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Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 15

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 15 April, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2018, April 2018

(1) Our Daily Devotion

We are midway through the fourth month of the year of grace 2018. How is your daily devotional life? Is it consistent? Are you drawing strength from the meditation of God’s Word through prayer for your daily needs? My encouragement for you is to persevere on! Since 1 January 2018, we have started the devotional study on the Book of Proverbs by Denis Gibson, “God for the Life that Wins!” with the scripture text for our encouragement to persevere, “…Let us run the race with patience… Looking unto Jesus…” (Hebrews 12:1-2). This is painstakingly put together for your edification. It can be found in the church website under “Devotions” https://www.blessedhope.sg/category/devotions/ . It is made available in the mobile church app under “Devotions”. It is also updated on the church’s Facebook page. Do avail yourself. The hardcopy book is also available upon request.

Today’s devotion is entitled “Folly’s Fate!” taken from Proverbs 9:13-18, Eph. 2:1-10 and 2 Pet. 3:1-7 “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret [sins]” (Ps. 19:12).

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 14

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 8 April, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2018, April 2018

(1) Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

A Light from the Dark Ages

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) is considered the greatest of medieval saints. Martin Luther, himself a monk, wrote of him, “He was the best monk that ever lived, whom I admire beyond all the rest put together.” Born into a noble family in France, he turned his back on wealth and nobility to live as a monk and to advance the life of holiness, discipline, prayer, and ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of the people.

He and his followers hewed a home out of a wilderness of forests, a desolate haunt of robbers. The order he founded became the chief religious power in western Europe for three hundred years. Bernard’s writings and poetry became his lasting legacy to the church. His fruitful contemplation of eighty-six sermons on the first two chapters of the Song of Songs is a classic of biblical exposition.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 13

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 1 April, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with April 2018, Weekly, Weekly 2018

The Forty Days of Confirmation

A.D. 30 April-May

Sunday

A Great Earth Quake

An Angel Rolls Away the Stone

The Guard Report to the Rulers

The Message of the Angels to the Women who Visit the Empty Tomb

Mary and the Others Report to the Disciples

Peter and John Visit the Tomb

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 12

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 25 March, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2018, March 2018

The Passion Week to Resurrection Day

A.D. 30. Spring. April.

[Extracted from W. Graham Scroggie, A Guide to the Gospels, 501-503.]

Sunday – Day of Demonstration

Two Disciples fetch a Colt

Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

Prediction over Jerusalem

Jesus in the City and the Temple

Retirement to Bethany

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 11

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 18 March, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2018, March 2018

Prayer Support

Victor Ng received a tract from our church at his home in Toh Yi district, near the Beauty World MRT station in January 2016. He called to request for prayer support. His elder sister Ng Ah Pee suffered a haemorrhage stroke in May 2014 and fell into a coma. Ah Pee is Victor’s only nearest next-of-kin. She was responsible to take care of Victor when he was young. There is a close bond between this pair of brother and sister. Both are baptised believers.

Ah Pee was in a coma for four months. Victor testified that he prayed incessantly for her recovery during those four months, not bearing to be separated from his dear sister. Victor has been spending time speaking to her day and night. Miraculously, she awoke. Although she is unable to speak, bedridden and on tube-feeding, she responds to Victor by the moving of her eyes. Her facial expression shows that she was consciously aware of the world around her. Victor spends 12 hours a day, 7 days a week in the nursing home taking care of Ah Pee. A cyst was discovered in her abdomen and also a rectum mass. She suffers periodically from locked jaw.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 10

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 11 March, 2018 Posted in Weekly 2014 Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2018, March 2018

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.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 9

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 4 March, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2018, March 2018

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.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 8

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 25 February, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly 2018, February 2018, Weekly

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.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 7

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 18 February, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2018, February 2018

Life is in Jesus Christ

John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Jesus Christ is the Source of life. By Him, we have our existence. This is a greatest truth for any man to believe and embrace. Jesus is the Creator of all life.

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

He is the Sustainer of all life. The life that Jesus Christ imparts is the light of men. It is a realization that we have when the truth is revealed in our hearts through the wisdom imparted by the Holy Spirit.

When we realize that Jesus Christ is the Giver of life, we receive Him as Lord and Saviour.

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

We learn to love Him and be grateful to Him for the life and blessings He imparts to us.

There is a chorus “What a Wonderful Saviour!” that expresses well this blessed relationship:

What a wonderful Saviour

Jesus Christ my Lord

What a wonderful Saviour

From sin He sets me free

I will praise Him forever

Faithful to death I’ll be

What a wonderful Saviour

Jesus is to me.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 6

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 11 February, 2018 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2018, February 2018

The Righteousness of God is manifested…by faith of Christ Jesus (Romans 3:21-22)

Romans 3:21-22 (KJV) 21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.

In the ancient Chinese language developed more than 4000 years ago, there are characters that cannot be fully explained except in the book of Genesis. How did our Chinese ancestors learn this knowledge of life with the living and true God? It is indeed worthy of our investigation. In the Lunar New Year celebrations, we often display the Chinese character pronounced “fu” (shown below) which means “blessedness” or “happiness”. The desire is that the New Year may bring happiness to the family.

福

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