Daily Readings for Tuesday 5th November 2024

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
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 - Israel's ingratitude to God for his benefits: God's judgment upon them: his mercy toward them. Ephraim's falsehood, and Judah's fidelity.
Hosea 11
Psalms 132) Preface - David in prayer commendeth unto God his \eal to provide a place for the ark. His prayer at the removing o fthe ark. God's promises to David.
Psalms 133) Preface - The blessedness of unity among brethren.
Psalms 134 Preface - An exhortation to God's servants to bless him.
Psalms 132 - 134


Daily Light - Morning
Take thou also unto thee principal spices...
And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment.

Upon man's flesh it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you. - One Spirit. - Diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil o fgladness above thy fellows. - God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy GHost and with power. - God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

Of his fulness have all we received. - As the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. - He which...hath anointed us, is God: who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the SPirit in our hearts.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Ex. 30.23,25; Ex. 30.32; Eph. 4.4; 1 Co. 12.4
Ps. 45.7; Ac. 10.38; Jn. 3.34
Jn. 1.16; 1 Jn. 2.27; 2 Co. 1.21-22
Ga. 5.22-23


Daily Light - Evening
The fashion of his world passeth away.

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace o fthe fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. - For  what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. - The world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. - When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
1 Co. 7.31; Ge. 5.27
Jas. 1.9-11; Jas. 4.14; 1 Jn. 2.17
Ps. 39.4; 1 Th. 5.3-4


A Puritans Catechism
​Q 77 - Are the infants of such as are professing to be baptised?
A- The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptised because there is neither command nor example in the Holy Scriptures for their baptism.

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The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8
PARAGRAPH 5
​The Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience and sacrifice of Himself, which He through the eternal Spirit once offered up to God, has fully satisfied the justice of God,32 procured reconciliation, and purchased an everlasting inheritance in the kingdom of heaven, for all those whom the Father has given unto Him.33
32 Heb. 9:14, 10:14; Rom. 3:25–26
32 John 17:2; Heb. 9:15


Robert Murray M'Cheyne - GOd Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Chosen
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love;
Ephesians 1 v 4

So brethren, it was before the foundation of the world that Christ chose His own; when there was neither sun nor moon; when there was neither sea nor land - it was from the beginning. Ah, He might well say, you have not chosen me. It was before man loved man, or angel loved angel, that Christ chose His own. Now, I know the meaning of Paul when he says, That you may be able to know the length and breadth, the height and the depth of the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge. Now, I am not surprised at the death of Christ! It was a love so great that it broke over the banks that held it in; a love that broke over a Calvary and a Gethsemane. O brethren! do you know this love.