The Gospel Hidden In Chinese Characters

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Come and be blessed with this fresh revelation of the Gospel hidden in the Chinese characters, expounding the finished work of Christ and the grace of God!





The following Video Clips were taken from "A Tale of Two Covenants in Chinese Characters" during my sharing at tNCC in their midweek service on 03-11-2011.

The word GOD in the Chinese Characters

The words THIEF and ABUNDANT in the Chinese Characters

The words CAME & COME in the Chinese Characters

The word RIGHTEOUSNESS in the Chinese Characters

The word BELIEVE in the Chinese Characters

GOOD MORNING, GOOD AFTERNOON and GOOD NIGHT in the Chinese Characters

An e mail From Gola

Our first night started with only a few people on the field. There was a lot of tension because of the threats coming our way. The police were there to keep the peace. I decided to go ahead and preach even though I had no permit to speak. Then I prayed for the sick and called all who were healed to the stage. We interviews four healed people from the stage before Daniel ran up on stage and told me that the police want me to stop. Later they apologized for stopping me. They were concerned that the Muslims will get more agitated. They also asked Daniel if I have the permit from the capital yet. We still did not have it. The chief of police then told Daniel that even though we don’t have the permit I can still preach but no one can know we have his permission. Yet another miracle that saved this festival from being shut down. And he did not stop there, he said baring no major reaction from Muslims (remember he himself is Muslim) we can do it again the next night but no more testimonies on stage.

When we came to the field the second night, I was called over by the chief of police again. He seamed a little different than the day before. I started to pray again. He said the intelligence office is a bit concerned about what I am doing but since there has been no reaction from Muslims, he has decided to give me 1 hour to preach and pray for people. We had another night of miracles. But instead of having people come up on stage, I asked all the healed people to stand up and wave their hands as everyone else sat down.

After our second night, the soundman called Daniel over and said if we don’t pay for sound in full by noon the next day, he will tare up the sound and leave and report us to the police. By this time Daniel and I have both emptied our bank accounts and had no money. We had to produce $4,167CAN in 12 hours. We sent out a quick letter to sponsors asking for help. Most of you probably got that letter.

The next day we went to check our bank accounts and it still showed zero. It was only 15mins before the dead line, when we got someone to lend us $1,000US. We quickly called sound, and they decided to leave everything on the field. We promised that we will have all the money in before we leave town. Daniel handed in his national ID card as a guarantee. We are still in the city waiting for money to come in so we can pay all our bills. We trust God will provide for us. He never leaves us or forsakes us.

Our last night was by far the best night. The field was almost all covered by people. I preached the Gospel story starting with creation, the fall, Jesus’ redemption and building a relationship with God. I asked everyone on the field to stand up, raise their hands and gave them 1 minute of silence so they can pray to start building a relationship with God. That was wisdom from God.

We had many more healing in the last night. Many blind eyes were opened. I really desired to share the testimonies with the crowd. So instead of calling the healed people on stage, I went off the stage into the crowd and had a camera follow me. Everyone saw on the big screen and heard the testimonies. Praise Jesus! Afterwards, I even got to lay my hands and pray for the chief of intelligence and another police officer so that they can receive healings. They asked for it. They were the only 2 people I laid my hands on in prayer during the festival. I was told not to lay my hands on anyone by the same intelligence chief! We also handed thousands of salvation books the last night of the festival.

Here is another interesting thing that happened and people are talking about after the festival. We had great weather the first 2 nights. The last night, it started to rain just before I got into the car to go to the field. But there was no rain on the field. In fact we were told, it was raining everywhere except inside a 100 meter radius around the soccer field! Then all rain stopped before we started. The first day after the festival, and we just got heavy rains. So much so water was starting to come into the house. I believe this is a sign and wonder God is granting to the people. All glory to Jesus and none for us!

We want to say a special thank you to...

Irwan Alexander, Fandy from Indonesia Idol and Lembah Pujian band for coming and ministering in this event.

Also a huge thank you and God bless you to our youth committee and our 25 year old chairman brother Anis Rudy in Pati.

We are planning our next Gospel festival in Indonesia on the 1st week of March, 2010. Please keep us in your prayers.

Your co-workers in the great harvest,

Gola Tiruneh, Daniel Sugiarto and Olivia Nidya

Grace Prevails

“Prevail” is a powerful word. It means to be “strong against” or to “rise above”. The grace of Jesus Christ is so strong that it rises above any circumstance.

• “Prevailing prayers” rise above any problem.

• The gates of hell shall not prevail against, or rise above, the church Jesus is building.

• The waters of Noah prevailed over the earth, which means the water rose higher than the land.

In Ephesus, “So mightily grew the Word of God and prevailed”. Simply put, God’s word rose higher than all the problems.

Do you see it? God’s grace rises higher than any other force, situation, scheme, or deception of the devil. God’s grace is always “sufficient”. That is exactly what we saw in Pakistan, “the most dangerous country in the world”, according to the US president. But even there God’s grace prevailed.

