Welcome to Dingwall

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Welcome to Dingwall Strathpeffer Free
ChurchSunday January 11th 2009

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

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Psalm 981-6 (p. 129)

• 1 O sing a new song to the LORD,
• for wonders he has done
• His right hand and his holy arm
• the victory have won.

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Psalm 981-6 (2/6)

• 2 The LORD declared his saving work
• and made it to be known
• To all the nations of the world
• his righteousness is shown.

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Psalm 981-6 (3/6)

• 3 His steadfast love and faithfulness
• he has remembered well
• The covenant he made with them,
• the house of Israèl.

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Psalm 981-6 (4/6)

• And all the nations of the earth
• have seen what God has done
• Our God who brings deliverance
• by his right hand alone.

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Psalm 981-6 (5/6)

• 4 Acclaim the LORD, O all the earth
• shout loudly and rejoice.
• Make music and be jubilant
• to him lift up your voice.

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Psalm 981-6 (6/6)

• 5 With harp make music to the LORD
• with harp his praises sing.
• 6 With trumpet and with horn rejoice
• before the LORD, the King.

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Prayer
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SANDRA MACDONALDOMF UPDATE
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SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58 Hebrews 414-16

• Where high the heavenly
• temple stands,The house of God not made with
  hands,A great High Priest our nature wears,The
  Guardian of mankind appears.

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SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58
Hebrews 414-16 2/6

• He who our guarantor once stood,And poured on
  earth His precious blood,Pursues in Heaven His
  mighty plan,Our Saviour and the Friend of man.

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SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58
Hebrews 414-16 3/6

• Though now ascended up on high,He sees us with a
  brothers eyeHe shares with us the human
  name,He knows the frailty of our frame.

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SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58
Hebrews 414-16 4/6

• Our fellow-sufferer yet retainsA fellow-feeling
  for our painsAnd still remembers in the
  skiesHis tears, His agonies, and cries.

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SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58
Hebrews 414-16 5/6

• In all that pains the human heart,The Man of
  Sorrows had a part,He sympathizes with our
  grief,And to the sufferer sends relief.

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SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58
Hebrews 414-16 6/6

• With boldness, therefore, at his throne,Let us
  make all our sorrows known,Find grace to help in
  time of needJesus, Gods Son, to you we plead!
• LM - Words Scottish Paraphrase 58, by Michael
  Bruce (1746-67)
• Adapted by Praise Trust (v. 1-5) Dingwall Free
  Church (v. 6)

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Scripture Reading Matthew 619-34 (p. 971)
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Matthew 619-34

• Treasures in Heaven
•   19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures
  on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where
  thieves break in and steal.
•     20 But store up for yourselves treasures in
  heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and
  where thieves do not break in and steal.
•     21 For where your treasure is, there your
  heart will be also.
•     22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your
  eyes are good, your whole body will be full of
  light.

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Matthew 619-34

•     23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body
  will be full of darkness. If then the light
  within you is darkness, how great is that
  darkness!
•     24 No-one can serve two masters.
• Either he will hate the one and love the
  other, or he will be devoted to the one and
  despise the other.
• You cannot serve both God and Money.

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Matthew 619-34

• Do Not Worry
•   25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about
  your life, what you will eat or drink or about
  your body, what you will wear.
• Is not life more important than food, and
  the body more important than clothes?  
•    26 Look at the birds of the air they do not
  sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your
  heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more
  valuable than they?
•     27 Who of you by worrying can add a single
  hour to his life?

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Matthew 619-34

•     28 And why do you worry about clothes? See
  how the lilies of the field grow. They do not
  labour or spin.
•     29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in
  all his splendour was dressed like one of these.
•     30 If that is how God clothes the grass of
  the field, which is here today and tomorrow is
  thrown into the fire, will he not much more
  clothe you, O you of little faith?
•     31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we
  eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we
  wear?'

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Matthew 619-34

•     32 For the pagans run after all these things,
  and your heavenly Father knows that you need
  them.
•     33 But seek first his kingdom and his
  righteousness, and all these things will be given
  to you as well.
•     34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
  tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has
  enough trouble of its own.

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Psalm 14513b-21 (p. 190)

• The LORD is faithful to his promises
• To all that he has made his love is shown.
• 14 The LORD himself upholds all those who fall
• And lifts up everyone who is bowed down.

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Psalm 14513b-21 (2/5)

• 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 14513b-21 (3/5)

• 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 14513b-21 (4/5)

• 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 14513b-21 (5/5)

• 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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SERMONINVESTING WELL IN 2009 Matthew 619
(p. 971)
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on
earth but treasures in heaven
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1 - EARTHLY TREASURES GET DESTROYED. (19)

• Rust will eat away this church, and
  everything we will ever possess.
• Thanks to greed and advertising, that we have
  gone from Caveman and cavewoman to crave-man and
  crave-woman.
• Wealth is not wrong, but possessing it is not the
  key to our future. Stott

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John Stott

• Jesus does not prohibit being provident
  (making sensible provision for the future) but
  being covetous (like misers who hoard and
  materialists who always want more).

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2 - HEAVENLY TREASURES ARE INDESTRUCTIBLE. (20)

• Heavenly treasures when we put Christ before
  money and possessions
• 1 Tim. 618-19 Command those who are rich
  most of us!!! to do good, to be rich in good
  deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.
  In this way they will lay up treasure for
  themselves as a firm foundation for the coming
  age, so that they may take hold of the life that
  is truly life.
• Like Sir John Laings treasures

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3 INVEST IN ETERNITY. (21)

• What owns our future? What fills our eyes, and
  possesses our heart?
• Calvin explains "If honour is rated the highest
  good, then ambition must take complete charge of
  a man if money, then forthwith greed takes over
  the kingdom if pleasure, then men will certainly
  degenerate into sheer self-indulgence."

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3 INVEST IN ETERNITY. (21)

• Invest in the poor. (1 John 317)
• Invest in the family in need. (1 Tim 58)
• Give where there is need, and to where you are
  well placed to help.
• Think your giving through in the presence of God,
  and in the light of Christ's giving for us. (2
  Cor. 89).
• True Security is found in Jesus Christ and
  nowhere else.

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Psalm 11933-40 (p. 402)

• 33 Teach me, O LORD, the perfect way
• of thy precepts divine,
• And to observe it to the end
• I shall my heart incline.

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Psalm 11933-40 (2/6)

• 34 Give understanding unto me,
• so keep thy law shall I
• Yea, evn with my whole heart I shall
• observe it carefully.

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Psalm 11933-40 (3/6)

• 35 In thy laws path make me to go
• for I delight therein.
• 36 My heart unto thy testmonies,
• and not to greed, incline.

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Psalm 11933-40 (4/6)

• 37 Turn thou away my sight and eyes
• from viewing vanity
• And in thy good and holy way
• be pleased to quicken me.

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Psalm 11933-40 (5/6)

• 38 Confirm to me thy gracious word,
• which I did gladly hear,
• Evn to thy servant, Lord, who is
• devoted to thy fear.

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Psalm 11933-40 (6/6)

• 39 Turn thou away my feared reproach
• for good thy judgments be.
• 40 Lo, for thy precepts I have longed
• in thy truth quicken me.

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Please join us in the entrance hall
for for tea and coffee
God Calls Us to delight in Christ and to Share
His Hope.