Hymn: Agungkan Kuasa Nama-Nya
Hymn: Sejak Yesus di Hatiku
Hymn: Tuhan Kau 'Ku Perlukan
When Jesus taught, he sat. Everyone reflects; When He preached, He stood. Everyone participates in the declaration.
Foundation, that which not seen, is the most important.
One's spirit is determined not by the knowledge, but by the feet where the foundation is. Without the right foundation, everything done will be rejected by Christ.
Those who thinks everything is the same, fools; the wise always discern differences. Christians tell apart human and apes; Evolutionists cannot: Humans are from apes, same family.
v.29: 3 types of preaching:
1. spoke and heard. No effect. (Some preachers don't like to move because got used to it, afraid of change)
2. spoke and bored. Repeated, predictable. Not original. (some preachers love to move around, because his content is so limited he's afraid the same congregant will get bored)
3. v.29, the like of Jesus'
Chinese sermon:
Tong introduced/interviewed the singer LingGang for the prelude song "He Cares". She has the heart to open a school for the retarded. Graduated from Australia in education, knows German, not married. Tong initially ignored working with her but her zealousness convinced him.
Observe the wisdom in Jesus' standing and sitting as he preached.
Standing: to proclaim something calling people to believe.
Sitting: 教训. As if sitting on the throne.
Authority not the same as power. Power is like the tanks crossing the road ruining the road. Authority is when the captain stood in front of the tanks stopping them with a whistle/call.
Authority comes from God.
At the end Tong mentioned something about the Apostle's Creed being translated into Indonesian but not yet into Chinese because their church is Indonesian culture and hoping for more zealous and unison work among the Chinese translators.