CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune: O For A Thousand Tongues – p. 46)

Dear Lord, into Thy faithful hands,
My welfare I commit;
And to Thy righteousness alone,
For safety I retreat.

Sorrows and agonies and death,
Thou didst endure for me;
When all the sins of God's elect
Were made to meet on Thee.

Though worthy in myself of hell
And everlasting shame;
I cannot dread the frown Divine,
Accepted in the Lamb.

Still on Thy merit, gracious Lord,
Enable me to lean;
Ever in Thee may I be found
My hiding place from sin.

TODAY’S SERVICES – Messages by Pastor Bill Parker

BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. –

A New Heaven and a New Earth – Rev. 21:1-4

MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –

• Opening – 1 John 1:5-7

• Call to Worship (above)

• Hymn – The Old Rugged Cross – p. 112

• Reading – Psalm 2

• Message – The Dynamics of Saving Faith (2) – Heb. 11:1-4

• CLOSING HYMN – Sweet Hour of Prayer – p. 361

MID-WEEK BIBLE STUDY – WEDNESDAY – 6:30 P.M.

Birthdays: Neil Jackson – Feb. 12^th | Andrea Pannell – Feb. 15^th
Delaney Renfroe – Feb. 15^th | Rylie Renfroe – Feb. 15^th
Jarrett McKenzie – Feb. 16^th | Toni Jones – Feb. 16^th
Sylvia Casey – Feb. 17^th

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:10)

You who have believed with your hearts unto righteousness, give God the whole glory; and pray that you may continually have more enlivening views of that imputed righteousness on which He has caused you to trust. As, on the one hand, nothing can warrant and animate your joy; so, on the other (to quote a man, now with God), "Nothing can effectually kill sin but a clear beholding of Christ's righteousness." Cleave to this sure and steadfast anchor, and you will finally rise superior, both to the waves of affliction and to the mud of your own lusts and corruptions.

– Augustus Toplady

“AND BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD” (ROMANS 12:2)

There is no argument that true Christians are never to seek to be conformed to the world and its evil. But the evil of the world comes in many forms. For example, true believers are never to be conformed to the world’s immorality and irreverence. We are not to be self-righteous “holier than thou’s.” We are never to act as if we are not all sinners in need of salvation by grace through the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. A true believer’s testimony to the world is that he has no righteousness before God but Christ crucified. His testimony is that if God were to judge him based on his best efforts to “be good,” he would be condemned. But we are never to use this as an excuse to be conformed to the world’s immoral ideas and behavior. But we are also never to be conformed to the world’s religion and ethics when it comes to seeking and finding a right relationship with God. The world’s gospel is false as it makes salvation conditioned on man rather than solely on Christ. The world seeks righteousness by their works and wills rather than in the death of Christ as Surety and Substitute of His people. The world’s worship is idolatry as it ignores or denies the true God and His truth as revealed in the Bible and as revealed in the glorious Person and finished work of Christ. The world glories (boasts) in its own works and ways. True believers glory in Christ – “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” (Gal. 6:14). – Pastor Bill Parker

THE HEART PURIFIED BY FAITH

The heart consists of the mind, conscience, affections, and will. By nature we are born with a fallen, spiritually dead heart – “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9). This natural heart is also called “an evil heart of unbelief” (Heb. 3:12). How then can such a spiritually dead and sinful heart be purified? God says of His people that He will give them a NEW heart (Ezek. 36:26). This new heart is one cleansed from the guilt of sin and condemnation as the Holy Spirit applies to the conscience the truth and knowledge of the blood of Christ –

“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” (1 Pet. 1:18-19).

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water” (Heb. 10:22).