said to Him, "Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?" And He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days." Then He spoke a parable to them: "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one; otherwise the new makes a tear, and also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says, 'The old is better.' "

In this passage, Jesus interchanged in referring the man with flesh and spirit-man. Jesus was saying as He (the Bridegroom) was with them in flesh, it was time for celebration. How could the Bridegroom make them fast in the time of celebration? When the time had come for Him to be glorified at the Cross, they (their flesh) would have to fast because grace dispensation only came into effect when the Holy Spirit was poured out at the Feast of Pentecost. Under the grace dispensation, His disciples were already made righteous by His blood and were justified by His resurrection. They were to live by faith not by law. So by then, they were to fast from partook the Law and to live by the Spirit.

It is funny that Jesus did not continue to expound on fasting but changed the subject from fasting to the famous parables of new and old garment, new wine and old wineskin. Eh..., very interesting!

We all know that the parables of old and new garment together with new wine and old wineskin are talking about the doctrine on grace and law dispensation and is telling us that grace cannot be mixed with law. Jesus is not interested in how we abstain ourselves from eating our meals as a way of fasting. He is interested in the feeding and the health of our spirit-man. Babylonian teaching (confuse by mixing grace with law) mixes up our flesh and spirit-man which causes confusion in our Christian walk. While legalistic and law abiding doctrine edify and strengthen our flesh.

Christ centered, grace based doctrine is LIVING and ACTIVE (because of the witness of the Holy Spirit). The message of grace is sharper than any double-edged sword, can penetrate even to dividing our souls and spirits, joints and marrow and judge our thoughts and the attitude of our hearts. Grace divides our souls and spirits so that we can be sharp when Holy Spirit prompts our spirit. Grace divides the joints and marrow so that the life supply to our flesh is cut off. Grace judges our ungodly thoughts and the religious attitude of our hearts!

If the purpose of fasting is to stop feeding our flesh and build up our spirit-man, I think it is wise for us to sit under a Christ centered Ministry. In order to stop feeding our flesh, we are to restrain ourselves from sitting under a Ministry that emphasizes legalism with law abiding preaching and Babylonian teaching that causes confusion in our midst. As born again believers, we are Spirit filled and we need the Gospel of Grace expounded in the light of the New Covenant Spirit, as food for our spirit-man... Amen!

Oh ya... now back to my doubtful phrase: "He was hungry"…

The Lord told me, “You have been sitting under a Christ centered Ministry for so long, do you still feel hungry…?” Ha...ha...ha... If you know what He means…

So, how long have you been fasting? As for me and my household, we are not going to fool around but to steadfast with our FASTING for the rest of the "generation" and continue to sit under an anointed Ministry that preaches Christ centered message and glorifies the Finished Work of Christ.

Who say those who are under grace are not fasting?

Climbing Up The Tree Of Life

The opposite of Law is Faith
If you observe the law, there will be no faith

The opposite of Work is Grace
If you work to deserve your blessing, grace stops flowing

The opposite of Flesh is Spirit
If you dwell in your flesh, you are not in the Spirit

Galatians 5:16 ~ 18 So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.


By now, positive confession of God’s word is already our lifestyle, and this is the wonderful proof that we have been established firm in His Grace with revelation knowledge of His righteousness. To eat from the Tree of Life is to be led by the Spirit. This is the living of Zoe life no man can teach us but the Spirit of Truth. Man can affirm and guide us and give us the principle. To execute the principle, it is still the duty of the Holy Spirit. The consequence of this Spirit leads life is discovery of the power of the Trinity in us and our rightful identity in Christ.

1 John 2:27 ~ As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.

Let’s have faith and believe in the word of God. If the Spirit of Him (Father) who raised Jesus (Son) from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit (Holy Spirit), who lives in you (Romans 8:11).

