Rev. Lek Aik Wee

Lord’s Day, Vol. 4 No. 45

Faithful Living in a Faithless World

The Book of Daniel is set during the Babylonian captivity. Daniel was a teenager when he was deported out of his homeland in Jerusalem in 605 B.C. He was among the first group of exiles. The invading Babylonian army besieged Jerusalem and finally destroyed it and the Temple in 586 B.C.

That began 70 years of God’s chastening hand upon His wayward people who had sinned against Him by going a whoring after idols for centuries. The Northern Kingdom had already been destroyed in 722 B.C. The worship of God has become a mockery to Him. They had only “a form of godliness” and God is not mocked. He saw through their hypocrisy. Because God loved His people, He chastised them.

1 Corinthians 3:21-22, All Things Are Yours

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 5 November, 2016 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 5 November 2016

Every servant of God serves Christ as his Master whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas (Peter). God’s people must not regard them as the Master. God’s servants carry out their Master’s will. With the correct understanding, division and strife will cease in the church, arising from factions…
As such, all division must cease, rather enjoy what God has put in place to further the faith and interest of His people. May God’s people give honour and glory to Him as they enjoy all His benefits. Amen.

1 Corinthians 3:20-21, Let No Man Glory in Men

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 4 November, 2016 Posted in Devotions Tagged with 4 November 2016, Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians

By five thoughts of self-exaltation, Lucifer was cast out from heaven – Isaiah 14:12-15 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Sin did not begin on earth with the fall of Adam and Eve but with the fall of Lucifer who later came as the serpent to tempt Adam and Eve (Genesis 3).

1 Corinthians 3:20, Thoughts of the Wise

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 3 November, 2016 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 3 November 2016

The Apostle Paul cites Psalm 94:11 “The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.” He does so to caution the believers in Corinth to weigh carefully the words of man. He urges them not to rely on human wisdom to order their lives. Rather on the Word of God.

23. Children and Long Life

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 2 November, 2016 Posted in Audio Sermons 2016, Sermon Notes, Prayer Meeting Tagged with Audio Sermon 2016, Ecclesiastes, November 2016, Audio Sermon, Prayer Meeting

Ecclesiastes 6:3-7

3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. 4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. 5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other. 6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? 7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20, Vain Thoughts of the Worldly Wise

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 2 November, 2016 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 2 November 2016

The wisdom of God is revealed in His written Word. Believers are to take the time to consider because it is most profitable to the human soul. Faith in God’s Word is the beginning of wisdom. And appropriating God’s wisdom makes one wise unto salvation, understanding the things in the spiritual realm that impact the physical realm. The things that make for true peace and joy in the heart surpasses the blind accumulation of riches for mortal security.

1 Corinthians 3:18-19, Wisdom of this World

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 1 November, 2016 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Book of 1 Corinthians, 1 November 2016, Devotion

The Apostle Paul quotes Job 5:13 “He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.” The admonition is that God’s people be wise in the things of God. To take hold eternal life through salvation in Jesus Christ. To put aside the wisdom of this world and to take the time to imbibe the wisdom of God.

1 Corinthians 3:16-18, The Temple of God Is Holy

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 31 October, 2016 Posted in Devotions Tagged with Devotion, Book of 1 Corinthians, 31 October 2016

The Apostle Paul speaks of the body of Christ, the household of God, the saints as the temple of God in Ephesians 2:19-22 too. Each person individually as together as a building wherein God dwells, built upon Jesus Christ as the foundation.

Ephesians 2:19-22 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; 20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

Reformation Sunday 2016 – A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 30 October, 2016 Posted in Sermon Notes, Sunday Service, Audio Sermons 2016 Tagged with Special Events, Audio Sermon, Audio Sermon 2016, November 2016

Psalm 46:1-11 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; 3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. 4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High. 5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early. 6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. 7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. 9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 4 No. 44

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 30 October, 2016 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2016, October 2016

(1) A Mighty Fortress Of God

– Hymn of the Reformation

Today, we remember the 499th year of the Protestant Reformation when Martin Luther, a monk of the Roman Catholic Church, nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg in Germany on October 31, 1517 that sparked the Protestant Reformation.

It was a reformation of doctrine, a movement that restored the supreme authority of the Bible as our sole foundation for faith and practice. The biblical doctrines of salvation by faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, Scripture alone and for God’s glory alone were proclaimed once again.

Author: Rev. Lek Aik Wee