Life And Light

Date: 28 June 2008
Speaker: Pastor Tan Ye Peng
Venue: City Harvest Church

John 1:1-4
In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He existed in the beginning with God.
God created everything through him,
and nothing was created except through him.
The Word gave life to everything that was created,
and his life brought light to everyone.

Genesis 5:1-2
This is the written account of the descendants of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them to be like himself. He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”

God created mankind; Outwardly like Him (His image), and inwardly like Him (His likeness). Inwardly we have His spirit life (His presence) and His moral likeness (His standard of holiness).

God is a God of purpose. He had a purpose for creating Males before Females.

Roles are determined by society, and purposes are determined by God. A real Man is not based on his roles, but based on his purposes.

The purpose of a thing is in the mind of the maker. The purpose of a thing determines its potential. The potential of a thing reveals its purpose. Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.

Men was taken from the ground. Women was from Men's ribs. Being from the ground, Men play the foundation role in things that God wants to do.

1 Corinthians 3:11
For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Adam was put in a garden (a place where God's presence is). Connect yourselves with God.

Adam was given instructions. He was expected to communicate with and to teach Eve.

Genesis 2:15-16
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

Adam was given the garden to tend to. He was expected to bring productivity and fruitfulness.

Adam was given the garden to keep and protect. He was expected to be its protector.

Genesis 2:19-20
Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

Adam was asked to name the birds and the beasts of the fields. He was expected to take on leadership and ownership roles.

Genesis 1:28
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

God tasked Men to bring His light into the world, but Men cannot do it alone, Women are to be his helper.

Genesis 2:16-17
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die (loss of life).”

The Holy of Holies contains the Ark, which represents the presence of God and His 10 Commandments.

John 4:23-24
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

2 Corinthians 4:3-7
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

You need to reclaim your lost visions and purposes. You need to restore the purpose for which you were created for. The world is crying out for help.

Romans 8:19-20
For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;