2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118

CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE

MAY 29, 2005

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORSHIP

SUNDAY

WEDNESDAY

6:30 PM- Mid-week Service

Nursery care available for all services for ages 4 and younger.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Ken Wimer, Pastor- ( (318) 687-4943

PO Box 5028, Shreveport, LA 71135

E-MAIL: pastor@shrevegrace.org

WEB SITE: http://www.shrevegrace.org Updated weekly with audio messages now available on-line.

CALL TO WORSHIP

Tune: #143- ‘Rejoice the Lord is King’

Words by Robert Allan Scott, 1839 based on Psalm 115

All glory be to Thee,

Who dwellest high in heav’n

Not to a feeble child of clay

Be worship given:

Thy hand the mightiest can o’erthrow,

And dash their every idol low.

All glory, Lord, be Thine,

Our fortress and our shield:

Whose arm upholds Thine Israel,

And arms for the field:

In Thee Thy faithful people trust,

And lay the proudest in the dust.

Blest by Thy favor Lord,

No foe can work us ill:

Supported by Thy gracious Word,

Thou art present still;

And e’en in death and in the grave

Shall own Thy power to help and save.

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS

                                                                        “This is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS,” Jeremiah 23:6

dam fell, and he died spiritually.  The separation from God both for him and his posterity was immediate and irreversible by man, Romans. 5:12. Any of us born since then are born sinners, spiritually dead, depraved, separated from God, and having no righteousness in ourselves.  Nonetheless, the Lord gave Adam and Eve a lesson on how He could be just and justify sinners.  They endeavored to cover their nakedness with fig leaves (a type of works religion).  The Lord removed the false covering, and covered them with the skins of innocent animals, which He slew in their place (a type of Christ and His blood sacrifice and righteousness), Gen. 3:21.  That is why Jeremiah spoke of Him as THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.  Any hope of being declared righteous before God must be by His obedience unto death ALONE, Romans 5:19.  It is by the death of the Lord Jesus ALONE that sin was put away for God’s children and they have been ONCE FOR ALL declared righteous (justified) before Him, Heb. 10:10.  Is HE your ONLY righteousness?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             KEN WIMER

THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH

hat’s the difference between a sinner who is born again, and one who is not?  The Spirit of Truth, John 14:17.  Even the elect of God, before God gives them His Spirit, resemble the children of wrath in their manner and doctrine, because they are born in ignorance, darkness, and rebellion until the Spirit gives them life, Ephesians 4:18.  The reality for all is, “Ye must be born again (born from above),” John 3:7.               Christ our Lord said that the Spirit of Truth would be at work in the world, drawing to Him those whom He redeemed by His death, John 14:16.  He is called the Spirit of Truth, because His one work is to REVEAL Christ who is THE TRUTH, John 16:13.  It is by His Spirit that Christ dwells in His elect, giving them faith and causing them to rest in Him who shed His blood for them, once for all- putting away their sin, having justified them forever before God the Father by His death, Ephesians 1:13, 14.                                                                                                                                                                                                     KEN WIMER

CHRIST GLORIFIED

t is Christ alive in glory that I see, not Christ down here (sweet as that was); Christ at the right hand of God. Yet though that glory is in the heavens, I can steadfastly behold it. All that glory, and He is in the midst of the glory and majesty of the throne of God itself, does not affright me, because this wonderful truth comes in, that that glory of God is in the face of a man who has put away my sins, and who is there in proof of it. (Heb. 1: 3.) I should have been afraid to hear His voice, and have said, with the children of Israel (Ex. 20: 19), 'Let not God speak with me,' or, like Adam, with a guilty conscience, have sought to hide myself away (Gen. 2: 8); but I do not say so now; no, let me hear His voice.  I cannot see the glory of Christ now, without knowing that I am saved. How comes He there? He is a man who has been down here mixing with publicans and sinners, the friend of such, choosing such as His companions. He is a man who has borne the wrath of God on account of sin; He is a man who has borne my sins in His own body on the tree (I speak the language of faith); He is there, as having been down here amidst the circumstances, and under the imputation of sin; and yet it is in His face I see the glory of God. I see Him there, consequent upon the putting away of my sin, because He has accomplished my redemption. I could not see Christ in the glory, if there was one spot or stain of sin not put away. The more I see of the glory, the more I see the perfectness of the work that Christ has wrought, and of the righteousness wherein I am accepted; every ray of that glory is seen, in the face of One who has confessed my sins as His own, and died for them on the cross; of One who has glorified God in the earth, and finished the work that the Father had given Him to do. The glory that I see is the glory of redemption, Having glorified Gad about the sin - "I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do" - God has glorified Him with Himself there. (John 17)                                                                                                                                             AUTHOR UNKNOWN   (1874)