The Parable of the Lost Sheep Contains Profound Meaning

By Xiaoqing

    Editor’s Note: I trust everyone’s familiar with the parable of the lost sheep in the Bible. The Lord Jesus used this parable to very vividly tell us about God’s love for mankind and to allow us to feel how sincere God’s desire to save mankind is. But does everyone know what God’s will behind this parable is? At a Bible study there were a few brothers and sisters who finally understood this through fellowship—let’s take a look together.

    With a Bible in his hands, the preacher Liu Qing said, “Brothers and sisters, let’s read the parable of the lost sheep.” They all nodded and began to read. “How think you? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and goes into the mountains, and seeks that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish” (Matthew 18:12–14).

Gospel Movie Clip "Break Through the Snare"- Can Believing in the Bible Represent Believing in God?

Gospel Movie Clip "Break Through the Snare"

The pastors and elders of the world of religion hold to the words of Paul in the Bible that say "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God," believing that the Bible is entirely the words of God and doing all they can to exalt the Bible and bear witness to it, making the Bible and God equal to each other. They believe that the Bible represents the Lord and that a belief in the Lord is a belief in the Bible. So is the Bible really all given by inspiration of God? Is the Lord, is God, within the Bible? Is it the work of God that has given rise to the Bible, or the Bible that has given rise to the work of God? Can the Bible really represent the Lord? This short video will show you to the right path.

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Judgment Has Begun in God’s Family

Aishen, America

    I am a Christian. When I first started believing in God, I frequently heard sermons where people said, “The Lord Jesus is our Redeemer. He was nailed to the cross for our sins. Jesus is merciful and loving. As long as we frequently come before the Lord and confess our sins through prayer, our sins will be forgiven and when the Lord returns, we will be able to enter the kingdom of heaven.” Afterward, I noticed, when I read the Bible, many parts where the word “judgment” is mentioned. For example: “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God” (1Pe 4:17). “Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he has ordained” (Act 17:31). At the time, I did not understand what judgment meant. So, I went to ask the preacher. The preacher told me, “When the Lord returns, He will do the work of judgment to determine man’s sins. Since Jesus is the sacrifice for our atonement, our sins will be forgiven and we will not be convicted. Furthermore, those who spend and toil for the Lord will receive crowns in accordance with their contributions. There will be large and small crowns….” I did not quite understand what the preacher told me. I felt that this “crown” idea was very similar to the idea that seniority must be given priority in the secular world. My heart could not accept it.

A Hymn of God's Words | "To Gain Eternal Life, You Must Know the Source of It"

A Hymn of God's Words "To Gain Eternal Life, You Must Know the Source of It"

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God is the source of the life of man; heaven and earth live by His power. Nothing alive can free itself from God's rule and authority. It doesn't matter who you are, everyone must obey God, submit to His dominion, to His control and commandments! Maybe you are eager to find the life and the truth, find the God whom you can trust to receive the eternal life. If you want to get life eternal, find its source and where God is. God is life that does not change, only He has the way of life. Since God is the way of life, God is the way to eternal life.

Twenty Years Later, I Forgave My Mother Who Abandoned Me

By Kemu, South Korean

    In the darkness of the night, I scramble down a seemingly endless lane, looking every which way, but unable to find my way home and wracked with anxiety. All of a sudden, my mother appears in the distance walking toward me and I’m overtaken with a sense of elation. Just as I’m about to call out “Mom,” she disappears. I cry out for my mother in a loud voice, but she doesn’t respond to my calls and I become enveloped in darkness and fear …

    I awoke suddenly and sat up in bed, covered in sweat and breathing heavily. It was all just a dream! All the noise had startled my wife into wakefulness. She wiped the cold sweat from my brow and softly said, “Did you have another nightmare? After all these years, why don’t you stop torturing yourself? It’s too tiring and painful. After all, you can’t hate your mother for your whole life, right?” I thought to myself, “Of course I want to let go of my resentment, but I just can’t do it!”

God’s work of judgment in the last days is the judgment of the great white throne, as prophesied in the Book of Revelation

Bible Verses for Reference:

    “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God” (1Pe 4:17).

    “And I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Rev 20:11–15).

Christian Hymn "God Quietly Arrives Among Us" | The Judgement Day Has Come

Christian Hymn "God Quietly Arrives Among Us" 

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God is silent and has never appeared to us,

yet His work has never stopped.

He looks upon all lands and commands all things,

beholding all the words and deeds of man.

His management is done, step by step, to His plan.

Silent, yet His footsteps move closer to man.

His judgment seat deployed into the universe,

followed by His throne descending among us.