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About Rev. Dr. David Bissett

I pastor a church in upstate NY. I'm happily married and the father of seven kids. It's fun, really! Leave me some feedback...

We think too much of ourselves…

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…and not enough of our God!

Here is a great, heart-piercing excerpt from a sermon from Ephesians 1 by Martyn-Lloyd Jones published in God’s Ultimate Purpose (temporarily out of print):

The Bible is God’s book, it is a revelation of God, and our thinking must always start with God. Much of the trouble in the Church today is due to the fact that we are so subjective, so interested in ourselves, so egocentric. That is the peculiar error of this present century. Having forgotten God, and having become so interested in ourselves, we become miserable and wretched, and spend our time in ’shallows and in miseries.’

The message of the Bible from beginning to end is designed to bring us back to God, to humble us before God, and to enable us to see our true relationship to Him. And that is the great theme of this Epistle [Ephesians]… We must not start by examining ourselves and our needs microscopically; we must start with God, and forget ourselves. In this Epistle we are taken as it were by the hand by the Apostle and are told that we are going to be given a view of the glory and the majesty of God.

Wow. Seek the Lord while He may be found.
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Everybody is yoked

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“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” — Matthew 11:28-30 esv

Wednesday nights at CPCC we’re looking at “famous verses of the Bible” and this verse from Matthew is certainly one. We had a fantastic discussion of it, and i encourage you to meditate upon it. For instance, notice that Jesus speaks of “HIS yoke” when He gives out this invitation. Everyone is harnessed to some master; everyone serves someone or some thing. And some “masters” are harder than others. Men are born enslaved to sin (Romans 6:6). When men are born again, they are set free from sin’s mastery, to serve the Lord Jesus Christ, as “slaves of God” (Rom. 6:22).

Did you ever hear these Bob Dylan lyrics (c. 1979)?

Gotta Serve Somebody

You may be an ambassador to England or France,
You may like to gamble, you might like to dance,
You may be the heavyweight champion of the world,
You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls

REFRAIN:
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody….

Consider who you serve. Is it Jesus Christ as your Lord?
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