March 09, 2014 PCCF Weekly Online Sermon

The Purpose of Christian Suffering

(Job, 1:21, 19:25-27, 23:10, 28:1)

by 

Saya Yaw Tar

Saya Yaw Tar 

Suffering is the part and parcel of Christian life. When we suffer for the sake of Christ, God gives us grace to endure in it. Apostle Paul says, “for to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake” (Phil 1: 29).

Why do Christian suffering? Why there is suffering in Christian Life? Why God permits suffering in Christian the life of Christian? If suffering is an universal fact what is the purpose of Christian suffering? The book of Job gives the answer to these and many others question. We shall look at the purpose of Christian suffering.

1.      To build our faith in God ( Job 19: 25-27)

God builds Job’s faith and hope in the Lord through the means of suffering. God is not necessarily responsible for our suffering. Righteous suffer because they are righteous. Job suffered not because of his sins. But God wants to build his faith in Him in the time of trials and testing. We should be faithful even in the time of suffering because suffering will build our faith, trusting, hope and confidence in the Lord.

        The book of Job said, 19:25 “I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth”. He had a great faith and hopes in God his redeemer. Furthermore, Job says in chapter 13:15, “Though he slays me, yet will I trust him”. God wants to build up our faith and trust in Him. Do we really trust in Him when we go through such kind of Suffering in Our lives?

2.      To prove our patience ( Job 1-2; James 1:3)

      James says, “Because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance”. (James 1:3) It means God wants to prove our long suffering by putting trials and testing in our lives. Suffering s the best time when we show our real character and nature towards God and others.

         Let me tell you a real story; there was a pastor and his wife. They had a young Child. This child had been going under serious sickness. In one Sunday this child was died. Shortly often the death of the child the Pastor was almost decided to leave the ministry. He said, “this is not patience. You know that Job was still patient even when he lost all that man belonged to him.

 He Lost:    

1.      His oxen and donkeys are stolen ( Job 1:14-15)

2.      His sheep and herdsmen are burned up by fire (Job 1:16)

3.      His camels and stolen and his servants killed by Chaldean (Job 1:17)

4.      His sons and daughters perished in a mighty wind (job 1:18-19)

5.      He himself got a terrible case of boils (Job 2:7-8

In all these Job never sin against God and his sovereignty. He was patient even in suffering of his life. He patiently waited upon the Lord for his comfort and cure. Job is the best example for the believers today. In the New Testament, Apostle Paul says “Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance”. Romans 5:3. Apostle James said “Testing of your faith work patience”, James 1:3

And as you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered”, James 5:11. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The lord is full of compassion and mercy”. 

3.      To purify our lives (Job 23:10;28:1)

God purified Job’s life through the means sufferings. Sometimes suffering comes because of our sins, sometimes it comes from God so that He wants to purify our life of cleans, our life. Job says, “And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God”, (Job 19:26).

In the New Testament, James says, “Blessed is the man that endures testing or trials by which he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life”, (James 1:12). Sufferings will make our life as pure as gold which refined by fire. Suffering will purify our life just as gold is purified by fire.

Finally, To Glorify God (Job 1:21)

We should glorify God through our sufferings, trials and testing. Job says, “Came out of my mother’s womb with necked, and necked shall I return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised”. (Job 1:21)

In all this, Job never sinned against God; rather he glorified God in his sufferings. We must glorify God in times of suffering, testing, trials and temptations. Our ultimate purpose to live her in this world is to glorify our Living God. Are we really glorifying God through our sufferings in our lives?

There was a lady who had an opportunity to do a higher study in London. She was a Christian as well as a good singer. As her studies progress, she was found with a terrible sickness, that was cancer! By knowing the fact that she was a cancer patient, she was still happy, and she still sings songs for the Lord and glorified God through that terrible suffering in life. One day, she went to be with the Lord. She glorified God even in her death.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, as we have seen about for purpose of Christians’ suffering from the book of Job, we should know the fact that what is the purpose of God in Christian suffering? The purposes of Christians’ Sufferings are:

1.      To build our solid faith in God.

2.      To prove our patience

3.      To purify our life and

4.      To glorify God.

Therefore, we should glorify our God through the pain that we go through, the difficulties that we face every day, the sufferings that we experience.

