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Welcome to Kitchener Baptist Church! Guided by the Word of God, it has been the desire of our church over the last 35 years to be the kind of church that honours the Lord. You can learn more about our church below.
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A church that loves the Bible, desires to be Christ-like in an ungodly world, and to spread the good news of the Gospel to the regions beyond.
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- Sunday10:30 AMMorning service
- Sunday6:00 PMEvening service
- Wednesday7:00 PMWednesday service
- Friday7:00 PMYouth Unplugged
Why Will Ye Die?
“For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” Ezekiel 18:32
People sometimes picture God as eager to punish, as if He were waiting for a reason to condemn. I have met people who believed that, and I have had to unlearn some of it myself. Ezekiel 18 says the opposite. God asks, "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?"
The whole chapter is an argument with people who said God was unfair. "Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal." God answers them plainly. "But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die."
And then He says something wonderful about that man's past: "All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him." I never get tired of reading that line.
The chapter ends with a plea, not a threat. "Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin." And then the question: "for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye."
I am thankful that the God who could have condemned me pleaded with me instead.
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Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
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“Trust in him at all times; ye people, Pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.”
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Timeless Truths Radio Ministry has been broadcasting the Word of God to the Waterloo Region for over eight years. Every Sunday morning at 8:30 AM our program airs on 93.7 in the Waterloo region.
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