Daily Bible Readings for Friday 3rd November 2023

Prayer
-Give thanks to God for many good things we enjoy and daily blessings.
-Pray the Lord would supply the needs of those in the congregation at Westminster and guide us as we help those destitute and suffering. Especially those we have met in the pandemic. (Numbers 6.24-26.)

Church Services
Sermons
Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (also available online via Facebook)
Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Bible study and prayer
Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Lunch hour service
Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online via Facebook)
Outreach/Witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (across the road from Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer. 

Daily Reading
Preface - Ahaz reigneth very wickedly. Rezin and Pekah make war against him. He hireth Tiglath-pilezer against them, who taketh Damascus, and slayeth Rezin. Ahaz causeth a new altar to be made for burnt offerings after a pattern sent by him from Damascus, and setteth aside the brasen altar for his private use. He spoileth the temple of its ornaments for a present to the king of Assyria. He dieth: Hezekiah succeedeth him.
2 Kings 16
Preface - The salutation. For what purpose Titus was left in Crete. How they should be qualified who are ordained to the ministry. The mouths of evil teachers must be stopped. The bad character of the Cretians.
Titus 2

Daily Light - Morning
The ways of the LORD are right,
and the just shall walk in them:
but the transgressors shall fall therein.

Unto you...which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient...a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, - The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. - Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD. - The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. - If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have moe abundance.

He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. - Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Hos. 14.9; 1 Pe. 2.7,8; Pro. 10.29
Mt. 11.15; Ps. 107.43; Mt. 6.22; Jn. 7.17; Mt 13.12
Jn. 8.47; Jn. 5.40; Jn. 10.27

Daily Light - Evening
The everlasting Father.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.

I and my Father are one...the Father is in me, and I in him. - If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. - Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet has thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father. - Behold I and the children which God hath given me. - He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied. - I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. - Before Abraham was, I am. - God said unto Moses, I Am THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.

Unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. - He is before all things, and by him all things consist. - In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Isa. 9.6; Deu. 6.4
Jn. 10.30,38; Jn. 8.19; Jn. 14.8-9; He. 2.13; Isa. 53.11; Rev. 1.8; Jn. 8.58; Ex. 3.14
He. 1.8; Col. 1.17; Col. 2.9

The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Holy Scriptures
Chapter 1 - Paragraph 3
The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other human writings.6
6 Luke 24:27,44; Rom. 3:2

A Puritans Catechism
Q44 - Which is the second Commandment?
A - The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Justified
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. - Acts 13 v 39
Once Jesus was unjustified - once there were sins laid to His charge - the sins of many. It was this that occasioned His agony in the garden - on the cross. His only comfort was, 'He is near that justifieth me.' He knew the time would be short. - But now the wrath of God has all fallen upon Him. The thunder clouds of God's anger have spent all their lightnings on His head. The vials of God's wrath have poured out their last drops upon Him. He is now justified from all the sins that were laid upon Him. He has left them with the Grave-clothes. His fellow men and devils laid all sins to His charge; He was silent. Do you believe this record concerning the Son? Do you cleave to Jesus as yours? Then you have fellowship with Him in His justification. You are as much justified as Christ is. There is as little guilt lying upon you as thee is upon Christ. The vials of wrath have not another drop for Christ, nor another drop for you. You are justified from all things.