September 24, 2023

Sunday Worship

Bible Study 10:00 A.M.

Morning Service 10:45 A.M.

Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.

Saturday Radio Broadcast WEMM Radio 107.9 FM 8:30 A.M.

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Our messages can be heard on www.hurricaneroadgracechurch.com

It is requested that all children four and under stay in our nursery so there will be no distractions during the preaching of the Gospel.

CALL TO WORSHIP

Now gracious God, Thine arm reveal

And make thy glory known

Now let us all Thy presence feel

And soften hearts of stone.

Help us to venture near Thy throne

And plead our Savior’s name

For all that we can call our own

Is vanity and shame.

From all the guilt of wretched sin

May mercy set us free

And let the week we now begin

Begin and end with Thee.

Send down Thy Spirit from above

That we may love Thee more

And others now may learn to love

Who never loved before.

(Tune: “O for a Thousand Tongues” p. 46)

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS

24^th Cozetta Bond

Nursery Schedule

Sunday School: Michelle Simpson, Clarah Floyd

Sunday Worship Service: Lindy Herrell, Mikayla Simpson

Next Week: Charity Collins, Kerry Simpson, Becky Tate, Christy Collins

I am scheduled to preach this morning at Rescue Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Rescue, California where brother John Reeves pastors, and Tuesday evening at San Diego Grace Fellowship where brother Kevin Thacker pastors. The Lord willing I will return home Wednesday evening. Elder Eric Floyd will bring both messages today and brother Jonathan Tate will bring the message on Wednesday.

MERCY PLEASES GOD

Some have said that since salvation is of the Lord, the Lord could have damned everyone or He could have saved everyone. That is not so. The Lord never could have been pleased damning everyone and showing mercy to no one. “As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked.” (Ezekiel 33:11) God’s justice must be satisfied, but the Lord has no pleasure in damning the wicked. God can never be satisfied with the suffering of the wicked in hell.

However, God is well pleased with His Son. (Matt. 3:17) The Father is well pleased with the sacrifice of His Son. “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him” (Isaiah 53:10) because the sacrifice of Christ did satisfy God’s justice against the sin of His people. The blood of Christ put away all of the sin of God’s elect that made God angry. Now God is pleased to show mercy to His people because the sacrifice of Christ satisfied His justice.

By God’s grace I can say that salvation in justice and mercy pleases me too!

Pastor

Who, in the Garden of Eden, gave Adam and Eve a choice? That’s who’s giving sinners a choice now. Salvation is not a decision, it’s a Person. Pastor Chris Cunningham

ABSOLUTE EXCHANGE – Rom. 5:19

For by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. It was by the sin of Adam that sin and death passed upon us, we not only had his sin imputed to us, but we also inherited his sinful nature. We then are sinners by birth and sinners by practice. “For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not” Ecl. 7:20.

But blessed be the name of the Lord, the same way we became sinners we become righteous. We did nothing to become sinners we do nothing to become righteous. There is an absolute exchange made, when our dear Savior went to the cross and died under the judgment and wrath of His Holy Father, he suffered not for himself but for those whom he represented. He was suffering the wrath of God because he was bearing his peoples’ sin upon His body on that tree. What was the absolute exchange? He became what I am, that I might become what He is; He took my sin, that I would have His righteousness; he took my disobedience, I get his obedience; he suffered my death, (my separation from God) that I would receive his life; He was made a curse, that I might be blessed; He was separated from God, that I might be brought nigh to God. Gal. 3:13, 1Pet. 3:18.

Just as we also inherited Adam’s sinful nature, we also become partakers of Christ's nature; His holy nature is given to us in the new birth, and it makes us love things we once hated and hate things we once loved. Our sinful natures loved sin, hated righteousness, now we love righteousness and hate sin. Once, listening to preaching and reading the bible would be the last things we would have done, now it is our delight.

“God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father” Gal. 4:6. Thank God not only was Christ for us at the Cross, and accomplished our complete salvation; but, He is also in us “Christ in you, the hope of glory” Col. 1:27. By His Spirit in us, He continually works in us both to will and do of His good pleasure. We are kept in the enjoyment of what He did for us by His sacrificial death on the cross. It is not only an absolute exchange, it is also an eternal exchange.