CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune: “Take My Life” – p. 393)

To Thy presence we draw near,
Lord, we love to worship here;
When within the veil we meet,
Christ, upon the mercy-seat. (R)

Thou through Him art reconciled,
I through Him became Thy child;
Abba, Father! Give us grace,
In Thy courts to seek Thy face. (R)

While Thy glorious praise is sung,
Teach my heart, unloose my tongue;
That my joyful soul may bless,
Christ the Lord, my Righteousness! (R)

While Thy ministers proclaim,
Peace and pardon in Thy name;
Through their voice, by faith, may we,
Hear Thee speaking from on high. (R)

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.

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Birthdays: Kedrial Riggins – July 4^th| Mary James Fuller – July 8^th

Hymns for service: “Nothing But the Blood” – p. 212
“Have Thine Own Way, Lord” – p. 388

We extend our sincere sympathy to Brother Gary Shepard and his family upon the death of his dear wife and our sister in Christ, Betty. Betty went to be with the Lord last week. May the Lord bless Gary and the family in their time of sorrow, but let’s never forget that our sorrow is undergirded with the hope of eternal glory by God’s grace in the Lord Jesus Christ – “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him” (1 Thess. 4:13-14).

As sinners saved by the grace of God and brought by God the Holy Spirit to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, our goal in true worship is to lift up (praise and honor) Christ in the glory of His Person (God with us) and in the power of His finished work of redemption (His shed blood and righteousness imputed which saves us fully from our sins). Herein we see the glory of God in its fullness as well as our completeness in Christ – “For IN HIM dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete IN HIM, which is the head of all principality and power” (Colossians 2:9-10). Our prayer then is that God enable us to lift up Christ in our prayers, our hymns, our hearing of the message, and in our fellowship. -- Pastor Bill Parker

The same way that the sins of Christ's people became His, His righteousness becomes theirs. Now their sins became Christ's by imputation only; the Father hid them on Him, or made them to meet upon Him, imputed them to Him, placed them to His account; and He took them upon Him, and looked upon Himself as answerable to justice for them; and so, in the same way, His righteousness is made over to, and put upon His people; "For He who knew no sin, was made sin for us", by imputation, "that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him"; accounted righteous in Him, through His righteousness imputed (2 Cor. 5:21). -- John Gill (1839)

CHRIST KNOWN BY HIS DOCTRINE

Human opinions and mystical imaginations concerning “Jesus” abound in the world of false Christianity. False Christianity presents itself under the name of Jesus Christ but denies the doctrine of Christ as revealed in God’s holy Word. These false ideas of Jesus come in many forms, from the utterly ridiculous to the more deceptive (false preachers telling lies about Jesus from their pulpits). The Lord Himself told us that it would be like this in the last days – “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect” (Matthew 24:23-24). The apostle Paul wrote to the church at Corinth – “For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him: (2 Cor. 11:4). Considering all this, how can we who claim to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ know for certain we are not deceived? God the Holy Spirit must reveal Christ to us and in us (Matt. 11:27; Gal. 1:15-16), and He does this by means of the truth (the doctrine of Christ) (Rom. 1:16-17; 6:17-18; 10:13-17). Our assurance of salvation comes by the Spirit bringing us by faith to look to Christ AS HE IS IDENTIFIED AND DISTINGUISHED IN TRUTH. Read God’s Word – “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son” (2 John 9). This is, first and foremost, the Bible’s teaching concerning the PERSON of Christ and the WORK of Christ in redeeming His people from their sins. Who is Jesus Christ? “His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us” (Matt. 1:23). What did He accomplish in His death on the cross? “For He shall save His people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). The doctrine of Christ also involves what He Himself taught His disciples as recorded in the whole Bible. “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isa. 8:20). So the lesson to be learned here is to be diligent to read and study God’s Word (the Bible) with a desire to see the truth as it is revealed in and by the Lord Jesus Christ.