Daily Readings for Tuesday 25th June 2024

Daily Prayer - Tuesday
- Give thanks to God for salvation and the redemption that is found alone through Jesus Christ.
- Give thanks to God for granting us particular skills and abilities that we might fulfil our vocations (jobs, studies, family responsibilities and time we spend alone). Ecclesiastes 9.10, Ephesians 6.6)
- Pray for the Lord's blessing on the working week for us and all in the congregation.
- Pray the Lord would grant us grace to be good ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5.20)


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 blessedness of the righteous in death, who are taken out of the way of evil. God reproveth the Jews for their idolatry; he comforteth the penitent with promises of mercy.
Isaiah 57
Preface - Christ beginning his sermon upon the mount, declaring who are blessed: he calleth his disciples the salt of the earth, the light of the world, and urgeth upon them the necessity of setting a good example. He came not to destroy, but to fulfil, the law. He extendeth the precepts against murder, adultery, and false swearing: exhorteth to suffer wrong patiently, to love our enemies, and to aim at perfection.
Matthew 5


Daily Light - Morning
When he shall appear, we shall be like him;
for we shall see him as he is.a|

As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. - Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. - Christ...shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. - As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
1 Jn. 3.2; Jn. 1.12; 2 Pe. 1.4
Isa. 64.4
1 Co. 13.12; Phil. 3.20,21; Ps. 17.15



Daily Light - Evening
the man that is my fellow,
saith the LORD of hosts.

In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. - I have laid upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. - I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me.

Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh. - Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

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. - Unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.

Let all the angels of God worship him.

KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
Zech. 13.7; Col. 2.9; Ps. 89.19; Isa. 63.3
1 Tim. 3.16; Isa. 9.6
He. 1.3; He. 1.8
He. 1.6
Rev. 19.16


A Puritans Catechism
Q 26 - Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
A - Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross, in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of Repentance Unto Life and Salvation
Chapter 15
PARAGRAPH 2

Whereas there is none that doth good and sinneth not, and the best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall into great sins and provocations; God hath, in the covenant of grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be renewed through repentance unto salvation.

1. Ecclesiastes 7:20 
2. Luke 22:31,32

Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
The body of death
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind 
I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 7 v 25

In ancient times, some of the tyrants used to chain their prisoners to a dead body; so that, wherever the prisoner wandered, he had to drag a putrid carcass after him. It is believed that Paul here alludes to this inhuman practice. His old man he felt a noisome, putrid carcass, which he was continually dragging about with him. His piercing desire is to be freed from it. Who shall deliver us? You remember once, when God allowed a thorn in the flesh to torment His servant, - a messenger of Satan to buffet him, - Paul was driven to his knees. 'I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.' Oh, this is the true mark of God's children! The world has an old nature; they are all old men together. But it does not drive them to their knees. How is it with you, dear souls? Does corruption felt within drive you to the throne of grace? Does it make you call on the name of the Lord? Does it make you like the man coming at midnight for three loaves? Does it make you like the Canaanitish woman, crying after Jesus? Ah, remember, if lust can work in your heart, and you lie down contented with it, you are none of Christ's!