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Northern Beaches Anglicans

Locality: Woolgoolga, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6654 1370

Address: 19-21Scarborough Street 2456 Woolgoolga, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.northernbeachesanglicans.org.au

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25.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #121 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:12-13. We work with God to make sanctification an experiential reality in our lives, but we must not lose sight of the fundamental truth that the Lord makes us holy. Because He has made us holy, we are to become holy by presenting ourselves wholly unto the Lord for righteousness' sake, relying on the means of grace such as Bible study and preaching, the sacraments, and prayer to draw on the strength we need to obey Him even when things get tough.

25.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #113 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 5:15-17. We must take our standards for justice from what God says and not from our own arbitrary opinions. If God says something is just, it is just. Of course, the Lord is not arbitrary about this. Justice is grounded in His own eternal, unchanging character. But we only know this character by what He tells us. Believing God means taking Him at His Word, and our identification of what is good, holy, and just must match what He says is good, holy, and just.

23.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #120 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:11. If we look at sanctification as making ourselves holy, we will be driven to despair, for how can we make ourselves pure? We do cooperate with God in sanctification, but we do not make ourselves holy. He has made us holy, and we live out that holiness. We become in our experience what we already are in Christ. When temptations come, we are to say, No, I am holy and I am in Christ. To sin would not be in line with what God has made me.

22.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #118 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:5-7. We served the master of sin for a long time, so we are tempted to live the life of the old man, the life of the one whom sin controls. But sin is no longer our master. When we died, sin lost its authority to control us, and we lost the obligation to do whatever it says. We sin when we forget that sin is no longer our rightful master, that we died to any legitimate authority it had over us. We are bound to a new Master, and our obligation to Him is holiness.

22.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #123 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:15. We will discuss what it means to not be under law in the days ahead. Today, Dr R.C. Sproul's commentary Romans will help us understand Paul's point: We are no longer under the law in the sense of being underneath the awesome, weighty burden of the law. ...We are no longer in the condition of being crushed under the weight of the law, no longer oppressed by its burden of guilt and judgement. We are no longer under the law as guilty people, for we are righteous in Christ.

21.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #112 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 5:13-14. Imputation of sin reveals the principle of federalism, which we will discuss more over the next few days. Today we note that we do not come into the world in a state of moral neutrality. We are not born innocent, but we are already deserving of death. Since the fall, the naturally-conceived-and-born sons and daughters of Adam are legally guilty of sin and subject to its consequences. If this were not so if we were legally neutral before God we would not need a Saviour.

19.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #117 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:3-4. John Calvin comments on today's passage: Paul, according to his usual manner, where he speaks of the faithful, connects the reality and the effect with the outward sign: for we know that whatever the Lord offers by the visible symbol is confirmed and ratified by their faith. In short, he teaches what is the real character of baptism when rightly received. Baptism reassures us that God promises to regenerate His people in His own timing and cleanse us from all sin.

19.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #125 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:20-21. If there is anything we learn from today's passage and the whole of Romans 6:15-23, it is that Scripture knows nothing of an autonomous existence in which we had no master to serve. We are made to be servants, and we will serve either the master of sin or the master of righteousness God Himself. We cannot serve the master of righteousness apart from God's grace, and if He has bought us with the blood of Christ, we will imperfectly but truly serve Him.

19.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #115 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 5:20-21. Paul has more to say about the law that we will consider in due time. Today, we note that the law is not contrary to grace but allows us to see it more plainly. For justification, the law multiplies transgression, revealing it for what it is and driving us to Christ for the righteousness that alone can justify us. Where the law shows the gravity of sin, the awesome grace of God is seen in contrast. As the law shows sin's darkness, we rejoice that the light of God's mercy and grace overcomes evil.

18.01.2022 OPEN DOOR OP SHOP 21 Scarborough Street, Woolgoolga SPECIAL SALE : ALL CLOTHING 50 cents each.... STARTS TODAY TUESDAY

13.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #119 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:8-10. We must live in the power of what Christ has done. Christ has put sin's power to death, so we are to mortify our remaining sin, denying ourselves to serve God. And because we died to sin decisively in Jesus, we can truly grow in sanctification. John Calvin writes that though we continually die to sin throughout our lives, we are yet said properly to die only once when Christ, reconciling us by his blood to the Father, regenerates us at the same time by the power of his Spirit.

07.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #124 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:16-19. In his commentary Romans, R.C. Sproul discusses the relationship between justification and sanctification: We are not going to make it on the basis of our righteousness, but on the basis of faith. If the faith is genuine, the fruit of that faith will be real righteousness. Declarative righteousness God's pronouncement that the merit of Christ is imputed to our accounts is what gives us peace with God. But through His Spirit, the Lord will sanctify His people.

05.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #116 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:1-2. We rest for our final salvation in the work of Christ alone, but that does not mean there is no change in our own experience of sin and holiness. John Calvin comments, the faithful are never reconciled to God without the gift of regeneration; nay, we are for this end justified that we may afterwards serve God in holiness of life. Everyone who is justified is also being sanctified, and if you are justified, you will have a desire for holiness, though you will not be perfect before you die.

04.01.2022 This Saturday 10th October 9am-12noon TOY SALE and MINI STALL at 19-21 Scarborough Street Woolgoolga next to the Open Door Op Shop(Stock Photos)

01.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #114 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 5:18-19. The parallels between the imputation of sin and righteousness demonstrate that it is erroneous to believe righteousness is a metaphysical reality that is infused into the believer. John Calvin writes, The gift of righteousness is not a quality with which God endows us, as some absurdly explain it, but a gratuitous imputation of righteousness. Righteousness is a legal status based on works, and sinners can only possess it if they are resting in the works of Christ alone.

01.01.2022 Welcome to NBA Daily Devotion #122 from Ligonier's TableTalk. Read Romans 6:14. John Calvin notes that we are no longer under the law of justification: we are no longer subject to the law, as requiring perfect righteousness, and pronouncing death on all who deviate from it in any part. While old covenant saints were not saved by keeping the law, it nonetheless was a heavy burden that reminded them of God's demands while giving no power to fulfil them. This is the burden we all feel before grace, but Christ releases us from the burden to serve Him in freedom.