CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune: "The Church's One Foundation")

Give me a sight, O Savior, of Thy great love to me;

God's love that has provided all He requires of me.

For pardon and for glory - His righteousness I plead.

Thy righteousness, O Savior, that grants me all I need.

O wonder of all wonders that through Thy death for me,

My guilt and my defilement can all abolished be.

Then melt this heart, O Savior, ring forth the Gospel sound;

And let me trust Thee only, my Lord and Savior crown!

O lead me to the fountain filled with His precious blood,

O fill my heart with worship, with His grace my soul flood;

I trust the risen Savior, and on His merits rest,

He is my one foundation, the brightest and the best.

"God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause His face to shine upon us; Se-lah. That thy way may be known upon earth, Thy saving health among all nations." (Psalm 67:1-2)

Bible Study: "A Sinner Coming to the Savior King" 1 Samuel 25:1-13

Today's Speaker: Brother Winston Pannell 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: Becky Pannell - Oct. 13^th. , Jim Fuller - Oct. 15^th.

May these things sink deep into thy heart, that thy Surety has undertaken the whole of thy salvation! Salvation is accomplished and finished by thy Surety, given to thee freely, continued with all its blessings in time and through eternity as a free gift, to the praise and glory of His grace. THOU ART TO LOOK TO CHRIST as thy Surety; and whatever He has promised in His word relating to this salvation, thou art to trust Him to make it good before God, the Father, and to depend upon His faithfulness and power to make it good to thee.

William Romaine

The stock markets of the world rise and fall. The currencies of countries fluctuate from hour to hour. The price of gold and silver must be reported every day. But the precious blood of Jesus Christ was the price necessary for redeeming ALL of God's elect. The dying Lamb's precious blood, though devalued by the message and method of today's false religions, shall never lose its power, till all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more.

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God is a God of truth and a God of love, not of one more than the other, not of one against the other, and not of one at the expense of the other. Wherever the truth is, love is; and wherever love is, truth will be also. The apostle commands us to speak the truth in love, but he does say emphatically to speak the truth! When it comes to dealing with the salvation of sinners, where the truth is not spoken, all outward manifestations that appear as love

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"yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant"

The dear children of God are liable to various temptations of Satan; and sometimes are prevailed upon to do those things that are disagreeable to their heavenly Father: yet covenant interest remains. "Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant." David had his temptations. We have mention made of a very sore one; Satan stirred him up to number the people of Israel (1 Chron. 21:1). He fell in the temptation, he suffered much, and his people too, through it, but still covenant interest remained. The best of men are liable to temptations. Peter was. Simon, Simon (says our Lord), Satan hath desired to have thee; to have thee in his hands; to do with thee as he would; to harass, distress, and confound thee, but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not. The great apostle of the Gentiles, had a messenger of Satan sent to buffet him: and extremely distressed he was with it. He besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from him; so it is with all the people of God at one time or another. Those very persons, the Corinthians, whom the apostle describes as being washed, justified, and sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of God; he intimates, in the following verses, that they were liable to the temptations of Satan. Thus the best of men experience his temptations. Nay, even the Son of God himself did, he was in all points tempted as we are (Heb. 4:15); and that as violently as ever any of the people of God were; for what greater temptations can they be harassed with, than those with which he was assaulted? But, notwithstanding all the temptations of God's people, yet covenant interest remains. Our Lord has a sympathizing spirit with them, and rebukes the tempter. He says, the Lord hath chosen Jerusalem to rebuke thee. "Is not this one that I have chosen? is not this one that I have called by my grace: snatched as a brand out of the burning, and saved from everlasting ruin? and shall this dear child of mine fall by thy hand? the Lord rebuke thee Satan! What hast thou to do with him? he is one of mine." The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, he knows the fittest time to do it, and he does do it: though he suffers the enemy to go about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, yet he does not suffer him to destroy any of his own children. What is the reason of all this? Covenant interest continues. Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant.