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Bakht Singh Chabra (1903 - 2000). Indian evangelist, church planter, and Bible teacher born in Joiya, Punjab (now Pakistan), to a devout Sikh family. Educated at Punjab University, he studied agricultural engineering in England (1926-1928) and Canada (1929-1932), embracing a Western lifestyle, including smoking and drinking, while rejecting his Sikh roots by shaving his hair. Initially hostile to Christianity—once tearing a Bible apart—he converted in 1929 in Winnipeg after reading the New Testament, influenced by Christian friends John and Edith Hayward. Returning to India in 1933, he began preaching as an Anglican evangelist, later becoming independent, sparking the 1937 Martinpur revival, a pivotal movement in Indian Christianity. In 1941, after a night of prayer in Chennai, he founded Hebron Ministries, establishing over 10,000 indigenous churches modeled on New Testament principles across India and South Asia. Singh authored books like How I Got Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory and held annual “Holy Convocations” in Madras, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Kalimpong, drawing thousands. Married to Rama Bai at age 12 in 1915, little is recorded of their personal life. His contextualized gospel, blending Indian spirituality with biblical truth, earned him the title “Elijah of the 21st Century” in Indian Christendom. Singh’s words, “I have never asked any man for anything, but the Lord is richly supplying all my needs,” reflect his faith-driven ministry. Despite Parkinson’s disease in his final decade, his legacy endures through Hebron’s global network and writings, praised by figures like Ravi Zacharias.
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Bakht Singh emphasizes the importance of the law of sowing and reaping, illustrating how our actions, deeds, and attitudes are seeds that determine the harvest we reap in various aspects of life. He highlights the universal principle that we reap what we sow, whether in our spiritual life, social interactions, or everyday relationships. By sowing seeds of love, compassion, forgiveness, and generosity, we can expect to receive the same in return, as Jesus taught about forgiveness and acceptance.
Not Weary in Doing Good
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Galatians 6:9) The bible reveals that God speaks to us through the nature that is around us. If we carefully study the teachings of Jesus we can see that He used simple facts of the nature to demonstrate and illustrate deep spiritual truths. That is what we see once again in our present text. There is a law in the nature called, “The Law of Sowing and Reaping”. We know that we reap what we sow. So, we decide what kind of a crop we are going to reap right at the time of sowing. Nobody else decides what kind of a crop we are going to have. We alone can decide whatever kind of crop we want to have. We sow accordingly, if we want to reap wheat, we have to sow wheat only. If we want to reap rice, we have to sow rice only. There is no use of trying to reap wheat at the harvest time if we have sown rice. This law of sowing and reaping is universally applicable. This law is applicable in every area of our life. In our spiritual life, we reap whatever we sow. In our social life, we reap what we sow. In our natural and literal agricultural too, we reap whatever we sow. If we are generous to care for the needs of others and if we try to help others to come out of their problems we will have a pleasant surprise of watching others do the same for us. If we are forgiving, we will be forgiven too. If we love, we will be loved too. Jesus said in the gospel according to Luke 6: 37, “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.” Let us see in the next verse what Jesus is saying – “Forgive , and you will be forgiven.” That is the law of sowing and reaping in operation. We all know that we reap what we sow, but what we have to understand is, all our actions, deeds and attitudes are seeds. Our attitude is to decide the attitude for others toward us. Everybody likes to be forgiven and accepted and everybody likes to receive help if he or she is in trouble. If we want to be accepted by others and receive help from others we must make it our regular habit of forgiving, accepting and helping others. How blessed are the people who sow the right seed in the day to day life. They will receive the crop they need when the harvest time comes. Let us begin to sow love, compassion, forgiveness and generosity today and each day of our life. May God bless you!
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Bakht Singh Chabra (1903 - 2000). Indian evangelist, church planter, and Bible teacher born in Joiya, Punjab (now Pakistan), to a devout Sikh family. Educated at Punjab University, he studied agricultural engineering in England (1926-1928) and Canada (1929-1932), embracing a Western lifestyle, including smoking and drinking, while rejecting his Sikh roots by shaving his hair. Initially hostile to Christianity—once tearing a Bible apart—he converted in 1929 in Winnipeg after reading the New Testament, influenced by Christian friends John and Edith Hayward. Returning to India in 1933, he began preaching as an Anglican evangelist, later becoming independent, sparking the 1937 Martinpur revival, a pivotal movement in Indian Christianity. In 1941, after a night of prayer in Chennai, he founded Hebron Ministries, establishing over 10,000 indigenous churches modeled on New Testament principles across India and South Asia. Singh authored books like How I Got Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory and held annual “Holy Convocations” in Madras, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and Kalimpong, drawing thousands. Married to Rama Bai at age 12 in 1915, little is recorded of their personal life. His contextualized gospel, blending Indian spirituality with biblical truth, earned him the title “Elijah of the 21st Century” in Indian Christendom. Singh’s words, “I have never asked any man for anything, but the Lord is richly supplying all my needs,” reflect his faith-driven ministry. Despite Parkinson’s disease in his final decade, his legacy endures through Hebron’s global network and writings, praised by figures like Ravi Zacharias.