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True Reform
Scripture:
Jeremiah:26:1-24 [1] In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
[2] Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth faith may enter in.
[3] Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee]; because he trusteth in thee.
[4] Trust ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is an everlasting rock.
[5] For he hath brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
[6] The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
[7] The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.
[8] Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.
[9] With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
[10] Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.
[11] Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see [thy] zeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.
[12] Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou hast also wrought all our works for us.
[13] O Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
[14] [They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
[15] Thou hast increased the nation, O Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation; thou art glorified; thou hast enlarged all the borders of the land.
[16] Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.
[17] Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.
[18] We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
[19] Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
[20] Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
[21] For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
Date:
Sunday, 29 August 2010 -:7:20pm
Speaker:
David Hanson
The Greatest Parabola
Scripture:
Philippians:2:5-11 [5] He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
[6] The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
[7] And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.
[8] But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry]; but none looketh back.
[9] Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
[10] She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
[11] Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion [and] the lioness walked, the lion`s whelp, and none made them afraid?
Date:
Sunday, 29 August 2010 -:12:15pm
Speaker:
David Hanson
Joyfully Inconvenienced
Scripture:
Philippians:2:1-4 [1] He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
[2] For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.
[3] The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress [spears] are brandished.
[4] The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.
Date:
Sunday, 22 August 2010 -:7:20pm
Speaker:
David Hanson
Escalating Anger
Scripture:
Jeremiah:25:1-38 [1] O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
[2] For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
[3] Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee.
[4] For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
[5] As the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
[6] And in this mountain will Jehovah of hosts make unto all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
[7] And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
[8] He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
[9] And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
[10] For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.
[11] And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth [his hands] to swim; but [Jehovah] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.
[12] And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Date:
Sunday, 22 August 2010 -:7:20pm
Speaker:
David Hanson
Worthy Conduct
Scripture:
Philippians:1:27-30
Date:
Sunday, 15 August 2010 -:7:20pm
Speaker:
David Hanson
Relation, Relation, Relation
Scripture:
Jeremiah:24:1-10 [1] Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
[2] And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
[3] The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
[4] The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.
[5] The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
[6] Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
[7] The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
[8] The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
[9] They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
[10] The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
Date:
Sunday, 15 August 2010 -:7:15pm
Speaker:
David Hanson
Don't base your hope on circumstantial evidence, but
on your relationship to God.
1.
Living A New Life
Scripture:
Romans:6:1-14 [1] Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
[2] And the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not fit that we should forsake the word of God, and serve tables.
[3] Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
[4] But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.
[5] And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch;
[6] whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
[7] And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
[8] And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people.
[9] But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue called [the synagogue] of the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
[10] And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake.
[11] Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and [against] God.
[12] And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council,
[13] and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law:
[14] for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered unto us.
Date:
Sunday, 8 August 2010 -:7:05pm
Speaker:
David Hanson
The Fruits of Justification
Scripture:
Romans:5:1-11 [1] But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
[2] and kept back [part] of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles` feet.
[3] But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back [part] of the price of the land?
[4] While it remained, did it not remain thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thy power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thy heart? thou has not lied unto men, but unto God.
[5] And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard it.
[6] And the young men arose and wrapped him round, and they carried him out and buried him.
[7] And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
[8] And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yea, for so much.
[9] But Peter [said] unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.
[10] And she fell down immediately at his feet, and gave up the ghost: and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
[11] And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all that heard these things.
Date:
Sunday, 8 August 2010 -:7:00pm
Speaker:
David Hanson
Our True Prophet
Scripture:
Jeremiah:23:9-40 [9] Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
[10] Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.
[11] He hath stretched out his hand over the sea, he hath shaken the kingdoms: Jehovah hath given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.
[12] And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.
[13] Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces thereof; they made it a ruin.
[14] Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
[15] And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot.
[16] Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
[17] And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
[18] And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Jehovah: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
Date:
Sunday, 1 August 2010 -:7:15pm
Speaker:
David Hanson