March 12^th 2023

9:30 am --------------------------------------------------------Supper or Sop – John 13:18-30

10:00 am ---------------------------------------- The LORD’s Spokesman – Exodus 4:10-17

Condescending Love

When my daughter and granddaughters were very young, quite often you would find me down on the floor playing with them . . . even talking ‘baby talk’ to them. What would make me get down on the floor like a little child? What would make a grown man stoop so low? Love! . . . Condescending love.

In a great display of His incomparable love, the Son of the Most High God, the Crown Prince of Glory, the King of kings and Lord of lords; yea, He Whose Name is the Everlasting Father . . . condescended to be a man, a worm, a creature of the dust. No one has ever stooped so low. And He did it because of the great love wherewith He loved us. And He spoke to us in a language we understand, as to little children. Thank God He stooped so low. Thank God for coming down to our level. Thank God our Father, He . . . pitieth His children and remembereth our frame (Ps.103:13).

Do You Find Delight In The Gospel? – by Henry Mahan

HE things that are written and that are preached by us concerning salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ are not only written and preached to encourage sinners to believe Him and come to Him that they might be saved, but the gospel is written and preached to you who believe that you may have confidence and assurance of your interest in Christ, and having come to Him, you are still coming. How is faith confirmed? How is faith increased? Even by the preaching of the gospel, by having the person and work, the righteousness and sacrifice of our Lord explained to us again and again. Eternal life is to be found nowhere but in Christ. And in order that those who are already in Christ through faith might have assurance and grow in grace and the knowledge of him, the preacher is to magnify over and over again the gospel of our blessed Lord!

The Plague & Perplexity Of Sin

“O LORD, Why hast Thou made us to err from Thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear?” – Isaiah 63:17

Every true child of God is plagued and perplexed by his own sinfulness. Every saint cries out with the apostle, “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death?” Every believer knows and experiences something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin in himself. It plagues him, pursues him, hounds and perplexes him.

Knowing that our God is absolutely sovereign over ALL THINGS, even the hearts of men, the child of God cannot help but wonder and cry out with the prophet: O, LORD, why hast Thou made us to err from Thy ways? . . .” We should never excuse ourselves, nor blame God for our sinfulness, but (I write this very fearfully and carefully) we may wonder why God allows or permits us to sin, when He could sovereignly prevent us from doing so.

The full results or ramifications of all things, even our sins, are not fully known until sometime later (sometime never in this life), the answer to the question of our sins can be somewhat known by the entrance of SIN into the world, and why God allowed it. It has something to do with our humility and everything to do with “the praise of the glory of His grace.”

17th CENTURY PRAYER