BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 AM

Parable of the Debtors- Luke 7:41-50 (David Strange teaching)

MORNING WORSHIP- 11:00 AM

Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 119:57-64 (David)

Call to Worship: ‘Thou My Sure Portion Art Alone’

Scripture Reading/Prayer: II Samuel 21 (Mike)

Hymn: #37 – ‘How Great Thou Art’

Message: Brother Jim Pennywell

Hymn: #475 – ‘Redeemed’

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HE hearer of God’s Word ought to be like those animals that chew the cud; he ought not to just feed upon it, but meditate upon it.

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you,” John 16:7

hen Christ speaks of going away in this passage, it is not only a reference to His return to heaven, but first of all His going to the cross, John 14:3. His death on the cross to make an end of sin and bring in everlasting righteousness for His people was absolutely essential BEFORE returning to heaven and sending the Spirit into the world. It is a fact that the Lord Jesus DID finish the work of salvation, putting away sin by His obedience unto death, and reconciling every one of the elect unto the Father by it, Romans 5:10. The Father simultaneously HAS already imputed righteousness to the account of every sinner for whom our Lord died. How do we know? THE SPIRIT HAS COME as Christ said He would, and testifies to the hearts of the redeemed that the Lord Jesus PAID IT ALL, 16:13-15. Christ Himself said that the Spirit could not come without His vicarious sacrifice first. Therefore, His departing to the Father, through His death, burial, resurrection and ascension reveals plainly that He did what He said He would do, and salvation was accomplished there for His people. What a comfort to know that IT IS FINISHED by a just satisfaction of a holy God! KEN WIMER

he true righteousness of which the Comforter convinces men, and which plainly means the divinely-provided righteousness of God by which our persons are accepted, consists in the sufferings and death of Christ. Thus, that great act of obedience constitutes the atonement or righteousness of Christians. The great reason why the Lord Jesus assumed our humanity and offered it by an act of self oblation, was to bring in this everlasting righteousness; or, to put it in a personal form, more adopted to the phraseology of the last-mentioned saying, the righteousness of Christians is the Son of God dying on the cross and going to the Father. CHRIST HIMSELF IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, or propitiation, which avails with God for the complete acceptance of our persons. Thus the righteousness of God, viewed in this personal aspect coincides with the position that the dying or crucified Christ is the righteousness of His people, or made of God unto righteousness; and that not by a make-believe, but because what He did, His people are considered to have done in Him. G. SMEATON

IN is transgression of the law of God. Was Christ made to be a transgression? That makes no sense. There is the nature of sinfulness that resides in man and demons. Was Christ made to be a sin nature? Was Christ made to have a sin nature? Surely this is blasphemy, as to be God by definition requires the fully righteous and holy nature of sinless perfection. To claim otherwise is to remove the very idea of God from such a being.

The act of sin comes and goes; it is an action accounted to an individual. The man sins many times, but these sins themselves are not retained. They do not “live on”. There is no substance of a sin. What does live on is the shame of the sin; the wrath that is due on account of the sin; the DEBT of sin is built up and retained by the sinner.

Acts 2:36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has MADE HIM both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.” The same word “made” is used here as in II Cor. 5:21, yet it does not mean that Christ was in substance made to be something different than what He has always been. COPIED

hrist was numbered among transgressors although not one Himself. He was made sin in that His soul was MADE an offering for sin, in fulfillment of the Old Testament sacrifice types, Isaiah 53:10. He was THE SIN OFFERING by which God transferred to His account ALL of the sin debt of His people, and simultaneously transferred to their account ALL of His righteous obedience, thereby once for all putting away their sin, justifying them, and reconciling them to Himself Hebrews 9:26, Romans 5:9 and 10.