Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 37
(1) Gospel Rally 2017
Thank God for 7 new visitors last Lord’s Day. The theme “The Meaning of Life” was taken from John 1:1-4. The grappling for meaning in life finds its ultimate rest in the Giver and Sustainer of life – the Person of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Life has its Source and finding it will bring with it fullness of meaning. The search for the “meaning of life” leads to its end point or beginning point in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The gospel message is recorded in the attached link below:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jvtO0ebmA8]
(2) The Days of Noah
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
The Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest prophecy yet unfulfilled. Christ coming is imminent.
Matthew 24:37-39 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
The world certainly does not know or realize the impending judgment upon planet earth. When the church is raptured, the world will go through a period of Great Tribulation when the Antichrist rules the world. Life seems to go on as usual — eat, drink and be merry, we have much goods laid up for the future. The world feels very secure with its make-believe sense of prosperity.
This is the deception today as it was then in Noah’s time just before God brought on a global flood that destroyed the whole world. Behold, the privilege accorded to Noah. The Bible says he was “being warned of God of things not seen as yet”. To him God made known the future. God was going to send a tsunami of such great proportions that it would destroy the known world at that time.
Noah believed God. This was a man who had encountered God and knew that God meant every word He said. He was moved with fear. God moved Noah’s heart to respond to His warning. It was a wake-up call! It was like a bell or a gong going off in Noah’s heart and mind, stirring him into action to build the ark!
The Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is a sorely neglected doctrine in the church today. It is not the case that Christ’s Second Coming has not been preached, but that there seems to be a lack of the fear of God in the hearts of Christians today that should rouse them into Noah-like action.
Noah by his submission to God sets himself as an example against the evil and the wicked in his generation who refused God’s truth. His very obedience to God in building the ark and preparing his family was a judgment against the mockers and scoffers who by their unbelief perished when God sent the flood. By his walk, Noah was a witness against the world. This was his responsible response to the privilege God had bestowed upon him when God chose him to be His witness against the world.
God condemned the world through Noah’s preparation — Noah built the ark, he prepared his family, he preached to the world. Noah lived a life of righteousness. Not sinless but of constant submission to God. Noah lived a surrendered life. He surrendered his ambition to God, and in turn, made his life-goal the complete, “no-questions-asked” execution of God’s will.
The world today continues to focus its efforts on building yet bigger barns and taller buildings. When one structure is torn down, another bigger, taller, grander, more ostentatious, more spectacular edifice is built in its place.
Indeed, on the very site where the Twin Towers once stood in New York City, now arises a new super structure called the One World Trade Centre. With 104 floors and an antenna, 1WTC will rise to 1776 feet, making it the tallest building in the US — surpassing even the Twin Towers it replaced. Just as symbolically, the world is preparing for the rising of the one whom it thinks is it’s saviour — the Anti-Christ — to save it from its woes.
What will save us from the coming judgment of God? Only faith in the Lord Jesus Christ will save us and our family.
Dear reader, is there a holy submission to God and His Word in your life? Noah received a righteous man’s reward according to or by way of faith. Noah passed from the old world to a new world. He inherited the new world together with his family. All who believed did not perish in the global cleansing God meted out upon all mankind.
But there is more to come. Be warned there is yet another global “flood” of God’s judgment that is coming. This time it shall be by fire.
This is recorded for us by the Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 3:10-13, “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
Let us be awakened to the signs of the times. We are living in the days of Noah, the days just prior to our Lord’s return. May the truth of God’s Word convict and convince us to follow the example of Noah. May the Lord prepare our hearts to give an account of our stewardship of the gospel that He has entrusted to us! Amen.
Yours lovingly,
Pastor Lek Aik Wee