October 28^th - 2018

9:30 am Bible Study

10:00 am Worship ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- --- Messages by Brother Roland Browning

Wednesday: 7:00 pm Worship

Make Little of Sorrows and Pleasures – By Joseph Hall, England (1574-1656)

That which the French proverb says of sickness is true of all evils, they ‘come on horseback and go away on foot’; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow and heavily, and go away like post-horses upon the spur. Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of . . . the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: that God hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. – Ecclesiastes 7:14

The following two quotes are by Thomas Watson, England (1620-1686)

Concerning the Preached Word . . .

. . . Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word.

Concerning the Great Work of Redemption . . .

. . . Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us—but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing—but greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.

Death – By Richard Sibbes

Death, which is the end of all, though it be fearful and irksome to nature, yet it is to God’s servants a bed of down, easing them of all their miseries, and putting them in possession of an heavenly kingdom. Therefore saith Solomon, ‘The day of death is better than the day of birth,’ Eccles. 7:1. God will be the God of His, not only unto death, but in death.

Death is the death of itself, and not of us. It is a disarmed and conquered enemy to all the faithful; for which cause Paul desired to be dissolved and to be with Christ, which is best of all, Philip. 1:23.

Death, albeit it seems terrible and dreadful, yet the sting thereof being taken away by the death of Christ, it brings everlasting joy along with it.

Death is only as a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

Whither tend all the troubles we meet with in this world, but only to fit us for a better condition hereafter, and to assure the soul that when earth can hold it no longer, heaven shall.