Jesus comes to give us life and life more abundantly. On the Cross before He gave up His life, He cried out in a loud voice, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matthews 26:47) Jesus cried out loud my God, my God, so that we can call God my Father, my Father… and even we called out softy, our Father hears us because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." (Romans 8:14~15)

Chapter 8 of the Book of Romans ends with no separation from the love of God that is Christ Jesus our Lord (again, the mention of the Person of Jesus)…

Nobody can teach us how to climb the Tree of Life except the Holy Spirit. If man can teach us, the Tree we are climbing is still the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This is where our faith comes in to trust in the Holy Spirit's leading. Again, it is still not our own faith but the faith that comes from believing that our Lord Jesus is always good and faithful for He alone, is the Author and the Finisher of our faith.

Always have a good expectation of God and know that we are in His good hand! God's grace had been lavished through Jesus' own body, and had provided us with a new and living way, step in the new and living way, this is what His grace is for...

Ferrero Rocher Durian Cake

This Ferrero Rocher Durian Cake is specially dedicated to Felicia and Siaw Ping for their 32nd and 22nd Birthday celebration respectively.

Durian Cake with Ferrero Rocher

Felicia and Siaw Ping are our "End Time Worshipers", so to call, because they both born on the 11th day of the month. They are both our anointed Worship Leader and Guitarist respectively.

Happy birthday guys...!!!

Make a wish

Cake Cutting

Enjoying the cake

On Ground Level

Romans 8: 1 ~ 2 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.

From this revelation, Apostle Paul expounded his understanding that sin is a long settled issue on the Cross as he continued with Romans 8:1 – Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (in the Person of Jesus)… In the same manner, when the revelation on sin issue in a believer’s life is established, the ability to distinguish good from evil mentioned in Hebrews 5:14 manifested spontaneously as the revelation of the Person of Jesus revealed the Tree of Life and the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil before him in Romans 8:2 - because through Christ Jesus (in the Person of Jesus) the law of the Spirit of life (the Tree of Life) set me free from the law of sin and death (the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil).

On ground level, issues that can hinder our progress to the Tree of Life are condemnation from the accuser of the Brethren and our willingness to renew our mind (repentance). To tackle the condemning voice from the accuser of the Brethren, we need to confess who we are in Christ. We confess the same thing what God says about us. i.e. "Homo Logo" in Greek. We renew our mind as we confess...

What did God say about us?
We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! (renew your mind!)

What did God say about our sin?
We are forgiven, past, present and future! Hallelujah! (renew your mind!)

What did God say about our life?
He came to give us life and life more abundantly! (renew your mind!)

What did God says about our financial standing?
For I know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for my sakes He became poor, that I through His poverty might become rich. Hallelujah! (renew your mind!)

What did God says about our lacks?
God says he who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (renew your mind!)
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, accordingly to the power that works in us. (renew your mind!)
And my God shall supply all my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus! (renew your mind!)

What did God says about our infirmity?
By His strips we are healed! (renew your mind!)

To have the revelation knowledge of there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus give us the strength on this ground level in approaching the Tree of Life. Again, it is by grace through faith that we can confess our way to the Tree of Life.

Climbing Down the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil

The Book of Romans has 16 Chapters and Chapter 16 is greetings from Paul. If we take the 15 Chapters and divide them by 2, half of this book has 7.5 chapters each. The first 7.5 Chapters has a revelation of Apostle Paul’s journey in climbing down the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the next 7.5 Chapters of the Book of Romans is Apostle Paul’s journey in climbing up the Tree of Life.

Law is good and Evil is sin.

Law is Good
Romans 7:7 ~ What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not!...
Romans 7:12 ~ For the law is holy, and the commandments is holy, righteous and good.

Evil is sin
Romans 7:8 ~ But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.

Therefore, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil means the Tree of the Knowledge of Law and Sin.

What kind of preaching will cause us to hang around the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?

- The preaching that is not Christ centered but self centered.

- The preaching that is not righteousness consciousness but sin consciousness.

- The preaching that is not emphasizing on resting in the Lord because of His Finished Work on the Cross, but emphasizing on working for the Lord as if Jesus had not died on the Cross.

- The preaching that is not pointing the believers to Jesus, who is all able, all powerful, and full of grace and mercy, but pointing the believers to themselves who are unable, powerless, and full of hatred and unforgiveness.

