At the throne of mercy, Christ pleads for us there.
(REFRAIN)
Christ our Lord, Christ our Lord;
Christ our Lord has bought salvation full and free;
He for sins atonement made,
All the debt we owed He paid;
Christ our Lord has bought salvation full and free.
As we rest in Christ our King,
And His praises we do sing,
As we glory in His righteousness complete.
In our songs His glory raise;
Our great Savior we do praise,
And we worship Him as round His throne we meet.
(REPEAT REFRAIN)
TODAY’S SERVICES – Messages by Pastor Bill Parker
BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. –
The Purpose of God Fulfilled in Christ (2) – Romans 8:29-30
MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –
OPENING – Psalm 110
CALL TO WORSHIP (above)
HYMN – He Hideth My Soul – p. 258
READING – John 17
MESSAGE–Our Greater & Eternal High Priest (2)–Heb. 5:1-10
CLOSING HYMN – Like a River Glorious – p. 287
Birthdays: Susan Wages – June 17th | Jennifer Vanzandt - June 20th
I will be leaving this week to spend a few days with family in Ashland, KY, and then going on to Mt. Summit, IN, to preach next Saturday and Sunday for Grace Church where Brother Bobby Wright is pastor. Please pray for me as I travel and as I preach to God’s people.
WE WILL SERVE THE LORD’S SUPPER ON SUNDAY, JUNE 30
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” (Proverbs 27:6)
A true friend is one who will tell us the truth when he or she sees we are in danger. This holds true even when the truth hurts. The apostle Paul realized this with professing believers in Galatians who were in danger of being swayed from the true Gospel by Judaizers who were trying to bring them under the law for salvation and righteousness. Paul asked, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?” (Gal. 4:16). The enemies of Christ would speak peace to them and make them feel good about themselves. They come in the name of peace, unity, and love, but it is a spurious (bogus, counterfeit) peace, unity, and love. The truth offends the natural man who is looking elsewhere (somewhere other than Christ) for salvation and righteousness. He may claim to glory in Christ and His cross alone (Gal. 6:14), but he glories also in himself by what he has done or by what he believes God has done in him (cf. Matt. 7:21-23; Luke 18:9-12). A true friend is the Gospel preacher who warns him of the danger of this and points him to Christ alone for all salvation, righteousness, forgiveness, eternal life, and glory, even if this truth offends him.
—Pastor Bill Parker
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). To seek, to know, and to worship God rightfully is to seek, know, and worship Him by God-given faith as He reveals Himself in the glorious Person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is through Christ that God reveals Himself AS HE IS as opposed to what unbelieving sinners think of Him. It is through Christ that sinners approach God and find the reward that Christ Himself earned for them by His righteousness, the merits of His obedience unto death. —Pastor Bill Parker
BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN
Christ compared spiritual error to leaven. A baker would never prepare bread completely of leaven; none would eat it. It is only when a little leaven is added and baked with the dough to make a loaf that men readily consume the bread. Skillful false prophets often mix a small amount of heresy with lots of truth. Unsuspecting victims receive the deadly mixture to their own destruction. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump" (Galatians 5:9).
—Copied
“There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). The freedom of the believer is just what it is declared to be – entire exemption from condemnation. From all which that word of significant and solemn import implies, he is, by his relation to Christ, delivered. Sin does not condemn him, the law does not condemn him, the curse does not condemn him, hell does not condemn him, God does not condemn him. He is under no power from these, beneath whose accumulated and tremendous woe all others wither. A brief and simple argument will, perhaps, be sufficient to establish this fact. The pardon of sin necessarily includes the negation of its condemnatory power. There being no sin legally alleged, there can be no condemnation justly pronounced. Now, by the sacrifice of Christ all the sins of the Church are entirely put away. He, the sinless Lamb of God, took them up and bore them away into a land of oblivion, where even the Divine mind fails to recall them. “How forcible are right words” (Job 6:25). Listen to those which declare this wondrous fact. “I, even I, am He that blotteth out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins” (Isaiah 43:25). “Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back” (Isaiah 38:17). “Having forgiven you all trespasses” (Colossians 2:13). “Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 10:17). The revoking of the sentence of the law must equally annihilate its condemnatory force. The obedience and death of Christ met the claims of that law, both in its preceptive and punitive character. A single declaration of God’s Word throws a flood of light upon this truth: “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13). —Octavius Winslow
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