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By Pastor Jason Lim Deuteronomy 13:1–14:21 expands the 3rd commandment on honouring God’s name (between commandments 2 and 4), showing what it means to honour Him. 1. DEDICATION Israel must stay loyal to God by rejecting and removing every enticement to idolatry, just as the New Testament calls the church to guard against false teachers through discipline. 2. DISTINCTION Israel’s distinct food law...

By Pastor Jason Lim The 4th commandment is about honouring God via rhythms or periods- not just once a week for the Sabbath, but also in regular tithes, feasts and release in Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17. 1. THE CALENDAR Israel observed regular tithes, a third-year tithe for the poor, a seventh-year sabbatical, and three annual pilgrim feasts (Passover, Weeks, Booths) for all males. 2. THE CHARACTER Th...

By Pastor Jason Lim The 2nd commandment is about "How" we worship. 1. THE PROTECTION OF WORSHIP Israel is commanded to eliminate all remnants and reminders of idolatrous worship. They are also to establish a central place of worship. All these protect the corporate worship of YHWH. 2. THE POSTURE OF WORSHIP Unlike the abominable and cruel worship acts of Canaanites, Israel is to worship with rejoi...

By Brother Raynor Cheng The Ascended and Victorious Christ provides Word ministers to equip every believer to build the body of Christ. As each member speaks the truth of the gospel in love to each other, the body grows toward maturity in Christ, united in sound understanding and grows away from staying an infant at the merciless waves of deceit. God’s design for the church is not passive attendan...

By Pastor Chee Keen This message is a look at the cross, from the perspective of the resurrection, to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of what Jesus did for us, according to the Gospel. Through the journey of Thomas, from doubt to faith, of seeing and believing, we will observe a moving human drama of an unexpected encounter with the living God. And this may perhaps be our own journey...

By Brother Luzerne Cheng King David seeks out Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson. Though from the house of his enemy, David shows him kindness for Jonathan’s sake, restoring Saul’s land and giving him a permanent place at the king’s table. Mephibosheth, who calls himself a “dead dog,” is treated as one of the king’s sons—a stunning reversal that seems too good to be true. This passage points us to Jesu...

By Pastor Yu Fei Sin The legacy that matters most isn’t what we achieve but the faith we pass on. When we receive God’s truth deeply and retell His works boldly, we become a living bridge for those who come after us. This is the heartbeat of Psalm 78—faith that refuses to die with one generation. May we be steadfast to Gospel Light’s mission, leading the next generation of believers who will one d...

By Hanniel Sinon Life is full of seasons we don’t choose and moments we can’t control, so it often feels confusing and unfinished. We move from joy to sorrow, from gain to loss, unable to stop time from pushing us along. Yet we still long for something more whole, lasting, and meaningful than life under the sun. Solomon tells us this ache is no accident: God has put eternity in our hearts. Our res...

By Pastor Jason Lim In 7 repetitions, Moses gives his reminders to Israel to love and obey God in this passage. Here we also learn: 1. THE MEANING OF LOVING GOD To love God means fearing Him, walking in His ways, serving Him, keeping His commands, and clinging to Him: with right perspective, practice, passion, posture, principles, and perseverance. 2. THE MOTIVATIONS OF LOVING GOD We love God beca...

By Pastor Jason Lim Israel is to love God with their all. And now in Deuteronomy 7, God calls for a total and radical elimination of the Canaanites by Israel. Why? Is this just? And how? 1. REQUIREMENT Is God a moral monster? Is He good and just in this apparent Canaanite genocide? Discover 7 principles that will help you make sense of this command and how you can respond to seekers. 2. REASON The...

By Pastor Jason Lim To love God, Israel must remember Him: not merely in thought but in a life of obedience. This the key to true life and abundance. 1. REMEMBER GOD IN YOUR PAIN The wilderness is God’s classroom, where pain exposes our hearts and teaches us to trust Him: so don’t waste your pain; humble yourself and remember His goodness. 2. REMEMBER GOD IN YOUR PROSPERITY When things go well, pr...

Christian parenting is not aiming for Harvard, but Heaven. But to point our children to God and His gospel requires work. In Deuteronomy 6, we learn it involves: 1. INTERNALISATION To teach God's Word, we need to internalise God's word. Not just to know or to memorise, but to also live it out. To help our kids know what it means to love God, we 've got to love God! 2. IMPARTATION It is the parents...

By Pastor Jason Lim The Law is summarised in the Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4-5. It speaks of the Fundamental Doctrine and the Fundamental Duty. 1. GOAL OF THE LAW God’s Law is about love, not just rules: love Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength wholly and Him alone. 2. GOODNESS OF THE LAW Obedience brings blessing, but no judge or king keeps God’s Law. We all fail—except Jesus. He fulfi...

