Dan Morgan and Eric Floyd will be bringing the messages today. Please pray for these men as they preach and for us as we travel.

REMINDER! Daylight Savings Time ends next Sunday. Remember to turn your clocks back one hour.

Millsite Baptist Church will host special meetings on November 6th, 7th, and 8th. The speakers will be Darvin Pruitt, Gabe Stalnaker, and David Eddmenson. Services begin at 7 p.m. on Friday and 10:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

CATEGORIZING SIN

Trouble arises when we begin to categorize sin and say one sin is worse than another sin. Of course the sin we think is the worst is the sin that we feel we do not have a particular problem with. That kind of thinking is what leads to self-righteousness, dependence on self and less dependence on Christ. God help us to see ourselves as the worst of sinners and cry with the publican “God be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13).

Men do not KNOW Christ the Light by coming to the 5 points of Calvinism any more than they KNOW the darkness of their hearts by memorizing the 10 Commandments.

Pastor Clay Curtis

THE CHARACTER OF THE SAVIOR

I love to think of the character of Christ. He is the eternal, holy Son of God; yet He came to seek and to save lost sinners. He is the only righteous man to ever live; yet He is so kind and merciful that sinners were comfortable in His presence. He made the self-righteous pharisees uncomfortable in their own righteousness but He made publicans and harlots so comfortable that they flocked to Him because while He condemned self-righteousness, He always forgave sin. He is the fountain of every spiritual blessing and He calls poor, needy sinners to come unto Him and drink and find rest for their souls.

The gospel we preach and believe is the gospel of Christ. We should strive to preach Christ in the same manner that He Himself preached. Christ is not to be preached in a harsh, judgmental attitude, but in love for Christ and in compassion for the lost.

It has been my experience that focusing on whether or not I am saved always leads to confusion and doubt, but focusing on whether Christ is the Savior has always led to simplicity of thought and confidence.

Pastor Joe Terrell

The importance of hearing the Gospel cannot be overstated, because “faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God” (Rom 10:17). One of the names of the Gospel is “The hearing of faith” (Gal. 3:5). The Lord said on numerous occasions, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.” Not everybody has ears to hear! In Luke 6:27, the Lord said, “I say unto you that hear.” He only speaks to those who hear. Hearing is an evidence of knowing and being of God. “He that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us” (I John 4:6). We are also warned of becoming dull of hearing (Heb. 5:11). In the parable of the sower, where the Lord gives us the four types of hearers, He says in Luke 8:18, “Take heed how ye hear!” Not only are we to be careful what we hear, but how we hear! “Let every man be swift to hear and slow to speak” (James 1:19). It takes just as much grace to hear the Gospel as it does to preach the Gospel! May we all say with Samuel, “Speak Lord, thy servant heareth.” Guard against becoming dull in hearing!