CALL TO WORSHIP (Tune – Come Thou Almighty King – p. 6)
Glory to God on High! Let earth to heav’n reply – Praise ye His name! Angels His love adore –Who all our sorrows bore And saints cry evermore, WORTHY THE LAMB!
All they around the throne Cheerfully join in one – Praising His name! We who have known His blood – Sealing our peace with God Sound His dear name abroad, WORTHY THE LAMB!
Though we must change our place Yet shall we never cease – Praising His name! To Him our tribute bring – Hail Him our sovereign King And without ceasing sing, WORTHY THE LAMB!
TODAY’S SERVICES – Messages by Pastor Bill Parker
BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. –
Holy Jerusalem – Revelation 21:9-13
MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –
OPENING – Hebrews 13:20-21
CALL TO WORSHIP (above)
HYMN – Whiter Than Snow – p. 310
READING – Romans 8:1-14
MESSAGE – HOW TO PLEASE GOD – Heb. 11:5-6
CLOSING HYMN – Take My Life – p. 393
MID-WEEK BIBLE STUDY – WEDNESDAY – 6:30 P.M. Preaching Christ in the End Times
Birthdays: Reid Jackson – Feb. 28th
THE BLOOD OF JUSTIFICATION
The apostle Paul wrote, “Much more then, having been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” (Romans 5:9 NKJV) What a positive, comforting thing it is to hear “we shall be saved from wrath.” The wrath of God which shall fall upon every sinner outside of Christ shall not fall upon me, not because I don’t deserve it, nor because God has decided not to judge my sin, but because it has already fallen upon Christ my Substitute. We shall be saved “through Him.” Simply stated, believers in Christ shall be saved because they have been saved! Our justification through His blood (His life laid down, His cross death) was not only the sum of all our justification before God but is also the source of all our consolation from God. Since God has declared us righteous in Christ and put away our sin by the shedding of His blood, we now “wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” (I Thess. 1:10) Everything is “through Him,” through our Lord Jesus Christ, and this comfort and consolation is received and enjoyed by us through God-given faith. How can a sinner live in this life without fear of the wrath to come? HIM! HIS BLOOD! We believe God and sit in quietness of conscience and mind as those Hebrews sat in their houses in Goshen with the blood of the Passover Lamb on their doors as the death angel passed through Egypt. We have been saved so we shall be saved! –Pastor Gary Shepard
CHRIST MUST BE LIFTED UP
“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me” (John 12:32). The Lord was speaking of His death on the cross as the guarantee of salvation for His people (John 12:33). His death is the guarantee of all that He is and has for His sheep. Christ must be lifted up:
(1) On the cross to establish the only righteousness whereby God could be just to justify the ungodly, and thereby destroy the works of the Devil.
(2) From the grave to ascend on high in order that He might give eternal life to as many as the Father had given Him.
(3) In the preaching of the Gospel as the Lord our Righteousness to reveal the only ground of justification and source of life.
(4) In the sinner's heart by the Holy Spirit in regeneration and conversion that the sinner might come out of darkness into light, out from condemnation into the justification. –Pastor Bill Parker
CHRIST THE SURETY
Christ as our Surety and public Redeemer took sin with all its weight and curse upon Himself, and what He has taken from us, He has fully delivered us from. In His satisfaction He does fully acquit His elect body – the first debtor, from the whole debt and danger of sin, either in curse or punishment; and the Apostle Paul argues out his triumph upon this very consideration – “who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again.” (Rom.8:33-34). As if the Apostle had said, God does justify His elect body as He is a just God, for Christ has died and is risen again; that is, Christ is risen as the satisfier of God’s justice in His death. For had not Christ’s death satisfied God’s justice when all the sins, curses, and punishment of sin, for all His elect body was laid upon Him, He could never have risen again. But now He is risen, and risen as the Justifier of His people, and the Satisfier of God’s justice. –Robert Tichborne
The following article expresses well the obedience upon which a true believer is engaged based on his/her right relationship with God established in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the obedience of faith and grace and motivated by grace, gratitude, and love –
Between God and man especially, the introduction of the conditional element, of anything that savours of the striking of a bargain or the making of terms, is destructive of all real fellowship or intercommunion. No obedience rendered on that footing or in that spirit can ever secure your dwelling in God and His dwelling in you. The practical value of a free Gospel is that it places your "keeping of God's commandments" on a different footing by breathing into it a different spirit. You look to Jesus, and are one with Him. You are in the same position of advantage for keeping God's commandments in which He was. You start, as He did, on the walk and work of obedience, not as seeking acceptance, but as already accepted; not as a servant on trial, but as “a son abiding in the house evermore.”
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