Welcome to Dingwall & Strathpeffer Free Church Sunday January 11 th 2009 God Calls Us to Delight in Christ and to Share His Hope.

Welcome to Dingwall & Strathpeffer Free

Church

Sunday January 11th 2009

God Calls Us to Delight in Christ and to Share His

Hope.

Psalm 98:1-6* (p. 129)

1 O sing a new song to the LORD,

for wonders he has done;His right hand and his holy

armthe victory have won.

Psalm 98:1-6* (2/6)

2 The LORD declared his saving work

and made it to be known;To all the nations of the

worldhis righteousness is shown.

Psalm 98:1-6* (3/6)

3 His steadfast love and faithfulness

he has remembered well—The covenant he made with

them,the house of Israèl.

Psalm 98:1-6* (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.

Psalm 98:1-6* (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.

Psalm 98:1-6* (6/6)

5 With harp make music to the LORD;

with harp his praises sing.6 With trumpet and with

horn rejoicebefore the LORD, the King.

PrayerPrayer

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SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58

Hebrews 4:14-16Where 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.

SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58

Hebrews 4:14-16 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.

SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58

Hebrews 4:14-16 3/6

Though now ascended up on high,

He sees us with a brother’s eye;

He shares with us the human name,

He knows the frailty of our frame.

SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58

Hebrews 4:14-16 4/6

Our fellow-sufferer yet retainsA fellow-feeling for our pains:

And still remembers in the skies

His tears, His agonies, and cries.

SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58

Hebrews 4:14-16 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.

SCRIPTURE PARAPHRASE 58

Hebrews 4:14-16 6/6

With boldness, therefore, at his throne,

Let us make all our sorrows known,Find grace to help in time of need:Jesus, God’s 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)

Scripture Reading

Matthew 6:19-34

(p. 971)

Matthew 6:19-34 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.

Matthew 6:19-34•     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.

Matthew 6:19-34 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?

Matthew 6:19-34•     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?'

Matthew 6:19-34•     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.

Psalm 145:13b-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.

Psalm 145:13b-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.

Psalm 145:13b-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.

Psalm 145:13b-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.

Psalm 145:13b-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.

SERMON:

INVESTING WELL IN

2009

Matthew 6:19

(p. 971)

Do not store up for yourselves treasures

on earth… but treasures in

heaven…

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:…

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).”

2 - HEAVENLY TREASURES ARE INDESTRUCTIBLE. (20)

• Heavenly treasures: when we put Christ before money and possessions…

• 1 Tim. 6:18-19: 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 Laing’s treasures…

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."

3 – INVEST IN ETERNITY. (21)

• Invest in the poor. (1 John 3:17)• Invest in the family in need. (1 Tim

5:8)• 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. 8:9).

• True Security is found in Jesus Christ: and nowhere else.

Psalm 119:33-40 (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.

Psalm 119:33-40 (2/6)

34 Give understanding unto me,

so keep thy law shall I;Yea, ev’n with my whole

heart I shallobserve it carefully.

Psalm 119:33-40 (3/6)

35 In thy law’s path make me to go;

for I delight therein.36 My heart unto thy

test’monies,and not to greed, incline.

Psalm 119:33-40 (4/6)

37 Turn thou away my sight and eyes

from viewing vanity;And in thy good and holy

waybe pleased to quicken me.

Psalm 119:33-40 (5/6)

38 Confirm to me thy gracious word,

which I did gladly hear,Ev’n to thy servant, Lord,

who is devoted to thy fear.

Psalm 119:33-40 (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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entrance hall for entrance hall for for tea and coffeefor tea and coffee

God Calls Us to delight in Christ and to Share His

Hope.