- The preaching that is not hot but lukewarm. The preaching is not of the Tree of Life but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

On the other hand, when grace revolutionizes our hearts, grace shall awake and edify our spirit. The preaching of His grace glorified Jesus and exalted Christ’s Finished Work on the Cross. It is food to our spirit and gives life to our being. This is the Good News that Apostle Paul was not ashamed of, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

Romans 1:17 ~ for in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith.

The law was given through Moses; grace and truth came from Jesus Christ. When we know the truth and the truth will set us free. Paul, the Apostle of Grace to the gentiles, received God's abundant provision of grace and the gift of His righteousness reign in life through Jesus Christ.

Apostle Paul realized the Tree of Life after his struggles in Romans 7 when he cried out “Who will rescue me from this body of death?” This reminded me of what our Lord says in respect of the tree and its fruits in Matthew 7:15~20, and in Proverbs 18:21. The word we say is the fruit of our belief. The fruit of Righteousness finally came out of Paul’s mouth with his utterance of “WHO” instead of “HOW”, “WHAT” or “WHERE” and worse of all “WHY”.

He had finally come to the end of his law keeping, self consciousness, self righteousness and self effort by not seeking HOW he is going to do with his struggles; and WHAT he is going to do with his struggles; or WHERE he is going to find help for his struggles or even WHY he needs to deal with his struggles. He cried out “WHO can rescue him?” The revelation of Righteousness, Peace, Joy, Wisdom, Prosperity, Healing, Abundant, Freedom… by His grace becomes alive as the Person of Jesus to Apostle Paul.

The revelatory knowledge of "WHO" is our answer will end all our religiosity. Therefore, renew our mind! In due time, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is no more our dwelling place and His grace will carry us down the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil unconsciously and effortlessly...

The Two Trees Are “In Us”

When we are young in the Lord, we have little knowledge about these two trees or we can say we don’t even care at all. We looked from afar; it is as if these two trees grow side by side to each other, very near. But when our spirit-man is growing through the awakening of His grace, we are led nearer and nearer to these trees and the distance between them become further apart. It is when we are under these two trees that we realized they have a marginal distance between them. They are different too…

With revelation through typology, I came to know that every human being has the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life in their life; Christian or non Christian… there are no differences. But for Christian, the Tree of Life comes alive the moment Christ is in their life. In typology, the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil typifies our flesh while the Tree of Life typifies our born again spirit.

Looking at these two trees with cross references from the Book of Romans, I received fresh insights on what Apostle Paul said about “living in our flesh” and “led by the Spirit”. The revelation from Apostle Paul in the Book of Romans helps to reveal the bisection of flesh from our spirit when grace has enlightened us. The wonderful truth in Romans Chapter 8 comes alive after this bisection of flesh and spirit takes place.

The Bisection

The message of Grace is sharper that any double-edged sword. Grace bisects our flesh and our spirit.

Hebrews 4:12 ~ For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

Our flesh is controlled by our souls. Resurrection power of Grace divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow and judges the thoughts and attitudes of hearts!

Dividing Soul and Spirit

Divide the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (our flesh control by our soul) and the Tree of Life (our spirit).

Dividing Joints and Marrow

There are two types of bone marrow: red marrow (consisting mainly of myeloid tissue) and yellow marrow (consisting mainly of fat cells). Red blood cells, platelets and most white blood cells arise in red marrow. Both types of bone marrow contain numerous blood vessels and capillaries.

At birth, all bone marrow is red. With age, more and more of it is converted to the yellow type. About half of the bone marrow is red. Red marrow is found mainly in the flat bones, such as the hip bone, breast bone, skull, ribs, vertebrae and shoulder blades… Yellow marrow is found in the hollow interior of the middle portion of long bones.

In cases of severe blood loss, the body can convert yellow marrow back to red marrow to increase blood cell production. When joints and marrow are divided, blood supply to our flesh is cut off and life of our flesh is terminated.

Judges the Thoughts and Attitudes of Hearts

Gospel is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes. Grace, the unearned and unmerited favor of God, judges our religious thoughts and our religious attitudes of our hearts. Our flesh delight in works and reject grace, but our spirit rejoices in receiving this double-edges sword.

