November 18^th - 2018

9:30 am -----------------------------------------------------------------------Rejoice Ye Gentiles! – Romans 15:8-12

10:00 am -------------------------------------------- The Unknown King Revealed – David, Part 1 – 1 Samuel 16

NO WEDNESDAY SERVICE THIS WEEK

I Like What You Are Saying

"I like what you are saying," was the reply of a friend at the door Sunday night. I had expressed my joy over his presence with us and his reply of I like what you are saying could not have pleased me more.

It was not I like you or I like the music or I like the atmosphere or I feel it’s my duty to attend but I LIKE THE GOSPEL YOU PREACH.

The gospel that is good news to the needy and glad tidings to the troubled will find itself welcome with the Lord's sheep. You pray for me and come to the services and I will seek the Lord's message for us! If it is God's truth and you are God's children, then you too will like what I am saying. – Henry Mahan

*** (I hear several say the same thing to me often, but some do not; some of you never say so. You are the ones I am hoping to hear from; hoping to see light in your face, a tear in your eye, joy and rejoicing over the gospel in your heart. May the Lord make it so with you today. May you greet me at the door after the service with: “I like what you are saying.” – p.m.)

They Shall Never Perish – John 10:28

True Christians shall never perish. Are they not Christ’s special property, the servants of His house, the members of His family, the children of His adoption? Then surely He will never let them be overthrown, He will watch them as tenderly as we watch over our own flesh and blood, He will guard them as we guard our valuable and precious possessions, He will cherish them as we cherish that which is most dear to our hearts; He never would have laid down His life for their sakes if He had intended to give them up. – J.C. Ryle

On Prayer– by Thomas Brooks, England, 1608-1680

“God is never better pleased than when His people importune (keep coming) to Him in His own words; and urge Him with arguments taken from His own promises.”

“Certainly, the very soul of prayer lies in the pouring out of a man’s soul before the Lord, though it be but in sighs, groans, and tears. One sigh and groan from a broken heart is better pleasing to God than all human eloquence.”

The Best is Yet To Come – Richard Sibbes, England, 1577-1635

God reserves the best for the last. God’s last works are His best works. The new heaven and the new earth are the best. The second wine that Christ created Himself was the best. Spiritual things are better than natural things. A Christian’s last is his best. God will have it so, for the comfort of Christians, that every day they live, they may think, my best is behind, my best is to come, that every day they rise, they may think, I am nearer to heaven one day than I was before, I am nearer death, and therefore nearer to Christ.

What a solace is this to a gracious heart! A Christian is a happy man in his life, but happier in his death, because then he goes to Christ, but happiest of all in heaven, for then He is with Christ.

Too Faint To Cross Over – 1 Samuel 30:9-10

Of the 600 men who went with David to battle, 200 were ‘too faint to cross over” the brook Besor (cheerful). Surely most, if not all saints grow weary and faint in this journey; this warfare, and are hardly able to be cheerful as our Lord told us to be. Even so, ‘be of good cheer’. Since David went and recovered all, the weak and faint, along with the strong and courageous; all received the reward of David’s conquest. Even so, all reap the reward of eternal life by Christ’s courage and conquests, not ours; all receive the spoils of victory which Christ won for us on the cross.