CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune: He Leadeth Me)

Hark! How the Gospel trumpet sounds!

Christ and free grace therein abounds;

Free grace to such as sinners be,

And if free grace why not for me?

The Saviour died and by His blood

Brought rebel sinners near to God;

He died to set the captives free,

And why, my soul, why not for thee?

Thus Jesus came the poor to bless,

To clothe them with His righteousness;

That robe is spotless, full and free,

And why, my soul, why not for thee?

Eternal life by Christ is giv'n,

And sinful men are raised to heav'n;

Then sing of grace so rich and free,

And say, my soul, why not for thee?

Bible Study: "Godly and Legal Repentance" 1 Samuel 24:8-22

Today's Speaker: Brother Robert Margeson will conduct the 11:00 am service today. Pray for him as he delivers God's word.

Radio Broadcast: Sunday morning at 9:30am on 98.7 FM -WISK. You can also hear the sermons on your computer. Just click on http://www.americusradio.com/

Birthdays: Stacy Young - Oct. 5^th.

The only way that any person has ever been able to see and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is by the revealing work of the Holy Spirit. It is the same of Christ as He was typified in the Old Testament shadows and figures as it is with the word of the truth of the Gospel. Adam and Eve, being shown by God the Spirit, through the animal sacrifices and skins, saw Christ and the way of righteousness and salvation in Him and believed on Him. Since the coming, suffering, dying and resurrection of Christ, God has given us a more sure word of prophecy, the gospel of Christ. Yet having both that which was displayed in the Old Testament and the record of God's Son and His accomplished death in the New Testament, even now, we cannot see or believe on Him who is the whole of the scriptures apart from the Spirit's work. Then and now the blessed Spirit must take the things of Christ and show them to us. Thank God He still does to His people!

Gary Shepard

THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD

The Spirit of God in a man's bosom searches the deep things of God, so as to lead him into a spiritual and experimental knowledge of them. What a depth in the blood of Christ-how it "cleanses from all sin,"-even millions of millions of the foulest sins of the foulest sinners! What a depth in His bleeding, dying love, that could stoop so low to lift us so high! What a depth in His pity and compassion to extend itself to such guilty, vile transgressors as we are! What depth in His rich, free, and sovereign grace, that it should super-abound over all our aggravated iniquities, enormities, and vile abominations! What depth in His sufferings-that He should have voluntarily put Himself under such a load of guilt, such out-breakings of the wrath of God-as He felt in His holy soul when He stood in our place to redeem poor sinners from the bottomless pit-that those who deserved hell, should be lifted up into the enjoyment of heaven!

J.C. Philpot

(Mt. 6:19-20)

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:" (Mt. 6:19-20)

No matter how much we accumulate of material goods and money in this life, no matter how much we gain of fame and recognition, they will either eventually leave us or we will leave them in death. Either way, it is loss. Our only hope is to seek, find, and store for ourselves "treasures in heaven." How do we do this? Is it by seeking to work our way into heaven or earn the blessings of heaven by our works? NO. The way we do this is to seek, find, store our whole selves up in the Lord Jesus Christ, "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Col. 2:3). Real eternal and incorruptible treasure is found in a glorious Person (Christ) not in the things of this world. All who are in Him possess "an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you," (1 Pet. 1:4). It is a treasure and inheritance that includes the forgiveness of all our sins by His precious blood, an everlasting righteousness of infinite value whereby sinners can be eternally justified before God, have eternal and spiritual life from God whereby we are given true knowledge that leads us to believe and rest in Christ for all salvation. This precious treasure may bring the criticism and even hatred of the world upon us, but Moses esteemed "the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt" (Heb. 11:26). Moses knew that the treasures in Egypt would eventually perish, but the sinner saved by God's grace in Christ will never perish and neither will all he possesses in Christ.