Hello and Welcome! Glad you can log on to get up to date on the happenings at Harding Street. God continues to blessed us on the Lord’s Day with a time to be together. We continue to provide our services online for those who may be sick, shut-in, or vulnerable to the virus. Even though those of you who watch and participate the best you can online, there is absolutely no comparison to being together in person. Please, as soon as possible get up, get ready, and get on out to worship. Our time together is precious. When we come together for worship, Bible study, and fellowship we strengthen our faith. Faith come by…Well you know the rest of this verse – Romans 10:17. We also have an opportunity for positive change, a change in our thinking that leads to a change in our life.
This Sunday during our sermon time we will once again ask “Just what is the Bible to you?” What does the Bible contain? Well, the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the end of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Though we can know there is a God, the Creator of all that is, we cannot know God’s will for us outside the Scriptures, the one and only Bible. The Bible reveals God’s will, His plans, what He wants, His directions, His ways, His word, and His commands and conditions.
On Sunday evening at 5:00 we will join Jesus on the mountain as He sat and taught all who would listen as He teaches us the blessings that come to those who mourn. There is much happiness in life. There is also much sorrow. We realize that both happiness and sorrow exist at the same time.
As we read and study the Bible, we should ask ourselves several questions that will help us understand what God wants us to know: #1 – Who is speaking? #2 – Who is the speaker speaking to? #3 – When was it spoken? Now #4 – What is the context?
No person wants their words to be taken out of context, yet many ignore the context of words and sentences in the Bible. To correctly understand, we must learn what the paragraph or context is. The story is told of someone who believed it was a sin to eat watermelons. He said it was a sin because the Bible said, “Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate” (Mark 10:9). If we know the context of Mark 10, then this is a funny story, for Jesus was talking about marriage, not about watermelons.
Too many of us make up our minds to believe a certain way on a certain subject and then look to the Bible to back up what we already think. Rather we should wait on our decision until we see what the Bible says then say, “Whatever the Bible says, I will believe, do, and teach.
May God bless us all with strength, wisdom, and patience today and always.
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