Pastor Josh here.
I would like to give you a preview of our Sunday morning service
on November 3rd here at Middletown Baptist Church.
We're going to be continuing our study in Second Corinthians,
and we're going to be in Second Corinthians chapter seven.
And we're going to be looking at verse number one.
It says this.
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
We're going to study what it means to understand the promises
of God, specifically the promises of God that are mentioned
in chapter six.
And what we talked about last week was separating ourselves from
the influence of the world, separating ourselves from the ways
of the world, and to be thinking biblically, to be thinking
about what God would have us to think about.
And there are promises there.
And the promise comes in the last verse of 2 Corinthians chapter
6.
As God says, hey, when you do these things, when you step away
from the influence of the world, when you step away from the
association of the world, he says that we'll have a closer relationship
with Him.
The Last verse of 2 Corinthians 6 says this, and I will
be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith
the Lord Almighty.
So when the Lord gives us these promises, he's essentially
saying, when you step away from the world and associate with
me, we will have this close, meaningful, loving relationship and
that's what he desires from us.
And so this week we're going to be looking at what it means to
set aside our desires, set aside the influence of the world
and cling to the Lord and understand what it means to grow
in our understanding of him and grow in our holiness and grow
in our spiritual condition.
So we hope to see you there on Sunday morning.
If you're able to be there with us, we would love to have you
there in person at 10:30 on Sunday here at Middletown Baptist
Church.
But if you're not able to be here in person, we do live stream
on YouTube and Facebook and we repost this repost this sermon on
Sunday mornings, Monday mornings here on the podcast channel.
So we hope to hear from you soon and we are praying for you and
we pray that God will work in your life and will continue to show
you what it means to know him and to love Him.
Well, we will hope you have a wonderful weekend.
We will see you Sunday.