Stephen Kaung's Blog
June 20, 2019
May 24, 2019
The Iniquity of the Sanctuary
THE INIQUITY OF THE SANCTUARY God said to Aaron: “Thou and thy sons and thy fathers’ house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary”; “They [the tribe of Levi] shall keep thy charge . . . : only they shall not come nigh unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar”; and later, “A stranger shall not come nigh unto you.” God shows us very clearly what He thinks of sin and goes through the whole list, yet those sins are not punished by death. ...
March 25, 2019
Confess Sin
Confess SinThe beginning of Chapter 6 from "Grace for Grace"
Why do we deal with this problem of confessing sin? Because this is an important thing to do after a person is saved. First of all, let us be clear on one point, that no Christian anywhere in the world is saved by the confession of his sin. Some people teach that without confession of sin there is no salvation. This is heresy. No one is saved by such confession. This is putting the cart before...
Why do we deal with this problem of confessing sin? Because this is an important thing to do after a person is saved. First of all, let us be clear on one point, that no Christian anywhere in the world is saved by the confession of his sin. Some people teach that without confession of sin there is no salvation. This is heresy. No one is saved by such confession. This is putting the cart before...
September 17, 2018
Baptism
Baptismby Watchman Nee, Spiritual Exercise chapter 1Realizing the comprehensiveness of baptism in the Bible, we shall focus our consideration on just two of its aspects which, we are convinced, every new believer must know. These two aspects are: (1) What can baptism do for a person? and (2) What is the real meaning of baptism? Before the believer is baptized, he should look ahead and ask: Now that I am going into the water, what will baptism do for me? This is viewing baptism in advance...
August 29, 2018
The Will of God vs. the Will of Man in Salvation
Question: How do you reconcile “nor of the will of man” (John 1.13) with “he that will” (Rev. 22.17) in regard to eternal life?
Answer: To this agelong question theologians hold opposite views. Some maintain that our salvation is purely a matter of man’s will, others insist that our salvation is wholly a matter of God’s will. Let us acknowledge, however, that God’s truth often has two sides. If we are not careful we can easily become unbalanced. People usually tend to go to extremes....
Answer: To this agelong question theologians hold opposite views. Some maintain that our salvation is purely a matter of man’s will, others insist that our salvation is wholly a matter of God’s will. Let us acknowledge, however, that God’s truth often has two sides. If we are not careful we can easily become unbalanced. People usually tend to go to extremes....
June 5, 2018
Psalm 91:4 - Abiding in God (quote)
“He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou find refuge: his truth is a shield and buckler" (Psalm 91:4).
Recall that when the Lord Jesus approached Jerusalem during that last week of His life before His crucifixion, He cried out in a lament as He beheld the city: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often I wanted so much to put you under my wing as a hen puts her little chicks under her wings, but you would not have it so. Therefore, your house shall be left to you d...
May 9, 2018
April 17, 2018
5 Signs of Abiding in Christ
You may be wondering how you can know that you are abiding in Christ. How can you know that you really make your home in God? Is there any way to discern it? There are several signs revealed in the Scripture: Sign #1—You abide in loveThe Lord Jesus has said, “I also have loved you: abide in my love” (John 15:9). And the apostle John has written: “God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him” (I John 4:16b). If we abide in love, we know that we are abiding in God...
March 20, 2018
Outline and Key Words for the Songs of Ascents (Psalms 120-134)
Generally speaking, Christians tend to divide spiritual progress into three periods or stages. Because we feel that new birth should already be present, we do not designate it as one of the stages. Roughly then, we may say that these three stages (to borrow concepts which have been commonly applied by earnest Christians down through the ages) are: purification, enlightenment, and union. And as far as these fifteen psalms are concerned, they too can be divided, it seems to me, into these three...
March 6, 2018
Truth
“I am the truth,” declared the Lord Jesus (John 14.6). Truth in the Scriptures has no other meaning than reality. What is reality? Reality is what I actually am before God as a result of the accomplished work of Christ. The Lord Jesus shed His blood to ransom all who belong to Him. This is a fact. Through Christ I am a redeemed soul before God. This is the truth. What I am through the fact accomplished by the Lord Jesus—that is the truth. Consequently, only after Jesus has accomplished a work...
