Aug 02, 2015

Sunday Worship

Radio WXCC 96.5 fm (internet wxccfm.com) 8:30 A.M.

Radio 98.1 fm; SuddenLink TV (channel 9) 10:30 A.M.

Bible Study 10:30 A.M.

Morning Service 11:15 A.M.

Wednesday Worship 7:00 P.M.

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. 1 Cor. 11:23-25

We plan to observe the Lord’s Table today and enjoy lunch together.

CHRIST WILL KEEP THE SHEEP

(John 10:27-30)

I do not panic nor despair in this world of religious paganism and corruption. The Lord knows how to deliver them that love Him and worship Him out of all trial and tribulation. Evil may abound, false teachers increase, the true worship of the Lord may all but perish from the earth; but our God has a people who are chosen by Him, redeemed by His dear Son, and called by His Spirit. He will keep them from falling and He will keep them “Til the river rolls its waters at their feet. Then He will safely bear them over, where their Saviour they shall meet.” Pastor Henry T. Mahan

IN TRUTH AND LOVE

These are the two words that characterize genuine faith. An embracing of the Truth and a faith that works by love. Paul spoke in Titus 1:1 of the faith of God’s elect, the acknowledging of the Truth, which is after godliness and he spake in Galatians 6:5 of faith which worketh by love. Faith bows to and receives all of God’s Truth. A faith that fails to receive all of the Truth is not the faith of God’s elect. This faith is not the bare assent to declaring a doctrine to be true. You love the Truth because you love the One of whom the Truth speaks. Faith is energized by love to Christ and His people. If love and Truth are not there, it is not saving faith.

Pastor Todd Nibert

Particular Redemption

Some insist upon it that men are redeemed not because Christ died, but because they are willing to give efficacy to the blood of Christ. He died for everybody according to their theory. Why, then, are not all men saved? Because all men will not believe? That is to say that believing is necessary in order to make the blood of Christ efficacious for redemption.

Now we hold that to be a great lie. We believe the very contrary, namely, that the blood of Christ has in itself the power to redeem and that it does redeem and that faith does not give efficacy to the blood, but is only the proof that the blood has redeemed that man. Hence we hold that Christ did not redeem every man, but only redeemed those men who will ultimately attain unto eternal life. We do not believe that He redeemed the damned; we do not believe that He poured His life blood forth for souls already in hell. We never can imagine that Christ suffered in the room and stead of all men, and that then afterwards these same men have to suffer for themselves, that in fact Christ pays their debts, and then God makes them pay their debts over again.

We think that the doctrine that men by their wills give efficacy to the blood of Christ is derogatory to the Lord Jesus, and we rather hold to this, that He laid down his life for His sheep, and that His laying down His life for the sheep involved and secured the salvation of every one of them. We believe this because we hold that – “Of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things.”

C. H. Spurgeon

WHO WILL BE JUSTIFIED BEFORE GOD?

I recently asked a local religious leader who would be justified before God at the judgment seat of Christ (John 5:21-22)? To which he replied, "I believe all good people will be in heaven." To which I said, "What is the basis or root cause of goodness?" The religious man said, "He thought that the standard to which we would gain eternal heaven was based upon how many goods works we produced." This man, like most religious lost people have no concept what God Almighty requires (Gal. 3:10). Because God is Holy and all men sinful, the best we can produce will never satisfy His demand (Isa. 64:6). The scriptures plainly and powerfully proclaim that, "there is none good, no not one" (Rom. 3:9-12). Certainly, any thinking person would see that creature merit and righteousness is excluded in the scheme of God's salvation. The only way any guilty sinner can be justified before God is to have a perfect justifying righteousness provided by God Himself without any contribution from the sinner (Rom. 4:1-7). This indeed is the good news of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is based upon His performance not ours (Psalm 57:2). No wonder the apostle said, "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: (Phil. 3:8-9).

If any man thinks that he is justified before God by his good works he is tragically and dreadfully mistaken (2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 3:5). What a horrible rebuke of the effectual, substitutionary sacrifice and perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, to entertain thoughts of self-glory, self-righteousness and self-salvation (Phil.2:6-9; Luke 16:15). Paul made this very argument to the Galatians church. "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain" (Gal. 2:21).