A Place where Love is

Hi all

I was just contemplating that I had neglected my blog for a long time.

Its not that I did not have anything to say but sometimes there is an overtaking of time and then comes neglect for the things we love.

I love God's Word and always look to impart it to whoever would listen.

I hope you have found the past blogs helpful and I look forward to writing some more in the coming weeks and months.

Below was a message spoken to those who are saved with the desire to help in the sense of the Church being a family were the Love of Christ is cherished and not neglected.

There are so many today who continue to neglect the authority of what God's Word instructs us to be 'in Christ' and then there is a wonder of why we are dissatisfied with life.

The search for peace always ends when we surrender to what God wants and not what we want in the flesh of our emotional mind.

Praying this helps someone 🙏

Peter Skillen (Pastor)

braehillbaptist@gmail.com

A Place where Love is

Luke 10:38-42

Two family supports that the believer has.

1. Physical Family
2. Spiritual Family

My home when growing up was:

A place of comfort
It was a place of Security
It was a place that had a great bed.
It was a place where I never went hungry. 



When you think about it there is no place like home.
It’s also a place where we are loved.
Well ? Most of the time.



In our reading we see that Jesus was a welcome guest in the home of Mary and Martha – He came there to have fellowship with them – and like all homes that anyone visits there was tea and food on the go.
That was a sign of welcome – that was a sign of acceptance.

There was a time when it seems that both sisters sat at His feet (v39) and then Martha got distracted.
The honour of sitting at the feet of Jesus Word is something that we must be experienced in.
Gathering together in Prayer and Praise and reading His Word is something that we need to have a love for.

The desire for every Pastor or oversight should be one that promotes this and yet there is always a frustration when it doesn’t come to pass.
The Pastor cannot of course make anyone do anything – nor should he wish to.
The desire for Christ from the believer must come from within.
A love for Jesus as the head of the family and a love for each other as the children of that family.

Our true spiritual family is one that is unique and invisible to all but Christ.
No genuine repentant sinner who has come through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ can ever be expelled from that family.

Remember the attitude of Martha v40 Finally after much mumbling and grumbling she blurted it out.

Can you not see Lord that I am doing all the work and this lazy sister of mine is doing nothing?

We should be about family in this Church of Redeemed brethren.
This was a family that these three people in this house had a close relationship with Jesus Christ.
God loves families – that's why His Word has so much to say about the family.
That why He has to say so much about the Unity of His Family – as we are.

Let us be of one mind and one purpose and that is to present ourselves before Christ faithfully and honestly.
Supporting those in our family that need help both physically and spiritually.

God will bless the Church and you as an individual.

To God be the Glory


AMEN

Peter Skillen (Pastor)
braehillbaptist@gmail.com