The Beautiful Book Series with Dr. Paul Choo

We now come to chapter 22, the last of the Book with the purpose of motivating men to make the right choice. Especially to whom John wrote who were debating. Fearful. Do I bow to say Caesar is God & forget about God? Or would you prefer eternity? Make something else your god? Or make God your God? 

Make sure you don’t miss it. Prepare for it! Unless you plan to go to hell, so you better because it’s totally dark there just the Lake of Fire. What can we learn about bucket list?

The main goal: No need to argue with things, start preparing for eternity. Welcoming & leading others by your life, testimony, ministry, & preaching. As you look forward to put the tears, sorrow, & pain of this sinful world behind forever. 

Hope you can say this is the greatest love story you've ever read. God Loves You! Plans for you! And finally, the Bride (us) is prepared for our Creator. It took a long time. The Beautiful Book was written by a wonderful God. He loved His Son so much that many sons in the New Heaven & New Earth all bearing the image of His Son, who bears the image of the Farther. And in all eternity, enjoying & worshiping our God. 

May this Book bless you! May the last Book of the Bible bless you most of all!

Chapter 21 describes the New Heaven & the New Earth. This is a very little description of this perfect eternal place that we all yearn for. It’s just the end of a love Story, “And they live happily ever after.” Period. It’s placed in our hearts. You & I already have this idea of heaven, but has been damaged by the great thinking that it would be spiritual. Then I saw a new heaven & new earth (21:1) sounds like Gen1:1, In the beginning, God created the heaven & the earth. The new here simply means perfectly Renovated.

The most amazing of these 2 chapters is that God comes to be with us. Heaven comes to us. What is heaven? Heaven is a place where God is. Heaven is a realm. He is not a passive God. It's much more about a person than a place. It’s always about the Creator, Jesus. The world will come to an end. That’s true. The End is to be with a Person. Who is this world coming to? Is the better question. It’s coming back to its Creator who was separated. The end of the world is the beginning of eternal time with a Person, my Creator, my Lover, Jesus Christ.

Make sure your name is in the Lambs Book of Life, inscribed on the heart of Jesus. May you say in your heart I want to be with this Amazing God in this amazing place for all eternity where my heart will be filled with the River of Life if you trust the one who conquered your sins on the cross.

In Rev. 21 & 22, the New Heaven & the New Earth is described. There's a yearning in every human heart for what we have lost, The Garden of Eden. Instinctively, men go everywhere looking for paradise. Making the tourist industry, a multi-billion-dollar industry. Satan destroyed the Garden of Eden, God will make one much more beautiful, The New Earth. God wins mightily!

Including the so-called “agnostics”, unbelievers or atheists believe & yearn that when they die, they go somewhere some nice place. God made our soul Immortal. God made man in His image. God put eternity in man’s heart. 

But there's a void of understanding about the New Heaven & the New Earth. In the church, it’s rarely being preached. In the Bible, discover the 3 dimensions of heaven. Heaven is more than we know! This is about a union. Christ came to unite everything together, to reconcile man to God. Man to man. 

Earth is where we prepare for heaven. Heaven is the fulfillment of what we have prepared for, a place where you will reign/rule. Jesus was God incarnate in the flesh walking among men. I hope you spend your life being  faithful in doing things that you'll be faithful much in heaven & be full like a lake, filled with perfect Satisfaction forever & ever & ever!

The White Throne Judgment is mentioned in Rev 20, there are no other references in any part of the Bible. The judgment of everyone who died without Knowing & trusting Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour. To those who denied God's existence, the One who made & loves them. He asked them to believe in Him for thousands of years but insistently denied Him.

Jesus Christ, the Great Creator of the World, the Son of Man, the Perfect Man will be sitting on the Great White Throne. White is holiness. He will judge by His Holy Standards. Are you pure white on that day? Have you received the righteousness of Christ?

This is the 2nd resurrection. Dead, small, & great stand before God. All those who thought they were moral, religious will stand before God. Books were opened which accounts every single deed man has done. It's of Christ’s infinite wisdom, everything will be judged on that day. For the believers of Christ, all will be judged according to what Christ has done.

Another book is opened, The Book of Life. Those names not found therein are thrown into the Lake of Fire. This is The  Final Judgment of God! Very precise. Most people didn’t want to know God even seeing His creation. If you have nothing to do with God, your wish will be granted in full measure. Everything God has seen, God will judge fairly.

