凱珀獎獲獎感言 2025 (英文主講、中文字幕) - 第1講

我很榮幸地得知,我將是今天亞伯拉罕·凱波爾獎的得獎者(Abraham Kuyper, 1837—1920) 我感到非常震驚 因為我完全不配 我只想全心全意地事奉主 成為祂手中有用的僕人 我必須誠實地告訴你們 我從三歲起就是一個孤兒 我的父親在晚餐後突然去世,再也沒有回來 他在去世前一年信了耶穌 他與主一同去了天堂 而我的母親含淚向神呼求 祢是孤兒的父,祢是寡婦的保護者 保守我,成為一個聖潔的女人 我永遠不再嫁人 並賜我力量和智慧來撫養我的八個孩子 那時,一個孩子去世了,另一個被送人了 我的母親仍然有七個男孩和一個女孩 我每天早上五點鐘都能聽到她熱切的禱告 我每天第一個聽到的就是這個聲音 一個非常忠心的寡婦在神面前的禱告 所以我應該說:在這個世界上對我影響最大的人是我的母親 第二個對我影響最大的人是計志文博士 當我還很小的時候,我就非常仔細地聽他講道 他全心全意地講道,充滿情感 而且真正為主發熱心 我聽他的福音信息時總是流淚 耶穌為你而死 耶穌復活是為了釋放你 從撒但的權勢中救贖你 這些信息都深深地震撼了我的心 吸引我,要成為一個神的僕人 當我12歲時 計志文牧師(1901-1985)來到泗水 舉行為期21晚的聚會 我參加了15場晚會 最後一晚的時候 我遞給他一封信 請為我禱告 我想成為神的僕人 我含著淚走上前 在聚會中站在1000多名聽眾面前 我祈求上帝使用我 使這位老牧師能帶領、引導我 並帶領我越來越親近耶穌 然後,他離開了 隔年我13歲 13歲到16歲時 我成為一個共產主義者 成為一個進化論者 成為一個無神論者 但在16歲末的時候 我含著淚祈禱 如果你真的是神 改變我 說服我! 給我一顆新的心 讓我回到你身邊 終於,計志文博士再次來到印尼 他回答了關於進化論、達爾文主義、共產主義、馬克思主義等所有問題 最終 我確信只有聖經才是真理 只有耶穌基督是主和救主 那些人,列寧(Ле́нин, Lenin, 1870-1924)、史達林(Ста́лин, Stalin, 1878-1953) 他們在欺騙人民 我再次回到耶穌基督身邊 在計志文的一次晚間聚會中 他給我們講了聖經中的五個呼聲 父、子、聖靈 使徒 最後是來自地獄的呼聲 我從未聽過任何傳道人談論來自地獄的呼聲 那是什麼? 財主請求亞伯拉罕 請派拉撒路到我家去 因為我還有五個兄弟,他們不認識基督 說服他們 使他們成為基督徒 所以我也哭了 我說,甚至在地獄裡的人 他們也愛人,而且甚願拯救罪人,勝過基督徒 我能站在這裡嗎?我能留下嗎? 不去傳道 不向人傳福音 浪費我的生命 我哭到襯衫都濕透了 我走上前說:神啊!如果祢想要使用我 我在這裡 我想事奉祢直到生命的盡頭 每一天 毫不停止,我是祢的 那一晚我重新將自己獻給主 至今從未改變 我生命中從未後悔過一秒鐘 因為我是主的僕人 我沒有等到從神學院畢業 我沒有等到被按立為傳道人 我就是神的僕人 我就是傳道人 從那時開始 我買了成千上萬的福音單張 去分發給人,說服每個人相信耶穌 祂是惟一的救主 除了耶穌,沒有救贖者 你的生命沒有希望 除非你回到耶穌基督身邊 直到今天 所以當我看到或知道有人在街上分發福音單張時,我非常愛他 因為這反映了我年輕時所做的事情 我買了5000份單張 我向神承諾每年向5000個人傳道 邀請他們來到耶穌基督面前 不是去教會 因為我知道很多教會非常冷漠 對人很不友善 我不希望人們在信主以後去教會 卻在那裡受到譴責 我說你相信耶穌了 你應該與你的朋友團契 一同禱告 並去向他人傳福音 因為只有耶穌能拯救我們 我每天都在街上說服人們相信耶穌 我買火車票,拜訪其他城鎮 挨家挨戶地分發單張 邀請人們相信耶穌 每一年,成千上萬的單張 我一直這樣做,直到20歲 在三年的時間裡 我在一所基督教學校講道862次 說服年輕的學生相信耶穌基督 在學校講道862次後 我去了聖經學院 那時,我非常熱衷於接受聖經和神學的訓練 預備成為神的僕人 讚美主,我的意象不是徒勞 我的願景至今未變 從我獻身的那一天起,年復一年 那顆熱心的心從未改變 當亞伯拉罕·凱波爾去世時 我還沒有出生 20年後,我才出生 所以我從不知道誰是亞伯拉罕·凱波爾 他與我無關 我從未受過他一絲一毫的影響 但後來,我聽了計志文的講道 我將自己獻身於他的事工 我去街上到處分發單張 在共產主義學校的門口 我走進天主教醫院 一間間病房 我分發單張,為病人禱告 當我9歲時 有一次我看到一份黑白報紙 上面印有4張圖片 第一張是米開朗基羅(Michelangelo, 1475-1564) 第二張是提香(Tiziano Vecellio, 1488-1576) 第三張是達文西(Leonardo Vinci, 1452-1519)的畫 另一張是林布蘭(Rembrandt , 1606-1669)的畫 我非常震驚 人們怎麼能畫出如此美麗、觸動我心的畫? 我想成為美術的學習者 我保存了那份報紙直到19歲 之後我去了維也納 我試著收集約18本關於林布蘭、米開朗基羅、拉斐爾(Raffaello, 1483-1520)、達文西 以及一些西班牙畫家、藝術家的書籍 我努力學習 這成為我創建博物館的最初靈感 當我15歲時 我總是去拿我哥哥買的小收音機 他試圖把它鎖在櫃子裡 但我每晚都偷拿出來,試著找好的音樂來聽 終於我發現 每天下午一點 和晚上七點 澳大利亞廣播電台播放貝多芬(Beethoven, 1770-1827)海頓(Haydn, 1732-1809)莫扎特(Mozart, 1756-1791)孟德爾頌(Mendelssohn, 1809-1847) 和其他偉大作曲家的音樂 我開始每天聽好的音樂 持續15年,每天八小時 我不認為你們中間有人,有這樣的耐心和堅持聽好音樂 最終,這成為我年老時能指揮交響樂的基礎 所以我執行文化使命,並不是因為讀了亞伯拉罕·凱波爾的書 也不是因為我上了音樂學校 我從未上過世界上任何音樂學院 我從未上過任何大學的哲學系 我從未上過任何神學院接受改革宗神學的訓練 我現在所做的一切都是從自學開始 但我不會累 我從不感到非常疲倦 但我總是全心全意地追求真理、美 以及所有我能獲得的好音樂 我相信我是學習藝術、音樂、作曲、指揮等方面最勤奮的人之一 最終,神賜給我所有這些可能性 成為一個文化人 我不怕與任何音樂學院的畢業生辯論 我不怕與任何哲學系的學生辯論 我沒有上過哲學系,沒上過音樂學校,沒有學過建築 但我已經設計了世界上最大的華人教會,可容納6500人 我已經設計了世界上最好的音樂廳之一 因為15年後 我意識到木材更成熟 音響效果比我所知道的很多音樂廳都要好 神的恩典如此巨大,如此偉大 我從不明白為什麼?所有這些都賜給了我 我不配 我沒有學識 我沒有受過教育 我沒有任何學位 但我通過努力事奉主擁有了這一切 當自由大學來到印尼時 校長說了一句話,我認為是對的 唐崇榮所做的一些事情,亞伯拉罕·凱波爾從未做到 亞伯拉罕·凱波爾想做這個、想做那個,最終他沒有做到,我做到了 我創建了世界上最好的音樂廳之一 我在印尼創建了對藝術最全面的理解之一 我建造了世界上最大的改革宗教會之一 這一切都是神的恩典 在我知道亞伯拉罕·凱波爾是誰之前 當我去學習神學時 我瞭解到,有一個人叫約翰·加爾文(Jean Calvin, 1509-1564) 有一個人叫范泰爾(Cornelius Van Til, 1895-1987) 有一個人叫亞伯拉罕·凱波爾 老實說,在我知道他們之前 我已經在做他們所做的事情 靠著神的恩典 當我越來越老時 我想要的一切都實現了 神放在我心中的一切負擔 都在我的實際行動中實現了 今天,我非常不配 我非常謙卑地說 我不知道為什麼這麼多人來到印尼 是因為我?為什麼? 因為這個非常謙卑和無用的人 有些人來自新加坡,有些來自香港 有些來自台灣,有些來自美國,為了什麼? 但我感謝神 因為我所做的一切都是因為從神來的負擔 耶穌基督所給的異象 我所做的是聖經中所寫的 是每個基督徒都應該承擔的責任 我已經做到了 現在我是一個非常老的人 我認為我是這裡最年長的人 除了一兩個在這裡我知道的 你們都比我年輕 所以我告訴你們 事奉主 是我們生命中最有用的 事奉主是我們生命中最有價值的 讚美上帝! 再過不多年以後,我就會離開 但現在,讚美上帝! 我告訴你們一個隱藏在我心中的真實秘密 我已經發現大約10個非常年輕的人 在印尼被神興起 沒有讀過神學院 沒有成為非常著名的牧師的會友 但他們現在正在做護教工作 代表耶穌基督 他們非常仔細地學習聖經 這些年輕的護教者在YouTube上活躍 你們不知道,但我知道,因為有時我花五個小時聽他們講道、辯論和護教 我非常感動 非常受激勵 有時我流淚 因為我看到神在印尼的工作 現在我回頭想 我想要了解 我們的神學院學生在做這些嗎?不! 很多神學院學生非常懶惰 不想傳福音 不想承擔護教的責任 但我剛才提到的那10個年輕人 其中一位是女士 一個非常年輕的人 只有22到23歲 他沒有讀過神學院 但他能使用希臘文 希伯來文 舊約和新約的用語 他是一個非常勤奮的自學者 四週前我見到他 我鼓勵他 我說,我每天為你禱告 我並不想利用你 我不想被你欺騙 我祈禱你會非常穩定 非常忠心地事奉主 你知道在YouTube上有多少人聽他的講道和護教嗎? 在三週內 過去三週 從25,000人,現在變成370,000人 他是一個年輕人 沒有神學教育 但當我聽到他引用的每一個詞和每一節經文時 我相信,他是被聖靈引導的 就像我年輕時一樣 我被聖靈引導 我沒有任何文憑 沒有受過任何教育,當我17歲時 我已經向成千上萬的人傳福音 現在我生命中最大的祈禱之一 是有一天印尼將成為基督教的國家!阿們? 你們鼓掌,但我說,你們相信嗎? 真正相信? 原因是什麼? 你們無法告訴我 我相信-我一生都在祈禱 有一天印尼會成為基督教國家,因為傳福音,現在我告訴你們一個秘密 抱歉,我花的時間超過了我應該用的 他不會累,但我的手臂越來越累 不...即使你累了,我還是要繼續 聽我說 Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 戈登康威爾神學院 浸信會 富勒神學院(Fuller Theological Seminary) 紐約協和神學院(Union Theological Seminary)等許多神學院正在出售他們的校園,但沒有人想要買 為什麼他們要賣? 秘密就是因為他們不傳福音 聽好了 這是一個真正的預言,不是假的 一個不傳福音的神學院 有一天理當關閉 任何神學院 不建立教會、不傳福音使人成為基督徒 他們將會永遠缺乏金錢 你們聽著,你們注意到在美國 加爾文神學院很富有 因為他們有教會 西敏斯特神學院貧窮,他們沒有教會 我的神學院從1996年開始 直到現在,我們從來不缺錢 因為我們有教會 而且我們派1500人去全印尼傳福音 這樣的人,神怎麼會離開我們? 神怎麼會離開我們? 那是不可能的! 神說:我的兒子到世界上去建立祂自己的教會 差遣人去傳福音 如果你輕視耶穌基督 如果你忽視耶穌所命令的 你將會非常貧窮 神不會給你錢 但我不怕,因為即使我的負擔很大 我們需要很多很多錢 但我從來不擔心 因為我行的是神的旨意,傳福音給人 並且牧養耶穌基督的羊群 神說,祢遵行我的旨意 我給予並供應你一切所需 直到世界的末了。阿們 願上帝祝福我們! 所以我不認為我是說空話 我所說的要激勵所有上帝的精兵 忠心和熱心地事奉祂 因為惟獨福音是耶穌基督豐富的奧秘 只有傳福音能改變這個世界 能夠使上帝的國復興 願上帝祝福你們! 我就講到這裡,上帝祝福你們!
