Today after the morning service we plan to observe the Lord’s Table and enjoy lunch together.

Also, beginning this evening at 8:00 PM; Pastor Mahan’s TV program will be aired on WPRG, channel 5 on Inter-Mountain Cable; also on Foothills Cable, channel 92. Spread the word!!

The Two-Fold Message of Grace

The most humbling and challenging thing that I face – the great concern of my heart – is that my generation experience a return to the preaching of the gospel of God’s grace. This generation is plagued with a gospel of works and are strangers to the gospel of redemption. I want a return to the message used of God in other days to awaken men to their need and to reveal the grace and glory of the Lord Jesus.

Rolfe Barnard used to say, “The two-fold message of grace is: (1) all flesh is grass and (2) behold your God!” This is the message that takes away all of the glory and dignity of the flesh and proclaims the redemptive glory of Christ.

The results of this message will be a sense of the awesome holiness of God, the inability and sinfulness of the flesh, and the total sufficiency of the person and work of Christ.

Pastor Henry T. Mahan (1985)

SOMEONE IS LYING!

WHO is spreading lies across America and throughout the world? Who is it that is telling around that the Lord Jesus Christ ransomed some who are not ransomed? Redeemed some who are not actually redeemed? Atoned for the sins of some whose sins are not covered? Purged the sins of some whose sins have not been purged? Became a Substitute for some who must yet answer unto God for themselves? Died for the sins of some who must yet die for their own sins? And prays for some who shall never benefit from His prayers?

WHO dares to utter such blasphemy against the living God? Who would so impugn and malign God in His wisdom and purpose, holiness and justice, love, power and grace? Who would be so irreverent and impudent as to speak, or even believe such things?

WHO? The vast majority of preachers throughout the world - most of our religious neighbors and those who preach to them! Pity them but do not excuse them... they ought to be ashamed of themselves! To say that Christ suffered and died for those who had already been in hell 4,000 years when He died, or to say that His soul was made an offering for sin for those whom God knew - being omniscient - would never believe the gospel when they heard it, or that God ever purposed anything that He shall not bring to pass, is a confession of one's ignorance of the God of the Bible.

Maurice Montgomery

PLENTEOUS REDEMPTION

“Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption ” (Psalm 130:7).

There is nothing lacking in the Lord's redeeming blood, it is not weak, anemic nor wasted. So powerful, plenteous, and precious is His effectual, eternal sacrifice in putting away our sin that the all seeing eye of God's justice says, “their sins and iniquities will I remember no more”(Heb. 10:17). Let me give you several reasons why our Lord's redemption is plenteous.

1). Consider the number He redeemed. He has redeemed an elect people out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. The

number of which is described as ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands (Rev. 5:9-10).

2). Consider what of them He has redeemed. Body, soul and spirit,

(Ps. 71:23; Ps. 103.4; 1 Cor. 15:49-57; 1 Thess. 5:23).

3). Consider what they are redeemed from: All sin, past, present and future, original and actual (I John 1:7); from the curse of the Law (Gal. 3:13); from all condemnation (Rom. 8:1, 32-34); and from death itself (John 11:25-26; Rev. 1:18).

Thank God for our blessed REDEEMER and His plenteous redemption by His glorious sacrifice for us (1Peter 3:18; Heb. 9:11-12). His blood always avails, powerfully and eternally before God, “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt” (Ex. 12:13).