Daily Readings for Thursday 25th April 2024

Daily Prayer - Thursday
- Give thanks to God that we are part of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.
- Give thanks to God for the freedoms we have to share the Gospel in England and pray that it may continue.
- Pray for missionaries across the world who are seeking to preach the Gospel and establish a faithful church.
- Pray for those in persecuted countries who have to meet in secret. Even those who are now in prison for their faith. Give thanks to God that we are part     of a global church made up of true Christians across the world.


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 - The Creator to be remembered in due time. The preacher's care to edify. The general conclusion, that man's chief concern is to fear God, and obey his laws.
Ecclesiastes 12
Preface - The salutation. Paul declareth his joy in hearing of the love and faith of Philemon; earnestly entreating him to receive into his favour his once fugitive servant Onesimus, now become a faithful Christian. He desireth him to provide a lodging for himself, who was in expectation of a speedy release; and concludeth with salutations and a benediction.
Philemon


Daily Light - Morning
Thou shall call his name JESUS:
for he shall save his people from their sins.

Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins. - That we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. - He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.

He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed... The LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. - Thus it behoved Christ to suffer...that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations. - He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour...to give repentance. - Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. - Your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
Mt. 1.21; 1 Jn. 3.5; 1 Pe. 2.24; He. 7.25
Isa. 53.5,6; Lu. 24.46,47; He. 9.26
Ac. 5.31; Ac.13.38-39; 1 Jn. 2.12


Daily Light - Evening
Our Lord Jesus Christ...though he was rich,
yet for your sakes...became poor,
that ye through his poverty might be rich.

It pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell. - The brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. - Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation.

The foxes have holes, and the birds o fthe air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's
2 Co. 8.9; Col. 1.19; He. 1.3,4; Phil. 2.6-7
Mt. 8.20
1 Co. 3.21-23


A Puritans Catechism
Q 48 - What is required in the third commandment?
A - The third commandment requires the holy and reverent use of God's names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God and The Holy Trinity
Chapter 2
PARAGRAPH 3
In this divine and infinite Being there are three subsistences, the Father, the Word or Son, and Holy Spirit,27 of one substance, power, and eternity, each having the whole divine essence, yet the essence undivided:28 the Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father;29 the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son;30 all infinite, without beginning, therefore but one God, who is not to be divided in nature and being, but distinguished by several peculiar relative properties and personal relations; which doctrine of the Trinity is the foundation of all our communion with God, and comfortable dependence on Him.

27 1 John 5:7; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14
28 Exod. 3:14; John 14:11; I Cor. 8:6
29 John 1:14,18
30 John 15:26; Gal. 4:6



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The righteousness of God
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. - Romans 1 v 17
There is something infinitely vast and glorious in the righteousness of God. When the deluge covered the earth, it covered the highest mountains. Looking down from above, not one mountain-top could be seen, but a vast world of waters - a vast plain reflecting the beams of the sun. So if you this day lie down under the rightousness of God, the mountains of your sins will not be seen, but only the vast, deep, glorious righteousness of your God and Saviour. If you were to cast a stone into the deepest part of the ocean, it would be lost and swallowed up by the deep waves of ocean; so when a sinner is cast down under the righteousness of God, he is as it were lost and swalled up in Christ.