We'll please turn to Hebrews chapter 8.
Hebrews chapter 8.
We'll read from verse 8 through verse 13.
Hebrews chapter 8, verse 8.
For finding fault, he says to them, Behold,
days come, said the Lord, and I will
consummate a new covenant as regards the house
of Israel and as regards the house of
Judah, not according to the covenant which I
made to their fathers in the day of
my taking their hand to lead them out
of the land of Egypt, because they did
not continue in my covenant, and I did
not regard them, said the Lord.
Because this is the covenant that I will
covenant to the house of Israel after those
days, said the Lord.
Giving my laws into their mind, I will
write them also upon their hearts, and I
will be to them for God, and they
shall be to me for people.
And they shall not teach each his fellow
citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the
Lord, because all shall know me in themselves,
from the little one among them unto the
great among them.
Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses,
and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will
never remember any more.
In that he says new, he has made
the first one old.
But that which grows old in age is
near disappearing.
Our God is a God of covenant.
In the Bible you'll find God makes covenant
with people from time to time.
Of course the word covenant is the word
contract that we use in our days.
God is a God of contract.
Now why do you make a contract?
The reason why people make contracts is because
people's words are not too trustworthy.
So you have to put everything in a
contract written down, stipulated, and signed.
In order that it may have a legal
obligation.
And that's the reason why you'll find in
this world we use contracts.
Now God, so far as he is concerned,
he doesn't need a contract.
Whatever he says, he does.
His words are as true, dependable, as his
actions.
There is no need for God to put
himself in a contract with man.
The reason why our God is a God
of contract is not because of his own
need.
It is because of our need.
He knows how weak is our faith.
He knows that because we are what we
are, we tend to think the same about
him.
In order to increase our faith, to strengthen
our faith, God is willing to condescend himself.
As it were, putting himself on our level
and bind himself in a contract.
So brothers and sisters, when we find God
making covenant with man, making contract with man,
let us remember one thing, that it shows
God's great love.
Because with himself there is no such need.
It is because of us.
He wants to bring us to where he
is.
Therefore he has to come down to where
we are and making contract.
Here in the book of Hebrews you will
find two covenants are being mentioned.
One is called the Old Covenant and the
other is called the New Covenant.
Of course the Old Covenant refers to that
covenant which God made with the children of
Israel at Mount Sinai.
God heard the cry of the children of
Israel in Egypt.
God remembered his promise to Abraham, to Isaac
and to Jacob.
So God sent Moses down to Egypt to
deliver his people out of Egypt into the
promised land.
After God had brought them to Mount Sinai
in the wilderness.
You remember in Exodus chapter 19 God said,
I have brought you to myself as on
eagles wing.
If you keep my word, if you keep
my covenant, then you will be my people.
People of my possession.
And you will be a nation of peace.
And there God covenanted with us.
And in that covenant it is summed up
in the Ten Commandments.
So the Ten Commandments represent the Old Covenant.
That contract which God made with the children
of Israel.
It was a conditional covenant.
Why?
Because in that covenant God said, If you
will keep my word, then you shall be
my people and I will be your God.
In other words, in case they did not
keep the covenant, then what would happen?
The contract would be abolished.
Because the children of Israel did not fulfill
their condition.
But anyway you will find when God gave
this contract or covenant to the children of
Israel, God said, Thou shalt.
And Thou shalt not.
And the people said, We will do everything
that God says.
So the covenant was made.
It was as if God was taking their
hand and tried to lead them on into
the full purpose.
But you know, just like sometimes when you
are walking on the street with your child,
you try to hold the hand of your
child, trying to lead him safely through the
street or try to lead him to a
certain place and then something attacks that child
and sometimes you find it is very difficult
because you want to lead him one way
and you find a little struggle there.
He tries to get off your hand and
because he is being attacked by something else.
And this was exactly the story of how
God led the children of Israel through the
wilderness.
God was holding their hand, trying to lead
them into His full purpose, into the promised
land.
But here you will find they tried to
get away from God's hand.
They tempted God.
They tested Him.
And for 40 years, they were in the
wilderness.
They broke the contract.
And because they broke the contract, God...
Now that was the old covenant.
But in the book of Jeremiah, when the
children of Israel were at that time at
the end of the nation, they were soon
to be taken captive by the Babylonians.
But it was during that time that God
spoke to the children of Israel, telling them
that one day God will make a new
covenant with them.
And it was a better covenant.
