A home that is secure

Notes of meeting 3 November 2015

Isaiah 33 v17 - 24
¹⁷ Your eyes will gaze on the king in his beauty, they will look on a country stretching far and wide.
¹⁸ Your heart will meditate on past terrors, 'Where is the man who did the counting? Where is the man who did the weighing? Where is the man who counted off the towers?'
¹⁹ No more will you see that insolent people, that people of unintelligible speech, of barbarous and meaningless tongue.
²⁰ Gaze at Zion, city of our feasts; your eyes will see Jerusalem as a home that is secure, a tent not to be moved, none of its tent-pegs ever to be pulled out, none of its guy-ropes ever to be broken.
²¹ There it is that Yahweh shows us his power, like a place of rivers and very wide canals on which will row no galley, over which will pass no majestic ship.
²² (For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king and our Saviour.)
²³ Your tackle has given way, it cannot support the mast, it cannot hoist the pennon. And so there is much booty to be shared out; the lame fall to plundering,
²⁴ and no one living there will say, 'I am sickly'; the people living there will find their guilt forgiven.

Jude 1 v 7-25
 ⁷ But remember, my dear friends, what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.
¹⁸ 'At the final point of time', they told you, 'there will be mockers who follow nothing but their own godless desires.'
¹⁹ It is they who cause division, who live according to nature and do not possess the Spirit.
²⁰ But you, my dear friends, must build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit;
²¹ keep yourselves within the love of God and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you eternal life.
²² To some you must be compassionate because they are wavering;
²³ others you must save by snatching them from the fire; to others again you must be compassionate but wary, hating even the tunic stained by their bodies.
²⁴ To him who can keep you from falling and bring you safe to his glorious presence, innocent and joyful,
²⁵ to the only God, our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, authority and power, before all ages, now and for ever. Amen.


Lord let us live in your Kingdom now where it is apparent through the preaching of the gospel, the meeting in prayer and worship, in the celebration of the Eucharist. We look forward to the eternal Kingdom that will be revealed when we come home to you in Heaven. Help us understand the greatness, the vastness the eternal nature of your Kingdom now and in eternity.