CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune – Brethren, We Have Met to Worship – p. 15)

Sovereign grace o’er sin abounding!

Ransomed souls, the tidings swell;

‘Tis a deep that knows no sounding;

Who its breadth or length can tell?

What from Christ that soul can sever,

Bound by everlasting bands?

Once in Him, in Him forever,

None can pluck them from his hands.

Heirs of God, joint-heirs with Jesus,

Long ere time its race begun;

To His name eternal praises,

O what wonders Christ hath done.

On such love, my soul shall ponder,

Love so great, so rich, so free;

Say, while lost in holy wonder,

“Why, O Lord, such love to me?”

TODAY’S SERVICES – Messages by Pastor Bill Parker

BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. –

The Believer’s State in This World (1) – Romans 7:14-20

MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –

• OPENING – Psalm 105:1-7

• CALL TO WORSHIP (above)

• HYMN – There is a Fountain – p. 222

• READING – Galatians 3

• MESSAGE – Who Is Every Man? (4) – Hebrews 2:16-18

• THE LORD’S SUPPER

• CLOSING HYMN – Break Thou the Bread of Life – p. 176

Birthdays: Mills Fuller – March 31^st

We will serve the LORD’S SUPPER following the messages this morning. All believers are invited to join us in this blessed memorial ordinance commanded by our Lord to all true disciples. After our worship services, we will have lunch in our dining hall. Everyone is invited to eat with us and enjoy a time of visiting with each other.

THERE IS A FOUNTAIN

The hymn states, “There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins.” What exactly is this blessed and glorious fountain? It is the fountain of God’s free and sovereign grace in the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is Himself “Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us” (Matt. 1:23). As God manifests in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ shed His own precious blood unto death to pay the sin-debt of all His people. God’s Word tells us that “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (Rom. 5:20). Grace can only “abound” (increase) based on a just ground, and that just ground is the merit of Christ’s blood which is His righteousness imputed to His people. The merit of Christ insures that no sin can be imputed to God’s people for whom Christ died and arose from the dead. The merit of Christ insures that God justifies them and gives them eternal life. This fountain of blood is truly a fountain of life for all whom God brings to faith in Christ and true repentance (Psa. 36:9; Rev. 21:6). We who are sinners saved by God’s grace are keenly and ever aware of Christ our Fountain and thank God for Him every day. —Pastor Bill Parker

THIS IS TRULY COMFORTING!

A child of God is like a person in a beautiful palace. If there is light in it, he sees the splendid objects around him, and enjoys them. But, if the light is removed, he is nevertheless in the palace still, and surrounded with the same splendid objects as before, though he cannot see them. So, though the believer’s frames and sensible comforts may have their ebbs and flows, his state, Godward, is invariably the same.

—Augustus Toplady

Oh! pray then, that you may be enabled to "live unto the Lord," — to live truly, usefully, and acceptably to Him whose you are, and whom you are bound by every tie of love and gratitude to serve! Pray that you may have grace to travel onward through life with Christ acknowledged in every step entwined with every affection as the source of each joy, and the sharer of each sorrow, of your personal history. Let your walk be one of firm, unshaken faith in your Savior-God! Go to His inexhaustible fullness with every need! Go to His tender sympathy with every sorrow! Go to His prevailing grace with every infirmity! Go to His precious blood with every sin! Draw all your strength and grace from Christ and seek earnestly the aid and anointing of the Holy Spirit. And whether in prosperity or in adversity, you will be able to accomplish that which will bring glory to God, happiness to those around you, and peace and comfort and serenity to your own soul!

—John McDuff

THE GOSPEL (NEW TESTAMENT) ORDINANCES