Daily Reading for Saturday 5th August 2023

Prayer
-Give thanks to God that we have good news of salvation to tell that the repentant sinner might have everlasting life through Jesus Christ. (John 3.16.)
-Pray the Lord would bless the Gospel outreach by the church in Westminster. Both on Saturday mornings and at services.
-Pray the Lord would work in the contacts we have made both on Saturday mornings and at services; through personal conversations and
online contacts.

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 between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (also available online vie Facebook)
Outreach/witnessing
Saturday morning at Victoria Street (outside the big Boots store) for 10:30am (opposite Town Hall - No. 64). Afterwards we go back to church for prayer.

Daily Reading
Preface - A Levite of mount Ephraim goeth to Bethlehem to fetch home his concubine, and on his return cometh to Gibeah in the evening. An old
man entertaineth him. The men of the city beset the house with a vile intent; to prevent which the man yieldeth up his concubine, who is abused
by them to death. He divideth her into twelve parts, which he sendeth to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Judges 19
Preface - Paul pleading his integrity is smitten at the command of the high priest, whom he reproveth of injustice. By declaring himself a Pharisee,
and questioned for the hope of the resurrection, he causeth a division in the council: he is carried back to the castle, and encouraged by the Lord in
a vision. A conspiracy against him is discovered to the chief captain; who sendeth him under a guard with a letter to Felix the govenor at Caesarea.
Acts 23

A Puritans Catechism
Q38 - What shall be done to the wicked at their death?
A - The souls of the wicked shall at their death be cast into the torments of hell, and their bodies lie in their graves till the resurrection and the
      judgment of the great day.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
God's delight
Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. - Luke 15 v 10
When a hell-deserving sinner is enlightened in the knowledge of Christ - when he believes the record that God hath given concerning his son,
and joyfully consents that the Lord Jesus should be his surety, then the blood of Christ is as it were, sprinkled over that soul. When Aaron and his
Sons were set apart for the priesthood, the blood of the ram was put upon the tip of their right ear, and the thumb of their right hand, and the great
toe of their right foot, to signify that they were dipped in blood from head to foot; so when God looks upon a soul in Christ, He sees it dipped in
the blood of the Saviour. He looks upon that soul as having suffered all that Christ suffered; therefore He delights in it.
His sense of justice is pleased. God has an infinite sense of justice. His eyes behold the things that are equal. Now when He sees the blood of His
Son sprinkled upon any soul, He sees that justice has had its full satisfaction in that soul, that that man's sins have been more fully punished than if
he had borne them himself eternally.
His sense of mercy is pleased. He delighteth in mercy. Even when justice was crying out, 'Thou shalt surely slay the wicked,' His mercy was
yearning over sinners, and He provided a ransom. And now when the sinner has laid hold on the ransom, mercy is poured down in forgiveness.
God delighteth in mercy; He delights to forgive. It is sweet to notice how Jesus loves to forgive sins. In the story of the woman that washed His
feet, how He seems to dwell on It! 'Her sins, which are many are forgiven.' And again He said unto her: 'Thy sins are forgiven thee.' And again, a
​third time: 'Go in peace.' And so God loves to forgive: 'There is jy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth.'

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