CHRIST GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ME TUNE TO COMPLETE IN THEE LM/CHORUS WORDS BY JIM BYRD
1. I once was lost and dead in sin, With only wretchedness within; But then the Spirit to me came, Brought me to love the Savior’s Name.
CHORUS: ‘Twas by His blood Christ saved my soul, Forgave my sin and made me whole; Since in His righteousness I stand, Someday I’ll enter heaven’s land.
2. What wondrous mercy, grace and love, That Christ descended from above; To give Himself the sacrifice, And fully pay my ransom price. CHORUS
3. By faith I do the Lord receive, Upon the Savior I believe; For none can save but Him alone, Who reigns upon His sovereign throne. CHORUS
4. Some blessed day the Lord I’ll see, And dwell with Him eternally; And still my song of praise shall be, Christ Jesus bled and died for me. CHORUS
***** As I announced last Sunday night, I have accepted the pastorate of the Thirteenth Street Baptist Church in Ashland, Kentucky, effective November 1st. This is a matter about which I have diligently sought divine guidance, and I know many of you have joined me in asking the Lord to make His will known to me. Though leaving will be difficult, yet I am at peace with my decision, confident this move is His will. Pray for your pulpit committee (Tim Krauss, John Kulman, Chet Mazurek, Bryan Edwards and Richard Haskins) as they begin to search for my replacement. We know God is sovereign in all things including where He sends His servants. Let us bow submissively to His will and ask Him to lead you to the man He has already ordained to be your next pastor. I appreciate those who have offered words of encouragement to Nancy and me, knowing how hard leaving will be on us. This is a time of trial for this congregation, and it is important that everyone remain steadfast in the truth, united in love, prayerful for the will of God to be done and patient in waiting upon the Lord. –Pastor Jim Byrd *****
"For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s." (1 Corinthians 3:21-23) *****
THE CHRISTIAN’S CONFLICT AND ENCOURAGEMENT My desire being to comfort the disconsolate, I shall lay before you a few scripture truths, which the God of love has intended for the consolation of His dear children in the field of battle.
1st. He who made you has fixed His love upon you freely in His Son. He loves you unchangeably, in all states and conditions, from eternity to eternity. Whatever changes, internal or external, you may pass through, the love of your God is the same. You may suffer the loss of wealth, health, ease, reputation, friends, and, like Job, be stripped of all your earthly comfort; but you cannot be deprived of your heavenly Father's affection. He rests in His love, and joys over you with singing. Love runs through all His purposes concerning you, and all His dispensations toward you.
2nd, He has chosen you in Christ Jesus to be His people for ever, and adopted you to be His children and heirs. He has given Himself to you, to be your God and Father, your portion and inheritance forever.
3rd, He has united you to His Son Jesus Christ, and fixed you in Him, never to be separated from Him. Jesus and you are one. One body, one building, one vine. Your union with Christ commenced with your election in Him. Free sovereign grace was the cause of both. God’s eternal and immutable love is the bond of your union with Jesus: therefore it can never be dissolved. That God who chose you in Him, keeps you in Him. Being in Christ, all that He is, and all that He has is yours. His abundant grace ; His perfect righteousness; His complete atonement; His consummate holiness ; His eternal redemption; His perfect and all glorious salvation; His unsearchable riches of glory and blessedness, are all your own. Christ and you being one, you stand in Him complete before the throne of God. You are washed from all your sins in His blood; you are justified from all things by His righteousness: yea, you are law-fulfillers and the righteousness of God in Him. The Father views you with infinite delight. He sees no spot in you. There is no curse, no condemnation for you. You are saved with an everlasting salvation, and shall not be ashamed nor confounded, world without end.
4th, God has made with you an everlasting covenant; not a covenant of works, but of grace; not a conditional, but an absolute one; not one all confusion and disorder, but one ordered in all things by His all-comprehending wisdom. Not one which may vary, be disannulled and made void, but one which, like its divine author, is immutable, permanent, and everlasting. It is founded upon Jehovah’s unchangeable will, and confirmed by His inviolable oath. It is sealed by the blood of His incarnate Son; and for its fulfillment the eternal Three, have, by Their joint oath, pledged Themselves.
5th, God has given you exceeding great and precious promises, suited to all your cases. The fulfillment of these promises is certain, because the promise is faithful and almighty. These promises are breasts of consolation to the distressed, milk for babes, and meat for strong men; you may safely trust them, and in trusting them, you will sweetly enjoy them. --Job Hupton (1762-1829) *****
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