December 20, 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.

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 5:20-21

DO YOU CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS?

Do I celebrate Christmas? If you mean do I celebrate December 25^th as the birthday of the Lord Jesus, I say no. There is no religious significance to December 25^th since there can be little doubt the Lord was not born on that day. However, I do celebrate the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ was born in the flesh. I celebrate that Christ came in the flesh to undo everything Adam did to me in the flesh. I celebrate that Christ was born in the flesh so He could establish righteousness in the flesh and die in the flesh as my Substitute.

On December 25^th I will enjoy time with family and open the gifts that we have for each other. Every day I celebrate the miracle that God sent His Son in the flesh to be my Representative and my Savior! Why confine celebrating such a glorious gift to only one day a year? Pastor Frank Tate

SUBSTITUTION IS THE GOSPEL

Particular Redemption – Limited Atonement – Definite Atonement – Effectual Atonement. These are all words used to describe the atoning work of Christ on the cross. He died for a particular people. His intention to save was limited to the elect. His atonement was with a definite purpose for a definite people. His atonement was effectual. All for whom He died must be saved. These terms are all well and good in their place, but a better word is plain old SUBSTITUTION. All of these terms point to a real, substitutionary death on the cross. SUBSTITUTION IS THE GOSPEL. To deny, water down, or omit in our preaching the particular, limited, definite, effectual death of Christ on the cross (substitution) is to deny, water down, or omit in our preaching the Gospel of Christ. The meaning of substitution is so simple that adjectives are not even needed to describe it.

Pastor Todd Nibert

T.U.L.I.P

The old truth preached by Spurgeon, Bunyan, the reformers, and the apostles, is the truth that we must preach today or else be liars to our consciences and to our God. We dare not try to shape truth or smooth away the sharp edges of the doctrines. Mankind is still DEPRAVED (totally), God has ELECTED a people. Christ sufficiently and EFFECTUALLY REDEEMED the elect, the Holy Spirit will CALL out His sheep through the preaching of the Gospel, and all whom He justifies and calls will PERSEVERE! Some ministers profess to be SOUND in grace, but it does not sound like grace when they preach it.

Pastor Henry T. Mahan

WHAT EVERY BELIEVER SEES BY FAITH

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” (Heb. 2:9).

"But we see Jesus." How do we see Him? Not by dreams and visions or by the visualization of movies or pictures. Every believer sees the Lord Jesus Christ as Abraham did, by faith, "Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad" (John 8:56). We see Him as He is declared throughout the pages of Holy Scripture, "beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself" (Luke 24:27). True God-given faith believes the record of Holy Scripture (1Thes. 2:13). Job said, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee" (Job 42:5). Here are some key points as to how we see the Lord Jesus Christ by faith.

1). We see Him as God our Saviour, incarnate, personified in human flesh, "Who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death." We see Him leaving glory and coming to this sin cursed earth "to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10; Phil. 2:7-9). We see Him as the God-man Mediator working our perfect righteousness by His faithful obedience to the law of God (Heb. 2:15-17; Rom. 4:6).

2). We see the Lord Jesus Christ as the only substitionary sacrifice for sin, "that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man" (every one for whom He represents). The context of the following verses describes those for whom the Lord Jesus experienced death to put away their sin. “The every man (or the every one)” is a description of His elect in (verse 10-17), known as His: "sons," "sanctified," "brethren," "the church," "children," "seed of Abraham," "the people." Christ died for their sin, not to make their salvation possible but rather to make it certain and eternally secure (Matt. 1:21; Heb. 9:11-12; 10:14-17).