Author: Rev. Lek Aik Wee

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The converted Jew should not be ashamed of his Jewish background. His circumcision does not impede his Christian testimony at all. He should accept his past for who he is and rejoice now for what God has done for him in Christ. Likewise, the heathen man who is converted need not follow the Jewish ceremonial law of being circumcised to be accepted into the Christian community. Although salvation begins with the Jews it must by no means be construed that the ceremonial law of circumcision has been carried over to the Christian faith. The Christian is baptised by water as an outward sign of his inward faith. He need not be circumcised following the Jewish ceremonial law. It has been abrogated in Christ.

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William MacDonald said well, “There is sometimes a feeling among new converts that they must make a complete break with every phase of their former life, including institutions such as marriage which are not in themselves sinful. In the newfound joy of salvation, there is the danger of using forcible revolution to overthrow all that one has previously known. Christianity does not use forcible revolution in order to accomplish its purposes. Rather, its changes are made by peaceful means. In verses 17–24, the apostle lays down the general rule that becoming a Christian need not involve violent revolution against existing ties. Doubtless he has marriage ties primarily in view, but he also applies the principle to racial and social ties.”

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Study of the Book of Ecclesiastes

(Remember Now Thy Creator)

Living by Faith and Not By Sight

Ecclesiastes 9:11-18

11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. 13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: 14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. 16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless, the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. 17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

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The Apostle Paul tells us that the children born in a marriage where one partner is a believer is holy in the sight of God. It does not mean that they are without sin but that God has set them in apart by virtue of their believing parent. The believing father or mother provides a sanctifying influence by influencing the children in the things of God. The believing parent prays for the children, reads Bible stories, reads the Bible, shares with them the gospel at the earliest age that they may be saved.

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1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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Great Is Thy Faithfulness

The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah wrote in Lamentations 3:22-23, “It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

James, the servant of God wrote, James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Centuries later Thomas Chisholm was reading these passages and felt inspired to put them into verse. The result of it, the hymn “Great is Thy Faithfulness”.

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God knows the beginning and the end of all things. It is Him who allows such a situation to arise in saving one spouse in an otherwise heathen marriage. We can trust in His grace to help the believing spouse persevere to influence the better half for God without giving up. May God be gracious to make a way. Amen.

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The Apostle Paul addresses the believer who is also a wife to her unbelieving husband. She was converted probably after her marriage to the unbelieving spouse. The advice is that she does not rush to severe the marriage relationship because of their different faith. Rather, if her husband does not object to her faith and is willing to honour the marriage, she must not leave him.

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