The Lord Jesus came and took Brother Tommy Robbins home to be with himself last Sunday Morning. His family lost a father, his wife lost a husband, we lost a dear friend and brother in Christ,the church where he pastored 17 years lost a pastor. Pray for these dear folks.
Sweet Smelling Savour
The Hebrew children offered to God
Sweet smelling savour burned before God,
Picturing Jesus, salvation's done,
Not by their offering, but in His Son.
How could God ever be pleased with me?
I am a sinner, worst there could be.
God's law I've broken; even if one,
I'm guilty of all. I cannot atone.
Christ is my off'ring, my sacrifice.
Sweet smelling savour, He paid the price.
Pleasing the Father, obeyed His will.
In Him accepted, His love is real.
"Have Thine Own Way Lord". p388
Gary Spreacker
I wonder if we will ever become weak enough, empty enough, and ignorant enough for God to use us for His glory! Henry Mahan
How Lost Were We?
How utterly abominable and wicked we must be, that nothing less than God coming down and taking unto Himself human flesh, and "being made in the likeness of sinful flesh", so that He would have a body in which He could suffer death on the cross.
How awful sin must be, and how horribly sinful we must be, that Christ Jesus our Lord must be the one “Who his own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree” (1 Pet. 2:24), and “pour out his soul an offering for sin”. Sin is indeed exceeding sinful that it would take such a sacrifice.
How utterly lost, helpless, and without any ability to better ourselves before an infinitely holy and righteous God we must be, that Christ, God's dear Son would take our place before His Holy Father on the cursed tree and there bear what I could not bear, which is the infinite righteous wrath and justice of God against us and our sin.
By his suffering in our stead, He consumed the wrath of God which was against us, and he satisfied God's infinitely righteous justice for us. Yet after Christ, having done all this in our room and stead, we are totally unable to see these things, or to know these blessed truths, or even care about them unless we are born again! Our carnal minds were enmity against God, we were enemies in our minds by wicked works, and so how are our minds changed from enmity and our wills brought into subjection to God?
It will take omnipotent power to make us willing to be saved; we must be drawn to God because we are unwilling to come. We must be given new hearts, new wills, new minds, new desires, new loves, and new natures if we are to enter the kingdom of God. None of these things can we do for ourselves. But blessed be God, He loved us and gave His Son for us, and with him he freely gives all things, he sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts and we cry Abba Father. Our gracious God, in making his Son’s death effectual to us, makes us new creatures In Christ. He brings into existence a new man. It is this new man that is able to see, to believe, and to walk and commune with God in Christ. - Pastor
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There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, ...We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
GRACE AND PEACE
Every believer is chosen by grace, regenerated by grace, called by grace, redeemed by grace, kept by grace and shall be delivered by grace. It is by grace that we have peace between us and God. This is what gives us a peaceable spirit toward our brethren and, as much as possible, with all men. Only God gives it and only God is to be glorified for it.
Clay Curtis
I shall never forget one summer afternoon, when I was preaching in a village chapel about the joys of heaven, that an elderly lady sitting on my right kept looking to me with intense delight. Some people’s eyes greatly help the preacher. A telegraph goes on between us. She seemed to say to me, “Bless God for that. How I am enjoying it!” She kept drinking in the truth, and I poured out more and more precious things about the eternal kingdom and the sight of the Well beloved, till I saw what I thought was a strange light pass over her face. I went on, and those eyes were still fixed on me. She sat still as a marble figure, and I stopped and said, “Friends, I think that yon sister over there is dead.” They said that it was even so, and they bore her away. She had gone. While I was telling of heaven, she had gone there. C.H. Spurgeon
God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth, and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue.
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