God has faith in us

Remember those moments where you are facing an addictive sin, something you've done your whole life. You thought you could overcome it many many times but fell into temptation anyway. Somehow, however impossibly you've dragged out your demons and exorcised them.

Einstein called it God playing dice and flipping coins with the devil over the soul and righteousness of man. Sadly, the world's smartest man was wrong.

It's because God has faith in us. He knows no matter how hard it is, we will prevail.

Do not think it is us who must have the faith. God's faith in us is easily stronger than our faith in him.

Pastor is at home and well

Thank God that pastor is now as fit as a fiddle. Thanks for everybody's prayers...


-WeiLim-

Blog cleanups

Note: All inactive or dead blogs will be removed from the links.

No offense...

- Wei Lim

July 9 & 16 - BGR

Note: Due to the fact that some people reading this might be in relationships, this is a post that plays relationships according to the view of Christian doctrines. For those who are still interested, YE BE WARNED!

Introduction
- If we consider Jesus as Lord and God, we have surrendered our whole lives to him. Past, present, future. No buts, no maybes.

- Get a relationship only with marriage in your consideration. What's the use of saying I love you if when it comes to marriage you say "I don't know", "I don't think so", "I don't wanna be tied down". Therefore, if we are unsure whether or not we should marry he/she, it's best not to take the next step.

- A man has no right to tell a lady "I love you" unless he's ready to ask "Will you marry me". Relatives are excluded.

- To believe in God is to believe He is the perfect matchmaker. So it's best not to go fishing for love. Let it come to you.

- There's only one rule of a Christian marriage. It is between to Christians, one man and one woman.

- Hollywood romance films are as fiction as Star Wars



Premature relationships
Read the Star newspaper every Wednesday. There's a section where teens regardless of sex, race or religion share painful stories concerning their love life. To me this is the most boring part of the papers because it's all the same stories over and over again. Either,
- Confused if or if not they love that person.
- Break-ups.
This is solid proof that premature relationships are a pain in the butt. there might be exceptions, I don't know. Relationships are strictly for adults.

The cons
Leads to intimacy but necessarily commitment...
- This is call puppy love.
- For those who think love is meant to be fun, lovely and full of joy. You will be disappointed. The feelings, joy and fun are one half. The other half is strict responsibility and hard work. And no relationship can be perfect. Arguments are inevitable. When there's sunshine and rainbows, there's gonna be dark clouds and rain.
- Most if not all girls put their heart and soul into relationship. 100% commitment. It's harder for guys because we tend to let it go once in two years during the World Cup or Euro.
- Commitment is always long term, short term commitments are like pathetic broken promises.
- Waiting till one is ready for big commitments is wise. Don't let a kid play with fire.

Often ends up in the wrong side of physical relationship
- Like how can you not eat a nice piece of burger when you can touch, see and smell it.
- This leads to teenagers ending up in bed yet there are exceptions.

- Isolates couples from other relationships. Example, estranged from friends, families, etc.

Forms a distraction from other responsibilities like studies, hobbies, football and God.


The other way
- Build ourself up in the Lord. How can you take care of a girl if you can't take care of yourself, can't differentiate between right and wrong, watch porn, curse 100 times a day?

- Single years are a gift from God. Marriage is a lot of work. Men cannot expect the ladies to wash the dishes, clean baby poo, breastfeed, wash clothes, cook, clean while he still can go for drinks, watch football.


Tha aside, we have the old faces returned and a few new ones.


David Lin is back. And Sebastian, the new drummer.


Bonnie Chin is back from Russia!

Dangers of the wrong tunes: Part II of a Serious Issue - Why and How?

It has been widely believed that Lucifer before the fall had been the worship leader in heaven. In fact, his talent might be the one to fuel his pride.

The former worship leader is now using his talents to create in my opinion the scariest anti-Christian weapon of all. Not Satanic music and Black Metal alone but in general, all of Rock N Roll has the devil written all over it.

The reason why music is such an effective tool is that it reaches in deep into us. Sound is the most sensitive stimuli to a human being, more than sight, taste or smell. The memories of sound is also among the hardest to drive out or forget, second only to sight. Even Psychiatrists say that music has more power and influence over the mind that advices or lectures. So it's no wonder music has the uncanny power to make you fall in love, confess your sins, propose to your love ones, pour out and express feelings but also commit suicide, cut yourself and even kill and rape.

Heavy Metal in particular is synonymous with rage, pain and hatred. Some bands have references to paranoia, depression, rejection etc. Others especially Hard Rock bands like Rolling Stones, Guns N Roses, Jimi Hendrix are synonymous with drugs and booze. The deadliest of them all are those extreme metal genres like Speed Metal, Death Metal and of course Black Metal. These are the ones who have references to Devil worshippers, occult and human sacrifices.

