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SUMMARY:Day of Humiliation and Prayer
DESCRIPTION:On the motion of Rev D A Ross\, the Synod in May 2024 appointed a Day of Humiliation and\nPrayer to be observed throughout the Church on Wednesday\, 4 December 2024\, as follows: \nThe Synod appoints a Day of Humiliation and Prayer to be observed throughout the\nChurch on Wednesday\, 4th December 2024. This is because of the deepening moral and\nspiritual darkness relentlessly encompassing Church and State. We are shown from the Word\nof God that in time of crisis the people of God always resorted to humbling themselves before\nGod\, asking for His deliverance. This continues to be the practice of our own Church and\nindeed the visible Church\, at least to some degree. Sadly\, sections of it not only give consent\nto the vilest of sins\, but openly engage in the same. When the children of Israel were properly\nexercised during their time in the wilderness – and before and after that time – they resorted\nto bringing their troubles to the God of eternity. Indeed\, we find this pattern throughout the\nWord of God. \nIt is distressing to observe the enduring purpose of our nation not only to continue in\nthe way of transgressing the Moral Law\, but also its purposeful rejection of Christ Jesus the\nremedy to remove not only the guilt of individuals but also that of nations that are ripening\nfor the judgement of God. It is a frightening reality that our nation would rather keep adding\nsin to sin and search out new forms of ungodliness\, and loves to have it so. Alarmingly\, we\nare a nation more and more given over to all kinds of wickedness and there seems to be no\nholding back. And worse\, sections of the professing Christian Church not only show approval\nof such evils but dare to engage in these abominations. \nThis is a time indeed for us to pray more earnestly that the Lord would come over the\nmountains of our rebellion and not leave us to the inevitable\, destructive consequence of sin.\nFor any one of us to cry in true spiritual prayer to God for the mercy our poor sin-stained\nChurch and State urgently need\, we must have some awareness of our own sin and the\nefficacy of the blood of Christ to cleanse us from our sin. Then we may all the more earnestly\ncry in prayer to God for Church and State\, pleading that God would grant a spirit of\nrepentance and a sense of our abiding need of the mercy of God in Christ\, and thereafter\nendeavour to serve the Almighty God in the spirit of new obedience. “That Thy way may be\nknown upon earth\, Thy saving health among all nations” (Ps 67:2).
URL:https://www.fpchurch.org.uk/event/the-synod-has-appointed-a-day-of-humiliation-and-prayer-on-4th-december-2024/
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