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MESSENGER • March 2008 • 1 The MessengerVolume 55, No. 3, March 2008 The MESSENGER Inside 2 Church News • 3 A Captive Set Free • 5 The Christian’s Great Interest • 7 Gleanings from the Churches 8 The Korean Revival of Pyongyang (2) • 10 30 Years in Ministry • 11 Book Review 12 Hersteld Hervormde Kerk • 14 A Heart for Evangelism • 16 Why Sponsor Refugees (2) • March 2008 18 Christian Ministry to Israel • 20 Youth Page 23 News Notes & Comments • 20 Announcements THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE FREE REFORMED CHURCHES 1 Free Reformed Missions International 2007 ChurchSPRING ELDERS & NewsBELLEVUE, WASHINGTON CALGARY, ALBERTA Income vs. Budget DEACONS CONFERENCE Worship services are held Worship Services are 400,000 in the London Free Reformed each Lord’s Day at held every Lord’s Day at Church D.V. 1.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m. in 9.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. 345,500 345,500 350,000 Saturday, March 29, 2008 the Person Fellowship Hall of Sunday school classes are Coffee will be served at Grace Lutheran Church, held after the 2.30 p.m. 10.00 a.m. The meeting located at 9625 NE 8th service. Location: 6167 6th St. 300,000 282,441 begins at 10.30 a.m. Street, Bellevue, Washington SE, Calgary AB T2H 1L9 Speaker: (three blocks west of (northwest corner of Black- 250,000 Mr. David Zadok of Rishon Bellevue Square). foot and Glenmore Trails). LeTsion, Israel We also meet at this location For more information, 200,000 for Bible Study every other contact: Harold and Janey Topic: Friday evening at 7.00 p.m. Slingerland at 403-254-6591 The Place of Israel Today as 150,000 For further information, or e-mail Harold and Janey God’s Covenant People call (425) 649-9676, Slingerland at Advance Notice: or visit our website: [email protected]. 100,000 Combined Fall Conference frcna.org/bellevue. with the elders and deacons Messages for Rev. Gangar or LACOMBE, ALBERTA 50,000 of the Heritage Reformed church mail may be sent to: The Free Reformed Church of Congregations. [email protected] Lacombe meets in the Trinity Lutheran Church, 0 BOOKS to FEED YOUR 5227 C & E Trail, Free Reformed Churches MIND AND SOUL Lacombe, AB. Jan - Nov Receipts • Catechism Material Worship services are held at Jan - Nov Budget Annual Budget • Bible Study Guides 9.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m. • Daily Devotions • Children’s Bible Lessons SYNOD 2008 ANNOUNCEMENT Request an Order Form or ANNUAL DUTCH DAY The Lord willing, the Free Reformed Churches of North America Synod 2008 will meet at the visit: www.frcna.org Sponsored by the Federation Brantford, Ontario Free Reformed Church on June 2 - 6, 2008. All overtures, reports and other (click on RESOURCES) of Free Reformed Ladies’ correspondence for the Agenda of Synod must be received by the clerk of the Free Reformed Societies Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan before April 11, 2008. All material should be sent electronically FREE REFORMED as attachments in MS-Word format via e-mail to [email protected] PUBLICATIONS will be held Tuesday, May 6, On behalf of the Grand Rapids Free Reformed Church – convening Church for Synod 2008, 265 King George Rd, 2006, D.V. 10.30 a.m. H. Kleyn, Clerk. Box 104, Coffee will be served Brantford, Ontario N3R 7Z9 at 9.45 a.m. SPRING 2008 SYNODICAL COMMITTEE MEETINGS CANADA LOCATION: to be held in the Free Reformed Church of Hamilton, 1114 Old Mohawk Rd., Ancastser, ON L9C 3K9 [email protected]; Free Reformed Church, Tel. 519 752-4413; March 25 March 26 March 27 March 28 253 Weirs Lane, Dundas, ON Fax: 519 751-4470 Time Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Churches and bookstores SPEAKER: 9.00 a.m. Publications Interchurch Relations Theological Ed. Theological Ed. can be invoiced at reduced Rev. Gerald Procee Lunch 11 Lunch 14 Lunch 12 Lunch 12 prices for bulk quantities Everyone who understands 1.00 p.m. Publications Interchurch Relations 14 Theological Ed. Theological Ed. of 10 or more the Dutch language 4 to 6 p.m. Publications 11 Evangelism & Radio 5 Theological Ed. Theological Ed. is very welcome. Supper 0 Supper 0 Supper 0 7 to 10 p.m. Ministerial Mtg Home Missions 7 Youth & Education 9 Please direct requests for additions/changes to: Synodical Committeee Meeting Coordinator, Hans Van Doodewaard [email protected]; Tel. 905 701-5275 • March 2008 The MESSENGER 2 The Messenger Meditation EDITOR Rev. C. Pronk 10 Highgate Place A Captive Set Free Brantford, ON N3R 5V4 Tel/Fax: 519 751-4470 Scripture: Luke 8:26-39 Email: [email