Vimy Ridge Missionary Baptist Church

Who we are by faith...

What our faith makes us to be...

Has always been incompatible with this world...

Today is not an exception.

John 26:18-19

Ephesians 5:1-2,7

John 3:18-19

There are many things around us that feed the urge to quit the Lord's work. We have to fight against our sinful nature, people around us, and just the simple fact that the road is difficult.

Galatians 6:7-10

7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. 9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Romans 7:18-25

18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.

19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.

20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.

22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.

23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Horatio G. Spafford penned these words after suffering a great tragedy losing his whole family...

"When peace like a river attenders my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll; What ever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul."

Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 4:6-8 that he had finished his race and kept the faith. Paul was confident in saying "there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing."

Is it well with your soul? Have your sins been forgiven? Anything that your past may hold can be wiped clean by the blood of Jesus if you will only believe and call upon His name.

Is it well with your soul? Have you lived a life faithful to God that you might be able to identify with Paul's remarks in 2 Timothy 4:8?

Is it well with YOUR soul?

"Only one life...

Twill soon be past...

Only what is done for Christ will last."

How To Live A Great Life

Patient Endurance

- continually getting up and do what is good, noble, and right.

Purity

- our manner and motive is pure.

Please God

- with every word and deed, seek to please God rather than men.

Love

- love others gently and sacrificially.

Labor

- labor for a Godly cause.

Build

- build up others.

Our gift list to our: Savior, Church, Family, Friends.

Will we waste this day or will we LIVE this day? We have to make a choice. Will we choose to place our faith in the Loving, One True, Living, All-Powerful God. Or, Will we choose to run and hide out of fear.

We would remain forever condemned.

Condemned: The trial has already taken place, the facts have already been proven.

Condemned: The verdict has already been decided.

Condemned: Found guilty and in the process of being punished, executed.

John 20:31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

1 Peter 1:18-21

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

Luke 4:18-20

Today is often lost in the distraction of material things.

Today is undervalued.

Today is underutilized.

Today is one step away from our required appointment.