July 9^th 2023

9:30 am ----------------------------------------- Darkness Over All the Land – Exodus 10:21-29

10:00 am ------------------------------------------------ As The Days of Noah – Matthew 24:37-39

Wednesday: 7:00 pm -------------------------------- As The Days of Lot – Luke 17:28-32

I had an associate once who was a self-proclaimed atheist. He asked me if I could prove to him that the Bible was the Word of God. I told him no. That was something that only God could do. He then asked me if I could prove to him that there was a God. I told him no! That was something that only the Bible, God’s Word could do. – David Eddmenson

The Bible

-- The Bible among books is what Christ is among men. – anon

-- As God is the only holy Person, so Scripture is the only holy Book. – W. Gurnall (1616-1679)

-- Few tremble at the Word of God. Few in reading it, hear the voice of Jehovah which is full of majesty.

– M’Cheyne (1813-1843)

-- The longer you read the Bible, the more you will love it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ. – W. Romaine (1714-1795)

-- Christ is the scope of Scripture. – R. Sibbes (1577-1635)

-- Ignorance of the Scripture is ignorance of Christ. – Jerome (327-420)

Our Lips And Our Ears If you your lips would keep from slips, five things observe with care:

Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

If you your ears would keep from jeers, these things keep humbly hid:

Myself and I, and mine and my, and how I do and did. – unknown

Sin Subdued --"He will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." -- Micah 7:19

Sin subdued is the next greatest blessing to sin pardoned; and wherever God does pardon sin he subdues sin; for the same grace which saves sanctifies; the same grace which casts sin behind God's back, puts its foot upon the corruptions of the believer, and prevents iniquity from having dominion over him. The Scripture is very plain and express upon this point. "Sin shall not have dominion over you." Why? "Because ye are not under the law," which gives sin its strength and power, "but under grace," which is able to subdue its dominion. Nor do I believe that any child of God can ever rest satisfied except by the subduing of his sins as well as the pardoning of them. To have his unbelief, infidelity, worldly-mindedness, pride, and covetousness subdued by the grace of God, its power taken out of it, its dominion dethroned, its authority destroyed, and its strength weakened and diminished, that he may not be under the dominion of any lust, or carried away by the strength of any secret or open sin, but may walk before God in the light of his countenance, as desirous to know his will and do it,—this is the desire and breathing of every one that knows sin in its guilt, filth, and power. How gracious, then, is the promise, how sweet the favour, that the Lord has promised to subdue our iniquities by the same grace as that whereby he pardons them; that, as we receive the blood of Christ to sprinkle the conscience, so we receive the grace of Christ to sanctify and renew the soul, and the strength of Christ to overcome all our inward and outward foes. _– J.C. Philpot

Fathers, Teach Your Children “And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.” – Deuteronomy 6:6-7