我很荣幸地得知,我将是今天亚伯拉罕·凯波尔奖的得奖者(Abraham Kuyper, 1837—1920) 我感到非常震惊 因为我完全不配 我只想全心全意地事奉主 成为祂手中有用的仆人 我必须诚实地告诉你们 我从三岁起就是一个孤儿 我的父亲在晚餐后突然去世,再也没有回来 他在去世前一年信了耶稣 他与主一同去了天堂 而我的母亲含泪向神呼求 祢是孤儿的父,祢是寡妇的保护者 保守我,成为一个圣洁的女人 我永远不再嫁人 并赐我力量和智慧来抚养我的八个孩子 那时,一个孩子去世了,另一个被送人了 我的母亲仍然有七个男孩和一个女孩 我每天早上五点钟都能听到她热切的祷告 我每天第一个听到的就是这个声音 一个非常忠心的寡妇在神面前的祷告 所以我应该说:在这个世界上对我影响最大的人是我的母亲 第二个对我影响最大的人是计志文博士 当我还很小的时候,我就非常仔细地听他讲道 他全心全意地讲道,充满情感 而且真正为主发热心 我听他的福音信息时总是流泪 耶稣为你而死 耶稣复活是为了释放你 从撒但的权势中救赎你 这些信息都深深地震撼了我的心 吸引我,要成为一个神的仆人 当我12岁时 计志文牧师(1901-1985)来到泗水 举行为期21晚的聚会 我参加了15场晚会 最后一晚的时候 我递给他一封信 请为我祷告 我想成为神的仆人 我含着泪走上前 在聚会中站在1000多名听众面前 我祈求上帝使用我 使这位老牧师能带领、引导我 并带领我越来越亲近耶稣 然后,他离开了 隔年我13岁 13岁到16岁时 我成为一个共产主义者 成为一个进化论者 成为一个无神论者 但在16岁末的时候 我含着泪祈祷 如果你真的是神 改变我 说服我! 给我一颗新的心 让我回到你身边 终于,计志文博士再次来到印尼 他回答了关于进化论、达尔文主义、共产主义、马克思主义等所有问题 最终 我确信只有圣经才是真理 只有耶稣基督是主和救主 那些人,列宁(Ле́нин, Lenin, 1870-1924)、史达林(Ста́лин, Stalin, 1878-1953) 他们在欺骗人民 我再次回到耶稣基督身边 在计志文的一次晚间聚会中 他给我们讲了圣经中的五个呼声 父、子、圣灵 使徒 最后是来自地狱的呼声 我从未听过任何传道人谈论来自地狱的呼声 那是什么? 财主请求亚伯拉罕 请派拉撒路到我家去 因为我还有五个兄弟,他们不认识基督 说服他们 使他们成为基督徒 所以我也哭了 我说,甚至在地狱里的人 他们也爱人,而且甚愿拯救罪人,胜过基督徒 我能站在这里吗?我能留下吗? 不去传道 不向人传福音 浪费我的生命 我哭到衬衫都湿透了 我走上前说:神啊!如果祢想要使用我 我在这里 我想事奉祢直到生命的尽头 每一天 毫不停止,我是祢的 那一晚我重新将自己献给主 至今从未改变 我生命中从未后悔过一秒钟 因为我是主的仆人 我没有等到从神学院毕业 我没有等到被按立为传道人 我就是神的仆人 我就是传道人 从那时开始 我买了成千上万的福音单张 去分发给人,说服每个人相信耶稣 祂是惟一的救主 除了耶稣,没有救赎者 你的生命没有希望 除非你回到耶稣基督身边 直到今天 所以当我看到或知道有人在街上分发福音单张时,我非常爱他 因为这反映了我年轻时所做的事情 我买了5000份单张 我向神承诺每年向5000个人传道 邀请他们来到耶稣基督面前 不是去教会 因为我知道很多教会非常冷漠 对人很不友善 我不希望人们在信主以后去教会 却在那里受到谴责 我说你相信耶稣了 你应该与你的朋友团契 一同祷告 并去向他人传福音 因为只有耶稣能拯救我们 我每天都在街上说服人们相信耶稣 我买火车票,拜访其他城镇 挨家挨户地分发单张 邀请人们相信耶稣 每一年,成千上万的单张 我一直这样做,直到20岁 在三年的时间里 我在一所基督教学校讲道862次 说服年轻的学生相信耶稣基督 在学校讲道862次后 我去了圣经学院 那时,我非常热衷于接受圣经和神学的训练 预备成为神的仆人 赞美主,我的意象不是徒劳 我的愿景至今未变 从我献身的那一天起,年复一年 那颗热心的心从未改变 当亚伯拉罕·凯波尔去世时 我还没有出生 20年后,我才出生 所以我从不知道谁是亚伯拉罕·凯波尔 他与我无关 我从未受过他一丝一毫的影响 但后来,我听了计志文的讲道 我将自己献身于他的事工 我去街上到处分发单张 在共产主义学校的门口 我走进天主教医院 一间间病房 我分发单张,为病人祷告 当我9岁时 有一次我看到一份黑白报纸 上面印有4张图片 第一张是米开朗基罗(Michelangelo, 1475-1564) 第二张是提香(Tiziano Vecellio, 1488-1576) 第三张是达文西(Leonardo Vinci, 1452-1519)的画 另一张是林布兰(Rembrandt , 1606-1669)的画 我非常震惊 人们怎么能画出如此美丽、触动我心的画? 我想成为美术的学习者 我保存了那份报纸直到19岁 之后我去了维也纳 我试着收集约18本关于林布兰、米开朗基罗、拉斐尔(Raffaello, 1483-1520)、达文西 以及一些西班牙画家、艺术家的书籍 我努力学习 这成为我创建博物馆的最初灵感 当我15岁时 我总是去拿我哥哥买的小收音机 他试图把它锁在柜子里 但我每晚都偷拿出来,试着找好的音乐来听 终于我发现 每天下午一点 和晚上七点 澳大利亚广播电台播放贝多芬(Beethoven, 1770-1827)海顿(Haydn, 1732-1809)莫扎特(Mozart, 1756-1791)孟德尔颂(Mendelssohn, 1809-1847) 和其他伟大作曲家的音乐 我开始每天听好的音乐 持续15年,每天八小时 我不认为你们中间有人,有这样的耐心和坚持听好音乐 最终,这成为我年老时能指挥交响乐的基础 所以我执行文化使命,并不是因为读了亚伯拉罕·凯波尔的书 也不是因为我上了音乐学校 我从未上过世界上任何音乐学院 我从未上过任何大学的哲学系 我从未上过任何神学院接受改革宗神学的训练 我现在所做的一切都是从自学开始 但我不会累 我从不感到非常疲倦 但我总是全心全意地追求真理、美 以及所有我能获得的好音乐 我相信我是学习艺术、音乐、作曲、指挥等方面最勤奋的人之一 最终,神赐给我所有这些可能性 成为一个文化人 我不怕与任何音乐学院的毕业生辩论 我不怕与任何哲学系的学生辩论 我没有上过哲学系,没上过音乐学校,没有学过建筑 但我已经设计了世界上最大的华人教会,可容纳6500人 我已经设计了世界上最好的音乐厅之一 因为15年后 我意识到木材更成熟 音响效果比我所知道的很多音乐厅都要好 神的恩典如此巨大,如此伟大 我从不明白为什么?所有这些都赐给了我 我不配 我没有学识 我没有受过教育 我没有任何学位 但我通过努力事奉主拥有了这一切 当自由大学来到印尼时 校长说了一句话,我认为是对的 唐崇荣所做的一些事情,亚伯拉罕·凯波尔从未做到 亚伯拉罕·凯波尔想做这个、想做那个,最终他没有做到,我做到了 我创建了世界上最好的音乐厅之一 我在印尼创建了对艺术最全面的理解之一 我建造了世界上最大的改革宗教会之一 这一切都是神的恩典 在我知道亚伯拉罕·凯波尔是谁之前 当我去学习神学时 我了解到,有一个人叫约翰·加尔文(Jean Calvin, 1509-1564) 有一个人叫范泰尔(Cornelius Van Til, 1895-1987) 有一个人叫亚伯拉罕·凯波尔 老实说,在我知道他们之前 我已经在做他们所做的事情 靠着神的恩典 当我越来越老时 我想要的一切都实现了 神放在我心中的一切负担 都在我的实际行动中实现了 今天,我非常不配 我非常谦卑地说 我不知道为什么这么多人来到印尼 是因为我?为什么? 因为这个非常谦卑和无用的人 有些人来自新加坡,有些来自香港 有些来自台湾,有些来自美国,为了什么? 但我感谢神 因为我所做的一切都是因为从神来的负担 耶稣基督所给的异象 我所做的是圣经中所写的 是每个基督徒都应该承担的责任 我已经做到了 现在我是一个非常老的人 我认为我是这里最年长的人 除了一两个在这里我知道的 你们都比我年轻 所以我告诉你们 事奉主 是我们生命中最有用的 事奉主是我们生命中最有价值的 赞美上帝! 再过不多年以后,我就会离开 但现在,赞美上帝! 我告诉你们一个隐藏在我心中的真实秘密 我已经发现大约10个非常年轻的人 在印尼被神兴起 没有读过神学院 没有成为非常著名的牧师的会友 但他们现在正在做护教工作 代表耶稣基督 他们非常仔细地学习圣经 这些年轻的护教者在YouTube上活跃 你们不知道,但我知道,因为有时我花五个小时听他们讲道、辩论和护教 我非常感动 非常受激励 有时我流泪 因为我看到神在印尼的工作 现在我回头想 我想要了解 我们的神学院学生在做这些吗?不! 很多神学院学生非常懒惰 不想传福音 不想承担护教的责任 但我刚才提到的那10个年轻人 其中一位是女士 一个非常年轻的人 只有22到23岁 他没有读过神学院 但他能使用希腊文 希伯来文 旧约和新约的用语 他是一个非常勤奋的自学者 四周前我见到他 我鼓励他 我说,我每天为你祷告 我并不想利用你 我不想被你欺骗 我祈祷你会非常稳定 非常忠心地事奉主 你知道在YouTube上有多少人听他的讲道和护教吗? 在三周内 过去三周 从25,000人,现在变成370,000人 他是一个年轻人 没有神学教育 但当我听到他引用的每一个词和每一节经文时 我相信,他是被圣灵引导的 就像我年轻时一样 我被圣灵引导 我没有任何文凭 没有受过任何教育,当我17岁时 我已经向成千上万的人传福音 现在我生命中最大的祈祷之一 是有一天印尼将成为基督教的国家!阿们? 你们鼓掌,但我说,你们相信吗? 真正相信? 原因是什么? 你们无法告诉我 我相信-我一生都在祈祷 有一天印尼会成为基督教国家,因为传福音,现在我告诉你们一个秘密 抱歉,我花的时间超过了我应该用的 他不会累,但我的手臂越来越累 不...即使你累了,我还是要继续 听我说 Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 戈登康威尔神学院 浸信会 富勒神学院(Fuller Theological Seminary) 纽约协和神学院(Union Theological Seminary)等许多神学院正在出售他们的校园,但没有人想要买 为什么他们要卖? 秘密就是因为他们不传福音 听好了 这是一个真正的预言,不是假的 一个不传福音的神学院 有一天理当关闭 任何神学院 不建立教会、不传福音使人成为基督徒 他们将会永远缺乏金钱 你们听着,你们注意到在美国 加尔文神学院很富有 因为他们有教会 西敏斯特神学院贫穷,他们没有教会 我的神学院从1996年开始 直到现在,我们从来不缺钱 因为我们有教会 而且我们派1500人去全印尼传福音 这样的人,神怎么会离开我们? 神怎么会离开我们? 那是不可能的! 神说:我的儿子到世界上去建立祂自己的教会 差遣人去传福音 如果你轻视耶稣基督 如果你忽视耶稣所命令的 你将会非常贫穷 神不会给你钱 但我不怕,因为即使我的负担很大 我们需要很多很多钱 但我从来不担心 因为我行的是神的旨意,传福音给人 并且牧养耶稣基督的羊群 神说,祢遵行我的旨意 我给予并供应你一切所需 直到世界的末了。阿们 愿上帝祝福我们! 所以我不认为我是说空话 我所说的要激励所有上帝的精兵 忠心和热心地事奉祂 因为惟独福音是耶稣基督丰富的奥秘 只有传福音能改变这个世界 能够使上帝的国复兴 愿上帝祝福你们! 我就讲到这里,上帝祝福你们!
