Knowing Christ and making Him known
Listening to God’s word week by week, you’ll either be helped or you’ll be hardened. You’ll be helped if you respond to God’s voice speaking to you, calling you deeper into a relationship with him, despite your sinfulness, despite your failings. But if you listen without responding, then hearing God’s word will just harden your heart, more and more until it’s too late.
‘If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.’ (Matthew 4:23)
Those who have been called by God, who’ve been put in a right relationship with him (‘justified’ by faith) are promised a glorious future he has prepared for us and it is as certain as if it had already taken place.
Just as Abraham was justified in God’s sight by believing God, rather than by stacking up credits by our feeble efforts at obeying God’s Law, we can be justified by believing that we are justified in God’s sight in exactly the same way – by faith in the Gospel!
How much we give to the work of the Lord is a useful indicator of how much we value what the Lord has done for us. Generous giving will, in turn, result in thanksgiving to God.
Sermon: Sunday, 28 January, 2024 Speaker: Alistair Donald Scripture: Revelation 12 Have you ever asked yourself why it’s sometimes so hard to live a consistent
God uses fallible humans to establish contacts with those outside the church. It’s not always easy but if we each take on board what it means to be a learning church, a loving church and a worshipping and praying church, then it will become a little less hard.
When we repent and are baptised in the Name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins, we receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off.
God’s grace is absolutely amazing. If you know this then recommend it to others. But if this is a new to you, then don’t let the moment pass. God’s amazing grace is for you. Believe in your heart, and you too can be freed from the terrible disease of sin. And Jesus will come into your life to help you to change and to become more like him.