protected] The Editor reports to the By Rev. K. Gangar Synodical Publications Committee ASSISTANT EDITOR Dr. G. M. Bilkes Pathetic Condition of the Man not believe, is not due to lack of evidence, Email: [email protected] This story of the man possessed of demons but because Satan has blinded their eyes (2 is also found in Matthew and Mark. It is Cor. 4:4). All men are under the devil’s rule COMMITTEE MEMBERS relevant to our times, when you consider until they are set free by Christ and brought Rev. G.R. Procee, Chairman the literature on devils and angels being sold under new management. Rev. D. H. Kranendonk, Secretary in the bookstores. There are two occasions 69 Albert Street when Jesus was in a place of tombs--here, SS1, Mitchell, ON N0K 1N0 Power Of Our Lord Over The Devil Tel/Fax: 519 348-0436 and at the tomb of Lazarus. On both You would think there was no hope for this Email: [email protected] occasions He brought life where there was man, since he lived in Gentile territory. Rev. C. Pronk death. Lazarus was physically dead, and the Jesus had limited His mission to the house Dr. L.W. Bilkes Sr. man was dead to the things of this world, of Israel. But he was one of Christ’s sheep Rev. J. Koopman though physically alive. and it is this that brought our Saviour to Mr. J. Tamminga This man, who had been created in the the spot where the man was. The disciples Rev. J. Overduin image of God, had become a haunt of devils. of Christ had just been through a storm the Mr. H. VanDoodewaard He was possessed not by one, but by a legion night before and would rather have avoided Rev. J. Lewis of devils. He was naked. All inhibition was an encounter altogether. It seems the SUBSCRIPTION RATE gone. He had forsaken home and society, demons were aware of Christ’s coming and Canada & U.S.A. - $25.00 Annually living among the tombs. Since he was a guarded their captive well. A whole legion The Messenger is published menace to society, he had to be bound with possessed the man. 11 times per year. chains. The man’s misery was such that he Scripture tells us that Christ assumed our was driven to take his own life. He would nature, “that through death he might destroy SUBSCRIPTIONS/REMITTANCES often cut himself. How the glorious image him that had the power of death, that is, the Requests for subscriptions, all payments and had become tarnished, like a castle in ruins! devil; and deliver them, who through fear inquiries regarding rates, invoices, and all remittances should be addressed to: of death were all their lifetime subject to Position Of All Men Outside Of Christ THE MESSENGER bondage” (Heb. 2:14-15). It is sin that has Send to We may think this man is unique in his brought men into bondage, which the devil The Administrator condition, but it is not so. Scripture teaches tempts men with as he did Adam. Man is no Mr. Dennis DeVries that all men born of Adam are born under match for the devil. Neither his family, nor 265 King George Rd., Box #104 the devil’s dominion. The devil is called the society could deliver this man. Thanks be to Brantford, ON N3R 7Z9 “god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4). In this God that Christ is one who is stronger than Tel. 519 752-4413; Fax: 519 751-4470 man we have an extreme manifestation; but the enemy of man’s soul. Christ came into Email: [email protected] all are ruled by the devil. Our Lord called the world, we are told, “to destroy the works the respectable Pharisees “sons,” not of All notices for family announcements, obitu- of the devil” (1 John 3:8). aries, anniversaries, and non-commercial Abraham, but “of the devil” (John 8:44). No sooner does our Lord appear, and the advertisements for the April 2008 issue Men and women claim to be free, but demons fall down before him and cry out, should be received no later than Tuesday, everywhere they are in chains. Look at the “What have I to do with thee, thou Son of March 18, 2008 and sent to: world in the present day and you will see God Most High? I beseech thee, torment The MESSENGER THE MESSENGER these same manifestations. Men and women me not” (v.28). There are many who think c/o Rev. C. Pronk, Editor are casting off all inhibitions. Pornographic Christ and Satan are equal contestants in 10 Highgate Place sites on the Internet are drawing many a battle over the souls of men. Some even Brantford, ON N3R 5V4 CANADA viewers, which is destructive of family think Satan is winning, because they see evil • March 2008 Telephone/Fax: 519 751-4470 life. The devil is alive and well on planet increasing.
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