2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE
March 13, 2005
SUNDAY
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 104 (David)
Call to Worship: ‘O Worship the King’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: I Samuel 131 (Mike)
Hymn: #212 – ‘Nothing But the Blood’
Message: Brother Jim Pennywell
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: www.shrevegrace.org/audio.htm- Updated weekly with audio messages now available on-line.
CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune –‘ O Worship the King’ #1)
Words by Sir Robert Grant, 1839
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H worship the King,
All glorious above,
And gratefully sing
His pow’r and His love;
Our Shield and Defender,
The ancient of Days,
Pavillioned in splendor
And girded with praise.
O tell of His might,
O sing of His grace,
Whose robe is the light,
Whose canopy space;
His chariots of wrath
The deep thunder clouds form,
And dark is His path
On the wings of the storm.
Thy bountiful care
What tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air,
It shines in the light;
It streams from the hills,
It descends to the plain,
And sweetly distills
In the dew and the rain.
Frail children of dust,
And feeble as frail,
In Thee do we trust,
Nor find Thee to fail;
Thy mercies how tender!
How firm to the end!
Our Maker, Defender,
Redeemer and Friend.
An old friend once said, ‘The day may come that I can no longer remember the Lord having completely lost my mind. Nevertheless, I know that, He being my Savior and Substitute does always remember me.’ Psalm 106:4
JUSTIFIED AND GLORIFIED SINNERS!
“Whom He justified, them He also glorified,” Romans 8:30
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s unbelievable as such words sound, yet it is true that sinners for whom the Lord Jesus Christ died have been justified and glorified before God in Him in His death, resurrection, and ascension.
· What is it to be justified? It is a legal term applied to someone whom the court has acquitted of all charges. God does not pardon sin, He must punish it. Having punished the sin of His chosen people in the death of His Son, He has therefore pardoned them as sinners, having put their sin to the account of the Lord Jesus, and His obedience to their account, 2 Cor. 5:21.
· What is it to be glorified? When Christ rose again, He ascended on high, having put away the sin of His people, Heb. 3:1. He is seated in glory, and every one for whom He died is seated with Him as their Representative, Eph. 2:6. They are glorified in that He has made them to share His glory as the Son of God, and gives His Spirit to them in time, that they might enter into the full assurance of His work now, and the full and final deliverance from the presence of sin at the final resurrection, John 17:22, 24.
What a blessed hope for sinners for whom Christ died!
KEN WIMER
PUBLIC WORSHIP
“And let us consider on another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching” Hebrews 10:24,25.
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HE necessary functions of a church include: The opportunity for corporate worship and participation in the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s supper. Christians can and do worship privately, but public worship is held up to view as necessary, and its practice is assumed, throughout the Bible (Lev. 23; Psa. 22:22,25; 35:18; 107:32; 111:1; 149:1; Luke 4:16; acts 2:42; 20:7). God loves to see His people gathered in public worship. The worship of heaven itself, so far as the Bible gives us a glimpse of it, is worship in a gathered assembly (Heb. 12:22; Rev. 5:11-14; 7:9-12; 15:2-4; 19:1-8).
COPIED
TWO KINDS OF REPENTANCE
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WO kinds of repentance are to be carefully distinguished from each other, though they are often sadly confounded. Cain, Esau, Saul, Ahab, Judas, all repented but their repentance was the remorse of natural conscience, not the godly sorrow of a broken heart and a contrite spirit. They trembled before God as an angry Judge, but were not melted into contrition before Him as a forgiving Father. They neither hated their sins nor forsook them. Loved holiness nor sought it. Cain went out from the presence of the Lord; Esau plotted Jacob’s death; Saul consulted the witch of Endor; Ahab put honest Micaiah into prison; and Judas hanged himself.
How different from this forced and false repentance of a reprobate is the repentance of a child of God – that true repentance for sin, that godly sorrow, that holy mourning which flows from the Spirit’s gracious operations. This does not spring from a sense of the wrath of God in a broken law, but of His mercy in a blessed gospel; from a view by faith of the sufferings of Christ in the garden and on the cross; from a manifestation of pardoning love; and is always attended with self-loathing and self-abhorrence, with deep and unreserved confession of sin and forsaking it, with most hearty, sincere and earnest petitions to be kept from all evil and a holy longing to live to the praise and glory of God. J. C. PHILPOT
BLESSED LIBERTY!
“The Lord hath laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.”
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HRIST bore our sins in His own body on the tree. Christ suffered, the just for the unjust. We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. “He was made sin for us, who knew no sin,” Can we read all this without singing a triumphant challenge, “Who then shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? God that justifieth? No. who is he that condemneth? Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is ever at the right hand of God, who also maketh intersession for us.” Here is the glorious triumph of faith. Thou art “carnal sold under sin.” In thy flesh dwelleth no good thing; though thou hast no reason for confidence in the flesh, yet always abundant cause to rejoice in Christ Jesus; for in Him thou art perfectly righteous; in Him for ever freed from all condemnation. Oh believer, thou art called ever to rejoice in this liberty, and to evidence it by walking, ‘not after the flesh, but after the spirit.”
W. MASON