CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune: “Come Thou Fount”)

Christ is made the sure Foundation,

Christ the Head and Cornerstone,

Chosen of the Lord and precious,

Binding all the church in one;

Holy Zion’s help forever,

And her confidence alone

Is in Christ the blessed Savior,

In His righteousness alone.

Laud and honor to the Father,

Laud and honor to the Son,

Laud and honor to the Spirit,

Ever Three and ever One;

All engaged in our salvation,

By His grace alone are we

Safe and sure for heaven’s glory,

In His presence we will be.

Today’s Speaker: Brother Winston Pannell will conduct the 11:00 am service today. Pray for him as he delivers God’s word.

Guest Speaker: Pastor Jim Byrd will be our guest speaker next Sunday April 8^th.

Television Broadcast: Our Reign of Grace Television program is being broadcast on WFXL Fox 31, Channel 4. The program will air every Sunday morning at 11 AM.

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Birthdays: Wesley Young – April 6^th

Living Water

John 4

Samaria was his destiny

Through it he must needs go

For languishing there in Sychar

A lost sheep sin made low

He met me there at Jacob’s well

And all I ever did

Was told me by this man

Who knew the secrets my heart hid.

He asked for drink to quench his thirst

Which I had pause to give

He told of water from a well

That I might drink and live

Lord, evermore this water give

Lest I should thirst again

This water springing from the well

Dug by God’s just hand

Who spared not his only Son

That grace much more abound

On those he makes to now believe

The blessed gospel sound

What can I give to him who gave

A spring of water pure

That washes clean and is for sin

This sinner’s double cure.

A cup of water to the poor

I offer in his name

Living Water which men drink

And never thirst again.

“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled.” Matthew 5:6

Winston Pannell - 3/2012

WHY MEN GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL

The scriptures tell us that “the blood of Jesus cleanseth us from all sin.” (1 Jn. 1:7) Also, we are told that His name is called “Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matt. 1:21) Among their many sins are the sins of unbelief and their consequent rejection of Christ all the days of their lives prior to their conversion. So what determined their salvation and made it sure? Was it their reception of Christ? John tells us that the difference between those who reject Christ and those who receive Him lies in a distinction made by God Himself! No one in their natural state ever receives Christ. Men neither “do” any thing to be lost or anything to be saved! We became sinners in Adam by virtue of something he did. “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned;” (Rom. 5:12) Many on earth will never hear of Christ so as to be able to reject Him, yet they will perish. Why, because they are sinners! John writes, “He came unto his own and his own received him not...” But then he says, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to becomes the sons of God.” Why did these receive Christ and many others continue to reject Him? John says that it is because these who received Him “were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (Jn. 1:11-13) Why were these born of God? Because of the efficacy of the blood of Christ shed for them! They are saved because God “accepted” them “in the Beloved.” Christ is that glorious God-Man Person whose blood shed was a particular price paid to redeem a particular people! God says, “for the transgression of my people was he stricken.” (Isa. 53:8) That is the design of Christ's atonement and the extent of it since whatever God desires to do that's what He does. (Job 23:13) And that is the message of the Gospel. God, in the tri-unity of His sacred Persons, is the cause of salvation and the gospel of particular redemption in Christ goes up to His throne as a sweet fragrance “in those that are being saved and in those that perish.” (2 Cor. 2:14-16) Many will die in their sins not because of what they do or don't do but because of what they are. Salvation is of the Lord! As Bro. Barnard once preached, “Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.” (Jeremiah 6:30)