CALL TO WORSHIP

(TUNE: O WORSHIP THE KING)

words by Jim Byrd

We gather this day to honor the King,

Who sits on His throne, His triumphs we sing;

The Savior who died to atone for our sin,

Came forth from the tomb and He liveth again.

Christ Jesus our Lord the battle has won,

He died and arose, the work is all done!

He took on Himself all our debt to repay,

The sins of His people are all washed away.

To Jesus our Lord all honors we bring,

And say unto death, "O where is thy sting?"

Enthroned in His glory, almighty to save,

King Jesus has triumphed o’er sin and the grave.

He rose from the tomb and reigns high above,

All praise to His Name, all power and love;

Made righteous in Jesus we someday shall rise,

To dwell with our Savior above earth and skies.

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

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Justification:

Justification is a Judicial Act of God’s Free Grace and Mercy in Christ; a legal declaration of complete acquittal from imputed and contracted sin, guilt & condemnation; a discharge by substitutionary satisfaction & sovereign imputation of sin to Christ – accompanied by a declaration of perfect righteousness; whereby God clears His elect from all sin, and reckons them wholly righteous on the basis of the mediation, full satisfaction and substitutionary righteousness of Christ – out of consideration of nothing but Christ alone, without any initiating act on their part; and that Divine Pardon accompanying Justification can be distinguished from the fact that it is exclusively procured by the Blood of Christ in the actual pardon and complete removal of Sin in all its awful entirety; whereas Justification by Imputation gives a Righteousness and insures the heirs thereof of an eternal inheritance. This Righteousness based upon the infinite merit of Christ’s entire Mediatorial Representation is called the righteousness of God; which insures the salvation of all whom He represented, and on whose behalf He accomplished in Himself, as Surety of the everlasting covenant – complete redemption; and a refusal to recognize that all of justification is conditioned upon Christ alone is an actual denial of Christ, and an attempt by men to rob Him of His glory and utterly destroy the message of the gospel.

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Faith:

The grace of faith; being a Divine persuasion of the mind – a spiritual, imperishable & vital work of the Spirit of God; that inwardly realizes, accredits and lays hold upon the assimilating truths of the Gospel; whereby the elect are brought to the assurance, realization, sense, perception & evidence of their salvation in Christ; and are thereby enabled to believe, wholly embrace, exclusively rest & live upon Him for all of justification, sanctification & eternal life – is of an altogether Spirit infused motion of the soul unto Christ; and as built upon certain, specific and infallible gospel truth; is brought under that reign of grace by which the mind is fixated, the heart absorbed and Christ believed upon in the animating power of divine grace.

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Everlasting Love of God in Christ

Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

This is that everlasting love which hath been from God's eternal settlements. That love wherewith the Church has been loved everlastingly before she was drawn and therefore is she at last drawn by the fruit of it in open loving-kindness. – It is expressed thus; “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” It is neither ‘I will love you’ with an everlasting love; nor ‘I do love you’ with an everlasting love; but that I have done it! It is not I will; because it was about a deed of settlement; and to have said ‘I will love thee’ with an everlasting love, had argued the thing yet to be settled, founded and made sure; but that same love could not be wanting, for ‘twas done. That love was not to be settled with God hereafter, but was settled already; and from thence inclusively upon this lasting bottom of the Love, the everlastingness of it that hath been, is to be continued and perpetuated the everlastingness of the same love hereafter. It is not ‘I do love you’ with an everlasting love, for the same reason; but I have, to show that it is by grace, and not by present or future faith, repentance, works of righteousness, holiness etc. He hath loved Jacob, and hated Esau, before they have done good or evil. Observe, the Love of God is the glory of His Grace; it is the top and quintessence of all His mercy to the elect, even whilst they lie dead in trespasses and sins. The fall being decreed subserviently to exalt the riches of God's grace and love towards the elect. Eph.2:4,5.