Adam was given the role to tend the Garden of Eden but made wrong choices. Jesus, the second Adam, the Son of God, the Perfect Man, the Righteous Ruler will reign in the millennial kingdom... someone we never ever had, perfect righteous ruler. No selfishness. No War. The curse is removed. No sickness. Life will be much longer. 

What's the point here? Even after having a perfect environment, the human heart if given a choice, still has rebellion & says, “Satan made me do it.” But Satan is bound. God wants us to know that there is rebellion in our hearts. We don’t blame anyone else. We just thank & praise God that we are saved. When we get to heaven, we just say for all eternity, Thank You, God, for Your amazing grace.

Learn about the Millennial Kingdom. Believe the prophecies. It’s true! Don’t spiritualize everything away. TheBible is real. Hope this helps us to prepare for the Millennium, to be eternally thankful for The New heaven & New Earth. May you know God's amazing plans for you, so that you'll be totally satisfied forever & ever. God bless you!

We continue with the millennial kingdom, Christians have different views, it can be very divisive. May this encourage you to be humble, there are many things in the Bible we can agree to disagree with. Contend for the faith graciously & with humility. What are the 3 views on the Millennial Kingdom? 

If you read the whole Bible, you'll realize this rule (Millennium) is very special to God. When God makes a promise, He keeps it. When Jesus came the 1st time, Jews rejected Him even if they saw His life. Jesus conquered the world by dying for us on the cross, He gained to sit on the Throne. That’s God’s way. God is Holy! God is Love! If you know one day you'll reign with Christ in the Millennial Kingdom & rule over people, preparation for life is needed.

This life is not an intermission but a critical preparation for the Millennial Kingdom & eternity. 90% of Christians don’t know the end (Rev 20-22). So, prepare now for your position there. The Millennial Kingdom is not an academic subject. It’s so true! May this help us see the whole Beautiful Book & most of all the one true God.

Chapter 20 speaks of the millennial kingdom, this has caused more controversy in the church than any other topics. Though it's the last 3 chapters of the Bible, it's most critical to know what's the whole ending about.

John sees an angel coming with the key to the bottomless pit & a massive chain. The Angel binds Satan & thrown to the bottomless pit so he cannot deceive the nations for a thousand years. Satan is TOTALLY helpless. All sources of power come from God. How does Satan deceive the nations? And we all have fallen into this trap.

Then John sees people seated on the thrones & a group of resurrected martyrs who didn't worship the mark of the beast. The first resurrection, saints who trusted Christ resurrected & martyrs from the great tribulation are resurrected to be part of this ruling authority in the millennial kingdom. Those who didn't trust Christ were not resurrected yet.

After 1,000 years Satan is released, manages to deceive a huge number of people like the sands of the sea. Who are these survivors? Satan gathers these forces for the last battle against the restored Jerusalem. Fire comes down from heaven. Satan is sent to the lake of fire to be tormented forever & ever with the Anti-Christ & false prophets.

In chapter 19, we see the 1st Hallelujah for the Great Babylon has fallen. The average man’s life is: Birth is painful. Life is hard. Death is certain. The present system since Adam’s fall. Another Hallelujah is noted for the marriage supper of the Lamb. When we trusted Christ, our sins became His at the cross & when we received Him we receive His righteousness. Will you be there at the banquet??

John saw Heaven opened, a white horse (symbol of the Conqueror) came out. The one sitting on it is called Faithful & True, Jesus is Faithful & True. His eyes are like a flame of fire. Many profess Christ but never received Him. His eyes of fire will prove impurity. They will be shocked! 

We see the culmination. Christ won the war by shedding His own blood. AGAPE love of God not by violence. Satan is defeated totally. Hope you can see this Book as one amazing story about our wonderful God & His wonderful plan for you & me.

In chapter 15, John saw a sea of glass with fire. Fire speaks of judgment. He saw those who resisted worshiping the beast sang the song of liberation. And saw 7 angels in heaven, each was given a bowl by one of the 4 living creatures & smoke filled the place. Smoke speaks of God’s glory. 

In chapter 16, a voice was heard telling the 7 angels to pour out the bowls of judgment, God's wrath. Discover what these plagues are. We read Revelation so that we'll be awake. Certainly, these will come. “Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who stays awake.” Be aware! This tells us that man, reaches the point that they cannot repent, God showed warnings for thousands of years yet insists on rejecting God. God will wipe them out.

