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  https://youtu.be/krA83x6jGng Here's the latest song I wrote and recorded, stemming from a few conversations and sermon snippets... As the days are getting darker, we need to be reminded to look up for our Redeemer is coming quickly!  Thank You Heavenly Father for the blessed hope!! I hope you are blessed and encouraged.  

Reading through the book of Matthew this morning, I came across this little phrase that struck me...  "But Jesus said to him, “Friend, why have you come?”"  The Lord looked with love on the one who was betraying Him.  Obviously we cannot hear the tone in which the Lord spoke it but what tender compassion He displayed for the man who was by that time personally indwelt by the enemy. How amazing that our Saviour would condescend to call any human "friend" but at that moment in those circumstances is past comprehension! He knew the depths of depravity and He still chose such a gracious loving response!!  I don't think I've ever suffered betrayal, but knowing our human nature I would imagine I would not feel at all kindly towards a betrayer. Only recorded in Matthew's account, Mark and John say nothing of Jesus's words to Judas in the garden of Gethsemane, while Luke recorded another equally challenging sentence, "But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are ...

Ho, every one that is thirsty in spirit, Ho, every one that is weary and sad; Come to the fountain, there’s fulness in Jesus, All that you’re longing for, come and be glad. Refrain: “I will pour water on him that is thirsty, I will pour floods upon the dry ground; Open your heart for the gift I am bringing; While you are seeking Me, I will be found.” Child of the world, are you tired of your bondage? Weary of earth-joys, so false, so untrue? Thirsting for God and His fulness of blessing? List to the promise, a message for you! Child of the Kingdom, be filled with the Spirit! Nothing but fulness thy longing can meet: ‘Tis the enduement for life and for service; Thine is the promise, so certain, so sweet. Although this hymn is in the Redemption hymnal, I hadn't noticed it there...  Written by Lucy Rider Meyer born in Vermont, 1849, died in 1922.

  The world's politics, pleasures, and pursuits! The world and the Church are essentially and eternally  distinct  — and they ought to be  distinguishable . The Church ought not to  mix  with the world — but to bear a practical testimony against it, that its  works  and  ways  are evil. All through our Lord's prayer, He keeps up the distinction, and twice over He asserts of His disciples,  "They are not of the world — even as I am not of the world!" Believers are not of the world. They are born from above, and possess a  nature  far superior to that of the world — which  unfits  them for its pleasures and pursuits, and  qualifies  them for the enjoyments and employments of the Heavenly world. They are delivered from the  thraldom  of the world — and are raised above its pursuits and its joys. They will not be  conquered  by the world — but overcome it by faith. They will not be ...