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First Baptist Church

Wayne Boyd | Almont, Michigan

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weekly bulletin - May 5, 2019

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019

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By Grace Alone

“For by grace are ye saved through faith;

and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God;

not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).

“By grace ye are saved.” There is no present salvation except that which begins and ends with grace! No man can preach or possess a present salvation except those who preach and believe that we are saved by grace alone! The work is finished! Any other way of salvation is dependent on the sinner and it will fail.

--Pastor Henry Mahan

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“For all flesh is as grass,

and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.

The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

But the Word of the Lord endureth for ever.

And this is the Word which by the gospel

is preached unto you.”

1 Peter 1:24-25

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Psalm 3

Author: Henry F. Lyte Tune: Just As I Am (William H. Bradbury)

1. Thy promise, Lord, is perfect peace,

And yet my trials still increase;

Till fears at times my soul assail,

That Satan's rage must yet prevail.

2. Then, Savior, then I fly to Thee,

And in Thy grace my refuge see;

Thou heard'st me from Thy holy hill,

And Thou wilt hear and help me still

3. Beneath Thy wings secure I sleep;

What foe can harm while Thou dost keep?

I wake, and find Thee at my side,

My omnipresent Guard and Guide!

4. Oh why should earth or hell distress,

With God so strong, so nigh to bless?

From Him alone salvation flows;

On Him alone, my soul, repose.

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Substitution

SALVATION by SUBSTITUTION was embodied in the first promise regarding the woman's seed and His bruised heel. Victory over our great enemy, by His subjecting Himself to the bruising of that enemy, is then and there proclaimed.

- The clothing of our first parents with that which had passed through death, in preference to the fig leaves which had not so done, showed the element of SUBSTITUTION as that on which God had begun to act in His treatment of fallen man.

- Abel's sacrifice revealed the same truth, especially as contrasted with Cain's. For that which made Abel's acceptable, and himself accepted, was the death of the victim as SUBSTITUTED FOR HIS OWN; that which rendered Cain's hateful, and himself rejected, was the absence of that death and blood.

- The slain firstling was accepted by God as (symbolically) Abel’s SUBSTITUTE, laid on the altar till He should come, the “woman’s seed,” “made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Galatians 4:4-5).

From the beginning God recognized this principle in His dealings with man: the just dying for the unjust and the Blessed One becoming a curse that the cursed might be blessed. It is this truth that the gospel embodies; and it is this that we preach when, as ambassadors for Christ, we pray men in Christ’s stead to be reconciled to God. God’s free love to the sinner is the first part of our message; God’s righteous way of making that free love available for the sinner is the second. Who God is and what Christ has done make up one gospel. The belief of that gospel is eternal life. “All that believe are justified from all things” (Acts 13:39).

With a weak faith and a fearful heart many a sinner stands before the altar. It is not the strength of his faith but the perfection of the sacrifice that saves; and no feebleness of faith, no dimness of eye, no trembling of hand can change the efficacy of our burnt offering. The vigor of our faith can add nothing to it, nor can the poverty of it take anything from it. Faith, in all its degrees, still reads the inscription, “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” --Horatious Bonar

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Daily Readings May 5-11

5- 1 Kings 19-20 Luke 23:1-25

6- 1 Kings 21-22 Luke 23:26-56

7- 2 Kings 1-3 Luke 24:1-35

8- 2 Kings 4-6 Luke 24:36-53

9- 2 Kings 7-9 John 1:1-28

10- 2 Kings 10-12 John 1:29-51