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Hello everyone, welcome to the webhome of Church of God Sharing Village! As we continue with our brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ around the world who strive to do the will of the Father and live in obedience to the teachings and examples of Jesus Christ, it is only by the power of God’s Holy Spirit that we can nurture lives worthy to share the gospel of the coming kingdom of God and be an instrument for healing the sick. For anyone who wants to assemble with us on any of the weekly Sabbaths or the Feasts and Holy Days of the LORD God, by all means, come!
Even if we know that men of God, servants, prophets, kings, apostles, and the Lord Jesus Christ most of all, bore troubles so severe as to cry out “Abba, Father, why have you forsaken me? ” we too, when thrown into moments of helplessness even to a much lesser degree but no less wrenching it seems, can feel “na parang nag-iisa lang...,” as Raul de-Asis Hipe shared during a Sabbath message on June 26, 2010.
Being stoned, starved, shipwrecked, exiled, imprisoned, thrown into a pit, torn apart, would make one think, here I am doing the mission of the LORD God, not any crime but I am met with all this... Yet also it is when we really listen to what these men and women of God spoke and wrote, those who went through severe troubles, that the most reassuring words come. They soar as magnificent praise to the Almighty... recognizing beyond words the work He is making of us, “more precious than gold that perishes...”
“I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; The humble shall hear of it and be glad. Oh, magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together...
“Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!...
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all. He guards all his bones; Not one of them is broken.”
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:
“ For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. –letter of apostle Paul to the Romans, ch. 8:35-39
CLICK ON THE LINKS below to LISTEN TO THE PODCAST or DOWNLOAD THE MP3 FILE to understand the glorious intricate work the Almighty is making of our inward heart, allowing trials which alone can test the level of our trust, faith, maturity and how committed are we to that pearl of great price, the Kingdom of GOD...
Anything solid left to stand on? Anything left that is not hostile, pretentious, fake, defiant, sick, threatened, inflated, shaken, flooded, submerged, disguised, dismembered, incinerated, decimated or about to be? Fear tries to keep up appearances of hope, but where do we look for hope, when it is now pared down to a kind of vague wishing, not-sure-cross-your-fingers counting on “someone out there,” “somebody up there,” “something in here”? Hope, supposed to “spring eternal,” now just recycled illusions sustained by photo-op smiles and handshakes?
What if you had the chance find the original only true HOPE, that continues for the whole human family, uninterrupted, invisible, certain, as Juan Gabriel Cardonahonored during a Sabbath message on June 19, 2010, “the strong and confident expectation...” woven throughout Scripture:
“For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance...” —apostle’s letter to believers in Rome, ch. 8:24-25
Can we count on this hope? If we are used to stuff that crumbles as soon as it is labeled invincible, how can we begin to believe in the realities that the Eternal Living GOD reveals? What is it like to actually experience, by the longsuffering mercies and precise intricate artistry of the Potter, the state of “not seeing yet believing”? How can we tell the false hope from the real, especially when the fakes can seem so appealing?
“Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds flourish without water? While it is yet green and not cut down, It withers before any other plant, The hope of the hypocrites shall perish, whose confidence shall be cut off...”-Job 8:11
CLICK ON THE LINK below to LISTEN TO THE PODCAST or DOWNLOAD THE MP3 FILE to find out how the only true hope literally changes everything we value, and forms in us made of dust, a treasure which nothing in heaven or earth can ever destroy...
“SO GRATEFUL” —Whether in pain or in rejoicing, the family of Raul and Vivian Hipe have always raised their voices in praise to Almighty GOD, in whose enduring purpose they strive to abide. On the Sabbath before their mother was scheduled to give birth, Ralph took the guitar and Arielle the keyboard as they rose to offer “I’m So Grateful” (composed by Walt Harrah) with their mother and father, and their baby sister in the womb. This was only one among many things we pleaded before the LORD God during the fellowship communal prayer that followed Sabbath assembly on May 29, 2010. For it had been a pregnancy declared from tests and soundings and physical limitations to be an impossibility from day one.
