50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

Life
Bible-Presbyterian
Church
ist is fraught with sorrows and tears. This
has proven true time and time again. I had
a young lady worshipping at our Chinese
service. She was engaged to a Chinese-educated
fellow saved from drugs. But some
time before the wedding day he fell back
into drugs again. I advised the young lady
not to marry him, but being pressurised on
all sides, she gave in. A few months after
the wedding, she met me sheepishly. She
was then divorced. She said to me, “Pastor,
you are right.”
Though your case may not be as bad
as this, oil and water do not mix. An American
pastor-friend of mine had a son who
was in love with an R.C. girl. His father
warned him not to marry her, but he persisted.
He and his wife were divorced in
six months. Should you be stuck in such a
situation, Wang Ming Tao advises that you
should get out of it. To break now before
marriage is ten times better than after you
are married.
As another year piles up on you, look
up and trust the Lord, your Heavenly Father,
who knows best. Seek ye first the
Kingdom of God and His righteousness,
and He will work things out for you. There
are later marriages that work out even more
wonderfully as in the case of Boaz and
Ruth. To those who have decided to live a
single life, why not dedicate it to serve the
Lord full-time
This is my message to you, Young
Lifers and YAFers, as we cross into 1998.
In the light of Scriptures, we are living in
the last days and perilous times shall come.
This currency crisis will bring in a foreseeable
greater crisis in exactly two years
when trillions will have to be spent to combat
the Millennium Bomb or Computer
meltdown. And we are living in the Computer
Age. This one item alone will bring
great upheaval to our livelihood. But the
Scriptures predict also an overturning in
the physical world. There will be famines
and pestilences, earthquakes and wars. In
the spiritual realm the Church will be dominated
by false Christs and false prophets.
These warnings go unheeded, “For
man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes
that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds
that are caught in the snare; so are the sons
of men snared in an evil time, when it
falleth suddenly upon them” (Eccl 9:12).
“But the end of all things is at hand:
be ye therefore sober, and watch unto
prayer. And above all things have fervent
charity among yourselves: for charity shall
cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality
one to another without grudging. As
every man hath received the gift, even so
minister the same one to another, as good
stewards of the manifold grace of God” (1
Pet 4:7-10). Like the Vietnamese boat people,
let us pull our oars together, helping
one another, through hard times ahead. As
the Chinese saying goes, “Striving together
in the same boat.”
Leading a godly life together through
hard times ahead will be worth it all when
He comes again to save us from a world
that will soon be destroyed.
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The Higher Will of God Over Our Lives
(Message delivered at the 10.30 a.m. Service, 5 December 1999)
Text: Man’s goings are of the Lord: how
can a man then understand his own way
(Prov 20:24)
THE TEXT may be restated to read,
“There is the Higher Will of God
over our lives.” It may be focused
more sharply, “There is the Higher Will of
God over our travels.”
Travel is very much a part of modern
living. In my young days, Singaporeans
were all confined to our island State. Rarely
would any Singaporean venture out to
Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital. Today
almost every Singaporean travels out
of town, and many go to distant countries,
bringing their family and children with
them. Singaporeans travel for business, for
study abroad, or for vacation. Oftentimes,
their schedules are altered by unforeseen
circumstances. For, we cannot see beyond
a day into the future. “Go to now, ye that