Blessed Hope Bible-Presbyterian Church
500 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore 678106
Blessed Hope Bible-Presbyterian Church Adult Sunday School 11 March 2018 Visions of Zechariah Zechariah 5:5-11 (KJV) 5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what isthis that goeth forth. 6 And …
There Is Only One God
In some countries where people have not read the Bible and do not know very much about God, there are many people who think that there are several gods. Some of them think that there are two gods, some of them think that there are four gods and some of them think that there are even a hundred gods or more. In some places, people think that the sun is a god and that the moon is another god so they bow down and sometimes pray to the sun and ask it to take care of them and help them.
Can the sun or the moon help us? No, these do not have life, they are not persons who can help us. They are only things that God made to give us light, to keep us warm and for us to enjoy. They are not gods, but they are made by God. We should never pray to things that God has made but only to God Himself.
Should we pray to the angels? Are they gods? No, angels are alive, and there are some of them right there where we cannot see them, but we should not pray to them. The angels are not gods, but they are helpers for God and that is why God made them. The angels love God and there are so many of them that we cannot even think how many there are.
Most of them are in Heaven thanking and praising God and telling Him how glad they are to serve Him.
Hymns: RHC 441 Faith Is the Victory, 337 Never Give Up, 301 My Faith Looks Up to Thee
Hebrews 11:17-19 (KJV)
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
Abraham’s Faith (2)
OUTLINE
(1) Faith’s Test (v17a, cf. Genesis 22:1-2)
(2) Faith’s Response (v17b-18, cf. Genesis 22:3-14)
(3) Faith’s Reward (v19, cf. Genesis 22:15-19)
Proverbs 3:9-10 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Blessed Hope Bible-Presbyterian Church Adult Sunday School 4 March 2018 Visions of Zechariah Zechariah 5:1-8 (KJV) 1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. 2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I …
Sermon Outreach
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
There are 592 audio sermons and 156 video sermons recorded for the period since the beginning of the church on 17 November 2013 till the end of February 2018. It is available for download from www.sermonaudio/blessedhope and www.blessedhope.sg . There has been 24, 464 downloads for our MP3 audio sermons of which 11,166 are mobile phone downloads. There has been also 2,775 video sermons.
Hymns: RHC 311 Does Jesus Care? 320 ‘Tis So Sweet to Trust In Jesus 386 Be Thou My Vision
Hebrews 11:11-12 (KJV)
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Sarah’s Faith
OUTLINE
(1) Faith-Rooted In God’s Promise
(2) Faith-Rooted in God’s Faithfulness
(3) Faith-Rooted in God’s Power
Proverbs 3:5-8 (KJV)
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Blessed Hope Bible-Presbyterian Church Adult Sunday School 25 February 2018 Visions of Zechariah Zechariah 4:1-14 (KJV) 1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, 2 And said unto …
Nearer My God to Thee
Cradled in Sorrow and National Tragedy
The hymn “Nearer My God to Thee” was cradled in personal sorrow and had its maturing in an unusual history of both personal and national tragedy. The words express the heart’s deep yearning, especially in times of trial and trouble, to be drawn nearer to God.
This hymn has come to be invariably associated with the ill-fated luxury ocean liner, the Titanic, which in 1912 struck an iceberg some sixteen-hundred miles from New York City on its maiden voyage from England. As the few lifeboats pulled away carrying the six hundred passengers who were saved, all hope was lost for those left on deck.
In the final moments as the ship slowly sank beneath the icy waters of the Atlantic, sending fifteen hundred helpless souls into eternity, survivors heard the ship’s band playing the hymn’s strain with passengers on board singing the words of one who had written them for her own comfort.
Sarah Flower Adams, author of the hymn, was born in England in 1805. Her mother died when she was only five. Her dream was to be an actress, and she began a successful career on the London stage, starring as Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth. But ill health forced her to give up her acting career, and she turned her talents to writing. Her health grew more and more fragile and she died at forty-three years of age.