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Celebration of Life

- February 24, 2020

"No one knows when his time will come." Ecclesiastes 9:12a 2/24 10 am, February 24, 2020, over 20,000 people gathered in Staples Center in LA to celebrate the life of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi. As millions of others around the world watch a select group of people speak live, Michael Jordan's speech was among those which stood out. Not for the new Jordan crying memes that it will spawn but because Kobe's "big brother" Mike, his boyhood idol really spoke from his heart. And before ending his emotional speech, he said "no one knows how much time we have". Jordan, wiping tears away as he spoke about his "little brother" Kobe. Indeed, for who would have known that Kobe (only 41) and 8 others would be taken from this world that fateful Sunday morning. Solomon In the bible, as we have read in the passage above, Solomon wrote in the Book of Ecclesiastes, basically the same thing... 'no one knows the time' an

The Shepherd and His Flock

“I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.

Therefore Jesus said again, “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

John 10 (NIV 84)

Disclaimer

If you have issues with Hillsong or Bethel or Elevation or any of the so-called heretical churches or preachers, we are not condoning any false teachings. There is always something we can find wrong in all churches, including the one we call ours. But there is one faith, there is one baptism, there is One God, there is One Spirit and One Savior, Jesus Christ. If we agree on all these then let's all work together for good. The Lord is coming back. Let us stop wasting time with nitpicking, criticizing other believers because they wear strange clothes or sing weird songs, or read a version of the bible we don't, or speak in tongues or do or believe something which we don't, instead let us do what God has really called us to do. God has called each one of us to do something. Let's do that.