SHREVEPORT GRACE CHURCH

2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118

CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE

JULY 16, 2006

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORSHIP

SUNDAY
 

BIBLE CLASS- 10:00 AM

‘The Parable of the Marriage Supper,’ Luke 14:15-24
 

MORNING WORSHIP- 11:00 AM

Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 3 (Mike)

Call to Worship: ‘God moves in a mysterious way’

Scripture Reading/Prayer:  Acts 4 (David)

Hymn:  #309- ‘Beneath the Cross of Jesus’

Message: ‘WHITE ROBES AND GREAT TRIBULATION’- Revelation 7:14

Hymn:  #256- ‘It Is Well With My Soul’
                              

AFTERNOON WORSHIP – 12:30PM

Hymn: #143- ‘Rejoice-the Lord is King!

Scripture Reading/Prayer: 2 Kings 20 (Jim)

Hymn:  #42- ‘All Hail the Power of Jesus Name’

Message:  ‘ALL HONOR TO CHRIST ALONE’- Numbers 18:8-19

Hymn:  #463- ‘All That Thrills My Soul’

WEDNESDAY

7:00  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:  #10- ‘O God Our Help in Ages Past)

Words by William Cowper

God moves in a mysterious way

His wonders to perform;

He plants His footsteps in the sea,

                And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines

Of never-failing skill,

He treasures up his bright designs,

And works His sovereign will.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;

The clouds ye so much dread,

Are big with mercy, and shall break

In blessings on your head.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,

But trust Him for His grace;

Behind a frowning providence

He hides a smiling face.

His purposes will ripen fast,

Unfolding every hour;

The bud may have a bitter taste,

But sweet will be the flower.

Blind unbelief is sure to err,

And scan His work in vain;

God is His own interpreter,

And He will make it plain.

HOPE FOR SINNERS

Zacchaeus was accused by the crowd of being a sinner. God’s people in this church and in other congregations have been called wicked and evil men for our stand in the gospel. We are ungodly sinners by nature and practice, but God justifies the ungodly and we have been made holy by his righteousness imputed to us.   Paul said in I Timothy 1:15; “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.” Christ said of himself in Luke 5:32; “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” “They that are whole need not a physician.” Yes, we who are justified are sinners, but sinners loved of God, adopted, and accepted into the family of God because of Christ.

WINSTON PANNELL- Albany, GA

FOR SIN

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for  sin, condemned sin in the flesh:”                     Romans 8:3

The law, as perfect and holy as it is, could not, cannot, and will not ever release the guilty for the sake of mercy, without its full satisfaction in precept and penalty.  It is not that the law is weak. Its strength is what condemns sinners every day to eternal damnation.  But the flesh of sinful men is weak to satisfy its just demands.  Sinners are unable to satisfy it, yet, it can do no less than DEMAND absolute perfection.  Not even God Himself can acquit sinners, or show mercy, unless His law and justice are first satisfied to the fullest extent, equal with HIS righteousness.

               Therefore, God sent His own Eternal Son in the LIKENESS of sinful flesh.  He was born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14) and not a direct descendant of Adam, inseminated in the womb by God’s Spirit (Luke 1:35), but wholly and perfectly MAN, like the sinful, depraved, condemned sinners He came to save. And yet He Himself had no sin, nor ever experienced it, either in His life or in His death. (Hebrews 4:15)!  It was necessary that He be the SINLESS Lamb of God because God can accept nothing less than perfection and still remain holy and just.  When the Scripture says that He was MADE sin, (2 Corinthians 5:21) it is with the qualification, ‘who knew no sin.’ It cannot mean that He was made sinful, nor a sinner, because even in death He had to remain the perfect Lamb.  It says He died THE JUST for the unjust, not a sinner for the unjust, 1 Pet. 3:18.

Some foolishly argue that God could not have killed His Son had He not actually been guilty of the sin of His people for whom He died, or made sinful like them. However, nothing about His death shows Him to have died the death of a sinner. His was not a natural death that sinners die, but rather the death of a Substitute. The Scripture says that He died FOR SIN, and not in sin. So complete was His sacrifice FOR SIN that God is satisfied, once for all on behalf of those FOR whom He died.  They are said to be redeemed, justified, sanctified, adopted, and forgiven fully and freely BY HIS BLOOD, Romans 5:9. It is His death FOR SIN, reckoned His BY IMPUTATION, not infused in Him, that He put away the sin of His people once for all, Hebrews 10:10. “Now, where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin,” Hebrews 10:18.  Anything more or less is NOT substitution.

If He redeemed you, God has already justified you fully, and in time either has given, or will give you His Spirit, to regenerate (Titus 3:5), indwell (Romans 8:9), and REVEAL in you this blessed, glorious, sinless Substitute. Christ indwells the believing sinner through Spirit-given-faith, (Ephesians 3:17). This is the truth of the Gospel of Christ, as the justifying sacrifice FOR SIN, on which the believing sinner rests ALL his hope.                    KEN WIMER

LEARNING IN THE SCHOOL OF CHRIST

‘Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls,” Matthew 11:29

I am thankful that the Lord does not hold me to what I thought I knew in my earlier years, or even what I think I know now.  I am a student of His grace, in the school of Christ, sitting at Christ’s feet, mouth stopped, and prayerfully learning ALL He has to teach concerning His person, glory, righteousness, mercy, and His everlasting cross work, as well as my own unworthiness, helplessness, and sin.  There are many lessons, and His textbook is exhaustive, but in exhaustible.  I get impatient to learn as much as I can, but the Teacher is following His prepared lesson plan that HE has determined best for me, (John 16:12).  I would love just to learn without the tests, but it is the testing that continues to reveal to me just how little I know, and need to be taught again, the sinfulness of MY sin, and my need to rest in HIS sinless obedience unto death alone, and His complete righteousness imputed to my account there, which is ALL my righteousness for acceptance with God. One thing I must continue to learn is that there is nothing good in me, but that HE has been made to me WISDOM, RIGHTEOUSNESS, SANCTIFICATION, and REDEMPTION!  It’s ALL in Him!                                                                                           KEN WIMER

GOD’S JUSTICE AND GRACE

How God loved His people with an everlasting love, yet reckoned to them the sin of their federal head, the first Adam, explains God’s justice. How God loved His Son, yet reckoned to Him the sin of His elect, explains God’s grace. The justice of God and the grace of God met in the person & work of Christ finished on the cross.

DAVID SIMPSON, Powell, TN

NOTES

       CLEANING SCHEDULE: Atchisons (7/10-7/23)

        NURSERY SCHEDULE: Pam Carter/Mary Wimer

       BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES: Jeff and Alyssa Slaton- 7/2; Callie Armstrong-7/7, Pam Atchison, 7/8; Jeff Slaton, 7/11.

        THE LORD’S TABLE/FELLOWSHIP MEAL- Next Sunday