Aug 09, 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 there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. 1Tim. 2:5-6

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

1 John 2:1

“JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS!”

The Scripture encourages the believer to trust and hope in the mercy of God at all times! It does not say, “If any man be holy, prayerful, always faithful, he has an Advocate,” but it says, “If any man SIN, he has an advocate with the Father,” It does not say, “If any man sins, he forfeits his right to Christ’s advocacy.” Grace that can be forfeited because of human failure is not grace at all. Mercy that is conditioned on the merit of the creature is not mercy at all. If my title to glory rests upon my works, either BEFORE OR AFTER conversion, it is a total failure. The Scripture declares that at all times, under all circumstances, Jesus Christ is our righteousness, our sanctification, our Advocate, our redemption. So, when I sin, when I consider my past or present and come creeping into my closet with a guilty conscience and an aching heart, I can rejoice in the mercy of my Father, for I have an Advocate, “JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUS!”

Pastor Henry T. Mahan

THE CONSTRAINT OF GRACE

“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”

(Romans 6: 12-14).

The motive given to the believer to yield ourselves unto God is not the rule of the law but the constraint of grace. He says, “sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”

Believer, since Christ fulfilled the law, put away our sin and paid the wages of death for his people, we have the assurance that sin shall not have dominion over us, because we are not under the law, but under grace. (1 Cor. 15: 55-57) The law, sin or death can never say another word to Christ. Likewise, the law, sin or death can never say another word to us for whom Christ died. We are not under the curse of the law, not restrained by law, not motivated by law, not even ruled by law. “The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith.” (Gal 3: 11-12)

The saints of God are in another Kingdom, the Kingdom of Christ where grace reigns through the righteousness of Christ unto eternal life. (Rom 5: 17, 20, 21) Christ rules his kingdom by grace and mercy, not by the whip of the law. (Heb 8: 12)We are under God’s covenant of grace. (2 Sam 23:5)Grace works in us a far more superior motive than those ruled by law, “For the love of Christ constraineth us” (2 Cor 5: 14-18). Pastor Clay Curtis

THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL

The Gospel of God gloriously declares the Father to have eternally purposed, in Christ, to show mercy to His people in electing grace. It gloriously declares the Lord Jesus to have procured, by His precious life and death, the redemption and salvation of all that the Father gave Him in that electing grace, and gloriously reveals the Surety and application of all Christ procured, for His people, by the Holy Spirit.

Pastor Marvin Stalnaker

PRAYER

When the apostle prayed for the believers at Ephesus, he prayed that they might be strengthened inwardly in the heart (Eph. 3:14-21). He prays that they would continue to grow in faith and love toward Christ; to know more of His love toward His elect (1 John 3:1-2). I pray that God would teach us to pray this way for each other. Often we just pray for temporary and natural things instead of spiritual things and eternal things. Oh to know more of His love for us!

• The breadth or scope of His love to His elect, (John 3:16; John 13:1; Rom. 8:35-39; 1John 4;10;).

• The length of His love, to all eternity, the love of God to His own is as eternal as God is (Jer. 31:3; Jn. 13:1; 17:23).

• The depth of His love, to the lowest sinner, Christ came to save sinners (Rom. 5:8; 1Tim. 1:15).

• The height of His love, to the throne of grace now and all glory forever (Eph. 2:4-6; Rom. 8:28-39; Heb. 4:12).