City Harvest Church Weekend Sermons

When Jesus went to the cross, He saved us not only from sin and guilt but also from Satan and all his evil powers. In this Easter message, Pastor Kong Hee explains what Jesus' death and resurrection means for you, the believer. On the cross, our sins are forgiven, and God in Christ defeated the kingdom of darkness. While the victory has already been won, we have not yet seen and experienced the full manifestation of that victory. We still have to co-exist with evil, but we are no longer in bondage to it. In this sermon, Pastor Kong spells out five types of tyranny that Christ gives us victory over. This is why we rejoice that Jesus is alive!

As we approach Easter, Pastor Kong Hee draws us into a study of significance of the cross in this sermon. To understand the cross, we must understand Who God is: He is holy, He is love and He is truth. God loves man, and God is holy, but man suffers from “total depravity”, and holiness cannot coexist with sin. So how could God solve this divine dilemma of squaring His wrath with His love for mankind? The only way was to send Jesus, fully God and fully Man, to the cross, to fully take the eternal punishment for our sins. Listen to this sermon and learn the four key things that happened on the cross.

In the third installment of this teaching, Pastor Kong Hee brings us a panoramic view of Jesus’ prayer life in five aspects. Jesus prayed in solitude: his constant connection through pray to the Father gave Him the spiritual intelligence to do the right thing. Jesus encountered God when He prayed: every supernatural, life-transforming encounter is a direct result of prayer. Jesus prayed before every major decision. Jesus prayed to overcome temptations. Jesus prayed and trusted God even when the answer was no. Listen to this powerful sermon and be inspired to develop a prayer life like Christ’s.

In this follow-up sermon to his message on the unforced rhythms of grace, where Christians exchange their burdens for the rest of God, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain explores the act of stepping into the rhythms of grace, for we are saved by grace not works. This is the art of waiting on the Lord until your soul finds rest in Him; then blessings, deliverance, salvation come. But waiting is not a mindless, idle act: we are to pray and wait for God to move first. Often, believers want to know how they will blessed, but the answer to their blessing is Who. Listen to this sermon and understand how to step into God's unpredictable rhythms of grace.

This season of Lent, it's time to focus on Jesus and to be reminded that He came to take your burden away and to give you rest. In this encouraging sermon, Pastor Aries Zulkarnain takes us through a study of what resting in God truly means: looking to Jesus when the world is filled with anxiety, as it is during the current COVID-19 outbreak; and understanding that faith is not a reward-based system: God's blessings can't be earned. The currency of this great exchange is learning the unforced rhythms of grace—submitting to God to receive His rewards for us. Listen to this sermon for a revelation of what "not my will, but Yours be done" means.

In this final instalment of his teaching on the prayer life of Jesus, Pastor Kong Hee covers three aspects: first, it is crucial to confess and seek forgiveness during prayers if we have sinned. Next, we must cry out to God and keep asking, petitioning, according to God’s word until we have what we pray for. Finally, when we pray, we adore Jesus with a spirit of thanksgiving. When we can do this we will be filled with God’s rest and supernatural joy. Learn from this sermon how to be like Jesus in your prayer life.

In this next instalment of his series on the prayer life of Jesus, Pastor Kong Hee takes us through David's meditation on God and four things that it did for him. It kept David pure from sin, it saved him from depression, it preserved his physical health and, very importantly, it brought him into conversation with God. It is only when we are deep in conversation and fellowship with the Lord through meditation that we can be taught by Him and gain true revelation. Listen to this sermon and discover how to have a dynamic conversation with God.

Jesus prayed unceasingly and in every circumstance—He poured his heart out to God, often with hot tears and loud crying. Through prayer, Jesus stayed connected to the Father and remained in the Spirit. In this powerful message, Pastor Kong Hee teaches the secret to praying as great men like Martin Luther and Dr Yonggi Cho do: by meditating on the Word of God. Showing how the Lord's Prayer is a collection of Jesus' own meditation and memorization of the Bible, Pastor Kong reminds us that Jesus wants the Word to find a home in us—we must meditate upon it until it is deeply rooted in us. Enjoy this message and make meditating on the Word and on Jesus a lifestyle.

Pastor Bobby Chaw teaches us how to pray at a time when things seem hopeless, by drawing from King David's prayer in Psalm 3. David was at his lowest point, running away from his son Absalom who wanted to kill him. Pastor Bobby shows us four things about David here: he was completely honest with God about his sorrows and fears; he turned his focus entirely on God and remembered that God was his shield; and he trusted so much in the Lord that even in the face of torment he slept, and he expected God to do what is consistent to his nature. Enjoy this full service and be encouraged by this sermon that having done all, we can stand knowing salvation belongs to the Lord.

Building upon his first message on following Jesus, Kong Hee teaches that there is a cost to following Christ—it is not an easy thing. As Jesus said in Luke 9:23, we are firstly to deny ourselves, and then to follow Him. Denying oneself is to not give in to unrighteous cravings. Pastor Kong details how to resist and repudiate self-gratification, self-vindication and self-exaltation like Jesus did in Matthew 4—we can't do it without the Holy Spirit. Next, we are to follow Jesus, which is to develop the nine fruit of the Spirit. Listen to this sermon and discover how you can begin to be a follower of Jesus by doing the opposite of what the self wants, and doing as Jesus did.