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EAN ME Template 1 2 Dearly beloved in Christ, It is a joy for me to greet you in the Living Name of Jesus every month through this magazine. Let us continue to rejoice because we have a living God, He who is our immortal Saviour and the Eternal King. When we step into a new month, we relish and remember the mercies, grace, forgiveness, guidance, acceptance and above all, His spiritual benediction that we have received in the past month. The Psalmist rightly says in Psalm 7:17 – I will give to the Lord thanks due to His righteousness, and I will sing praises to the Name of the Lord, the most High. Praise the Lord. As we are in the season of Lent, I would like to share a few thoughts on SUFFERING based on Acts 14:22 – through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. Nowadays, we Christians have been led to a wrong understanding of Christianity. Knowingly or unknowingly we strongly believe that, because we have faith in Jesus, it is obligatory on His part to bless us with all material blessings according to our will and wish. Nowhere in the Bible has God Almighty promised or assured us such blessings. Rather, Jesus when He called His disciples, He made it very clear saying, if any one come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. Therefore, it is very clear that Jesus never promised a bed of roses or a red carpet welcome, leading us to material benefits. If we read Acts 14:19-22, we find that Paul and Barnabas were thrown into suffering and tribulation because they stood firm in their call to preach the Gospel and to show their life as light. Because of the suffering they did not decide to turn back, but they become stronger in their commitment, and encouraged their fellow believers by saying, through many tribulations, we must enter the kingdom of God. Let us try to understand some truth from this verse. The word tribulation is routed through the Greek word thilipsis which refers to confining, squeezing and pressure. Squeezing of the grapes, as to get the concentrated juicy syrup of the fruit, brings out the essence of the vine. Jesus promised that, in this world we will have trouble, but, take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33. Therefore, it is very clear that tribulations are inevitable as we are committed to a unique, Christ- centred life. Through the word must we are called to learn or treat adversity as part of Christian living. First, because we follow Jesus, who was Himself subjected to suffering. Mark 8:31 says, He then began to teach them that 3 the Son of man must suffer many things. Second, because through adversity our faith grows. 1 Peter 1:7 says, these have come to you so that your faith may be proved genuine. Again it is clear that such hard times really prepare us to face the challenges of this world in Jesus Christ‘s Name. And the third word is enter. Most of the people see trouble as a dead- end. But the Bible regards it as a way out into progress and strength. Romans 5: 3.4 says, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character and character produces hope. What a wonderful blessing it is! And the last word is Kingdom of God. This should be the goal of every believer – to come under the reign of God the Father, through Christ, His Son. That is the blessing kept for every believer who opts with joy to undergo such tribulations – sufferings in their Christian life. My dear friends, let us be once again reminded that without cross there is no crown. RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST: In the history of the world, only one tomb is still empty and that is the tomb of Jesus! Because Jesus has conquered death… He is alive and He is risen! Hallelujah! In the history of the world, only one tomb has ever had a soldier appointed to watch it in order to prevent the dead man within, from rising and that was the tomb of Jesus! How ridiculous it would have been to see a soldier guarding a dead man! The enemies of Christ expected His resurrection but His own disciples and His followers did not! His followers demanded proof before they were convinced, whereas His enemies strongly believed the statement of Jesus, that He will rise up on the third day. How sad! Today many profess to be Christians for generations but it is sad to see that their feeble understanding and experience about the power of the resurrected Lord Jesus is far less compared to that of non-believers. People of other faith, who do not worship Jesus, know very well that He is living and more powerful than their gods. C.H. Spurgeon wrote, though you cannot like the disciples see Him visibly, yet I bid you aspire to see Christ Jesus by the eye of faith, and though like Mary Magdalene you may not touch Him, yet you may be privileged to converse with Him and to know that He is risen. May the risen Lord open our hearts and eyes to hear Him and experience His power in our everyday life. All glory and honour be to our Lord forever and ever. Amen. God bless you all. 4 My family joins me in wishing you all a very happy Easter. Be assured of my prayers at all times. Promise for this month: Jeremiah 31:13,14 – „I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. My people shall be satisfied with My goodness‟ declares the Lord. Yours in His joyful service, Rev. D. Richard Ambrose Jebakumar Presbyter-in-charge WHY DID GOD MAKE US? A first-grader looked up at his mother and asked, ―Mama, do you know why God made us‖? Knowing that her son had his own explanation, she asked, ―Well, Justin, do you know why‖? ―Oh, that‘s easy...because the people in the Bible were so bad, He wanted to start over‖. When you think about it, it‘s easy to see how this first-grader could come up with such a conclusion. During his Sunday School classes, he listens to the Bible stories and hears about Adam and Eve, who messed up things for all of us. He hears about Jonah, who wouldn‘t obey God and was swallowed by a big fish. He hears about Judas, who betrayed Jesus for thirty silver coins. The Bible is painfully realistic in its portrayal of people. It is no white- washed version of the history of God‘s people. In its honest presentation of its characters, the Bible proves that we all need to be forgiven of our sins. The ―bad‖ people of the Bible remind us that ―all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God‖ (Romans 3:23) But there‘s great news. God did provide a way to ―start over‖. He sent Jesus, Who died for us so that we could become a new creation. (II Corinthians 5:17) Trust Jesus and be saved from your sin. D.I.A. Soundarapandian 5 WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE While we were waiting outside this tailoring shop called Lydia‘s the other day, my daughter suddenly turned to me and asked, ―Ma, who is Lydia here…?‖ ―I don‘t know, dear‖ I replied ―Maybe, it‘s the Lydia in the Bible‖ I added as an after-thought, and we left it at that. But this chance observation upped my curiosity, and led me to Acts 16:14 & 15, where we find that Lydia was from the city of Thyatira, but lived in Philippi, currently a province in Greece. Lydia of Thyatira According to Bible scholars, Philippi was then a Roman colony that did not have enough Jewish residents to have a synagogue, which is probably why Jews gathered at the riverbank to worship. During Paul and Silas‘s second missionary journey, they travel to Philippi in Macedonia and evangelize to the women gathered at the riverbank. Lydia, a prosperous businesswoman dealing in purple cloth, is one of them, and she opens her heart to Paul‘s new teachings, gets baptized and invites them to her house. In Acts 16:40, we find that Paul and Silas accept her invitation and visit her before leaving Philippi. Though mentioned fleetingly, Lydia goes down in Biblical history as the first Christian convert in Europe, and one of the many strong women characters in the Bible – across the Old and New Testament. She was devout, defied all convention, came to hear what Paul had to say, with an open mind and took the bold decision of getting baptized as a sign of the change within her, at a time when Paul‘s ministry was still at a fledgling stage. Like the women at the foot of the cross at Calvary, she did not care about being branded a follower of Christ at a time when it was far from being fashionable of profitable. Like the women who visited the empty tomb and were told that He is risen, Lydia is one of the important links in the chain of events that led to the spread of the gospel. Mary of Magdala Perhaps the most dynamic and fearless of all women in the New Testament is Mary Magdalene, out of whom Jesus cast out seven devils – she is mentioned by name fourteen times in the gospels.
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