Yes, we faced bomb threats, which escalated to suicide bomb threats. Yet right in those dire circumstances, the grace of God rose higher; thousands of Muslims were saved, healed and delivered.

I wish you could have been there the night I preached, “The blind can see again”, with twenty-five outstanding healings of blindness; 22 were Muslims and 3 Hindus. Some had traveled many hours, some were born blind, but all heard the Gospel and were set free.

Paul tells the Philippians that they were “part-takers with him in grace”. No one had communicated in giving and receiving like the Philippians and now they were recipients of the same grace that was on Paul’s ministry. Your giving is a part of historical happenings that are shaking nations.

Don’t you think that the same God, who gave such a historical harvest in Pakistan, is going to see to it that there is a harvest of increase in your life? Absolutely!

This email and photo report is being prepared while I am in Indonesia. Our next campaign is in northern Nigeria, in an area known for Islamic hostility. God really gives us “favor in the lion’s den”, and you, partner, have the same favor on your life. These historical outreaches must not come to a halt. I need to hear from you now. Please, take the following steps:

1. Take and moment and consider the areas where you need God’s grace to prevail in your life.

2. Sow your best SEED GIFT FOR SOULS for these historical breakthroughs. YOU ARE WITH ME IN ACTION through your seed offering. I ask everyone to plant a seed gift of $60 or more. Some can give $100, $125 or $200, while others could just as easily give $500, $1,000 or even $5,000. Thank you for letting your heart direct you.

3. Ask for my new teaching album A New and Living Way. This promises to be a popular album as I contrast the old and dead way of prayer, faith, or ministry with a new and living way that brings you the answers God has provided.

I can’t emphasize enough how important your response is! Our teams overseas are working night and day, risking their lives for the Gospel. It would be a tragedy for me to have to notify them that we lack finances and must stop upcoming campaigns. Thank you for taking action. I will look for your response!

Yours for souls,

Peter Youngren

The Former Rain & The Latter Rain

Grace Upon Grace Conference 09
Evening Session 09-05-2009

Joel 2:23-25 ~ Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you — The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

(Who is your father?)
Restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.

The former rain speaks of the teacher of righteousness in the Bible while the latter speak of favor as the cloud of latter rain is called favor in the Book of Proverbs chapter 16 verse 15. This is what the Apostle Paul meant by those who receive God's abundant provision of grace (undeserved and unmerited favor) and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one Man, Jesus Christ...

In the last day under the dispensation of grace, God is going to cause He righteousness and His favor to rain down on His people that threshing floors shall be full of wheat, the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil; God 's abundant blessing of grain and new wine.

Who Can be Against Us?

Grace Upon Grace Conference 09

Morning Session 09-05-2009

Romans 8:29 - 31 ~ For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

God knew what He was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love Him along the same lines as the life of His Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity He restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in Him. After God made that decision of what His children should be like, He followed it up by calling people by name. After He called them by name, He set them on a solid basis with Himself. And then, after getting them established, He stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what He had begun. We have no part to involve in His work but to believe....

So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, who can be against us...? How can we lose?

Righteousness and Forgiveness of Sins are one...

Grace Upon Grace Conference 09

1st Session 08-05-2009

Romans 4:6-8 ~ David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: "Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him."

Righteousness and forgiveness of sins are one... When our sins are forgiven, we are righteous in God's eye. As a believer, we have been forgiven of all our sins; past, present and future because of Jesus' Finished Work at the Cross. Jesus, the Son of God had been resurrected for our justification two thousand years ago...!

Isaiah 1:18-20 ~ "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land; But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword"; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

If you are willing to believe that you are righteous and your sins had been forgiven, you will eat the good of the land. If you refuse to believe that you are righteous and your sins had been forgiven, you shall be devoured by the sword of condemnation...

N.O.W - Where Are You, Sam?

Photo courtesy of Calvin,
more photos on N.O.W @ pieces of me



Photo courtesy of Louis
more photos on N.O.W @ Heaven Knows


Calvin, Frankie & Louis
Photo courtesy of Frankie
more photos on N.O.W @ the funkye blog

Generation Christ

1 Peter 2:9-10 (New King James Version)

9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.


Generation Christ


1 Peter 2:9-10 (Contemporary English Version)

9 But you are God's chosen and special people. You are a group of royal priests and a holy nation. God has brought you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Now you must tell all the wonderful things that he has done. The Scriptures say, 10 "Once you were nobody.Now you are God's people. At one time no one had pity on you.Now God has treated you with kindness.



SIB Grace N.O.W. Generation Christ

It is through His Grace, not by our behavior that we are called Generation Christ!

N.O.W. the Final Countdown

Last night we have our last rehearsal for N.O.W. During the briefing, Elder Tom stressed that from now on, "N.O.W." will be used as the theme for SIB Grace Worship Team event. As the Church is dispensing grace based, Christ centered message to the world outside, the Worship Team is committed to reveal the Generation Christ through praise and worship with the talents and anointing that the Lord had imparted...

SIB Grace presents
N.O.W.
Night Of Worship
2nd May 2009 8:00PM
9th Floor, Crown Tower.

See you there....

