City Harvest Church Weekend Sermons

Do you feel discouraged by the bad things that have happened in your life? Are you emotionally trapped by the pain of the past? In this encouraging sermon, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain reminds us to surrender our pain to God, for He will use our past failures as ingredients for our future success. Teaching from Joel 2, Pastor Aries teaches that God wants to bring restoration to us in two areas: first, He will restore to us the years that the swarming locust has eaten: by the power of the Holy Spirit, we will have power to do new things, break through new ground, experience divine intervention and miracles. How will He do this? By drawing us to a deeper communion with Him, until we realise He alone is enough for us. Second, God will restore to us our fruitfulness. Even if you feel you have lost everything, do not lose heart; keep planting and God will bring you the harvest. Listen to this message and the powerful testimonies within, and turn to the God of restoration.

On this Father’s Day weekend, Ps Bobby Chaw exhorts all fathers to observe four ways in which they can bless their children. The first is by teaching them to see life through the Father’s eyes; that no matter what life throws at us, we can still bring forth the fruit of the Spirit because God is always working behind the scenes.Secondly, fathers can teach their children to live out the reality of God in their lives. Children imitate what they see, not what they hear. As a father encounters God, his children will also be drawn to Him. The third way in which fathers can bless their children is to speak words of affirmation over them. Just as how God never spares words of affirmation over Jesus and over His children—fathers, speak words of blessings over your children!Finally, fathers can show the way by setting their hearts on eternity. Fathers, let’s believe God for our children’s future and for their eternity in the Lord.

The 40th day after Easter, Jesus ascended into heaven—His final act on earth. In this sermon, Pastor Wu Yuzhuang presents three reasons why the ascension of Jesus Christ is so important: one, it marks the completion of His earthly work for us. He came from the Father, and He returned to the Father, the first time Man returned to the presence of God since Adam was banished from the Garden of Eden. Two, it signals the sending of the Holy Spirit. Jesus lived life entirely by the Holy Spirit, and after His ascension, He sent the Holy Spirit to be every Christian’s helper, to lead us as He was led. Three, it signals Christ’s continuing work through us. Jesus’ earthly work ended when He ascended, and now His work was and is to be continued through believers. As Jesus was blessing the disciples when He was taken up to heaven—that blessing is a prophetic statement for every Christian of what God will do in and through your life. Listen to this message and be empowered by the Holy Spirit to continue Christ’s work.

The key to a victorious life for every Christian is to know (Gr. ginosko) the Holy Spirit. In this bold message, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain exhorts the believer to repent and come into an intimate, experiential knowledge of the Holy Spirit. Like the 120 disciples on Pentecost, our ministry is most effective when it comes out of our relationship with the Holy Spirit. Pastor Aries spells two ways to have this: one, be filled with the Holy Spirit, that is, be constantly aware of His presence and allow Him to be your chief influence in life. Don’t disregard, disrespect or mock the things of God; beware of putting up defences against the Holy Spirit’s call to repentance. Two, constantly experience the Holy Spirit, don’t allow your heart to grow cold, but pay the price to build your personal devotion to God. Listen to this message and be encouraged to cultivate an ever-growing relationship with the Holy Spirit.

In this encouraging Mother’s Day message, Pastor Kong Hee draws four characteristics of a godly mother from the unlikely example of Bathsheba. Despite the abuse and tragedies she endured because of King David (2 Samuel 11), Bathsheba clung on to God and kept her consecration, resulting in her being listed in the genealogy of Jesus (Matthew 1:6). Pastor Kong teaches four things a godly mother does: one, she reads the Bible. It is believed that Bathsheba’s words to her son Solomon formed Proverbs 1 to 10. Two, a godly mother prays and trusts the Lord (Prov 3:5). Three, a godly mother loves unconditionally (Prov 3:3-4) and four, a godly mother forgives unceasingly. Mothers, listen and be strengthened by the word.

All throughout the Gospels, we are called to repentance. Matt 5:4 says that blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Mourning is repentance that brings a great heavenly joy. What is repentance? It is godly sorrow, a change of mind and a change of direction from the sin that the Holy Spirit convicts us of. The Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15) illustrates how we must neither condemn ourselves like like prodigal son, nor grow complacent like the older son. Let this message draw you to repentance in the Holy Spirit.

The biggest war we fight today is the one within: many of us battle anxiety and depression. What we need is the peace of the Holy Spirit, to be calm in the midst of trouble. In this sermon, Pastor Bobby Chaw teaches two ways to attain this peace. One, we must put on the mind of the Holy Spirit, and we do so by going to the Bible which is His word. When we have the mind of the Holy Spirit, we experience life and peace. Two, in every situation, pray. Prayer is the place of exchange: we give up our anxiety and we receive Jehovah Shalom. Listen to this message and be encouraged to abide again with the Holy Spirit

In this Easter message, Pastor Kong Hee teaches that although we are all born into sin and pain, on Calvary, Jesus did a miracle and turned our minus into a plus.  Humans have no ability to stop sinning, and the penalty for sin is eternal death. The cross is the only way mankind can be saved—the Father sent Jesus to be our substitute, and He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities. Through His death on the cross, Jesus is your Healer: two-thirds of His ministry was spent healing the sick, and He continues to heal today. Jesus is also your Provider: He will meet your every need and turn your failures into successes. This Easter, let the blood of the Lamb change you from the inside out: it cleans not just the outside but goes deep and breaks every stronghold of sin within.

In this message, Pastor Kong Hee teaches that the Holy Spirit is love, holiness and power—only when we are filled with the love of the Holy Spirit can we be filled with holiness, and only then experience lasting change. Every Christian experiences the "initial love" of the Holy Spirit when we are saved—we can do many of the outward things, even casting out demons and healing the sick. But as time goes by, we find that under stress, our ugly sides—our angry, envious, lustful selves—emerge and we become discouraged. This is because we have not let the Holy Spirit purify us and make us holy. Listen to this message and be encouraged to focus on love and holiness, by making room and giving ourselves fully to the Holy Spirit.

In this season of Lent, Pastor Wu Yuzhuang brings us back to the Garden of Gethsemane the night before Jesus went to the Cross. Pastor Zhuang teaches us that the Garden is four things: it is a place of supplication, where Jesus went to pray in His darkest hour; it is a place of support, where Jesus turned to his friends Peter, James and John to be with Him in prayer; it is a place of struggle, where Jesus asked the Father to take the cup of wrath away from Him; and it is a place of submission, where He declared not His but the Father’s will be done. Let this message remind you of the significance of Christ’s sacrifice for all mankind.