Thou dear Redeemer, risen Lamb, we love to hear of Thee;
No music's like Thy charming name nor half so sweet can be.
O let us ever hear Thy voice, in mercy to us speak;
In our High Priest we will rejoice, the Lord our righteousness.
By His own blood Christ satisfied the law's exact demands;
God's love provided His own Son, salvation in His hands.
Imputed righteousness our theme, while in this world we stay;
We'll cling to Christ's own finished work when all things else decay.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
MORNING WORSHIP:
10:00 Bible Study: Video sermon by Bill Parker
11:00 Service: Speaker Randy Wages, Eager Ave. Grace Church
Birthdays: Randy Wages - Dec. 5th.
Radio Broadcast: Sunday morning at 9:30am on 98.7 FM -WISK
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever."Hebrews 18: 8
O the everlasting salvation that we have in Jesus Christ! He is the same, and will be the same for ever and ever! and, the righteousness He has wrought out for us is like Himself; it is an everlasting righteousness. It covered our first parents. It is true, they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves, but God rejected them, as He will reject our self-righteousness, and clothed them with the skins of beasts that had probably been slain in sacrifice. Abraham had to look to this Jesus for righteousness, and so had the prophets, and so have we. It is an everlasting righteousness, covering all the election of grace in ages gone by, covering them all today, and that will cover them all tomorrow; making them accepted in the presence of a holy God. As it is written, we are "accepted in the Beloved," beheld all fair and perfect in the Lord Jesus. And as respects the blood of this salvation, it is "the blood of the everlasting covenant." All the church of God in ages past have been purged from sin in the blood of Jesus; and the church of God at this day is looking by faith to the blood of the slaughtered Lamb; and it will be the same to us tomorrow and as long as we live; and when we have gone to glory we shall shout, "Victory through the blood of the Lamb and the word of His testimony! That blood will still maintain its power.
John Kershaw - 1853
"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." --Philippians 4:4
There is always cause for justified sinners to REJOICE IN THE LORD. Rejoice in His grace, which is sufficient. Rejoice in His blood, which cleanses. Rejoice in His righteousness imputed, which justifies. Rejoice in His love, which never fails. Rejoice in His providence, which works all things for our good. Rejoice in His intercession, which is continual and effectual. Rejoice that our names are written in the Book of Life.
Jesus the Great High Priest by J. C. Philpot
Thus "he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth." (Isa. 53:7.) The whole of his obedient and suffering life was a voluntary offering up of himself to do and suffer the will of God; but it is in its last acts, as offering himself in sacrifice, that we see it especially manifested. In this spirit, as we have already pointed out, he comes up to Jerusalem, for there must he die, as he himself said, "Nevertheless I must walk today, and tomorrow, and the day following; for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." (Luke 13:33.) In this spirit, he entered Jerusalem, in meek yet holy triumph, sitting on an donkey's colt. (John 12:15.) In this spirit, he sat down with his disciples at the paschal supper, when he said unto them, "With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer." (Luke 22:15.) And in the same spirit, he freely, voluntarily laid down his life as the last act of his willing, suffering obedience, according to his own words, "Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life that I might take it again. No man takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment, (that is, this enjoined part of my priestly office-for he is here speaking not of his essential, but of his mediatorial life) have I received of my Father." (John 10:17, 18.)
A CAVEAT AGAINST UNSOUND DOCTRINES
He goes on to style the blessed Jesus our hope. Ask almost any man, "Whether he hopes to be saved eternally?" He will answer in the affirmative. But enquire again, "On what foundation he rests his hope?" Here too many are sadly divided. The Pelagian hopes to get to heaven by a moral life and a good use of his natural powers. The Arminian by a jumble of grace and free-will, human works, and the merits of Christ. The Deist by an interested observance of the social virtues. Thus merit-mongers, of every denomination, agree in making any thing the basis of their hope, rather than that foundation which God's own hand hath laid in Zion. But what saith Scripture? It avers, again and again, that Jesus alone is our hope: to the exclusion of all others, and to the utter annihilation of human deservings. Beware, therefore, of resting your dependence partly on Christ, and partly on some other basis. As surely as you bottom your reliance partly on the rock, and partly on the sand; so certainly, unless God give you an immediate repentance to your acknowledgment of the truth, will your supposed house of defence fall and bury you in its ruins, no less than if you had raised it on the sand alone. Christ is the hope of glory.
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