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Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 36

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

This hymn was written by Helen Lemmel (1863-1961), a gifted singer and musician born in England later moved to the United States together at the age of 12. The song was inspired by a tract written by Lilias Trotter, a missionary to Algeria entitled “Focussed”. Trotter was writing about having the right focus on Jesus Christ puts the whole jigsaw puzzle of life in a blessed order. She gave this godly advice for keeping one’s life moving in the right direction:

Turn your soul’s vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.

“Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus” is the one that has continued to find its way into many hymnals and into human hearts because it holds out a promise of Jesus’ help for troubled souls.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 35

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 27 August, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter, 2017 Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, August 2017

Children Are God’s Gifts

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. (Psalm 127:3)

We acknowledge before God, His gracious gift of children to every parent represented in our congregation. If God had not given, we would not have received. Therefore, Psalm 127:3 is a statement of grateful tribute to the Giver of children entrusted to parents’ nurture and care.

Children are God’s precious gifts to parents, an inheritance from the LORD. Children are a part of God’s treasury entrusted to parents. The fruit of the womb is not a “fruit of chance”, but God’s special blessings upon parents. It is a token of God’s love and kindness. Spurgeon rightly noted, “He gives children, not as a penalty nor as a burden, but as a favour.”

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 34

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 20 August, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter, Weekly 2017 Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, August 2017

There’s Within My Heart a Melody

-From a Calamitous Loss of Wife and Children

Luther Bridges, a successful young evangelist, accepted an invitation to hold two weeks of revival meetings near his wife’s home in Horrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1910. His wife, whom he had met and married at Asbury College, stayed with their three boys at his in-laws while he conducted the meetings, at which many accepted Christ.

Near the end of the campaign, he received a late-night phone call. The person at the other end conveyed the tragic news that his wife’s parents; home had burned to the ground with his wife and three sons all lost in the fire. At the age of twenty-six, he was bereft of his precious family.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 33

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 13 August, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter, Weekly 2017, 2017 Tagged with August 2017, Weekly, Weekly 2017

(1) What Is Honest Money?

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

The Bible tells us that the love of money is the root of all evil (1 Timothy 6:10). Money itself is not evil. But the love of money is a grievous sin.

The Apostle Paul warns that while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows (1 Timothy 6:10). Beware of the lure of a materialistic life-style that enslaves men and women in every generation.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 32

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 6 August, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter, Weekly 2017, 2017 Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, August 2017

Wine Is a Mocker

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

“Total Abstinence” is a distinctive of the Bible-Presbyterian Church at its formation in 1937, predominantly through the efforts of such conservative Presbyterian clergymen as Carl McIntire, J. Oliver Buswell and Allen A. MacRae. The First General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church was held in 1938 in Collingswood, NJ.

Two main issues made the existence of these factions within the Orthodox Presbyterian Church evident. The first had to do with a classic Reformed piety over against a piety of fundamentalism. It came down to a conflict of the use of alcoholic beverages. The “Orthodox” side condemned drunkenness, but nevertheless, did not agree that Scripture taught total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. The “Bible” side asserted that Christians ought to abstain totally from alcohol.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 31

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 30 July, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, July 2017

Keep the Lord’s Day Holy

The Westminster Larger Catechism provides a succinct summary of Scriptural injunctions on the keeping of the Lord’s Day.

The fourth commandment is:

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:8-11)

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 30

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 23 July, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, July 2017

Be Diligent to Search the Scriptures

Proverbs 2:1-5 “My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.”

God’s people ought to be diligent in seeking the things of God, because these are things that count and last for eternity. Life does not end when this earthen vessel perishes. The decisions and the paths we take in this life have eternal consequences. We are faced with choices daily! How do we know which is the right choice? How can we walk in the path of God’s blessing?

If we diligently search the Scriptures we will understand “the fear of God and find the knowledge of God” (Proverbs 2:5). The fear of God and the knowledge of His will, help guide our choices.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 29

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 16 July, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly 2017, July 2017, Weekly

Spiritual Leadership At Home

– Abraham’s Example

Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

God’s approval was given to Abraham for his spiritual leadership in guiding his family to walk in the way of the LORD.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 28

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 9 July, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, July 2017

(1) Now Thank We All Our God

– A Table Grace in Time of War

When we sing the stately hymn of thanksgiving and praise “Now Thank We All Our God,” we might not realize its birth in one of history’s greatest periods of suffering.

Nothing brings more suffering and tragedy to our world as war. Even if one believers that war may be the necessary instrument for peace in some situations, it still leaves an aftermath of death and destruction.

One of history’s longest and most terrible wars, the last of the great religious wars of Europe, was the Thirty Years’ War of 1618-48. H.G. Wells described it as “one of the most cruel and destructive” of history. Germany, the main battleground between the warring Catholics and Protestants from various countries of Central Europe; suffered misery beyond description, with the German population decimated from sixteen million.

Lord’s Day, Vol. 5 No. 27

By Rev. Lek Aik Wee Posted on 2 July, 2017 Posted in Weekly Newsletter Tagged with Weekly, Weekly 2017, July 2017

Finding Spiritual Growth

1 Peter 2:1-3 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

Pre-requisite for Growth

To grow spiritually, we are to remove hindrances to our spiritual lives. The words “laying aside” describe putting off garment, putting off the old man and putting on righteousness, putting on Christ. The emphasis is on the action of putting off. It has to be done by each one personally. It is a call to self-examination. We are to do so continuously – “laying aside”.

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