January 15^th 2023

9:30 am --------------------------------The Gospel of Zechariah – Zechariah 1-13

10:00 am ----------------------------He That Was Dead Came Forth – John 11:44

Wednesday: 7:00 pm -----------Faith, Tribulation, Patience, Experience, Hope – Romans 5:3-4

Scriptures Alone, Grace Alone, Christ Alone – by Henry Mahan

It’s amazing how history repeats itself! We seem to go around in a circle. During the days of the Reformation, when superstition, tradition, and the human will reigned in religion, the reformers waged their battle for the glory of God and the true gospel on a foundation with three critical points.

1. The scriptures alone. “Let God be true and every man a liar.” We bow to the Word apart from visions, revelations, or opinions of men.

2. Grace alone. Salvation only by free, sovereign, and full grace apart from law, works, or any other contribution of any sort.

3. Christ alone. “By himself purged our sins.” His person and work effectually, totally, and eternally redeemed his elect. This is where the battle rages today in America, where fundamentalism with its emotion, easy believism, freewill, and super programs seem to have captured the people. It’s back to this threefold foundation for every true preacher.

Faith is not figuring God out intellectually. Faith is simply believing with our hearts that everything God has written and promised in His Word is true, even if we don’t understand it. – David Eddmenson

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. – John Calvin

Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaits us. – Arthur Pink

Jesus Christ Our Great Physician – by John Newton

I am bound to speak well of my Physician . . . He treats me with great tenderness, and bids me in due time to expect a perfect cure. I know too much of Him (though I know but little) to doubt either His skill or His promise. It is true, I have suffered sad relapses since I have been under His care. Yet I confess that the fault has not been His . . . but my own! I am a perverse and unruly patient! When I have brought myself very low . . . He has still helped me. Blessed be His name . . . I am yet kept alive only by means of His perfect care. Though His medicines are all beneficial . . . they are not all pleasant. Now and then He gives me a pleasant cordial; but I have many severe disorders, in which there is a needs-be for my frequently taking His bitter and unpalatable medicines! We sometimes publish in the newspapers, acknowledgments of cures received. Methinks, if I were to publish my own case, that it would run something like this: