Aug 16, 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 (cancelled) 7:00 P.M.

Thursday Special Service Pastor Daniel Culver 7:00P.M.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins. Matt. 1:21

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10:15

Pastor Dan Culver is scheduled to preach for us on Thursday evening, he is the pastor of Grace Fellowship, in Wheelersburg, Ohio.

PARTICULAR REDEMPTION IS VITAL

The central issue of the gospel is the redeeming work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yet, this is the place where men who claim to serve his honor are often most willing to compromise. Such compromise is treason against the very glory of God. The Word of God asserts with absolute clarity that our Lord Jesus Christ died for a specific people –God’s elect (Isa. 53:8), and that he effectually accomplished redemption and secured the eternal salvation of those people (Heb. 9:12). To teach otherwise, to teach that Christ loved, came to save, died for, and intercedes in heaven for all men, those who are lost as well as those who are saved, is something far more grievous than doctrinal error. It is damning heresy! Such doctrine is as much a denial of our glorious Redeemer’s deity as is that teaching which denies his virgin birth. Not only is universal atonement an absurdity, it is blasphemy! It is a denial of every attribute of our God. It must not be tolerated. Pastor Don Fortner

CHRIST CRUCIFIED

The Christian minister, with only one subject – Christ Crucified – if he should live as long as Methuselah, might keep on preaching Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, and he would still find that the people of God would come to hear him, and never crave for a fresh subject.

We have had an instance, in London, of one who has delivered an amusing lecture a thousand times, always to great multitudes; but then they were different persons every time. No one thought of going to hear him lecture upon the same subject a thousand times.

But the Christian minister may keep on, and on, and on with the same theme – Christ Jesus, Christ Jesus; the same cross, the same crown of thorns, the same bleeding wounds – from the first time that he enters his pulpit to the last when he lays down his charge; and the people may always say, and he can always feel, that the Gospel has the same dew of its youth upon it, and is always fresh and ever new.

C.H. Spurgeon

NEWTON'S DYING THOUGHTS

In the last few weeks of his life, John Newton, author of the famous old hymn "Amazing Grace," became so weak that he had to stop preaching and eventually was confined to his bed. His friends said that he never feared age nor death. To a close friend he wrote, "Through God's grace I am perfectly well, yet laboring under a growing disorder for which there is no cure--old age. But I am glad for this disease, for who would live always in such a world as this." Shortly before he died, he told visiting friends, "My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Saviour." Copied

THE JUDGMENT THRONE OF CHRIST

“He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matt. 25:33-34).

In this great and notable day of judgment, the Great Shepherd of the sheep shall make a just distinction between His elect, chosen and blessed in Christ and those left to justly perish in their sins (Matt. 25:41). As the sovereign Lord of all He has the supreme knowledge and divine right to make these exact distinctions between the sheep (believers) and the goats (unbelievers) (2Tim. 2:19). I want you to notice carefully the words of commendations and grace given to His church, "The King shall say unto them…"

1). "Come." The great Shepherd calls His sheep unto Himself, ten thousand welcomes (John 17:24). Come to Me, come unto my dearest embraces, come into my sweet and eternal communion, come into my spiritual kingdom take possession of all covenant mercies ( Rom. 8:32; Matt. 25:21). Come unto my throne of glory (Rev. 5:10).

2). "Come, ye blessed of my Father." The reason of our coming and blessing is found in the eternal covenant of grace (Jer. 31:3; Psa. 65:4; John 6:44-45). As the Spirit glorifies the Son (John 16:14), so the Son glorifies the Father by referring the salvation of His sheep to the eternal purpose of God (Rom. 11:36), He is the first cause and last end in justifying His elect (Eph. 1:3-14; Eph. 3:10-11).

3). "Inherit the kingdom prepared for you." This is the eternal inheritance of God's grace (1Peter 1:3-5), bought with the precious blood atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ (Rev. 1:5-6; John 14:1-6). Not acquired by our merit, but rather by His free grace (Rom. 3:24). This inheritance is freely given to all those made heirs of God and joint-heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:17; Rev. 21:6-7).

4). "Prepared for you from the foundation of the world." All of God's preparations for the sheep on His right hand are by His eternal decrees (Acts 15:11; Rev. 13:8). These preparations are not only eternal but also particular, "for you" (2Thes. 2:13). The Lord Jesus Christ lived as Mediator (1Tim. 2:5) and died as Substitute for the sheep on His right hand (John 10:15; Matt 1:21). “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ” (1Thes. 5:9).