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February 24, 2019 Review

In our Sunday School Hour, we reviewed our memory verse of the week: First Kings 8:23. Solomon reminds us, in his prayer at the dedication of the newly-built temple in Jerusalem that there is no God like the Most Holy God of Israel. No “so-called god” in the heavenly realms can match God’s wisdom, majesty, […]

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Scripture Reflection

2 Corinthians 5:6-8

So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

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Weekly Catechism Questions:

From Spurgeon’s catechism:

Q35. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at their death?

Ans. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness,1 and do immediately pass into glory,2 and their bodies, being still united to Christ,3 do rest in their graves4 till the resurrection.5

1. Hebrews 12:23
2. Philippians 1:23; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Luke 23:43
3. 1 Thessalonians 4:14
4. Isaiah 57:2
5. Job 19:26

Lord’s Day Reflection

“There be two signal and remarkable acts of faith, both exceedingly difficult, viz. its first act, and its last. The first is a great venture that it makes of itself upon Christ; and the last is a great venture too, to cast itself into the ocean of eternity upon the credit of a promise.”

–John Flavel

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