Welcome to Dingwall

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Welcome to Dingwall Strathpeffer Free
ChurchSunday January 25th 2009

• God Calls Us to Delight in Christ and to Share
  His Hope.

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Psalm 311-5 (p. 241)

• 1 In thee, O LORD, I put my trust,
• shamed let me never be
• According to thy righteousness
• do thou deliver me.

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Psalm 311-5 (2/5)

• 2 Bow down thine ear to me, with speed
• send me deliverance
• To save me, my strong rock be thou,
• and my house of defence.

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Psalm 311-5 (3/5)

• 3 Because thou art my rock, and thee
• I for my fortress take
• Therefore do thou me lead and guide,
• evn for thine own names sake.

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Psalm 311-5 (4/5)

• 4 And sith thou art my strength, therefore
• pull me out of the net,
• Which they in subtlety for me
• so privily have set.

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Psalm 311-5 (5/5)

• 5 Into thine hands I do commit
• my spirit for thou art he,
• O thou, JEHOVAH, God of truth,
• that hast redeemèd me.

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Prayer Scripture Reading
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Scripture Reading Ezekiel361-10,21-28 (p.
867)
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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

• A Prophecy to the Mountains of Israel
•  1 Son of man, prophesy to the mountains of
  Israel and say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the
  word of the LORD.     2 This is what the
  Sovereign LORD says The enemy said of you, Aha!
  The ancient heights have become our possession.'

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

•     3 Therefore prophesy and say, 'This is what
  the Sovereign LORD says Because they ravaged and
  hounded you from every side so that you became
  the possession of the rest of the nations and the
  object of people's malicious talk and slander,
•     4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the
  word of the Sovereign LORD

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

•     This is what the Sovereign LORD says to the
  mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys,
  to the desolate ruins and the deserted towns that
  have been plundered and ridiculed by the rest of
  the nations around you
•     5 this is what the Sovereign LORD says In my
  burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of
  the nations, and against Edom,

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

• for with glee and with malice in their hearts
  they made my land their own possession so that
  they might plunder its pasture-land.'
•     6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of
  Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the
  ravines and valleys 'This is what the Sovereign
  LORD says

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

• I speak in my jealous wrath because you have
  suffered the scorn of the nations.
•     7 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD
  says I swear with uplifted hand that the nations
  around you will also suffer scorn.
•     8 'But you, O mountains of Israel, will
  produce branches and fruit for my people Israel,
  for they will soon come home.

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

•     9 I am concerned for you and will look on you
  with favour you will be ploughed and sown,
•     10 and I will multiply the number of people
  upon you, even the whole house of Israel. The
  towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt.
  to verse 21

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

•     21 I had concern for my holy name, which the
  house of Israel profaned among the nations where
  they had gone.
•     22 Therefore say to the house of Israel,
  'This is what the Sovereign LORD says It is not
  for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going
  to do these things, but for the sake of my holy
  name, which you have

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

• profaned among the nations where you have gone.
•     23 I will show the holiness of my great name,
  which has been profaned among the nations, the
  name you have profaned among them. Then the
  nations will know that I am the LORD, declares
  the Sovereign LORD, when I show myself holy
  through you before their eyes.

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

•   24 'For I will take you out of the nations I
  will gather you from all the countries and bring
  you back into your own land.
• 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you
  will be clean I will cleanse you from all your
  impurities and from all your idols.

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

•    26 I will give you a new heart and put a new
  spirit in you I will remove from you your heart
  of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
•    27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move
  you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep
  my laws.

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Ezekiel 361-10,21-28

•    28 You will live in the land I gave your
  forefathers you will be my people, and I will be
  your God. 
• ___________  

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Psalm 14515-21 (p. 190)

• 15 All eyes are raised expectantly to you,
• And in due season you supply their food.
• 16 You open wide your hand to all that live
• And satisfy their needs with what is good.

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Psalm 14515-21 (2/4)

• 17 The LORD is just and good in all his ways
• He shows his love to all that he has made.
• 18 The LORD is near to all who call on him,
• To all who call in truth to him for aid.

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Psalm 14515-21 (3/4)

• 19 The hopes of those who fear him he fulfils
• He hears their cry and saves them from distress.
• 20 The LORD protects all those who love his
  name,
• But slays all those who practise wickedness.

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Psalm 14515-21 (4/4)

• 21 My lips will frame a psalm of thanks to God
• My mouth will speak for ever in his praise.
• Let every creature magnify the LORD,
• And praise his holy name now and always.

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SERMONA People Made New Ezekiel 36 (p.
865)
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit
in you I will remove from you your heart of
stone and give you a heart of flesh. Ezekiel
3626
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CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN God who makes all
things new.

• Not a message of an earthly Utopia - but Gods
  good news for the refugees in Bablyon.

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Why God Reversed their Fortunes

• Gods word comes to the one mountain of Edom and
  the many mountains of Israel (chapters 35-35).
• WHY would God deal in this way with Israel?
  (369,11-12)
• Not Gods ego-trip His name LORD is bound to His
  Covenant relationship.
• What answer is there for defilement?

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There is no human answer to sin

• Gods answer is bound to his own name and
  reputation (20-23).
• The universe has God at the centre if salvation
  is to come at all, it must be in a way that
  honours and pleases God.

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2 How God Renews His People

• Is your heart warmed by verses 24-28?
• God has a way to make people CLEAN again (25)
  but not just clean on the outside. (26,27)
• Other religions can get you to obey outwardly
  only the Holy Spirit can make you new, obeying
  God willingly from the new desires of a new
  heart.

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2 How God Renews His People

• 28 The Covenant is also made new FAITH is the
  core emphasis of both the Old and New
  Testaments!
• FAITH is a matter of the heart this chapter
  explains Jesus chat with Nicodemus!
• Renewal first the people, then the land.
• DO WE LOOK LIKE NEW PEOPLE?

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Psalm 517-12 (p. 281)

• 7 Do thou with hyssop sprinkle me,
• I shall be cleansèd so
• Yea, wash thou me, and then I shall
• be whiter than the snow.

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Psalm 517-12 (2/4)

• 8 Of gladness and of joyfulness
• make me to hear the voice
• That so these very bones which thou
• hast broken may rejoice.

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Psalm 517-12 (3/4)

• 9 All mine iniquities blot out,
• thy face hide from my sin.
• 10 Create a clean heart, Lord, renew
• a right spirit me within.

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Psalm 517-12 (4/4)

• 11 Cast me not from thy sight, nor take
• thy Holy Spirit away.
• 12 Restore me thy salvations joy
• with thy free Spirit me stay.

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God Calls Us to delight in Christ and to Share
His Hope.