ZEBULON BAPTIST CHURCH
Weekly Bulletin
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Psalm 71:15-17

Infinite Satisfaction
Sin requires an atonement of infinite worth because sin is an infinitely evil thing. It is committed against God, the infinite good. It offends infinite majesty. It is the contempt of infinite justice. It is a reproach of infinite glory. And it is the enemy of infinite holiness. Every sin properly demands infinite satisfaction.

That satisfaction can be found only in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, God's own dear Son. Hell is and must be a place of everlasting torment, because should all the world suffer the wrath of God in hell, satisfaction could not be made for one sin. But our all-glorious Christ has by his one sacrifice for sin put away all the sins of those for whom he died upon the cursed tree! Pastor Don Fortner

IN CHRIST HIMSELF
The Holy Spirit does not reach after something novel, new, nor spectacular in order to glorify Christ or to preach Christ to men. He does not need tongues, fleshly emotion, bodily healings, and creature fame and importance in order to bring glory to Christ and call out His sheep. He finds Christ's glory in Christ Himself! If we want to honor Christ, glorify Christ and preach Christ, we must not look for something outside of Christ; but we must honor Him by preaching that which is His already - His deity, His person, His man-hood, His life, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, His intercession, His return! Pastor Henry Mahan

CHRIST COMES FIRST
Christ said, "All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers (John 10:8)." Obviously, anybody coming before Him who claimed to be the Messiah was a thief and robber. But He also means that anything that comes before Him in any aspect of salvation is a thief and robber. It is true that God chose me in eternal election, but it is because He saw me in Christ. Nothing comes before Him in redemption. He did not first see my faith before redemption could be applied to me. He redeemed me. He comes first in regeneration. I do not live because I decided to believe. I believe because He gave me life! "For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen (Romans 11:36)." Pastor Todd Nibert

"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." (Psalms 51:10)
The natural mind must consider it an impossibility that something clean could be brought forth from something unclean. Yet, what is impossible with man is possible with God. Yeah, God glorifies Himself in performing the impossible.

The Lord Jesus was clean in every sense of the word, yet he came from a long line of the unclean: The father of His clan, Judah, had a child by his dead son's wife, Tamar, thinking she was a common prostitute. Perez, the second of twins born to that union, is the ancestor of Boaz, who married the Moabitess, Ruth, a Gentile woman whose ancestry comes from Lot and his incestuous relationship with his daughter. That is only part of the "unclean" line from which the Lord comes. The very best of the men in the Lord's ancestry, David, was a violent and passionate man, guilty of adultery and murder. Yet from this unclean line, the Lord God brought forth the Clean One, even the Lord Jesus Christ, who did no sin, and knew no sin.

But much which passes for Christianity in our day is an attempt to bring the clean out of the unclean, for they believe and preach that an unclean man may produce something as clean as saving faith. Not even God tries to being the clean and pure faith of the gospel out of an unclean heart. Instead, He regenerates the heart - creates within a natural, unclean man a clean and pure nature which, quite naturally and properly, believes God with a clean and sincere faith.

Do not ever expect that something clean will arise from your unclean flesh. It will be a constant source of pollution from now to the grave. Look to the Clean One, and trust that His cleanness will stand good for you. And rejoice that the God of all grace has created within you a clean heart, and from that heart you have been enabled to believe the gospel to the saving of your soul. Pastor Joe Terrell

Bible Study 10:30 A.M.
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