The Congregation started with the local Pastor having the opening prayer followed up by the worship service in Hymns. The main programmed of the evening that is the sharing of the word of God was again taken by Pastor. N Tuanglang himself. His entire speech was lectured on the topic that encompassed Worship, Truth and Rebuilding in Christ. He asked the congregations to ponder on whether we have righteousness in our live.
His teaching were based on the extracts from Matthew 5:6 and Matthew 6:33. The pastor discusses on the idea of contentment. As he puts it, ‘content could be put in different ways’. Man in his nature wants to be content in his everyday life, like eating with his heart’s content is an example. If we want to be content, we have to get into the search of which area we want to be content with and it involves a decision. If we have decided on making our appetite content, we get the best food (meat for our self). Likewise if we wished to have righteousness in our lives we’ve got to search for it to be full or content with it and it involves a price.
The Pastortells the congregation to seek the Kingdom of God first and the other things shall be added. For a kingdom to exist, the Pastor tells that certain criteria need to be fulfilled. First being the presence of a leader. Second is a territory to which he can claim an ultimate leader. Thirdly, a law which all the citizens must obey and fourthly a citizen to govern us.
In the bible Jesus keeps on talking about a kingdom that exist. That kingdom can exist only when the Holy Spirit resides in us. And we ourselves could be called a kingdom or a part of a divine kingdom that is God’s Kingdom.
In our respective lives, we yearn for righteousness and if we have God in our lives we would yearn for righteousness. He concluded his lecture by saying that the congregation should ask themselves if that yearning to be content and be full of Christ exist. If not then it is time of introspection because only citizen of the kingdom of God will yearn for righteousness.
By: Irene Kimnunhoih
