February 9^th. 2020

9:30 am Bible Study / 10:00 am Worship ---------------------------------------------- Messages by Cody Henson

“No man honours God, and no man justifies God at so high a rate, as he who lays his hand upon his mouth, when the rod of God is upon his back.” -- Thomas Brooks 1608-1680

The Best Robe

The robe that God provided Adam was an effectual covering, BECAUSE He provided it. The robe that Adam provided for himself was ineffectual, because he provided it. Now Adam clothed with God’s coat was a safer person outside the fence of paradise than he had been inside. Why? For within, his dependence was upon himself, whereas outside his life dependence was on another, even the promised Saviour. – Don Bell

Don’t Make Too Much of Feelings – by William Jay

There is a difference between hypocrisy and instability. We may feel what we utter at the time, but emotions are not principles, impulses are not dispositions. There may be goodness, but it is like the morning cloud and early dew, that soon passeth away. How often do we become a wonder, as well as a grief, to ourselves! How little do we know of our own hearts, till we are tried! The little ants disappear in the cloudy and rainy day, and the observer might suppose they were all dead. But let the sun shine forth, and they are again all alive and in motion. There is the same mud at the bottom of the water when calm, but the waves thereof cast up the mire and dirt.

Let us not, therefore, make too much of frames and feelings. Let us not imagine, because we are now walking in the light of God’s countenance, that we shall never again mourn His absence. Behold, the hour cometh when we may consider all our present joy as only a delusion. Do we now believe? A change in the weather, a depression of animal spirits, may renew all our doubts and fears, and we may be all apprehension again.

Therefore let us rejoice with trembling. Let us remember our own weakness, and instead of depending on the grace that is in us, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Beware of Peter’s word;

Nor confidently say,

“I never will deny thee, Lord:”

But, “Grant I never may.”

Man’s wisdom is to seek

His strength in God alone:

Even an angel would be weak

That trusted in his own.

“Unto Thee, O Lord Do I Lift Up My Soul” – Psalm 25:1

. . . Unto Thee in the fulness of Thy merits, unto Thee in the riches of Thy Grace; unto Thee in the embraces of Thy love and comforts of Thy Spirit; unto Thee, that Thy thorns may be my crown, Thy blood my balm, Thy curse my blessing, Thy death my life, Thy cross my triumph. Thus is my life hid with Christ in God. – Robert Mossom, Ireland (1617-1679)

Glad Tidings – by William Tyndale (1500-1536) Burned at the stake for translating Scripture for all to read.

The gospel (that is to say, joyful tidings) is called the New Testament. Because as a man when he shall die, appoints his goods to be dealt and distributed after his death among those whom he names to be his heirs; even so Christ, before His death, commanded and appointed that such gospel, or tidings, should be declared throughout all the world, and therewith to give unto all that repent and believe, all His goods; that is to say, His life, wherewith He swallowed and devoured death; His righteousness, wherewith He banished sin; His salvation, wherewith He overcame eternal damnation.