May 19^th. 2019

9:30 am ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- --- A Genealogy With An End – Luke 3:23-38

10:00 am -------------------------------------------The Temptation of The Son of God – Luke 4:1-13

Now’s The Time (The sooner the better)

“----- Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” – 2 Corinthians 6:2

What are you waiting for? Now’s the time! Do you need mercy? Call…right now! Do you need help? Cry…right now! Do you need forgiveness? Call, ask, seek . . . right now! Now’s the time! Not tomorrow, not later . . . now! As dear brother Thomas Watson said, “Now God has a mind to shew mercy to the penitent. He is right now of the giving hand.”

What are you waiting for? Do you believe Him? He that believeth on the Son hath life. Do you trust Him? None that trust in Him have or shall be disappointed. Do you need Him? It is for the poor and needy that He came. Do you love Him?

… His person, His Word, His Work, His Truth, His people . . . it is because He first loved you. Have you confessed Him in believer’s baptism as He told you to? If not, why? What are you waiting for ? A feeling? Assurance? Evidence that you are a believer? Faith is the evidence. Hope is the evidence. Love is the evidence. Don’t wait on a feeling, believe and thou shalt be saved. Don’t wait to feel saved, but come to Him and He will tell you so. Now’s the time. The time to come is now!

“COME NOW, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isa.1:18). The sooner the better. The sooner you call, the sooner you confess, the sooner you come . . . the sooner you will be comforted. The sooner the better it will be for you. So come!

Now’s the time! The time is now! Today is the day of salvation for all who call, all who believe. You have His promise. “Come unto me, ALL ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I WILL GIVE YOU REST” (Mt.11:28).

So come to Christ, right now! . . . and it shall be well with you . . . it shall be well with your soul.

I Will Walk In Thy Truth-- Psalm 86:11

Every resolution expressed by a good man, in a proper frame of mind, will be founded, not in self-confidence, but in dependence on divine grace. Then it will be useful; it will tend to stimulate and to humble; to bring to remembrance, and to bind; it will be like a hedge that defends the field; or like the hemming that keeps the robe from raveling out. “I will walk in thy truth.” Is a noble resolution, and worthy of our imitation.

Walking, in the Scriptures takes in the whole of our conversation or conduct; and to walk in anything, intends a fullness of it. For a man to walk in pride, is something more than to be proud; it says, that pride is his way, his element – that he is wholly under the influence of it. So we say, a man is in love. Four ways we should thus walk in God’s truth

We should walk in the BELIEF of the truth. It is a faithful saying and worthy of our acceptation. If we receive the witness of man, the witness of God is greater. How slow of heart are we to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Lord increase our faith.

We should walk in the PRACTICE of the truth. Faith without works is as a body without a soul there is nothing vital, or operative in it. It is well to hear; but hearing is to be viewed in the order of means, and not as an end. Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. If we know these things happy are ye if ye do them.

We should walk in the ENJOYMENT of his truth. The truth is not only of a sanctifying, but of a consolatory nature; it brings us glad tidings of great joy, it is all written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. If, therefore, our conversation becometh the Gospel, it will be happy, as well as holy. Thus it was with the first Christians: they walked, not only in the fear of the Lord, but in the comforts of the Holy Ghost. They were not free from trouble; but, as the sufferings of Christ abounded in them the consolation also abounded by Christ. They felt they could do nothing, but they were strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and through Him they could do all things. They knew not what a day may bring forth; but they were careful for nothing, casting all their care on Him who cared for them. The Gospel did not shut them up in a dungeon of doubts and fears; they knew the truth, and the truth made them free indeed; and they walked in the glorious liberty of the sons of God.