Welcome to Dingwall

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Welcome to Dingwall Strathpeffer
Free Church

• God Calls Us to Delight in Christ and to Share
  His Hope.

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Psalm 1261-6 (p. 171)
1 When Zions fortunes God restored, it was a
dream come true. 2 Our mouths were then with
laughter filled, our tongues with songs anew.
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Psalm 1261-6 (2/4)
The nations said, The LORD has done great
things for Israel. 3 The LORD did mighty things
for us, and joy our hearts knew well.
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Psalm 1261-6 (3/4)
4 Restore our fortunes, gracious LORD, like
streams in desert soil. 5 A joyful harvest will
reward the weeping sowers toil.
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Psalm 1261-6 (4/4)
6 The man who, bearing seed to sow, goes out
with tears of grief, Will come again with songs
of joy, bearing his harvest sheaf.
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Prayer Scripture Reading
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Gods Heart for the ExilesScripture Reading
Ezekiel 161-14(p. 841)
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Ezekiel 161-14

• An Allegory of Unfaithful Jerusalem
•  1 The word of the LORD came to me     2 Son of
  man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable
  practices
•     3 and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD
  says to Jerusalem Your ancestry and birth were
  in the land of the Canaanites your father was an
  Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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Ezekiel 161-14

•     4 On the day you were born your cord was not
  cut, nor were you washed with water to make you
  clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped
  in cloths.
•     5 No-one looked on you with pity or had
  compassion enough to do any of these things for
  you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open
  field, for on the day you were born you were
  despised.

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Ezekiel 161-14

•     6 'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about
  in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood
  I said to you, Live!
•     7 I made you grow like a plant of the field.
  You grew up and developed and became the most
  beautiful of jewels. Your breasts were formed and
  your hair grew, you who were naked and bare.

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Ezekiel 161-14

•     8 'Later I passed by, and when I looked at
  you and saw that you were old enough for love, I
  spread the corner of my garment over you and
  covered your nakedness. I gave you my solemn oath
  and entered into a covenant with you, declares
  the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine.
•     9 'I bathed you with water and washed the
  blood from you and put ointments on you.

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Ezekiel 161-14

•     10 I clothed you with an embroidered dress
  and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you in
  fine linen and covered you with costly garments.
•     11 I adorned you with jewellery I put
  bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your
  neck,

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Ezekiel 161-14

•     12 and I put a ring on your nose, ear-rings
  on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
•     13 So you were adorned with gold and silver
  your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric
  and embroidered cloth. Your food was fine flour,
  honey and olive oil. You became very beautiful
  and rose to be a queen.

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Ezekiel 161-14

•     14 And your fame spread among the nations on
  account of your beauty, because the splendour I
  had given you made your beauty perfect, declares
  the Sovereign LORD.

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Psalm 331-6 (p. 245)
1 Ye righteous, in the LORD rejoice it comely
is and right, That upright men, with thankful
voice, should praise the Lord of might.

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Psalm 331-6 (2/4)
3 A new song to him sing, and play with loud
noise skilfully 4 For right is GODs word, all
his works are done in verity.

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Psalm 331-6 (3/4)
5 To judgment and to righteousness a love he
beareth still The loving-kindness of the
LORD the earth throughout doth fill.

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Psalm 331-6 (4/4)
6 The heavens by the word of GOD did their
beginning take And by the breathing of his
mouth he all their hosts did make.

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SermonEzekiel 14 - 17 GODS HEART FOR THE
EXILES
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1 Gods Heart is in His Message to Israel

• Ezekiel 14-17 a challenge to stop grieving
  Gods heart.
• 14 Gods truth is not pick-and-mix, with
  disposable parts.
• The Lord will speak directly to YOUR heart from
  his and will change your heart.

Babylon as it would have appeared
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2 Gods Heart is displayed in three allegories

• Ezekiel 15 A fruitless vine.
• Ezekiel 16 An abandoned baby, who becomes first
  a princess, and then a prostitute.
• God is devastated but has a plan for Israel and
  her sisters (1663).
• Ezekiel 17 The eagle Babylon.

Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in
your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I
said to you, Live!
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3 Gods Heart is displayed in Jesus

• Matthew 1331-32  He told them another parable
  The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed,
  which a man took and planted in his field.
  Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet
  when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants
  and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air
  come and perch in its branches.

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Psalm 119105-112 (p. 163)
105 Your words a lamp that shines before my
feet It is a light that guides me on my
way. 106 The oath that I have taken Ive
confirmed That all your righteous laws I will
obey.

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Psalm 119105-112 (2/4)
107 O LORD, you know that I have suffered
much Preserve my life according to your
word. 108 Accept the willing praises of my
mouth Instruct me in your righteous laws, O
LORD.

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Psalm 119105-112 (3/4)
109 I will not disregard your holy law, Though
constantly my life is in my hands. 110 Although
the wicked set a snare for me, I have not left
the path of your commands.

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Psalm 119105-112 (4/4)
111 Your statutes are my heritage always, And
every day they make my heart rejoice. 112 My
heart is set on keeping your decrees, And to the
very end they are my choice.

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God Calls Us to delight in Christ and to Share
His Hope.
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O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

• O THE DEEP, DEEP LOVE OF JESUS!
• Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free
• Rolling as a mighty ocean
• In its fullness over me.

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O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

• Underneath me, all around me,
• Is the current of Thy love
• Leading onward, leading homeward,
• To my glorious rest above.

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O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

• O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
• Spread His praise from shore to shore,
• How He loveth, ever loveth,
• Changeth never, nevermore

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O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

• How He watches oer His loved ones,
• Died to call them all His own
• How for them He intercedeth,
• Watches over them from the throne.

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O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

• O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
• Love of every love the best
• Tis an ocean vast of blessing,
• Tis a haven sweet of rest.

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O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus

• O the deep, deep love of Jesus!
• Tis a heaven of heavens to me
• And it lifts me up to glory,
• For it lifts me up to Thee.
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WHEN I SURVEY
When I survey the wondrous cross On which the
Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count
but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.

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WHEN I SURVEY
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in
the death of Christ my God All the vain things
that charm me most, I sacrifice them to His
blood.

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WHEN I SURVEY
See from His head, His hands, His feet, Sorrow
and love flow mingled down Did eer such love
and sorrow meet, Or thorns compose so rich a
crown?

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WHEN I SURVEY
Were the whole realm of Nature mine, That were
an offering far too small Love so amazing, so
divine, Demands my soul, my life, my all!
Isaac Watts.
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