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Solomon personifies Wisdom and in so doing prefigures Christ. As vs. 35 says, "Whoever finds me finds life, and obtains favor from the Lord." To find life, find Christ.
The lesson defines discipleship as the lifelong pursuit of holiness and a mature trust in God, emphasizing that it involves both private disciplines and corporate edification. It identifies prayer as a vital two-way conversation with God rather than a mechanistic ritual, highlighting Jesus Christ as the sole mediator. The teaching then introduces fasting as a spiritual discipline used to refine focus, express repentance, and seek divine direction for pressing needs. Specifically, the congregation is called to observe a day of prayer and fasting to intercede for faithful church leadership in light of recent moral failures within the broader association of denominations. This collective act aims to humble believers before God and request grace for purity and strength among those who shepherd the flock.
Sexual temptation looks exciting and satisfying, but in the end, it will ruin you.
Christ is your life!
Wisdom calls you to put off rash obligations and put on generosity. Put off laziness and put on diligence. Put off discord and put on unity.
Put off the old self--the self that continually sins, lives in sin, and takes pleasure in sin. Put on the new self--the self being renewed according to the image of God, in truth, righteousness, and holiness.
Avoid sexual sin! It looks exciting and satisfying, but in the end it will ruin you.
Follow the path of wisdom and avoid the path of the wicked.
Since you have been raised with Christ, seek and set your minds on the things above, where Christ is.
Train your heart to deepen and develop wisdom.
Listen to wisdom and pursue it.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Therefore, get wisdom.
Let us respond to Jesus' Great Commission to make disciples of all the nations by going, baptizing, and teaching.
Since Christ has laid hold of you for a purpose, therefore, press on to lay hold of the prize.
Psalter selection 87B. Rev. Parnell, in Psalm 87, explains that the psalm reveals God's purpose to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth, beginning with His covenant love for the Jewish people, symbolized by His love for Jerusalem and His presence in the temple. God loves Zion because it is the city of His people, where He met with them and provided grace through the temple sacrifices, to which the people responded in worship ("all my springs are in you"). The middle verses were show that God's love also extends to non-Jewish peoples—including Israel's enemies such as Egypt (Rahab), Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia—who are counted as "born" in Jerusalem among God's people. Rev. Parnell connects the census imagery to God recording and saving individuals by name, and points forward to Jesus Christ as the one who, through his sacrifice, brings people into the people of God. The meditation closes by referencing the Lamb's Book of Life as a final census still open to those who trust in Christ.
Because you are a new creation in Christ, put off the old and put on the new.
Since you are united to Christ in your salvation, put to death your old, sinful way of life.
Jesus is the author and finisher of your faith, therefore run the race of the Christian life with your ees fixed on Him.
God shows you mercy in Christ, who died for your sins, and was raised for your justification. Ask God for mercy and rest in Jesus.
The Lord Jesus Christ has entrusted the gospel to you. Guard it and proclaim it.
The Lord Jesus Christ has entrusted the gospel to you. Guard it and proclaim it.
Raise your children up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
Raise your children up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
You cannot serve both God and money
You cannot serve both God and money.
A guest preacher for SRPC, or Rev. R. Bruce Parnell in a sermon apart from his main series, preaches from the Word of God. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical teaching.
SRPC enjoys a meditation on a psalm, to be sung all month as our Psalm of the Month. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical worship.
If God be for us, who can be against us? Encourage yourself in the Lord with His character and worship, and then you'll have not only the weapons to fight the good fight but the courage to use them.
Psalter selection: 84B. This meditation presents Psalm 84 as a pilgrimage psalm, expressing the soul's longing for the courts of the Lord and the presence of God made possible through Christ the Anointed One. The psalm describes the Christian life as a journey through valleys of tears toward the goal of appearing before God's face, strengthened by Jesus our great High Priest.
If God be for us, who can be against us? Encourage yourself in the Lord with His character and worship, and then you'll have not only the weapons to fight the good fight but the courage to use them.
Be strengthened to persevere in faith by the promise of Jesus' Second Coming.
Be strengthened to persevere in faith by the promise of Jesus' Second Coming.
Because Jesus is our great High Priest, let us persevere in faith, confessing the good confession.
Because Jesus is our great High Priest, let us persevere in faith, confessing the good confession.
In baptism, we focus on and celebrate not what we have done to deserve Christ, but on what God has done. He saves the helpless sinners like you and me.
In baptism, we focus on and celebrate not what we have done to deserve Christ, but what God has done. He saves the helpless sinners like you and me.
SRPC enjoys a meditation on a psalm, to be sung all month as our Psalm of the Month. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical worship.
A guest preacher for SRPC, or Rev. R. Bruce Parnell in a sermon apart from his main series, preaches from the Word of God. A ministry of the Stillwater Reformed Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, Oklahoma, glorifying Jesus Christ through biblical teaching.
Psalter selection: 83. This meditation addresses the confederacy of ten enemy nations aligned to destroy Israel, teaching believers to pray urgently against God's enemies for their defeat or conversion. The psalm prefigures Christ, who was surrounded by enemies plotting His destruction, yet through the cross defeated Satan, death, and the kingdom of darkness.
Fight the good fight of the faith.
Fight the good fight of the faith.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Remember God's wonderful works as a foundation of assurance of your salvation now and for eternity.
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