O PRAISE THE LORD Tune to "REJOICE THE LORD IS KING" 6.6.6.6.8.8. Words by JIM BYRD
1. Come praise the God of grace, The God of sovereign grace; He chose to save a people, bless His holy Name! O praise the Lord. Sing praise to Him, His Name forever be adored.
2. God sent His Son to die - The law to satisfy - And by His sacrifice He put our sin away! O praise the Lord. Sing praise to Him, His Name forever be adored.
3. The Spirit of His grace, To Him new life we trace; He gave us faith, now on the Savior we believe! O praise the Lord. Sing praise to Him, His Name forever be adored.
4. Preserved by God’s great pow’r, Through every passing hour; Someday our Lord will take us to His home on high! O praise the Lord. Sing praise to Him, His Name forever be adored.
SCRIPTURE READING: PSALM 105:1-8
Daily Readings: Nov.25-Dec. 1 Sunday - Romans 14-16 Monday - I Cor. 1-4 Tuesday - I Cor. 5-9 Wednesday- I Cor. 10-13 Thursday - I Cor. 14-16 Friday - 2 Cor. 1-4 Saturday - 2 Cor. 5-8
"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." (Philippians 4:6)
THE PRINCE OF LIFE "And killed the Prince of life whom God raised from the dead" (Acts 3:15). Did they merely kill a great prophet, a good man or a kind miracle-worker? Jesus of Nazareth was infinitely more. Peter identified Him as being "the Prince of life." Who was the Prince who died? Who was murdered? Who was killed? Who was nailed to a cross to die in agony between two convicted felons? They "killed the Prince of life!" He died at the hands of wicked men, but by the appointment of Jehovah and by His death, vile sinners were redeemed back to God and shall live forever. This is matchless, unparalleled love indeed! "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10). Satan wrecked his heinous wrath in stirring up the hearts of those who "killed the Prince of life," but by the death of Christ our enemy has been mortally wounded. Sin did its worst and showed its venom against Christ, but by His sacrifice He washed away the sins of His people. The law and justice of God which must slay the guilty, exacted from our Savior the full redemption price for His people and was completely satisfied in His death. All hail to the Prince of life! All for whom He died and arose shall be like Him and live forever with Him. --Pastor Jim Byrd
CHOSEN IN CHRIST Jesus Christ is "all in all" in God’s election of a great multitude unto everlasting salvation. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself to the praise of the glory of His grace" (Ephesians 1:3-5). God "hath chosen us in Him," as our Head. The free grace and everlasting love of God is the fountain of election; that is, our salvation flows from the eternal, unchanging loving-kindness of God our Savior. The Lord chose us, therefore, because He loved us; and He loved us, because He would love us. No other reason can be given. As Jehovah said to Israel of old, so He says to true, spiritual Israel. "The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt" (Deuteronomy 7:7-8). –copied
SALVATION Concerning salvation, take into consideration the almighty and all-loving Author of it, and by Whom it was accomplished. What He is in Himself, in the glories of His person, His greatness, fitness, suitability, and all-sufficiency; what He is in His work, and what He hath done for His redeemed, the salvation He hath wrought beyond all conception of value in its completeness, and beyond all reach of extent in its efficacy, being like Himself, everlasting and eternal; and what He is in His relations to His people, being their everlasting Father, Brother, Husband, Friend all these things, included as they all are in salvation, give the happy partakers of it "a joy unspeakable and full of glory;" so that every individual finds cause to join in the hymn of the church, and say: "I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation...He is the Rock, His work is perfect... just and right is He" (Isaiah 61:10; Deuteronomy 32:4). –Robert Hawker
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