Bracadale and Duirinish Free Church of Scotland (Continuing)
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father. Matthew 13:43
A plea for faithfulness
Posted by on December 22, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie, in Struan on Sabbath Evening, 18th December, 2011.
The text is Hebrews 3:7-19: “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”
“Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation”
We are debtors
Posted by on December 14, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie at the Wednesday Evening prayer meeting in Carbost on 14th December, 2011.
The text is Romans 3:12:: “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.”
“…we are debtors”
Security enjoyed but Perseverance required
Posted by on December 14, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie, in Struan on Sabbath Evening, 11th December, 2011.
The text is Hebrews 3:2-6: “Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
“he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.”
A Question of Priorities.
Posted by on December 14, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie, in Struan on Sabbath Morning, 11th December, 2011.
The text is Haggai 1:1-11: “In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.”
“Consider your ways.”
Consider Christ Jesus
Posted by on December 5, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie, in Struan on Sabbath Evening, 4th December, 2011.
The text is Hebrews 3:1: “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.”
“consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus”
Rebuilding foundations
Posted by on December 5, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie, in Struan on Sabbath Morning, 4th December, 2011.
The text is Ezra 3:10-13: “And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel. And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy: So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.”
“The foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.”
The flesh and the Spirit at odds
Posted by on December 2, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie at the Wednesday Evening prayer meeting in Carbost on 30th November, 2011.
The text is Romans 8:5-11: “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.”
“But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit”
What Christ has done
Posted by on December 2, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie, Sabbath Evening in Carbost on 27th November, 2011.
The text is Hebrews 2:14-18: “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”
“…a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God”
A determination to follow the Lord
Posted by on November 27, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie, Sabbath Morning in Struan on 27th November, 2011.
The text is 2 Chronicles 34:1-2/33: “Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. …(33) And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.”
“And all his days they departed not from following the LORD”
The earth is the LORD’s
Posted by on November 26, 2011
The following sermon was preached by Rev. John Keddie at the Wednesday Evening meeting (Harvest Thanksgiving), 23rd November, 2011.
The text is Psalm 24:1-2: “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.”
“The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof”
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