SHREVEPORT GRACE CHURCH
2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE
January 30, 2005
SUNDAY
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 98 (David)
Call to worship: ‘Sing To The Lord a New Made Song’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: I Samuel 25 (Mike)
Hymn: #485 – ‘Revive Us Again’
Message: IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS – II Cor. 5:21
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: Updated weekly with audio messages now available on-line.
CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune: O God, Our Help #10) Based on Psalm 98
Words by Tate and Brady, 1696, first four verses and Richard Mant, 1824, last two verses.
S
ING to the Lord a new-made song,
Who wondrous things has done;
With His right hand and holy arm
The conquest He has won.
The Lord has through th’astonish’d world
Display’d His saving might,
And made His righteous acts appear
In all the heathen’s sight.
Of Israel’s house His love and truth
Have ever mindful been;
Wide earth’s remotest parts the power
Of Israel’s God have seen.
Let therefore earth’s inhabitants
Their cheerful voices raise,
And all with universal joy
Resound their Maker’s praise.
Clap, clap your hands, ye rolling floods,
And toss your waves on high:
And all ye hills, with all your woods,
Shout to the echoing sky.
Jehovah comes, He takes His state,
He comes to judge mankind:
On His High throne shall justice wait,
And truth His sentence bind.
JOINED TO THE LORD
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he apostle Paul speaks of our being joined to the Lord, I Corinthians 6:17; Ephesians. 2:21. Our union with Him can never be broken and therefore we are eternally secure. The story is told of a shipwreck in the Georgian Bay of Canada. The mate of the ship leaped into a boat with six or seven strong men and a timid girl. One by one the strong men lost their hold as the boat was turned over and over by the raging billows. Every one perished except the girl, the reason being that the mate had taken the precaution to bind her with ropes to the prow of the boat. She drifted to the shore where she was rescued and she loved for many years to relate her way of deliverance. How thankful we should be if the Lord has so joined us to Him!
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
”Fruits meet for repentance:” Matthew 3:8
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he command of Scripture to sinners is to repent, Luke 13:3. The word means to have a change of heart, mind, will, and affection toward God, which in turn causes one to acknowledge their sinful unworthiness before Him and to submit to the Lord Jesus Christ alone as their only ground of forgiveness and justification before God. Repentance and faith are synonymous terms, one being used for the other. Where there is repentance toward God, there is faith toward the Lord Jesus, (Acts 20:21).
Fruits meet for repentance are not preconditions but rather effects (offspring) of a changed mind, which God graciously grants to sinners for whom Christ died. He did not come to call the ‘righteous’ (self-justifying ones), but helpless, hopeless, lost, needy sinners to repentance, Matthew 9:13. Where there is repentance, whole hearted conversion to Christ and His righteousness is the result. Find me a needy sinner whom God has made so, and I will show you one who has turned from every idolatrous work, self-righteousness, rebellious will of his own, to serve the living and true God, and is waiting expectantly for the Lord Jesus, who loved and redeemed him from the wrath to come, 1 Thessalonians 1:9. Any sinner who repents, it is because God has granted him His Spirit, resulting from the work that Christ accomplished for them in His obedience unto death, 2 Timothy 2:25. True repentance brings forth the fruits of faith, hope, love, and glad submission to Christ as God’s righteousness imputed to the account of His people in His death, Romans 3:24, 5:9., 10:3,4.
KEN WIMER
SOVEREIGN MERCY
‘Tis not that I did choose thee, For, Lord that could not be;
This heart would still refuse thee, Hadst thou not chosen me.
Thou from the sin that stained me, hast cleansed and set me free;
Of old thou hast ordained me that I should live to thee.
Twas sovereign mercy called me, and taught my fallen mind;
The world had else enthralled me, to heav’nly glories blind.
My heart owns none before thee, for thy rich grace I thirst;
This knowing, if I love thee, Thou must have loved me first.”
JOSIAH CONDER
GLORYING ONLY IN THE CROSS
“But 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,” Gal 6:14.
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AUL meant either the infirmities, reproaches, tribulations, and persecutions, which he endured for the sake of Christ, and the preaching of his gospel; or the gospel, the doctrine of the cross of Christ, and salvation by it: or rather a crucified Christ Himself, whom he preached; though counted foolishness by some, and was a stumbling to others: he gloried in Him, and determined to know, and make known, none but Him, in the business of salvation; he gloried in Him as crucified, and in His cross; not in the wood of the cross, but in the effects of His crucifixion; in the peace, pardon, righteousness, life, salvation, and eternal glory, which come through the death of the cross; he gloried in Christ as his wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
JOHN GILL
SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE!
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HE sweet psalmist David wrote, “All my springs are in thee,” Psalm 87:7. The Lord Jesus is to His people as a fountain of living water. The very cross of the Lord Jesus Christ (His sacrificial death) is made a fountain opened for all sin and all uncleanness, Zechariah 13:1. That fountain opened for the sinner is his entire source for pardon and peace, acceptance and justification before God. Through the Spirit, Christ’s person and work are all our happiness and holiness, wisdom and strength.
Christ crucified is “to them who are saved, the power of God.” I Corinthians 1:18. Through the cross of the Lord Jesus alone (His obedience unto death), not only have Christ’s redeemed ones been made wise unto salvation, but they became righteous by a free justification, which the Spirit of God in time reveals to them by faith.
“This fountain so dear, He does freely impart;
Unlocked by the spear, it gushed from His heart,
With blood and with water He does thus redeem
And does by His grace; make guilty sinners clean.”
KEN WIMER
“Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.” COPIED
NOTES
· CLEANING SCHEDULE: Pennywells (1/24-2/6);Wimers (2/7-2/20)
· NURSERY SCHEDULE: Today – Elizabeth Strange
Next Sunday – Atchisons
· BIRTHDAYS / ANNIVERSARIES: 2/2-Justin Atchison;
2/22-Christopher Powell; 2/28-David & Elizabeth Strange