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A study on Titus and how through character he was called to set God's house in order.

Why do the righteous suffer? This is an age-long dilemma. The human soul agitates over it. Man's wisdom endeavors to solve it. But God alone has the right answer. In the book of Job, God reveals the hidden purpose behind the suffering of the righteous. For suffering is unto sonship. Through suffering we grow into such a living knowledge of God that delivers us from self and fills us with Christ. Let all who suffer find comfort and strength in listening to The Splendor of His Ways.

Haggai prophesied for four months, taking three different days to speak five short utterances. Though he began when he was an old man, Haggai’s brief prophecies helped the remnant of Israel finish rebuilding the temple. In I Corinthians 14, we are told that a prophecy speaks words to edify, encourage, and comfort (see v.3). In this volume, Stephen Kaung goes through Haggai’s two chapters in these three prophetic ways. He sees Haggai encouraging us first by a challenge not to give up but to repent and begin again to build. This will please and glorify the Lord. Then there are words of ...

Zechariah’s prophesying began with a call for the remnant of the children of Israel to return to Him: “Return unto me, … and I will return unto you” (1:3b). They had already returned physically, but their hearts needed to be recovered. Thank God they responded and returned with their whole hearts. The result was that the Lord returned to them as well. After about two months, the word of God came again to Zechariah in one busy night, with eight consecutive visions, each added to the other. Through these visions, God made known His whole plan of recovery. It was not just to recover ...

In these last days, how can we fight the good fight, finish the race, and keep the faith? Is there any secret that enabled the apostle Paul to do so? And if there is such a secret, how can we learn it? Brother Stephen Kaung addresses these matters and many spiritual principles from God’s Word in this current volume. His spoken ministry on the themes of Heavenly Vision, Spiritual Responsibility, and Spiritual Ministry, given at the first three Northeast Christian Weekend Conferences, is compiled here in this title: Concerning Spirituals.

God is working to recover His kingdom on this earth. Our Lord Jesus came into this world to re-establish God’s authority. As the church of God, do we know that it is through the obedience of the church to the authority of God, that He is to recover the whole earth? In this book, Stephen Kaung addresses these matters and many spiritual principles from God’s Word. His spoken ministry on the themes of Spiritual Authority, Spiritual House, and Spiritual Submission, given at the Northeast Christian Weekend Conferences, is compiled here in the second volume of Concerning Spirituals.

What is the concern of your heart today? Is it that since you live comfortably, you do not care for the testimony of Jesus? True, it will be difficult for those who want to maintain the testimony of Jesus. Your brothers and sisters are already on the verge of spiritual annihilation. Do you give yourself to prayer for the Lord’s testimony? God’s call to his people today is to come out of the complexity and the perplexity of the world (Babylon) and return to the simplicity that is in Christ (Jerusalem), gathering together unto his name.

Stephen Kaung gave these messages on vision in March and April of 2014 in Richmond, VA. This was not only a charge given to the assembly in Richmond, VA but to the body of Christ. Just as Paul’s letters were to specific churches and people, yet the body of Christ has been enriched from them throughout the church age. Without vision the people cast off restraint and each does what is right in his own eyes. When the church loses its vision, compromise and complacency come in and the building work ceases. What is the vision that unites God’s people? It is Christ and Him alone. And the ...

Stephen Kuang uses the life of Simon Peter to illustrate the three principal aspects of Christian discipleship: The Call, the Condition, and the Consolation.

Having come to see Christ Jesus, we are now ready to see his church, about which Jesus had declared this: "I will build my [church], and hades' gates shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16:18b). From this declaration we realize that the church is not the product of the work of man, but it is the Lord Jesus himself who builds the church. Hence, in scripture, the church is called "the Christ" (I Corinthians 12:12c; Ephesians 3:4b, 8b Darby).