But by the enduring mercies of the Eternal Creator, as her father declared how true the apostle James’ testimony was that “patience must have its perfect work,” and her mother experiencing the meaning of DAILY miracles of even the tiniest details, more than the general assurance of a WEEK, the baby coasted through the calendar of motion and time with doctors holding their breath, continuously surprised by growth where thy expected none, and on June 1, 2010, Mattea Fae Lois Deboma Hipe was brought to birth and given the breath of life, her mother strengthened and alive through it all!
Yet let us not cease in prayer, brothers and sisters in the household of faith, for now on one hand we have a multitude of wonders and hurdles overcome, to raise our voices in thanksgiving to Almighty GOD, and on the other what to human eyes are incredible adversities threatening the health and life of baby Mattea Fae Lois...
“...We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done...
“For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope...” –Romans 15:4
The daily exercise and discipline of abiding in the Word of God is easily dismissed by those who need it most. “Sa pagwawalang-bahala na ‘alam ko na iyan eh, yung Salita ng Diyos,’ ay hindi namamalayan na nalilihis na pala...” reminded our elder Raul de Asis Hipe,during the Q&A Bible Study on the Sabbath of May 29, 2010. “Sa pagkakagulo sa paligid, kawalan ng pag-asa, pagkagutom, the more we need to dig into the Word of God.”
Bible study interaction usually starts with timid, but minutes into the study find children, youth, grownups, and elders engaged in studying Scripture, discussing available commentaries and exchanging commonly-held explanations. But at the end, still find Scripture giving the answer in its own context.
When the Bible is open before our eyes, and we attend to it, not just assume its contents, we come to be “like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus.”1 know what it’s like to “with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”2
CLICK ON ANY OF THE LINKS BELOW to listen to or download excerpts from the Interactive Q&A Bible Study on the Sabbath of May 29, 2010...
When the eyewitnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ gathered on Pentecost, they were already one in mind and purpose “one accord in prayer and supplication...”1 “one accord in one place”2.
So why did they need the Holy Spirit then? Why do Christ’s disciples need it now? Was it for strength to resist temptations? A fix when we get depressed? To fortify our weak points? Personal security gear?
As traced from Scripture by Raul de Asis-Hipe during the message on Pentecost (Shavuot), May 19,the mandate which the LORD God set forth with Israel during the first Shavuot after being freed from bondage...
“Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should act according to them in the land which you go to possess.
...was reconnected by the Lord Jesus Christ to His followers before He returned to the Father:
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”–Acts 1:8
CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW to listen to the podcast or download the mp3 file,to realize what should propel the compassion and tolerance being embraced by society to deal with increasing diseases, violence and disaster, and awaken to the dedicated involvement and certain purpose of being a WITNESS for GOD...
Hello everyone, welcome to the webhome of Church of God Sharing Village! As we continue with our brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ around the world who strive to do the will of the Father and live in obedience to the teachings and examples of Jesus Christ, it is only by the power of God’s Holy Spirit that we can nurture lives worthy to share the gospel of the coming kingdom of God and be an instrument for healing the sick. For anyone who wants to assemble with us on any of the weekly Sabbaths or the Feasts and Holy Days of the LORD God, by all means, come!
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Even if we know that men of God, servants, prophets, kings, apostles, and the Lord Jesus Christ most of all, bore troubles so severe as to cry out “Abba, Father, why have you forsaken me? ” we too, when thrown into moments of helplessness even to a much lesser degree but no less wrenching it seems, can feel “na parang nag-iisa lang...,” as Raul de-Asis Hipe shared during a Sabbath message on June 26, 2010.
Anything solid left to stand on? Anything left that is not hostile, pretentious, fake, defiant, sick, threatened, inflated, shaken, flooded, submerged, disguised, dismembered, incinerated, decimated or about to be? Fear tries to keep up appearances of hope, but where do we look for hope, when it is now pared down to a kind of vague wishing, not-sure-cross-your-fingers counting on “someone out there,” “somebody up there,” “something in here”? Hope, supposed to “spring eternal,” now just recycled illusions sustained by photo-op smiles and handshakes?
When the eyewitnesses of the Lord Jesus Christ gathered on Pentecost, they were already one in mind and purpose “one accord in prayer and supplication...”1 “one accord in one place”2.
