Call To Worship

(Tune: #52- ‘Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned')

1 - Lord, we adore Thy boundless grace,

The heights and depths unknown,

Of pardon, life, and joy, and peace

In Thy Beloved Son. [Repeat]

2 - O Wondrous gifts of love divine

Dear Source of every good;

Jesus, in Thee what glories shine!

How rich Thy flowing blood! [Repeat]

3 - ‘Come, all ye pining, hungry poor,

The Savior's bounty taste;

Behold a never failing store

For every blood bought guest. [Repeat]

4- Here shall your numerous wants receive

A free, a full supply;

He has unmeasured bliss to give,

And joys that never die. [Repeat]

MORNING WORSHIP:

TODAY'S SPEAKER: Eager Avenue Grace Church extends a warm welcome to Pastor Bill Parker and his wife Debbie. Bill is pastor of 13^th. Street Baptist Church, Ashland, Ky. and once again we welcome him as our guest speaker. Bill will conduct both the 10:00 am and 11:00 am services today. Pray for him as he delivers God's Word.

Radio Broadcast: Sunday morning at 9:30am on 98.7 FM -WISK

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Birthdays: Mark Pannell - June 24^th.

COMPLETE IN CHRIST

Those who are taught of God feel that they are but dust and ashes, that they are vile, carnal, sold under sin, helpless, shut up, and have no might of their own. Where this experience is, the great truths of the Gospel become interwoven in their souls, mingled with their minds, and so entwined about their hearts, that they are carried away in their affections from earthly things to heavenly, from sin to salvation, from this world to that which is to come. Their hope is in heaven, they have no confidence in the flesh, but in the Lord they have righteousness and strength, life and light, joy and gladness, glory and honor, unto these things they look, for these things they seek, upon these things they live, of these things they boast, and by these things they defy death, hell and the grave. They thus put on Christ, walk in Him, commune with Him, and rest ALL their expectation upon HIS holy life, propitious death, and Suretyship responsibility. His life is our justification; His death is our redemption, our pardon, our health, our sanctification, our victory, and our peace with God. Our justification is complete, so that we are in this as well as in every other respect in Him complete.

James Wells- 1839, London England

Christ is no half-Savior

How dangerous it is to join anything of our own to the righteousness of Christ in pursuit of justification before God! Jesus Christ will never endure this; it reflects upon His work dishonorably. He will be all, or none, in our justification. If He has finished the work, what need is there of our additions? And if not, to what purpose are they? Can we finish that which Christ Himself could not complete? Did He finish the work, and will He ever divide the glory and praise of it with us? No, no; Christ is no half-Savior. It is a hard thing to bring proud hearts to rest upon Christ for righteousness. God humbles the proud by calling sinners wholly from their own righteousness to Christ for their justification.

-John Flavel

FAITH IS THE VICTORY

Many people sing the old hymn "Faith Is the Victory." We as true believers may wonder how this could be so because we know our faith is all too often weak and pitiful. Add to that the fact that so many have such a perverted view of faith. They really have faith in their faith. To many faith is no more than mental determination, positive thinking, or a blind leap in the dark. But consider God's Word concerning faith -- "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4). Here is faith that is truly the gift of God, faith that stands on solid evidence, and faith that has a proper object - the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work of redemption to save us from our sins -- "Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" (1 John 5:5). The faith that God gives His people is never considered apart from its object - Christ and Him crucified. The victory is not found in our faith as if to say it is our effort and work to believe. That would be just as damning to the souls of sinners as claiming that our victory is our works. The reason we have victory in faith is because our faith looks to Christ who has gained the victory over sin, Satan, and the world by His obedience unto death. Faith causes us to look away from ourselves and to Christ for all righteousness and eternal life (Rom. 10:4,10). If my victory over the world were obtained by and founded upon my believing in and of itself, I would be a defeated failure. My victory over the world is obtained by and founded upon my great Savior. He is my faith; He is my victory

• - Bill Parker - Pastor of 13^th. Street Baptist Church, Ashland, Ky.

What a mercy, then, to be stripped of all

I must confess that God generally deals very contrary
to my expectations. Yet "He does all things well." It is
"Sweet to lie passive in His hands,
And know no will but His."
I have proved . . .
my own strength to be complete weakness,
my own wisdom to be consummate folly,
my own righteousness to be filthy rags.