In chapter 17, Babylon is revealed & identified as a city that controls the world economically powerful. The god of this world, as we come to the last days is the idol called ‘money.’ But money is not power, might is right (military power). 

Chapter 18 is about the Fall of Babylon. God is telling us, Christians we're much sucked on this earth. The minds of sinful men lifting himself up. Babylonish ideas. There's only one Kingdom that will last. Be a part of God’s Kingdom, lay treasures in heaven, doing things in God's name that people may know Christ & experience AGAPE love, "Come into the Kingdom of God where there is true peace, joy, satisfaction, & true riches.”

In chapter 12, John sees a pregnant woman clothed with the sun, the moon underneath her feet, with a crown of 12 stars. Something to do with God’s people. The red great dragon appears with 7 heads 7 horns 7 crowns identifies as Satan. There's war in heaven. The devil wants to persecute God’s people greatly & must be prepared. Ultimately, Victory is on our side. There’s Hope. Endure

In chapter 13, we can see 2 characters. The Anti-Christ & the False Prophet. What do all these signify? The Antichrist will blaspheme God & persecute Christians. This false prophet is given power by Satan to encourage the world to worship the Anti-Christ & do miracles. The false prophet's power is not in worship but in the mark of the beast, economic power.  If there's a Holy Trinity, there's an unholy trinity.

In chapter 14 we see encouragement. We see The Lamb, standing in Mt. Zion with 144,000 of his people with the name of God written in their foreheads. 3 angels coming out proclaiming “Eternal Gospel,” Babylon is fallen.” A warning concerning the mark of the beast. Martyrdom is a mark of honor in the eyes of God, forever & ever. The Son of Man coming down on a white cloud. We can see the Mercy of God, still sending angels to warn people to repent. This is the Love of God. Be faithful to God. Don’t ever put allegiance to a false god. Only worship the one True God!

We see here the supernatural torments that our brain cannot conceptualize. How do you think a Holy God looks to all that? He says, ENOUGH! But thank God, He’ll replace it with something better.

In chapter 9, The 5th trumpet is blown, the 1st woe is released on earth. John sees a star being given, a key to the bottomless pit. The 6th trumpet is blown, the release of 4 angels bound up in River Euphrates & horrendous release of 200M army troops.

In chapter 10, we see an interesting break. John says a mighty angel came out from heaven having a rainbow about him & was holding a little scroll.

I hope when you study Revelation, don't get in too much speculation of too many things, but get the idea of who God is. A merciful God! Despite people refusing to repent, for a long time, He refuses to give up, pleading to them to return to Him. As Christians we dream, even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.

Revelation Chapter 6 shows the beginning of the massive end of the world destruction caused by the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse.  There's a war that we haven't seen before, many would die. We can see God allows martyrdom. It’s not that God can’t control it. God is giving Christians the opportunity to be martyrs, to die for our faith for sharing the gospel. Today, we fight for honor/sacrifice to be somebody, but the Bible tells us of another high accolade for the new earth like never before. The martyrs crown.

In Chapter 8, the 7th seal is opened. The first 4 Trumpet judgments revealed into massive catastrophes. Unbelievable! God is getting rid of the evil world of people, as they keep hardening. Been given thousands of years to repent & acknowledge the Creator, but they won’t. So, God allows wars in the midst of it. God is not only removing evil people, He’s removing the messed-up world.

Nothing is new in Revelation, we see it in the Bible. We always see it in life, it’s just the scale of it. It intensifies. Revelation is understandable, not complicated. It’s not a big mystery.

In chapters 4 & 5, we see one of the clearest descriptions by John of the almighty throne of God in Heaven. Brilliance and majesty. We are introduced to symbols, flames of fire representing the Holy Spirit, elders & living creatures.

John describes Christ appearing. He saw in the right hand of the One sitting on the Throne, a scroll sealed with 7 seals. This scroll represents all programs to take place very soon to terminate sinful & degraded world as we know it & begin the eternal new heaven & new earth. “Who is worthy to open the scroll & to loose its seals?”

