CALL TO WORSHIP (Tune: “Like a River Glorious” – p. 287) (Words by Pastor Jim Byrd)
Sinners saved by Jesus, glory in His Name; For He came and cleansed us from our guilt and shame; He alone could save us from our lost estate, Praise the great Redeemer, only Potentate CHORUS: Praise the name of Jesus, Let your voices soar Praise the name of Jesus, Praise Him evermore.
With His sacrifice the Lord was satisfied, By His bloody death our souls were justified; Risen from the grave He evermore shall reign; Christ our mighty King will soon return again. CHORUS
None can save but Jesus, look to Him we must, O that Christ the Savior would be all our trust; May the Spirit grant that each of us would flee, To the Lamb who saves for all eternity. CHORUS
Today: Bible Classes – 10:00 a.m.; Morning Worship – 11:00 a.m. Messages by Pastor Bill Parker
Television Broadcast: Reign of Grace Television Sunday morning on WALB-TV @ 9 AM.
Live Streaming – 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. – Sermon Audio web site
Birthdays: Melissa Riggins – May 22nd | Sarah Hall – May 27th
Hymns for service: “Amazing Grace” – p. 236 “My Savior” – p. 226
WE WILL SERVE THE LORD’S SUPPER ON SUNDAY, JUNE 5. We will have a covered-dish dinner after the worship services on that Sunday.
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105). A truly saved person learns early on the value of God’s Word as recorded in the Holy Scriptures. Every claim and assurance of salvation must be supported by God’s Word. Every direction of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be guided by God’s Word. Every value and judgment must be measured by God’s Word. And when God’s Word in the Holy Scriptures is truly the light of our lives, we find it so because all of the matters of life, death, judgment, and eternity are founded upon, centered around, and moving toward the glory of God in the greatness of Christ, the Godman/Mediator, and the power and success of His finished, redemptive work as our Surety and Substitute as the Lord our righteousness. Herein is Christ truly the Lord and the Light of our lives. “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee” (Psalm 119:11). – Pastor Bill Parker
Grace is a provision for men who are so fallen that they cannot lift the ax of justice, so corrupt that they cannot change their own natures, so averse to God that they cannot turn to Him, so blind that they cannot see Him, so deaf that they cannot hear Him, so dead that He Himself must open their graves and lift them into resurrection. – G.S. Bishop
You are familiar with the illustration our Savior gave about the wise man who built his house upon the rock and the foolish man who built upon the sand (Matthew 7:24-27). The teaching is that those made wise unto salvation by the convincing work of the Holy Spirit build all their hope of salvation, everlasting life and acceptance with God upon the Rock, Christ Jesus, and His sacrificial, substitutionary death upon the cross. He “is our hope” (1 Timothy 1:1). We have “a good hope through grace” (2 Thessalonians 2:16). All who build their hope of heavenly glory upon their works, religion or even their faith, build upon the sand. Soon the storm of divine judgment will come and those only whose “hope is built on nothing else than Jesus’ blood and righteousness” will be safe, all others will be damned. Upon WHO OR WHAT do you build your hope of everlasting life, happiness and peace? —Pastor Jim Byrd
SALVATION: A MATTER OF JUSTICE AS WELL AS MERCY
The pardon which God gives us is not a smothering-up of our sins, nor a blinding of justice. God is as just in His pardons as in His punishments. It shall be seen at the last, when believers enter into their glory, that they rise there by law, just as surely as the lost sink down to hell by law: that is to say that the Lord Jesus hath rendered to the law such recompense by His perfect obedience, and His matchless atonement, that it shall be as just on God's part to save His elect as to condemn the unbelieving world. – copied
Brethren, if we are to preach and understand something of the nature, depths, and magnitude of God’s love to sinners, it will never be found in simply telling all without exception that “God loves you and Christ died for you. Now the rest is up to you.” That is not the Gospel. First, God’s love in Christ for His people is the security and assurance of their whole salvation. Secondly, according to the Scriptures, the only ones whom we can tell that God loves them and Christ died for them are those who have been brought by the love and power of God to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and repentance of dead works. The Gospel shows how God’s love to His chosen people provides all things necessary for their complete salvation in and by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Godman, Who stands as their Surety and Substitute under the law and justice of God. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). This shows that God’s love is the source of our salvation and of our love to Him – “We love Him, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
-- Pastor Bill Parker
It is a gracious God who loves us before we were, who loves us in spite of what we did in Adam, who loves us in spite of what we are as sinners and what we do, who loves us with an everlasting love and that never changes. He could only love us in this way with the love which is in Christ Jesus!
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