It was not like the old covenant which
was conditional.
It was not like the old covenant that
was external.
God took their hand and tried to lead
them.
It will be a new covenant.
It will be something entirely different.
And it will be of a higher...
God promised them a new covenant.
The nation was destroyed.
For hundreds of years, nothing was heard.
Had God forgotten His promise of a new
covenant?
Nothing was mentioned again of the new covenant.
Until one day, you remember, on the night
of His betrayal, our Lord Jesus was with
His own disciples.
They were heading the Passover feast as a
family.
But during the Passover feast, towards the end,
our Lord Jesus, He took the load.
He blessed it.
And He gave it to His disciples and
said, This is my body, broken for you.
Take it.
Do this in remembrance.
And after that, He took the cup.
He blessed it.
And He said, This is the cup of
the new covenant for the remission of your
sins.
Drink ye of it in remembrance.
After Jeremiah mentioned the new covenant, nothing was
said anymore.
Until that night, our Lord Jesus, He raised
the cup and said, This is the cup
of the new covenant.
It is true.
One day in the future, God will yet
fulfill His promise to the children of Israel.
In making that new covenant with them.
It will come.
But thank God.
Even before that day arrived, our Lord Jesus,
the last night before His crucifixion, He brought
what God had promised to the children of
Israel in the future to His own church.
So dear friends, the promise that God gave
to the children of Israel for the future
is now our possession in Christ.
We are today living under the new covenant.
God has made a contract with us through
Christ Jesus.
And this contract that God has made with
His church, that is with us today, is
the very new covenant that God promised to
the children.
A covenant defines a relationship.
Our relationship with God today and God's relationship
with us today, God's way of dealing with
us today, and our way of dealing with
God today, all these are based upon a
covenant.
It is therefore of great importance for us
to know what this new covenant is.
Because if we do not know what God
has covenanted with us, we do not know
how to deal with God, and we do
not know how God deals with us.
In order to maintain a right relationship with
God, we have to have a good understanding
of this covenant.
You know, sometimes in this world, whether you
are renting a house, or buying a place,
or buying a business, or doing something, you'll
find there's a contract, and you have to
sign the contract.
But oftentimes you'll find in the contract, of
course, you have maybe a page or two
pages or maybe more.
All the stipulations, all the articles in that
contract.
And sometimes it tells you what you must
do, and sometimes it promises you what will
be done to you, and here you'll find
all the contracts.
But men are such.
Oftentimes, they put something in very fine print,
and you don't read it.
Probably you read the big items, and you
skip all the fine print, and very often
you'll find when anything should happen, it's the
fine print that really matters.
And because it is in the contract, you
have signed it, you suffer loss.
Now, of course, God does never put anything
in fine print.
He gave us in bold letters.
But, it behooves us to know what are
in the New Covenant.
What are the articles there?
What has God promised to us?
What has God promised to do for us?
What right do we have, people of God?
Or is there any conditions we must fulfill
before God will fulfill His promise?
Well, we need to know what the New
Covenant is.
We often say today we are living in
the days of the New Covenant.
But what is the New Covenant?
What is the difference between the New Covenant
and the Old Covenant?
As a matter of fact, many people today,
and many God's children today, are still living
under the New Old Covenant.
You would be surprised how many of God's
people today, even though they know they are
under the New Covenant, and yet they still
live in the Old Covenant.
Why?
Because they don't know the difference between the
New and the Old Covenant.
What is the characteristics of the Old Covenant?
Number one, it is conditional.
Number two, it is external.
Number three, the burden of responsibility is upon
man, not upon God.
That's the characteristics of the Old Covenant.
It is conditional.
You must do this, you must do that,
you must not do this, you must not
do that, and if you keep the Ten
Commandments, then you are my people and I
am your God.
Conditional.
God says, you do this.
The responsibility is on you.
After you have done this, then I will
do that.
It is written on stone.
You read it, you try to memorize it,
you try to tell yourself, don't forget it,
and keep it.
It is external.
And you try by yourself.
That is, these are the characteristics of the
Old Covenant.
The commandments are holy, are spiritual.
But we are.
It is through the weakness of the flesh
that the law cannot.
But the characteristics of the New Covenant are,
number one, it is unconditional.
There is no condition.
Number two, it is immoral.
It is something that God does within us.
And number three, all the responsibility is God's.
God said, I will take the Holy Spirit.
All you need to do is to trust
Him.
