Activities from August 15-19, 2012

August 15, in our midweek service, we studied on “Proverbs 3” that brother Robert Rances shared. He showed the things that made our lives much closer to God and the things that might destroy our relationship with Him.

August 16, I preached in the radio program about a text question to me about “Capital Punishment” if it is allowed by God or not. In the Old Testament time, God allowed man to punish those who sinned same as in the New Testament time.  Civil government was ordained by God to protect the innocent and punish the criminals within the society. That is, the government has the right to execute God’s wrath upon the evil-doer (Rom. 13:5). The individual cannot take another’s life but the government does.

 

August 17, my family and I together with other fellow preachers traveled to Maddela, Quirino because my wife’s grandmother died on August 15. It is a long and tiring trip because it took us 3 and half hours. Upon arrival, we immediately have the service. Brother Sammy Graneta started the sermon at around 5PM and another sermon at night by brother Edgar Licodini at 8:30PM.

August 18, this is supposed to be the time to bury our grandmother but her siblings calls and told brother Rody(her son) that they will be coming and so they will do the burial on Sunday morning. But we continued on another study and brother Geronimo Ganela preached to us. After the service, we all have our lunch and traveled back to Tuguegarao.

August 19, in our Lord’s day service here at Metro Tuguegarao, brother Jun shared to us a study on the ”RH Bill (Reproductive Health Bill)”. A law that was passed in our congress regarding controlling the growth in our population in our country without killing or aborting a child by giving free contraceptives to those who are on the right age. Catholics disagree it this bill because they are saying that we will be disobeying the command of God to go forth and multiply and they say that you will kill the baby inside the womb but in fact, how can you kill a baby if it is not yet produce and on Gen. 1:28, it is true that God said to multiply but that does not end there, He also said to subdue it, meaning to control. For us, it is not a sin to follow the resolution because we don’t have any law from God to disobey. Any thought on this, I would love to hear and study. This is the information about the bill: http://rhbill.org/about/

In the sermon, brother Jerome preached to us about “Submitting to God’s judgment”. We don’t control everything in our lives, so we must submit to God on every judgment he is doing. Our lives is in His control and so is our death.

At Palca, brother Abraham joined me in going there but when we are near the church building, the road was block by a large crane that is putting large equipments for the construction on a new road. They are also making a road widening that we are worried because it might hit the chapel and they needed to destroy the front part of the building. Hope and pray that it will not do so because we don’t have enough funds to reconstruct the building.

We walk for about 100 meters to arrive in the church. Brother Abraham taught in our bible study about “Creation”. I preached in the sermon about “Listening to God”. Some people are truly listening to God, some do not and some are listening but not doing. James said, we should not be hearers only but doers of the word.