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Each month the Glen Park Gospel Church produce a one page newsletter called the Green Leaf. It's available from the chapel each Sunday. Anything that may be of mild interest will be published here.

A New Thing

Announcement - Isaiah 43:19
"Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."

Purpose - 2 Samuel 7:13
"He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever."
Fulfilment: Luke 1:32-33

Birth - Isaiah 7:14
"The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel [God with us]"
Fulfilment: Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:35

Commissioning - Isaiah 42:1,9
"Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations."
Fulfilment: Matthew 3:16-17

Death - Isaiah 53:12
"...He poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors."
Fulfilment: Crucified with criminals

Resurrection - Psalm 16:10
"For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your Holy One see corruption [decay]"
Fulfilment: Jesus' resurrection

Gift - Romans 6:4
"We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life."

Appropriation, Judgement - John 3:16,18
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
"Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."

Ascension - Mark 16:19 (Acts 1:9)
"So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat at the right hand of God."

Intercession - 1 Timothy 2:5,6
"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all,"

Return - Acts 1:11
"Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."

Rule - Revelation 19:16
"On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords."

Thought for the Month

"God is doing a new thing — not us, not others, but God. Our response is to let Him do it! Let's not stand in the way of God's great work."

Stephanie Wilsey. (2024)
medium.com/koinonia/god-is-doing-a-new-thing-213e1efb5f71

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