Title
BEIJING DIARIES 2 北京日记 2
Date
05/11/2025
Description
1 John 4:16: And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
约翰一书 4:16: 我们已经认识并且相信了上帝对我们的爱。上帝就是爱，住在爱中的，就是住在上帝里面，上帝也住在他里面 (pg 1981)
John 13:35: By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
约翰福音 13:35: 你们如果彼此相爱，世人就会认出你们是我的门徒。(page 1747)
1 Thess 1:11: With this in mind, we constantly pray that our God will empower you to live worthy of all that he has invited you to experience. And we pray that by his power all the pleasures of goodness and all works inspired by faith would fill you completely.
帖撒罗尼迦后书1:11: 因此，我们常常为你们祷告，愿我们的上帝看你们配得祂的呼召，用大能成全你们一切美好的心愿和凭信心所做的工作。(page 1919)
Eph 2:8,9: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
以弗所书 2:8,9: 你们得救是靠恩典，凭信心。这不是出于你们自己，而是上帝的礼物； 也不是由于你们的行为，以免有人自夸。(page 1895)
Col 1: 23: Never be shaken from the hope of the gospel you have believed in.
歌罗西书 1:23: 只是你们必须恒心持守所信的道，根基稳固，坚定不移，不要失去你们听到福音后所得到的盼望。(page 1909)
Eph 3:19: …and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
以弗所书 3:19: 并知道基督的爱是远超过人所能理解的爱，好叫上帝无限的丰富充满你们。 (page 1897)
约翰一书 4:16: 我们已经认识并且相信了上帝对我们的爱。上帝就是爱，住在爱中的，就是住在上帝里面，上帝也住在他里面 (pg 1981)
John 13:35: By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.
约翰福音 13:35: 你们如果彼此相爱，世人就会认出你们是我的门徒。(page 1747)
1 Thess 1:11: With this in mind, we constantly pray that our God will empower you to live worthy of all that he has invited you to experience. And we pray that by his power all the pleasures of goodness and all works inspired by faith would fill you completely.
帖撒罗尼迦后书1:11: 因此，我们常常为你们祷告，愿我们的上帝看你们配得祂的呼召，用大能成全你们一切美好的心愿和凭信心所做的工作。(page 1919)
Eph 2:8,9: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
以弗所书 2:8,9: 你们得救是靠恩典，凭信心。这不是出于你们自己，而是上帝的礼物； 也不是由于你们的行为，以免有人自夸。(page 1895)
Col 1: 23: Never be shaken from the hope of the gospel you have believed in.
歌罗西书 1:23: 只是你们必须恒心持守所信的道，根基稳固，坚定不移，不要失去你们听到福音后所得到的盼望。(page 1909)
Eph 3:19: …and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
以弗所书 3:19: 并知道基督的爱是远超过人所能理解的爱，好叫上帝无限的丰富充满你们。 (page 1897)
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Pastor: Mike J Koger
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Hillside United Methodist Church
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Phenix City AL 36870
United States
3739 US 80
Phenix City AL 36870
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Transcription
Beijing Diaries – Part Two
1 John 4:16
I returned from China 9 days ago. It has taken me a while to regain my energy and feel like myself again. …In fact, it has been very challenging.
I have been on this planet many decades now, but I feel like I am just getting started on what I want to achieve - what I feel God has in store for me to do.
Col 1:28-29: Christ is our message! We preach to awaken hearts and bring every person into the full understanding of truth. It has become my inspiration and passion in ministry to labor with a tireless intensity, with his power flowing through me, to present to every believer the revelation of being his perfect one in Jesus Christ.
If you don’t feel that way, too, I am hoping something will stir in you even as we share in God’s Word together today.
My purpose form this message today is to convince us of two things:
1. God Loves Us. (more than we can comprehend)
2. We can trust God because we know He loves us. We can come to Him and ask for help in completing our Divine Mission – living out our true purpose in life.
Early last week as I studied and searched and meditated on God’s Word, these words from 1 John 4 really spoke to me:
“We have known and believed the love of Jesus Christ”
1 John 4:16: So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
This resonated with me, and reinforced the resounding message that I shared and received so often while in Beijing with my precious friends there: (5 words)
“God loves you so much”
That was the message I brought to China, and that was the same message my Chinese friends brought to me.
I think we all really needed to hear it. …often.
John 13:35: By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
I really want to have the strength, power and resources to deliver that simple, life-changing message to more people – and to see that message change lives here and in China.
