September 16, 2007

 

                                     CALL TO WORSHIP

                           (Tune:  O For A Thousand Tongues)

 

              Low at Thy feet, O Christ, we fall, enabled to confess,

                              And call Thee by the Holy Ghost,

                                 The Lord our Righteousness.

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           ­­­Foundation of Thy people's joy, their pardon and their rest;

                                 On earth our sacrifice for sin,

                               In heav'n our Great High Priest.

 

        The Lord of life who suffered death that we might heav'n attain;

                           The source of blessing, who on earth

                                  Was made a curse for men.

 

         Through Thy merits poor fallen men to God may gain access;

                             With Thy fine linen deck our souls,

                                   Thy perfect righteousness!

 

Psalm 16:8-9

I have set the LORD always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.  Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 

           

MORNING WORSHIP: 

 

10:00 Bible Study:  Video sermon by Bill Parker

 

11:00 Service:  Speaker Winston Pannell, Eager Ave. Grace Church

 

Bible Conference:  Providence Grace Church in Claxton, Tn will be having a Bible Conference beginning Oct. 5 through Oct. 7, 2007. Guest speakers will be Pastor’s Bill Parker and Ken Wimer.

 

Birthdays:  Brooke Young, Sept. 20th. – David Alvord, Sept. 20th.

                     Dawson Young, Sept. 23rd. 

 

 

 

   

He is made unto us redemption

(1 Corinthians 1:30)

 

If God the Son is made unto us wisdom; if he has devised the best plan and executed it to perfection by His obedience, suffering and death to establish a righteousness that answers every demand of God’s holy law and justice; if God the Father has imputed unto us that righteousness and made us unchangeably justified, holy and righteous in His sight, what, or who can withhold from us all the benefits and blessings secured by Christ for us? What, or who can keep us from final glory in heaven? God answers the question in Romans 8:31-39.  “Who shall lay anything to the charge of

God’s Elect?”

“But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption: that according as it is written he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” As the potter makes a vessel unto honor, so God makes His children vessels unto His honor, in and by the Lord Jesus Christ who is “made of God” our salvation.

 

                        Winston Pannell – Eager Ave. Grace Church

 

 

 

Romans 12:1 - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

It is certainly not unreasonable to expect a sinner, who has been freely and unconditionally pardoned, redeemed, forgiven, justified, sanctified, who has been given the fulness of righteousness, the whole inheritance of grace, the complete privilege of fellowship with God, (and all through the substitutionary obedience and death of the Lord Jesus Christ), to love, serve, and worship the God who granted all this out of His sovereign will.

                   Bill Parker, Pastor of 13th. Street Baptist Church

 

 

An extract from “Justification By Christ Alone”

   Justification By Christ Alone Sets Forth the True Place of Faith in Salvation As An Evidence of Interest In Christ But Not A Join-Partner With Christ
     Truly amongst those who are the beloved ones of our Lord Jesus, who have a like share and interest in Him as their life and peace, there is an aptness in men to miscarry in the knowledge of this rich grace of God. Some being apt to conceive that there is no Justification of a creature in no sense before and without faith, and so make Faith a joint-partner with Christ in the business of Justification. For, indeed, this is to me a certain truth, that whatsoever gives a being to a thing must needs be a part of that thing which it gives being to, and therefore, if there be no Justification in no sense considered, but as it has respect to faith. It is much to be feared, that that opinion claimed a great share of that glory which is peculiar to Christ Jesus alone. That the Scripture holds forth justification by faith in a sense is very clear, but yet under no other consideration, but by way of evidence, Heb. 11:1, 2. As it respects the taking away of sin from off the Conscience: For indeed the debt is paid by the blood of Christ alone, and we are therefore said to be justified by His blood, Rom. 5:9. For indeed, as Christ Jesus our Lord has paid the debt, "The Lord having laid upon him the iniquities of us all," so does He declare this satisfaction and acceptation of us in Christ by faith. Faith is the eye of the understanding whereby the soul comes to see the great things which God the Father has prepared for them who love Him.

 

             Samuel Richardson – 1647

 

 

 

The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted. " (Psalm 18. 46).

The gracious words of our text set forth the glorious Person of our Lord Jesus Christ, concerning whom the Apostle says, as it can be said of no other, that He is "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever" (Heb. 13. 8.) All things in nature and in providence change. The feelings and exercises of the Christian mind are ever numerous and changing. But whatever takes place in nations, in churches, in families, or in the feelings of our minds, "the LORD liveth; and blessed be our rock," (the Rock of Ages, for He never moves!) "and let the God of my salvation be exalted."

                  John Kershaw – London, 1848