I'm honored to know and be informed that I will be the recipient of today's Abraham Kuyper, 1837-1920 Prize I was shocked to death because I'm truly unworthy at all, I've ever wanted is to serve the Lord with my whole heart and become an useful servant in His hands I should be honest to tell you I became an orphan since 3 years old my father died suddenly after he had dinner and then he never returned to the table he believed in Jesus an year before his death he had gone to heaven with the Lord and my mother cried to God in tears You are the father of orphans and You are the defender of widows Preserve me, be a holy woman I will never get married again and give me power and wisdom to raise my eight children at that time, one of them died, another one given away my mother still have seven boys and a girl in her fervent prayer, constantly every morning at 5:00 those are the first voice I hear every day the prayer of a very faithful widow before God so I should say, the one who influenced me the most in this world is my mother and the second one who influenced me the most is Dr Andrew Gi when I was little, I listened to his preaching very carefully he preached with all his heart, full of emotion and truly fervent for the Lord I was always shedding tears while listening to his evangelistic messages Jesus died for you! Jesus raised again to release you! and to redeem you from the power of Satan all those messages truly shook my heart and attracted me to become a servant of God when I was 12 years old Andrew Gi came to Surabaya 21 nights of meetings I attended 15 nights and the final night I presented a letter to him please pray for me I want to be the servant of God in tears I came forward stood before more than 1,000 audience at the meeting and I pray to God: Use me! and let this old pastor lead me, guide me and bring me to Jesus more and more after that he left an year after I became 13 years old 13 years to 16 years old I became a communist became an evolutionist became an atheist but in the end of being 16 years old I prayed in tears if you are the true God change me convince me give me a new heart to return to you finally Dr. Andrew Gi came to Indonesia again and he answered questions about evolution, Darwinism, Communism, Marxism and everything finally I was convinced that Bible is the only truth only Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior those people Lenin, 1870–1924, Stalin,1878—1953 they are deceivers and I returned to Jesus Christ again in an evening meeting held by Andrew Gi he gave us five cry from the Bible Father, Son, Holy Spirit, apostles and finally the cry from hell I never heard any preacher talking about the cry from hell what is that? the rich man begged Abraham "Please send Lazarus to my house because I still have five brothers they don't know Christ convince them so they will become Christians." So I was crying too I said: even people in hell love people, and wanted to save sinners more than Christians do Could I just stand here? Could I just stay here and not preaching nor evangelizing people and waste my life? I cried so bad my shirt was all wet and I went forward to say "God, if You want to use me here I am I want to serve You till the end of my life every day, non stop, I am Yours." And that night was the night I rededicate myself to the Lord and I've never changed in the rest of my life until today I never regret it, not one second in my life because I am the Lord's servant I didn't wait till I graduated from seminary I didn't wait till I got ordained to be a preacher I am a servant of God I am a preacher from that time on I bought thousands of gospel leaflet and I went to distribute and convince everybody to believe in Jesus He is the only savior beside Jesus there's no redeemer no hope for your life except for you to return to Jesus Christ until today so when I see or I know anybody is distributing gospel leaflet on streets, I love him to death because it reflects what I did when I was young I bought 5,000 leaflet I promised God I will preach to 5,000 people every year and invite them to come to Jesus Christ not to church because I know many churches are so cold so unsympathetic to people I do not want people evangelize and go to church and to be condemned to death there I tell them: Now you believe in Jesus you should have fellowship with your friends pray together and go to evangelize others because only Jesus can save us every day I get on streets convincing people to believe in Jesus I bought train tickets to visit other towns houses by houses I distribute the leaflet and ask people to believe in