SHREVEPORT GRACE CHURCH
2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE
March 6, 2005
SUNDAY
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 103 (David)
Call to Worship: ‘Praise My Soul The King of Heaven’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: I Samuel 30 (Mike)
Hymn: #449 –‘To God Be the Glory’
Message: THE ALPHA AND OMEGA – Rev. 1:7-8
Hymn: #172 – ‘O Word of God Incarnate’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Luke 17 (Jim)
Hymn: #186 – ‘The Church’s One Foundation’
Message: THE CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN - Numbers 8:14-26
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: ‘Angels From The Realms of Glory, #99)
Words by Henry Francis Lyte, 1834 - Based on Psalm 103
PRAISE, my soul, the King of heaven;
To His feet thy tribute bring!
Ransom’d, heal’d, restored, forgiven,
Who like me His praise should sing!
Praise Him! praise Him, [repeat]
Praise the everlasting King!
Praise Him for His grace and favour
To our fathers in distress!
Praise Him still the same as ever,
Slow to chide and swift to bless!
Praise Him! praise Him, [repeat]
Glorious in His faithfulness!
Father-like He tends and spares us,
Well our feeble frame He knows;
In His hands He gently bears us,
Rescues us from all our foes.
Praise Him! praise Him, [repeat]
Widely as His mercy flows.
Angels, help us to adore Him,
Ye behold Him face to face;
Sun and moon bow down before Him,
Dwellers all in time and space.
Praise Him! praise Him, [repeat]
Praise with us the God of Grace
GLORIOUS VICTORY!
Ohow Satan would triumph if any saint ever fell out of the embraces of the good Shepherd; if he could point his derisive finger up to heaven’s gate and to its risen King, and say, ‘Thy blood was shed in vain for this wretch; he is mine, he is mine!’ such a boast would fill hell with a yell of triumph. But no, no; it never will be so; the “blood that cleanseth from all sin” never was, never can be shed in vain. Though the reed is “bruised,” it will never be broken; though the flax “smokes,” it will never be extinguished; for He that “sends forth judgment” sends it ‘unto victory.”
J. C. PHILPOT
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him,” John 3:36
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oes this verse teach that it is by believing on the Son of God that God’s wrath is removed? Many think so. However, the word is that if any do believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, it is because God has already given them everlasting life because of the Lord Jesus Christ, their Substitute. Their faith is the evidence of having been ordained of God to salvation and purchased by Christ’s death, Acts 13:48. However, if any do not believe, their continued unbelief and dying in unbelief is the evidence of ALWAYS having been under God’s wrath.
The key to God’s wrath and condemnation being removed is in John 3:14,15- “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life”
The Bible clearly states that some were ordained as vessels of mercy (the elect), and the rest as vessels of wrath, Romans 9:22, 23. There is no question that all are deserving of God’s wrath as sinners. Ephesians 2:3-“ and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others” This may be understood in one of two ways: Either that in our natures we are all like those who are objects of God’s wrath, or that we are by nature ‘wrathful’ children, at enmity with God. Nonetheless, it is clear that those for whom the Lord Jesus died were never ordained to wrath, 1Th 5:9 “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. That wrath due to God’s elect, the Lord Jesus Christ bore to the uttermost in his death on the cross, Romans 5:9.. When he cried out, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me,’ it was his being forsaken as the Substitute and sin-bearer to fully satisfy God’s justice. Although until his death all were under the legal condemnation of Adam and the law, God withheld His wrath because it was already destined to Christ. Christ having drunk it to the last drop, there remains none left over for any of His redeemed since then (Romans 8:1).
Do you believe on the Son of God? Have you bowed to Him in repentance? Are you submitted to the one righteousness that God accepted and imputed to the account of those for whom Christ died? Then it can only be because God’s wrath was already removed from you in the death of the Substitute, poured out on Him, like the fire upon the sacrifices of the Old Testament. This is glorious good news to sinners for whom Christ died! It is the good news of Christ’s redeeming death, and the full and complete transfer of sin to Christ, but also, the simultaneous transfer of the very righteousness of God to the sinner’s account. PRAISE HIM!
KEN WIMER
A SURE FOUNDATION
THE decree of election stands upon an unchangeable foundation, to wit, that rock of ages, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). As the first Adam was the foundation stone in the decree of creation, so the last Adam, even Jesus, is the foundation stone in the decree of election. God hath blessed us in Him, yea, and we shall be blessed; He hath chosen us in Him; pardoned us in Him; sealed us in Him; built us up and completed us in Him; “According to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began”(II Tim. 1:9). all those acts of grace are said to be in Christ, who hath blest us in Christ (Eph. 1:3); chosen us in Him (v.4); pardoned us; “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins” (v.7); “in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed” (v.13); “rooted and built up in Him” (Col 2:7): and ye are “complete in Him” (v.10).
Indeed, Christ Himself was under Divine ordination; He “verily was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world” (I Pet.1:20), and is called the elect stone