February 7, 2010

Bible Study 10:00-10:30 A.M.
Morning Service 10:45 A.M.
Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.
Saturday FM Radio 9:00 A.M.
WEMM 107.9
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Call to Worship

We have Thy promise, gracious Lord
O then fulfill Thy precious word
Thou wilt be where Thy people meet
To make our joyfulness complete.

We ask Thy gracious presence here
From worldly thoughts, O keep us clear
And set our hearts on things above
With sweet enjoyment of Thy love.

We ask from our great living Head
Give us Thy Holy Spirit's aid
While we engage in prayer and praise
To be supplied with every grace.

‘Tis Thine alone, Almighty Lord
To speak the soul-reviving word
‘Tis Thine to give the hearing ear
‘Tis Thine to drive away all fear.

(Tune: "From Every Stormy Wind That Blows")
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Isaiah 55:7 "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon."
BIRTHDAYS
Mallory Williams February 9th
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This Week's Nursery Schedule
Today, Sunday School: Nancy Hogsten and Earlein Meadows
AM Worship Service: Tammi and Joanna Holbrook, Julie Thornbury
Wednesday Service: Lorelei Holschuh
Next Sunday School: Kathy Faulkner and Gay Armstrong
Next Sunday AM: Debbie Bartram and Judy Sanders
Church Cleaning: Gary and Kathy Faulkner________________________________________
David said, "I have been young, and now am old: yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread" (Psalm 37:25). God will never forsake a righteous man. This gives us some glimpse of what was going on while Christ hung on the cross. He was certainly the righteous man. He never sinned! Yet He cried, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" God has never and will never forsake a righteous man. As the sin-bearing substitute, Christ was so truly made sin, that the Father forsook Him. In bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, he deserved to be forsaken by God! It was justice and righteousness of God that caused Him to forsake His Son. But there is wonderful assurance here. Just as Christ was truly made sin, everybody he died as a substitute for is made the very righteousness of God. And the righteous will never be forsaken.
~Pastor Todd Nibert
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The mark of apostasy is when one starts looking for more than Christ. Let us never forget, ‘ye are complete in him...' Colossians 2:10

JUSTIFICATION

Some say that to speak of the eternal aspect of justification is blasphemous because (they say) it makes void the work of Christ on the cross. This is like saying our eternal election makes void the work of regeneration by the Holy Spirit in time. To limit justification (or salvation) to an event in time is to limit the eternal God and make Him to wait upon something to happen before He can save or justify. The work of Christ on the cross is not just an event in time, but an eternal work (Rev. 13:8, Heb. 9:12). In Hebrews 9:12, the word "eternal" redemption means "without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be." In the estimation of the immutable God we always have been, and always will be redeemed by Christ's blood, and therefore just in His sight. May God keep us from arguing whether His work of justifying sinners is like a rope or a spear, and cause us to rejoice in the work itself. It is a work done altogether by Him for the sinner, and EVERYTHING He has done for us in time and eternity is done to the end that we might dwell with Him forever, faultless, unblameable and unreproveable in His sight. ~ Pastor Chris Cunningham
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HE HAS PROVIDED ALL THAT I NEED
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: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord."
Seeing that Jesus Christ is made these things to all whom God saves, then it is evident that they have none of these in themselves by nature. Everything that a sinner needs to stand accepted in God's holy presence, God has provided in His Son. Therefore, come and let us glory in the Lord. "Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." (1 Chronicles 16:29)

HURRICANE ROAD
GRACE CHURCH

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of GOD in him."

2 Corinthians 5:21