Randomness In Medan

During our stay in Medan, we have witnessed the Lord worked in an amazing way that nobody could lay a hand to claim credit on His move. He used a Chinese to speak GRACE in English, and a Canadian and Indians to translate GRACE into the language of Indonesia.

Act 2:4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

The students in Celebration Bible School are from different denominations in Medan and they are Pastors, Church Overseers and Youth Leaders. We were humbled by the Lord to witness truth in the Bible in respect of milk and solid food. We witnessed this truth manifested in our midst as for those who are under Grace are partaking the solid food while those who are under law are partaking milk.

Hebrews 5:12~14 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

In respect of the doctrine taught in Celebration Bible School, Susan will only allow the teaching of grace to be taught in the school even though they are very much mission minded. Pastor Octavianus being a close friend of Susan, due to their missionary network connection, is her regular translator at the school. According to Gola, the facilitator of Celebration Bible School, Pastor Octavianus was transformed by the Lord in one of the teaching session on grace. Gola witnessed the transformation and was shocked to hear him preaching grace in one of their mission trip at Cambodia. We are indeed delighted to hear such an awesome testimony that even a translator could be transformed when he soaked himself under an anointed teaching of grace.

Gola is from Ethiopia and was sent by Celebration Ministry in Canada to facilitate their branch in Medan. Gola being an Ethiopian whose tribe has a strong claim on the early root of Christianity during Bible time, also had a wonderful testimony on his grace encounter from Pastor Peter Youngren's teaching.

Another Brother in Christ that we have met was Joshua, "Pak Sesat" as we called him. He could send out 800 SMS on grace daily to minister to his friends and people he knew including those reputed preachers in Indonesia. His SMS touched numerous lifes at the right time, at the right place. You are indeed "Sesat" when grace touches you...! These are all Good News and is it not only by grace through faith?

The Lord also uses a Tamil Christian family to open a way for Grace to be reached out to the Chinese in Medan. Pastor Octavianus, who owns the radio station at his church, was asking for our Mandarin message on grace to be played in their radio station and again, we are excited in looking forwards to this awesome move of God...

I had a mixed feeling when people asked me how is Medan. As for my own opinion, if we are going to live there, it is not a nice place. If we are going to have a holiday there, it is not a nice place for vacation too., but if you see Medan the way our Lord see her, you will have a different opinion on Medan...

Randomness In Medan

Paper?
It should be Pepper -_-|||

Just Do It

The Gospel of Peace

2 Corinthian 5:17a

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation

Rupiah ~ Indonesian Currency

We had our good time converting Rupiah to Ringgit whenever we were buying thing in Medan. You could see us looking up at the ceiling, eyes blinking, trying to "Metanoia" in our mind, converting Rupiah to Ringgit.

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... :)

Medan, Day Four...

It's the forth day of our stay in Medan. Everything was as schedule... we had Communion at Elder Alex room, after that we went down to the Cafe for breakfast and get ourselves ready for the Hotel coach to fetch us to Medan Mall.

Hotel Cafe

This is the place where we have our free breakfast every morning

Mini Bus
Mini Bus in the midst of the morning traffic jam

1st session of the teaching

Psalm 110:1 ~ A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord,"Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."

A demonstration of how the enemies had been made our footstool when Elder Alex touched on how to develop a throne-like positional attitude.

2nd Session of the teaching

A look at the Two Trees with Bartholomew translating into Bahasa Indonesia.

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.

We will be having Q&A session for the last day of our teaching tomorrow. From the question, we will know how much they have received in this 5 days of Grace teaching. Indeed, we are excited in looking forward to this session. To answer interesting questions that we used to ask before.

A Methodist Church opposite to Medan Mall

Avocado Juice
I tried this juice today... taste good

A Tree at the garden of Medan Mall

Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?

Since Susan is still up in the mountain and will only be back at Medan tomorrow, we will be asking the Hotel driver to bring us to another famous eating place in Medan tonight. So, let's see what we can bring you from there... :) Bye...

Medan, Day Three...

Susan is up in the mountain today, her base about 2 hours drive from Medan. She is there to co-ordinate with her rally team for the next youth rally to be held in Medan soon.

Good weather in Medan

BCA Bank
This bank is located besides the Medan Mall. This is the bank that Richard used to send T/T to and get rejected numerous times due to spelling error on the payee's name.

Pastor Octavianus and Elder Alex

Elder Alex touched on the evidence of our redemption today. Our Redemption is a miracle of His grace. It is according to "the riches of his grace." It is a present-tense work wrought "through His blood." It is lavished. It is abundant. Our Redemption is a perfect work. When we know it, enter into it, and our heart grow accustomed to it, there will be ability in our life that we have never known. Redemption Story in Jeremiah 32 was expounded and the students were overwhelmed with joy as the revelation of grace from Jeremiah 32 touched them...

After the class

Bartholomew, Pastor Octavianus, Gola, Zech & Elder Alex

We had a good time fellowship with each other during our lunch at the Medan Mall.

We are trying to stroll around the street of Medan this evening and see whether we can come up with some photo to show you all... Till then, bye... :)