Many thought that God would conquer the world (like every conqueror) with violence/power but God conquered this evil world we live in with LOVE. The Lion of the tribe of Judah conquered this world by being a Lamb for this sinful world. He showed a New Way. Wow! This conqueror conquered by ransoming People. By dying for people & these people will be part of His kingdom & will reign with Him. Now, we see who's to be honored forever & ever? God the Father & God the Son.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega.” (1:8) Jesus is the beginning & the end. This letter opened with encouragement.

When John, the Beloved saw the vision, he saw Jesus in His glory, he falls at His feet. This is to help persecuted Christian realize that this is not the Jesus in the manger anymore. The Jesus on the cross is over. The carpenter’s son is over. This is the JESUS. His glory is like the shining of the sun. Christ walks in the midst of the church.

Discover more beautiful & great truths on how God Sees Us. How are you in the eyes of the wise & HolyGod who will rule for all eternity? How are you preparing for the new earth? God bless you!

Revelation means apocalypse in Greek. The Book of Revelation ties up everything the Old Testament says about the end of the World & unveils what the eternal world would look like. This book is considered a mystery. For many Christians, it's the most difficult to read or even fear reading it through. This is a circuit letter sent to the 7 churches having problems respectively, helping them get right.

Revelation is the most important book. It completes the Holy Bible. Gives us the right view that JESUS is KING. He rules over an eternal Kingdom where you & I will be citizens there. God wins in the end.

Hope this book helps us to get right in many counts & will not only prepare us for the persecution  we may face but prepare us to live right now for the New Earth that you & I will live in for all Eternity. Are you ready? Are you preparing? May Revelation bless you!

Jude wrote this letter much later after Christ’s resurrection. Intended to Jewish believers, 2nd generation Christians, the wonderful faith & amazing salvation they have in Christ. But Jude felt & sensed a crisis in churches, to “contend for the faith”.

This Book is about behavior. Today, we judge people by their creed. But look at their behavior & know if they have the seed of Christ mentioned in 1 John.

Please don’t neglect the Book of Jude as it’s necessary for the last days. Be careful. Christ’s name is shamed by wicked men, contaminating churches & people’s minds that Christians got a license to sin - hyper grace, you’re saved, no need to confess sins, sins are settled. Men are shaming God. 

May God help you to strenuously fight to preserve this simple faith & the name of God, once for all. God bless you!

2nd & 3rd John were written to particular individuals regarding their behavior in dealing with churches & the travelling teachers, for many deceivers have gone out. Christians were travelling around the Roman empire. John wrote this 60 yrs after the resurrection of Christ, as an elder in truth & love, a perfect balance like the love & mercy of God.

This reflects 2 types of churches we have these days, churches who accept anybody as long as they're "Christians" bringing in all kinds of doctrines. The true simple Gospel is lost. Another group of churches that exists today, just a one man-hero. Everybody else is not good enough, every other church has a problem, except him.  

What is the lesson? Be Careful, don't welcome those who come to shame God's name & to destroy God's work. We have a God of balance, perfect holiness & perfect love. That's what we should be too. May God grant us this simple balance! When people don't read these letters they have churches like these. May we see our selves in the word of God. All Holy, all loving. 

First John is more of a fatherly sermon like a warning written by Apostle John to his people. He was in Ephesus when he wrote this & supervising churches facing crisis. A group denied that Jesus came as a 100% human which is influenced by Greek-beliefs (a great separation between God & man; spiritual & secular). They thought if Jesus claims to be God then how can He be man? It’s impossible! God cannot die.The power of the cross is that Jesus is 100% God & 100% man. This cannot be grasped by the human mind. The whole cross had zero effect. After writing this, John was exiled to Patmos & wrote the Book of Revelation.

The Only God that can love is a Trinitarian God. When we say “God is love,” it’s unique to other religions. Unthinkable! A God who chose to come down to earth, the Son of God eternally in the heavens, Infinite God chose to be limited as a man, lived among us, so He could die for our sins & rise from the dead. He chose to be God-Man, forever. Divine Infinity. 

I hope as you read 1 John, it’s not just about our relationship with God, but His wanting to have this close relationship with us. God became man that He could be with man. May God bless you with this thought. May you love this God!

Peter wrote the second letter 3 yrs. later encountering the danger of false teachers. The word knowledge in the Bible is “experiential knowledge” not just head knowledge. Many people know things, but Never Experience it. Reminds us that we are born again, the Holy Spirit is in you. To live a Christ-like life we also need to work on virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, loyalty, godliness, brotherly affection, & love. 

