Daily Readings for Tuesday 26th December 2023

Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for those who have recently recovered from sickness.
- Pray for those who are sick or receiving treatment in our congregation.
- Pray that we each would walk close to God, putting off sins that easily beset us and that we would daily give thanks for our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (1. John 1.3; Hebrews 12.1; 1 Thes 5.16.)

​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 - The people's zeal in destroying idolatry in the cities of Judah, and in some parts of Israel. Hezekiah ordereth the courses of the priests and Levites, maketh provision for the stated sacrifices, and for the maintenance of the priests and Levites. The people's forwardness in bringing in first fruits and tithes. Hezekiah appointeth officers to dispose of those offerings. Hezikiah's sincerity of heart.
2 Chronicles 31
Preface - John's vision of the great whore, sitting upon the scarlet coloured beast, arrayed in purple and scarlet, with a golden cup in her hand. Her name. She is drunken with the blood of saints. The interpretation of the mystery of the beast, and of his seven heads and ten horns; and of the woman.
Revelations 17

Daily Light - Morning
Be ye stedfast, unmoveable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord.

Ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord, - As ye have...received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. - He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. - That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

By faith ye stand.

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
1 Co. 15.58; Col. 2.6-7; Mt. 24.13; Lu. 8.15
2 Co. 1.24
Jn. 9.4
Ga. 6.8-10

Daily Light - Evening
He is able...
to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him.

I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. - Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. - He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. - Is any thing too hard for the LORD?

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
He. 7.25; Jn. 14.6; Ac. 4.12
Jn. 10.27-28; Phil. 1.6; Ge. 18.14
Jude 24-25

A Puritans Catechism
Q15 - Did all mankind fall in Adam's first transgression?
A - The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.


BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH

Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10 
PARAGRAPH 1

Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, He is pleased in His appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call,1 by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ;2 enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God;3 taking away their heart of stone, and giving to them a heart of flesh;4 renewing their wills, and by His almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ;5 yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace.6


1 Rom. 8:30, 11:7; Eph. 1:10–11; 2 Thess. 2:13–14
2 Eph. 2:1–6
3 Acts 26:18; Eph. 1:17–18
4 Ezek. 36:26
5 Deut. 30:6; Ezek. 36:27; Eph. 1:19
6 Ps. 110:3; Cant. 1:4