16th June 2026


Pray (ACts) 


Read (Joel 2v25) 


Message (Scott Woodburn) 


It was June 2015 that I lost my wedding ring. I was heading to Ballynahinch Primary School to lead their annual leavers assembly when my ring fell from my finger. I heard it tinkling on the ground but despite my best efforts I couldn’t find it before I had to rush on up the hill to the school. Needless to say I returned later and searched for another hour but I didn’t find the ring. Losing that ring didn’t change my relationship with Jenny but I wish I still had the ring that she placed on my finger when we were married.


There isn’t a single person reading this devotion who is not familiar with loss. Some of us have lost wedding rings while others have experienced much more heart breaking loss. We have heard from those older and wiser that there is nothing in this life that we can actually keep, nevertheless we do our best to hold tightly to those people and things we love. Even so, a day comes that the ring falls from the finger or the person we adore takes the last breath.


The Lord once promised “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.” (Joel 2v25). What was the context of this promise? The land in Joel’s day had witnessed a massive plague of locusts who had come and devoured everything they could find (Joel 1). On our island we can’t imagine locusts descending upon our crops but the potato famine from 1845 to 1852 was one of the most destructive events to have struck this island. Imagine empty shelves in Tesco for the next seven years, imagine rationing your food and imagine watching the weight drop off your children. Joel’s generation had witnessed a monumentally destructive event.


The Lord called these men and women to repentance and a returning unto Him in their own day but Joel also spoke to another day, a greater day and a final day. If the swarm of locusts was apocalyptic, Joel made it clear that it was nothing compared to what he called “the day of the Lord” (Joel 1v15). The day of the Lord is the day of His return when all will stand before His judgement seat. It will be a great and terrible day with nowhere to hide from Christ’s piercing gaze.


The Christian has nothing to fear on that day. We will see Jesus and He will publicly acquit us and our Heavenly eternity will begin. It is then that we will see the full truth of God’s promise to bring restoration to His people. If we carry the scars of loss with us today, those scars will be healed in Heaven. Brothers and sisters, I know your hearts break and I know you have suffered great loss but hear me on this - the Lord will restore our lost years and truly we will realise that Samuel Rutherford was right “they lose nothing who gain Christ.”


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Q95 To whom is Baptism to be administered? Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible Church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants of such as are members of the visible Church are to be baptized.
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15th June 2026


Pray (ACts)


Read (Titus 1:5)


Message (Alan Burke) 


We’re on Titus this week. You might be thinking that is because we’ve finished 1 Samuel, and well, that may be true, but we’re going to keep going this week and next week by focusing on 2 Samuel 1, 2, and then in July and August focusing on the Apostle Peter. The reason why I’m focusing on Titus and not 2 Samuel 1 is because while I’d normally be in Ballygowan on the third Sunday, I’m not this Sunday, and I’d Hiram booked. Now let me say that I did cancel him and told him he could have a Sunday with Sandra. He ignored me and he’s coming anyway preaching on 2 Samuel 1, and as usual, he’s been complaining about the passage that I’ve made him preach, but the thing is, he could have been sitting in the pew with his wonderful wife this Lord’s Day. Meanwhile, on Sunday evening, I’m in Killyleagh at an Ordination Service for an Elder, and at that, I’m preaching on Titus, so I thought I’d share that with you for the devotions. 


We live in a world that seems that it is harder and harder to discern fact from fiction, especially when it comes to what we read and see online. AI and social media enable fake news to permeate every facet of life; we are discovering just how easily it is for people to be taken in by it. There are more and more accounts of what were reasonable people being taken in by things that just aren’t true.  What we believe impacts how we live, and the truth matters; it matters in our lives in every part, but it especially matters in the church when eternity is at stake. Tonight, as we come, we have witnessed the biblical practice by which the church publicly recognises and appoints Elders to act as a safeguard for the church, to protect the church from the Father of Lies, to protect it from Satan’s attacks, and so that the congregation here in Killyleagh would be protected from Satan’s attacks, from his lies, so that if you were to stray into believing something other than the truth, you would be corrected, reproved, restored to the knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness, a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life.