May God bless you all!

March 02, 2014 PCCF Weekly Online Sermon

“KHRIH DAWTNAK HE CUN ZEIHMANH NIH A KAN THEN KHO LAI LO” (ROM 8: 35-39)

By

Pastor Hniang Tial 

 Pastor Hniang Tial

A hmasa bikah damnak petu Pathian a min thangtha ko seh. PCCF online sermon rel tawntu nan dihlak cung zongah kaa lawm.

Chin mi hi ramkip hmunkip ah phanh le um a si cang bantuk in nai hrawng cu Chin National Day nih ramkip hmunkip um  Chinmi vialte cu linsa ngai in a kan tuah, aa tel kho lomi zong kan umnak cio in peih he lam he kan rak in zoh hna i a nuam taktak.Cu lakah the Chin land post nih a hun langhtermi hmanthlak Hakha CND le zuri kha ka vun hmuh hna cu Lai lei kan nun a hlei in khuate kan nun ning a niam rih ning le zu din dan hmanh a thiam rih lomi, kan lai pa cang thatha hna ka te le ka pu le telh chih in ka mit thlam ah an cung thup. Hi tluk in minung fim thiamnak a than tuk lio caan le Lady Ga Ga hna outer space ah hla sak aa timh lio caan ah hin kan khua tarnu pakhat nih cun “cut cut eih” hi zei tin dah an ser cawk hnga kan mah chungkhar nih kan hmanmi hmanh a tlawm ti lo a ti ve hawi, aw kan uknak that lo ruangah mu ka ti. Khel khat lei in thanchonak nih kan khuh ve sehlaw tah zeidah kan lawh hnga ti khi ka ruat, chim duhmi cu minung hi an fim chin lengmang biaknak a herh lo a timi le Pathian a um lo a timi (Atheist) pawl zong an tam chin ve. Hi caan chungah a nungmi kan si tikah Khrih dawtnak he a kan thenkhotu ding thil hi a tam taktak ti hi nai hrawng cu khua a ka ruahter ngai.   

Rom. 8: 39, ah Paul nih, “kan ta a simi Pathian dawtnak he a kan then kho tu ding cu sermi thil dihlak ah hin zeihmanh a um lo” a ti. Nain a kan then tu hi sermi thil lawng te an si cang, a biana ah ka umnak CLSU hrawng hrang i Philippines pawl hi Khrihfa lawng te an si ko nain Biakinn a phan lomi an tam taktak, zarhpi ni zongah ni dang he dang loin  rian an tuan ko. Cucaah Pslam 14: 2-3 khi ka lungah a  chuak “an dih lak in an tlau dih cang”. A si ah an zumhnak a tlau cang a si hnga maw, ka hawi nu sinah kan nih Lai lei Pathian kan biak ning zarhpi ni kan hman ning hna ka chimh i, a ka leh mi cu a hlan ahcun kan si ve ko a ti. Chim duh mi cu than chonak nih Pathian he a hlahter ngai cang hna ti hi a fiang. Athiest Paul nih hin Pathian a um lonak kong fak pi in an dirpi chin proof tampi an lak i an chim. Rechard Dawkins nih “The God Delusion” timi cauk a tialmi kong he pehthlai in Oct 3, 2007 John Lennox he debate an tuah mi kha a ngaimi nan um theu lai, Khrihfa biaknak hi tih nung ah a chiah, a ruang cu Khrihfami hna kan nunning ruangah a si ti cu a fiang. John Lennox nih a lehmi ka uar ngai mi cu Pathian a um ko nak cu ka nunnak nih a teh, ka nunnak ah lawmhnak le hna ngamnak ka ngei a ti. Chim duhmi cu minung kan si caah Pathian he a kan hlat tertu or a kan thentu thil hi sermi thil in si hna seh, tonmi thil in si hna seh an tam liang luang ko men lai, hi lio caan ah kan mah nunnak hrimhrim nih Pathian Pathian a um ko ti le Pathian a dawtnak cu ka ta a si ti khawh i lawmhnak, hna ngamnak ngeih khawh hi a fawi lo. Paul nih nunnak hi ka caah Khrih a si (Phil. 1: 21) a ti bantuk in ti khawh hi cu a har hringhran ko. 

Cucaah u le nau hna ni tin kan nunnak ah Khrih dawtnak he a kan then kho tu thil, phun dang in, Khrih he kan i pehtleihnak a fehter lo tu thil hi kan nunnak i, i pai in a um lio caan ah,  nunnak hi ka caah Khrih a si ti le Khrih dawtnak he cun zeihmanh nih a ka then kho lo ti hi kan thinlung ah vun nunter zau in kan cungah a tlungmi thil vialte a tei kho tu si hna u si law, fek tein dir zungzal ko hna u sih ti hi thazang pek kan duh hna.

Kaa lawm.

Pastor Hniang Tial

CLSU

Weekly Online Sermon

Weekly Online Sermon
by
Rev. Ram Hu 

 Rev. Ram Hu

Biaceihtu: 14:14 “ Eitu chung in ei awk achuak. A thawngmi chungin a thlummi a chuak.”

Damnak aka petu Pathian min ka thangthat. Can tha a ka petu hna cungah ka lung aa lawm, Pathian bia areltu nan dih lak cung ah Pathian riantuannak khuaruahhar cu athar in tlung hram ko seh.

            Hi biahleng hi zeitindah na hmuhning asi ve, eiawk cu eitu chung in asi na ti ve lai maw? Na nunnak ah a thlummi na tonmi hna hi khuazei in dah an si.? Israel mi hna cu kamhmi caanan ram an lut lai te ah, Moses nih ram va hlathlai ding ah miphun ai awk ah minung 12 a thlah hna. Ni 40 chung Pathian kamhmi ram cu an va zoh, an kal lio ah khan cu group khat in an kal, an rak kir than tik ah group 2 ah an cang. Group khat cu minung 10 an si, pahnihnak cu 2 an si. Ram thatnak kong an chimh cio ah an I khat dih, cawhnuk le khuihlati luannak ram cu asi tak , asi nain cu Pathian kamhmi ram cawhnuk le khuaihlati an luannak khua le ram cu, Anak mingan pawl, kulhmi khua a ngaimi eitu hna sin ah cu arak um ai. Minung 10 nih khan, kan nih cu an caah rawl kan si an ti, asi nain Kaleb le Joshua nih cun an nih cu kan rawl an asi anti. Kaleb le Joshua caah cun eitu chung in eiawk cu achuaktak hmai sai ko, athawngmi hna chung in atlumi cu an co tak tak ko. Minung 10 nih cun, mit nih a hmuhkhawh mi vawlei thil le tihnung zoh lawng in an kal, asi nain minung 2 nih cun mit in hmuhkhawh lomi bawipa an Pathian in an kal.

