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Forbearing and Forgiving One Another

Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

The ability to forgive others, the capacity to exercise tolerance and patience toward others who have done us wrong, the Apostle Paul tells us, must be the trait of a true Christian.

The reality in today’s sin-stricken world is that people seek vengeance, retaliation, as an expression of the right to personal freedom, as a show of backbone and strength. Human wrath seems to be the way to resolve conflicts. Might is right. This is so evident in the international realm, in the national realm, in the home.

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(1) The Fragility of Life

James 4:13-16 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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1) How Great Thou Art

– Inspired by a Thunder and Lightning Storm

Carl Boberg, a Swedish pastor, editor of a Christian newspaper, and member of the Swedish Parliament was suddenly caught in a midday thunderstorm in 1886 while visiting a beautiful part of the coast of Sweden. The rolling thunder and flashing lightning filled him with awe.

Following the violent storm, Boberg was inspired by the calm water, clear, brilliant sunlight and sweet songs of the birds. The experience caused him to fall on his knees in humble adoration of his mighty God. He penned his exaltation in a poem that later was translated into German and then from that into Russian.

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Thoughts on Prayer

Prayer is the worship of our Almighty God. Totally depraved men are given the privilege of access, not by their righteousness, but by the imputed righteousness of Christ.

The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 3:25, “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.”

It is a privilege given only to the redeemed of God, to those whom Christ has purchased by His once-for-all completed work on the cross at Calvary.

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.”

Galatians 4:6 “And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”

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Family Bible Camp 2016

Thank God for gathering 80 campers for BHBPC’s 3rd Family Bible Camp from 15 -18 June 2016 at Swissôtel the Stamford in Singapore.

The theme of our camp is “The Christian Home”. The family unit is the basic nucleus of the church family. Spiritually healthy families will make a healthy church family ready to advance God’s kingdom as we see the day of the Lord’s Second Coming fast approaching.

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(1) Our Closet Prayer Life

Matthew 6:6 “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”

(2) When Ye Fast

Matthew 6:16-18 “Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.”

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Blessed Assurance

– The Most Cherished Hope

At the age of eighty Fanny Crosby moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, to live with her sister. There she increasingly thought of heaven and the blessings the Lord had in store for her. She anticipated for the first time having sight and expressed her most cherished hope in the confident refrain of one of her last hymns:

Some day this earthly house will fall,

And I no more as now shall see,

But this I know, my All in all,

Has now a place in heaven for me.

And I shall see Him face to face,

And tell the story, saved by grace.

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(1) Rock of Ages

– In the Fury of a Storm

Augustus Toplady, born in 1740, was converted in a barn in an Irish village at age sixteen after listening to a sermon. He became a minister and editor of The Gospel Magazine.

Toplady was in a field in England in 1776 when suddenly a violent storm broke out. He was far from town and shelter, but saw a large rock and hurried to it to find some relief from the brunt of the storm’s fury. In the rock, he found a crack into which he could fit. He entered it and was sheltered.

While waiting out the storm, Toplady reflected how Christ who is called our Rock of Salvation, was broken that we might find in him shelter from the coming judgment. On a card he found at his feet, he wrote the poem that began with the words, “Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee.”

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(1) The Fruit of the Spirit is Temperance

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

The word “temperance” means exercising restraint, having self-control. It is the exercise of a Spirit-given, Spirit-enabled restraint against the fallen, corrupt human nature called the flesh. It is the intervention of the Holy Spirit in the believer’s life to enable him to put under subjection fleshly passions and appetites (Gal. 5:19-21).

King Solomon wrote in Proverbs 25:28, “He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls”. The literal translation may be, “A city being broken down with no wall is like a man who has no control over his spirit”. He who has no self-control is like a dilapidated city (Timothy Tow, Pearls of Great Wisdom – A Study of the Book of Proverbs). Self-control is the spiritual quality or virtue that enables a Christian to have the power to keep him in check against the sin of the flesh and the spirit.

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1) The Fruit of the Spirit is Meekness

Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

The word “meek” describes “an attitude of quiet, reverent and humble submission to the will and purpose of God.” The quality of “meekness” is a gentle, quiet spirit of selfless devotion to God. It is an enduring and obedient spirit that is contented with one’s lot in life as God has given. Such a one, Christ pronounces blessed (Matt. 5:5). The opposite of meekness is self-will, a rebellious and complaining spirit.

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