Online Service (Remembrance Sunday) – Living in Faith pt. 6: Perfection of Joy Through Love

Posted on 08 Mar 2021

With the continuing Coronavirus crisis the government has re-introduced lock down rules. Therefore the decision to continue with the live-stream services online was taken.

Below is the recording of the sermon for this week. Pastor Ray Pountney considers that, while salvation is the free gift from God, He expects us to trust and obey Him if we desire our joy to be full.

Living in Faith pt. 6: Perfection of Joy Through Love – John 15:9-17 – Rev Ray Pountney – 8th November 2020

Reflective Hymn & John 15:9-17

Amazing Grace!

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch; like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!

The Lord hath promised good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.

When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we first begun.

Love and Joy Perfected

9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

New King James Version