ALL GLORY TO CHRIST Tune “AMAZING GRACE” CM Words by JIM BYRD
1. The Son of Man came to this earth To seek and save the lost; For all His people Jesus died, And paid our ransom cost.
2. ‘Twas in this way the holy law Of God was magnified; For by the Savior’s sacrifice, Our souls were justified.
3. Ascended high, Christ ever reigns, For us to mediate; He governs from His sovereign throne, The mighty Potentate.
4. Not human works, or grief or tears, Can cause a soul to live; For we are dead in sin and guilt, The Lord new life must give.
5. When quickened from the death of sin, The Savior we believe; The Prophet, Priest and mighty King, We joyfully receive.
6. Someday from glory Christ will come, To fetch His family; And then with Him the saints shall be, Throughout eternity! ***** SCRIPTURE READINGS TODAY: MORNING: ISAIAH 43:1-13 EVENING: ACTS 5:17-42
Daily Readings - October 12-18 Sunday - Matthew 25-26 Monday - Matthew 27-28 Tuesday - Mark 1-3 Wednesday- Mark 4-5 Thursday - Mark 6-7 Friday - Mark 8-9 Saturday - Mark 10-11 *****
“The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble: and He knoweth them that trust in Him.” (Nahum 1:7)
***** SUBSTITUTION AND SATISFACTION Isaiah 53:5, “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:11, “He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities.” We need to enter into the rest of Christ and repose in what He has done for us. We look outside of ourselves and look to Christ Who has paid all that God has demanded for our sins. He fulfilled the law which we never could and satisfied the justice of God in our room and stead. Three words can sum this up. “It is finished!” Substitution and Satisfaction - Christ is the sinner’s substitute and God is satisfied with the sacrifice of Christ! “What a wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord, What a wonderful Savior is He!” –Pastor Wayne Boyd -*-*-*-
“Grant, almighty God, that since Thou hast designed in Thy mercy to gather us together as a church, that we may be blessed with Thy presence and power; for without Thee, we can do nothing.” –John Calvin
*-*-*-* THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD “Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be Thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is Thine; Thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and Thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come of Thee, and Thou reignest over all; and in Thine hand is power and might; and in Thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all” (1 Chronicles 29:10-12). To declare that God is sovereign is to say as David did, “Thou reignest over all.” The sovereignty of God is His absolute (unlimited, complete), independent right (free from all influence) to do as He pleases with all that He has made. “Thine is the kingdom.” God reigns in the kingdoms of nature, providence and salvation. “Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did He in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places” (Psalm 135:6). In setting forth God’s sovereignty in salvation Paul declared, “Therefore hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeth” (Romans 9:18). Without any injustice, the Lord shows mercy to whom He will and hardens whom He will. He loved Jacob, but hated Esau (verse 13). He spared and liberated undeserving Israel, but raised up Pharaoh to the throne and hardened his heart so the monarch was set in his opposition against Jehovah and Israel. God used the Egyptian king to fulfill His eternal designs and then destroyed him to glorify His power. In verse 21 Paul asked, “Hath not the Potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?” As a potter has authority over a mass of clay to make whatever vessels he chooses for whatever purpose he intends, so the Lord has unlimited power over His creatures to fashion them any way He determines to accomplish His eternal decree. Some are “vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,” while others are “vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory” (verses 22-23). The vessels of wrath have no reason to complain and the vessels of mercy have no reason to boast. The sovereign God does as He pleases and therefore asks in Matthew 20:15, “Is it not lawful for Me to do what I will with Mine own?” –Pastor Jim Byrd
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