Rev. Lek Aik Wee

1 Corinthians 15:55, O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 22 October, 2017 Posted in Devotions Tagged with 22 October 2017, Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians

Death is a great nullifier. All that the man has, he leaves behind. Naked he came and naked he went. A sobering truth that jolts one to think of the meaning of life and its purpose. Such a question is posed by the preaching of the gospel to the miserable man, confronted with the prospect of death so that he may understand there is a solution that God has devised for his salvation. And the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after he died, provides that solution and signals that victory. Death is no longer a sting to the believer in Jesus Christ. Jesus will bring about the resurrection, remake of a glorious, incorruptible body for the soul that dies in Christ. This is the hope that is put forth for our encouragement.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 43

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 22 October, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, October 2017

16th Century Reformation in Germany

Martin Luther (Part 2)
Luther’s chief struggle had to do with the phrase ‘ the righteousness of God’. He was convinced that in Romans 1:17 and elsewhere these words referred to the awful holiness of God, and His unchanging hatred of sin and sinners. How could he, Martin Luther, ever achieve the kind of holiness that would turn away the anger of God against him?

He did not yet understand Paul’s words in Romans that the gospel is the saving power of God to everyone who believes in Christ, because it reveals the righteousness of God. This righteousness of God is nothing other than Christ’s perfect obedience to His Father’s will in life and death, ‘even the death of the cross’ – obedience which God counts as belonging to all those in whose place Christ died. Just as the punishment of the believer’s sin was borne by Christ so it is because of Christ’s righteousness that the same believer, though ungodly in himself, is pronounced ‘just’ or righteous in the sight of God. In this way, Paul says, faith receives the righteousness of God: ‘To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness’ (Romans 4:5).

1 Corinthians 15:54, Death is Swallowed Up in Victory

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 21 October, 2017 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 21 October 2017

And Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

1 Corinthians 15:52-53, This Mortal Must Put On Immortality

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 20 October, 2017 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 20 October 2017

What an elusive word “immortality”! An impossibility. How could mortal man put on immortality? Death is still an impossible impasse today. The best scientists together could not prolong life beyond the limit of 120 years old given in Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52, The Trumpet Shall Sound

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 19 October, 2017 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 19 October 2017

The time when the church of Jesus Christ shall be taken to heaven (born-again believers both dead (asleep) and the alive) will be preceded by a trumpet sound. The Apostle Paul called it “the last trump”.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52, We Shall Be Changed

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 18 October, 2017 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 18 October 2017

The Bible predicts in the coming future, a coming instant where born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ shall put on a glorious and incorruptible body that is fit for heaven and shall be ushered to meet our Lord in the heavens. Theologians call this the rapture of the church where the believers are caught up to heaven. Just as Enoch in the book of Genesis was taken to heaven bodily.

1 Corinthians 15:51, Behold

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 17 October, 2017 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 17 October 2017

There is a time of change that will take place for all who sleeps in the Lord. And the Apostle Paul is signalling to the saints to “behold”. He urges them to see the mystery of God’s resurrection power unveiled to reverse the sting of death upon all who have died in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:50, Inherit the Kingdom of God

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 16 October, 2017 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 16 October 2017

This earthly body is not fitted for dwelling in heaven. This is the meaning of the statement “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.” We shall be given a heavenly body fitted for our heavenly home when Jesus returns. This is the believer’s blessed hope.

Acts 28:1-16, Effectual Prayer

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 15 October, 2017 Posted in Sermon Notes, Sunday Service Tagged with October 2017, Audio Sermon, Sunday Service, Audio Sermon 2017, Acts - Principles for Church Growth and Missions

Acts 28:1-16 (KJV)
1 And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
2 And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 42

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 15 October, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, October 2017

16th Century Reformation in Germany

– Martin Luther (Part 1)

Martin Luther, the Reformer, belonged to a peasant family in Saxony, Germany, ‘My father, grandfather, all of my ancestors were thorough peasants’, said Luther. His father bore the name of Hans (John), his mother Gretha (Margaret). They lived in Eisleben where Hans Luther earned his livelihood by mining, specially for copper which was abundant in the hills. Their son was born on the 10th November 1483, and as observed by the Roman Catholic Church, he was named after that saint. Half a year after his birth the family moved to Mansfield, about six miles from Eisleben.

Author: Rev. Lek Aik Wee