Sermon Note

Pastor Mark

The gospel of grace transform lives

Spring clean to usher in the new year

Everything new

New beginning

Everything we eat must have a special meaning to it. Successful and prosperous

Abalone -> More than enough to spare

Chinese new year we don’t say negative words.

During chinese new year when we break something, we will say something good

The gospel is about God loving us who gave up His Son to die on the cross for us.

The gospel is the power of God unto us who believes

Though you may be celebrating, but when your heart is full of worries, it is tough.

With all the decorations, with all the abundance of food, but our hearts full of worries, ww cannot see.

When you are uncluttered you can see the good.

You see a lot of red in chinese new year, you can see the blood of Jesus

He comes to give me life and life more abundantly

1 John 4:15-16

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

ℓσνє can only be seen through the cross.

The heart is beautiful because is full of Him

Ephesians 1:17-18

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

Eating in chinese new year the most important tradition is reunion dinner.

Through Jesus i am made right with God. We have the holy communion meal

Faith works by ℓσνє

Our digestive system is awesome when we don’t worry

When our hearts full of ℓσνє, Christ in me the hope of glory

I live to eat, not eat to live

1 Peter 3:10

For

“He who would love life

And see good days,

Let him refrain his tongue from evil,

And his lips from speaking deceit.

Noah ark got 8 people. Noah and his family.

What we believe inside is important

When we believe right we will do right

Is the whole year we speak good

Not just 15 days

When God created man He wants man to enjoy everything

Genesis 2:8

Life in God’s Garden

The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

John 1:29

The Lamb of God

(Matt. 3:13–17; Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21, 22)

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

With God and the lamb – auspicious

Is the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world

The Lamb of God gives us everything

When Jesus cleansed us from all sins, He cleansed past present and future

How do you impart blessings?

Blessed God Firstborn

Romans 8:29

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Only the elder son in the family can speak. Whatever he said is done.

Ephesians 1:3

Redemption in Christ

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

He took our sins that we may be made the righteousness of God in Christ

Greet people in chinese new year we must bring oranges and hongbao

Jesus is willing to die on the cross. By His blood we are blessed

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

Without God that is real poverty

When we come back to God’s house, there is abundance

The prodigal son may have left his father, his father did not leave him

God will never leave us. His Father’s heart is for us to come home

Luke 15:17 TPT

17 “Humiliated, the son finally realized what he was doing and he thought, ‘There are many workers at my father’s house who have all the food they want with plenty to spare. They lack nothing. Why am I here dying of hunger, feeding these pigs and eating their slop?

When we come back to the Father’s house, there is abundance

John 3:16 ASV

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

When He was on the cross He called God My God My God

Rich is to have God in our lives

2 Corinthians 5:21

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Righteousness is make up of Lamb and me

John 1:29

The Lamb of God