Prayer - Monday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ. - Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend alone). (Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6) - Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation. - Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20) Church Services Sunday morning at 11:00am in church (and also available online via Facebook) Doctrine Class - in church (after lunch) (and also available online via Facebook) Sunday evening at 6:30pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Bible Study and Prayer Wednesday evening at 7:00pm in church (and also available online via Facebook) Lunch Hour Service Thursday afternoon between 1:00pm and 1:30pm in church (and 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 - Under the type of a potter is shewed God's absolute power in disposing of nations. Judah is threatened with judgments for her unexampled revolt. Jeremiah prayeth against them that devised his death. Jeremiah 18 Preface - The parable of the sower. Why Christ taught in parables. The exposition of the parable. The light of knowledge is given to be communicated to others. The kingdom of God likened to the seed which groweth imperceptibly: and to a grain of mustard seed. Christ stilleth a tempest by his word. Mark 4 Daily Light - Morning In the he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. He was numbered with the transgressors. - Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. - By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. This man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthool. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. - While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Forasmuch...as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: :for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. Ro. 6.10; Isa. 53.12; He. 9.28; 1 Pe. 2.24; He. 10.14 He. 7.24-25; Ro. 5.8-9 1 Pe. 4.1-2 Daily Light - Evening Keep yourselves in the love of God. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. The fruit of the Spirit is love. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. - Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. - God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. - God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Jude 21; Jn. 15.4-5 Ga. 5.22 Jn. 15.8-10; 1 Jn. 2.5 Jn. 15.12; Ro. 5.8; 1 Jn. 4.16 A Puritans Catechism Q 53 - What is required in the fifth commandment? A - The fifth commandment requires the preserving the honour, and performing the duties, belonging to everyone in their several places and relations, as superiors, inferiors, or equals. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Of the Gospel and the Extent of the Grace Thereof Chapter 20 PARAGRAPH 3 The revelation of the gospel to sinners, made in divers times and by sundry parts, with the addition of promises and precepts for the obedience required therein, as to the nations and persons to whom it is granted, is merely of the sovereign will and good pleasure of God;6 not being annexed by virtue of any promise to the due improvement of men's natural abilities, by virtue of common light received without it, which none ever made, or can do so;7 and therefore in all ages, the preaching of the gospel has been granted unto persons and nations, as to the extent or straitening of it, in great variety, according to the counsel of the will of God. 6 Ps. 147:20; Acts 16:7 7 Rom. 1:18–32 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Saints known I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. - John 10 vs 14-15 The Father knew the Son from all eternity: 'Then I was by him as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him' (Proverbs 8 v 30). He was in the bosom of the Father. So did this good shepherd know his sheep from all eternity: 'Chosen before the foundation of the world.' The Father knew the Son with a knowledge of most perfect delight and love: 'I was daily his delight.' At his baptism, a voice from heaven was heard saying: 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased' (Matthew 3 v 17). So does Christ know his sheep: 'Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee;' 'The King is held in the galleries;' 'How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!' 'Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me.' The father knew the Son through all his sufferings. So Christ knows his sheep: 'I know their sorrows;' 'In all their afflictions, he was afflicted.' He knows their decays: 'I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.' The Father will know the Son to all eternity; and so the Son will know his sheep for ever and ever. They shall soon 'hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat' (Revelation 7 v 16).
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