Oakwood Community Church

“[David] foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.” Acts 2:31

In the Lord

1. We are Secure

“Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.”
Psalm 16:1

In the Lord

1. We are Secure

“I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand I shall not be shaken.” Psalm 16:8

In the Lord

1. We are Secure

“My flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol.”
Psalm 16:9-10

In the Lord

1. We are Secure

“Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Acts 2:21

In the Lord

2. We are Connected

“As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.” Psalm 16:3

In the Lord

2. We are Connected

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

In the Lord

3. We are Joyful

“I say to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.’”
Psalm 16:2

In the Lord

3. We are Joyful

“The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot… I have a beautiful inheritance.”
Psalm 16:5-6

In the Lord

3. We are Joyful

“I have set the Lord always before me… Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices.”
Psalm 16:8-9

In the Lord

3. We are Joyful

“You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Psalm 16:11

“The first instance, that I remember, of that sort of inward, sweet delight in God and divine things, that I have lived much in since, was on reading those words, 1 Timothy 1:17. “Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

“As I read the words, there came into my soul, and was as it were diffused through it, a sense of the glory of the Divine Being; a new sense, quite different from anything I ever experienced before. Never any words of Scripture seemed to me as these words did. I thought with myself, how excellent a Being that was, and how happy I should be, if I might enjoy that God, and be rapt up to him in heaven; and be as it were swallowed up in him forever!”

“On January 12, 1723, I made a solemn dedication of myself to God, and wrote it down; giving up myself, and all that I had, to God; to be for the future in no respect my own; to act as one that had no right to himself, in any respect. And solemnly vowed to take God for my whole portion and felicity, looking on nothing else as any part of my happiness, nor acting as it were; and his law for the constant rule of my obedience.” ~ Jonathan Edwards

“That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. … In nothing is vigour in the actings of our inclinations so requisite, as in religion; and in nothing is lukewarmness so odious.”

“The more a true saint loves God with a gracious love, the more he desires to love him, and the more uneasy is he at his want of love to him: the more he hates sin, the more he desires to hate it, and laments that he has so much remaining love to it. The more he mourns for sin, the more he longs to mourn; the more his heart is broken, the more he desires it should be broken. The more he thirsts and longs after God and holiness, the more he longs to long, and breathe out his very soul in longings after God.” ~ Jonathan Edwards

“Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Brothers, what shall we do?’ And Peter said to them, ‘Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’” Acts 2:37-38