In the early stage of my grace walk, I was very zealous but I dispensed grace legalistically. Instead of feeding people with milk from the grace I received, I vomited to others without digesting it.

Due to my immaturity, instead of edifying people with grace message, I felt I have slapped many on their faces. The devil took advantage of my immaturity and laid condemnation on me from time to time. I felt guilty and condemn for "slapping" on people's faces. The condemnation has somehow hindered the growth of my grace walk until six months ago, the Lord comforted me with this statement: This is a holy slap on a religious face...! From then onwards, He started to reveal to me the mysteries behind these two trees …

Grace provokes our religious mind. That is why when we minister grace to people around us, those who are religious are defensive and reacted as if they have been slapped on their faces. Grace message is indeed living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

I presume I was awakened by this holy slap too. What do you think?

The Sin of Unbelief

So the glory is the righteousness of God…

Lucifer fell from his high position as the worship arc angel, because of his evil ambition on to be like God. The fallen angel used the same evil ambition of “to be like God” to tempt Eve and she believed.

Genesis 3:5 ~ For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.

Whoever tries to gain the position of to be like God, is evil in God’s eye and doomed to failure. Eve being tempted, through believing in the evil one by the eating of the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, sinned against God and lost their radiant glory. As the radiant glory leaved them, they realized that they were naked.

Romans 3: 23 ~ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

When God created Adam, man was made a little lower that the heavenly being and was crowned with glory and honor (Psalm 8:5). This glory and honor is the righteousness of God. Man was crowned with God’s Righteousness. They were not naked then because they were clothed with the glory i.e. the righteousness of God.


Adam and Eve had sinned because of their unbelief when God commended them not to eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Instead, they believe in the devil. It was the sin of unbelief that caused them to fall.

In the Garden, God told Adam that among all the trees in the Garden, he must not eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil that was in the middle of the Garden, for when he ate of it he would surely die! Adam failed to believe God and ate from the tree and he died.

Today, it is the Father’s will that we are not to “eat” from any “trees” in this world except the “Tree” (Who gave up His life) in the center of this world. For when we eat of this “Tree” we will surely live! Those who believe the Father and eat of this “Tree” will surely live.

In the Gospel of John, God declared that He so love the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life… Let’s take the Father’s word as it is. i.e. all the sin of this world had been put away by Jesus at the Cross two thousand years ago. Today, it is not the sin of this world that hinder the people to enter into heaven but the sin of unbelief.

When we are born again, we are a New Creation in Christ. We are taught with regard to our former way of life, to put off our old self which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires through repentance i.e. renewal of our mind; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and hollies (Ephesians 4:22~24). If we are a New Creation, we are already like God in true righteousness and hollies.

This is the Good News; and according to Apostle Paul, there is no other Good News! We are saved by grace through faith. When we believe in Christ, we are already created to be like God in true righteousness and hollies.

Hey, cheer up... we are righteous and holy! Believe and don’t ever try to add anymore righteousness to your life…!

Fruits From The Most Ancient Trees

Everyone in this world is being taught to do good and not to do evil from their young age. Even in most of the churches around the world, Christians are being taught to do good and not to do evil for the sake of God’s glory.

Adam, the first man in this planet earth, was formed from the dust of the ground and was made a living being when God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. As a created being, he was to live his life depending on God’s glory, the righteous glory of God. Before the fall of Adam, he was having the God type of life, the Zoe life, which is the highest form of life. He was filled with the glorious radiant of God's righteousness. He was the righteousness of God in the midst of this glorious radiant. As the righteousness of God, he knew what is good and what is evil. To know good and evil is a matter while to do good and avoid doing bad is another matter. As a created being, though surrounded by the glorious radiant, Adam could not execute this act by himself. He need to depend on the righteous life of His Creator to execute the act.

In defining the meaning of good and evil, our human definition is different from God’s definition. Our definition of good and evil is always based on the performance i.e. our act, while God definition of good and evil is emphasized on what we believe. In short, to live our life depending on Christ’s righteousness is good in God’s eye while living our life depending on our own righteousness derived from our law keeping is evil.

