CROSS VICTORY:: THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER OF THE BIBLE After I had started my ministry, even though several years elapsed, there was no power in my messages; I was lamenting to God about this. One day Jesus took me, in Spirit, to heaven and addressed these words to me: My son, do you want to pack power In your sermons? Have a look at that open book, there, at a distance; the chapter open for you to see is the most important chapter implant in your mind all the truths found there: preach on them; then your sermons will show My might! I ran there hastily and peeped at the Book anxiously. I was quite surprised to see that the Book was the Bible! Curious to discover the most important chapter as pointed out by the Lord, I peeped into it, and found that the open chapter was the 53rd chapter of the Book of Isaiah The whole chapter was a description of the tribulations which our gracious Lord Jesus underwent for each one of our sins, sorrows, sufferings, weaknesses and diseases! The Lord asked me to preach about this theme. That is why, in all our Jesus Calls Good News Meetings, we portray the sufferings of Jesus on the Cross as a culmination of all our sermons! One profound Biblical Scholar, having listened to our messages in the Public Meetings, once told me: Slr, after listening to your messages all the five days from the rear section of the audience. Both you and your son, close the sermons offer passionately mentioning the passion and pangs of Crucifixion of Lord Jesus! The vital force of the sermons hinges on that. I realised How wonderfully true it is! St. Paul also always dealt with the sufferings of Jesus on the Cross in his sermons. St. Paul himself avers: ... but we preach Christ crucified (I Corinthians 1:23). ... before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? (Gal. 3:1). We read in Acts 8:5 ...Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them My dear ones! Is there any tribulation Jesus did not encounter, any bitter vinegar He did not drink, any pain which He did not taste? Ile Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses (Mott. 8:17). Christ ... having become a curse for us (Gal. 3:13). ... Jesus who was made for the suffering of death ... might taste death for everyone (Heb. 2:9). Therefore let us not lose our faith regarding the death of our lord on the Cross! Let us be steadfast in our faith, clinging to Jesus! To keep us sustained in this faith, let us pray, daily: 0 Lord, give me the strength to preach about You and Your sufferings on the Cross. Let me not lose faith on the Cross. Let me not lose faith on Your travails; let my tongue be protected from indulging in vagaries of on empty philosophy not based on Your sufferings for the sake of the whole mankind-. Let us preach until our last breath, only about Jesus and His Crucifixion, agonies, and pangs. Then His heart will rejoice and use us more mightily in His ministry. We will grow in Justice - more and more! BRO DGS DHINAKARAN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE , TAKEN FROM HIS MESSAGE IN JESUS CALLS MAGAZINE
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:41:40 +0000
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