This is the task of the Elders in this place; it isn’t to be taken lightly, for the task of an Elder is of eternal importance; eternity is at stake for those whom Elders watch over. Paul writes this letter to Titus to encourage him to straighten out what was left unfinished by Paul himself. What we know is that Paul had been in Crete; he’d been there as an evangelist, planting churches, but at this stage they were small, they were young. For some reason, Paul had left, but Titus had remained in Crete to continue on in the work of the gospel. Look what Paul writes to Titus v5; he says, “The reason I left you in Crete was that you might straighten out what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.”


The unfinished business as such was the appointment of elders, elders who were to watch over the church, to be there as under-shepherds to the Lord Jesus Christ. This was the pattern; the apostles went out, preaching the gospel, fulfilling the Great Commission, as people came to the ‘knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness— 2 a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life (Tt 1:1–2), then Elders were appointed to act, watching over the flock of God (see Acts 14:19-23). I don’t know if you’re reading this as an elder or not, but if you are an elder, you are there to watch over the flock, act as under-shepherd to Jesus Christ, and watch over the flock. Are you doing that? That is why you were called and ordained by God; it is a high and necessary calling for the benefit of the church. For all of us, are we praying for them in their task, submitting to them when they act in a godly way? Because God has appointed them over us and it is for our best, they are a necessity for the health of the church.


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Q94 What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a Sacrament, wherein the washing with water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord’s.
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13th June 2026


Pray (ACts) 


Read (Genesis 2v25) 


Message (Scott Woodburn) 


I’m convinced that when we are raised again to life we will be as naked as the day we were born. The thought of that might sound incredibly unappealing as you and I are probably not those who would enjoy walking through Ballynahinch with every inch of ourselves on show. Nevertheless, we will spend eternity in Heaven and will be be both naked and unashamed.


The reason for this can be found back in Genesis 2v25. After the institution of marriage we are told that both Adam and Eve were naked and not ashamed. The Fall had not yet occurred, sin had not yet entered the world and death was not yet the punishment for sin. Everything would soon change but in those glorious early days Adam and Eve were without sin and without shame.


It has long been said that when Jesus returns everything will return to as it was before the Fall - Eden will be restored and the earth will no longer be corrupted by sin. With that being the case I believe that we will no longer need a covering for our shame. When Adam and Eve realised their sin, they made clothing for themselves and hid away from the Lord (Genesis 3v7-8). They knew what they had done and were filled with shame.


In the future that shame will no longer fill the hearts of God’s people. We will no longer be self-conscious and we will no longer be so judgemental when we look at others. I understand completely that we currently can’t imagine nakedness as the norm but it is true. We will once again stand before the Lord both naked and unashamed.


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Q93 Which are the Sacraments of the New Testament? The Sacraments of the New Testament are Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.

12th June 2026


Pray (ACts)


Read (1 Samuel 31 focus 11-13)


Message (Alan Burke)


In our lives, we make an impact on others that is often unknown to us. Think about it, we can all look back to how there are individuals in our past that have said or done something for us, and in that moment, it was either just what we needed to hear or it was the last thing that pushed us over the edge. Years later, they may have no memory of the help that they were or the pain that they caused to us, but we remember. While Saul’s reign had finished and he was fastened to the wall of Dagon’s temple, the valiant men of Jabesh Gilead remembered what Saul had done for them, and they went to Beth Shan, took the body and his sons, and went to Jabesh where they burned them and buried them and fasted for seven days (see 1 Chron 10:10).


They risked their lives, coming into enemy territory, taking down the bodies of Saul and his sons, and returning to Jabesh. It is all because of what Saul had done years earlier. In 1 Samuel 11, we are given the account of how the people of Jabesh-Gilead had been attacked by the Ammonites and the city had been besieged. Things did not look good; they asked for aid, and Saul, the newly crowned king, came to their rescue. They had not forgotten what Saul had done for them; they, in a sense, were paying Saul back for the rescue that he had provided, how he had saved them from their enemies. 