Now, having said these, let's go into in
Hebrews chapter eight, from verse ten to verse
twelve.
You'll find there are three items.
Three main things in the New Covenant.
Let us read them and then we'll go
over them one by one.
Verse ten.
Because this is the covenant that I will
covenant to the house of Israel after those
days, says the Lord.
Number one.
Giving my laws into their mind.
I will write them also upon their hearts.
And I will be to them for God
and they shall be to me for people.
The power of life.
Number two.
Verse eleven.
And they shall not teach each his fellow
citizen and each his brother, saying, Know the
Lord, because all shall know me in themselves
from the little one among them unto the
great among them.
Spiritual.
Number three.
Verse twelve.
Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses
and their sins and their lawlessnesses, I will
never remember anymore forgiveness of sins and even
forgetting.
This order is God's order.
But when you come to our experience, probably
it would be easier for us to understand
if we start from the last one.
Because so far as our experience is concerned,
it seems as if the last one is
the first one that we are really awakened
to.
In other words, God has made a covenant
with us today in Christ Jesus.
This covenant, this contract, is sealed by the
blood of our Lord Jesus.
It cannot be broken.
And this is God's covenant with man today.
The relationship of God with us today is
based upon this covenant.
And God deals with us today according to
this covenant.
And the same thing is true if we
want to approach God.
This is our approach.
Now the first thing is, God says, I
will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses and their
sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember
anymore.
God promises to forgive our sins and to
forget our iniquities.
The moment we realize we are sinners.
The moment we know we have sinned.
When we are under conviction by the Holy
Spirit, our natural reaction will be, What should
I do then?
How can I wash away my sins?
How can I appease God?
Immediately you will say, Let me try to
do some good deeds.
If I can accumulate some good merits that
may be able to cover all my past
faults and sins.
And that may in a way appease the
wrath of God.
And it is upon this natural reasoning that
all the natural religions are built.
If you really mean bitterness, you know you
have sinned, you are convicted, and you try
to do something good to balance your account.
The more you try, the more you'll find
you are unable.
If you are honest with yourself, you know
that is impossible.
As you find Isaiah says, Even our righteousnesses,
things that you consider as good, as righteous,
but even our righteousnesses are as filthy rags
before God.
They are not only rags that cannot cover
your nakedness, but they are filthy too.
Nothing to eat.
How can we have our sins forgiven?
How can a righteous God forgive sinners?
Before Christ died, the righteous God could
not forgive sins without compromising.
God is love.
I remember many years ago, during the war
time, I was talking to a lady.
Her father was a Methodist minister, as my
father was, and she was brought up in
a Christian family.
She came to this country to study.
And then she went back.
And one day we were talking and she
told me, she said, Mr. Kong, God is
love.
How can God send anyone to hell?
Surely God will forgive everybody.
Because He is love.
But she forgot.
God is not only love, but God is
righteous.
God cannot love to the extent to compromise
His righteousness.
God loves sinners, yes, but God hates sin.
The wages of sin is death.
How can a just God justify sinners?
No way.
Only one way.
God has made the one who knows no
sin to be sin for us, that we
may become the righteousness.
It is because our Lord Jesus, the just,
has died for the unjust.
Therefore, there is forgiveness of sin for the
unjust.
If we try to come to God and
ask for mercy, if we try to come
to God and present Him with all our
merits and say, with all these merits, will
you consider?
Will we be completely rejected?
Our offering will be like the offering of
Cain.
He brought the best of the fruit of
his labor on earth.
And he tried to present these to God
as if to say, now, will you accept
these?
And forgive me.
And you know the story.
God rejected His offering and rejected Him completely.
It's only His brother, Abel, offered a more
excellent sacrifice, the blood of the Lamb.
And because of that, God accepted Abel on
the basis of that better sacrifice.
So, dear friends, when we come to God
today, there is only one way.
And this is in the New Covenant.
If we come to God through Jesus Christ,
through His shed blood, and God said, I
will forgive your sins and I will remember
completely.
You know, oftentimes when we talk with people,
we say, now, if you only confess your
sins and trust in the Lord Jesus, accept
Him as your Savior, because He has shed
His blood for you.
God will forgive you.
To their mind, this doesn't seem to be.
I have sinned.
I've just come to God, trusting in the
Lord Jesus, and God will forgive me?
It's too good to believe.
They will forget that it is in the
New Covenant.
God said, I will forgive.
I will not remember anymore.
God has said it.
God has put His Word in the Covenant.
