MALAYSIA NEED TO REPENT

Dear Friends and Partners in the Kingdom of God ,
I believe just as many other nations; Malaysia too needs to repent of sins against God and mankind.

The nation of Malaysia -need to repent and not justify.

Some sins -idolatry [materialism …]
-racialism
-prejudice and favouritism
-exploitation
-corruption
-mismanagement of finances
-Instead of repenting and asking for forgiveness -justifying themselves [pride]

These are some of the sins we can see and feel angry about.

What about the sins of the church? Do we see it? We can see the sin of the nation so clearly but have we seen our own sins and dealt with it.

-idolatry [materialism …]
-racialism
-prejudice and favouritism
-exploitation
-corruption
-mismanagement of finances
-Instead of repenting and asking for forgiveness -justifying ourselves [pride]

I remember speaking a message of correction to a church and at the end of the message one of the church’s leaders came out and justified before the people instead of asking God to show where they have gone wrong and to ask God for forgiveness. Today that leader cannot speak.

We can see the strong under current in this nation.
What about the church? Can we see the strong under current in the church?

Matthew 7:3-5 (NKJV)
3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

How can we help others if we do not remove the plank from our own eyes? Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. [Jesus said].

We lose our authority to correct others if we are committing the same sins.

Observe what God spoke through His servants in the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Jeremiah 5:3-4(NKJV)
3 O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth?
You have stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.
4 Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor.
They are foolish;
For they do not know the way of the LORD,
The judgment of their God.

1 Peter 4:17 (NKJV)
17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

In the Old Testament and in the New Testament judgment of God came upon His house first and then to the rest of the nations.

Let the church of Jesus Christ repent and show fruit of repentance.

Have mercy upon us O God our God. We have sinned against you. We have spoken all the right things but we have not done the right things. Even if we do it we do it with bad motives O God. Please forgive us and fill us with the Holy Spirit and enable us to live and serve like your Son Jesus. Amen.
ChristopherK