They bring Saul and his sons’ mutilated bodies back and they burn their bodies to prevent anyone from taking Saul’s remains again as a trophy, and he, with his sons, was buried under a tamarisk tree. Years before, Saul sat under a tamarisk tree, as king, but it was a sign of the end of Saul (1 Sam 22:6). For there, Saul was so consumed by hatred for David, he turned against those closest to him, accusing his servants of conspiring against him. While he was already the rejected king, he showed that he was not fit to be the king, massacring the priests of Nob, their families, and all that lived there. 


It is fitting that there he sat ruling under the tamarisk tree that he is buried under a tamarisk tree after his death. The people of Jabesh Gilead had been faithful to Saul, but you know we are reminded here at the end that even as this chapter finishes that the LORD will be done for he is faithful. How we see that is in what seems like a hopeless mess, the LORD was giving a signpost to his people, for the tamarisk is the signpost to the covenant fidelity of the LORD our God. In this moment it seemed that the LORD was defeated, and his covenant promises had failed, it was finished, but it wasn’t. 


As the people heard the account of what took place they would have recalled how in Genesis 21 there is another tamarisk tree, where we are told Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Eternal God (Gen 21:33). He did so in the confident hope in the promises of God that they would not fail, for the LORD their God was faithful even when his people were faithless, and it is the same today, the LORD our God is faithful even when his people are faithless, his will be done for he is faithful, the sovereign LORD and God over life and death. This was not the end of the promises of God, it was just another step in God’s plan of redemption to bring the king we need, the LORD Jesus Christ who died so that we might have eternal life, where we will dwell with our LORD and we will see another tree, the tree of life, a tree that is for the healing of the nations and no longer will there be any curse and we will reign with our LORD for ever and ever (Re 22:1–5).


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Q92 What is a Sacrament?
A. A Sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ; wherein, by sensible signs, Christ and the benefits of the new covenant are represented, sealed, and applied to believers.
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11th June 2026


Pray (ACts) 


Read (Hebrews 11v16) 


Message (Scott Woodburn) 


As we think about Heaven we can sometimes think about eternity floating about on clouds and doing very little. That might not sound very appealing but I’m glad to say that Heaven will be much more different than our common misconception. So what will the new heavens and earth be like?


Eternal life will be spent in new raised physical bodies and we will dwell on the raised earth forever. Heaven will therefore be similar to what we currently experience only much much better. There will be no sin in Heaven and nothing that currently troubles us. Instead we will have an eternity to live, work, sing, run, climb and explore this entire universe.


If you have ever found this earth breathtaking then imagine the new earth. Imagine the beauty that will exist for you to enjoy. Imagine running with horses and not getting tired, imagine climbing the highest mountain without fear, imagine feasting with the Saints of God, imagine being able to explore the universe standing upon Mars and being amazed by new worlds, imagine building great cities and structures, and then imagine seeing Jesus every single day. My words don’t do it justice but Heaven will be yours to enjoy forever. You will work without tiredness or frustration, you will rejoice without fear of loss and you will do everything to the glory of Jesus without any hint of sin which tarnishes everything in this present age.


Scripture only gives hints at what is to be expected when Christ returns and His creation is restored but I’m sure of this - whatever my finite mind images about heaven absolutely falls short of the reality. I suspect our daily existence in Heaven will see us constantly amazed, constantly awestruck, constantly delighted and constantly joyous. It will be familiar and yet as far from this current reality that we can possibly imagine.


