Central Grace Church
3596 Franklin Street Rocky Mount, Virginia
Website: www.centralgracechurch.com Email: pedm55@gmail.com
November 3rd 2024
10:00 am ---------------------All Promises in Christ are Yea & Amen – 2 Corinthians 1:19-20
*** NO WEDNESDAY NIGHT SERVICE THIS WEEK ***
Fall Meeting Schedule -- November 8th – 10th
Friday Night: 7:00 pm – David Eddmenson
8:00 pm – Gabe Stalnaker
Saturday Morning: 10:00 am – Gabe Stalnaker
11:00 am – David Eddmenson
-- Lunch Served
Sunday Morning: 10:00 am – David Eddmenson
11:00 am – Gabe Stalnaker
-- Lunch Served
** NURSERY FOR 4 YEARS AND UNDER
Discerning True Doctrine – By John Brine, 1750
How may we know that any doctrine is of the true grace of God? I answer:
If it exalts the glory of the grace of God as the sole and entire cause of salvation.
If it humbles the creature and excludes all boasting.
If it provides for the honor of God’s holy law and justice.
If it is a solid and sure ground of strong consolation to the believers.
If it is according to holiness.
The Life of Faith -- True faith is built upon the strongest evidence possible—the Word of God! True faith is a total dependence upon the Lord Jesus Christ for all our needs; such as forgiveness, sanctification, peace, and eternal life. The true believer renounces all confidence in his flesh, rejoices only in Christ Jesus, and worships God in Spirit. He feeds upon Christ as the bread of life, embraces Christ as his wedding garment, and trusts himself to the care of Christ as his shepherd, teacher, priest, and king. This is the life of faith. – Henry Mahan
Infants– by John Newton
I think it at least highly probable, that when our Lord says, “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven,” (Matt. 19:14) He does not only teach the necessity of our becoming like little children in simplicity, as a qualification without which (as He expressly declares in other places) we cannot enter into His kingdom, but informs us of a fact, that the number of infants who effectually redeemed to God by his blood, so greatly exceeds the aggregate of adult believers, that comparatively speaking, His kingdom may be said to consist of little children. The apostle speaks of them as not having “sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression,” (Rom. 5:14) that is, with the consent of their understanding and will. And when he says, “We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ,” he adds, “that every man may give an account of what he has done in the body, whether it be good or bad.” (2 Cor. 5:10) But children who die in their infancy have not done anything in the body, either good or bad. It is true they are by nature evil, and must, if saved, be the subjects of a supernatural change. And though we cannot conceive how this change is to be wrought, yet I suppose few are so rash as to imagine it impossible that any infants can be saved. The same power that produces this change in some, can produce it in all; and therefore I am willing to believe, till the Scripture forbids me, that infants, of all nations and kindreds, without exception, who die before they are capable of sinning after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who have done nothing in the body of which they can give an account, are included in the election of grace. They are born for a better world than this; they just enter this state of tribulation; they quickly pass through it; “their robes are washed white in the blood of the Lamb,” and they are admitted, for his sake, before the throne. Should I be asked the age at which children begin to be accountable for actual sin, it would give me no pain to confess my ignorance. “The Lord knoweth.”
