As God's creatures, we are all debtors to Him: to obey Him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken His commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to His justice, and we owe to Him a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of the Christian it can be said that he does not owe God's justice anything, for Christ has paid the debt His people owed; for this reason the believer owes the more to love. I am a debtor to God's grace and forgiving mercy; but I am no debtor to His justice, for He will never accuse me of a debt already paid. Christ said, "It is finished!" and by that He meant, that whatever His people owed was wiped away for ever from the book of remembrance. Christ, to the uttermost, has satisfied divine justice; the account is settled; the handwriting is nailed to the cross; the receipt is given, and we are debtors to God's justice no longer. But then, because we are not debtors to our Lord in that sense, we become ten times more debtors to God than we should have been otherwise. Christian, pause and ponder for a moment. What a debtor thou art to divine sovereignty! How much thou owest to His disinterested love, for He gave His own Son that He might die for thee. Consider how much you owe to His forgiving grace, that after ten thousand affronts He loves you as infinitely as ever. Consider what you owe to His power; how He has raised you from your death in sin; how He has preserved your spiritual life; how He has kept you from falling; and how, though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to hold on your way. Consider what you owe to His immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once. Thou art as deep in debt as thou canst be to every attribute of God. To God thou owest thyself, and all thou hast—yield thyself as a living sacrifice, it is but thy reasonable service.
Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church
Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
Date: Sun PM 29th January 2023
Preacher: Rev. Ray Carscadden
Bible Reference: Acts 8:27
And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,
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Date: Sun AM 29th January 2023 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference:Jeremiah 23:29 29 Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
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Date: Sun AM 29th January 2023Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Romans 8:18-25 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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Date: Sun PM 22nd January 2023Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Acts 14:4 But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
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Date: Sun AM 22nd January 2023 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: James 1:22 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
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Date: Sun AM 22nd January 2023 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
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In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:18
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Date: Sun PM 15th January 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: John 9:4-5
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
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Date: Sun AM 15th January 2023Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
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Date: Sun AM 15th January 2023Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
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Date: Sun PM 8th January 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
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Date: Sun AM 8th January 2023Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: 1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby
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Date: Sun AM 8th January 2023
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: 2 Thessalonians 3:1-2
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
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Date: Sun PM 1st January 2023Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Ezra 10:2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is […]
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Date: Sun AM 1st January 2023Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Romans 12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
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Carryduff Free Presbyterian Church
Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind
