Mission Africa Update July 14, 2018

We are experiencing problems with our website hosting and the website is not viewable or editable in Uganda because of security issues; it seems the host sees it best to block access to their sites in Uganda and that this will be a permanent situation. We are safe and there is no threat towards us. For now you can see our communications online at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/. Thanks for your patience and as always we need and appreciate your prayers!

Friends: Our Updates are sent to instruct, encourage, edify and act as a help in prayer. We appreciate your receiving them, your replies, comments and prayer requests.

We will share this Update format once a month as God allows.

Teaching and Prayer for Africa:

May our Lord, who has blessed us with salvation in Christ help us to better understand “Of The Church” from the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689: “All persons throughout the world, professing faith of the gospel, and obedience unto God by Christ according unto it, not destroying their own profession by any errors everting the foundation, or unholiness of conversation, are and may be called visible saints; and of such all particular congregations to be constituted."

Edited from Operation World, Seventh Edition: “Sierra Leone was the first West African country to be evangelized. The first Protestant Church started in Freetown, among freed slaves, in 1785. Yet after over 200 years of effort, only 13% of the country claim to be Christian. Very few historic denominations have grown significantly in the last 40 years or made lasting impact on the country. The newer, more dynamic groups tend to be spiritually shallow and overly focused on prosperity teaching and miracles. Pray for churches that balance the Word and the Spirit, for hearts of unity, and prayer and for a deep desire to reach out in loving witness to the non-Christian majority.”

Teaching Links:

See “Looking For A Church? Here’s What To Look For” by Christian Communicator’s Worldwide and Jim Elliff at: https://www.ccwtoday.org/2014/07/looking-for-a-church-heres-what-to-look-for/ and Christian Communicators Worldwide’s excellent website at: http://www.ccwtoday.org/.

See Spurgeon Gems “The Church Of God And The Truth Of God” by C.H. Spurgeon at: https://www.spurgeongems.org/vols52-54/chs3093.pdf and Spurgeon Gems’ excellent materials at: http://www.spurgeongems.org/. Please continue in prayer for good health for our dear brother Emmett O’Donnell and his wife Ann.

See Chapel Library’s excellent resource “Glorious Institution: The Church in History (1&2: AD100-1516)” by Stanford Murrell at: https://www.chapellibrary.org/literature/title-catalog/?fldTitle=church&searchType=lit  and all materials at: http://www.chapellibrary.org/.

See “The Ordinary Church” by Grace To You at: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/44-13/the-ordinary-church.

See “I Will Not Leave Jesus, But I’m Done With The Church” by John Piper at: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/i-will-not-leave-jesus-but-im-done-with-the-church. 

Hear Peter Jeffery’s excellent sermons at: http://www.peterjefferysermons.org/.

Hear outstanding preaching by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones at: http://www.mljtrust.org/.

Our News and Prayer Requests:

Please continue in prayer for Willie, Phil, Kate, and Vern-Pray for their healing and for their strength and encouragement and for their spouse’s strength and encouragement. Willie’s cancer has returned. Pray that his bladder will heal completely and soon. Vern has been in further treatment for sepsis but is home again now. Pray that Phil will be declared cancer free soon.

Pray for Faridah, Rachel, Topista, Ali, Gloria and Peter for salvation. Pray for God’s grace and salvation for students in Bible Clubs in Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC who are studying our Evangelism Study.

Pray again for peace and an end of the violence and killing in South Sudan, DRC (Kivu), Syrian, Iraq and Somalia.

Pray for the salvation and reaching of the N______ and S______, unreached peoples in Uganda.

We continue in distributions of Life Application Study Bible’s and Christian Literature. Next week we will be in Arua as God wills, this week we served in Mbarara.

Our Materials:

See our website (in most countries) at: www.missionafricajk.net and if it isn’t visible and for latest updated materials see our blog at: https://missionafricajk.blogspot.ug/. 

See our new page at Sermon.com (Jim’s sermons): http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=jrobinettesermons.

Attached are more photos of Jim’s recent ministry visit in Sierra Leone.

In the Savior’s love, grace and peace, your friends, Jim and Kappy Robinette                     
Mission Africa with CTEN

“And also I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18 NKJV

 

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The Fruit Of Sin

“Search into the Law and you shall discover thousands of sins which fall under any one Law of God. Oh! Here is a glass!

3. Look upon sin in the glass of the griefs, woundings, piercings, and sorrows which the saints have found in their admissions and first entrance into the state of grace, in their relapsings and turnings again to folly. For the first, see what groans and humiliations they have endured in their first admissions into an estate of grace: in Manasseh, II Chr. 33:12; in Paul, Acts 9; in the converted Jews, Acts 2:37; when the nails pierced Christ, now stuck in their hearts as the arrow in the stag’s side.

How many of the saints there have been who have been cast into a bed of miserable sorrow, lain bed-ridden under the stroke of divine justice perhaps for many years, and all of this for sin. No age is without a thousand examples of sin.

Look upon the sorrows and breakings which the saints have endured upon their relapsing into sin. See in Peter, in David. Read what sad expressions he has in Psalm 6, from verse 1 to verse 7, and in Ps. 32:3–5. So Psalm 51. How he complains that his soul is troubled, his bones are broken, his eyes are consumed with sorrows, his bed swims with tears! And all this for sin. Here is a glass wherein you may see the evil of sin to be the greatest evil. Yea, and the least sin, when God sets on it, will do all this.

Look upon sin in Adam and there see the greatness of it. That one sin of Adam had brought all the miseries, sickness, death, etc., upon all his posterity since that time. 

It has been the damnation of thousands of millions of men and still runs on. God’s justice is till unsatisfied. If it were there would be a stop. We should die no more, be sick no more, etc., Oh here you may see sin in its extensiveness.”

-From a 17^th Century Puritan  Soli Deo Gloria Publications  Morgan, PA, 1990