Come all ye saints and worship God — the Lord Who justifies,
We bow before Him, sing His praise, in Christ the crucified.
REFRAIN: Lord, we trust You; Lord we trust You;
Hear our solemn cry;
Christ our Savior; Christ our Savior;
He will bring us nigh.
In Jesus Christ we are secure; He is our mercy-seat;
He satisfied the law’s demands; in Him we are complete.
REFRAIN: Lord, we trust You; Lord we trust You;
Hear our solemn cry;
Christ our Savior; Christ our Savior;
He will bring us nigh.
We pray to God our Father now; Christ’s righteousness we plead;
Our hearts established with His grace, as on His Word we feed.
REFRAIN: Lord, we trust You; Lord we trust You;
Hear our solemn cry;
Christ our Savior; Christ our Savior;
He will bring us nigh.
Bible Study: “God’s Sovereign Work” –II Samuel 24:1
Today’s Speaker: Brother Robert Margeson will conduct the 11:00 am service today. Pray for him as he delivers God’s word.
Television Broadcast: Our Reign of Grace Television program is being broadcast on WFXL Fox 31, Channel 4. The program will air every Sunday morning at 11 AM. Pray that God will use it for His glory.
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Gal 3: 18 “For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.”
God did not PROMISE Abraham the inheritance. He GAVE the INHERITANCE to him “by promise”. And, WHAT did God give Abraham? (I.e. what is the INHERITANCE?) It is whatever God Promised Abraham in that Covenant (which was “confirmed before of God in Christ”, which could not be “annulled by the law” – Gal 3: 17). The covenant spoken of is the covenant of grace and redemption. It is the Everlasting Covenant of Grace made between the Persons of the Godhead. It is a covenant of Eternal Salvation with all its blessings and benefits.
Abraham was GIVEN the INHERITANCE. He was GIVEN Eternal Salvation.
Like all the elect, Abraham had ALREADY been given “grace” (all the benefits and blessings of salvation “before the world began” (II Tim 1: 9).
The “giving” here is as a POSSESSION. In time (in Regeneration), God enabled Abraham to take POSSESSION of (by Promise and by faith) what He had ALREADY given him “in Christ before the world began”.
According to Romans, Abraham was “fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.” What had God Promised Abraham? Salvation? That might be your immediate answer. But, think about it. God did not Promise Abraham salvation. He PROMISED him a seed, a seed through whom “all the nations of the earth would be blessed”. He promised him a Savior who would “finish the transgression, make and end of sin, and bring in everlasting Righteousness”.
He promised him a Savior who (by His obedient life and sacrificial death) would work out all the details of Eternal Salvation. Christ came in time to meet all the conditions and requirements of that salvation His elect people had ALREADY been GIVEN in Him “before the world began”. That is what Abraham saw in God’s Promised Seed.
And, Abraham believed God (I.e. He was given faith in the Promised Seed). And, that faith gave evidence that God had imputed to Abraham for righteousness what Christ would accomplish in time.
Mark Pannell
“Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure”. 2 Samuel 23:5
The covenant which the sweet Psalmist of Israel, in his last dying words, has respect unto, is the covenant of grace: founded on grace; filled with the blessings of grace. It is called the covenant of peace (Isa. 44:10), because a grand article of it is peace and reconciliation with God, by Jesus Christ. He was sent to be our peace; to make peace for us by the blood of his cross. It is called a covenant of life (Mal. 2:5), because a grand article in this covenant is life, and it secures everlasting life to his people; for this is one grand promise of it, that God hath promised unto us, eternal life (1 John 2:25).
Now this covenant is said to be made with David: made with his son and antitype, the Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ, who bears his name. Ihave made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant (Ps. 89:3). A covenant projected by God the Father: it was proposed by him to his Son Christ Jesus, who agreed unto it. A mere creature cannot make a covenant with God; for what has man to give to God, to agree upon with God? What terms can he propose, or have proposed, that he is capable of performing? None at all. When, therefore, God is said to make a covenant with men; the meaning is, he manifests his covenant made with Jesus Christ from all eternity. Therefore, when David says, he hath made with me an everlasting covenant;the meaning is, he hath made it manifest to me, that I have an interest in his everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure. This is the meaning of, Hearken unto me, and thou shalt live, and I will make with thee an everlasting covenant (Isa. 55:3). Can any suppose, that when one, under the influence of grace, hearkens to God, then God begins to make a covenant with him? no, the meaning is, God will manifest his covenant love and grace; shew them their interest in the blessings and promises thereof, so that their faith shall lay hold on this covenant, as David did under all those distressing circumstance he was in. Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant: I clearly see my interest in it, and by faith lay hold upon it, and upon the blessings and promises of it.
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