This letter warns us how to identify false teachers. They tell people what they like to hear. More people come, more offerings/tithes. It’s called "marketing in modern terms". We see heresies & persecutions everywhere, it has become normal in Christianity. But God will deal with them. He will rescue His own. 

God is giving time to people to repent & be saved. We don't need to worry about what's happening on this earth. God wins always. “By me, all things consist.” (Col 1:17). His plans are always higher than ours. This is a temporary place, we are headed to the New heaven & New earth to enjoy eternity in a real place. A living hope. God bless you!

Peter wrote this epistle near the end of his life before he was martyred in Rome. Written for a group of churches in Northwest Turkey. The church was growing at an amazing rate but alarming for the Roman authorities. Regarded as a competition, as the church grew bigger, the greater the persecution. This competition was about "WHO is KING?" Caesar or Jesus?   Peter is best known of all the Apostles by far. Peter & his brother Andrew were fishermen, living by the shores of Galilee. The first Apostles appointed by Jesus. Peter became the lead Apostle in Jerusalem & went to other parts of the world. Petrus Cephas. This epistle warns of persecutions & sufferings in various forms. Generally, persecution makes the church stronger, not weaker. It refines the church from all the weight of false teachers & believers. Persecution tests the genuineness of your faith.  How should we face persecution? We can discover more as we listen & study this Letter of Peter.

One of the easiest epistles to understand because it's not doctrinal. But probably the hardest epistle to accept as it's a practical book, difficult to do. We are far more inclined in the comfort of a classroom as students/spectators rather than to be laborers. This practical aspect is the 24/7 part of our lives. James or Jacob, is the half-brother of Jesus, real child of Joseph & Mary. He didn’t believe in Jesus in his early life but later became a firm believer & martyr for Jesus.  It's called a letter but in a sense seems to be a bunch of advice from James to The 12 Tribes scattered. A lot of wisdom came from Proverbs & The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ practical teachings.   May these bless you & hope that your Christianity is not all doctrines but doctrines that work. Be a man of faith, humble, going out helping the helpless. James is not a book liked, but a book ignored by most churches. This shows you your God who works, Christ who served the poor & went out day by day. What a wonderful world this would be if we all reflected this God.

We continue in Hebrews about the perfect saviour above all angels, all heroes of faith, priests, & promises we get. Remember, there's some one far far more superior better than anything - the New Covenant in Jesus Christ. He writes His law in our hearts, we have been blessed with a total heart transplant. We are New Creatures because of Jesus Christ. One sacrifice, sufficient (10:12). What a Saviour! 

We hope today, The Book of Hebrews will make us look forward to love & honor Jesus. To place the Son of God at the forefront of our minds. The book is only beautiful because it shines the spotlight on Jesus. The radiance & the Glory of God, the expressed image of the Invincible God, the Beautiful God seen in the Beautiful Son, revealed in the Beautiful book. Jesus is amazing! May God bless you.

For many Christians Hebrews is the most difficult book in the New Testament. Much Old Testament knowledge is needed to understand this book. It’s so culturally Jewish that it talks about angels, sacrifices, urgently pleading the Jews not to return to their old faith for there is something so much better in the New Covenant. “Don’t sell it for convenience & safety.” A combination of exposition of truth & exhortation alternately arranged throughout.  So, what is it to us? “The New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed. The Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed.” We have the benefit of seeing Jesus Christ, the Messiah in a complete sense like the final picture of the jigsaw puzzle presented in bits & pieces. Who is Jesus Christ? We have seen the radiance of God the Father in Jesus Christ. What makes Him superior to all? We rest in His work, not our work. The only Hope Is Jesus. If you reject Him, there’s no hope for you. JESUS IS SUPERIOR, DON’T TURN BACK.

By far the shortest epistle & the only letter written by Paul to one single individual. Philemon was a rich Roman citizen of the City of Colosse. The church in Colosse was started by Epaphras who reached out to Philemon & was saved. Philemon used his house as a house-church. Paul wrote this epistle, an appeal to Philemon concerning Onisemus, his runaway slave who reached Rome, met Paul who was on a house arrest & shared the Gospel with him.

