Missionary Dan Parks will be here to preach for us on Wednesday, May 31^st. If you have an extra gift that you would like to give to Dan please mark it accordingly.

BOASTING EXCLUDED, HUMILITY PROMOTED

“Where is boasting then? It is excluded.” (Romans 3:27)

All boasting in anything about us is of necessity excluded since salvation is by God’s free and sovereign grace. Who does God save?

Sinners. What is the only thing a sinner has done? Sin. Then we don’t have anything to boast about, but rather we have everything to be ashamed of. The only thing left for a sinner to boast about is our Savior who has saved us from all of our sin. “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Gal. 6:14)

Predestination in scripture always has to do with being made like Christ. It is God’s eternal will that all of His people be made just like His precious Son, so He predestined it to happen. Anyone who says, “I don’t like that predestination stuff”, must not like being made like Christ.

SEEK THE LORD

“That they should seek the Lord” (Acts 17:27). I know what you and I should do. We should seek the Lord! Everything in our lives is a call to seek the Lord. All men, regardless of their circumstances should seek the Lord. The light of creation is a call to all men to seek the Creator. But amazingly, “There is none that seeketh after God” (Romans 3:11). This testifies to the total depravity of all men. They do not seek the Lord. They prefer darkness to light, sin to holiness, evil to good, works to grace, law to Gospel. But thank God, He seeks men. Christ came “To seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). He says to the soul He seeks, “When Thou saidst, seek ye My face; my heart said Thy face O Lord will I seek.” And we have the blessed assurance “He that seeketh, findeth.” There has never been one person who ever sought the Lord that did not find Him! Seek the Lord!

Pastor Todd Nibert

WHY? HOW? WHEN?

It is not until the enlightened sinner is made by grace to see the sovereign character of God that these three questions will always be answered in a way that gives the believer true peace, comfort and rest. Here are the final answers to every question that begins with “Why? How? When?

WHY? “Even so Father: it seemed good in thy sight.” (Matthew 11:26, Luke 10:21)

HOW? “According to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” (Ephesians 1:11)

WHEN? “But when it pleased God.” “Until the time appointed.” (Galatians 1:15, Galatians 4:2)

I am so thankful that our God is in the heavens doing whatsoever He has pleased. Remember, God doesn’t do something because it is right, it is right because God does it.