CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune – Doxology)

Before the throne of God above,

I have a strong, a perfect plea,

A great High Priest, whose name is love,

Who ever lives and pleads for me.

My name is graven on his hands,

My name is written on His heart;

I know that while in heav’n He stands,

No tongue can bid me to depart.

Because the sinless Saviour died,

My sinful soul is counted free,

For God, the Just, is satisfied

To look on Him and pardon me.

One with Himself, I cannot die,

My soul is purchased with His blood;

My life is hid with Christ on high,

With Christ, my Saviour and my God.

TODAY’S SERVICES –

BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. – An Eternity in Christ - Isaiah 46:10

Brother Jason Renfroe

MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –

• OPENING – Jeremiah 23:5-6

• CALL TO WORSHIP (above)

• HYMN – Rock of Ages – p. 126

• READING – Luke 15:1-10

• MESSAGE – Lost and Found – Romans 10:1-4

Brother Randy Wages

• CLOSING HYMN – Majestic Sweetness – p. 52

Birthdays: Kayla Seagraves – Sept. 24^th | Jason Renfroe – Sept. 30^th

Debbie and I are on vacation in Florida with our family. The Lord willing, we will return home at the end of the week, and I will be preaching next Sunday, October 1. Remember that Pastor Richard Warmack and his wife Pam will be with us the weekend of October 6-8 for a special meeting. Also, remember that we will begin our Wednesday Evening Bible Study on October 11. –Pastor Bill Parker

CAN MAN SAVE THE EARTH?

The radical environmentalists tell us that man can save the earth if he will do what they say. Let me be clear that I am all for keeping the earth clean. I do not want to breathe dirty air or drink dirty water. I do not want to see trash scattered along the highway. I believe we should all strive to be good stewards of the physical world in which we live. But, can man save the earth? NO! The truth is that man cannot even save himself. Man brought sin into the world and brought the world under the curse of sin. Man is the problem, but radical, irresponsible, and costly environmentalism is not the answer. The only one who can save sinners is God by His grace through the Lord Jesus Christ. The only one who has conquered sin and death is the Lord Jesus Christ by His death on the cross for His people. Mankind, not all men without exception but the race of man, will be saved by Christ or not at all. This sin-cursed earth will be burned up and God will make a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells nothing but righteousness – a righteous race of people made so by the righteousness of God in Christ imputed to them and made sinlessly perfect by God’s power and grace in Christ and made sinlessly perfect by God’s power and grace in Christ. There is no other salvation for sinners or for this sinful world. –Pastor Bill Parker

Consider that the greatest sins may be hid under the greatest duties and the greatest terrors. See that the wound that sin has made in your soul be perfectly cured by the blood of Christ, not skinned over with duties, humblings, and enlargements. Apply what you will besides the blood of Christ, and it will poison the sore. You will find that sin was never mortified truly if you have not seen Christ bleeding for you upon the cross. Nothing can kill it but beholding Christ’s righteousness. –Thomas Wilcox

CHRIST MUST BE ALL

We cannot keep our eye too exclusively or too intently fixed on Jesus. All salvation is in Him. All salvation proceeds from Him. All salvation leads to Him. And for the assurance and comfort of our salvation, we are to repose believingly and entirely on Him. Christ must be all! Christ is the beginning, the center, and Christ is the end.

Oh, sweet truth to you who are sensible of your poverty, vileness, and insufficiency, and of the ten thousand flaws and failures of which, perhaps, no one is cognizant but God and your own soul! Oh, to turn and rest in Christ, a full Christ, a loving Christ, a tender Christ, whose heart’s love never chills, from whose eyes darts no reproof, from whose lips breathes no sentence of condemnation! Christ must be all! –Octavius Winslow

Christ is all my hope.

Christ is all my righteousness.

Christ is all my wisdom.

Christ is all my redemption.

Christ is all my sanctification.

Christ is all my salvation.

SALVATION IS OF THE LORD