11:00 Service: Speaker Randy Wages, Eager Ave. Grace Church
Birthdays: Michael Winston Lee - Nov. 20th.
Radio Broadcast: Sunday morning at 9:30am on 98.7 FM -WISK
A PERSONAL RELATIONALSHIP WITH GOD?
God instructed Moses that, as in any covenant or treaty, a mediator was necessary, Exodus 18:19. The people could not relate to God directly. They needed an advocate (lawyer). Why? God is Holy and as sinners they dared not approach except through a mediator. Is it any different today? So many today speak of wanting a ‘personal relationship' with God. Imagine a defendant in a courtroom wanting a personal relationship with the judge. We all know that the only means of direct communication with the judge is through a court approved representative.
The good news for sinners is that the Lord Jesus, God's eternal Son is that God-given, God-appointed representative. "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;" I Tim. 2:5. He came into this world and laid down His life in sacrifice, as the sinner's Substitute, and satisfied Holy God on behalf of those He redeemed. Now He lives again and is seated in heaven, to intercede on behalf of all who come to God, BY HIM! Hebrews 7:25. There is no coming to God but BY HIM!
Ken Wimer - Pastor of Shreveport Grace in Shreveport, La.
Excerpts from A MINISTRY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
By Randy Wages
Is your Jesus "another Jesus" than that which is preached by the Apostles and presented in the holy scriptures as "The Lord our Righteousness."
Will your body of faith, your doctrine, your Jesus, your gospel, stand up to the scrutiny of God's testimony in His word? Do you abide in the doctrine of Christ under an abiding ministry of righteousness? As John wrote, to abide there is to have both the Father and the Son! Now that's good news.
Why stake your eternity on something proceeding from you, the sinner, (your faith, your sincerity, your interest in religion or even that which you claim is actually Christ's work in or through you)? That's no different than the lost Pharisee who prayed, "I thank God that I'm not like other men," appearing to give him the credit. Well, know that much credit that is given to God isn't welcomed. In fact, more often than not it is diametrically opposed to the preeminence Christ earned by having already completed all that was necessary for a sinner's salvation. Remember that God says that we'll be judged by the righteousness of the one he raised from the dead and if the righteousness we bank upon doesn't measure up to that, if it's not His wrought out satisfaction to law and justice that was so complete as to demand His very resurrection, then, anyone leaving this world absent that righteousness shall not be risen with Him, but shall suffer God's wrath - spending an eternity banished from the presence of God, never paying down the debt owed to His Holy and inflexible justice.
Instead, flee to God, a just God and a Savior, who freely declares that all are saved who genuinely stake their eternal destiny on the obedience and death of none other than the God-man mediator Himself - Jesus Christ, the Lord our righteousness, and repent from ever thinking that anything other than that righteousness imputed could grant them acceptance or form any part of their fitness for acceptance before a Holy God. Trust in Him, based upon His perfect satisfaction to God's law & justice, His righteousness that demands and delivers eternal life to all that He lived and died for. Now that's the real McCoy - And that's my Savior!
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