SHREVEPORT GRACE CHURCH
2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE
February 13, 2005
SUNDAY
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 100 (David)
Call to Worship: ‘All People That on Earth Do Dwell’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: I Samuel 27 (Mike)
Hymn: #110 – ‘Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?’
Message: CHRIST’S FAITHFUL WITNESS – Rev. 1:5-6
Hymn: #209 – ‘Grace Greater Than Our Sin’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Luke 16 (Jim)
Hymn: #188 – ‘O Happy Day’
Message: CONSECRATION OF THE LEVITES - Numbers 8
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: ‘Doxology)
Words by William Kethe, 1562 - Based on Psalm 100
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LL people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Him serve with mirth, His praise forth tell;
Come ye before Him and rejoice.
Know that the Lord is God indeed;
Without our aid he did us make;
We are His flock, He doth us feed;
And for His sheep He doth us take.
O enter then His gates with praise,
Approach with joy His courts unto;
Praise, laud, and bless His name always,
For it is seemly so to do.
For why? The Lord our God is good,
His mercy is for ever sure;
His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall form age to age endure.
IN HIM IS NO SIN
“And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins: and in Him is no sin.” John 3:4
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HAT means that if I am one of those people who are in Him, I have no sin. Yes, my sins are forgiven, covered, separated from me, blotted out, and not remembered. But it is even better than that. I have no sin! The Lord never sinned! In Him, I never sinned. Just as truly as my sin became His on the cross, His sinlessness became mine!
A clear conscience is a conscience that has nothing to feel guilty about. In Christ, I have no sin for which to feel guilty about. This seems too good to be true. However, it is true. Because, “In Him is no sin.”
TODD NIBERT, Lexington, KY
A SATISFIED SAVIOR
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o hear men speak of Jesus today, you would think that He came with good intentions of saving sinners, but alas…they won’t let Him! It is true that sinners left to their own devices will never trust the Lord Jesus for the salvation He accomplished at the cross. Nonetheless, the Bible is clear that those He came to save, HE DID SAVE from sin by His death at the cross (Rom. 5:9-10), and does deliver them in time from ignorance, blindness, and rebellion, by the Spirit’s regenerating work, drawing them to Christ, John 6:65.
The Lord Jesus is not a defeated Savior! Isaiah wrote, “He shall see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied,” Isa. 53:11. There are no stillborn children with God. The Lord Jesus Christ redeemed and reconciled every one of the elect to God in His death, Heb. 9:15. God the Father has declared them justified and acquitted of all guilt because of His satisfaction with Christ and His effectual sacrifice. All are born into this world hardened in sin, and rebels by nature, but God will give His Spirit to every one for whom Christ died, and draw them willingly to His Son.
Sinner, would you know the salvation of God? It’s only in the Son, that God is well pleased, but well pleased He is, with Him and therefore His blood-bought ones in Him! K. WIMER
ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAY
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f thou wouldest more fully express thyself before the Lord, study thy filthy estate. God’s promises, the heart of Christ, which thou mayest know by His blood-shedding, by the mercy He has extended to great sinners formerly, and plead thine own vileness by way of bemoaning; Christ’s blood, by way of expostulation; and in thy prayers, let the mercy He hath extended to other great sinners, together with His rich promises of grace, be much upon thy heart. Yet let me counsel thee; take heed that thou content not thyself with words; do not think God looks only at them; but whether thy words be few or many, let thine heart go with them; and then shalt thou seek Him, and find Him, when thou shalt seek Him with thy whole heart. COPIED
THE WORLD IS CRUCIFIED TO US AND WE ARE CRUCIFIED TO THE WORLD
“God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.”
Galatians 6:14
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AUL here is dogmatically declaring that with every fiber of our being, with every thought, word and deed we are to determine to have no confidence in anything but Christ and Him crucified. He does not suggest or imply any other course of action on the part of the believer. The crucifixion of our Lord settled everything having to do with our acceptance before God. We are complete in Christ. He is our righteousness, wisdom, sanctification and redemption. We trust no merit but His. We trust no work but His. We discount, disavow, deny, despise, discredit, disdain and disown any notion of anything that even hints that we have something to do with the salvation of our souls. This glory belongs to Christ alone.
Paul declares that this wondrous redemption, fully and solely accomplished by Christ, brings about two results. 1. The world is crucified to us. 2. We are crucified to the world. Simply stated, this means that the world and its useless religion is nothing to us who believe. It has no effect upon us. It is dead. It is a living death, thriving as a maggot on the necrotic tissue of self-righteousness, satisfied only by corruption. We are new creatures in Christ. The world knows nothing of us. It neither hinders nor helps us, stirs us nor soothes us. It is a dead thing…reckon it to be so and bury it. Likewise, we are dead to the world. That which moves in the world is not part of us. The world looks on us as foolish, discounting our talk of sovereign grace, laughing us to scorn. The world is amazed that we neither desire nor embrace anything that it loves and relies upon for salvation. We are dead to its free will, its invitation system, its altars, its sacrifices, its merit, its methods and its musings. We are crucified to the world. Reckon it to be so.
TIM JAMES – Cherokee, NC
NOTES
· CLEANING SCHEDULE: Wimers (2/7-2/20) Atchisons (2/21-3/6)
· NURSERY SCHEDULE: Today – Pam Carter/Travis Wimer
Next Sunday – Mary Wimer / Freda Powell
· BIRTHDAYS / ANNIVERSARIES: 2/2-Justin Atchison;
2/22-Christopher Powell; 2/28-David & Elizabeth Strange
· BIBLE CONFERENCE- April 15-17, Providence Church, Powell, TN. Speakers: Doug Weaver and Ken Wimer. All Invited! For more information, please contact Pastor David Simpson at tdavidsimpson@comcast.net.