This Week at Hope – Drinking Down and Pouring Out
Dear brothers and sisters, due to so many being gone on Wednesday in conjunction with the Conference, we have decided to cancel the mid-week prayer service. We covet your prayers for God’s blessing on the Conference – that we would come away having truly beheld His glory.
On Sunday our text (here at home) will be form Isaiah 63:1-6. The church of our generation talks little of the wrath of God. This omission has greatly diminished the glory of Christ displayed in both His drinking down the cup of wrath on the cross and His pouring out the cup of wrath upon His and His church’s enemies at His second coming. It results in a weak church with a watered-down gospel and little emphasis on repentance; an ignorant church that is unable to understand and rightly apply the Psalms of imprecation; a retreating church that has abandoned the banner held high by the saints who have gone before her; and a fearful church that is robbed of a zealous and victorious spirit even while dwelling in the camp of this glorious Conqueror.
We will consider together how the glory of Christ is exalted in a proper understanding of the cup of the wrath of God in both salvation and in judgment. We will also consider the glory of Christ displayed in the Imprecatory Psalms.
Our songs for Sunday are as follows:
O Worship the King
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
O Church Arise
Ancient Words
And Can It Be