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(All Sermons and Bible Studies can be found in the menu option [sermons & messages])

Latest Sermons 20 Oct
Sunday Morning
Pastor Edward Evans
Throne of God

Sunday Evening
Pastor Edward Evans
Before the face of God (part 2)

Latest Bible Study 22 Oct
Tuesday Evening
Pastor Edward Evans
Enter by the narrow path

Origins

The following is a series of sermons preached at Westgate during 2019 by Pastor Rev Edward Evans, covering the essentials of Biblical Origins as found in the Book of Genesis.

One - Creation - part 1
Reading - Genesis 1v1

Two - Creation - part 2
Reading - Jeremiah 10v1-16

Three - Tower of Babel
Reading - Genesis 11v1-9

Four - The Fall
Reading - Genesis 3v1-13 + +

Five - The Flood
Reading - Genesis 6v1-12

Six - The Origin of the Gospel
Reading - Genesis 15

Help & Guidance

The following are sermons by Pastor Rev Edward Evans.
Many more can be found in the section "Sermons & Messages / Sermons this year"

1. Receiving forgiveness from God
2. Understanding Tests and Trials
3. Revive us again.

Sermon on the Mount

The following are a selection of Bible Studies currentlybeing delivered by Pastor Rev Edward Evans.
They are selected from the weekly listing found in "Sermons & Messages / Bible Studies this year".

1. Judge not and be not judged
2. Do not lay up treasures on earth, but in Heaven
3. You cannot serve God and serve riches

Pilgrim

September - October 2019

We praise God that we are privileged to be able to testify openly to the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. May everyone who enters the doors of this chapel come with an expectancy that God will speak personally. When we leave may we be better fitted to be witnesses to the Love of God so that those who are lost and do not know salvation, may be drawn to the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour.

Well, here we are. Summer gone. Back to School. Shops with Christmas posters!! Many of us have spent time during the summer breaks, walking in the countryside and enjoying the fresh air and the warm summer sun. John Bunyan, wrote of a different kind of walk. He wrote about the walk of a young Pilgrim on his journey to the Celestial City and how he was faced with many dangers and trials along his way. It is a classic story showing how the Christian faces and overcomes the trials that can be so common to all of us as Christians.

Psalms 119:105
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path."

Message from the Pastor Rev Edward Evans

2 Samuel 23:5

“Is not my house right with God? Has He not made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part?” (NIV)

They say that a person’s dying words are often more candid than those they spoke in life for the simple reason that the looming reality of death produces a candour that makes people often see and assess their life in a different light. The Scripture which I have just quoted is part of David’s dying words to his family and friends and what is interesting in it is his emphasis upon what he describes as an everlasting covenant which is ordered and secured in every part What is this everlasting covenant? Is it something just relevant to David’s life or can we as Christians also confess this same truth? To answer this question we need to understand what the word covenant means. One definition is that it means an “unbreakable pledge of loyalty”, “a binding promise that cannot be broken”. One of the most commonly used words in the Hebrew Old Testament for covenant was “berith” which means “to cut”. This points to the fact that whenever a covenant was made in antiquity, it involved blood being shed: either an incision in the hands of the two people making covenant or animals being offered in sacrifice.

We see this in Genesis 15 when Abraham enters into a covenant with God and is instructed to take some animals and birds and cut them in half, which was common practice in making covenant, and lay the halves opposite each other providing a path or “walkway” of blood. Following this, the two parties making covenant would walk between these animal pieces making promises and swearing unbreakable loyalty to one another that affected not just themselves but every successive generation.

This practice may seem strange and even barbaric to our sensibilities today but behind this making of covenant was something very profound that we need to understand in order to understand David’s dying words. They say today that contracts are made to be broken but in covenant you could not do that. When you gave your word, it was unto death.

At the heart of God’s covenant with man is another Hebrew word “hesed” which means “the loving kindness” or kindness or mercy of God. When God made a covenant with Abraham, He promised him lands and descendants and protection from mortal danger, but there was a far greater promise that was being given. God promised “in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed”. We know from the New Testament that this was actually referring to Christ who was this promised Seed and in Him alone salvation and blessing would come to all the nations of the earth. We are told in Genesis 15 that “Abraham believed God and it was accounted to Him as righteousness”.

In some way we do not fully understand, God allowed Abraham to understand and believe in God’s promise to him, that a coming Seed, a Messiah, a Saviour, would come, through whom salvation would be given to all who would put their trust in Him. Throughout history there has never been any other way to receive salvation other than to look to this same promised Seed, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Saviour of the world.

In Genesis 15, Abraham stood in that walkway of blood as God powerfully came to Him, appearing as a fiery torch and moved between those animal carcasses, solemnising this promise But we as Christians today have something greater. On the night He was betrayed, Jesus took a cup and declared “ this is the new covenant made in my blood for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins”. This is the foundation of our mercy from God. This is the basis of our covenant, the sinless sacrifice of God’s beloved Son and His blood that was poured out on Calvary’s tree. We don’t stand between animal sacrifices anymore, we stand at the foot of the Cross and look at the blood poured out for us there and by putting our trust in Him can say, “I have an everlasting covenant with God, ordered and secured in every part “

_________________________ Our Wayside Pulpit posters are purchased from CPO. This poster is one of 4 currently displayed on our chapel wayside notice boards.

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PSALM 9.

Still gazing on the universe our hearts are transported in wonder, love and praise to the throne of the Creator and the songs of the redeemed echo endlessly around it.

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