Jesus thousands and thousands of flyers each year I did that until 20 years old within three years I preached 862 times in a Christian school to convince young students to believe in Jesus Christ after 862 times of preaching in the school I went to Bible college at that time I was so enthusiast to be trained in Bible in theology to become a servant of God Praise the Lord! My vision weren't in vain my vision have not changed until now Since the first day I dedicate, it remain the same Year after year passes the zealous never change when Abraham Kuyper died, I was not born yet after 20 years, I became a newborn baby so I never knew who Abraham Kuyper was He had nothing to do with me and I had never been influenced by him ,not a bit but afterward I listen to Andrew Gi I dedicate myself to be His servant and I went sharing flyers everywhere, on the street in the gate of the communist school I went into the Catholic hospital room after room, I shared flyers and I prayed for the sick people when I was nine, once I saw a newspaper in black and white four picture was printed first Michelangelo,1475—1564 second Titian (Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, 1488—1576) the third is a picture of da Vinci(Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, 1452—1519) and another one is a piece from Rembrandt I was so in shock how can people draw such beautiful pictures those touched my heart I wanted to learn fine arts I kept that newspaper for 19 years after that I went to Vienna I tried to collect 18 books of the arts from Rembrandt Michelangelo Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 1483—1520 da Vinci and some of the Spanish painters and artists I tried to learn and that became the original inspiration for me to build a museum when I was 15 years old I tried to take small radio my brother bought and he hid the radio into the cabinet but every night I would steal the radio out and listen to good music finally I found out every afternoon at 1 o'lock and at 7 o'lock everyday, Australia radio Alban Maria Johannes Berg,1885—1935 Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and other great composers' music I started to listen to good music for eight hours a day for 15 years I don't think anyone of you have this kind of patience and have this kind of consistency to listen to good music eventually that became the foundation for me to conduct symphonies when I get older so I am doing culture mandate not because of reading Abraham Kuyber not because I went to music schools I never went to any music schools in the world I never went to school of philosophy in any university I never went to any theological seminary to be trained in reformed theology everything I am doing now was started from Autodidactic learning but I am not tired I never get exhausted but I'm always pursuing the truth ,the beauty and all the good music I can get with my whole heart I believe I'm one of the most diligent people in learning art learning music learning to compose learning to conduct and finally God gave me all these possibilities to become a cultural man I'm not afraid to debate with any music school graduates I'm not afraid to debate with any student from the philosophical school and finally I didn't went to philosophical school nor music school nor architectural study I had already designed the biggest Chinese church in the world that can accommodate 6,500 people I had already designed one of the best concert hall in the world because after 15 years, I realized that wood is more matured, and the acoustic is better than a lot of concert hall I know all the grace of God is enormous that I would never understand why all these had given to me? I'm not worthy, I'm not learned nor educated I don't have any degree of anything but I have owned everything, with my effort to serve the Lord when the Free University came to Indonesia the president said one word that I think is right what have been done by Steven Tong some of them never been done by Abraham Kuyper and Abraham Kuyper wanted to do this and that eventually, he didn't. I did I designed and built one of the best music hall in the world I created one of the most comprehensive understanding of the art in Indonesia and I built one of the biggest reformed church in the world all of these I did, was by the grace of God before I know who is Abraham Kuyper when I went to study theology, I learned there's a man called John Calvin,1509—1564 there's a man called Van Til, 1895–1987 there's a man called Abraham Kuyper and I tell you honestly, before I know them I was doing what they were doing and by the grace of God when I get older and older, everything that I've ever wanted became a reality everything that God put a burden in my heart