I believe God will empower us to handle this mission – and to have the vitality and resources to fulfill the work of faith that we have been commissioned to complete.
When we know what we are called to do, we should be able to pray confident, faith-filled prayers and make our petitions to God that He would indeed supply all we need to complete the mission we have to fulfill.
2 Thessalonians 1:11: With this in view, we constantly pray for you, that our God will count you worthy of your calling [to faith] and with [His] power fulfill every desire for goodness, and complete [your] every work of faith…
With this in mind, we constantly pray that our God will empower you to live worthy of all that he has invited you to experience. And we pray that by his power all the pleasures of goodness and all works inspired by faith would fill you completely. By doing this the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you will be glorified in him, by the marvelous grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
“We also pray that God will work powerfully in you. Then you will be able to do every good thing that you want to do. You will do the things that you want to do because you trust God.”
You trust God? What about Him are you trusting in?
We pray Jesus’ words, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
TPT: Manifest your kingdom realm, and cause your every purpose to be fulfilled on earth, just as it is in heaven.
If you embrace the scriptures I shared with you earlier, you can see how they agree with the prayer Jesus taught us to pray.
The great works God has called us to do
must begin with a greater revelation of His Love for us.
“God loves you so much”
I brought this message of God’s love to China – and my Chinese friends brought this same message to me, too. I really needed to learn it on a deeper level.
1 John 4:16: “We have come to know and believe the love God has for us. God is love. If you live in love, you live by the help of God and God lives in you.”
The Isaiah 53 prophecy (which was repeated and validated in Matt 8) is such a great example of the love Jesus showed to us.
Isaiah 53:5: But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by his stripes we are healed.
Look at this in the Amplified Bible. "He was wounded for our transgressions. He was crushed".
By the way, crushed is the correct word, not bruised.
He was crushed for our wickedness. Jesus was crushed for our wickedness.
Now watch this: "The punishment (required) for our well-being fell on Him, and by his stripes we are healed".
The punishment required, in the Hebrew, the well-being is the word "shalom".
The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
The punishment with a view to your well-being.
“Jesus wasn’t murdered” – He chose to endure the cross for you. For me.
“God loves you so much”
Jesus paid it all.
Look unto Jesus – look to His finished work.
Holy Communion is such a great opportunity for us to do this
The nails - the lashes – we recognize His love for us and open our hearts to His love
The bronze serpent - Look to Jesus’ finished work and receive your healing
The New Covenant
“God loves you so much”
Not because of our works
Eph 2:8,9: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
“I don’t feel married”
JOHN PIPER: God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's Word defines truth.
While we were yet sinners
“Because He lives … all fear is gone!”
2 Tim 2:13: If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
THIS is the GOD we are trusting in.
With this TRUST in the Love of GOD, we are empowered to REST
(by God’s Grace through Faith)
We no longer walk in fear of not doing everything “just right”
(did I pray loud enough? did I make a mistake today?)
So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do.
So we can, through Christ, break the power of the things that are hindering us from fulfilling God’s Purposes for our lives.
We call forth the Resources – Restoration – Healing – Renewed Strength – the deliverance – the wisdom
Maybe you’ve been trying to do things on your own for so long you wonder if it’s even possible to live this other way – to rely on God’s strength and power?
God knows where you’ve been – and He also knows what He could do in and through you if you will give Him back control of your life.
He knows how to heal and restore your life.
You need the life of God working in and through you – because that is God’s will for your life.
He wants to raise you up to a whole new level of wholeness and victory.
Col 1: 23: Never be shaken from the hope of the gospel you have believed in.
Because God loves us, this perfect love can cast out all fear from our lives as we put our full trust in Him and His plan for our lives.
“We have experienced and we have entrusted our lives to the love of God in us. God is love. “
Eph 3:19: …and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
God called you out of darkness. He loves you – and He has accepted you.
1 John 4:16
I returned from China 9 days ago. It has taken me a while to regain my energy and feel like myself again. …In fact, it has been very challenging.
I have been on this planet many decades now, but I feel like I am just getting started on what I want to achieve - what I feel God has in store for me to do.
Col 1:28-29: Christ is our message! We preach to awaken hearts and bring every person into the full understanding of truth. It has become my inspiration and passion in ministry to labor with a tireless intensity, with his power flowing through me, to present to every believer the revelation of being his perfect one in Jesus Christ.
If you don’t feel that way, too, I am hoping something will stir in you even as we share in God’s Word together today.