If music preaches violence and death, then the people who listen to it are able to reject basic moral values and do the unimaginable. Case in point, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, culprits of the infamous Columbine High School Massacre are avid fans of satanic bands including Marilyn Manson while it was implied that Seung-Hui Cho, the man behind the Virginia Tech Massacre had references of Guns N Roses in his diary.

This shows us that music is capable of affection but also violence.

Music was originally created for worship but it's now becoming something else. As for Christian metal, I am in no position to comment.

Dangers of the wrong tunes - Part I of a Serious Issue

In the beginning God set the standards. Whatever is sinful, DO NOT TOUCH. Over the years things have changed.

Once it was TOUCH BUT DON'T TASTE.
Then it was TASTE BUT DON'T SWALLOW.

For more info, watch the shocking documentary "THEY SOLD THEIR SOULS FOR ROCK AND ROLL" available on YouTube. It might be the most disturbing thing you've ever seen but it would save your faith.

It was this type of mentality that made me feel it's ok to both be a Christian and to listen to hard rock and metal at the same time. Some pastors and all those abang-abang also said it was OK. They said it's ok to listen to such music as long as you don't get addicted. But no matter how much I keep my relationship with God equilibrium with secular rock music, I've always been addicted.

Not to criticize anyone but Jesus made it clear WE CAN NEVER SERVE TWO MASTERS. We will end up hating one and serving loyally to the other. But after watching the documentary, I've noticed that Heavy Metal is like a a prop to leave the door open for the devil and immediately giving him the dreaded foothold.

My faith has been turbulent yes. I've casted out violent movies but that didn't help much. It was clear to me that the music I listen to affected me the most.

The strange thing was when I swore not to listen to one such band, I'll always find another. And the bands I've listen to have got more and more evil. First there was mainstream bands like Linkin Park but I've later moved to more drug and rebellious music like Guns N Roses. The worse was the occultic bands like AC/DC and Black Sabbath.

During the time which I've listened to AC/DC and Black Sabbath, I recalled I was possessed once AT CHURCH. I've slowly left it, but it never left me.

I struck again, this time me and Jeffery stripped and destroy our Rock/Metal band t-shirts but as the years passed new ones replaced the once I've previously destroyed.

Metal can catch people by surprise. Music manipulated by Satan is the deadliest trap of all. Even those soft and melodic rock love ballads have subliminal meanings. Example, Stairway to Heaven has tabs on occult, sex and drugs while Hotel Calrifornia is about the Satanic Church and human worship.

So if you think it's OK to listen to metal and be a Christian at one time. I don't think so but I'm not in the position to judge. Of course I've known a good number of passionate believers who also listen to even Metallica. But results may vary, in my case it got the better of me. But BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY...

They Sold Their Souls For Rock N Roll

Note, if you are sensitive to violence and scary turths! DO NOT WATCH!

But those who are desperate. Please do, this video made me think twice about the music I listen to.

2 July - Sexuality

When the word SEX hits your head. We think dirty. The world has changed much but the idea of SEX = SIN has been around for millenniums. Don't believe me? Where did the word SODOMIZE come from. From Sodom, a sinful land described in the early Old Testaments.

Well that's not the way God sees it. He created sex as a means of intimacy, a very special way to express love. But only between one man and one woman who are married to each other. No but's, no if's and no exceptions.

Unfortunately the world doesn't see it that way. Because it feels good, they wanna have fun and end up tarnishing it. What comes of it?

Sure there is fun. But there is also HIV/AIDS, Syphilis and Hepatitis. Unwanted children, abortions, divorce, depression and of course suicide. What a hefty price to pay.

With the introduction of homosexualism, the world has practically turned away. I myself can't understand why men want to be women. Some say it's because the private parts look weird or something. Of course it's not as cool as Avatar, where their hairs have special strands to stimulate and bond each other. But it's actually a gift from God so to speak.

NOTE: The message was long but there's a lot I can't show because it's kinda sensitive and I don't want to go the wrong way.

25 June - Forgiveness Part II

While forgiving is important, there's a flipside to it. It's a time when we are fragile and emotionally drained with guilt. So what some people will do, mostly men is to take advantage.

In regular cases, they try to embarrass you. Like saying sorryx100 or bowing down and all that but what's more serious is that some men will actually take advantage of girls who ask for forgiveness. By asking them to have sex. Because this is so bad, it's acceptable to just break off and leave sexual misfits like these. Pastor even says "GIVE HIM THE MIDDLE FINGER!". Not sure if it meant it but it does imply how serious it is.

I don't know how women use this on men. Perhaps they ban their boyfriends/husbands from watching FIFA World Cup or Euro. Which is equally bad. LOL!

The bottomline is don't try to prove how sorry you are, even if told too.

And when we ask forgiveness, do it with depth, like you mean it. Just darting up, sating SORRY! and dart off is inappropriate. If possible,repeat the offense in case someone forgets it which is not really necessary because they probably never felt it. But of course, exceptions do happen more often than you think.