2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118

CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE

DECEMBER 10, 2006

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: #- ‘O, God Our Help in Ages Past’)

hrist bears the name of all His saints,

Deep on His heart engraved;

Attentive to the state and wants

Of all His love has saved.

In Him a holiness complete,

Light, and perfection shine;

And wisdom, grace, and glory meet;

A Savior all divine.

The blood, which, as a priest, He shed

For sinners, is His own;

The incense of His prayers He pled

Perfumes the holy throne.

In Him my weary soul has rest,

Though I am weak and vile;

I read my name upon His breast,

And see the Father smile.

SINS BLOTTED OUT AND REMEMBERED NO MORE

he Scripture says, "We are justified by his blood,"Rom. 5:9; Isa. 45:25 and 53:11; Rom. 5:19, which could not be true, if He had not taken away and destroyed all our sins, and "presented us to God without spot, and made peace by the blood of his Cross, now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreprovable in his sight," Col. 1:20-22. For this end "Christ gave himself for his Church, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it might be holy without blemish," Eph. 5.

               Therefore, the Scriptures say, all our sins are removed- cast behind His back: "Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back," Isa 38:17. "They were cast into the depth of the Sea," Mich. 7:19. "As far as the East is from the West, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us," Psal. 103:12. This is something, but this is not all, they are covered: "Whose sin is covered," Psal. 32:1. Yet the soul is not satisfied, because a thing may have a being that is covered; therefore God says they are blotted out, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sin," Isa. 44:22. This is more, for now they are not, they have no being. But God can remember that which is not, this is answered, for God says, "I will not remember thy sins," Isa. 43:25. "I will remember their sins no more:" Jer. 31:34.  

SAMUEL RICHARDSON, 1646

IS HE PRECIOUS OR A STONE OF STUMBLING?

“Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner.” 1 Peter 2:7

he word ‘precious,’ means ‘honorable’ in the original text.  Even as our Lord Jesus is honorable in Himself, and to the Father, so He is to them who by God’s grace do believe on Him.  The Lord’s people are often simply called ‘believers’, because faith is the revelation of the Savior and His work of redemption by which God has justified them.  It is one of the prominent characteristics by which they are distinguished from their fellowmen, because the Spirit of God first regenerated and enlivened them.   Therefore they do believe and see Christ as ALL in their salvation, redemption, justification, sanctification, and glorification.  In contrast, the unbelieving are described as disobedient to Christ, refusing the God appointed Stone and preferring their own will, way, and works righteousness, to that worked out and imputed in Christ.  There is no other hope of heaven than that which is founded on the Lord Jesus and His finished work at Calvary. If He has saved you by His shed blood and imputed righteousness, and has been revealed in you, then He is precious.  To all others He will always be a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.              

 KEN WIMER

TWO KINDS OF GOSPEL

here are but two “gospels” recorded in the New Testament.  One is truly ‘glad tidings’ to sensible sinners; and the other is a perverted ‘gospel,’ which is not THE GOSPEL, according to Paul, Galatians 1:7.  The former is the ‘glad tidings of salvation,’ a message of what Christ has accomplished by His active and passive obedience for elect sinners.  There are but two systems of religion: ‘Freewill’ and ‘Free Grace.’  There are only two types of sacrifices:  a ‘sacrifice to God,’ and a ‘sacrifice to devils.’ 

There are two kingdoms in this world:  the ‘kingdom of light,’ and the ‘kingdom of darkness.’  The kingdom of God is a kingdom of light and revelation, publishing the Gospel of free and sovereign grace through the merits and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  The kingdom of darkness is that of natural freewill ism , for its subjects ‘love darkness rather than light, neither will they come to the light, lest their deeds be reproved.”  God’s kingdom is made up of such that have been called out, and translated, from the kingdom of darkness in to the kingdom of light.  Hence, those that are called out of freewillism into free grace, have quite an understanding of the kingdom from whence they came;  but the children of the kingdom of darkness cannot ‘discern the things of the children of God,’  nor of that kingdom.  Everything about free grace is a mystery to them.  It is incomprehensible to them, for they lack the experience necessary to understand the spiritual things of God.                         STANLEY PHILLIPS- Quitman, MS