And because God has put His Word in
the Covenant, and it is unconditioned.
God said, I will.
God does not say, you do certain things
and I will.
God said, I will do that.
I will do that.
So anyone who will come to God through
Christ Jesus, his sins shall be forgiven.
Not only forgiven, in 1 John chapter 1
it is said, if we confess our sins,
God is faithful to forgive our sins and
to cleanse us from all our unrighteousness.
God is faithful.
We will say God is merciful and loving.
But here you'll find it is that God
is faithful and righteous.
Faithful to what?
Faithful to His Covenant.
Righteous to His Covenant.
He will do whatever He has said, whatever
He has promised, and whatever He has put
in the Covenant.
He is faithful and righteous.
That gives us great assurance.
You know, many people come to the Lord,
they have prayed, they ask God to forgive
them, but their whole approach is mercy.
Lord, if you show mercy to me, then
you will forgive me.
Now suppose God said, I'm not going to
show mercy to you.
Then what will happen?
Before Christ died on the cross, it was
mercy.
It was love that gave Christ.
But after Christ has died on the cross,
it is more than mercy and love.
It is faithful.
We can go to the Lord and say,
God, you have said it.
It is here in the Covenant.
Fulfill the contract.
We can approach the throne of grace with
boldness.
You do not need to be in fear
and trembling.
You can come to God with assurance, knowing
that because Christ had already died, your sins
are, it is sure, not only
forgiven.
You know, sometimes our problem is, we come
to the Lord and ask for forgiveness, and
we think we are forgiven.
But tomorrow, the next day, we begin to
remember it, and we come again to the
Lord and say, Lord, forgive.
And maybe in the afternoon we remember again
and say, Lord, forgive.
But the Lord says, I don't remember.
I don't remember.
God has a wonderful memory.
He remembers all that needs to be remembered
and forgets all that needs to be remembered.
And our mind is so distorted.
We remember what we should forget and we
forget what we should remember.
But dear brothers and sisters, thank God.
All our sins are forgiven.
Not only forgiven, but forgotten.
God said, as the east is from the
west, so is your sin.
He had thrown our sins behind His back
at the bottom of the sea.
He remembers no more all that we made.
We don't need to look backward anymore.
Dear brothers and sisters, all our sins, our
sins are forgiven and forgotten.
If we believe in the Lord, He forgives
and forgets.
So we can go on.
You know, one of the tricks of the
devil, of the enemy, is to try to
bring back.
And by doing that, he is the accuser.
He tries to accuse us of things already
under the blood.
And dear brothers and sisters, if we do
not know the new covenant, our faith sometimes
will be shaken.
We wonder if our sins are really forgiven.
But if we know the new covenant, we
can answer our adversary and say, the blood
of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has
cleansed us from all our sins.
How blessed it is!
When Martin Luther, the great reformer, while he
was doing the work of reformation, one day
Satan appeared to him and brought to him
a scroll called The Sins of Martin Luther.
And it was written within and without.
And of course, lots of them were true
and lots of them were false.
And the adversary challenged Martin Luther and said,
Dare you do the work of reformation?
Who are you to do the work of
reformation?
You are not qualified!
Full of sins like you are.
And thank God Martin Luther knew the blood
of the Lord Jesus.
He knew the new covenant.
He took a raggedy pen and wrote upon
it and said, The blood of Jesus Christ,
God's Son, cleansed me from all my sins.
And Satan disappeared.
Dear brothers and sisters, this is where we
stand.
On the blood of our Lord Jesus, our
sins are forgiven.
And not only forgiven, this is not only
the past.
This is our everyday experience.
Brothers and sisters, if we fall, just confess
what we were.
Repent.
Truly.
Our sins are forgiven.
Don't look back.
Just go forward.
Many Christians today always go back, go
back to their failures.
They think that they have to be sorry
for it.
Yes.
You need to be sorry for it.
But your sorrow does not cleanse you from
your sins.
It is the blood.
Therefore let us go on.
Trusting the blood of our Lord Jesus.
And go on.
The past is under the blood.
Whatever is under the blood, God would never
bring it out.
Even one day when we shall stand before
the judgment seat of Christ, anything that is
under the blood is forgotten.
Thank God for this new covenant.
But the new covenant is much more than
just this.
Here we find the second article.
And that is to say, they shall not
teach each his fellow citizen and each his
brother saying, Know the Lord.
Because all shall know me in themselves from
the little one among them unto the great
among them.
