October 16, 2016

HYMN OF THE DAY

Now may the Lord reveal his face,
And teach our stammering tongues;
To make his sovereign reigning grace,
The subject of our songs.

No sweeter subject can invite,
A sinners' heart to sing;
Or more display the glorious right,
Of our exalted King.

Grace reigns to pardon crimson sins,
To melt the hardest hearts;
And from the work it once begins
It never once departs.

The world and Satan strive in vain
Against the chosen few;
Secured by grace's conquering reign,
They all shall conquer too.

Tune: Amazing Grace p. #236

A WORK OR A PERSON

When you ask someone what their hope is most will say I trust the finished work of Christ. But it is not the work of Christ that saves sinners, IT IS CHRIST HIMSELF!

It wasn’t a work that bore our sin on the tree but a person. The Lord Jesus Christ did indeed come into the world to do a work, a work that his father gave him to do on behalf of his people. He came to fulfill the law and prophets, and to make and end of sin and bring in an everlasting righteousness. He was the Lamb of God who John said “would take away the sin of the world”. He was “Immanuel God with us, He was Jesus who came to save his people from their sin”.

As for me I trust a PERSON The Lord Jesus Christ, for he was a sinless man who lived a perfect life and offered himself as a sacrifice for sin, and by that one sacrifice sin was put away once for all, and by that one offering he sanctified his people.

So do you trust a finished work or The Lord Jesus who did the work? It was He who cried from the Cross IT IS FINISHED! - Pastor

ECCLESIASTES 7:8
May you add your own expressions in the coming year:

"better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof..."

*Beginning.....born in sin

*End..............ushered into glory, spotless

*Beginning......must bear my own sin

*End..............Christ bears them all on His body on the tree.

*Beginning......Children of wrath

*End..............Child of grace

*Beginning......death because of iniquities

*End..............Raised to newness of life because of His perfection

*Beginning......found in my own way that seems right.

*End..............placed in His way which is always right. – Drew Dietz

Charles H. Spurgeon: God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails.

By Robert Hawker
Acts 13:39: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. I have often thought, how very gracious it was in God the Holy Ghost, in directing his servant Paul thus to teach the church. The Lord well knew how many of his people of little faith are at times sharply exercised, by reason of the slenderness of this principle; so as sometimes from the temptations of the enemy, and their own misgiving hearts, to call in question whether they have the least measure of faith. And what a relief to the souls of all such ought it to be, and no doubt hath frequently proved, when they are here told, and from an authority which cannot err, that all that believe; whether strong believers, or weak believers; whether babes in Christ, or fathers in God: all are alike justified from all things, by Christ. And the reason is given. It is by Him. Yes! Christ's Person and Christ's blood and righteousness, are the sole causes of justification; and perfectly distinct from, and unconnected with, any other circumstance whatever. It is indeed a very blessed thing, and calls for great thankfulness in the hearts of those, whom grace gives the power to enjoy it; when a child of God is strong in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. But it never should be forgotten, at the same time, that it is not our faith, but Christ's salvation, which is the whole security of the Lords' people, and the weakest believer, as well as the strongest, are alike safe in Christ Jesus. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory (Isaiah 14:25.)