CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune – Love Divine – p. 2)

God of grace and God of glory,

Grant that we would worship Thee;

Thou hast gathered us together,

Now reveal Thy majesty.

Send to us Thy sovereign Spirit,

Speaking through Thy Word in might;

Showing us the blessed Savior,

Making Him our one Delight.

Prophet, Priest and reigning Monarch,

Friend of sinners, what a Name;

Word of God made flesh for sinners,

Came to bear our awful shame.

See the perfect, blameless Savior,

Bearing guilt, sins not His own;

Sacrifice of God most precious,

For His sheep He died alone.

By the blood of the Redeemer,

All our sins were washed away;

He arose and death was conquered,

For His sheep who went astray.

Saints of God bow down and worship

Him who purged our sinfulness;

Let us joyfully adore Him,

Jesus Christ our righteousness.

TODAY’S SERVICES – Messages by Pastor Bill Parker

BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. – What Shall We Then Say? - Rom. 8:31-34

MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –

• OPENING

• CALL TO WORSHIP (above)

• HYMN – There Is a Fountain – p. 222

• READING

• MESSAGE –Our Greater & Eternal High Priest (3)-Heb. 5:1-10

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

Birthdays: Kedrial Riggins – July 4^th

THE LORD’S SUPPER

We will serve the Lord’s Supper following the messages this morning. All who believe the Gospel of God’s grace in Christ Jesus are commanded to partake of this blessed memorial ordinance in which we remember the glorious Person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, His body and His blood which secured our salvation, eternal life, and final glory.

After the worship services, we will serve lunch in our fellowship hall. Everyone is invited to stay and share the meal with us.

THE SUSTAINING GRACE OF GOD

“I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me” (Psalm 3:5). Could we imagine that our holy, just, and merciful God would save us by His grace only to leave us to ourselves to keep ourselves in His grace? Perish the thought. God saves His people and sustains His people by His power and grace based on the merits of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God is gracious, powerful, and faithful to bring all of His chosen people to final glory. Christ died for them, paid their debt to God’s justice, brought forth an everlasting righteousness which God has imputed to them. His righteousness cannot be taken away, and it cannot be contaminated by their sin. Christ ever lives to intercede for them so that they cannot be charged with sin and condemned by the law. God the Holy Spirit has given them spiritual life and indwells them to convict them of sin and drive them to Christ continually an eternally. The sustaining power and grace of God in Christ is enough to save all of His people to the uttermost, and they can never be condemned. Those who say that one whom God has chosen and justified by His grace in Christ, one whom Christ has redeemed by His death on the cross, one whom the Holy Spirit has given spiritual life and faith to believe in Christ, and one for whom Christ intercedes could ever lose that salvation and be lost eternally do not know the God of the Bible. They do not know the sustaining grace and power of God – “Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen” (Jude 24-25). —Pastor Bill Parker

Every believer is under the guardianship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; consequently, they are held by a three-fold cord which can never be broken. —Augustus Toplady

THE EVIDENCE OF SPIRITUAL DEATH

There is no greater evidence of spiritual death than that which is revealed when men and women sit under the message of the gospel on Sunday morning and then go into the day totally unmoved in heart by the wonders of Christ and Him crucified. I do not look for a man to be a murderer, a thief, a liar or an adulterer to believe he is spiritually dead. The greatest indicator of the true state of man before the living God is his response to the wondrous gospel of God’s grace in Christ. —Pastor Gary Shepard

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:18)

“But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:23-24)

A PICTURE OF GRACE

When a person works an eight-hour day and receives a fair day’s pay for his time, that is a wage. When a person competes with an opponent and receives a trophy for his performance, that is a prize. When a person receives appropriate recognition for his long service or high achievements, that is an award. But when a person is not capable of earning a wage, can win no prize and deserves no award - yet receives such a gift anyway - that is a good picture of God’s unmerited favor. This is what we mean when we talk about the grace of God. —Copied