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The Need to Surrender Our Heart to God
Matthew 19:16-22And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day March 6, 2022
Verse
Matthew 19:16-22
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The Righteous Branch and Prosperous King
Jeremiah 23:5-6Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day February 27, 2022
Verse
Jeremiah 23:5-6
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The False Prophets and the Faithful Prophets
Jeremiah 23:28-32The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day February 27, 2022
Verse
Jeremiah 23:28-32
Audio file
The Lord Our Righteousness
Jeremiah 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day February 27, 2022
Verse
Jeremiah 23:6
Audio file
Joy, Liberty and Peace
Isaiah 9:3-5Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Wednesday February 23, 2022
Verse
Isaiah 9:3-5
Audio file
Tags
Isaiah
Restoration
Jeremiah 31:8-9Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Minister
Rev. C. Hembd
Date preached
Saturday February 19, 2022
Verse
Jeremiah 31:8-9
Audio file
Tags
Restoration
Wilt Thou Be Made Whole?
John 5:5-9And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day February 13, 2022
Verse
John 5:5-9
Audio file
Restoration
Jeremiah 31:8-9Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Minister
Rev. C. Hembd
Date preached
Lord's Day February 13, 2022
Verse
Jeremiah 31:8-9
Audio file
Tags
Restoration
Dead to the law, married to Christ and bearing fruit
Romans 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day February 13, 2022
Verse
Romans 7:4
Audio file
Darkness and Light
Isaiah 8:23-9:2
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Wednesday February 9, 2022
Verse
Isaiah 8:23-9:2
Audio file
Tags
Isaiah
The Destruction of the Wicked
Psalm 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day February 6, 2022
Verse
Psalm 73:18
Audio file
Deliverance from Temptation by a View in the Sanctuary
Psalm 73:1-17(A Psalm of Asaph.) Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day February 6, 2022
Verse
Psalm 73:1-17
Audio file
The Believer's Portion
Psalm 73:23-28Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day February 6, 2022
Verse
Psalm 73:23-28
Audio file
To the Law and to the Testimony
Isaiah 8:19-20And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Wednesday February 2, 2022
Verse
Isaiah 8:19-20
Audio file
Tags
Isaiah 8
Put among the Children
Jeremiah 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Minister
Rev. J.D. Smith
Date preached
Lord's Day January 30, 2022
Verse
Jeremiah 3:19
Audio file

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