The last voice to be heard in the Old Testament was through Malachi. Then the first voice in the New Testament spoke of the same thing. John the Baptist was sent before our Lord to preach repentance: “Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand.” The whole book of Malachi was just one message, one burden—repent. It was conveyed in a back-and-forth dialogue, where God reasoned with His people through questions and answers. In Malachi, seven issues are reasoned out over the lack of love, honor, purity, faithfulness, repentance, priority, and reverence. In this volume, Stephen Kaung goes ...

Christianity is Jesus Christ. It is not the teaching, doctrine, system, or organization of Christ. Rather, it is Jesus Christ himself. We need to see him as God sees him. Yet this can only come about by revelation from above. The Holy Spirit will reveal Jesus to us. And when we do see him as God sees him, we will fall down and worship. Such, then, is the intent of this series of messages, whose overarching theme is best summed up in the author's choice of title to the entire series: "But We See Jesus" (Hebrews 2:9a).

Thank God, through the redemptive work of Christ, we Christians are to have our families restored to God's original purpose. This short series of messages, delivered by the author before a gathering of God's people in Washington, DC, beginning in September 1974, is therefore being published as a way of helping Christian believers elsewhere to see and carry out God's purpose for the family. May the Lord bless all who listen to this volume.

Though the first letter to the Corinthians had to address their various problems and carnality, the fellowship of God's Son, Jesus Christ, is its emphasis. With the discovery of this high calling, many of our difficulties are removed. As Stephen Kaung goes through I Corinthians, we too are brought out of the flesh and into this spiritual fellowship.

Ezekiel was among the captives in the land of Babylon. Humanly speaking, he was in a hopeless situation. His future looked empty and meaningless. And yet, at such an unlikely time, the heavens were opened to Ezekiel, and he saw the glory of the Lord. In these last days, we too find ourselves pressed on every side. How can we survive as Christians? How can we serve God’s purpose in our generation? We believe that God has a way for us, and that way is that we live under an open heaven. Like Ezekiel, we need to catch a glimpse of the glory of the Lord. If we see the glory of the Lord, that ...

The New Testament quotes Isaiah more than any other book and mentions his name twenty-one times. The Lord Jesus and the early disciples all knew this book well and shared the good news from it. But for many of us, its sixty-six chapters and various prophecies are overwhelming. We begin to feel lost as we read, not knowing who or what it is talking about.The Ethiopian eunuch was also confused as he pondered over Isaiah 53 (see Acts 8:26-39). When Philip asked him if he understood what he was reading, he shared how he needed someone to guide him. Then from that passage, Philip was able to ...

Recovery is the cry of the centuries. This cry begins with God and it is echoed throughout the centuries by godly men and women. It is deep calling unto deep. Even at the beginning of human history, in the garden of Eden, we hear that cry. Man, whom God created, failed and God came into the garden to seek fallen man and His cry was, “Adam, man, where are you?” It was a cry of anguish, a cry of love, a cry of recovery; and this cry continues on until today. In these five chapters, Stephen Kaung looks into this heart’s cry as well as the principles and history of recovery. He concludes ...

The call to discipleship follows closely in time upon the call to come to Christ our Savior (see Matthew 11:28-29). It is a call to all believers. It is God's way of fulfilling His eternal purpose in and through His people, that purpose being that they be conformed to the image of God's beloved Son. This series of four messages on the subject of Christian discipleship was delivered in Alhambra, California on 19, 20, 26 and 27 February 2011. They were transcribed and slightly edited for publication. May God use these messages as a means for encouraging God's people in the way of discipleship.

During 1980, in Richmond, Virginia, Stephen Kaung shared a series of messages on the most important matter of worship. The conflict of the ages is who will be worshipped?Through these seven chapters, we discover the very heart of God over this issue. We discover what kind of worship really touches God’s heart.Our Heavenly Father is seeking for true worshipers. May we, by His grace, become those worshipers that satisfy His heart.

In 1990 Stephen Kaung shared on ministering the word of God before a group of church leaders from various places. The transcripts of those messages have now been compiled for future generations. This book is meant to be a companion to The Ministry of God's Word by Watchman Nee, which was required reading for all who attended that leadership conference.