2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE
September 18, 2005
SUNDAY
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 119:97-104 (David)
Call to Worship: ‘O Lord, how Much I Love Your Law‘
Scripture Reading/Prayer: I Kings 2 (Mike)
Hymn: #116 –‘O Sacred Head, Now Wounded’
Message: THE WORD OF CHRIST’S PATIENCE– Rev.3:10-13
Hymn: #485 – ‘Unsearchable Riches’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: John 7 (Jim)
Hymn: #317 – ‘A Charge To Keep I Have’
Message: AN EVIL REPORT - Numbers.13
WEDNESDAY
6:30 PM- Mid-week Service
Nursery care available for all services for ages 4 and younger.
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: #435- ‘Lord, Speak to Me ) Psalm 119:97-104
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Lord, how much I love your law!
I think on it throughout the day.
It makes me wiser than my foes,
Your teachings always stand by me.
I fathom more than those who teach,
For I have studied your doctrine.
Wiser am I than aged ones,
Because your precepts I believe.
I have avoided evil ways,
Because I want to keep your word.
I do not turn back from your ways,
For I have learned them from your mouth.
Your words are pleasant to the taste,
Sweeter than honey in my mouth.
Your teachings help me understand,
Thus ev’ry false way I abhor.
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onsider how this One who was perfectly sinless within Himself, and remained so through all His suffering, this one who never had a sinful thought or motive, this one who perfectly, even during His suffering, loved His Father and perfectly did the will of His Father, consider this great contradiction within Himself – that the weight of all the sins of all of God’s elect was upon Him while He within Himself remained perfectly holy! This must have caused much anguish within His soul! Consider further why He did all of this. It was to satisfy the justice of God FOR OUR SINS by the shedding of His innocent blood (Heb. 5:14; I Pet. 1:18-19; 3:18). It was to establish the only righteousness by which a holy God could be just to justify sinners like us! What love He had for His Father and for His people that He would willingly go through such suffering to save us and bring us to glory!
BILL PARKER, Ashland, KY
OUR SAVIOR JUSTIFIED!
“He is near that justifieth me,” Isaiah 50:8
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hen wicked and evil men condemned Christ to die, there was no one who stood with him. Even his own disciples were scattered from Him. Yet, with confidence He could say, “He is near that justifieth me.” Our Lord Jesus did not open His mouth to defend Himself, but He willingly and patiently submitted Himself to God the Father to justify Him through His sacrificial death for His own, 1 Peter 2:23. Peter declared that although they had by wicked hands taken and crucified Him, yet it was ALL by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, Acts. 2:23. Therefore, all the while the Lord Jesus suffered and cried, ‘My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me,” yet His confidence was, “He is near that justifieth me!”
How was God the Father near to justify His Son in His suffering and death? It is the Father who sent Him into the world. It was the Father who purposed to save a great number of sinners by a just payment for their sin. It was the Father who raised Christ from the dead, having done ALL that was required for Him to be just and justify. By His death, the Son satisfied every just demand of the Father. He laid down His life willingly and sacrificially in the place of those sinners the Father gave Him to save. He accepted to be their Substitute and satisfy God’s law and justice on their behalf.
There is no other way that God has ever granted pardon to sinners and declared them righteous, except through the death and imputed righteousness of the Lord Jesus there at the cross. God must grant us repentance of thinking it in any other way. If Christ was justified as the effectual Substitute, having finished the work and being raised from the dead, it must be that His people were justified in Him as well, and therefore can by the Spirit of God say, “He is near that justifieth me,” Romans 8:33,34 KEN WIMER
TRAPS IN THE WORD OF GOD
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very fundamental doctrine meets with something which seems directly to oppose it, and these seeming contradictions are the traps which are laid. A lofty scribe, who depends upon his own subtlety, and cannot pray sincerely for direction, is sure to be taken in these snares. However, a humble, praying soul escapes them, or, if his foot be caught, the snare is broken, and his soul delivered.
JOHN BERRIDGE
NOT OF US
“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us,” . 2 Co. 4:6, 7.
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he work of the Spirit of God, by the mercies of God is to call His elect sinners out of darkness into the marvelous light of the knowledge of Christ, 2 Corinthians 4:4. So why would we preach anything else but Christ and Him crucified? Christ is the light. We preach that the Spirit of God reveals Christ to the heart through the Gospel and is the only truth there is. Therefore, this light that God gives to believers is our great treasure, 2 Cor. 4:7. However, the excellency of the knowledge of Christ is of God and not of us. It is this treasure, the light of the knowledge of Christ, that God puts within His elect that the power might be of God.
The power of God unto salvation is from the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s not of any part of us, and so we preach NOT OURSELVES. There’s nothing good in us. Our Lord said that we cannot add one cubit to our stature. MUCH LESS can we do anything about our spiritual condition, about spiritual light, about seeing the truth, understanding the truth, or having a knowledge of it in ourselves. We cannot do it. It is all by the mercies of God, and OF CHRIST.
JIM PENNYWELL, Shreveport, LA
NOTES
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CLEANING SCHEDULE:
Atchison (9/11-9/25)
McWherter (9/26-10/9)
· NURSERY SCHEDULE: Today – Elizabeth Strange
Next Sunday – Pam Carter
· BIRTHDAYS / ANNIVERSARIES: 9/8-Dylan Cassel; 9/23-Mathieu Kobou; 9/24-John Pennywell; 9/26-Jan Fegley
· FALL BIBLE CONFERENCE Oct. 28-30, Bill Parker, 13th Street Baptist Church preaching.
· MISSION TRIP – Pray for Ken’s upcoming trip to Malawi, East Africa- Oct. 5-11. The conference will be in Lilongwe from October 7-10, under the direction of Pastor James Mwale, whose eyes the Lord has prayerfully opened to the message of the Grace of God- the Gospel of Substitution and Imputed Righteousness. They are anticipating several hundred attendees.