CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune – Brethren We Have Met To Worship – p. 15)

Glory, glory, I'm forgiven; all my sins are washed away.

Christ, by His great blood atonement, all my sin has put away.

Sin imputed to my Savior, when He died upon the tree

As the Substitute for sinners,

God will not imputed to me.

Glory, glory, I'm accepted, robed in Christ's own righteousness;

I'm a child, an heir of heaven, saved by God's almighty grace.

Christ's obedience to the Father is imputed now to me;

In God's sight I'm pure and holy,

He declares me so to be.

Glory, glory, I'll not perish, in Christ's hands I am secure;

He who saved me, sure, will keep me, by God's grace I shall endure.

This is not a vain presumption; I just take Him at His word;

Christ has sworn, "They shall not perish

Who believe on Me their Lord."

TODAY’S SERVICES – Messages by Pastor Bill Parker

BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. –

Seeking God’s Kingdom and Righteousness (2) – Matthew 6:24-34

MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –

• OPENING – Isaiah 40:1-2

• CALL TO WORSHIP (above)

• HYMN – Standing On the Promises – p. 175

• READING – 1 John 3:13-24

• MESSAGE – God is Greater Than Our Hearts – 1 John 3:19-21

• CLOSING HYMN – I Know Whom I Have Believed – p. 224

MID-WEEK BIBLE STUDY – WEDNESDAY – 6:30 P.M.

Birthdays: Bill Sparks – Jan. 22^nd | Tim Hall – Jan. 26^th

GRACE

Grace will not allow the strong to boast, nor the weak to despair. Grace will not allow the mature to presume, nor the young to doubt God’s love.

Grace will never catalogue sin --- No sin is so small that it will go unpunished without His blood, and
no sin too great that His blood won’t atone.

Grace opens the door wide for all who believe on our Lord Jesus Christ, and shuts the door of mercy to all who do not believe. – John Flavel

HOW SHOULD YOU, A SINNER, COME TO CHRIST?

You should come waiting for nothing and delaying for no reason. You should come as a hungry sinner to be filled, as a poor sinner to be enriched, as a lost sinner to be found, as a wicked, undeserving sinner to be clothed with His righteousness. If you can come like this, our Lord will receive you, for you are His creation (Eph. 2:10). –Copied

WHAT SATISFIES MY SOUL?

“I am not satisfied with my faith,” says one. NO, of course you aren’t, nor will you ever be, at least I hope not! The Bible does not say, “Therefore being satisfied with our faith we have peace with God”; it says, “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” “I am not satisfied with my repentance.” That is wonderful! What would you do with your repentance if you were satisfied with it? Would you bring it to God instead of the blood? Oh, what pride and self-righteousness must be in any person who is satisfied with his repentance and faith! That person could never find true peace, for such a refuge of lies must fall. “I am not satisfied with my love.” What? Did you expect, on this earth, to be satisfied with any grace found in you? Was it your love for Christ or His love for you that gave you peace at first? Now then, there is but one thing with which Almighty God is satisfied – entirely satisfied – and that is THE PERSON AND WORK OF HIS SON! It is with Christ that we must be satisfied, not with ourselves, nor anything about us! When we cease from ALL our labors, and ALL our righteousness, and ENTER INTO HIS REST, pardon and peace will come without delay. – Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)

PROMOTING OBEDIENCE

God the Holy Spirit motivates God’s true people to all godliness in life by establishing within their hearts the Gospel motives of grace, gratitude, and love. These motives come from a true knowledge and conviction that God saves, blesses, and preserves His people unto glory based totally and solely upon what the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished as their Surety and Substitute in His obedience unto death. Christ has accomplished all righteousness by which we are justified before God. Christ has freely given us spiritual life to know and trust Him for all salvation.

Legal and mercenary motives only promote the awful sin of trying to establish a righteousness of our own, walking after and minding the things of the flesh, bringing forth fruit unto death. The most righteous appearance is the most awful abomination before God when the obedience is aimed at taking the place of or even adding unto the very righteousness of God's only-begotten Son which was established for God's elect for their salvation. Standing before God in the merits of His Son is honoring to His glory. If we have Christ as the Lord our Righteousness, why would we plead anything of our own. And having Christ as the Lord our Righteousness, we have every motivation to live unto the Lord and for His glory. We have the proper motivation from which we war against the flesh and seek to be conformed to Christ in our character and conduct. –Pastor Bill Parker