Paul wanted him to get right with his past as a slave & as a fugitive to demonstrate internal revolution of the heart. He sent him back to Philemon with a letter to receive Onisemus as a beloved brother in the Lord. That's something quite amazing, a Slave could never be a brother. Paul didn't promote rebellion of slaves. Christianity is never about outward rebellion but internal lasting change. 

We are slaves of sin, ran away from God. Christ calls us back & paid the debt of our sin. Now, we return back to our Master & be useful. This is a challenge to churches, to receive others whom we despised & avoided, PLEASE don't look down to those criminals before, terribly poor, uneducated because we are one in-Christ. The church is one. May God bless you & your church.

Titus was was a contemporary of Timothy, mentored by Paul. He was a Greek Gentile, from a pagan background. Paul tasked Titus to fix some problems, to put things in order, & to appoint church leaders in Crete Island. Cretans were well-known for violent behaviors, mostly influenced by their Greek gods. Many were mercenary soldiers. The problem of legalism was rampant in the early churches, so Paul repeatedly emphasizes the right way to be saved. Sanctification is a process, it takes time.

What's the goal of having a good behaviour? Practical behavior outside is actually the best testimony of the truth taught inside the church. The best teacher/lesson we can see is LIFE. JESUS CHRIST in his teachings & preachings demonstrated the greatest gift of all, He saved us with the great sacrificial love of good works, the perfect work on the cross of calvary. May God help us to live the real Christian life. Sanctified to be like Christ. May Jesus be our Model.

This could be the last epistle by Paul while awaiting his execution, abandoned by all except Luke his faithful follower. He wanted to see his son in the faith, Timothy. Paul encourages Timothy not to be fearful & was made bold by the Holy Spirit (1:7). Paul says, “Timothy, you’ve seen my teachings, conduct, my life, faith, patience, my love, steadfastness, persecution, & my suffering.” See how Paul teaches Timothy?? Classroom? NO! He taught him his real life. Timothy saw all these as trained by Paul. WOW, that's the discipleship goal we need today, Life on Life discipleship!

Finally, Paul says, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.”(4:7) Hope we could all finish the race God has given us. Your race is not my race. We all run a different race & track. We never compete with one another but keep the faith & experience the real presence of God. I hope today, when you see Paul's sufferings in this letter, you'll see the God who loves us with His sacrificial-love through Jesus Christ. May God bless you!

In the First Epistle to Timothy we are taught some practical ways on how to live by working & serving others. The Epistles to Timothy & to Titus are called "Pastoral Epistles" written to people who pastored the church & Apostolic representatives sent out to help plant churches, once established, they ordain leaders & move on. Paul was very old when he wrote this to Timothy, his son in the faith & protege, leading a church at Ephesus. All of us are to lead some way or the other to influence the world with our lives, keep a close watch on yourself first & on the teaching (4:16).

God cares for everything in our lives & God is a God who is very practical as shown in Timothy. Every part of our lives should be touched to be a blessing. Jesus is the perfect example of touching lives. There are so many Christians today who are so spiritually minded & so practically useless. May you enjoy life to its fullest in all the blessings God has given you. Impact lives. Be Christ-like. 

These two letters were thought to be some of Paul’s earliest epistles to address the Church in Thessalonica, a Greek City of culture & religion. Silas & Timothy visited Thessalonica during Paul’s 2nd missionary journey. It was said that those who trusted the Lord were not Jews, but Gentiles, called “God-fearers” realising that the God of the Jews was the True & Living God. Amazingly the church surfaced very strong in spite of heavy persecution. Persecution has a way of building up real Christians . What easy conditions have a way of attracting all kinds of people at church & make the church generally very weak and diluted?

What's the purpose of 2nd Thessalonians? You & I know the Lord is coming, & I hope He finds you working not idle or busy-body. I hope the 2nd coming of the Lord encourages us not to waste time. Neither just speculate about when & how He will come. But focus on your life for there's work to be done. May the 2nd coming of Christ be at the forefront of your mind serving, encouraging, & building up one another, right now. God bless you!

This is one of the four Pauline Prison Epistles, written by Paul to Christians in Colossae, western part of Turkey. Also a trade route to Europe that time, with Asian & European influence. People in Colossae didn’t realize they were influenced by religious superstitions. Paul wrote this letter to address problems of the Church in Colossae which was started by Epaphras, one of his disciples. In a sense, Colossae is much like modern cities today as we get influence from everywhere. There's a new religion pervading everywhere, it's a NewAge religion/movement & we don't realize it. What Paul was addressing is that, Christ is ALL we need. This is about us, we may know all the doctrines but hard for us to grasp the transcendence of God, yet this amazing God has chosen to dwell with us. If you believe Jesus as your Saviour, Jesus has bridged the gap between you & God. Christ lives in us through the Holy Spirit. Family is where we express our faith & be ambassadors to the world so others may experience the eminence of God. There is no God like our God!

