APR 13

Psalm 40:5
Memorise Psalm 40:5
“Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works…”

WHO WAS JOHN SUNG? (I)

Many are the wonderful works that God has done to the BP movement when He sent John Sung to Singapore. One thing which the Chinese Christians learnt then was the doctrine of the premillennial return of Christ. This is the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ that Titus 2: 13 talks about. Our Saviour will return as King of kings and Lord of lords and He will reign on His throne for ever and ever in Jerusalem. We, the believers of His kingdom will reign together with Him for ever and ever too. What a wonderful day it will be!

John Sung also alerted God’s people in Singapore about the dangers of the social gospel of the liberals and modernists. He himself had tasted the poisonous leaven at Union Theological Seminary. Its president was an extreme liberal called Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin who preached against the bodily resurrection of Christ and the truthfulness of the Bible every week on his radio programme. Anything in the Bible that could not be justified scientifically was rejected as being unworthy of belief. Genesis was held to be a myth and belief in miracles unscientific. The historical Jesus was presented as an ideal to imitate, a noble example but not the Saviour of mankind.

John Sung struggled in his soul when he was in this seminary but God gave him the victory. After that he preached strongly against the poison of liberal theology and the social gospel. Today the BP church movement is also strongly against the liberal tide that has swept Christendom today.

Dear teen, do you have a biblical worldview? If you have, you will see the world through a biblical lens. You will reject evolution for you take the Bible as your infallible, final authority in all matters of faith and practice. Science is not the authority. Is our earth billions of years old? You know the truth found in the Bible, don’t you?

Thought: A biblical worldview requires that you know what the Word of God teaches.
Prayer: Our loving heavenly Father, help me to know my Bible well that I may know how to respond to issues in the world and filter everything through God’s Word.