2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118

CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE

DECEMBER 17, 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: Doxology)

ssist my soul, my heavenly King,

Thy everlasting love to sing;

And joyful spread Thy praise abroad,

As one, through grace, that’s born of God.

 

No, it is not the will of man

My soul’s new heavenly birth began;

Nor will nor power of flesh and blood

That turned my heart from sin to God.

 

Herein let self be all abased,

And sovereign love alone confessed;

This be my song through all the road,

That born I am, and born of God.

 

May I Thy praises daily show,

Who hast created all things new,

And washed me in the Savior’s blood

To prove that I’m a son of God.

 

And when th’appointed hour shall come,

That Thou wilt call me to my home,

Joyful I’ll pass the chilling flood,

And die as one that’s born of God.

REST IN CHRIST AND HIS FINISHED WORK ALONE

hen sinners become convinced by the Spirit in Regeneration that Christ “put away sin”, “abolished death”, and Eternally Justified EVERY sinner He lived and died for, they WILL HEED the Spirit’s exhortation to REST in the work of Christ ALONE.  They will heed the Spirit’s command to stop looking WITHIN for any part of their standing before God, “Let not sin reign, but yield yourselves to God,”   “Let not sin therefore REIGN..”  “Neither YIELD ye your members…”  These are present imperatives (on-going commands).  Do not CONTINUE to let sin keep you trying to work out your own Righteousness before God.  Example:  Rom 10: 1-3.  Hear the Righteousness of God REVEALED in the Gospel.  Submit to it.  And, repent of ever thinking you could make ANY contribution to your standing before God.                                                                                                                                      MARK PANNELL, Albany, GA

WHY DID JESUS CHRIST COME INTO THE WORLD?

any talk about Christ’s second coming who have not yet understood His first coming.   The popular belief is that He came into the world to make people happy, prosperous, and healthy, and to try to save as many as possible.  Others believe that it was to save them from hell, if they will just live right, be right and do right, or simply accept him as their Savior.

            How different then the message of the Bible!  Men’s testimonies aside, “THIS is a faithful saying and worthy of ALL acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world TO SAVE SINNERS, of whom I am chief,” I Timothy 1:15.  His purpose in coming was not our health, wealth, and happiness, but the glory of God in the salvation of sinners, John 17:1  “These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:’

Our biggest enemy is our sin, not our poverty.  It is our rebellion before a holy God, not whether we live to a ripe old age.  We are sinners by imputation of Adam’s sin to us, Romans 5:12.  We can only be declared righteous by the just satisfaction of a Holy God, and that ONLY by the obedience unto death of the Lord Jesus.  At that time and place God wholly charged the debt of the sin of His people to His Son, and simultaneously charged His righteousness to the spiritual account of every one of the elect of all ages at one time, (Luke 9:31, Hebrews 9: 15-17).  In His death, there was a two-fold transaction accomplished between God the Father and God the Son.  He put away forever the sin of His people, and forever justified them (acquitted and declared them righteous), once and for all- Hebrews 10:10, 14.

That is what He came and accomplished for sinners, even the chief.  If your hope is anywhere else than in THIS ONE who came, lived, died, and rose again, that God might be the just justifier, revealed in those who believe on HIM (Romans 3:26) you are yet in your ignorance and unbelief and stand in need of deliverance from your spiritual death.  The glorious good news is that the Lord Jesus came and died to deliver from spiritual and eternal death sinners such as us.  It is the Lord God, who grants His Spirit to each of His own elect, in His time, and causes them to cry unto Him for mercy in truth, and rejoice in HIS appointed salvation that His Son fully accomplished for them!

KEN WIMER

GLAD TIDINGS FOR REDEEMED SINNERS

earken, O children of men.  Give ear, my soul. Would that all earth’s sons, from East-from West-from North-from South, could be in audience!  Would that all might hear the faithful sayings of the blessed Gospel! 

·        Christ is the first and last- the sum and substance of this noble word.

·        Christ-chosen, sent, anointed, accepted of God. 

·        Christ- wondrous in His person, the mighty God, therefore infinitely glorious to save. 

·        Christ- very man, therefore entirely qualified to represent the family of Adam. 

·        Christ-loving from everlasting to everlasting, with love knowing no origin, no end, no intermission, no degrees: with love always unchangeably the same-perfect, pure, intense, and enduring.

·        Christ-hanging on the accursed tree, laying down His life an effectual ransom price; by His blood closing the gates of hell, quenching God’s fiery wrath, paying ALL demands, satisfying every claim, glorifying every attribute, washing out each crimson stain of all his ransomed flock.

·        Christ-gloriously fulfilling every tittle of the glorious Law, saying to each command, I fully have obeyed; and then transferring the vicarious obedience, as divine righteousness, to His bride the Church, her robe for heaven and her luster in the courts above!

HENRY LAW