CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune – O God Our Help – p. 10)
(Words written by Pastor Gary Shepard)

It is a mystery so great
That for eternity,
God has determined all my hope
To be in Christ not me.

By faith alone can I believe
That I'm a righteous one.
Not by the things that I might do
But through what Christ has done.

Greater it is, that I , on earth
Might unto God draw nigh
Not in my person here below
But Christ who lives on high.

What Jesus did on my behalf
Two thousand years ago
Is my salvation then and now
And I am glad it's so!

TODAY’S SERVICES – Messages by Pastor Bill Parker

BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. –

The Time Is At Hand – Revelation 22:6-12

MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –

• OPENING – Psalm 105:4-7

• CALL TO WORSHIP (above)

• HYMN – O Worship the King – p. 1

• READING – Genesis 8

• MESSAGE – Noah and the New Creation – Genesis 8

• CLOSING HYMN – Take the Name of Jesus – p. 63

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

Preaching Christ in the End Times

CHRIST MUST BE ALL!

We cannot keep our eye too exclusively or too intently fixed on Jesus. All salvation is in Him. All salvation proceeds from Him. All salvation leads to Him. And for the assurance and comfort of our salvation we are to repose believingly and entirely on Him. Christ must be all! Christ the beginning; Christ the center; and Christ the end. Oh sweet truth to you who are sensible of your poverty, vileness, and insufficiency, and of the ten thousand flaws and failures of which, perhaps, no one is cognizant but God and your own soul! Oh, to turn and rest in Christ; a full Christ; a loving Christ; a tender Christ, whose heart's love never chills, from whose eye darts no reproof, from whose lips breathes no sentence of condemnation! Christ must be all!

– Octavius Winslow

THE BELIEVER’S SCAPEGOAT

Christ is our spiritual scapegoat on whom all the sins of His people were laid, and He carried them into the land of forgetfulness, never more to return (Lev. 16:21,22). “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all… He was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors” (Isa. 53:6,12).“He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin (by nature or practice, being holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sin) that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. 5:21). –John Kershaw

How valuable is Christ’s righteousness imputed to a believer? It is the results of the suffering of our dear Savior who loved us and gave Himself for us. It is the ground of our justification before Holy God. It is the source of all spiritual life in us by the Holy Spirit. It provides all the motivation of the assurance of God’s grace for our obedience unto Him in the way of grace, love, and gratitude. –Copied

“Looking to Jesus” is the way the apostle says we are to run our race. It is a God ordained race “set before us.” We are guilty of looking to self, looking to others and looking at circumstances. As a result, we are often troubled, despondent, anxious, and fearful. That’s the way it always is when we look to any other but Christ. The sight of His glorious Person, the contemplation of His great work and sacrifice, and the consideration of His great power alone can give us hope, peace, comfort and joy. Faith looks to Christ alone for everything. Unbelief looks everywhere else!

–Pastor Gary Shepard

"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful" (Colossians 3:15).

This exhortation is for us as true believers, sinners who have been brought by the Holy Spirit to find peace with God in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. Before true peace can rule within our hearts, peace between God and ourselves has to be established. Peace is established between God and sinners upon one ground – the merits of the blood of Jesus Christ, His righteousness imputed alone. This peace that comes by God’s grace through the work and merits of Christ (not by something we do) is the revelation of God’s grace in Christ that brings His people to Him with the assurances of the peace and security of salvation. It is then that this peace of God will rule in the regenerate hearts of God’s children. This peace also brings us together and binds us together as one body, the church. This peace is not mystical. Again, it is the assurance of faith based on God’s promise and glory. It is the assurance of salvation and final glory based on the imputed righteousness of Christ. It comes from knowing that God is my covenant God and Father who has been reconciled towards me based on the righteousness of His Son and that He is FOR (not against) me (Rom. 8:31). This is the motivation for all Christian virtues and obedience. Every grace and gift of the Spirit springs from this as the Spirit of adoption. So the more dogmatic we are concerning our final glory conditioned on Christ, the more these virtues will grow and thrive in our lives. Having this peace with God established in our hearts, we are to avoid the deeds of the old man and put on the deeds of the new man. This promotes peace among the body of Christ and peace will rule.