CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune: "‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus")

God is holy, just, and righteous

When He saves us by His love;

He is so based on the merits

Of Christ's righteousness and blood.

Christ our Savior, Christ our Savior;

Look to Him and Him alone;

In His merits we find favor;

He our Lord is on the throne.

Christ has set us free from bondage;

We the debt no longer owe;

He has paid the fullest ransom,

Now the law must let us go.

Free in Jesus, free in Jesus;

Free to serve Him graciously;

He has bought our full salvation -

Pardon, peace, and liberty.

Hebrews 9:14

¹⁴How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Bible Study: "Waiting on the Lord" 1 Samuel 26:1-12

Today's Speaker: Brother Mark 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: Jim Casey - Oct. 27^th.

Our Objective Oneness with Christ

1 Corinthians 1:30-31

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: ³¹That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Consider how God the Father chose the elect in Christ, having covenanted with Him in eternity past to be their Representative so as to establish as a Substitute for us, through His obedience unto death at the cross - all of these blessings mentioned here.

• He is made our wisdom in that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are found in Him. For in what He accomplished in His finished work on the cross the wisdom of God is in full display as every attribute of God's character is engaged therein so as to be magnify Him in the salvation of sinners based solely upon His righteousness alone. To behold that is to glory in the Lord.
• He is made our righteousness by God's judicial imputation or accounting of all that He merited in His obedience unto death on the cross, righteousness, to our account.
• He is our sanctification, our holiness. God's law and justice must pronounce us holy and acceptable based on the imputation of His righteousness and so we discover that at the cross not only was (1) God's wrath poured out upon Christ due to imputed sin so as put away the guilt of our sins but (2) that He also removes the defilement of sin in having answered all that God requires for our acceptance before Him, both legally and morally.
• He is our Redemption in that by His one sacrifice for sin, He paid all the debt that these (who are brought to believe) owed to God's law and justice so that God requires nothing of us in order to gain or maintain salvation. The ransom, the price has been paid. Redemption is not merely an attempt made - but a payment paid!

But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Gal. 6:14)

Randy Wages, Eager Ave. Grace Church

"My God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Matt. 27:46)

The Evangelist adds, that Jesus cried again, with a loud voice. But why with a loud voice? To show that He did not die by compulsion but voluntarily. When a person is in his last moments, his speech commonly fails him; but Christ, when He was expiring, spoke with a clear, audible voice, which was a proof, that, though He had suffered so much in His human nature, yet that human nature was, in a supernatural manner supported by His Godhead, and that all the united cruelty of Jews and Gentiles, could not put an end to His life, sooner than He pleased. Having, therefore, with a loud and triumphant voice, commended His blessed soul into His heavenly Father's hands, He gave up the ghost; or, as it may be literally rendered, "He dismissed or let go His spirit."

When He knew that He had fulfilled all the prophecies that related to Him, and suffered enough to procure the salvation of His people, He voluntarily retired from life. No sooner was the important scene brought to a period; no sooner were the Redeemer's eyelids closed, than universal nature seemed to sympathize with her departing Lord, and in a miraculous manner, to reproach the matchless guilt and the unexampled cruelty of His murderers. The first prodigy that immediately followed on His death, was the rending the veil of the temple. The priests, or at least, the major part of them, were attending divine service in the temple, to offer up the evening sacrifice, at the very moment when Christ expired; when the veil, or magnificent curtain, which separated the holy of holies from the rest of the temple, was suddenly rent in two. And as this veil was composed of the richest and strongest tapestry, its rending of itself was the more miraculous, and showed the immediate interposition of divine Providence. This rending of the veil signified, that the Jewish dispensation was now at an end, all the types belonging to it being fulfilled in Christ. It was also a presage of the approaching destruction of the Jews as a nation; and showed likewise, that by the death and sacrifice of Christ, a way was opened for sinners into heaven, of which the holy of holies was an emblem; and that now, there was no difference between Jew and Gentile; Christ having broken down the partition wall, and procured eternal life for all that trust in Him, out of every nation under heaven.