English Service Sunday at 8.30am

Chinese Service Sunday at 8.30am

Other Meetings

SPECIAL EVENT

Klang Valley Easter Conference organized by the GLO committee

Conference Theme: “Transformed by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ”

Titles of Messages : (1) The Purpose of God in His Resurrection;

(2) The People Transformed by His Resurrection;

(3) The Preaching of His Resurrection; and

(4) The Power of His Resurrection

Date of Conference: Saturday, April 11, 2009

Venue: The Life Chapel, Petaling Jaya

Time: 9 am to 5 pm

Conference cost: RM 25 per participant (inclusive of lunch, refreshments and materials)

Speaker : Mr. Ken Harding from Australia

You are invited to attend the conference.   Please submit your names to Alistair or Hong Sang.

COUPLES   SUPPORT   GROUP

Date: April 16, 2009   Time: 8.30 pm

Venue: Mr. & Mrs. Lim Seok Hoay's home

Couples are invited to come for fellowship and bible study to strengthen their marriage.

   April  2009   Personal Bible Study

The above audio Bible passages (MP3) CDs are available on loan from the office

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The Truth of Gathering to the Lord Jesus Christ ( Part 2)

THE TRUTH OF GATHERING IN PROSPECT – 2 Thessalonians 2 v 1

So then, the future prospect of gathering to Him in the air in a coming becomes the great motivating principle for assembling ourselves together, to gather around His Person today in the gatherings of the assembly. Just as the Lord will be gathering center of the raptured Church when He comes, so He is today the gathering center for us in the assembly. We all long for that gathering in the air. There is no believer who does not want not to meet Him in the air and so to be gathered around our Saviour; and no true believer will miss that gathering. But really, the true measure of how much we feel that, and how much we long for that future prospect of gathering to Him, will only be shown today by how greatly we desire to gather today around His Person in the gatherings of the assembly. Thus Paul is beseeching the Thessalonians, “by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him.”

            We have a little preview of this wonderful prospect of gathering around Christ in heaven in Rev.5, where we see Christ as the freshly slain Lamb in the midst of heaven's throne, and He is the center of all praise and worship. He alone is worthy and able to take the seven-sealed scroll from the right hand of Him that sat upon the throne. It is because of His finished work on Calvary's cross, when by the shedding of His precious blood, He eternally satisfied God. Thus He has the right to take this book, the very title deeds of the universe, He has every legal, moral and divine right to reclaim it all for God, to redeem His purchased possession.

            The rest of Rev. 5 details that tremendous, unprecedented response of praise and worship of the Lamb, God's Son. Beginning with the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders, they fall down and worship before the Lamb in the midst of the throne. Then, there is that innumerable company of angels surrounding heaven's throne, all saying with a loud voice “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing,” Rev. 5:12. Then, it is every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, all similarly praising and worshipping Christ, all “fell down and worshipped Him that liveth for ever and ever,” Rev.5:14. Truly no tongue can be silent, Christ is the center of all worship, He receives that which is His right, and indeed the very opposite of what He received from men when He first came to this earth.

            We might well read such a chapter as Rev.5 and wonder “what will it be like, to be there and to take part in that.” Well, every believer in Christ will surely be there to participate. But let us remember, what God is purposing for His Son in heaven in a future day, He is already accomplishing in measure today, in local companies of believers, who gather around Christ on the first day of the week, to worship and praise and adore the freshly slain Lamb. In our remembrance of Christ, He must be the center of all our worship. What is it that occupies our thoughts on a Sunday morning? Of course, we are truly thankful He has saved us, and it is absolutely right to give thanks for it. But we need to get beyond our4selves, such that Christ alone is the center of our worship, and we gather to remember Him, and to speak to God about the worth and beauty and glories of His dear Son.

            In conclusion, we must ask ourselves, what is the assembly all about? How do we attend the local assembly? How do we decide where our allegiance belongs? Do we gather just to be with the other Christians? The saints are always a blessing, we can enjoy their fellowship and help and encouragement, but the assembly is not to be just like a Christian social club. It is not primarily the people we gather with, but it is specifically the blessed Person we gather to, the risen Lord Jesus. We must all grasp this truth: the local assembly is all about Christ and it is all for Christ. The last recorded gathering in New Testament Scripture is Laodicea, and it serves as a dire warning, because at Laodicea the door was shut, but with Christ outside the door, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock,” Rev.3:20. That is the general trend of this world's religion, keeping Christ outside, and it is all heading up towards that coming Babylon system of Christ-less religion.

The assembly must be distinctive, with Christ at the center of every local assembly, the center of His gathered people. If this does not motivate us, it is possible that assembly life will become familiar and routine and ultimately arduous. But the truth of gathering with the risen Christ in the midst will never be arduous. Do we believe it? Of course we do. But may the Lord exercise our hearts before Him, so that we always value it, treasure it, and act in accordance with it.