In typology, the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the type symbolizing the righteousness that we produced from our law keeping through our knowledge of good and evil. The fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the righteousness that we produced through our law keeping. The law and commandment is the standard that defines what is good and what is evil. On the other hand, the fruit from the Tree of Life is the type that symbolizing God’s righteousness.

If we are trusting in our law keeping to achieve our righteousness, we are actually eating the fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. On the other hand, when we are living our life believing, trusting and depending on Christ’s righteousness as our righteousness, we are eating the fruit of the Tree of Life.

Philippians 3:9 ~ ... not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

Adam being a created being cannot be independence from God’s glorious righteousness. A created being does not have the ability to produce righteousness through the knowledge of good and evil. Adam was as righteous as God and everything he did was righteous.

Genesis 2:17 ~ but you must not eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.

A created being is not the Creator. A created being cannot be made independence from the Creator. Now, we are called the New Creation with born again spirit, we are no difference from Adam. We need to depend on our Redeemer's righteousness.

It is not about what we can do, it is about what Christ had done. It is not about our own righteousness, it is about Christ's righteousness. It is not about us working out our righteousness, it is about us believing that we are righteous because of what our Lord Jesus Christ had work out on the Cross.

We are a created "being" not created "doing" and we are created as human "being", not human "doing"...!

Grace, The PERSON!

I found this compilation in my little note book. This compilation had helped in the awakening of my spirit when I was on my "Road to Emmaus". This compilation still refreshes my spirit and it brings back fond memories of what I have done during my journey in encountering the wonderful Person of grace...

There are seven occasions in the Gospel of John that our Lord Jesus declares that He is the great “I AM”. In the contexts of each declaration, the phase “I AM” is enforcing the deity of Jesus as God.

John 4:26 Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am He."

John 6:20 ~ But He said to them, "It is I; don't be afraid."

John 8:24 ~ I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins."

John 8:28 So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am the one I claim to be and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.

John 8:58 ~ I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"

John 13:19 ~ "I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

John 18:5 ~ Jesus of Nazareth," they replied. "I am He," Jesus said.


The number 7 is the number for perfection. Jesus again declares Himself as God seven more times with the used of symbolized objects in this world to describe Himself as the only One who can meet our greatest needs in life.

John 6:35 ~ Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

From the basic necessities of food for life, He alone is able to satisfy the greatest spiritual hunger in our life as the Bread of Life.

John 8:12 ~ When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

In the area of sight for direction, He opens our spiritual eyes so that we can stop wandering around in a spiritual darkness following one blind religious guide, one after another.

John 10:9 ~ I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture.

He is the only Light that guides us into God’s Secret Place as he declared He is the only Door to the sheep pan. All other doors lead down the wrong path and to eternal destruction. Jesus is the entrance into eternal life.

John 10:11 ~ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

We are like wandering, lost lamb caught in the briers of sin. There are a lot of false shepherds herding up stray sheep to take to slaughter. For the well being of our spirit man, Jesus declared He is the only Good Shepherd. He will take of us individually by the hand and led us personally into the Father’s presence and give each and everyone of us His nourishment.

John 11:25 ~ Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;

Jesus conquered death; the ultimate fear of man. Not only did He say, “I am the resurrection and life”, He demonstrated His victory over death with His resurrection on the third day of His death. For those who believe, Jesus is their hope in the face of death. Resurrection is not a deed for Jesus Himself is the Resurrection.

John 14:6 ~ Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Who else dare to declare that he is the way, the truth and the life? Jesus is firm in declaring Himself is the Way, the Truth and the Life like no others...

John 15:5 ~ I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

Through the biological aspect of a vine, Jesus demonstrates how He sustains our spiritual life. Apart from Him, we are nothing…

John 20:31 ~ But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

This verse is self explanatory. It is through believing Jesus is the Christ, and what He had done on the Cross that we could have life in His Name. It is not through our performance. To understand the meaning of we do not have to performance to deserve this blessing makes me see the Person of Jesus magnifying the grace of the Father, and set me apart from religiosity.

Grace is not a doctrine but the Person of Jesus for He did not come to teach us how to do but He came personally to accomplish what we could not do... On the Cross, He took it all upon Himself until He cried out, "It's Finished!"... Grace is the foundation of Christianity.

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