Trinity Reformed Baptist Church, Meru, Kenya.

1. Realizing that your faith will be strengthened when you abound in spiritual thoughts upon spiritual objects. 2. Realizing that your hope will be fuller when you abound in spiritual thoughts upon spiritual objects. 3. Realizing that you will be prepared for suffering when you abound in spiritual thoughts upon spiritual objects. 4. Realizing that you will be kept from fixing your mind on the thin...

Chapter 22: Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day PARAGRAPH 7 As it is the law of nature, that in general a proportion of time, by God's appointment, be set apart for the worship of God, so by his Word, in a positive moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men, in all ages, he has particularly appointed one day in seven for a sabbath to be kept holy unto him,28 which from the beginning of...

Ecclesiastes 5:8-20 THE VANITY OF MATERIAL RICHES. 1. POLITICAL OPPRESSORS ABUSE POWER FOR MATERIAL RICHES (v.8-9) 2. THE FOLLY OF MATERIAL RICHES (V.10-12) i) Material riches cannot bring lasting satisfaction (v.10) ii) Material riches will complicate your life (v.11) iii) Material riches may cost you sleep (v.12) 3. THE UNCERTAINTY OF MATERIAL RICHES (v.13-17) i) You cannot keep it (v.13) ii) Ma...

Ephesians 2:14-16 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 1. He has bro...

1. Observe the special providential circumstances that you face and apply your mind unto thoughts about them. 2. Observe the special trials and temptations that you face and apply your mind unto thoughts about them. 3. Observe all things in religion, both in faith and practice and apply your mind unto thoughts about them.

Chapter 22: Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day PARAGRAPH 6 Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the gospel, tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in which it is performed, or towards which it is directed; but God is to be worshipped everywhere in spirit and in truth;23 as in private families24 daily,25 and in secret each one by himself;26 so more sol...

Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 ​ 1   Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. 2   Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. 3 For a dream comes with much bu...

Psalms 51:3-6 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret he...

11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once w...

1. Spiritual Thoughts Arising Naturally From Us. 2. Having Our Minds Filled With These Spiritual Thoughts. 3. Contentment From The Enjoyment That We Get From Spiritual Things.

Ecclesiastes 4:4-16 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. 5 The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh. 6 Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind. 7 Again, I saw vanity under the sun:8 one person who has no other, either son or brot...

Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Introduction Romans 8:1-17

Philippians 2:9-11; 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 1. God Has Highly Exalted Him (Verse 9). 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him 2. God Has Given Him...

1 Corinthians 15:3-8 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive,...

4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 1. The Fact Of His Birth (Verse 4). 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,  2. The Purpose Of His Birth (Verse 5). 5 to redeem those who were under...

The goodness of God is seen - in creation. - in the variety of natural pleasures which He has provided for His creatures. - in that when man transgressed the law of His Creator, God did not pour out His wrath all at once. - in sending forth His Son. APPLICATIONS 1. Praise the Lord for His goodness 2. Trust God more and more for His goodness

John 15:1-5 ​ 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you,...

Ephesians 2:4-7 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved — 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us...

Malachi 3:6; 6 “For I the LORD do not change;... James 1:17; 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. 1. God is distinguished from His Creatures 2. Aspects of God's Immutability - God is immutable in His Essence - God is immutable in His Attributes - God is immutable in His Counsel 3. Ca...

Luke 7:11-17 Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, t he only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not wee...

Psalm 34:1-7 I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2  My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad.3  Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! 4  I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.5  Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be...

The Aseity Of God Psalm 90:1-2 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. 2  Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Ecclesiastes 4:1-3 Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them. 2 And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive. 3 But better than both is he who has not yet bee...

Ephesians 4:1-3  A nd you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, li...