Daily Readings for Tuesday 21st May 2024

Daily 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 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 - God mustereth the armies of his wrath; he threateneth to destroy Babylon by the Medes; her utter desolation.
Isaiah 13
Preface - The apostle's address to the trangers elect in Christ, dispersed throughout the lesser Asia. He blesseth God for having raised them to the hope of a blesed immortality. He sheweth that their salvation in Chrst had been foretold by the prophets of old; and exhorteth them to a vigilant and holy confersation, suitable to their calling, and redemption by the blood of Christ; and to mutual love.
1 Peter 1


Daily Light - Morning
The fellowship of his sufferings.

It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we etseemed him not. - In the world ye shall have tribulation. - Because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

I looked for some to take pity, but there was none. - At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. - Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Phil. 3.10; Mt. 10.25
Isa. 53.3; Jn. 16.33; Jn. 15.19
Ps. 69.20; 2 Tim. 5.16
Mt. 8.20; He. 13.14
He. 12.1-2


Daily Light - Evening
They overcame...
by the blood of the Lamb.

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died. - It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. - I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.

There is...no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.

What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?....These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Rev. 12.11; Ro. 8.33-34; Lev. 17.11; Ex. 12.12-13
Ro. 8.1
Rev. 7.13,14
Rev. 1.5-6


A Puritans Catechism
Q 67 - What does every sin deserve?
A - Every sin deserves God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.


The 1689
Baptist Confession of Faith
Of The Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof
Chapter 6
PARAGRAPH 2

Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all:3 all becoming dead in sin,4 and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.5

3 Rom. 3:23
4 Rom 5:12, etc.
5 Titus 1:15; Gen. 6:5; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:10–19



Robert Murray M'Cheyne - God Makes A Path - Daily Devotional Readings
No condemnation
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us - Romans 8 v 34
Paul looks around all the judges of the world - all who are skilled in law and equity; he looks upward to the holy angels, whose superhuman sight pierces deep and far into the righteous government of God; he looks up to God, the judge of all, who must do right - Whose ways are equal and perfect righteousness - and he asked, 'Who shall condemn? It is Christ that died.' Christ has paid the uttermost farthing: so that every judge must cry out. 'There is therefore now no condemnation.'