Lesson 20: A Holy Facebook | Conclusion.

God has not given us another religion but has restored His relationship with us through Jesus Christ. A relationship is characterized by communication. Christ lives in us. We can have constant communication with Him all the time. God invented instant communication long before Facebook but few of His children know how to use this Holy FB. Treasure your relationship with God. The greatest thing in this life and in the next life is to know God and to enjoy Him forever. John 17:3 “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou have sent. Enjoy this & enjoy your journey with Jesus! Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas

This is one of the Epistles called Pauline Prison Epistles, written to the Christians in Philippi. Paul was sent by God to this major city (of Roman colony), a strategic foothold for the first church as far as we know on European soil. The Church in Philippi went through many persecutions but emerged a very strong church. This Epistle is mostly relational, teaching us about our relationships with one another & our walk with the Lord. What does it mean to have a servant’s attitude? How to be truly happy & satisfied? Paul has learned the secret of being content in any situation.

What have we learned in Philippians? It's about the mind of Christ quietly serving, that's the God I have! He serves me everyday, in the littlest things & I don't even know He is serving me. What an amazing God, not just the Agape love of God, the humble, silent ever serving God who I often don't recognize. I hope I can be a little bit more like Jesus, whom I serve. God bless you!

One of the Epistles called Pauline Prison Epistles, written along with Philippians, Colossians, & Philemon while Paul was imprisoned. This Epistle balanced between doctrine & duty, but more of a general letter intended to educate & understand better Christian identity & duty. What is the blessedness of a life being IN CHRIST? The richness of our salvation, the inheritance of God has given us, UNBELIEVABLE! When you're filled with this love of God, it flows out, unless you're like a Dead sea. We have "DeadSea Christians" today who never gave out the love of God. God's amazing Agape Love has been given to us & we the church are the body of Christ to demonstrate our life in Christ to the world. Do you know the AGAPE love of God? What are you going to do with it?

Lesson 18: Holy ATM | Lesson 19: A Personal Love Letter. 

The victorious Christian is one who realizes that the way to success is not to try harder but to trust more. The victorious Christian is not exhausted from trying to imitate Jesus but excited by watching what Jesus is doing through him. Jesus meets me as I step forward in faith. Have you learned to use the Holy ATM of Jesus? There is no book like the Bible. It is God's personal love letter to each of his children. It is alive & strong (Heb. 4:12 “the word of God is living & powerful”). Set aside time read & re-read your personal love-letter from God. He has a new message for you today!

Enjoy this & enjoy your journey with Jesus! Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas

In this Epistle we can see doctrinal problems & practices in the church. Apostle Paul established churches in Galatia district built on the foundation of the Gospel of Christ & justification by faith alone. But doubts infiltrated the believers as false teachers questions the authenticity of Paul’s teachings & as a tent-maker. He boldly answered such accusations defending the truth of the Gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation. How can you be saved? How do you live your Christian life? What's the purpose of the law? I hope this reminds us that the life which I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God who loves me & gave himself for me (2:20). May Christ be seen in you. May the agape love of God be seen in your life.

In the 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians, we can see the practicality & reality of life on earth. Sanctification is a long process & almost like the tough journey of Jesus Christ. This tells much of Paul’s life & authenticity as a follower of Christ. He reflected the love of Christ in the midst of rejection & rebellion of believers in Corinth. This letter encourages our faith, walk, & character as Christians towards the challenges & realities in this world in light of the character of Christ. Examine yourself. How do you know you're a Christian? Do you know where you are in the faith? Are you willing to sacrifice your comforts?

Lessons 16: It's impossible to be alone | Lessons 17: Super Partnership. 