My purpose form this message today is to convince us of two things:
1. God Loves Us. (more than we can comprehend)
2. We can trust God because we know He loves us. We can come to Him and ask for help in completing our Divine Mission – living out our true purpose in life.
Early last week as I studied and searched and meditated on God’s Word, these words from 1 John 4 really spoke to me:
“We have known and believed the love of Jesus Christ”
1 John 4:16: So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
This resonated with me, and reinforced the resounding message that I shared and received so often while in Beijing with my precious friends there: (5 words)
“God loves you so much”
That was the message I brought to China, and that was the same message my Chinese friends brought to me.
I think we all really needed to hear it. …often.
John 13:35: By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
I really want to have the strength, power and resources to deliver that simple, life-changing message to more people – and to see that message change lives here and in China.
I believe God will empower us to handle this mission – and to have the vitality and resources to fulfill the work of faith that we have been commissioned to complete.
When we know what we are called to do, we should be able to pray confident, faith-filled prayers and make our petitions to God that He would indeed supply all we need to complete the mission we have to fulfill.
2 Thessalonians 1:11: With this in view, we constantly pray for you, that our God will count you worthy of your calling [to faith] and with [His] power fulfill every desire for goodness, and complete [your] every work of faith…
With this in mind, we constantly pray that our God will empower you to live worthy of all that he has invited you to experience. And we pray that by his power all the pleasures of goodness and all works inspired by faith would fill you completely. By doing this the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you will be glorified in him, by the marvelous grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
“We also pray that God will work powerfully in you. Then you will be able to do every good thing that you want to do. You will do the things that you want to do because you trust God.”
You trust God? What about Him are you trusting in?
We pray Jesus’ words, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
TPT: Manifest your kingdom realm, and cause your every purpose to be fulfilled on earth, just as it is in heaven.
If you embrace the scriptures I shared with you earlier, you can see how they agree with the prayer Jesus taught us to pray.
The great works God has called us to do
must begin with a greater revelation of His Love for us.
“God loves you so much”
I brought this message of God’s love to China – and my Chinese friends brought this same message to me, too. I really needed to learn it on a deeper level.
1 John 4:16: “We have come to know and believe the love God has for us. God is love. If you live in love, you live by the help of God and God lives in you.”
The Isaiah 53 prophecy (which was repeated and validated in Matt 8) is such a great example of the love Jesus showed to us.
Isaiah 53:5: But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by his stripes we are healed.
Look at this in the Amplified Bible. "He was wounded for our transgressions. He was crushed".
By the way, crushed is the correct word, not bruised.
He was crushed for our wickedness. Jesus was crushed for our wickedness.
Now watch this: "The punishment (required) for our well-being fell on Him, and by his stripes we are healed".
The punishment required, in the Hebrew, the well-being is the word "shalom".
The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
The punishment with a view to your well-being.
“Jesus wasn’t murdered” – He chose to endure the cross for you. For me.
“God loves you so much”
Jesus paid it all.
Look unto Jesus – look to His finished work.
Holy Communion is such a great opportunity for us to do this
The nails - the lashes – we recognize His love for us and open our hearts to His love
The bronze serpent - Look to Jesus’ finished work and receive your healing
The New Covenant
“God loves you so much”
Not because of our works
Eph 2:8,9: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
“I don’t feel married”
JOHN PIPER: God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God's Word defines truth.
While we were yet sinners
“Because He lives … all fear is gone!”
2 Tim 2:13: If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
THIS is the GOD we are trusting in.
With this TRUST in the Love of GOD, we are empowered to REST
(by God’s Grace through Faith)
We no longer walk in fear of not doing everything “just right”
(did I pray loud enough? did I make a mistake today?)
So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do.
So we can, through Christ, break the power of the things that are hindering us from fulfilling God’s Purposes for our lives.
We call forth the Resources – Restoration – Healing – Renewed Strength – the deliverance – the wisdom
Maybe you’ve been trying to do things on your own for so long you wonder if it’s even possible to live this other way – to rely on God’s strength and power?
God knows where you’ve been – and He also knows what He could do in and through you if you will give Him back control of your life.
He knows how to heal and restore your life.
You need the life of God working in and through you – because that is God’s will for your life.
He wants to raise you up to a whole new level of wholeness and victory.
Col 1: 23: Never be shaken from the hope of the gospel you have believed in.
Because God loves us, this perfect love can cast out all fear from our lives as we put our full trust in Him and His plan for our lives.
“We have experienced and we have entrusted our lives to the love of God in us. God is love. “
Eph 3:19: …and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
God called you out of darkness. He loves you – and He has accepted you.