Announcements

Week of July 21, 2024

  • WEEKLY MEETINGS

Tuesday         7:30 p.m.    Prayer meetings by area on Zoom and in person

Lord’s Day   10:00 a.m.    Lord’s table and prophesying meeting

Lord’s Day   12:30 p.m.    Hall cleaning by the saints with last names of R – Z

 

  • OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS, CONFERENCES, AND TRAININGS

HWMR: Fighting the Good Fight, Finishing the Course…, Week 5                         Jul. 22 – 29

Read Life-Study of John, Messages 44 & 45                                                                      Jul. 22 – 29

Read The Economy of God, Chapter 1                                                                               Jul. 22 – 29

Labor Day 2024 Southeast Blending Conference, Jacksonville                                  Aug. 30 – Sep. 1

Florida College Conference, Tampa                                                                                  Nov. 8 – 10

Thanksgiving Blending Conference, Atlanta                                                                  Nov. 28 – Dec. 1

 

Websites to bookmark, visit, and use:

https://www.lsm.org/

 

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Appreciating the Purpose and Value of the Life-study Messages

Scripture Reading: 1 Tim. 2:4; John 17:17b; Luke 24:32; Acts 8:26-31a

I. We need to see the value of the Life-study messages; the Life-studies and the Recovery Version of the Bible are our treasures in the Lord’s recovery and a precious inheritance to all God’s children:

     A. Brother Lee daily prayed and studied the Bible for fifty years before he began to release the Life-study messages; he also read the great Bible commentaries; during the same period of time he was speaking for the Lord, preaching the gospel, expounding the truth, edifying the saints, and building up the churches.

     B. In 1974 he had a deep sense that we needed a life-study of the Bible in the Lord’s recovery; for this purpose he collected the best of the past teaching and incorporated his own experience, knowledge, and revelation; thus, the Life-studies can replace the many reference works Brother Lee used while producing them.

     C. The Life-studies are the best references to use in preaching the gospel and sharing the truth with fellow Christians; they are able to save us much time and labor.


II. E. “I encourage the young ones among us to spend adequate time in the Life-study messages and the Recovery Version of the Bible so that they may receive a good foundation in the truth…we stand on the shoulders of the great teachers of the Bible who have gone before us.”—CWWL, 1984, vol. 1, p. 64.

 

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         “By reading John 18 and 19 and considering all the points found in these chapters, we shall be able to understand the significance of the Lord’s death. These chapters reveal how the Lord delivered Himself in voluntary boldness and conquered the environment of death and its influence, proving that He is the conquering, resurrection life, and dying that He might release Himself into us as life. After He accomplished this, He was highly valued and put into rest…As the resurrection life, He could not be broken; but for the purpose of releasing Himself as life, He was broken… He was willing to suffer and to be pierced that life might be released and imparted into us. Once this had been accomplished, He rested and waited for the resurrection.

         We also arrive at the correct understanding of the Lord’s death by comparing the record of the Gospel of John with the records of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. These three Gospels show that the Lord died for redemption, but the Gospel of John reveals that He not only died for redemption but especially for the release of life. Thus, by His death, we have been redeemed and have had His life released and imparted into us.”  (Excerpts from Life-Study of John, Message 43)