You know, we are the children of Israel.
How do they know the Lord?
The only way they could know the Lord
was they had to be taught.
They had to be instructed.
And that was the reason why God set
out the Levites, the priests, to study the
law and to teach the people.
Now if you don't know anything, you go
to them and they will teach you and
tell you, instruct you as what the law
was.
Now suppose it came to a place where
you do not know where you should go
or what you should do.
For instance, like Saul.
His father lost some ashes and he was
out to try to find his ashes but
he couldn't find them.
Now what should he do?
Should he go on, continue to find them
or should he go back whether his father
is worried or not?
Now what do you do?
Now in the Old Testament time, you went
to a seer, to a prophet.
And the prophet would ask for you before
God and would tell you what God said.
In other words, in the Old Testament time,
the knowledge of God was indirect through instruction
from outside, information, information.
Why?
Because God was outside of you.
We need people to teach us know the
Lord, know the Lord.
You know the word know the Lord here
is a word which means know outwardly, objective
knowledge.
Knowledge that you accumulate through information, receiving instruction.
Then you say, now I know, but this
is not the new covenant.
The new covenant is you do not need
to teach your brother or your fellow citizen
say know the Lord.
You don't need to do that.
Why?
Because everyone knows the Lord in himself.
This know is another know.
It's not the objective knowledge, it is the
subjective, intuitive knowledge.
It is not a knowledge that is accumulated
through information.
It is a knowledge that comes directly from
God within your spirit.
You don't need to tell any of your
brothers say know the Lord.
Why?
Because every child of God knows the Lord.
From the littlest one to the greatest.
Now dear brothers and sisters, do you know
that this is the new covenant?
Our problem today is after we come to
the Lord, now probably we know that if
we believe in the Lord Jesus our sins
are forgiven and forgotten.
Probably we know that.
Thank God we are saved.
But the problem comes.
I am now saved.
What shall I do?
What are the requirements of being a Christian?
How shall I live a Christian life?
What things I can do and what things
I should not do?
And with the best of intention we begin
to inquire.
We go around and ask, now I have
believed in the Lord Jesus but I am
very new.
I don't know anything.
Now you have to tell me what I
should do and what I shouldn't do.
You have to tell me that.
When you are told, well you should read
the Bible.
And from the Bible you will know.
But the Bible is so thick.
I am just starting to read it.
And if a problem comes, I cannot find
it in the Bible.
What should I do?
Just tell me.
And even if you don't ask, you will
be told.
There are so many teachers in the church
today.
Everyone wants to be a teacher.
After you have believed in the Lord Jesus
people will begin to pile information on you.
Or maybe you are anxious to gather information.
What you should do, what you shouldn't do,
where you should go and where you shouldn't
go and so on and so forth.
And all these things.
And you begin to inquire and ask.
Now in one thing you should ask.
That is true.
We should be humble enough to ask.
But brothers and sisters, there is something far
basic than that.
And I am afraid this is something that
Christianity has ignored.
Where comes our knowledge?
Does it come from outside?
Through instruction?
Or does it come from within?
How do you know God?
How do you know God's will?
Everywhere I go people, the one thing that
they are really interested in and they want
to talk about is how do I know
God's will?
How can I know God's will?
I don't know God's will.
I want to.
But I don't know.
And then people will begin to tell a
row.
If you want to know God's will, then
know these three things.
Number one, what the Bible says.
But you say, well I don't know the
Bible.
Number two, you pray.
You pray.
And, but, you don't know.
Number three, you watch these circumstances.
You watch and you are all confused.
You know?
They try to give you a formula and
the formula sometimes works and sometimes does not
work.
Now how do we know God?
Is it the right of every child of
God to know God?
What is the New Covenant?
The New Covenant says every one of us
knows God.
You don't need to be taught.
You know?
When?
In you.
When?
It starts from the middle.
The moment you are saved, you have the
ability to know God.
The moment you are saved, God has put
something in you that you may know.
Is it not true the Bible says?
The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God?
How do you know you are a child
of God?
You know.
How do you know?
You say you know.
Why?
Because the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God,
dwells in your spirit, that new spirit, regenerated,
and deep down within you you cry out,
you know you are a child of God.
You don't need to be told.
You know.
It's from within.
Now, brothers and sisters, this is the way.
It begins from within.
Now, continuously.
Remember, we do not need people to teach
us because we have a teacher within.
The Holy Spirit is the teacher, the Spirit
of truth.