become a reality in my actual reality today, I feel very unworthy I have to say this very humbly I don't know why many people come to Indonesia for me for this negligible useless man some came from Singapore, Hong Kong some from Taiwan and the United States, what for? but I give thanks to God because what I am doing, all because of a burden from God the vision from Jesus Christ and what I'm doing was written in the Bible what is the responsibility that every Christian would have? I have done it, now I'm a very old man I think I'm the oldest here beside one or two person whom I knew here I know you are all younger than me so I say to you serving the Lord is the most useful thing we can do in our lives serve the Lord worth the most in our lives praise God! a few years later I will be gone but I praise God rightnow I tell you a truth hidden secretly in my heart there are about 10 young person in Indonesia raised up by God they didn't went to theological school not in a very famous pastor's member but they are doing apologetics to represent Jesus Christ nowadays they learned the Bible very carefully and these young apologists is now on YouTube you didn't know that but I do, because sometime I listen to their preaching for five hours to their debate and their apologetics I was so touched and moved, sometime I cry because I see God is working in Indonesia now I return I want to understand does our seminary student do that? No! lots of seminary students are very lazy they don't want to evangelize nor take apologetical responsibility but those 10 young people I just mentioned one of them is a lady a very young man, only 22 or 23 years old, approaching he didn't went to seminary, but he can use Greek words, Hebrew words from the Old Testament from the New Testament he is a very diligent autodidactic person four weeks ago I met him, I encouraged him I said: I prayed for you every day I do not want to use you I do not want to be cheated I pray that you will be very stable and faithful while serving the Lord do you know how many people listened to his preaching and his apologetics on YouTube? in the last three weeks, it grew from 25,000 to 370,000 people He's a young man, with no theological education but when I listen to every word he said, and every Bible verse he quoted I believe that he is guided by the Holy Spirit just like when I was young, I was guided by the Holy Spirit I didn't have any degree I didn't have any diploma I didn't have any education when I was 17 years old but I already evangelized to people thousand and thousand of people now, one of the greatest prayer in my life is one day Indonesia will become a Christian country! amen you clap your hands, but I ask you: Do you believe that? you really believe that? What is the reason? You cannot tell me I believe I am praying all my life one day it will become a Christian country because of evangelization Let me tell you a secret I'm sorry, I used more time than I should he doesn't tire out, but my arms are getting tired no... even though you are tired I will continue Listen to me Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Baptist Theological Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary Union Theological Seminary so many theological seminary are going to sell their campus but no one wanted to purchase Why are they selling? The secret is: they don't evangelize Listen carefully, this is a true prophet not a false one Any seminary which does not evangelize would be closed one day and any seminary which does not build church nor evangelizing people to be Christians they will be lack of money forever and ever Listen you notice: in The United States, Calvin University is rich because they have a church while Westminster is poor they don't have a church my seminary started from 1996 and until today, we are never lack of money because we have a church and we send 1,500 people to go evangelize everywhere in Indonesia With these kind of people, how can God depart from us? How can the Lord leave us? That is impossible! God said: My son go to the world and build up his own church and send people to evangelize If you despise Jesus Christ If you ignore what have been commanded by Jesus you will be very poor and no money will be given from God unto you but I'm not afraid even though my burden is so heavy our need of money is so big I never get worried because I'm doing the will of God: evangelizing people and pastoral care the flock of Jesus Christ God said: You obey my command, I will supply and provide your needs until the end of the world! Amen May God bless us I don't think I'm talking about something in vain I'm talking about things to rise up the soldiers of God To be faithful and serve Him fervently Gospel is the only secret of the richness in Jesus Christ only evangelization can change the world and let the kingdom of God flourish May God bless you! I finish my words here, God bless you!
