David's Chrestomathy

4 Friends Forever

1. God has 3 friends: Noah, Daniel and Job (Eze 14:14, 20) {Eze sounds like Easy! (to remember)}

2. Job had 3 friends: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zohar the Naamathite (Job 2:11, 32:3)

3. David had at least 3 sets of friends:

a. 3 warrior friends: Adino the Eznite, Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite and Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite (2 Sa 23:8-17).

b. 3 writer friends: Samuel the seer (ra'ah: discerner), Nathan the prophet (nabi: speaker) and Gad the seer (chozeh: seer) (1 Ch 29:29).

c. 3 wiser friends: Jonathan son of King Saul the Benjaminite (1 Sa 9:21, 18:1-4, 20:17), Hushai the Archite, named friend (re'eh: friend of the king, 2 Sa 16:16-17) and Ahithophel the Gilonite, named counsellor (2 Sa 15:12, 16:23; Ps 55:13-14), father of Eliam and grandfather of Bathsheba (2 Sa 11:3, 23:34).

4. Daniel had 3 friends: Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, better known as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego respectively by their Babylonian names (Da 1:7, 2:17 -- "companions")

5. Jesus has 3 friends: Simon called Peter, James and John sons of Zebedee, also called Boanerges: the Sons of Thunder (Mt 17:1; Mk 3:17, 5:37)

01 House@TgPagar=HOP{FAN}=Shalom Singapore
02 House@Changi=HOP2
03 House@Tani='Water'Gate
04 House@High=Fireplace
05 House@Glory=Kaki Bukit
06 House@GCMC?=Seraphim Sanctuary
07 House@Bestway=Batam?
08 House@Geylang=All or Nothing
09 House@Bible=One Thing Ministries
10 House@Virtual=Prayer24.365.2007

The Lord caused or allowed Glenn, Oswald and I to join with All Saints' Presbyterian Church in the prayer for Singapore 24.365 under the week anchored by Covenant Presbyterian Church (ending on Sunday 10 Jun 2007 at noon = 40 years after end of Six-Day War in 1967).

From the Tanjong Pagar House of Prayer, Glenn and I worshipped the Lord with Fion and Mun Yee. Then driven to the Jalan Tani House of Prayer by Yien, we first had dinner, while a big group outside the kitchen were praying and singing.

Praise God for showing things to different people, and causing Glenn to share the next morning after service at SIM to the All Saints' prayer team what he received.

Isa 56.7

Operation Reverse Sook Ching was done as an equal and opposite prophetic act to the Sook Ching massacre in 1942, 65 years ago. Summoned as a member of the South Team, I realized that 2 places near where I live were gathering places: the Police Cantonment Complex (near the original location of St. Matthew's Church at Neil Road) and the area between Singapore General Hospital and Tiong Bahru Road (near the new location of my church).

Does this mean the Lord was cleansing both areas, by shifting His church from one site to the other?

After I returned home, my parents mentioned how the hands of a Chinese idol, the guanyin (观音), were broken. My mother had inadvertently broken it and tried to mend it back. My father had also accidentally caused it to break some time ago. Also, the plants outside our flat had some leaves torn, apparently violently by something; they were perfectly fine the night before.

Does this mean the Lord has bound the hands and broken the works of the evil spirit behind the false god? Does it mean the protection of the blood of Jesus, so that the destroyer could not enter, but merely destroy a few leaves of a plant outside the door of the flat?

At Night of Worship, Margrate Yap, founder of Shachah prophesied something like this:

In your mouth [i.e. Singaporeans] lies the greatest power of 2 entities: English (the United States) and Chinese (China)...the fulfillment of this will be on 9-11 August 2007.

Meanwhile, just read part of Not Without The Children by Clarine Chun, where revival for Malaysia was prophesied.

ECUSA and Accuser -- Hmm...they sound alike, don't they?

