Blessed Hope Bible-Presbyterian Church
500 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore 678106
Revelation 21:7 (KJV) He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. The added promise “I will be his God” came first to Abraham and then to others (Genesis 17:7-8; Exodus …
Revelation 19:13 (KJV) And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. The rider’s dress, a rider’s cloak, or the cloak of a Roman general (Swete) as the word means – And he was clothed …
Revelation 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. Since the woman could not pursue the woman, he attempted to impose …
Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give …
The Bible is the only book with the remedy for sin. “Till we are above sin, we are not above Scripture” (Thomas Watson). Only fools make a mock at sin.
Through Jesus Christ, the believer is made free from the bondage of sin and continues to be made holy by the law of the Spirit of Christ indwelling him. It is called a law because it predicts a certain outcome. God will mould His people through life to confirm in His image.
The Christian life may be symbolized by a dot and a line that stretches to infinity. There was a point in time when he repented of his sins and received Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. This is the dot. A one-time event whereby spiritual life began. This life that began has no end point. It is eternal.
The Christian life is a sanctified life lived to the praise of God. There is so much a Christian live for having being freed from the bondage of sin. He lives in the beauty of holiness. Life with God must not deteriorate to a mere outward conformance to God’s law without having true allegiance to God from the bottom of our hearts.
The Apostle Paul speaks of converted gentiles who loved God and serve Him with all their hearts. Their devout lives speak volumes though they were not outwardly circumcised like the Jew. Their good testimony served as an indictment against the circumcised Jews. Though outwardly bearing the covenant of God in their flesh, they disobeyed God in heart, word and deed. This was the sad plight in Jewry during the time of Jesus’ earthly ministry.
Indeed, as Apostle Paul rightly conclude in 1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
True faith is visibly seen by good works and spiritual fruit. It is a religion of the heart, a pure heart of piety toward God and men. The bible character Ruth was such an example. She was a Moabitess who left her homeland to follow Israel’s God by following her mother-in-law, Naomi, back to Israel. God’s commendation of Ruth’s faith came through Boaz’s words in Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. God counted her an Israelite in heart although she was outwardly a gentile.