I learned to know and be told that I will be the recipient of today's Abraham Kuyper Prize. I was shocked to death because I'm unworthy at all and I only want to serve the Lord with my whole heart and become useful servant in His hand. I should be honest to say to you, I was an orphan since my three years old. My father suddenly died after evening dinner and then he never returned. He believed Jesus one year before his death. He had gone to heaven with the Lord and my mother with tears cried to God, you are the father of orphans and you are the defender of the widows. Keep me, be a holy woman, I will never remarry again and give me power and wisdom to raise up my eight children. At that time, one died, another one given, my mother still have seven boys and one girl. I heard fervent prayer constantly every morning five, four o'clock. I listened to the voice in my every day, the prayer of a very faithful widow before God. So I should say the one who influenced me most in this world is my mother and the second one who influenced me most is Dr. Andrew Gee. When I was very small, I listened to his preaching very carefully. He preached with all his heart, full of emotion and truly fervent for the Lord. I always shed tears listening to his evangelistic message. Jesus died for you. Jesus raised again to release you and to redeem you from the power of Satan. All the message like that had truly shake my heart and attract me to be a servant of God. When I was 12 years old, Andrew Gee came to Surabaya, 21-night meeting, I attend 15 nights. The final night, I present a letter to him, please pray for me. I want to be a servant of God. With tears, I come forward, stand before more than 1,000 audience in the meeting and I pray God use me and let this old pastor can lead me, guide me and bring me to Jesus more and more. After that, he left. Every year, I became 13 years. 13 years to 16 years, I became a communist, became an evolutionist, became an atheist. But the end of 16 years old, I pray with all tears, if you are true God, change me, convince me, give me a new heart to return to you. Finally, Dr. Andrew Gee come to Indonesia again and he answered the question about evolution, Darwinism, communism, Marxism and everything. Finally, I was convinced that only Bible is the truth. Only Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior. Those people, Lenin, Stalin, they are cheating people and I return to Jesus Christ again. When one evening of the meeting by Andrew Gee, he gave us five cry from the Bible, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Apostles and finally the cry from hell. I never heard any preacher talking about the cry from the hell. What is that? The rich man asked Abraham, please send Lazarus to go to my house because I still have five brothers, they don't know Christ. Convince them, make them Christians. So I was crying too. I say, even the people in hell, they love people and love to save the sinners more than Christians. Can I stand here? Can I stay? Not preaching, not evangelising people and waste my life. I cry until my shirt is all wet and I come forward to say, God, if you want to use me, here I am. I want to serve you until the end of my life. Every day, without stop, I am yours. That night is the night I rededicate myself to the Lord and never change in the rest of my life until today. I never regret even one second in my life because I am the Lord's servant. I didn't wait until I graduated from seminary. I didn't wait until I was ordained to be a preacher. I am the servant of God. I am the preacher. From that time, I buy thousands of the gospel tracts and I go to distribute to convince everybody, believe in Jesus. He's the only saviour. Besides Jesus, there's no redeemer, no hope for your life except you return to Jesus Christ until today. So when I see or I know somebody is distributing gospel tracts in the street, I love him to death because it reflects what I did when I was young. I buy 5,000 tracts. I promise to God every year preach to 5,000 people and invite them to come to Jesus Christ, not to church. Because I know a lot of churches are so cold, so unsympathetic to people. I do not want people evangelise and go to church and to be condemned to death there. I say you believe in Jesus, you should have fellowship with your friends, pray together and go to evangelise others because only Jesus can save us. I go every day on the street convincing people to believe in Jesus. I buy tickets of the train, go to other town house by house, go to distribute the tracts and ask people to