2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE
May 22, 2005
SUNDAY
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 114 (Ken)
Call to Worship: ‘The God of Jacob Reigns’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: 2 Samuel 9 (Mike)
Hymn: # 46-‘O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing’
Message: Faithful Unto Death (Part 2) - Revelation 2:8-11
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: #52- ‘Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned’
Words based on Psalm 114 by George Burgess, 1820
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hen forth from Egypt’s trembling strand
The Tribes of Israel sped,
And Jacob in the stranger’s land
Departing banners spread. [Repeat]
Then One, amid their thick array
His kingly dwelling made.
And all along the desert way
Their guiding scepter swayed. [Repeat]
The sea beheld, and struck with dread,
Rolled all its billows back;
And Jordan, through his deepest bed,
Revealed their destined track. [Repeat]
What ailed thee, O thou mighty sea?
Why rolled thy waves in dread?
What bade thy tide, O Jordan, flee
And bare its deepest bed [Repeat]
O earth, before the Lord, the God
Of Jacob, tremble still:
Who makes the waste a watered sod,
The flint a gushing rill. [Repeat]
CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY! ROMANS 5:6
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o redeem poor sinners, Jesus came down from heaven, put on the rags of our mortality, agonized, bled, and died. Jesus is made His people's substitute, burden-bearer, sin-remover, and guilt-sustainer. Their debt is placed to His account. His riches pay the full amount. Sin is removed from the sinner, and placed on the Sinless! Their curse is rolled on Him, and He endures it, until no more remains!
God deals with Jesus as the guilty one! He, as spotless Deity, receives imputed sins, and fully expiates them all. In the vicarious victim, God's justice is satisfied, and wrath expires! Jesus, in His life, in the garden, on the cross suffers their sufferings, dies their death, and so becomes their uttermost salvation!
His pains are their pardon! His stripes are their healing! His agony is their recovery!
HENRY LAW, "Awakening and Inviting Calls”
ATONEMENT OR SATISFACTION?
“And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” Ro 5:11
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any refer to Christ’s death as ‘atonement’ for sin. And yet, the only place in the New Testament where we find the word ‘atonement,’ is in Romans 5:11, but there it is actually the word ‘reconciliation,’ as used in Romans 5:10, ‘being reconciled’ by the blood of the Lord Jesus. It is difficult to know why the translators felt compelled to use the word ‘atonement’ instead of ‘reconciliation,’ but they did, perhaps because of their own predisposition to believing that Christ did not actually put away sin, nor were sins forgiven until one believes on Christ. If that were the case, then it could be said that Christ’s death was merely atonement (a covering) for sin, but that does not line up with the rest of the Word.
Going back to the Old Testament, the word ‘atonement’ is a proper description of the sacrifices there. They were but a ‘covering’ for sin, until the Lord Jesus should come and take them away. The blood of bulls and goats could not take away sin. There bloody deaths were a token of the death of the Lord Jesus that He should accomplish, Hebrews 10:4, 10. However, the glorious truth is that when the Lord Jesus Christ came into this world, He laid down his life as an actual payment for the sins of every one of His elect from the beginning of time to the end, Heb. 9:15-17. His death was an actual satisfaction of God’s justice whereby God could be just in having justified His people, once for all, His death, Rom.3:25, 26. The words of the New Testament used to depict Christ’s death, inspired of the Spirit, are those that give repentant sinners a true and good hope that indeed Christ did finish the work and put away their sin, and that God by His death does indeed declare them righteous, once for all:
REDEMPTION: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Romans 3:24
PROPITIATION: Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation [appeasing or satisfaction] for our sins. 1 Jo 4:10
RECONCILIATION: Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Heb 2:17
What clearer evidence is needed that he finished the work, put away sin, and reconciled his people to himself by the death of his son, once for all? Dan. 9:24 KEN WIMER
PRECIOUS FAITH
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ETER uses the word “precious” more than any other writer of the New Testament. He writes of a precious Christ (I Peter 2:6,7), of precious blood (I Peter 1:19), of precious promises (II Peter 1:4), of precious faith (II Peter 1:1), and of the precious trial of faith (I Peter 1:7). You may be sure if God has given you, and wrought in you, precious faith, that faith must, and will be tried and proved. It will be proved by furious blasts of temptation, withering almost every hope and expectation, and causing you to question the truthfulness of this very Book. You may ask, “Are you there?” Yes, sometimes wondering whether there is any truth in the Book or no, and so horrible are the insinuations of the devil that my spirit groans, “Can there be a God in Israel?” I know some of you are there. But mark, faith given must be faith tried; and faith tried must be faith proved. Tried faith never failed yet. It is precious faith, and its preciousness is proved in the furnace and in the flood. It is precious faith because it comes from, and centers in, a precious Christ. It is precious faith because it rejoices in an interest in the precious blood of Christ. It is precious faith because it revels sometimes in exceeding great and precious promises. Have I this faith? Then it is precious, it must be tried, and must have an object to love upon, even a precious Christ. It looks to Him or help, it runs to Him for succor, it feeds on Him for strength, it serves Him for pure love, and desires to be lost in Him forever. It longs to be with Him in gracious experience here and in the fullness of glory hereafter. T. BRADBURY, 1877
MY STANDING AND MY STATE
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he apostle Paul wrote: “in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content,” Philippians 4:11. It is an acknowledgement that in this life, our state does fluctuate in God’s sovereign purpose for us. Nonetheless, what is certain is that our standing in Christ does not change. The apostle Peter wrote the inspired words of “the true grace of God wherein ye stand,’ I Peter 5:12. ON CHRIST the solid Rock I STAND, all other ground is sinking sand! KEN WIMER