December 1, 2024

Sunday Worship

Bible Study 10:00 A.M.

Morning Service 10:45 A.M.

Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.

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CALL TO WORSHIP

O, Lamb of God, still keep me near to Thy wounded side

Tis only there in safety and peace I can abide.

What foes and snares surround me, what lusts and fears within.

The grace that sought and found me alone can keep me clean.

Tis only in Thee hiding I know my life secure

Only in Thee abiding I steadfast shall endure.

Thine arm the victory gaineth, O’er every hurtful foe

Thy love my heart sustaineth in all its care and woe.

Soon shall my eyes behold Thee with rapture face to face.

The half hath not been told me of all Thy power and grace.

Thy beauty, Lord, and glory, the wonders of Thy love

Shall be the endless story of all Thy saints above.

(Tune: “The Church’s One Foundation” p. 186)

DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS

14^th Ralph Brown 24^th Nancy Hogsten

25^th Alexis Baldwin 26^th Beckett Baisden

31^st Sabrina Keesee

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW?

When the night of trial is the darkest and you can’t see anything but darkness and despair, set yourself to look to the Lord (just like Jonah did from the belly of that great fish). When you wonder, “What am I going to do now?” Trust and praise the Lord who is too wise to make a mistake and too good to do harm. When the way the Lord has ordained for you is so hard you think you can’t go on, trust the Lord who is all of your strength. Say with the psalmist, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” (Psalm 121:1)

Pastor

LOVEST THOU ME?

Three times the Lord asked Peter, “Lovest thou me?” That is the real question isn’t it? What think ye of Christ? Do you love Him or hate Him? The question isn’t if you love the doctrines of grace but do you love Christ who those doctrines declare. If you love Christ you will love the doctrines that teach who He is. The question isn’t do you love others who love Christ. The salvation of our souls is found in loving Christ. If you would be saved you must believe upon and love the Lord Jesus Christ. Loving someone else who has saving faith won’t do your soul any good. Although if we love Christ we will love others too. I wonder how we would respond if the Lord had asked us the same thing He asked Peter, “Lovest thou me?”

Pastor

Our eternal security is in no way dependent upon us. Thank God! If it were, we would all perish. Our security is dependent only upon the ability of Christ, in whom we trust, to keep us by his grace. To deny the infallible security of God’s elect is to deny the ability of Christ to save.

Don Fortner

WITHOUT GOD – WITHOUT CHRIST: Eph. 2:12

Believers have a relationship with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ that is more blessed and intimate than any other on this earth or in this life. Christ is, to us who believe, “precious”. Everything about Him is precious – His blood is precious for it washed us from all our sins. His promises are precious; they are all “Yea” (no wavering, no conditions) and “Amen”. His promises are like Himself; sure, steadfast, and faithful. Our faith is precious, for He gave it to us, He worked it in us, he sustains and He will keep us believing to the saving of our souls (Heb. 10:38-39).

Is the Lord Jesus Christ precious to you? He is to us our Redeemer. We have experienced the sprinkling of the blood to our hearts and consciences (I Pet. 1:2). God’s people are like Job; “I know my Redeemer liveth!” (Job 19:25:27). He is, to believers, their Shepherd. He is the good Shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep. He is the Great Shepherd who rose again from the dead by the everlasting blood of the covenant (Heb. 13:20). He is the Chief Shepherd who will appear to give a crown of glory that fades not away (I Pet. 5:4). Oh yes, to the child of God “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want” (Ps. 23).

Another blessed relationship we who believe have with God is that of Father. He said “I will be a Father unto you, you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty”(II Cor. 6:18). There are many other relationships I could mention that believers have with the Lord Jesus, but I’ll mention just one more: He is our Righteousness. Before God, a man must be without sin and have a perfect obedience to the law. He must be as righteous as God! Well – believers are in the Lord Jesus. God made Him to be sin (our sin), that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him, (II Cor. 5:20). If you don’t have these relationships with God in Christ, you are without God, without Christ, and without hope in the world (Eph. 2:12). But you don’t have to be in this state before God. Come to God in Christ, believing Him for your soul’s need for time and eternity!

Pastor Don Bell

Hypocritical professors are like dunghills covered with snow. They look well for a time; but sooner or later, the snow will melt and they will prove themselves to be but dunghills.