believe in Jesus. Every year, thousands, thousands of tracts. I did that until I was 20 years old. Within the three years old, I preached 862 times in a Christian school to convince young students to believe in Jesus Christ. After 862 times preaching in the school, I go to Bible college. At that time, I was so enthusiastic to be trained in Bible, in theology to be a servant of God. Praise the Lord, my vision had not been made. My vision had not been changed until now. Just now and the first day I dedicate the same year by year go past. The zealous heart never changed. When Abraham Kuyper died, I was not born yet. After 20 years, I become a newborn baby. So I never know who is Abraham Kuyper. He has nothing to do with me and I had never been influenced by him even one inch. But afterward, I listened to Andrew Gee. I dedicate myself in his servants and I go to give tracts everywhere on the street. In the gate of the communist school, I go into the Catholic hospital room after room. I give tracts, I pray for the sick people. When I was nine, once I see a newspaper black and white, four pictures printed. First Michelangelo, second Titian, third is the picture of Da Vinci and another one is by Rembrandt. I was so shocked. How can people draw such a beautiful picture which is touching my heart? I want to be a learner of the fine arts. I keep the newspaper until 19 years. After that I went to Vienna. I try to collect about 18 books of the arts from Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Da Vinci, also some of the Spanish painters, Spanish artists. I try to learn and that became the original inspiration that I began a museum. When I was 15 years, I tried to get the small radio my brother bought and he tried to keep the radio into the cabinet. But I always every night steal the radio out and try to listen to good music. Finally I find out every one o'clock in the afternoon, every o'clock in the afternoon and every seven o'clock Radio Australia broadcast Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and other great composers' music and I start to listen to good music every day, eight hours for 15 years. I don't think any one of you have this kind of patience and have this kind of consistency to listen to good music and finally that become the foundation that I can conduct symphonies when I get old. So I am doing culture mandate not because of reading Abraham Kuyper, not because I went to the School of Music. I never went to any school of music in the world. I never went to school of philosophy in any university. I never went to any theological seminary to be trained for the reformed theology. Everything I am doing now all start from autodidact. But I am not tired. I never very tired but I am always chasing with all my heart the truth, the beauty and all the good music I can get. I believe I am one of the most diligent people in learning art, learning music, learning composition, learning conductive and finally God gave me all these possibilities to become a cultural man. I am not afraid to debate with any graduate from any school of music. I am not afraid to debate with any student from the philosophical school and finally I didn't go to philosophical school, didn't go to school of music, didn't go to architectural study. I had already designed the biggest Chinese church in the world for 6,500 people. I had already designed one of the best concert halls in the world because after 15 years I realised the wood is more matured and the acoustic is better than a lot of concert halls I know. All the grace of God is so huge, so big that I never understand why all of this given to me. I am not worthy. I am not learned. I am not educated. I have no degree of anything but I have everything owned with my effort to serve the Lord. When Free University come to Indonesia, the President say one word, I think that is right. What is being done by Stephen Tong, some of them never be done by Abraham Kuyper. And Abraham Kuyper want to do this, want to do that, finally he didn't do it, I do it. I create one of the best music hall in the world. I create one of the most comprehensive understanding of the art in Indonesia. And I built one of the biggest reformed church in the world. All this is by the grace of God before I know who is Abraham Kuyper. When I go to study in theology, I learn, oh there is man called John Calvin. There is a man called Van Kiel. There is a man called Abraham Kuyper. And I honestly speaking to you, before I know them, I have been doing what they were doing. And by the grace of God, when I getting older and older, everything I want becomes realized. Everything God and burden in my heart becomes realized in my actuality, in my realization. Today I am very unworthy, I am