CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune: “Sweet Hour of Prayer” – p. 361)
(Words by Pastor Jim Byrd)

Amazing love, how rich and free,
That God would pour His grace on me;
Forgive all my iniquity,
And save my soul eternally.

Behold His matchless sovereign grace,
He sent His Son to take my place;
To bear my sin and then to die,
The law’s demands to satisfy.

Amazing love, how can it be,
That Christ would die on Calvary?
‘Twas by that death He ransomed me,
From condemnation I am free.

Redeeming love surpasses thought,
O what a work my Savior wrought;
He drank the cup of vengeance dry,
To save my soul and justify.

Amazing love remains my theme,
For in that bloody, crimson stream,
All of my sins were washed away,
Christ Jesus died my debt to pay.

Redeeming love will be my song,
When I shall join the heav’nly throng:
Then gathered round His throne above,
We’ll sing of His amazing love.

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Today: Bible Classes – 10:00 a.m.; Morning Worship – 11:00 a.m.
Messages by Pastor Bill Parker

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Birthdays: Tammy Hall – April 13^th – Kandice Drake – April 14th –
Walter Ross – April 15^th

A WONDERFUL PLAN OR AN ETERNAL PURPOSE?

Some say that "God has a wonderful plan for your life but that plan will never come to fruition unless you give Him permission to do what He wants to do." What kind of a god requires your cooperation before he can act? What kind of a god has a wonderful plan, but the very creatures that he made will not allow him to do what he wants to do? Such a god is, in reality, no god at all, merely an idol which came forth out of man’s vain imagination. What do the Scriptures say about God and His purpose? "In Whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated accord­ing to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will" (Ephesians 1:11). I do not read in His word that God has a wonderful plan, but I do read of His eternal, unchanging, unfailing purpose which cannot be frustrated. "My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure" (Isaiah 46:10). – Pastor Jim Byrd

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“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)

We cannot preach the love of God without preaching the truth of God, the truth as it is in Christ Jesus. The love of God is in Christ! It is ever­lasting and unchanging in Him. It is most clearly and publicly demon­strated in His cross death. It is particular and powerful and until He gives us life and faith, it is one-sided. We only love Him when we find out how He loved us and gave Himself for us. – Pastor Gary Shepard

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There is a lot of preaching on the love of God and there should be, but not at the expense of God’s other attributes. We need to hear about the holiness of God and the justice and wrath of God and how they were satisfied in the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s wrath and justice were extinguished by Christ for His elect. Oh rejoice believer in Christ.

–Pastor Wayne Boyd

WHAT DOES FAITH DO?

Faith takes God at His Word, and depends upon Him for the whole of salvation. God is good, and therefore He will not, He is true and therefore He cannot, deceive me. I believe that He speaks as He means, and will do what He says; for which reason let me be strong in faith, giving honor to God, and rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

– John Ryland

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KNOWING THE FATHER AND THE SON

The Lord Jesus said, "All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him" (Matthew 11:17). How does the grace of God in salvation come to sinners? It comes through Christ, the Mediator, and on the basis of His having glorified the Father by meeting all conditions of our salvation. All eternal life resides in Christ and is sovereignly given by Him to all whom the Father has given Him. Do you want this grace? Do you desire this great salvation? It is in God the Son alone, and no one knows the Son but the Father. If any sinner wants to know Christ as Savior, we have to abide by the testimony of the Father concerning Him. So the first saving view of Christ is as He is sent of the Father to fulfill all righteousness for His sheep. By the same token, no one knows the Father except through the Son, as revealed by the Son. God the Father has engaged every attribute of His character to save sinners based on the righteousness of Christ freely imputed and received by faith. It is in the accomplishment of salvation that God is glorified as both a just God and a Savior. When sinners by the power of the Holy Spirit see this, God is glorified in their hearts. This is salvation (2 Cor. 4:6). So the ground of this great salvation lies in the fact that all of salvation is conditioned on Christ the Son, and the fact that He met all of those conditions. Based on His having established righteousness for His people, He rules and disposes over all things to insure that every one of His sheep partake of this eternal life He has merited for them. In this revelation of grace, sinners come to know both the Father and the Son.