Ecclesiastes 7:13 “Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked?” `````````````````` Psalm 147 Author: Henry Francis Lyte Tune: Just as I am 1. O PRAISE the LORD, 'tis sweet to raise The grateful heart to God in praise; When fallen raised, when lost restored, Oh! it is sweet to praise the Lord! 2. Great is His power, divine His skill, His love diviner, greater still; The sinner's Friend, the mourner's stay, He sends no suppliant sad away. 3. The lions roar to Him for bread, The ravens by His hand are fed; And shall His chosen flock despair? Shall they mistrust their Shepherd's care? 4. His church is precious in His sight; He makes her glory His delight; His treasures on her head are pour'd; O Zion's children, praise the LORD! ```````````````````````````````````````````` What does God Require of Us? What does God require of us now? Some say he requires that you do the best can do. No! He requires that you do the best God can do. He requires that you love HIM with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. That means 100 percent. Some say that he Only requires that you love your neighbor as yourself. Are you listening to what God requires? Now where does that leave you? This ought to shut our mouths. For we know we cannot render unto God what he requires. This is impossible with you and I. But, bless the God of Heaven it is possible with the Lord Jesus. He fulfilled all that the Father required and satisfied his holy justice perfectly for all who believe. God demands perfection in that he is perfect himself, and he will not accept anything short of what he is. I must have a perfect Saviour. John the Baptist found the sacrifice when he cried, “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” Oh, may you and I be found in HIM, The Lord our Righteousness. –Pastor Scott Richardson ```````````````````````````````` Who gets the Glory? If you wish to know if the gospel you are hearing preached is the gospel of God, ask yourself this question, “Who gets the glory?” If you wish to know whether your religious experience is of the flesh or of the Lord, ask yourself the same thing, “Who gets the glory?” Also, examine all your gifts, works, and missionary efforts by the same rule, “Who gets the glory?” God will not share His glory! That which is of God, from God, and for God's glory will be blessed with His presence and power “that no flesh should glory in His presence. ... that, according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 1:29, 31). --Pastor Henry Mahan ```````````````````````````````````````````` The Sovereign Grace of God! Man's entire apostasy and death in sin, so that he cannot save himself; and God's entire supremacy, so that He saves whom He will; are doctrines exceedingly distasteful to human pride. But they are Scriptural. Why was one thief saved and the other lost? “At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight. All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.” Matthew 11:25-27 “Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight.” God was not bound to save the one thief, and He had power enough to have saved the other thief, and neither thief could save himself. What made the difference? The Sovereign Grace of God! “For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what has thou that thou didst not receive it?” (1 Corinthians 4:7). --Horatius Bonar ``````````````````````````
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