Blessed Hope Bible-Presbyterian Church
500 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore 678106
A true child of God is led by the Holy Spirit. A true child of God is adopted into the family of God by the Holy Spirit. He address God the Father by a term of endearment – Abba. It signifies closeness, it suggest intimacy. When a child is legally adopted by his foster parents, he receives the legal rights of inheritance and the position of being a son or a daughter to the parent.
The true child of God would not seek to grieve the Holy Spirit by yielding to sin but would allow the Holy Spirit to hold sway over his life. The test of being Spirit-led is an inner strength to say “no” to sin! This is possible because this child of God prays unceasingly – Psalm 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. He understands his vulnerability dare not wander from the influence of the divine Spirit. God’s blessing is upon these His children. May we seek to be Spirit-led this new day as we seek His unfailing grace to aid us! Amen.
The Christian is instructed to subdue the flesh. The word “mortify” means “to put to death”. Do not allow the flesh to take over, kill it. This battle between the flesh and the Spirit is an on-going one. Be always filled with the Spirit. The life lived in the Spirit receives God’s blessing. The life lived in the flesh receives God’s cursing. Realize that God has freed us from the bondage of sin through Christ. It is a debt we owe to Christ for sacrificing Himself to save us. Are we not grateful for what He has done? Indeed, Christ’s sacrifice is despised in our heart when we yield to the flesh. However way we may try to justify our sin, we are guilty!
Lamentations 3:22-27 It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
The believer is made spiritually alive by the Holy Spirit. Although he has the power to overcome sin, he will still experience physical death. The Apostle Paul described the dead in Christ as those who sleep in Christ. In the day of the resurrection, when Jesus returns, God has promised the dead in Christ will be awakened by a physical resurrection of their mortal bodies. And those who are physically alive, during the time of Christ return, will not experience death, but will be clothed with an incorruptible, glorious, resurrection body.
On 28 January 2014, Blessed Hope Bible-Presbyterian Church (BHBPC) came into existence when registration approval was received from the Registrar of Societies of Singapore.
A small group first gathered to pray on 15 August 2013 at the Praise Chapel of the Salvation Army Building.
It was on 24 September 2013 that the application for registration of BHBPC was submitted. 127 days later, the Lord answered our prayer. We saw the good hand of God leading us.
When Nicodemus the Pharisee came to Jesus, he was spiritually dead. Jesus said to him, “Ye must be born again.” To be born-again is to have a spiritual life, having fellowship and communion with the living and true God. In John 3:8, Jesus uses the illustration of the “wind” to describe one having spiritual life. He says “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8) The wind is invisible, you cannot see the wind with your eyes but you can feel its breeze. When you fly a kite, you see the reality of the wind blowing when the kite is lifted up in the sky. The presence of the Holy Spirit in the believer’s life is such, not visible to the naked eye yet the true believer is able to overcome sin and temptation by the power of the indwelling Spirit.
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. The …
In John 4, Jesus initiated the conversation by humbling Himself to ask drink from the woman at the well in Samaria (for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans). In fact, historically, they were bitter enemies. The Jew would not stoop low to ask a drink from the Samaritan even though he may be thirsty. Jesus reached out to the unlovable and outcast Samaritan proactively. He did not despise her but saw this “outcast” as a precious soul needing the gospel. Jesus’ act of condescension startled the woman. This brought forth a response from her. Jesus utilized the illustration of “living water” that will quench her thirst forever alluding to everlasting life from God to arouse her interest to seek to know more of the truth.
2 Kings 2:15-25 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him. 16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.