Daily Readings for Tuesday 8th October 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 - The measures, parts, chambers, and ornaments of the temple.
Ezekiel 41
Psalms 92) - The Prophet exhorteth to praise God, for his great works, for his judgments on the wicked, and for his goodness to the godly.
Psalms 93) - The majesty; stability, power, and holiness, of Christ's kingdom.
Psalms 92-93


Daily Light - Morning
I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven. - None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy. - I will speak of thy testimonies...before kings, and will not be ashamed.
He. 13.6; Ro. 8.35,37
Lu. 12.4-5
Mt. 5.10-12; Ac. 20.24; Ps. 119.46

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Daily Light - Evening
He...set my feet upon a rock.

That Rock was Christ. - Simon Peter...said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said... Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. - Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Let us draw near...in full assurance of faith...faith without wavering. - Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering... He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ps. 40.2; 1 Co. 10.4; Mt. 16.16,17-18; Ac. 4.12
He. 10.22,23; Jas. 1.6
Ro. 8.35,37-39


A Puritans Catechism
Q 49 - Which is the fourth commandment?
A - The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservent, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of God's Decree
Chapter 3
PARAGRAPH 2
​Although God knoweth whatsoever may or can come to pass, upon all supposed conditions,5 yet hath He not decreed anything, because He foresaw it as future, or as that which would come to pass upon such conditions.6

5 Acts 15:18
6 Rom. 9:11,13,16,18

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
Be found on the right side
Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord' side? let him come unto me.
Exodus 32 v 26

There are three things which Christ does as a king to every saved soul. The first is at conversion, see Acts 5 v 31: 'Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.' You will notice that the office of Christ as King is to give repentance and forgiveness of sins. It is His work to say, 'Love!' Ah! friends, has He done this to you? Observe, it is not the work of man: 'He will not give his glory to another, neither his praise to graven images.' It is from His throne at the right hand of God that he sends the Spirit, and makes three thousand cry out, 'Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved? It is a most affecting truth I have shewn you, that you may be a member of His kingdom. and not a member of His grace. Another kingly act of Christ over His Church is to forgive sins. 'The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.' Ah! dear friends, it is a kingly action to give pardon. The third work that Christ does as a King over His body is to sanctify them. It is written in Micah, 'Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgressions of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.' (Micah 7 v 18). Those whom the king pardons he subdues. Ah! dear friends, enquire if Christ is your King, by his subduing you. How happy are those of you who can say, Christ is my King! Dear friends, enquire if you are under this third crown. The third is the sweetest of all. He wears all His other crowns for this one. It is interesting to notice that in the first ages of the Church, Christians were martyred for His prophetical office: and it is reserved, it may be, for us to be martyred for His kingly office: it was this, you remember the Covenanters were martyred for. How necessary then, to be found on the right side.