At 10:30 a.m. of second day, Friday Feb. 22, 2013 the congregation moved to the IUP Ed Fry Arena, to listen to the message by Dr. Abraham Kim.
Chris Jewell, a young director candicate at the Owens college, presided over the meeting. He shared a brief testimony. While on campus he met Missionary Paul Choi. He accepted the invitation to study the Bible. Soon he started writing Bible testinonies, and sharing on every sunday. He also began feeding sheep on campus. He is 6' 7" tall. He is a presider for the UBF sunday worship. Lately one of his student on campus lost a pastor who died of age. So Jewell took over him and started ministering for the student. On attending the staff conference he saw that in UBF many are getting old. So he prays to serve the Lord as a young pastor, shepherd.
Dr. Abraham feels indebted to all of the congregation. Christianity today lacks the knowledge of God. One Mexican business man is wealthy worth 17 billion dollars. But compared with the riches we have in Jesus, his wealth amounts to nothing.
Paul saw the vision of God's church filled with the riches of God's grace. Jesus welcomed social outcasts into his kingdom, including Gentile believers. Jesus is our peace. In Jesus all are equal sharers in God's grace.
Paul became the servant of the gospel by the gift of God's grace. As God's servants we should preach the fullness of God's grace.
The riches of Christ icludes: election and predestination for sonship; redemption and forgiveness of sins; spiritual life, power; sanctification, wisdom and knowledge of God; the hope of resurrection and inheritance of thekingdom of God; a holy and victorious new life; peace unity and felowship among believers; and God's love.
Dr. Abraham states we need to accept fellow brothers and sisters as they are, their weaknesses and strong points.
From the message and the Bible passage I was reminded of the reasons why the Apostle Paul once remained powerless and yet came to be pwoerful enough to be filled to God's fullness. The expression "grasp power" indicates that indeed he used to be powerless and therefore became miserable, but later through God's grace that is forgiveness of God via faith in Jesus' atoning sacrifice, he became powerful enough to know the greatness of God's love, so he came to be filled to the full measuure of God.
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