Easter Convention 2024

All the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. - Ezekiel 3:7

— Morning & Evening, with Charles Spurgeon Devotionals

Are there no exceptions? No, not one. Even the favoured race are thus described. Are the best so bad?—then what must the worst be? Come, my heart, consider how far thou hast a share in this universal accusation, and while considering, be ready to take shame unto thyself herein thou mayst have been guilty. The first charge is impudence, or hardness of forehead, a want of holy shame, an unhallowed boldness in evil. Before my conversion, I could sin and feel no compunction, hear of my guilt and yet remain unhumbled, and even confess my iniquity and manifest no inward humiliation on account of it. For a sinner to go to God's house and pretend to pray to Him and praise Him argues a brazen-facedness of the worst kind! Alas! since the day of my new birth I have doubted my Lord to His face, murmured unblushingly in His presence, worshipped before Him in a slovenly manner, and sinned without bewailing myself concerning it. If my forehead were not as an adamant, harder than flint, I should have far more holy fear, and a far deeper contrition of spirit. Woe is me, I am one of the impudent house of Israel. The second charge is hardheartedness, and I must not venture to plead innocent here. Once I had nothing but a heart of stone, and although through grace I now have a new and fleshy heart, much of my former obduracy remains. I am not affected by the death of Jesus as I ought to be; neither am I moved by the ruin of my fellow men, the wickedness of the times, the chastisement of my heavenly Father, and my own failures, as I should be. O that my heart would melt at the recital of my Saviour's sufferings and death. Would to God I were rid of this nether millstone within me, this hateful body of death. Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable, the Saviour's precious blood is the universal solvent, and me, even me, it will effectually soften, till my heart melts as wax before the fire.

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On this page, we will share the live broadcasts from the Easter Convention at Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church. If you can get along to the meetings, we encourage you to do so and have fellowship with God’s people.

A reading for Good Friday

As the professing Christian Church celebrates another Good Friday across the world, let us remind ourselves of what it ultimately means. When he cried triumphantly “It is finished.”, Christ was declaring that his death was the ultimate once-for-all sacrifice for sin, that the work of securing Eternal Redemption was complete.

As the God-Man, His physical death on the cross meant that He was paying the penalty for our sin that we owed to the broken law of God. Christ Died to save us from the penalty of sin, He died to break the power of sin in our lives, He died to take the love of sinning out of our hearts and, if we receive Him by faith as Lord and Saviour, we can be forgiven of all our sins, enjoy Everlasting Life, and be assured of a home in Heaven.