Category: Sermons

Before salvation, God’s law is something external and burdensome. After salvation, we understand more of its depth and we have a God-given desire to keep it, fuelled by our love for Jesus and motivated to please him.

Will you go into the coming days determined to love those around you and to help them? Even if you are in a time of stress and trouble. You are still watched at such times as to how you will react. If you can maintain a love for others at such times, your light will be powerful and impactful. May the Lord help us all to shine for him as we do good to others.

Jesus issue the most astonishing invitation; ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.’   (Matthew 11:28)

Stop carrying the heavy load of sin and guilt and meaninglessness and rebellion. Instead, come to Jesus in prayer. Ask for forgiveness. Learn from him. And you will know rest.

Scripture makes it plain that there will be a day when we are all brought to account for how we have lived. We cannot live any way we please and ignore God with impunity. Judgement will come and we need to be ready for it, by becoming followers of Jesus.

However challenging it can be to witness our faith to believers, God uses the witness of his people in a powerful and often far-reaching way.

Do you ever feel like God has forgotten about you? Do you ever feel that he doesn’t care? In fact, it’s good when we come to the place where we realise we cannot cope on our own. It’s good when we stop relying on our own limited strength. Because only then will come to God in prayer and wait upon him for strength from above.

Perhaps you’re religious, well- educated, a pillar of the community. Or you may be completely different; no scholar and you wouldn’t claim to be a particularly good person. Whatever the case, Jesus says the same thing to you: ‘You must be born again.’ For, as he says to Nicodemus, ‘… no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.’   (John 3:3)

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)

Keep on keeping on, press on, fight the good fight all the while entrusting your soul to him that Jesus may be made known throughout Scotland and beyond. Entrust yourself to your creator while doing good because you know, as you walk the narrow path in obedience to Jesus, what awaits you in God’s presence forever.