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Q91 How do the Sacraments become effectual means of salvation? The Sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them.
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10th June 2026


Pray (ACts)


Read (1 Samuel 31 focus 7-10)


Message (Alan Burke)


Have you seen the news today? Terrible, isn’t it!? I should be honest, I wrote this devotion a week ago, so I don’t know what has happened as you’re reading this because I’m not a prophet who can tell the future. Yet I often come across people lamenting how the world that we live in is going to the dogs, and of course, I don’t mean that in a literal sense. If I’d said that in Strabane, you’d be going to the greyhound track in Lifford, but that it is not what I’m referring to. It is a descent into ruin; things are getting worse. It seems like we spend our lives hearing of what is going on in the world, and we despair. We get bombarded with bad news, we hear how the church is declining. I’ve people I know who are glad they aren’t my age because of how much the UK has fallen. They look at former meetinghouses where the LORD our God was worshipped being turned into Islamic centres and they lament. Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the LORD is on his throne, and we need to stop lamenting and rejoice that indeed the LORD is on his throne, and one day the LORD Jesus will return, and all his enemies, all of them, will be put under his feet. 


We pick up today, and it is important to know that because of Israel at the death of Saul and what happened to his body, they would have lost all hope; their king was dead. After the victory, the Philistines came and stripped the dead. This might seem shocking to us, but it was common. Armies would often strip the dead, acquiring weapons, clothing, and personal belongings, which could be used to rearm themselves or for personal gain. As they do so, they find Saul and what he had feared they would do to him in life; the Philistines do to him in death. 


While details of the battle are sparse, the details of what happens to Saul in death and defeat are graphic. His head is cut off, he is stripped of his armour, messengers are sent throughout the land with the gospel. Of course, it is not the gospel, the gospel of Jesus Christ; instead, to them, it is a gospel of a defeated foe, and it is good news which they proclaim, with messengers sent out to the temples of their idols and among their people. For Israel, in hearing what happened to their king, would have further demoralised them in defeat. What we may miss though is that in all of this, the LORD himself is being mocked. Yet the LORD was at work, he had brought this judgement on Saul, but for the people of God, they would have known very little of the LORD’s will in all that was unfolding. In that moment, it would have been utter darkness, hopelessness in the land of Israel, the LORD’s anointed is dead, hung on the wall, humiliated. 


Even in what seemed like defeat, the LORD’s will was being done, he was at work. For after Saul, David, the LORD’s anointed, would reign, but he too was a man like Saul and he would die, like we all will die. But there is another to whom came from David’s line, the LORD Jesus Christ. For his disciples, it seems like defeat as Jesus hung on that cross, crying out, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ Then he breathed his last. It was defeat, but even as he hung there on the cross, lifeless, the LORD was at work even in apparent defeat. And we now rejoice each resurrection day, each LORD’s day, celebrating that through his death, death has been swallowed up in victory, we have life through his death for he is the resurrection and the life (see 1 Cor 15:54). Whoever believes in him, though he die, yet shall he live (Jn 11:25).


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Q90 How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?
A. That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.
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9th June 2026


Pray (ACts) 


Read (2 Peter 3v9-10) 


Message (Scott Woodburn) 


When Christ returns we will be raised to life in new everlasting bodies. In the same way, creation itself will be restored to a perfect condition - this world and the whole universe will be gloriously changed. Does that mean that this world will be completely destroyed and something new will come in it's place? No. Just as you will be the same but made perfect, then so too will the universe be recognisable yet radically different.


Peter once spoke on this saying "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed." (v10). Some read this to mean that creation will be completely done away with and whatever comes next will be absolutely brand new. This isn't the case.


In Derek Thomas' little book "Heaven on Earth" he gives various reasons for expecting a resurrected creation rather than a completely new one. His first point is that when Scripture speaks of the new heaven and earth the word used is kainos which speaks to newness of quality rather than newness of origin. Secondly, Thomas points to Paul's language in Romans 8 which talks of creation being liberated rather than destroyed. Thirdly, when Jesus was raised it was in the same body in which He died not a completely new one. Lastly, if creation needs to be completely destroyed and wiped out it speaks to Satan's triumph. To be preferred is that creation will be renewed and restored and not wiped out.


