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If we don’t feel thirsty, we won’t want a drink of water. If we are not hungry, then we won’t want a bite to eat. If we are not sleepy, then we won’t feel the need to nap. If we don’t have a medical problem, then we won’t want to buy a medicinal salve. Unless we feel the need for something, we will not act freely to obtain it. And unless we feel the sting of sin, we will not desire to be saved. Before a person will be ready to obey the gospel, he must feel that he is either guilty of sin and needs forgiveness or is afraid of the consequences of his sins.
Before we can feel that we are guilty of sin, however, we must believe that we are accountable to some higher law. Sin is the transgression of the law of God (I John 3:4). If a person does not believe in God or does not fear God, then that person is not likely to seek God. When Abraham came into Gerar, he was not honest with king Abimelech because he thought “Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake” (Gen. 20:11; cf. Rom. 3:18). Abraham understood that if one did not fear God, almost anything could happen. . . .
The Mt. Vernon Church of Christ is building a digital library to aid serious Bible students in their study. When possible, we will be adding new volumes. We are grateful to the many sources from which we draw these volumes for making these available. We take no credit for them ourselves. We do not necesarrily endorse everything in every volume. We simply provide them as aids to Bible study. This week:
It can be stated without fear of successful contradiction that there is no command, approved example, or necessary inference in the New Testament (which is the way to establish Truth), for churches of Christ ever, with authority, to use instrumental music in worship. We are not desiring just to be different, nor are we financially unable to have mechanical instruments, nor is our reason for not using this in worship simply that we do not like musical instruments. The basic scriptural reason for not placing an instrument in the Lord’s church is simply that we have no authority from Heaven. In the eight scriptures which mention the kind of music to be used in New Testament worship there is no mention of any kind of music except singing . . . .
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
–Chinese Proverb
IT SHOWS IN YOUR FACE
You don’t have to tell how you live each day;
You don’t have to say if you work or you play;
A tried, true barometer serves in the place–
However you live, it will show in your face.
The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart,
Will not stay inside where it first got a start;
For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace–
What you wear in your heart, you wear in your face.
If your life is selfless, if for others you live,
For not what you get, but how much you can give;
If you live close to God in his infinite grace–
You don’t have to tell it, it shows in your face.
-Lottie Pratt Brown
Bible Question of the Week
(All questions come from the Scripture readings.) Who will not bear the iniquity of the father?
LAST WEEK'S QUESTION AND ANSWER Where are all spiritual blessings found?
ANSWER: Ephesians 1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
WEEKLY BIBLE READING SCHEDULE
(Theme: Salvation) Monday, April 8 - Is. 59:1,2; Rom. 3:23; Eccl. 7:20; Rom. 11:32; Ezek. 18:20 Tuesday, April 9 - Ps. 3:8; 37:39; Jer. 3:23; II Tim. 1:9; I Thess. 5:9; Acts 4:12; Heb. 5:9 Wednesday, April 10 - Matt. 1:21; I John 3:5; Col. 2:15; Heb. 2:14,15; Rom. 5:9; I Thess. 1:10; Gal. 1:4; John 3:16,17 Thursday, April 11 - I Pet. 1:10; Rom. 1:16; I Cor. 1:18, 21; II Tim. 3:15; James 1:21 Friday, April 12 - Rom. 10:10; Acts 17:30,31; Mark 16:15,16; Acts 2:38; Rom. 6:4; Acts 22:16; I Pet. 3:21
Weekly Memory Verses
Hebrews 5:9 - And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him
