Perfect in Christ

There is nothing that will make a person look to Christ alone, cling to Christ alone, rest in Christ alone, and love Christ alone than to realize that everything God is, everything God requires, and everything the sinner needs is in Christ alone. We are perfect in Him!

(Phil. 4:19; Col. 2:9-10).

He is perfect and our being in Him makes us perfect in God’s sight.

“Near, so near to God,

Nearer I cannot be;

For in the person of His Son,

I am as near as He!”

Pastor Henry T. Mahan (bulletin 1983)

HE THAT HATH NO MONEY

Isaiah 55: 1:…and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

God only bids one kind of person to come to Christ, the sinner. The sinner is one who has nothing: no merit, no worthiness, no righteousness, nothing. Why? If I come with anything at all then Christ will not be my All! If I have wisdom then I will not trust Christ to be all my Wisdom; if I have righteousness then I will not rest in Christ to be all my Righteousness; if I am able to make my myself holy by my works then Christ will not be all my Sanctification; if I think I can redeem myself from the curse of the law then I will not look to Christ to pay all the debt I owe to God and his justice. Salvation is free to those who come with nothing because it cost God’s only begotten Son everything. If you have nothing then God says, “Come buy without money and without price!”

Pastor Clay Curtis

“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you” (I Peter 5:7).

Cares are that which causes anxiety. What a host of cares we have! My sins, fear of the future, fear of that over which I have no control (which is everything!), unresolved conflict, the fear of how I will be provided for or the fear of being unable to provide…all my cares I am called upon to cast upon Him. If I do that, I no longer bare the burden of them. If I continue to bear the burden, I have not cast them upon Him. Why am I to do this? We are given this one glorious reason…. “For He careth for you.” If He cares for me, I have no reason to be anxious about anything. “If God be for us, who can be against us?”

Pastor Todd Nibert

Christ Came To Fulfill

“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil” (Matt. 5:17).

Clearly, the Lord Jesus Christ is setting before us the reason of His coming into this world as the sinner's Substitute and as Jehovah's Messiah. He came to fulfill, which means: to finish, furnish, satisfy, execute, accomplish and complete all things written of Him in the law of Moses and all the prophets. "These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me" (Luke 24:44).

The Lord Jesus came to fulfill and furnish all the predictions of the prophets (Acts 10:43). Moreover, He came to fulfill and satisfy all the types of the ceremonial law becoming the great and only sacrifice for sin (Isa. 53:4-6; 1Peter 3:18). In addition, He came to fulfill and accomplish the demands of the moral law, by yielding perfect obedience to it (Rom 5:19). The Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, living perfectly as our representative and dying effectually as our Substitute for sin is our very justifying righteousness before God's just throne (2Cor. 5:21; Rom. 10:1-4; Gal. 3:10-13). In all things Christ Jesus magnified, satisfied and honored the law of God for us in all its precepts and penalties (Isa. 42:21).

Furthermore, we read that He came to call sinners to repentance, "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance (Matt.9:13). He came to save the lost, "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost" (Matt.18:11). He came to give His life a ransom, "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. (Matt. 20:28). He came to give eternal life to His sheep, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10).

I can only think of one thing the scripture says the Lord Jesus came to destroy, Satan and his works, "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2:14; Gen. 3:15).

"He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (1John 3:8).