January 27, 2019
Hymn 358 - Tell me the story of Jesus
Prayer
This Psalm is a summery of Jesus’ life down here on earth.
Psalm 40:6-12
Hebrews 10:5
In Leviticus God gave Israel a lot of different sacrifices that they had to keep. Israel made offerings to God for several reasons for sins for gifts etc. In these verses though Jesus is telling them that these sacrifices weren’t enough for. God was going to send a greater perfect sacrifice that would fill His desire.
When Jesus came down he preached in a lot of places. He was spreading God’s love around to as many people as possible.
While He was here He showed the people many attributes of God. He showed them God’s righteousness, faithfulness, loving kindness, truth and most importantly salvation. He was trying to make God known in the world. One of the disciples asked Him to show them the Father. Jesus told them that everything he was and had showed them was the Father.
We think of everything that Jesus did in His life he still made time to love people. Even with all that people still wanted to kill Him. Jesus went to the cross for us and our sins were laid on Him. We read that “He bore our sins on the cross”.
2 Cor. 5:29
Jesus who knew no sin became sin for us.
Psalm 40:2
We know that after death Jesus was raised form the grave. So we see in the Psalm an outline of Jesus’ life. We can see what He has done for us through the cross.
Lord’s Day January 20, 2019
Reading Meeting
John 9:1-21
The Lord dealt with lots of issues relation to the Pharisees. He came to a blind man who was that way since birth. The disciples were the ones who questioned Jesus on who had sinned to cause this. There are many people today who think that God can’t exist because of all the suffering. “How can an all loving God allowing suffering?” is the question they ask. To the disciples it seemed logical that it was a consequence of some evil done by someone. We can see the greatest suffering ever endured in God’s own Son. Sin came by man trying to take God’s place. He did allow it all, but through it He glorified His Son. Like the man was blind, we were once spiritual blind. The man was later question by neighbors, parents, and the Pharisees who than kicked him out of the synagogue. Jesus is the light of the world, but man was refusing to see that light.
Hymn 346 Jesus who lives above the sky
Prayer
John 9:1-21
The blind man didn’t ask for help. Every one assumed that it was sin that had caused his blindness. But not all trials are a form of correction. We serve a God of grace and He uses trials to prepare or shape us. Jesus blessed this man and brought glory to God.
His neighbors noticed the difference, and it should be the same way when we’re saved. But the neighbors seemed to have a problem with this. When asked about it he could only say, “I once was blind, but now I see”. There is no need to be eloquent when we’re asked. We just need to tell them what we’ve got.
Jesus said that He must work the works of God. Obedience compelled the Lord. God sent His Son with a special mission to accomplish the work of redemption for ruined man. There is a limited time this can go forward, and one day it will be the last. The Lord is the light in the darkness, but the world is so dark it can’t comprehend the light. It’s like a black hole.
Jesus healed multiple blind men and it was never in the same way. This time was certainly a different way of doing it. He spat on the ground, made mud, and then put it on the man’s eyes. That man had both faith and obedience. He had faith to go and obedience to wash in the pool of Siloam. God’s ways aren’t always what we would think. In this story, with Gideon, and dying to defeat death nothing was done in ways we would think.
It says that he came seeing. When we were converted our eyes were opened. For the man it was physical, for us it was spiritual. So many people never see and don’t understand grace. We have had the chance to see what isn’t, and now we have the chance to say something about it.
Hymn 290 - Praise the Saviour, ye who know Him!
Prayer