Covenant Protestant Reformed Church
83 Clarence Street, Ballymena BT43 5DR
Rev. Angus Stewart
Lord’s Day, 21 March, 2021
“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness:
fear before him, all the earth” (Ps. 96:9)
Morning Service – 11:00 AM
The Temple of the Holy Ghost and the Seventh Commandment [youtube]
Scripture Reading: I Corinthians 6:9-7:16
Text: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 41
I. Ownership and Worship
II. Purity and Permanency
III. Glory and Guards
Psalms: 114:1-8; 106:23-31
Evening Service – 6:00 PM
Preparatory
The Broken Heart [youtube]
Scripture Reading: Psalm 34
Text: Psalm 34:18
I. The Meaning of It
II. The Causes of It
III. The Promises Regarding It
Psalms: 51:14-19; 145:15-21
For CDs of the sermons and DVDs of the worship services, contact Stephen Murray
If you desire a pastoral visit, please contact Rev. Stewart or the elders
CPRC Website: www.cprc.co.uk • Live Webcast: www.cprc.co.uk/live-streaming
CPRC YouTube: www.youtube.com/cprcni
CPRC Facebook: www.facebook.com/CovenantPRC
Quote to Consider
Rev. Nathan Langerak on I Corinthians 6:19: “Only fornication defiles the temple, so that the fornicator is as a man who walks into Solomon’s temple with an ax, overthrows the laver, hacks at the altar, overturns the table of showbread, kicks over the golden candlestick, slashes the curtain, lights a fire with the wood of the ark, and sacrifices a pig in the holy of holies. That is what a fornicator does with his body. What does the Spirit think of such a sacrilegious desecrator of his temple? Flee fornication! Furthermore, the believer is not his own, not in body or soul. How the world tries to impress the opposite on the believer! … The believer confesses, ‘I am not my own. I was bought with a good price.’ That phrase makes one think of Hosea, who had to buy back his wife, the whore, with a good price (Hos. 3:2-3), or of Ezekiel’s touching description of God, finding the blood-soaked, abandoned little baby girl in the field and having compassion on her and adorning her with his beauty (Ezek. 16). God bought his church with a good price to make her the wife of his Son, washing her from her sins, forgiving those sins and cleansing her from them, beautifying her with salvation, and even taking up his abode with her by his Spirit. We are not our own; we belong to him as our husband, our lord, and our bodies belong to him. He may use our bodies as he pleases, and we must use them as he pleases, ‘for ye are bought with a price’ (I Cor. 6:20). That is God’s word to the believer who falls into fornication. ‘Ye are bought with a price.’ Flee fornication to his cross and find forgiveness for the sin of defiling your body, release from the shame of that, and cleansing from the pollution and dominion of that sin” (Walking in the Way of Love, vol. 1, pp. 293-294).
Announcements (subject to God’s will)
A new Protestant Reformed Theological Journal is on the back table.
This evening will be preparatory, with a view to partaking of the Lord’s Supper next Sunday, 28 March.
Tuesday Bible study at 11 AM will meet in the auditorium to discuss the crucial role of the Holy Spirit in assurance.
Belgic Confession Class will meet and be streamed live this Wednesday at 7:45 PM to consider the “last days” in Jeremiah in connection with Article 37.
Saturday night Bible study will meet on-line this week at 8 PM to discuss Hebrews 7:4-19.
The Reformed Witness Hour broadcast next Lord’s day (Gospel 846 MW at 8:30 AM) by Rev. R. Kleyn is entitled, “Therefore Came I Forth” (Mark 1:35-39).
Offerings: General Fund: £879. Donations: £40 (Co. Armagh), £20.
Translation Additions: 3 Macedonian (Three Forms of Unity) and 1 Polish.
PRC News: Hudsonville PRC’s new trio is Revs. Griess (First, MI), Guichelaar (Randolph, WI) and R. Kleyn (Spokane, WA).