Whatever the renewal of creation will be like, we can be certain it will be momentous with Peter speaking of roaring, burning and dissolving. What will the outcome of this work be? Creation will be completely renewed. The paradise that existed during the days of Eden will be the norm once more upon this earth and by faith in Christ, you and I will get to dwell there forever. I don't know about you but I can't wait.


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Q89 How is the Word made effectual to salvation? The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching, of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort through faith unto salvation.
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8th June 2026


Pray (ACts)


Read (1 Samuel 31 focus v1-6)


Message (Alan Burke) 


I’m a big fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. When The Lord of the Rings was made into a film, I was sceptical of how well it would turn out. To be fair, Peter Jackson did an alright job of it; he cut the character ‘Tom Bombadil’ and ‘The Scouring of the Shire’, which in my mind was horrific, but still overall it was an alright adaptation, although he ruined The Hobbit, so don’t bother watching it. There are some epic depictions of battles in the books, and in the film adaptation, Jackson does a good job of portraying them. If you’ve ever watched the films or even the likes of Braveheart, Highlander, or Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (I’m sure there are others), the battle scenes are vivid portrayals of the brutality of war, arrows flying, the sound of swords striking, of course, the smell of copper in the air from the bloodshed can’t be conveyed in a film; we don’t have Smell-O-Vision, and it’s best that we don’t. Here though, in 1 Samuel, the details of the battle are scarce, we can surmise what it would have looked like but we are to focus not on the battle but rather on Saul and what happens to him. 


Here he is wounded, critically, and he’s afraid of what the Amalekites would do to him. Even if Saul didn’t survive, they could have made his last moments as painful and humiliating as possible. If he survived, then it would have been much, much worse. The treatment of captured rulers at the time saw them being tortured, mutilated, sexually humiliated, facing sexual violence. Filled with such fear that the only way that he felt that he could escape what the Philistines could do to him brought him to believe that the only way out was to fall on his sword. Such inner anguish, pain, and fear had come over Saul. What we have to remember though is that even in this, the LORD’s will was being done. For the LORD had passed judgement on Saul (1 Sam 28:18-19). And this, the very next day after the judgement of the LORD came through Samuel, Saul’s sons are dead, and he has taken his own life. 


It was the judgement of the LORD because he had rejected the word of the LORD; this is the LORD’s work, his will; this was an act of the Sovereign LORD that Saul faced the consequences of his actions in this present life, yet death is not the end. While his earthly journey had come to an end for Saul, he would also face the LORD’s judgement for all eternity. I think this is the most terrifying thing that we often overlook, that for those who die outside of faith Christ is that as 1 Thessalonians reminds us that: He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might (2 Thes 1:8-9). This should spur us as believers to action, to share the gospel, to pray for our family, friends, and neighbours. It should also fill us with praise to the LORD our God for his grace towards us that we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God (Rom 5:9).


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Q88 What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption?
A. The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, especially the Word, Sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation.
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6th June 2026


Pray (ACts) 


Read (2 Peter 3v9-10) 


Message (Scott Woodburn) 


When Christ returns we will be raised to life in new everlasting bodies. In the same way, creation itself will be restored to a perfect condition - this world and the whole universe will be gloriously changed. Does that mean that this world will be completely destroyed and something new will come in it's place? No. Just as you will be the same but made perfect, then so too will the universe be recognisable yet radically different.


Peter once spoke on this saying "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed." (v10). Some read this to mean that creation will be completely done away with and whatever comes next will be absolutely brand new. This isn't the case.


In Derek Thomas' little book "Heaven on Earth" he gives various reasons for expecting a resurrected creation rather than a completely new one. His first point is that when Scripture speaks of the new heaven and earth the word used is kainos which speaks to newness of quality rather than newness of origin. Secondly, Thomas points to Paul's language in Romans 8 which talks of creation being liberated rather than destroyed. Thirdly, when Jesus was raised it was in the same body in which He died not a completely new one. Lastly, if creation needs to be completely destroyed and wiped out it speaks to Satan's triumph. To be preferred is that creation will be renewed and restored and not wiped out.