We have a very intimate relationship with God! He has chosen to live in us so that He can be our constant Partner as we go through life on this earth. Are you enjoying your relationship with Jesus who lives in you? Christians trust Jesus to pay for the sins on the Cross. But many of these same Christians do not trust Jesus to help them to overcome their sins as they live their daily lives.  Are you living a lonely losing life? You should be living a victorious Christian life with Jesus. Enjoy this & enjoy your journey with Jesus! Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas

Lesson 14: Jesus' DNA | Lesson 15: Many Taufik Hidayats

God commands all Christians to “work out their salvation” (Phil 1:12). Many misunderstand this verse to mean that we have to “work for our salvation. ” This is impossible because no one can work for his salvation because “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23). Furthermore, if we could work for our salvation then there was no need for God to give His only begotten Son.

Jesus on the Cross said “It is finished.” The work of salvation is complete. It has been earned by Jesus on the Cross. Our job is not to earn our salvation but to “work out” our salvation.

Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus! 

Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas

Lesson 12: Can my sin cause me to lose everlasting life | Lesson 13: Licensed to Sin?

Blessed Holy Trinity! Blessed God the Father – who loves us and gave us His only Son. Blessed God the Son – who sacrificed His life for us on the Cross. Blessed God the Holy Spirit – who lives in our hearts to be our daily Partner.

Can any other “god,” other than the Holy Trinity ever do this amazing work of salvation?

Enjoy this & enjoy your journey with Jesus! 

Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas

Lesson 10: No computer can calculate these numbers! | Lesson 10: Sudah Selesai!

Indeed, all who have received Jesus as their personal Saviour will have everlasting life – the first part on earth and the next part in Heaven. There will be no interval between the 2 parts. Our salvation is not based on how good we are. Our salvation is based on the perfect work of a perfect Saviour. Are you sure that you will not perish?

Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus! 

Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas

What is the purpose of 1 Corinthians? It's about Agape love, about the God who served us, but we don't recognize it. Doing things for others, reaching out. So when you say God is love, what do you mean? God is a servant, God chose to be a servant, to serve us. CHRIST our Lord lived a sinless life & chose to SERVE us on the CROSS. The Holy Spirit chose to live in us & serves us as our partner. What about you? What's your idea, about love? Serving? Is it even in your thinking? So I hope today, you see God who loves the nation of Israel as it needed love, who loves me as I needed love. There's a lot of people out there you can express God's love, in your church. Agape Love, reaching out, reaching down, serving with your gifts & resources God has blessed you with, because God is Love. May God make you an outflow of Agape Love to others. God bless you!

Lesson 8: It's a Gift | Lesson 9: If a King became an Ant

There are many religions to follow.
But there is only ONE SAVIOR to receive.
Are you following a religion? Or have you received a Saviour?

Enjoy this  and enjoy your journey with Jesus! 

Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas

This is an epistle written by God the Father through Apostle Paul to a church in Rome & in the process of addressing it, he has left us with the greatest gem of all, The Theology of Justification by Faith (1:16) & that's critical as the 1st epistle. It's all about The Gospel, the power of God unto salvation for the Jews & Gentiles. When you receive Jesus, you receive a power over sin in your life, a partner, the Holy Spirit to help you overcome this "grip of sin". That day by day in the process of sanctification you can be more & more like Christ. So we are not "hyper-grace", we are saved from hell to Christ-likeness through the power of sanctification to prepare us for the day of glorification.

May you step back and say the wisdom, mercy, & the love of God-Amazing! He never forgot His people Israel & through Israel the doors were opened for the gentiles like us & one day every race comes together into this great family reunion like never before. May God bless you!

I hope you'll realize when you go to The Book of Epistles they are personal letters, and I hope you'll know your God who wrote these letters to you is a personal God. He is your Heavenly Father - don't forget that. God is very personal to you and to me, because epistles address personal problems. God is a very practical God, I hope you'll know that. Christianity is not just about studying Bible studies forever, but how we live and God is just as concerned as how we live as to how we know about Him. Too many Christians know all kinds of verses but their lives & their knowledge don't seem to be in sync.

As we look at The Book of Epistles remember, the personal Father wants you to live a practical life before men. God bless you!

Lesson 6: One Solution Only. | Lesson 7: The Deadliest Traffic Jam.

On that day 35 years ago, I realized that though I had known and memorized John 3:16, I had never believed it. But the Bible tells us that merely knowing the promise in John 3:16 is useless. What is important is believing John 3:16.

Enjoy this and enjoy your journey with Jesus! 

Author: Dr. Paul Choo | Read by: Nehemiah Paul U. Gaas