Birthdays: David Alvord - Sept. 20th. & Brooke Young - Sept. 20th.
Revising History or Revealing History
The focus of all the inspired Scriptures is the fulfillment of all God's promises and intent in the Person and work of Jesus Christ. This includes the single, historical act of Christ to put away the sins of His people (Old and New Testament believers) and to work out, establish, and finish the righteousness based upon which God was and is just to justify them all. All believers, both Old and New Testament, were and are saved, justified, and certain to be glorified by this single, historical act of the Lord Jesus Christ. This act, based upon which God justified the ungodly in the Old and the New Testament, could not be done and finished except as Christ, the eternal, immutable Son of God who is without beginning or end, entered time and united with human nature without sin, walked the earth in obedience to the law, and was put to death on Calvary. The act upon which all God's promises are given was accomplished in Christ (2 Cor. 1:20). All the benefits of the whole of salvation are connected with this one great act in time. Any benefits applied before or after the actual act only serve to show two things - (1) the greatness and glory of God in His eternal, immutable nature, and (2) the greatness and glory of Christ Himself and the work He accomplished in time on the cross.
Bill Parker - Pastor Thirteenth Street Baptist Church in Ashland, Ky.
WATCHMEN UPON THE WALLS
All the comforts and privileges that the children of God know on this side of heaven, and in heaven, proceed from the Father's everlasting love to us in Christ Jesus. Whatever grace the Lord bestows upon us, it is eternal life begun. All divine grace is everlasting. This is what the faithful watchman must declare upon the walls of Zion, that all the inhabitants and citizens may know the privileges and immunities that belong to them. And in all their trials, poverty or distress of any kind, they may come boldly to obtain relief and to believe that the King of this heavenly country will never cast them off.
by JAMES BOURNE
Excerpts fromA MINISTRY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
By Randy Wages
Is your Jesus "another Jesus" than that which is preached by the Apostles and presented in the holy scriptures as "The Lord our Righteousness."
Will your body of faith, your doctrine, your Jesus, your gospel, stand up to the scrutiny of God's testimony in His word? Do you abide in the doctrine of Christ under an abiding ministry of righteousness? As John wrote, to abide there is to have both the Father and the Son! Now that's good news.
Why stake your eternity on something proceeding from you, the sinner, (your faith, your sincerity, your interest in religion or even that which you claim is actually Christ's work in or through you)? That's no different than the lost Pharisee who prayed, "I thank God that I'm not like other men," appearing to give him the credit. Well, know that much credit that is given to God isn't welcomed. In fact, more often than not it is diametrically opposed to the preeminence Christ earned by having already completed all that was necessary for a sinner's salvation. Remember that God says that we'll be judged by the righteousness of the one he raised from the dead and if the righteousness we bank upon doesn't measure up to that, if it's not His wrought out satisfaction to law and justice that was so complete as to demand His very resurrection, then, anyone leaving this world absent that righteousness shall not be risen with Him, but shall suffer God's wrath - spending an eternity banished from the presence of God, never paying down the debt owed to His Holy and inflexible justice.
Instead, flee to God, a just God and a Savior, who freely declares that all are saved who genuinely stake their eternal destiny on the obedience and death of none other than the God-man mediator Himself - Jesus Christ, the Lord our righteousness, and repent from ever thinking that anything other than that righteousness imputed could grant them acceptance or form any part of their fitness for acceptance before a Holy God. Trust in Him, based upon His perfect satisfaction to God's law & justice, His righteousness that demands and delivers eternal life to all that He lived and died for. Now that's the real McCoy - And that's my Savior!
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