Christ Our Life Tune: Just As I Am Words By: Isaac Watts
1) Jesus, our Kinsman and our God, Arrayed in majesty and blood, Thou art our life; our souls in Thee, Possess a full felicity.
2) All our immortal hopes are laid In Thee, Our Surety and our Head; Thy cross, Thy cradle, and Thy throne, Are big with glories yet unknown.
3) Oh let my soul forever lie Beneath the blessings of Thine eye; 'Tis heaven on earth, 'tis heaven above, To see Thy face, and taste Thy love. ***** Daily Readings - March 6-12 Sunday - Deut. 21-23 Monday - Deut. 24-27 Tuesday - Deut. 28 Wednesday- Deut. 29-31 Thursday - Deut. 32-34 Friday - Joshua 1-3 Saturday - Joshua 4-6
SCRIPTURE READINGS TODAY: MORNING:3 John EVENING:Romans 2:1-16 *****
"HE DRANK DAMNATION DRY" "O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou wilt." (Luke 26:39) The whole of the tremendous debt was put upon His shoulders; the whole weight of the sins of all His people was placed upon Him. Once He seemed to stagger under it: "Father, if it be possible." But again He stood upright: "Nevertheless, not My will, but Thine be done." The whole of the punishment of His people was distilled into one cup; no mortal lip might give it so much as a solitary sip. When He put it to His own lips, it was so bitter, He well nigh spurned it - "Let this cup pass from Me." But His love for His people was so strong, that He took the cup in both His hands, and "At one tremendous draught of love He drank damnation dry" for all His people. He drank it all, He endured all, He suffered all; so that now for ever there are no flames of hell for them, no racks of torment; they have no eternal woes; Christ hath suffered all they ought to have suffered, and they must, they shall go free. The work was completely done by Himself, without a helper. -- C. H. Spurgeon *****
WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU HAVE LEARNED? If someone were to ask me, "What are the most important things you have earned?" My reply would be: - God is more holy than I ever thought. - I am more sinful than I ever feared. - I am loved beyond all that I know. - by an anonymous Christian *****
THE REVELATION OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS The redeemed are not only pardoned, but justified, pronounced righteous by Him who is most just, whose judgment is according to truth. Hence the Gospel is termed the revelation of God's righteousness, with which, as we have seen, the believer is invested. We might have expected it to be termed the revelation of His mercy, but what is most astonishing, grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life. The bestowment of mercy on fallen man also appeared incompatible with the truth of the declaration, - "The soul that sinneth it shall die;" but in virtue of the unity of Christ and His people, of the Sanctifier and them that are sanctified, He endured the curse which they had incurred; and as they had all sinned in Adam, in Christ they suffered the penalty of sin, and, consequently, are justified from all things by the God of truth. - J. A. Haldane *****
A Righteousness In Which Jehovah Himself Cannot Find A Flaw We must have a righteousness in which Jehovah Himself cannot find a flaw, a righteousness which Jehovah cannot mend, a righteousness which neither sin nor Satan can mar; and unless we have on a righteousness of this nature, we can never enter into the blessedness of the world to come. Where, then, are we to find it? Eternal praises to the matchless mercy of a covenant God, we have it in the blessed Person, glorious work, and spotless obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ! And, therefore, as it was essential for Him to fulfill all righteousness for His people, He loved the Lord His God with all His heart, with all His mind, and with all His strength. He began at the beginning, and went through holily, righteously, and steadily every step of the law of God and all in justice and righteousness. He fulfilled every iota of it, and gave it immortal glory and honor. The law could only require the perfect obedience of a perfect man, but He gave it the perfect obedience of the God-Man, and stamped forever a holy dignity and majesty on it, in order to manifest that this glorious righteousness is suited to every sinner's case, to all their needs, and to honor and glorify all the perfections of God; and thus He has "forever perfected them that were sanctified," all those who were set apart for Himself. They are perfected forever in His own blessed obedience and spotless righteousness; and this righteousness which God gives shall endure forever. As for you who have a righteousness of your own, you never can feel your need of Christ's righteousness. You do not know your need of it, and it is an insult to your pride to mention it. But, for the poor creature who feels himself to be a loathsome, vile, and ruined sinner, and is brought experimentally to feel what he is before a heart-searching God, and that every iota of the law is against him - for God to give this righteousness to him, to put it upon him and communicate the power of it to his soul, why it will raise and exalt him to such a blessed enjoyment of God's righteousness that his tongue will sing aloud and speak forth praise to the honor and glory of His blessed Name; and he will say, "My soul shall be joyful in my God; I will glory in the God of my salvation; for He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness; He hath adorned me with the garments of salvation." -William Gadsby, from a sermon preached June 1, 1843 *****
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