Whatever the renewal of creation will be like, we can be certain it will be momentous with Peter speaking of roaring, burning and dissolving. What will the outcome of this work be? Creation will be completely renewed. The paradise that existed during the days of Eden will be the norm once more upon this earth and by faith in Christ, you and I will get to dwell there forever. I don't know about you but I can't wait.


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Q89 How is the Word made effectual to salvation? The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching, of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort through faith unto salvation.
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5th June 2026


Pray (ACts)


Read (1 Samuel 30 focus v9-31)


Message (Alan Burke)


We’ve a lot to cover to get to the end of the chapter, so it ain't going to happen in one devotion, so hopefully you’ll forgive me. I’ll start though with providence. What are God’s works of providence? A. God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures and all their actions (WSC Q11, proof texts; Ps. 145:17; Ps. 104:24; Isa. 28:29; Heb. 1:3; Ps. 103:19; Matt. 10:29-31). David perused those who attacked Ziklag; he trusted in the word of the LORD and his providence. After seven days of pursuit and nothing, following tracks in the wilderness of the people and the animals, beginning to fade with the time that had passed. Hope seemed to be failing, but then in the LORD’s providence, what may look to man as nothing more than a coincidence, but was a Godincidence, it was God’s providence; they found an Egyptian. 


This Egyptian would have been a slave of the Amalekites, left to die by them. Their lack of compassion towards him would see them put the final nail in their own coffin. He had not even been left with any provisions, having not eaten or drank for three days. He was revived with food and water, and David spoke to him. If only the Amalekites had taken this man with them, then David would be left to pursue, not knowing if and when he would find the attackers of Ziklag. In effect, the Amalekites had signed their own death certificate and didn’t know it. David, by the LORD’s providence, is led to the Amalekites. When he comes upon them, they are revealing, they are eating, drinking, dancing, and scattered over the countryside, and so David goes and with his men from dusk to the evening of the next day, wiping out the Amalekites, all but the 400 who escape on camels. They had been caught off guard, and the LORD was at work in all of this. What took place here was the righteous judgement of the LORD God. 


You might wonder about the righteous judgement of God, but his was his righteous judgement. Back in the book of Exodus, the people of God were vulnerable and attacked unprovoked by the Amalekites (Ex 17:8-16). As a result, the LORD promised that he would completely blot out their memory (Ex 17:4, Deut 25:17-19). We might think to ourselves that God’s response is more than a bit extreme, a bit of an overreaction, surely? We might even be tempted to think that this is the God of the Old Testament and be thankful for how the God of the New Testament is all about love and grace. But throughout the scriptures, the Lord is consistent. We must not forget that in the end, all those who are the enemies of the Lord will face his wrath for all eternity. Jesus spoke more on the eternal punishment, of hell that awaits all those who are not the children of God through faith, and while the Amalekites were blotted out. 


As we finish, I want to take you to the book of Revelation. For it is made clear that Jesus Christ is coming again, and when he comes, he will judge the living and the dead. He will come, and Revelation 19 tells us how the armies of heaven will follow him, to strike down the nations. They will experience the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. In that vivid and terrifying picture, while the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army, the LORD Jesus had the victory (See Re 19:11–21). How do we escape the wrath of God to come? How do we know the grace that he freely offers? It is by trusting in the coming king, bowing the knee now because there will come a day when it is too late, and we will be counted among the enemies of God. We will be answerable to King Jesus, who will be our judge. Revelation 20:15 tells us what awaits for all who are the enemies of God. For anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life will be thrown into the lake of fire (Rev 20:15). We, as the church, declare the hope that there is for all who believe and warn those who don’t of what awaits. 


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Q86 What is faith in Jesus Christ?
A. Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, as he is offered to us in the gospel.
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