Young People Gospel Meeting

This is good and acceptable in the sight of our Savior God, Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:4

The burden for the gospel preaching has been intensified very much these days, especially post-pandemic. As the church, we have been encouraging all the saints to pray and actively participate in the gospel preaching of the church. Likewise, the young people's training has intensified this burden further for the young ones with whom I am fellowshipping. I feel blessed to be able to actively participate in the church's as well as the young people gospel meeting. It is indeed a double blessing!

As the young people have their friends and classmates to whom they wanted to preach the gospel, they were invited too for the general gospel meeting. But due to age difference and timing, a good number could not really make it for the general gospel meeting on Fridays. Therefore, another gospel meeting was introduced on the Lord's day to meet this need.

The young people themselves made arrangements for the gospel meeting. Be it hosting, singing, testifying, or preaching the gospel message, it was all done by the coordination of the young people as a team. I was just there to oversee them. The previous week and last week we had the gospel meeting and it went well. The main benefits I see are the young people functioning for the gospel meeting, and an added blessing for the church with more gospel preaching. 

In line with this burden, I was very much impressed by the Life-study of Revelation on Gospel Preaching.

God’s wisdom is to make this age, the age from the ascension of Christ to His coming back, an age of gospel preaching. Everything on earth today is for the preaching of the gospel. Factories, printing, airplanes, radio, television, and even nuclear weapons are for the preaching of the gospel. This is the gospel preaching age. 

The history of the world since the ascension of Christ is a history of gospel preaching. What are we doing today? We are preaching the gospel. And we are not preaching a partial gospel but a whole, complete gospel, a full gospel. Do you realize that the full gospel includes the church life, the kingdom, and even the New Jerusalem? 

The full gospel encompasses everything from Matthew through Revelation. In these days we are preaching the full gospel, the gospel that includes the church today, the kingdom in the coming age, and the New Jerusalem in eternity. 

Whatever happens today, including the opposition against us, is a help to preaching the gospel. This is the vision of the first four seals. We should not be like a frog in a narrow well who has a very limited vision of the sky. Rather, we must have an overall vision to see the significance of the first four seals. Instead of having the view of a frog in a well, we should have a bird’s-eye view. 

The rider on the first horse is neither Christ nor Antichrist; it is the preaching of the gospel of the glory of Christ. This is the crucial factor of this age, and the three other horses are helping this one horse to run the race. We are not with the riders on the last three horses; we are with the rider on the first horse. We have a bow without an arrow, for we are preaching the gospel of peace, a gospel in which the victory has been won, in a peaceful way. Hallelujah, this glorious preaching of the gospel is riding on throughout the earth. Praise the Lord that we are on the first horse! (Excerpt from The Life-study of Revelation, Message 19)   

The current world situation proves that this age is indeed the age of gospel preaching. People need the Lord Jesus more at this present time. The whole world seems to be crushing in every area. All objects of trust proved futile. Despite the pandemic, the gospel much be preached and many people brought to salvation. I am glad I am living in this age facing the current situation and participating in the gospel preaching in all possible ways. Praise the Lord! 

Lord, save people! Grace us continuously to ever preach the gospel and bring many people to salvation!