Working Your Way Up To Heaven

Men and women groping in darkness trying to win their way to Heaven by doing penance, by locking themselves up in dungeons and inflicting unnameable tortures upon themselves and upon one another.  Blind and ignorant, they tried by some work or deed to pay the debt that had already been paid on Calvary's rugged cross.  They had lost sight utterly of the fact:

"Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe,
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow."

They forgot Him who promised, "....though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (Isa 1:18).

But God looking ahead into the future, spoke through the prophet Joel, saying:

"I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you" (Joel 2:25).



Rev Dr. Ronnie Ng

Lost & Restored

"Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old.  Behold I will do a new thing..." (Isa 43:18,19).

God has promised to do a new thing in the last days.  We are living in the most exciting time in the history of the Church.

As we look back over Church history, we are dismayed over the spiritual condition that is found in the Church in centuries past.  Isaiah describes it in these words.  "From head to foot, you are sick and weak and faint, covered with bruises and welts and infected wounds, unanointed and unbound.

"Your country lies in ruins; your cities are burned; while you watch, foreigners are destroying and plundering everything they see.,

"You stand there helpless and abandoned like a watchman's shanty in the field when the harvest-time is over - or when the crop is shipped and robbed" (Isa 1:6-8).

This graphic language accurately describes the condition of the Church through much of its history after the first century.

Is God doing a new thing? Yes, He is!  In our day, He is visiting the Church to restore it to its beauty and glory.



Rev Dr. Ronnie Ng

Humility , Not Pride

Humility is our safeguard for human error.  The Gifts of the Holy Spirit are ever subject or open to human error.  We can all make mistakes in this regard.

There is always a certain risk when God allows His perfect word to be spoken through imperfect men.

But God has provided a way to protect both His servant and His Word.  There is great safety in humility!

Humility in the Gifts of the Spirit is expressed in two ways:

• willingness to admit we can make mistakes.
• willingness to receive correction when we do make mistakes.

Rev Dr. Ronnie Ng