Clay Curtis, Pastor 7 Birch Street Pennington, New Jersey, 08534 Phone: 615-513-4464 Email: clay@sovereign-grace.us
ALL MY SALVATION 2 Samuel 23:5: Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow. Is Christ ALL to you? Is Christ All your salvation? Is Christ ALL your perfection before God? Has Christ put away ALL your sins--past, present and future? Is it by Christ only that ALL your prayers and good deeds come up to God a well-pleasing spiritual sacrifice? Is Christ ALL your assurance of grace to continue in faith in this life? Is Christ ALL your hope of glory to come? Those who continue unto the end confessing God is ALL my salvation, and ALL my desire, shall live with Christ who is ALL their desire, for ALL eternity.
ANNOUNCEMENT--Central Baptist Church Spring Meeting: May 1-3, 2009 3596 Franklin Street, Rocky Mount, Virginia Speakers: Chris Cunningham--Franklin, Tennessee; John Chapman--Ashland, Kentucky; Tom Harding--Pikeville, Kentucky; Henry Mahan--Rocky Mount, Virginia; Contact Pastor Paul Mahan--540-489-3035. A block of rooms have been reserved at the Comfort Inn--give the church name when making a reservation: 540-489-4000.
SANCTUARY Sanctuary means "holy place." (Heb 9: 2, 3.) Under the law of Moses, the blood of a sacrifice was brought into the holiest of all places once a year by the high priest to make atonement for the sin of the people (Heb 9: 6, 7.) God's presence in heaven is called "the holiest of all." Christ Jesus, the Son of God entered into the holiest of holies, into God's presence with his own blood. Thus he made atonement for his people once for all time. (Heb 8: 1, 2; 9: 11, 12, 24-26; 10: 11-14.) Now, because Christ Jesus has entered ahead of us, every believer is free to enter into to the holiest of holy places--the sanctuary--through faith with full assurance that God will hear us by Christ Jesus our High Priest (Heb 10: 19-22.)
What is Theology? Theology is, God talking about Himself, and allowing us in on the conversation. True Theology is the discourse of divine revelation, the self disclosure of God, to those who are privileged to hear. Theology is more than a cerebral speculation about divine things. It is the subjective work of the Triune God, bringing men and women into an experience of the Truth , as it is in Jesus Christ. True theology is a beholding of the glory of God, in the Person of His Son, by the Spirits aide, according to the purpose of The Father. John 6:45: It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. Copied from the website homepage of Grace Bible Church, San Leandro, California, Jesse Gistand, pastor.
The Privilege of God's Priests If those who Christ loved and washed in his own blood were yet obligated to observe days, times or seasons then surely the night our Lord Jesus instituted the ordinance of his supper he would have said that the 14th day of the 1st month, at that precise time in the evening, was the precise time to observe it (Lev 23: 5; Lk 22: 7-20.) Instead, he drew no attention to a day or a time, but to the object of our remembrance, saying "This do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me" (I Cor 11: 25.) Why was he not more specific in appointing a day as when he appointed the various holy days in the law? (Lev 23.) It is because by him, the believer is no longer under the law, but under grace. By the new and living way which he made for us, as priests unto God, we have access to the holiest of all continually (Heb 10: 20-22; Rev 1: 4-6.) It is his glorious person and work to which all the LORD's sabbaths pointed. Because the Body of those shadows has come, there are no days or times or seasons which we remember, or for which we give thanks, only to his precious name (Mt 11: 28-30; Gal 4: 9, 10; Col 2: 14, 16-23.) By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God CONTINUALLY, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name (Hebrews 13: 15.)
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