IF GOD BE FOR US

 

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Rom 8:31).

Since her founding in 1962, there have been attempts to shut FEBC down.

But by the grace of God, FEBC is kept to this day. Tomorrow, 15 July 2013, FEBC starts another new term with a day of prayer on campus grounds.

The first day of the new term is always a happy day when faculty and students come together for fellowship and prayer after a two-month break. Students have been returning to school last week, checking into their dorms and getting ready for new academic and spiritual challenges ahead. This time we welcome six new students from as many countries: Yang Conghui (China), Sim Dara (Cambodia), Sujith Samuel (India), Thang Muan Huam (Myanmar), Eric Luis R Delina (Singapore), and Kim Jong Heon (South Korea).

We must not forget to thank the Lord for protecting and preserving FEBC’s legacy and heritage at Gilstead Road, thwarting LBPC’s lawsuit to evict the College from her birthplace and home. Do pray the Lord to grant the honourable Justice Judith Prakash the wisdom to draft a suitable scheme to regulate the occupation and use of the grounds at 9, 9A & 10 Gilstead Road, a scheme that would be protective of FEBC’s independence and freedom to manage her God-given premises and to teach God’s divinely inspired (VPI) and perfectly preserved (VPP) Scriptures.

As you know, the leaders of Life BPC have just filed a new lawsuit against FEBC. Having failed to evict us, they now sue for money, money the Church had willingly given to the College in times past. Please pray for God to protect us from those who hate and persecute us because of our faith and our stand for the divinely inspired and preserved traditional Hebrew and Greek Scriptures on which the KJV is based vis-à-vis the modern versions and their corrupt texts. Pray the Lord to grant the FEBC directors much grace and wisdom to respond to this vexatious suit. Through all this, may the Lord magnify His Word above all His Name (Ps 138:2), that the world may know there is a God in heaven who is faithful to His promises and powerful to save, and that this God is none other than our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

We thank the Lord for godly men who love and support FEBC. Besides our beloved brother and long-time missionary to Japan—the Rev Dr Robert Kluttz—who has given much to FEBC, we also have Elder Leong Yin Chu, a Presbyterian evangelist and his prayerful wife who encouraged us with this kind letter and love gift recently:

Dear Rev Dr Jeffrey Khoo

Please accept the enclosed cheque of

$1,200 from us ($1000 in support of FEBC’s wonderful good works honouring God’s glorious Name, and $200 for the Teens Sunday School where the teens of True Life are taught the fundamental truths of the Gospel, for teach a child how he should live and he will remember it all his life (Prov 22:6).

May God’s abundant blessings be showered upon all of you. In addition, our regards to your loving wife Jemima.

Yours in Christ

Leong Yin Chu & Kheng Lim 22 June 2013

 

 

Stop Press! The latest issue of FEBC’s theological journal—The Burning Bush (July 2013)— is out, hot off the press. Read pastor’s article on how to distinguish true spirits from false spirits the biblical way. There is also Dr Paul Ferguson’s expose of the modern fundamentalist attack on the good old doctrine of the verbal and plenary preservation of the inspired Scriptures. The Rev Christian Spencer, who is a lawyer himself, answers the legal question about the KJV’s copyright. And Joycelyn Chng shares the lessons she has learned from her recent pilgrimage to Turkey (Asia Minor) in the steps of the Apostle Paul. Get your copy today at the book table.

 

KEMAMAN LIFE BPC’S 19^TH ANNIVERSARY THANKSGIVING 

 

 

 

The Kemaman Life Bible-Presbyterian Church commemorated her 19^th Anniversary Thanksgiving on 5 July 2013. Praise the Lord for 19 years of sowing the gospel seed in Kemaman, in the Malaysian state of Terengganu, 450 km north of Singapore. It all started when the late Rev John Ling went to pastor the Chinese-speaking Presbyterian Church in Kemaman after he completed his studies at FEBC in 1990. The members grew under his pastoral care.

When the Rev Ling discovered there were English-speaking people in Kemaman, he felt burdened to start an English service for them. To do this, he needed help from Singapore. In 1994, he issued a Macedonian Call to our late founding pastor, the Rev Dr Timothy Tow, who was also Principal of FEBC to send preachers from FEBC to assist in the work in Kemaman. Dr Jeffrey Khoo, then a young lecturer at FEBC, was tasked to be one of the preachers and to prepare the schedule and arrange for other preachers to go to Kemaman weekly. The inaugural English service was held on 1 July 1994. The Rev Dr Timothy Tow was the Lord’s messenger and he spoke on “The Greatest Commission” (Matt 28:18-20).

 

 

By the grace of God, this good work in Kemaman continues on till this day with Dr and Mrs Wee Tiong Soon as pillars of the work there. They are truly the Aquila and Priscilla of Kemaman. 

At the 19^th anniversary thanksgiving service, Dr Jeffrey Khoo spoke from Psalm 100 giving reasons why Christians are a most joyful and thankful people. The Rev Lee Kim Shong of Calvary Jaya BPC was his Chinese interpreter. Praise the Lord for seven True Lifers—Mr Eio Eng Hua and his son Samuel, Bee Heng and Yee Fong, Mrs Lillian Tan, Clement Chew, and Katherine Go—who attended the service and encouraged the Kemaman brethren with a Great Commission hymn, “Go Ye into All the World”, a fitting reminder of Pastor Tow’s inaugural message to them. Mrs Jemima Khoo played the piano. The Lord’s Supper was served, and everyone enjoyed a thanksgiving dinner after the service. It was a blessed evening indeed.

 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. JK