September 7, 2008 SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH Of Princeton, New Jersey
John 6: 33: For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. 34: Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35: And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
MEETING LOCATION Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd floor 150 Washington Street, Rocky Hill, NJ, 08553
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Sunday 10 AM Bible Class 11 AM Morning Worship Thursday 7:00 PM Mid-week Service (The first Sunday of each month we meet at 10 AM for morning worship then observe the Lord's Table. After services we have lunch together.)
Clay Curtis, Pastor 7 Birch Street Pennington, New Jersey, 08534 Phone: 615-513-4464 Email: clay@sovereign-grace.us
THE WORK OF GOD John 6: 28: Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29: Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. Notice that they asked about the "works of God." The depraved sinner thinks God requires many and great "works" to be done on the part of the sinner. The taller the works, the wider the works, the more demanding the works, and the sinner will go after them with both hands. But when told that God is not looking to the sinner's many wonderful works, but that this is "the work of God"--to believe on him whom he hath sent--the sinner finds that to believe on Christ, and part with his own self-righteousness, is entirely beyond his ability to perform.
IS THE LAW SIN? By Scott Richardson Pastor-Emeritus of Katy Baptist Church in Fairmont, WV If I measure a crooked wall with a perfect plumb line, it reveals the crookedness of the wall, but does not remove it. If I take out a bright light on a dark night, it reveals to me all the pitfalls and hindrances, but it does not remove them. Now the plumb line and the lamp do not create the evils which they point out. They neither create nor remove, but simply reveal. So it is with the law. It does not create the evil in man's heart; neither does it remove it. But with unerring accuracy, it reveals it. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid!
A.W. Pink on John 6: 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. The error of the Jews here should be a warning to us. They thought Moses gave them the manna. But it was God and not Moses. He was only the humble instrument. They ought to have looked through the instrument to God. But the eye rested, where it is ever so prone to rest--on the human medium. The Lord here leads them to look beyond the human instrument to God--"Moses gave you not that bread....but my Father,"
O what creatures of sense we are. We live so much in the outward and visible, as almost to forget there is anything beyond. All that we gaze upon here is but the avenue to what eye hath not seen, nor ear heard...
Thus should we ever look through nature, to nature's God. Thus shall we enjoy God's gifts, when they lead us up to Him; and then shall we not make idols of them, and so run the risk of their removal. Everything in nature and providence is but the "Moses" between us and God. Let us not be like the Jews of old, so taken up with Moses as to forget the "greater than Moses," from whence they all proceed.
Pastor's Note on Romans 10: 4 If all our works were perfect and we expected salvation thereby, we would still be living in total unbelief, because the end of every precept of God's holy law is that we believe on his precious Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
IN CHRIST HIMSELF By Henry Mahan 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!
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