2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE
August 7, 2005
SUNDAY
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 119:49-56 (David)
Call to Worship: ‘Remember Lord Thy Gracious Word‘
Scripture Reading/Prayer: II Samuel 20 (Mike)
Hymn: #355 –‘From Every Stormy Wind That Blows’
Message: BE WATCHFUL– Rev.32:1-6
Hymn: #188 – ‘I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: John 4 (Jim)
Hymn: #171 – ‘Spirit of God Descend Upon My Heart’
Message: SPIRIT FILLED MINISTERS - Num. 11:24-30
WEDNESDAY
6:30 PM- Mid-week Service
Nursery care available for all services for ages 4 and younger.
Ken Wimer, Pastor- ( (318) 687-4943
E-MAIL: pastor@shrevegrace.org
WEB SITE: http://www.shrevegrace.org Updated weekly with audio messages now available on-line.
CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune: #236- Amazing Grace)
Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650, Psalm 119
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emember, Lord, thy gracious word
Thou to thy servant spake.
Which, for a ground of my sure hope,
Thou causedst me to take.
This word of Thine my comfort is
In mine affliction:
For in my straits I am revived
By this Thy word alone.
The men whose hearts with pride are stuffed
Did greatly me deride:
Yet from thy straight commandments
I have not turned aside.
Thy judgments righteous, O Lord,
Which Thou of old forth gave,
I did remember, and myself
By them comforted have.
Horror took hold on me, because
All men Thy law forsake.
I in my house of pilgrimage
Thy laws my songs do make.
Thy name by night, Lord, I did mind,
And I have sought Thy law.
And this I had, because Thy word
I kept, and stood in awe.
THE PERSON AND DEATH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
“He was made to be sin who knew no sin.” Romans 5:21
· SIN was IMPUTED to Him, but it was NOT IMPARTED TO HIM.
· He became the SURETY, but He DID NOT BECOME A SINNER.
· He was MADE THE SUBSTITUTE, but He was NOT MADE SINFUL.
· He BORE OUR CONDEMNATION, but NOT OUR CHARACTER.
· He RECEIVED WHAT WE DESERVED, but NOT OUR DEPRAVITY.
· God’s WRATH fell on Him, but HE WAS NOT WICKED.
Read carefully Hebrews 4:15 and 7:22-28.
J.D. BUTLER, Mebane, NC
CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY
“For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly,” Romans 5:6.
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n order to redeem poor sinners from the curse and condemnation of their sin, the infinite, eternal Son of God, the Lord Jesus came down from heaven, put on the rags of mortality, and suffered, bled and died. This is a truth that the Bible calls- “the mystery of godliness- God became a man!” I Timothy 3:16.
The Lord Jesus was made the Substitute, the Sin-bearer, Sin remover and Guilt sustainer of sinners whom God in electing grace purposed to save from all eternity. Their full debt was placed to His account and His obedience unto death fully paid their every sin. Sin was removed from the guilty ones and laid upon the Sinless one. He endured the infinite wrath of God until it remains no more on those for whom Christ died. All who believe were justified when He died. God dealt with ALL their sin there in His death, and simultaneously accounted them just by His righteousness imputed to them at the cross. God dealt with His Son as the guilty one, and declares righteous the otherwise guilty ones, ALL because of Christ’s obedience unto death, Rom. 5:9. His stripes are the sinner’s healing and His obedience their justification before a Holy God. Sinner, salvation is in this Savior only! Faith is the gift of God to see Him. Bow to Him and submit to His righteousness revealed in the Gospel, Romans 1:17. KEN WIMER
“..Having obtained eternal redemption for us”
Hebrews 9:12
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HEN Jesus Christ offered Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of His people, He didn’t make it possible for them to be saved. HE SAVED US! Hebrews 1:3 says “...When he had by himself purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.” “...When he had” refers to something already accomplished. God raised Jesus Christ from the dead and highly exalted Him because He was obedient unto death, which is what reconciled us unto God. Being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him Romans 5:9-10. Brethren, Christ “obtained eternal redemption for us.” This also refers to something already accomplished. This is GOOD NEWS for needy sinners. SELECTED
THE BLESSED DOCTRINE OF IMPUTATION
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a
curse for us.” Galatians 3:13
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ERE Christ stands with all the curse of a broken law charged upon Him, as the sinner’s surety: yea, as the curse itself. And consequently, as in the doing of this, He takes it from His people; they are redeemed from it. The original debtor, and the Surety, who pays for that debtor, cannot both have the debt at the same time charged, upon them. This, therefore, is the blessed doctrine of imputation. Our sins are imputed to Christ; His righteousness is imputed to us, and this by the authority and appointment of JEHOVAH. For without this authority and appointment of JEHOVAH, the transfer could not have taken place. For it would have been totally beyond our power to have made it, but surely not beyond the right and prerogative of God. And if God accepts such a ransom; yea, He Himself appoints it; and if the sinner by Christ’s righteousness be made holy; and if the sins of the sinner be all done away by Christ’s voluntary sufferings and death; if the law of God be thus honored; the justice of God thus satisfied; all the divine perfections glorified by an equivalent; yea, more than an equivalent, inasmuch as Christ’s obedience and death infinitely transcend in dignity and value the everlasting obedience of men and angels; surely, here is the fullest assurance of the truth of the doctrine of Christ’s imputed righteousness, and the perfect approbation of JEHOVAH to the blessed plan of redemption.
R. HAWKER