11.07.21 PM Worship – Mark Day – When Jesus Comes
11.07.21 AM Worship – Mark Day – Come
11.07.21 AM Worship – Mark Day – Come
Life With a Purpose
Our life upon this earth is of few days and full of trouble. Some days are the best of times; some days are the worst of times. There are moments that look like the spring of hope; others look like the winter of despair. Through it all we need to live a life with purpose and meaning. We all seek happiness as the world lashes about us.
Something to Do
Paul wrote: Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phi. 3:13-14). Paul says he was pressing toward the mark. The pursuit is not groping after something undefined. He was pressing on with contentment. He had learned in whatsoever state he was in to be content (4:11). To be happy in life we all need something to do; we need a mission to fill. As preachers we blow the trumpet clear so people will know the battle for truth is on. Do not be disarmed by the smiling tolerance of the new school of peaceful coexistence. Let us stand for the right and not lose sight of our duty to serve the Lord, do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with our God.
Someone to Love
“We love him, because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). It brings happiness to love God. We are to love the Lord with all our heart. He first loved us and we should return our love. We also need our family and friends to love. To visit with friends and enjoy good times together brings sunshine into our days.
Something to Hope For
“In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began” (Tit. 1:2). The hope of heaven keeps us going through sickness, pain, disappointment, suffering, and hardship. In fact these present sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed. God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. On that fair shore we shall serve the Lord with perfect bliss. There we shall be with and know (1 The. 2:19) our loved ones whom we have known in this life.
-J. Noel Merideth
(Brother Merideth wrote an outstanding commentary on the book of Galatians which can be found in the church library for your use – Jerry D. Sturgill)
11.03.21 Wednesday Bible Study – Jordan Conley – Responding to the Grief of our Sin
11.03.21 Wednesday Bible Study – Jordan Conley – Responding to the Grief of our Sin
Knowing the Only True God
Do you know the only true God? The answer to this question is all that will matter in the end. To know God changes us and ultimately results in our salvation. Our Lord said in His prayer to the Father, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (Jn. 17:3). Contrariwise, to not know God is to be lost. When the Lord is revealed from heaven, punishment will come to those who “know not God” (2 Thess. 1:7-8).
Hosea declared how God’s people under the Mosaic covenant were destroyed for a lack of knowledge (Hos. 4:6). In context, this was more than merely an intellectual understanding of His existence; they had rejected Him and refused to acknowledge Him in the way they lived. We should acknowledge the Lord in all our ways (Prov. 3:6). We can know that we know God by keeping His commandments (1 Jn. 2:3). While Israel of old may have in large part become estranged from God, His prophets foretold of a time when the earth would be filled with the knowledge of His glory (Hab. 2:14).
Now, in the new covenant of Christ, each one of His people know Him (Heb. 8:11; Jer. 31:34). To know God is to be in a covenant with Him. Many first-century Gentiles turned from their idols and false gods to serve the living and true God (1 Thess. 1:9-10). The universe God created teems with evidence that points to Him. Those who preached to Gentiles in the first century pointed to creation as they introduced God (Acts 14).
God is not an impersonal entity. The personal relationship He desires to have with us is described as a loving father (Deut. 1:31; Psa. 103:13; Heb. 12:5-11), or a jealous husband (Ex. 20:5; 34:14; Ezek. 16:8-19; Hos. 1:2; 3:1-5; Eph. 5:23; Rev. 21:2, 9). Yet, while He desires interaction with us (Acts 17:27), His nature is transcendent (Isa. 55:8, 9). God is not beset by human frailties as false gods created in the minds of men. The gods made in man’s image act like immature children who get their feelings hurt. Greek mythology is filled with tales of gods who behave like characters in a soap opera. They are like souped-up humans, capricious in character. Contrariwise, the only true God does not change (Mal. 3:6). There is no variation with the Father (Jas. 1:17). Jesus Christ is ever faithful (2 Tim. 2:13), the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8).
The only true God is distinct from gods in other religions in that He entered into human suffering. Jesus, the Son of God, became flesh (Jn. 1:14). He experienced sickness, hunger, thirst, sleepless nights, betrayal, distress, pain and death. Jesus has declared the unseen God (Jn. 1:18). To truly see Jesus is to come to know and see the Father (Jn. 6:45-47; 14:9), for the Son and the Father are one (Jn. 10:30; 17:11, 21). This is what the prayer of Jesus was in John 17:3, that men would come to believe and know the only true God and have eternal life. God has revealed Himself and given sufficient evidence for us to believe and know Him through Jesus Christ and have eternal life (Jn. 20:30-31). Do you know God?
-Mark Day
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