Yesterday I went for my church Easter service and I invited about 10 friends.
In the end, only 2(Kelvin and Wenrong) turned up. Others had metters to attend to, so... Yeah.
I'm glad, though, that yeaterday I could finally join my cell group for a service (haven't seen them for ages, and some of them I don't even know!).
Thank God, the service sort of started on time (7:30 pm) because Wenrong had to leave at 8. However, after the praise and worship session it was already 8 pm, so... bye bye Wenrong and Kelvin. Sigh, they missed the drama and sermon. Never mind, I'm gonna talk about the drama anyway.
The drama began with the battle in Heaven, before the creation of the universe. Lucifer, the angel in charge of music, became proud and decided to rebel against God. He led many angels on his movement, which was of course crushed later, with Lucifer and the angels cast away from Heaven. Lucifer then became Satan, the devil.
Satan continued his rebellion by causing humans, originally created to be God's friends, to rebel against God also.
To reconcile humans to God, Jesus, the Son of God, came to earth as a human himself.
The drama then continued with many famous miracles done by Jesus, as described in the Bible.
There was
- The part where Jesus said "If you think you have no sin, throw the first stone on the adulterous woman"
- The part when Jesus called Lazarus back to life
There were also some raps, like the "Son of G.O.D.", and a Chinese rap adapted from "tuo diao".
Then, of course, there were the religious Pharisees plotting Jesus' death, the crucifixion, and the subsequent resurrection. This year, the resurrection music was a very rousing percussion piece (unlike last year when I think they lifted it from the "Passion of The Christ" soundtrack...) Imagine a heavenly host of drummers!
After that was the Easter sermon which included the story of a Korean woman stripping herself so as to use her clothes to warm her new-born baby. She froze to death, but the child survived. Such was the love of God when he stripped himself of all dignity, allowed himself to be mocked on the cross, just to die for our sins.
Then there was a story of an African couple being sold to America as slaves (in the olden days). The couple didn't want to be sold separately, but the slave driver purposely wanted to go against their wishes. Fortunately a rich landowner saw their plight and decided to buy them and free them. The couple, however, said that if they're freed, they would be kidnapped and sold as slaves again. "Why not we be your slaves from now on so that we won't be legally enslaved by someone else in the future?" The landowner then took them back to his hometown to be his "slaves", but he actually treated them like his family members from then on.
In the same way, Jesus died on the cross to cleanse our past sins and free us from the curse of sin and failure, and prevents us from being under the control of Satan again, if we decide to believe in Jesus and serve him.
