Daily Readings for Monday 5th February 2024

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
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 - Eliphaz reproveth Job for want of religious trust: he remindeth him that God's judgments are not for the righteous, but for the wicked. His fearful vision, designed to humble the vain opinion of man's excellency in the sight of his Maker.
Job 4
Preface - Under the gospel we are free from condemnation, walking after the Spirit. The evil of being carnally minded, and the good of being spiritually minded. Christians have God's Spirit to guide and assist them; by which if they mortify the flesh, they shall live. For they that are led by the Spirit are sons of God, and heirs of glory; and even they who have the firstfruits of the Spirit do still long after it; the Spirit in the mean time aiding their infirmities in prayer. Nevertheless the final good of them that fear God is all along pursued, being foreordained of God, and brought about according to the course of his providence. The ground and assurance of the Christian's hope.
Romans 8


Daily Light - Morning
I am come that they might have life,
and that they might have it more abundantly.

In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. - She took of the fruit theeof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - If by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. - Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. - Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. - For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Jn. 10.10; Ge. 2.17; Ge. 3.6
Ro. 6.23; Ro. 5.17; 1 Co. 15.21-22; 2 Tim. 1.10
1 Jn. 5.11-12; Jn. 3.17


Daily Light - Evening
The judgment seat.

We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth. - When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. - Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

We are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
2 Co. 5.10; Ro. 2.2; Mt. 25.31-32
Mt. 13.43; Ro. 8.33-34; Ro. 8.1
1 Co. 11.32


A Puritans Catechism
Q55 - Which is the sixth commandment?
A - The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.



BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of the Law of God
Chapter 19
PARAGRAPH 6
​Although true believers are not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned,13 yet it is of great use to them as well as to others, in that as a rule of life, informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly; discovering also the sinful pollutions of their natures, hearts, and lives, so as examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against, sin;14 together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ and the perfection of his obedience; it is likewise of use to the regenerate to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin; and the threatenings of it serve to show what even their sins deserve, and what afflictions in this life they may expect for them, although freed from the curse and unallayed rigour thereof. The promises of it likewise show them God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof, though not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works; so as man's doing good and refraining from evil, because the law encourages to the one and deters from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law and not under grace.15
13 Rom. 6:14; Gal. 2:16; Rom. 8:1, 10:4
14 Rom. 3:20, 7:7, etc.
15 Rom. 6:12–14; 1 Pet. 3:8–13


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
A constant appetite
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. - Joshua 1 v 8

When a soul is first brought to Christ, he delights in the Word of God. He has an appetite for it 'as a new-born babe'. Just as an infant has a constant, steadily-recurring appetite for its mother's milk, so has the soul for the Word. He has spiritual understanding of the Word. It seems all sweet and easy. It all testifies of Jesus. The soul grasps the meaning or earnestly inquires from ministers and others the meaning of difficult passages. He has growth: 'That ye may grow thereby.' It is felt to be the daily nourishment of the soul, the sword to ward off temptation.
How different when the Christian is in decay! No relish for the Word. It may be read as a duty, or as a burdensome task but it is not delighted in. Other books are preferred to the Bible. There is no growing in the knowledge of the Word, no self-application, no receiving it with meekness, no frequent recurrence of the mind during the day to the chapter read in the morning, no answering Satan by 'Thus it is written' and 'Thus saith the Lord'. Ah! my friends, how is the gold become dim!
'...yea grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.' (Hosea 7 v. 9)