Bible Conference at Hurricane Road Grace Church, Ashland, Ky. on April 20-22. Speakers are: John Chapman, Dan Culver, Darvin Pruitt, Paul Mahan, Todd Nibert, Tom Harding. Frank Tate is the pastor.

LOVE

Love is as love does. Love is defined by what it does. Love gives. Love wants to please the object of its love. A love that is in word only but not in deed, is not love at all. This is true with love toward God and love toward men. Pastor Todd Nibert

Be Still

Some preachers want to arouse man’s activity. We want to kill it once and for all, to show him that he is lost and ruined, and that his activities are not able to save him. Some seek to make the man stand up. We seek to bring him down and make him feel that he is in the hands of God and that his business is to submit to God, bow to the claims of Christ, and cry, “Lord, save me or I perish.”

We hold that a man is never so near grace as when he feels that he can do nothing at all but cry for mercy. But, when he says, “I can pray, I can believe, I can do this or that,” the marks of self-sufficiency are still on his brow.

Pastor Henry Mahan (bulletin 1984)

THE FULL GOSPEL

I had a man to ask me if I attended a “full gospel” church. I knew what he was referring to. He wondered if I attended a church that believed in the “baptism of the Holy Spirit,“ with the evidence of speaking in tongues. He thought the “full gospel” was one that taught that if a man or a woman has enough faith that they will prosper in both “health and wealth.” He believed that the “full gospel” was the preaching of the deeper things of God embraced by a, “spirit-filled Christian.”

I simply answered, “Yes, I believe in the full gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.” I told him that Colossians 1:19, plainly taught that it pleased the Father, (the God of heaven and earth) that inChrist “should ALL FULLNESS dwell.” I told him that God taught in His Word, according to Colossians 2:9, that in Christ dwelt “all the FULLNESS oftheGodheadbodily.” There is no fuller gospel than the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no fuller salvation than redemption by Christ’s substitution in the place of wretched sinners. There is no deeper or fuller gospel than the message that God Almighty became flesh and died in the room of chosen sinners. There is no fuller revelation than “Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2:2) Yes, I most definitely believe and rejoice in the FULL GOSPEL! There can be no fuller Gospel than the True One!

Pastor David Eddmenson

The Law Of God

What is the Law of God for? There are a lot of mistakes that have been made about the Law. We are not under the Law as a means of salvation; we delight to see the Law in the hand of Christ and desire to obey the Lord in all things. What is the Law of God for? For us to keep, in order to be saved by it? No, not at all. It is sent in order to show us that we cannot be saved by works and to show us that salvation is only by grace. If you tell a man that the old Law is altered so that he can keep it, you have left him in his old legal hope, and he is sure to cling to it. You need a perfect Law that shuts man up to his hopelessness apart from Christ Jesus, puts him into an iron cage and locks him up, and offers him no way of escape. Only then does he began to cry out, “Lord, save me by grace or I will surely perish.” Pastor Scott Richardson

The Goodness And Severity Of God

“Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off (Rom. 11:22).

The apostle Paul declares unto us two very distinct and sovereign characters of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Behold the goodness of God, The Lord is good. Everything about Him is good; there is no evil in Him, none good but God (Matt. 19:17). All His actions are good; He never does one thing wrong, but rather all things are righteously done (Gen. 18:25). The Lord saves sinners by His sovereign goodness and mercy in Christ (Psalm 51:1-4; Rom. 9:13-16). The Psalmist said, “O taste and see the Lord is good” (Psalm 34:8).