BIBLE CLASS- 10:00 AM

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree- Luke 13:6-9

MORNING WORSHIP- 11:00 AM

Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 131 (David)

Call to Worship: ‘Quiet Lord, My Froward Heart’

Scripture Reading/Prayer: I Kings 21 (Mike)

Hymn: #1- ‘O, Worship the King’

Message: THE FOUR HORSEMEN- Revelation 6

Hymn: #16- ‘The Lord is King.’

AFTERNOON WORSHIP
Hymn: #449 – ‘To God Be the Glory’

Scripture Reading/Prayer: John 16 (Jim)

Hymn: #294 – ‘There’s a Wideness to God’s Mercy’

Message: LAW, JUSTICE AND MERCY - Numbers.15:17-41

Hymn: #249 – ‘Just As I Am’

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urmur at nothing. If our ills are reparable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it is vain. A Christian builds his life on a better foundation than stoicism. He is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen if it did not please God, and that which pleases God must be best! H.L. WAYLAND

“I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.” Isa 61:10

hy does the scripture refer to ‘garments’ of salvation (plural) vs. THE ROBE of righteousness (singular)? Salvation as set forth in Scripture has many facets and therefore may be described as different layers of garments, much like many in eastern countries with layers of clothing. The garments of salvation, or salvation as garments, ALL pertain to the salvation of Christ, being wrought out by Christ; and is brought near, and revealed by the spirit of Christ. Such a salvation was purposed in eternity, accomplished at the cross, revealed by the Spirit in regeneration, and will be fully and finally realized in the final glorification of all of God’s children when clothed in immortality, 2 Corinthians 5:2.

Regarding the robe of righteousness, however, it is clear that there is only ONE, among the other garments of salvation, and it is imputed. It is not righteousness within the saved sinner, but one put on the saved sinner, by the free grace of God, in the death of the Lord Jesus. Of all of God’s creatures, humans are the only ones who do not have garments as coverings that they grow naturally for protection. Birds produce feathers, dogs grow their winter coats, but humans must be clothed upon from the outside, particularly for hazardous situations, such as fires, bombs, or living in space. Nonetheless, these all pale compared to what the sinner needs to face a holy God. Clearly, not just any robe will do. It must not only be one that covers our nakedness, but as the verse indicates, adorns us in such a way as to make us beautiful as a bride in the eyes of a holy God. This is the righteousness of God, which our Lord Jesus established in His obedience unto death, and God the Father approved, and reckoned once for all to His elect, Isaiah. 51:5-8. This is not any righteousness that we produce, nor is it put within us, but ON us. The faith that the Spirit gives causes us to look to Christ alone, and submit to that righteousness alone- that is Christ’s obedience unto death, Romans 10:1-4.

Sinner, if you are ever taught of God and given eyes to behold the Son, you’ll shuck your own rags of self-righteousness, or thoughts of any inner, inherent or imparted perfection, as quickly as He causes you to see the glory and beauty of God’s imputed righteousness alone in His death upon the cross. Like the demoniac of the Gadarenes who was accustomed to running in the hills and dwelling in the caves, yet when Christ crossed his path, He brought him to bow and worship. When the people came and found him, he was seated at Christ’s feet, fully clothed (with a garment given him by Christ) and in his right mind, Luke 8:35. NOTHING illustrates the redeemed and called sinner’s position or privilege better. Glory to His name! KEN WIMER

“Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,” 2 Timothy 1:9

t is the believer’s blessedness that each glorious Person in the Godhead has a glorious hand in his salvation. God the Father saved, chose, sanctified, or set him apart, in Christ before the world was. God the Son took humanity into union to his personal Godhead, and thus became incarnate, lived a holy life, suffered, bled, died a solemn death, rose again from the dead, ascended up on high, having led captivity captive, and is now exalted at the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession for him. Thus Christ has meritoriously saved the elect by his life, obedience, death, resurrection, exaltation, and intercession. As it is written: “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” God? No! “It is Christ that died; yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Thus the blessed Redeemer “was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification;” and , bless his precious name, he has been the destruction of death, hell, and sin. The gloriously blessed God-Man Mediator “gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” So that, before the world was, the church was saved purposedly by God the Father; in time, meritoriously by the God-Man Mediator, who now lives above to make intercession for them, and, in the day of God’s power, they are saved manifestively and vitally, by the “washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.”

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