Every child of God has the Holy Spirit
in him or in her.
Now, to be filled with the Spirit is
different.
You may not be filled with the Spirit,
but that doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit
is not in you.
As long as, and as soon as, the
moment you are saved, regenerated, the Holy Spirit
dwells in your spirit.
He will never leave you, nor forsake you.
Why is he in you?
He is there to keep you in all
things.
Therefore, in 1 John 2, verse 27, it
is said, the anointing, the unction, which is
the anointing, the Holy Spirit, the anointing that
is in you shall teach you in all
things.
Great things and small things.
Everything.
And his teaching is true and is not
a lie.
And if you obey the teaching of the
anointing, you abide.
Brothers and sisters, we all have the Holy
Spirit in us.
Don't try to feel it physically.
You know?
It is not your feeling.
You say, I don't feel it.
It is not your feeling.
Don't try to imagine things.
It is not in your mind.
Not in your mind.
How do you know God?
In your spirit.
Deep down in your spirit.
The Holy Spirit, like the anointing, he is
applying an ointment upon your spirit.
You know, if you have a wound here,
you apply some oil, or ointment on it,
and it is very soon healed.
Very soon.
You feel it.
You know it.
So, that is the same thing.
The Holy Spirit, as he operates, as he
begins to teach in your spirit, it is
like the applying of an ointment.
It is not something overpowering.
It is not something oppressing you.
It is a still, small voice.
A very smooth, soothing sensation.
Not in your body, but in your spirit.
Oh, in the spirit you sense it.
This is the way.
Walk in it.
You may not know how to explain it,
because it is intuitive.
You may not feel it outwardly, because it
is not emotional.
But it is deep down in your spirit,
the Holy Spirit is teaching you.
Oh, brothers and sisters, you just try to
look back.
When you are first saved, you don't know
too much.
But sometimes, when you are talking with people,
in the midst of your talking, suddenly you
feel something there.
As if telling you, now stop.
If you continue to talk, you will say,
do you have such feeling?
Were you used to such talking before?
Therefore you feel well?
What is wrong with it?
It was strange.
As you are talking, suddenly you feel something
there.
There is a change.
A restraint.
A little fear.
As if telling all of you, saying, now
stop.
Don't go.
Brothers and sisters, do you listen to that?
If you learn to walk inwardly with God,
and you will pay attention to the leading
of the Holy Spirit within you, and you
will stop.
But if you continue on it, and you
don't listen to the Holy Spirit, well, so
far as your flesh is concerned, you have
said it.
Everything is poured out.
But, you know how you feel after.
Not like before, after you have said things,
you feel everything is poured out, you feel
very happy.
But you feel very happy.
You bring it down.
And you are going to.
Until you confess it before the Lord, your
sins are forgiven, then you will feel your
relationship with the Lord is restored.
The Holy Spirit is speaking within you.
He is moving.
Very often, you meet a person.
Somehow, in your spirit, the Lord is saying,
this is my attitude.
This is my attitude.
He may stand all right, but somehow you
feel it.
God's people today need to learn this inward
walk.
Because this inward way of knowing God is
the true way.
Often times, you know, we are drawn outward.
Drawn to the outside.
Our Christian life is lived all on the
outside.
It is not an inward walk.
But thank God, in the covenant, God said,
we can go to the Lord and say,
Lord, I thank you, because the Holy Spirit
is there teaching you.
Does it mean that, because we do not
need people to teach us know the Lord,
we know Him in ourselves, therefore there should
be no teachers in the church?
Well, even in the Bible, Paul is a
teacher.
Timothy is a teacher.
And the Bible says, do not despise prophecy.
Now, what does that mean?
Remember, all those teachers of prophesying are just
to confirm or to correct what God has
already spoken to.
In other words, you cannot base upon these.
You have to base upon what is within
you.
But you need to be checked and confirmed
or corrected by the teachers that God has
sent to His church.
Why?
Because our spirit is weak.
It's young.
We may misread the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is always right, but we
may misread Him, you know.
So that's the reason why we need the
Word of God to check it.
And we need teachers, instructions.
But remember, our Christian life cannot be based
on people's instruction.
Our Christian life must be based upon a
living relationship with God.
Instructions can only confirm, correct, and help.
They are not the basic.
So, dear brothers and sisters, we all are
given this life.
Just like our sins are forgiven.
So...
This concludes Brother Kong's ministry on the New
Covenant, November 1973.