By Pastor Jason Lim The last, but not the least. The 10th commandment is often the root of many other sins. 1. MEANING This command forbids sinful coveting —craving what’s illegitimate or desiring good things for wrong reasons. At root, covetousness doubts God’s goodness, love, wisdom, and power , so we grasp to secure our own happiness. 2. MISERY Yet this sinful coveting never ends well. It resul...

By Pastor Jason Lim We all lie. No one needs to teach us to. Since a child, we lie to avoid consequences, or to get what we want. Whole industries are set up to counter lies. 1. BREAKING THE LAW People lie because of cowardice, covetousness, conceit or contention. People lie because we are self-centered. 2. BURDEN OF THE LAW The Law exposes and magnifies our sin—we’re fully seen, and we feel its w...

By Pastor Jason Lim Not many will admit to being a thief. But if we consider this commandment more seriously, we will have to. 1) BREAKING THE LAW Scripture condemns all theft—embezzling, cheating, robbing, extortion, kidnapping. We see it publicly (shoplifting, scams, burglary) and personally at work, in business, taxes, IP, digital media—even by stealing time when we’re late. We all break the 8t...

By Pastor Jason Lim We live in a sex-saturated age with shifting norms. Youth are inundated online; porn is a pandemic; sexual sin surges. In this climate, we must hear the seventh commandment: 1. PROTECTION The command safeguards marriage (Gen 2:24), forbidding bodily sins—premarital sex, homosexual acts, polygamy—and mental lust (Matt 5). God gives it for our good and joy, not as a killjoy. 2. P...

By Pastor Jason Lim The sixth commandment is brief, yet often broken. We keep it on three levels: LEVEL 1 The Hebrew term means wrongful killing—premeditated or accidental (manslaughter). It excludes capital punishment, self-defense, and some just wars, but includes most abortion, suicide, and euthanasia. LEVEL 2 Jesus raised the bar: anger, insults, and contempt are “heart-murder.” He also warns...

By Pastor Jason Lim The 10 Commandments are a summary of God's rules and statutes for His people. 1. THE PLACEMENTS. They are organized into two tablets of stone. They begin with commands that teach us to love God. This highlights that our vertical relationship with God is the most important relationship in life. 2. THE PRINCIPLES. A. Package- Breaking one law makes us guilty of all. We cannot pic...

By Pastor Jason Lim As the saying goes: teachers fear principals, principals fear parents, parents fear children—while children fear no one. In these last days (2 Tim. 3:2), the Fifth Commandment is urgently relevant. THE EXPLANATION Honour means esteeming and valuing. In Hebrew, it’s ‘make heavy’: regard parents as weighty and important—not beneath us—because God set them over us. THE EXCELLENCE...

By Pastor Jason Lim In a work-obsessed nation, the Fourth Commandment is God’s oasis. Rather than debate its binding force, hear Jesus: ‘The Sabbath was made for man’ (Mark 2:27). The Sabbath isn’t a burden but a blessing—for: REST This command frees us to trust God: we don’t need to work 24/7. Push that hard and we break. Instead, rest—pause, lie down, breathe. Stressed and sleepless? Recover God...

By Pastor Jason Lim Jesus breaks down age-old barriers to form a united people- the church. There is now no more Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female, in terms of how we should treat one another differently. Therefore, favoritism (which is unfair and preferential treatment of one, and despising another, because of self-interest &/or pride) is contrary to the work of God. Instead of lo...

By Pastor Jason Lim God's name is not just His title, but the representation of His totality. To take His name in vain is to take Him lightly. It means we treat Him as empty or of little worth. Instead, we are to revere and honour Him and His name. THE PROHIBITIONS This commandment warns against any form of blasphemy, profanity, frivolity, or hypocrisy with respect to His name. But it is not only...

By Pastor Jason Lim The 2nd commandment is not just an extension or an application of the 1st commandment. The 2nd commandment is, in fact, crucial to the fulfilment of the 1st, and even the rest of the commandments. THE COMMAND The 1st commandment addresses the Who of worship; the 2nd addresses the How . The 1st guards against worshipping the wrong person; the 2nd against forming the wrong pictur...

By Pastor Jason Lim The 1st commandment is the most important of the 10. It shows us: THE CAPACITY TO WORSHIP Man is created with the desire, the instinct, and the drive for worship. Either you worship the true God, or you worship false gods — but we all have a god. THE COMPETITION IN WORSHIP There were many gods during Moses’ time, and there are still many gods today. From traditional religions t...