            Pathian nih pumpak caah, chungkhar caah, khua le ram caah thiltha tampi an kan kamh. Cu a biakam, eiawk le a thlummi cu eitu hna sin ah le kanmah nak in athawngdeuhmi hna sin ah arak um kho ti hi kan rak theih kho lo. Khi tik ah harnak ngan pi pi kan rak hmu tik le kan ton tik ah Pathian hnatlak asi rua lo, asi lo ah zeitindah asi khawh lai tiin thiltha ei kho lo in le athlummi tep kho lo in ka um can atam pi ve. huatdingmi minung ka ton tik hna ah, eitu ah an cang, ka duh lo ning in thil arak can tik ah ka caah arak thlum kho ti lo. Sualnak tuah ding can tha kan hmuh tik ah sualnak nih cu aka ei thluahmah, keimah nak in athawng deuhmi ka titsa duhnak ral he ka rak I do tik ah kan nunnak cu khatnak in ka khat tawn,a thlumi kan rak ei kho lo. Kan feeling, emotion le mithmuh in kan kal tawn, zumhnak in kan kal lo caah a kan eitu ah thil cu an cang kan caah akha tukmi ah aa cang. Pathian mi hna, Isreal mi lak ah ti rawl a um ti lo, asi nain an ral hna Assiria sin ah cun Isreal mi hna caah rawl tampi a rak um, thinghmui 4 hna nih an ral hna sin ah kan thih le thih tiin an vakal tk ah Pathian an sin aum caah, Isreal mi hna nih rel cawk lo tirawl cu dotu le eitu hna sin ah cun an hmu. Somson cu Pathian thawnnak in eitu chung in ei awk ahmu, a thawngtukmi chung in atlum bikmi khuihliti a co. kan mahnak in athawng deuhmi le tihnung thil eitu hna zong he kan ton tik ah Kan pathian he kan si caah nikhat khat cun cu athawngtukmi kan timi le eitu kan timi hna chung in eiawk rawlthawbik le athlum bikmi khuihlati cu arak luang ve te ko lai. Pathian he kan umtinak le kan tuantinak paoh ah thlachuah aum, thlachuahnak, rawl le athlummi hna hi eitu le kanmah nak in athawng deuhmi hna sin ah hin arak um tawn.

            Pathian kan thangthatnak hi kan feeling le pawngkam zulh in silo in Bawipa kan Pathian tu ah sisehlaw, mithmuhnak in kal loin zumhnak tuin hmailei ah kan kal lai. Dohtu, eitu, kan thazang, kan sining, kan fimnak nak nakin athawngdeuhmi he kan ton tik ah, kanmah leiah atang zungzaltu kan pathian he kankal lai, kan ton ti lai i hi thil hna chung in eicawk lo rawl le athlum bikmi khuihlati hna cu kan co ve te ko lai.

Lawmhnak tampi he,

Rev. Ram Hu

February 16, 2014 PCCF Weekly Online Sermon

“Bawipa kan dir pi ko” 

By

Saya Lewis Thla Peng Cung

 Saya Lewis Thla Peng Cung

U.S phaisa (US$, currency) ah ai tial mi catlang pakhat te cu “In God We Trust” timi a si. Hi nih a chim duh mi cu USA ram pi nih hin Pathian cung ah alu ai hlinh i a luan cia caan chungah siseh a ra lai mi hmai lei caan chung zongah siseh kan har sat nak ah le kan lung retheih nak zongah siseh lam akan hruaitu le lam akan hmuh sak tu ding motto asi lai tiah ruahchannak he an ttial mi catlang pakhat te (phrase) a si. Hihi an motto “In God We Trust” timi hi ahmasa bik an phaisa ah arak cuannak cu an phaisa pia 2 (2-cent) cungah arak si. Asinain 1864, April 22, hnu i Congress party nih phaisa piahnih te cung i ai ttial mi “In God We Trust” miti cu an phaisa vialte cungah ttial si cangseh an ti hnu in hun ttial le hun hman cu a si. Cun July 30, 1956 hnu in hi catlang (phrase) te cu an ram pumpi i an motto ah ahung cang ti asi.

Tuzing ah saduh ka thah ngaimi pakhat cu kan nih krihfa mi hna zong nih hihi “In God We Trust” timi te hi kan motto nganbik ah si ve sehlaw kan nun chungah amah Pathian lawnglawng hi i bo chan ko hna usih timi hi a si.
“In God We Trust” timi nithaizing ah chim le rel ding in kai timh mi a si lo, sihmanhsehlaw hihi he ai khat nawn mi catlang pakhat acung i ka ttialmi “Bawipa Kan Dir Pi Ko” timi he pehtlai tu in hun chim kai timh deuh mi asi.
Hi he peh tlai in nihin kan khua kan ram kan miphun akan cawisangtu kan biak kan Pathian nih hin hi thinlung ngeih ding zong hi pumpak pakhat cio kan cungah akan duh piak bikmi asi lai tiah ka ruah i cun amah Pathian kan auh nak “Maw!!!Bawi pa kan dir pi ko” kan ti nak, le “nangmah lawnglawng hi bochan ding kan in ngei” kan ti tawn nak au aw akan theih piak nak ruang zong ah laimi a hlei in PCCF hi tluk dirhmun i kan dir khawh nak zong hi asi lai tiah ka zumh.

