CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune – Take My Life, And Let it Be – 393)

Unto us a child is born;
Human nature to adorn;
By His merits to atone,
For our sins before God’s throne. (R)

Unto us a Son is giv’n;
Now our Advocate in heav’n;
By His perfect righteousness,
God is just to save and bless. (R)

Jesus, great Immanuel,
He did once with sinners dwell;
Glory be to God on high,
To God’s throne we are brought nigh. (R)

To the ONE Who came for me,
To the ONE Who set me free;
Christ our great Immanuel
Saved us from eternal hell. (R)

TODAY’S SERVICES:
BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. – Brother Jason Renfroe

MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m – Brother Jim Casey

• CALL TO WORSHIP – (above)

• HYMN – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – p. 93

• CLOSING HYMN – Silent Night! Holy Night! – p. 85
  
  NO MID-WEEK BIBLE STUDY THIS WEDNESDAY (12/21/16)
  & NO SERVICE NEXT SUNDAY (12/25/16)

SERVICES WILL RESUME ON WEDNESDAY – 12/28 – AT 7:00 P.M.

WE WILL SERVE THE LORD’S SUPPER & HAVE A FELLOWSHIP DINNER ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 1.

Debbie, Nathan, and I are in Ashland, KY, this week visiting with our family. We hope and pray that all of you have a joyous time with your families during this season. Lord willing, we will return home next week.

–The Pastor

GOD SENT HIS SON

God has declared in His Word that He will show mercy, that He will redeem and glorify a people, and that heaven will be populated with a holy people like His beloved Son. Here is the greatest evidence that His promise will be fulfilled – “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal. 4:4-5); and God “ spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all ...” (Rom. 8:32). The Father sent the Son into the world to work out the only righteousness whereby He could be just and justify the ungodly. The Father did not withhold the Son from all that He must be, endure, suffer, and accomplish in order to take up our hopeless case and redeem us. He gave Christ to be our Representative, sacrifice, sin-offering, and Mediator. If God so loved His elect that He gave Christ, and Christ so loved them that He gave Himself, shall those for whom He lived and died not freely and abundantly receive all that He purchased for them? Did Christ suffer and die in vain? Perish the thought! His righteousness demands the salvation and final glory of every sinner He represented. They shall be saved! Sinner, you are commanded to believe that God will save you for Christ's sake alone, based on His righteousness alone! –Copied

Hearken unto Me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: I bring near my Righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel My glory.

(Isaiah 46:12-13)

UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN, A SON IS GIVEN

God was manifest in human flesh, “and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this” (Isa. 9:6-7), and He is the salvation provided by God, the Lord our righteousness.

“FOR MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THY SALVATION”
LUKE 2:30