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Prayer - Wednesday
-Give thanks to God for the Bible, its inspiration and preservation for us to read it today. (2 Timothy 3.16, Proverbs 30.5.) -Give thanks to God that we have easy access to the Scripture in English, in our mother tongue. -Pray the Lord would bless us as we study the Bible the Lord would continue to help us to grasp God's truth. -Pray for the Lunchtime outreach service and those who attend; pray that more from the offices nearby and Christians who commute are able to join us. 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 - Sennacherib invading Judah, Hezekiah fortifieth Jerusalem, and encourageth the people. Sennacherib's blasphemous message and letters. Hezekiah and Isaiah cry to heaven for aid; and angel destroyeth the Assyrian army, and their king returning home is slain by his own sons. Hezekiah praying in his sickness is miraculously recovered; but growing proud, he afterward humbleth himself. His riches and works. His error in relation to the Babylonish ambassadors. He dieth. Manasseh succeedeth him. 2 Chronicles 32 Preface - A mighty angel declareth the fall of Babylon. God's people commanded to depart out of her. Her judgment. The kings of the earth, and the merchants, and mariners, lament over her. The saints are excited to rejoice over her. A millstone cast into the sea denoteth her irrecoverable fall. Revelation 18 Daily Light - Morning We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. Here have we no continuing city. - Ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened. - God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. - Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 2 Co. 4.18; He. 13.14; He. 10.34 Lu. 12.32 1 Pe. 1.6; Job 3.17 2 Co. 5.4; Rev. 21.4 Ro. 8.18; 2 Co. 4.17 Daily Light - Evening He is our peace. God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them... For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. - Having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself... And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. - Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Eph. 2.14; 2 Co. 5.19,21; Col. 1.20,21-22; Col. 2.14; Eph. 2.15 Jn. 14.27 A Puritans Catechism Q16 - Into what estate did the fall bring mankind? A - The fall brought mankind into a state of sin and misery. BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH Of Effectual Calling Chapter 10 PARAGRAPH 2 This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, nor from any power or agency in the creature,7 being wholly passive therein, being dead in sins and trespasses, until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit;8 he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it, and that by no less power than that which raised up Christ from the dead.9 7 2 Tim. 1:9; Eph. 2:8 8 1 Cor. 2:14; Eph. 2:5; John 5:25 9 Eph. 1:19–20 Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings Holiness and your Bible Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. - John 17 v 17 Jesus is the author of sanctification; but there are many looking to the wrong airt for it. Now, all comes from the same hand that was nailed to the cross; look to Him for sanctification - His name is Jesus, for He saves from sin. Oh, do any feel faint and weary? Lean on Him, the Beloved: all comes from Jesus. You may as well try to hold up the sun in its course, as to hold up your own goings. Go, then, to Jesus for all you need: learn the means of sanctification- the Word. No holiness without the Bible. I believe God could sanctify without the Word. He made the angels holy without it, and He made Adam holy without it; but He will not do it. 'Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is truth.' Just like a mother nourishing a child, Jesus takes a soul and nourishes it with the milk of the word. No life without a Bible. It is just the breathings of God's heart - of His affectionate bosom. Oh, yes, if you would walk much with Jesus, you would become like Him. Oh, you would get the heart and likeness of Jesus. There are some believers, and you may know them by their breath that they have been with Emmanuel, the lovely Rose of Sharon. Learn then, that there are no other means of sanctification, and without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Unless you love your Bibles, and feed upon them, you will never stand with the Lamb upon Mount Zion, with the golden harps.
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