Christ’s “blood, being sprinkled on the conscience, chases away slavish fear, and gives the believer assurance both of his safety and his welcome into the divine presence.”
Matthew Henry
Meditation for Worship
Our Heavenly Father “lingers long, with loving pauses, tarrying by the way to give space for repentance and opportunity for accepting His mercy. Thus deals He with the greatest sinners, and with His own children much more so: towards them His anger is short-lived and never reaches into eternity, and when it is shown in fatherly chastisements He does not afflict willingly, and soon pities their sorrows.”
C.H. SPURGEON
Meditation for Worship
Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
I Corinthians 15:51-52 (ESV)
Sermon Notes for 4/8/2012
Peace Be with You
John 20:19-21
Dan Brooks, Pastor
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Meditation for Worship
For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:5–11