Found this on www.studylight.org forum:

Mohler: Churches that embrace homosexuality deny Scripture
Jun 19, 2006
By Jeff Robinson
Baptist Press


LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The issue of whether or not the church should embrace homosexuality comes down to its acceptance or denial of the authority of Scripture, R. Albert Mohler Jr. told a national television audience on CNN’s "Larry King Live" on June 15.

The church is called lovingly to confront the sin of homosexuality and all other sins with the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, said Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

“The first thing [to consider is] whether or not as Christians, God has set a standard to which we are obligated,” Mohler said. “The issue is, always has been and always will be, the authority of Scripture.

“The Scripture very clearly tells us that our Creator has a purpose for our sexuality and that homosexuality among other sins is a violation of that purpose, and so love compels us to tell people the truth and also, as we understand the depth of their struggle with this, to tell them that there is a way out."

Mohler and six other panelists addressed the topic of homosexuality in the church. Panelists included Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual Anglican bishop; Andrew Sullivan, a homosexual and a Time magazine columnist; Jo Hudson, a lesbian who pastors the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas; David Anderson, president and CEO of the Anglican American Council; Michael Manning, a Roman Catholic priest; and Frank Griswold, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA).

Homosexuality and the church have been a prominent topic in the news of late in light of the Episcopal Church's annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Three years ago the Episcopal Church ordained Gene Robinson in New Hampshire as the first openly homosexual bishop in the denomination’s long history. The denomination is deeply divided over the ordination of homosexuals and some analysts predict a split.

Hudson, a United Church of Christ minister who pastors one of the largest homosexual congregations in America, said God created her as a homosexual and thus being in a same-sex relationship is “wholly and completely” natural.

“I have a wonderful, living, dynamic relationship with God,” Hudson said. “And I know, in the core of my being, that the most natural way for me to be is exactly who I am.”

Mohler said he sympathizes with the desire of anyone who wishes to know God, but that a church that fails to follow Scripture and instead celebrates diversity is bound to celebrate sin.

“[T]he Gospel is about repenting of sin, not celebrating it,” Mohler said. “A church that buys into the logic of [celebrating a diversity of views on sexuality] is a church that's obligated to ordain homosexuals openly and unrepentant or anyone else because it has moved away from the clear authority of Scripture.

“A church that worships diversity is a church that's destined to accept a death knell, because the church itself is grounded in truth. The true church always celebrates the truth."

Sullivan, an openly homosexual Catholic, accused evangelicals of forcing their own interpretation upon Scripture to prove the sinfulness of homosexuality. He pointed out that the Old Testament prescribes the death penalty for homosexuals.

“I say the Scripture is clear and Scripture says that I should be put to death,” Sullivan said. “The very verse that says that ‘[You] shall not lie with another man as one does with a woman,’ says that I should face the death penalty. That's clear.... Why is that not taken seriously?”

But Mohler pointed out the importance of understanding Scripture within its proper context. The death penalty for homosexuality was given as a law for Old Testament Israel, he said. With the advent of the new covenant, Christ has now borne the death penalty in the place of sinners and thus the theocratic laws that governed Old Testament Israel are no longer binding, Mohler said.

Although homosexuals no longer face capital punishment, their behavior is still sin according to the Bible, he said. The majority of Christians throughout history have understood the Bible this way, he said.

“There is always the danger that we will read our interpretation of Scripture,” Mohler said. “That's why for one thing we're dependent upon how Christians have read the Scriptures for centuries in which there has been a universal consensus about what the Scriptures had to say about sexuality.”

Robinson said Christians must follow Jesus' example in continually "reinterpreting Scripture." He said the key to Christianity is what is “in one’s heart” and that Jesus would embrace homosexuals just as they are.

“We follow a person [Jesus] who was always reinterpreting Scripture and letting people know that it's the spirit of what's going on in one's heart that is the real key and when he said ‘love one another as I have loved you,’ it means that we need to be moving to the margins, doing justice work, working against racism,” Robinson said.

“[These are] all kinds of things that Jesus would be doing in this day and time. I have no question in my mind that Jesus considers me beloved -- just as I am.”

