"Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him." (Isaiah 3:10-11)
‘TIS WITH THE RIGHTEOUS WELL TUNE THIS IS MY FATHER’S WORLD SM/double WORDS BY JIM BYRD
1. What great consoling words; Their sweetness, who can tell? O precious truth, forevermore ‘Tis with the righteous well. The Father chose to save, Our souls from death and hell; Sound forth the wonders of His grace; ‘Tis with the righteous well.
2. Sing praises to the Son, The great Emmanuel, Since Jesus paid our debt of sin, ‘Tis with the righteous well. He is our all in all, So let His glories swell; For by His sacrificial death, ‘Tis with the righteous well.
3. The Spirit comes in grace, Our darkness to dispel; He leads to Christ and then we learn, ‘Tis with the righteous well. Now trusting Christ the Lord, In Whom all mercies dwell; We have this bless-ed confidence, ‘Tis with the righteous well.
SCRIPTURE READINGS: MORNING: PSALM 36:5-12 EVENING: LUKE 23:39-56
CHRIST GOES BEFORE "And when He putteth forth His own sheep, He goeth before them, and the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice" (John 10:4). In the countries of the east, the shepherd goes before the sheep and they follow him. When he says, "Let us go to the well," they follow him. When he says, "Let us go down into that dark valley," they go after him. So it is with Christ. Christ never called a sheep to go where He never went Himself. He has borne all that He calls His sheep to bear. Christ went in a lower level of sorrow than you will be called to go. Do not be alarmed then when you are called to suffer, you will not be called to go where He has not gone. Do not be afraid to put down your tender feet where He put down His. And it is still true that He goes before you. "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee" (Isaiah 43:2). Do not be afraid then when Christ is before you. --copied
THE DOCTRINE OF PREDETERMINATION When I consider the absolute independency of God and the necessary total dependence of all created things on Him, their first cause, I cannot help standing astonished at the pride of impotent, degenerate man. He is so prone to consider himself as a being possessed of sovereign freedom and invested with a power of self-salvation, able, he imagines, to counteract the designs even of infinite wisdom and to defeat the agency of Omnipotence itself. "Ye shall be as gods," said the tempter to Eve; and "ye are as gods" says the same tempter to her apostate sons. One would be apt to think that a suggestion so obviously false and flattering, a suggestion the very opposite of what we feel to be our state, a suggestion contrary to both Scripture and reason, to fact and experience, could never meet with the smallest degree of credit. And yet, because it so exactly coincides with the natural haughtiness of the human heart, men not only admit, but even relish the deception and are fondly inclined to believe that the father of lies does, in this instance at least, speak truth. The Scripture doctrine of predetermination lays the axe to the very root of this delusion. It assures us that all things are of God; that all our times and all events are in His hand. –Augustus Toplady
A FOOL, A BOASTER AND A WISE MAN A fool announces the good work he intends to do. A boaster makes sure others are aware of the good work he has done. A wise man does the good work and seeks no recognition. "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret Himself shall reward thee openly" (Matthew 6:1-4). –Pastor Jim Byrd
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