KwaSizabantu Youth Conference
8 Dec 2002 - Day 3

2002/12/08- 19:00
The "Burning Hell" film was shown

2002/12/08- 14:30
"Georg Friedrich Handel" - Messiah - under the direction of Lutz Kohrz

bass		conductor & bass		conductor & tenor
	contralto		contralto
conductor & soprano		soprano		soprano
	conductor & tenor		conductor & tenor
full choir		orchestra & choir		orchestra & choir
Some video clips in mpg
Music Clips (in high quality mp3 & rm @ 64kbps!)
Every valley shall be exalted (tenor)
And the glory of the Lord
For behold darkness shall cover the earth (bass)
But who may abide the day of His coming (contralto)
For unto us a Child is born
Hallelujah chorus
Rejoice! (soprano)
There were shepherds abiding in the field (soprano)
Worthy is the Lamb ... Amen!

Some photos from lunch:

2002/12/08- 10:00
"Ransomed and redeemed" - Rev Erlo Stegen
Hos 13:14

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Luther translated the first part of this verse as "I will redeem them out of the hand of hell." It implies that they are already in hell. Those without Jesus Christ, live a hellish life, although they don't realise it. Once you've experienced the redemption of God, you will know its bliss and how wonderful it is to be redeemed.

The word ransom can have two meanings:

• to winnow
• to bail out (e.g form jail)

In Hebrew, ransom is hdp (padah), meaning redemption by paying a price.

The Hebrew for redeem is lag (gaĈal), with the idea of buying back something that belonged to you. All of us are created by God. We are His property, but Satan came and stole us from Him. Jesus came to buy us back to Himself.

This is something marvelous! We were on our way to hell, but God sent Jesus to redeem and ransom us!

The following stories illustrate how Jesus redeems people.

• Jacob Khosi grew up in Singapore. His single aim in life was to make money and show off his riches. He became a drug-dealer. His business prospered immensely and people from all over the world came to him to buy heroin and other drugs. He was delighted. However in 1980 the police caught him, and put him in jail in solitary confinement. All his desires and dreams were shattered. He became depressed and felt sorry for himself. He was also a slave of tobacco, and he could find none in jail. His cravings made him mad and he begged from the officer in charge of him for some tobacco. One day the officer got him some. He had nothing else with him in the cell, except a Gideon's Bible. He tore the pages from the Bible, rolled cigars therewith and started to smoke one after the other. Later on he got tired and fell asleep with a half-smoked cigar. When he woke up, the cigar had gone out, so he opened it and read the following words from the part of the page that was still left, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" He wanted to know more about this story, so he requested a complete Bible and read the whole story about Saul. As he read the story, God spoke to him and he broke down and cried, "Oh, God, if you could save a man like Saul, save me too." He confessed his sins and received mercy and was redeemed by Jesus Christ. His whole life changed in prison and he started to testify to his inmates. Shortly afterwards he was miraculously released and he became a preacher, telling others of what God had done for him.
• A certain girl, Dot, grew up, got married and then got the shock of her life. Her husband did not treat her as her father treated her. So she divorced him. Shortly afterwards a charming young man came by with his flashy car, to show off to the girls. She got interested in him. He too had divorced his wife, and flirted with other girls. He owned a big hotel and ship. He took her out on cruising trips and to different hotels. It was like heaven to her and she was so glad she divorced her first husband. He told her about his first unhappy marriage too and so they told each other how happy they were with their new lot. Shortly afterwards she fell pregnant, and then the reality of all the baby-sitting tasks hit them. He suggested an abortion, and so did her friends. She was persuaded and off she went to have one. It was not at all what she expected. She was conscious throughout the whole procedure and saw and felt everything that was done. She felt how they crushed her baby and then she saw how they pulled out pieces of human remains - arms, legs, etc. She left there knowing that she murdered her own baby. She became depressed and no comfort from her boy-friend or anyone else helped. She began to resent her boy-friend and the others who suggested the abortion, and she parted from her boy-friend, bitter. She remembered her parents at last and went home. She had a twin sister at home that had had two abortions already, but had come to Jesus Christ for forgiveness and found rest for her soul. Dot saw her sister reading her Bible and she decided that she will try to find comfort in the same way. She got her grandmother's Bible, started to read from the beginning and the words from Gen 9:6 spoke to her, "Whosoever shed man's blood, by man must his blood be shed, for in the image of God had He made man." (Here we see clearly how our government is against the Word of God, having abandoned capital punishment). She realised that she had shed the blood of her child and that she had to die. For the first time did the reality of Jesus' death on the cross become clear to her. Jesus died in her stead, that she did not have to die, if only she would accept His offering. She did indeed accept His offering, confessed and forsook her sins, and turned to Him with all her heart. She went to her parents and sister and gave them her testimony. God saved her and today she goes around, witnessing of what God had done for her.

Let us remember these two, Jacob and Dot, and follow in their footsteps.

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