Mohler, though, said Scripture is clear in teaching that homosexuality is a sin. Christians merely are sinners who have been saved by God’s grace from not only homosexuality but also from various other sins, Mohler said. Thus, there is forgiveness for homosexuals and sinners of all types through faith in Jesus Christ, he said.

“I know the one thing that must not change is this: as one sinner saved by grace to other sinners, I say come to Jesus Christ and come no newness of life,” Mohler said. “It will change your sex life ... It will change every dimension of your life ... by the grace and mercy of God.”
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Revelation 2:5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

God bless you with His provisions to supply all your needs, in abundance.

You are 33 this year. You have to die to your self and be resurrected with Jesus.
33 is the age that Jesus died, was buried and resurrected, and David reigned over all Israel and Judah 33 years (2 Samuel 5:5).

I pray God anoint you with the Davidic heart of worship that there will be a strong presence of God everywhere you go and lead worship, where people will be set free and be healed.

I pray Isaiah 61:1-2 over you. -- JT

Isaiah 61:1-2 CJB
The Spirit of Adonai ELOHIM is upon me,
because ADONAI has anointed me
to announce good news to the poor.
He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted;
to proclaim freedom to the captives,
to let out into light those bound in the dark;
to proclaim the year of the favour of ADONAI
and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn,...

My grandmother is 4 years younger than my church.
This is not a maths problem, but there will still be a question at the end.

When Abraham was 100 years old,
Isaac was born.

This is the year,
when my grandmother is 100 years old,
and St Matthew's Church moved into her 3rd building.

There were 3 tabernacles:
Tabernacle of Moses
Tabernacle of David
Temple of Solomon

There was a 2nd Temple after the Exile.
When Herod added extensions and beautified the Temple, is that a 3rd Temple?
Is Ezekiel's vision of the 3rd Temple?

Got this from the Straits Times today on Forum page, by Low Mun Kit:

"Let sports be played in a gentlemanly way and in the right spirit. Winning must not be done at all costs. I always cherish this song we sang (to the tune of O Danny Boy) at the end of each school sports day:

The race is run, the winner wears the laurels
But you and I not empty go away
For we have seen the least unkind of quarrels
Our boys and girls compete in friendly fray

Let us be glad but not because of winning
For we are all one family today
God give our school His choicest blessing
To make us feel as one and guide us on our way

May nations all seek harmony with others
And work as nobly as we children play
Lose with a laugh and battle but as brothers
Loving to win but not in every way"

Amen! Let me add a second chorus to match the second verse:

Let us be glad for God will come to heal the earth [Revelation 19:7; Romans 8:21]
For we have all gone our own way astray [Isaiah 53:6]
God gave His Son to bless all families of the earth [John 3:16; Genesis 12:3]
To make us righteous and to reign with Him one day [1 Peter 2:24; 2 Timothy 2:12]

Adapted from Leadership Excellence by Phil Pringle:

When the Statue of Liberty arrived as a gift from the French, no one among the privileged of 1886 were willing to raise the $100,000 to assemble it.

Joe Pulitzer, an immigrant from Hungary, appealed to the little people of the city to undertake the installation of the statue, in his little paper, the New York World. As a result, shoeshine boys, chimney sweeps, machine operators, grocery clerks, grandmothers and schoolchildren came to the rescue. In recognition of their heroism, Pulitzer published the name of every contributor, even little kids who gave a nickel.

One of the contributors was a young Jewish woman named Emma Lazarus [Emma=whole/universal + Lazarus=God will help = Universally, God will help for the whole thing], who wrote a poem The New Colossus for an art exhibition to help raise money for the statue's installation. Emma's poem closed with the following lines:

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!



In the end, 121,100 people contributed an average of 83 cents each to erect what has become the most American of all symbols. As a result of his efforts to erect the Statue of Liberty, the circulation of Joe's little paper grew to monumental proportions as well, and Joseph Pulitzer went on to impact the United States of America as few men have ever done.

Praise the Lord!

"Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it." - Luke 13:18-19 KJV