Rev. Lek Aik Wee

2 Corinthians 4:18; Look at Things Eternal

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 4 February, 2019 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 2 Corinthians, 4 February 2019

2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Our value system needs to be renewed so that it will reflect the will of God as God’s children. True reality is in the eternal but the illusion of trusting the things temporal is very real. We need to renew our minds so that our affections are set on the eternal rather than the temporal.

The Indian preacher of the last century Sadhu Sundar Singh explains well when he says “In the human heart there is a deep and natural craving which can be satisfied nowhere except in God and which can be consummated only in heaven after a period of probation and preparation in this world. But man, disdaining God and the judgment day, seeks satisfaction in this world and its things, and this effort on his part ends in sheer hopelessness and destruction.”

2 Corinthians 4:17-18; Our Eternal Weight of Glory

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 3 February, 2019 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 2 Corinthians, 3 February 2019

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

The Christian is taught to endure the affliction of this life. The grace of God will see them through. There is a far greater reward awaiting us in eternity. This world that we sojourn is but temporal. There is an eternal home that we will be going. This is the permanent, lasting and glorious home. We will be given a glorified body, not more pain and aches, and a glorious mansion. Our Lord Jesus promised that He has gone ahead to prepare for us. As such, we are exhorted to trust in the Lord and keep faith in God.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 7 No. 5

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 3 February, 2019 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with February 2019, Weekly, Weekly 2019

Blessed 5thAnniversary Thanksgiving

Launch Out into the Deep (Luke 5:1-11) was the title of our 5thAnniversary Thanksgiving Message. It was a call by Jesus to His disciples, to experience the sufficiency of His care in their lives as they commit themselves whole-heartedly to His leading. A fitting message to His church, a people called out from the world, whom Christ leads, as the Commander-in-Chief. You will have no lack. You will experience the sufficiency and His surpassing power, as you bear His Name, as members of the household of God, to a dying world that do not know Him and is often hostile to His good news of salvation, marching headlong to a Christ-less, fearsome eternity.

It was 7 years ago when we first began bible study on the 2ndfloor of this rented premises of The Salvation Army on Wednesday at 11 am. The year was January 2012. This was a group of elderly folks who have been meeting together for weekly Bible Study since 2007. It started from a visitation to the home of Mr Tan Kwi Hwa after his knee operation. He felt a desire for regular Bible Study and therefore opened his home. The group adopted Jeremiah 33:3 as a guiding verse, Jeremiah 33:3 “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

2 Corinthians 4:17; Our Light Affliction

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 2 February, 2019 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 2 Corinthians, 2 February 2019

2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Will you consider the trials that God allows you to go through in this earthly life as a bearable yoke? This is how the Apostle Paul looks at afflictions that come in his life. The word “light” means “easy to bear” to describe his earthly sufferings. He articulated these tribulations in his life in 2 Corinthians 11:23-30 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

2 Corinthians 4:15-16; We Faint Not

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 1 February, 2019 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 2 Corinthians, 1 February 2019

2 Corinthians 4:15-16 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. 16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

A life lived in the blessed will of God, centred upon Christ, is abundant life. When we tap upon the strength of God, our lives find vibrancy, purpose and meaning, renewable strength. This is the testimony of the prophet Isaiah for our encouragement:

Isaiah 40:28-31 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

2 Corinthians 4:15; All Things For Your Sakes

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 31 January, 2019 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 2 Corinthians, 31 January 2019

2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

The Apostle Paul rehearsed the goodness of God toward the church in Corinth. The gospel was sent through the gospel team amidst persecution to effect an eternal transformation in their lives translating them from the misery and sorrow sin, death and hellfire to the happy prospect of holiness, healing and heaven. The abundant favour of God has been showered, grace upon grace, day by day, moment by moment. He urged the Corinthian Christians to count their blessings. Give thanks to God alway.

5. It Is Well With My Soul

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 30 January, 2019 Posted in Sermon Notes, Prayer Meeting Tagged with It Is Well With My Soul, Audio Sermon, Prayer Meeting, January 2019, Audio Sermon 2019

Hymns: RHC 306 Pass Me Not, 319 It Is Well With My Soul, 7 God Moves In a Mysterious Way

Job 1:20-22

20Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, 21And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. 22In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. (Job 1:20-22 KJV)

It Is Well With My Soul

OUTLINE

(1) Submission to God’s Will (v20-21)

(2) Sin Not to Murmur Against God (v22)

INTRODUCTION

The hymn “It is Well with My Soul” was a song given in the storm of life. After the great fire of 1871, Horatio Spafford (1828-1888), a Chicago lawyer, arranged an ocean voyage to Europe form his family, where he would join them later. The ship on which the happy family sailed, the Ville du Havre, never got farther than halfway across the Alantic. In the dead of the night, it was rammed by a sailing vessel and cut into two. On the confusion and disaster that followed, Mrs. Spafford saw her four daughters swept away to their deaths. A falling mast knocked her unconscious, and a wave freakishly deposited her body on a piece of wreckage where she regained consciousness. When she and a few other survivors reached Wales, she cabled two words to her husband: “Saved alone.”

2 Corinthians 4:14-15; Promise of the Resurrection

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 30 January, 2019 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Book of 2 Corinthians, 30 January 2019, Devotion

2 Corinthians 4:13-14 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.

Because Jesus Christ was raised from the dead by the power of God, therefore, we who are in Christ Jesus, have the same hope that we shall be raised up from the dead victorious. This is our comfort and consolation. The Apostle Paul gave these words to comfort the believers in Thessalonica lose their loved ones – 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

2 Corinthians 4:13; We Also Believe and Therefore Speak

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 29 January, 2019 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 2 Corinthians, 29 January 2019

2 Corinthians 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

The Apostle Paul shares that he was not deterred to carry on the work because of the many troubles, distresses and perplexities, persecutions that have befallen him. As a weak, often frail human vessel, the work of the gospel seemed an impossibility. Yet God has given him faith to believe in the Word of God to believe His forever written Word, its promises, purpose and power. Referencing to Psalm 116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

2 Corinthians 4:11-12; Life In You

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 28 January, 2019 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 2 Corinthians, 28 January 2019

2 Corinthians 4:11-12 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

The Apostle Paul says likewise in Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. His life is given over to God and he sought to die daily to self-will and to live daily in Christ’s will. In so doing, his life and that of his gospel team-mates became a blessing to the church at Corinth. He sought for their spiritual welfare and advancement. He was willing to suffer, even persecution, physical pain and torment at the hands of those unfriendly to the progress of God’s kingdom.

Author: Rev. Lek Aik Wee