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 27th November 2022Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlinBible Reference: Deuteronomy 28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
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Date: Sun AM 27th November 2022Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Psalms 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
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Date: Sun AM 27th November 2022
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth;
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Date: Sun PM 20th November 2022
Testimony: Mr. Paul Elliott
Bible Reference: Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and not be afraid:
for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song;
he also is become my salvation.
Date: Sun AM 20th November 2022 Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin Bible Reference: Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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Date: Sun AM 20th November 2022
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Colossians 3:3-4
3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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Date: Sun PM 13th November 2022
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
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Date: Sun AM 13th November 2022
Piper: Rev. Paul Hanna
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Isaiah 43:25-26
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake,
and will not remember thy sins. 26 Put me in remembrance: let us plead together:
declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
Date: Sun PM 6th November 2022
Preacher: Samuel Fitton (4th Yr Whitefield CoB)
Bible Reference: Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
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Date: Sun AM 6th November 2022
Preacher: Rev. David McLaughlin
Bible Reference: Colossians 3:1-2
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
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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
