“Being fashionable will help no one on the Day of Judgement” : Pastor Peter Simpson proclaiming Biblical truth to Pride parade supporters in central London, July 2025.

The true, born again Christian is sealed, marked out and authenticated by the Holy Spirit coming to dwell within him. This indwelling is God's confirmation that there is a true possession of the heavenly inheritance. The Holy Spirit is also given that the believer might glorify God right now by his holiness of life, as he puts to death the works of the flesh and bears the fruits of the Spirit in great abundance. May the Lord help each one of us to do just that.

No one is automatically a child of God. No one naturally possesses any inheritance rights. men must be first be adopted into God the Father’s family by repentance from sin faith in Christ. Only those who do this receive the Holy Spirit and become the true children of God.

So how do undeserving sinners inherit God’s kingdom and become His children? They must turn from sin and trust in Cchrist, doing so urgently before it is too late.

COMING TO CHRIST AND SERVING HIM - THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN EXISTENCE (Genesis 1, v20-27) by Penn Free Methodist Church, nr High Wycombe

John is strongly reminding us that, as believers in Christ, we belong to an utterly different realm to the majority of men : we are children of God, not children of the Devil. The unbelievers around us have a completely different allegiance. The Christian’s holiness of life is a testimony against the unbeliever. We must not marvel, therefore, if men hate us; let us remember how Cain hated Abel.

But how should we respond to this hostility? We dare not respond with more hatred, for that is the spirit of murder, but we must love our brethren, our neighbours, and even our sworn enemies longing that they might come to know salvation. We must do what our Lord did : endure the hatred, whilst preaching the Gospel.

Our Lord gave up His life for His enemies, and we are called to follow His example in enduring their hostility, in loving even our persecutors, and weeping over them, that they might hear the gospel and be saved. We must assault Satan’s strongholds with the gospel. We must never adopt the attitude, I am saved; let the world get on with it, and go to hell. That was not the attitude of our Lord, who looked upon the multitudes with deep compassion, as sheep without a shepherd, for our Lord is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9), and we must follow His example, whatever the cost.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the embodiment of all wisdom, and all mist submit to Him. They must do so with the docility of children.

Those who exalt and embrace the wisdom of Christ as revealed in God’s word, the Bible, all such God will honour.

They will still suffer in this world, but they are under God’s special care, which in itself is a special honour, and they will ultimately receive the eternal honour of God in heavenly glory.

Every single human being on this earth is responsible to seek God and come to Jesus Christ, because God does not force Himself on any man. All are earnestly encouraged and exhorted to use their grace-enabled wills to come to their Maker and their Redeemer, to Christ the only Saviour, and all may take heart from this glorious promise,

“Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).

Britain was delivered from a powerful enemy in 1945. Ultimate victory was achieved. In 1940 the nation being invaded and overrun was a distinct possibility and the most likely outcome, but a humbled people prayed. In fact, during WW2 there were 12 national days of prayer. We can only understand our nation's deliverance in the context of the precious word of God, the Bible, and its teachings on the providence of God.

Queen Athaliah of Israel had wielded much power in the land, but she was a wicked ruler, going after false gods. In the end, her sin catches up with her.

Those in high places today must realise that they are answerable to the Trinitarian God, not merely the electorate. Queen Athaliah teaches us today that leaders and governments defy the laws of God at their peril. If they ignore the Bible, thinking that contemporary modes of thinking justify them in doing so, then the warning of God must resound in their ears, as we read in Numbers 22:23 : “Be sure your sin will find you out”.

When the Israelites in the time of Joshua see the inhabitants of Canaan as being stronger than they (physically of great stature and very well defended), they tremble and lose heart. They take their eyes off God, and look only at the dangers. They do not wish to press ahead so as to enter into the Promised Land, so fearful are they of the opposition.

Joshua and Caleb, however, tell them to be strong and of a good courage, for the Lord is with them. The Bible-believing Christian today must face much fierce opposition from a generally anti-Christian society, steeped in Bible-rejecting wokery. There is accordingly great pressure to shrink back and refuse to make a stand for Biblical truth, but the true Christian cannot avoid the battle. As we read in 2 Timothy 2:3, each believer must "endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (2 Timothy 2:3).