very humble to say, I don't know why so many people come to Indonesia because of me. Why? Because of these very humble and useless men, some from Singapore, some from Hong Kong, some from Taiwan, some from United States, what for? But I thank God because what I am doing are all because the burden from God, the vision from Jesus Christ, and what I am doing is what is written in the Bible. What is the responsibility that every Christian should do. I have done it. Now I am very old man. I think I am the oldest among here, besides one or two person here, I know. You are all younger than me. So I tell you to serve the Lord is the most useful in our life. To serve the Lord is most worthy for our living. Praise God. Not many years after I will go, but now, praise God, I tell you one true hidden secret in my heart. I already find out about 10 person very young in Indonesia raised up by God without going to theological school, without being a very famous pastor's member, but they are now doing apologetics to represent Jesus Christ. They learn Bible very carefully and this young apologetics is now going on in YouTube. You don't know but I know it because sometimes I use five hours to listen to their preaching, to their debate, to their apologetics. I was so touched, so moved. Sometimes I cry because I see God is working in Indonesia. Now I return, I want to understand, is our seminary student doing that? No. A lot of seminary students are very lazy, do not want to evangelise, do not want to take apologetical responsibility. But those young people I mentioned just now, 10, one among them a lady, a very young man, only 22 to 23 years old, approaching. He didn't go to seminary, but he can use Greek words, Hebrew words from Old Testament, from New Testament. He is a very, very diligent, autodidact person. Four weeks ago I met him, I encouraged him, I said, I pray for you every day. I do not want to make use of you. I do not want to be cheated by you. I pray that you will be very stable and very faithful serving the Lord. Do you know how many people listen to his preaching and his apologetics in YouTube? In three weeks, the last three weeks from 25,000 now becomes 370,000 people. He's a young man, no theological education, but when I listen to every word and every Bible verse he quotes, I believe he is guided by Holy Spirit. Just when I was young, I was guided by Holy Spirit. I didn't have any degree, I didn't have any diploma, I didn't have any education when I was 17 years, but I already evangelized people, thousands of thousands of people. Now one of the greatest prayers in my life is one day Indonesia become Christian country. Amen? You clap hands, but I say, you believe that? Truly believe? What is the reason? You cannot tell me. I believe I am praying all my life one day become Christian country because of evangelization. Now I tell you one secret. I'm sorry, I have more time than what I should have. He doesn't tire out, but my arms are getting tired. No, even though you're tired, I still continue. Listen to me. Golden Gumbel, Baptist, Fuller, Union, so many theological seminary is going to sell their campus, but no one won. Why they sell? The secret is they don't evangelize. Listen well. This is a true prophet, not a false one. A seminary who is not evangelizing should close one day, and any seminary who is not building church and not evangelizing people to be Christian, they will lack of money forever and ever. You listen and you notice in United States where Calvin is rich because they have church. Where Westminster is poor, they don't have church. My seminary started from 1996, and until now, we never lack money because we have church and we send 1,500 people to go to evangelize in whole Indonesia. These kind of people, how can God depart from us? How can God leaving us? That impossible. God say, my son go to the world to build up his own church and send the people go to evangelize. If you despise Jesus Christ, if you ignore what have been commanded by Jesus, you will be very poor and no money will be given from God unto you. But I'm not afraid because even though my burden is so big, our need of money is so great, but I never worry because I'm doing the will of God, evangelizing people and pastoring the flocks of Jesus Christ. God say, you do my will. I supply and provide your needs until the end of the world. Amen. May God bless us. So I don't think I'm talking something in vain. I'm talking something to rise up all the soldiers of God to be faithful and to serve him fervently because only gospel is the secret of the richness in Jesus Christ. Only evangelization can change this world and can make the kingdom of God flourishing. May God bless you. I finish my words here. God bless you.