Zeiruangahdah Pathan dirpinak cu kan herh peng ko ti hi chim ka duh ko. Nitin kan nunnak ah hin kan Pathian dirpinak tel lo in kan mah te in zeihmnah kan tuah khawh mi a um lo, kan mah lawng kan si lo minung asi mi poahpoah nih Pathian ttanpinak le dirkamh pinak tel lo in kan tuah khawh mi samfa fangkhat tia te hmanh a um lo. Cucaah cun Pathian dirpinak cu kan herh zung zaal ko. Vawleicung ah mithang kan ti mi hna ral tuknak lei kam ah siseh azei lei poah in mi tthawng kan ti mi hna hmanh khi an mah tthawn nak lawnglawng cun zei hmanh tuah kahwh mi an ngei lo, Bible chung in kan zoh ahcun minthang mitthawng tam pi lak ah Samson te Goliath te cun Nebuchadnezzar te hna hmanh kha an mah minung tthawn nak lawnglawng an i rinh poah ah khan an sung zungzal ti kha kan hmuh. Asi nain amah tthawn nak zei hmanh tel bak lo in Pathian tthawn nak lawng bak ai ttanh mi pa David tu cu tei nak in sun par nak kha ahmu ti kha kan hmuh mi si. 1samuel 17: 45 chungah Pathian dirpinak le ttanpinak kha lak zau in teinak ahmu.

Culawng sirihlo kan nih minung cu thil fate tuahkhawhmi kan ngeih ah khin kei mah thil tikhawhnak asi rua tiah ruah kan hmang cucu kan Biak kan Pathian nih aduhlo taktak mi asi, Babylon siangpahrang pa Nebuchadnezzar zong kha a inn cung in aa chok i Babylon khua lipi cu azoh tikah “mah hihi alianngan mi Babylon, keimah nih siangpahrang umnak caah kei mah tthawnnak anganmi le keimah upatnak langhternak caah ka sermi asi lo maw?” tiah a au. Cucu achim lio ahcun Vancung in aw pakhat athang i “Maw! Nebuchadnezzar siangpahrang ka bia hi ngai tuah: na pen nak cu “chuh” na si cang, Minung bu hna sin in tthawl na si cang ramsa hna sin ah khua na sa lai” (Daniel 4:30-32) Aw!!! Kan tuah mi thil fate hmanh hi kan mah tthawnnak in kan tuahkawhmi asi ko ti kan ruah ahcun zeitluk in dah ttih ava nun!!… Nebuchadnezzar siangpahrang pa bang in minung hna sin in tthawl kan si ve sual lai.

Cucaah kan nih laihri tlai unau vial te hna zong nih nihin ni ah kan sining te kha philh lo in le hi tiang dir hmun ka si nak hi kei mah thil ti khawh mi pakhat te hmanh asi ttung lo Pathian thil ti khawh nak le dirpinak ruang ah pei asi ko cu ti mi thin lung ngeih zungzal hi philh hlah hna usih. Nihin ah inn le lo tthattha kangeihh khawh nak le vawlei cung ram tthattha hna kan phanh khawh nak le fimnak cawngin sianginn thatha hna ah sianginn kan kaikhawhnak hna hi kan mah ti kawh mi si lo in Pathian tu kan i bochan i kan au nak aw “Bawipa kan dir pi ko” kan ti nak tu akan theih piak i hi tluk tiang akan cawi san tu hi Pathian lila asi ti kha philh hin lo te in hmailei zong “maw Bawipa nang mah dirpinak lawnglawng hi kan herh ko” ti au tthan bu in akan dirpinak cung ah lomh nak bia chim dai thlang lo tein kar kan hlan khawh nah hnga Bawipa tu nih kan dir pi rih ko seh…