SHREVEPORT GRACE CHURCH

BIBLE CLASS- 10:00 AM

The Confusion of Tongues- Genesis 11:1-9

MORNING WORSHIP- 11:00 AM

Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 16 (Layne)

Call to Worship:

Scripture Reading/Prayer: Acts 17 (David)

Hymn: #176- ‘Break Thou the Bread of Life

Message: The Bitter-Sweet Message of the Gospel- Revelation 10

Hymn: #228- ‘My Faith Has Found a Resting Place’

AFTERNOON WORSHIP – 12:30PM

Hymn: #145- ‘Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus’

Scripture Reading/Prayer: Ezra 3 (Jim)

Hymn: #293- ‘The Lord’s My Shepherd’

Message: Aaron’s Death- Numbers 20:22-29

Hymn: #300- ‘More Secure Is No One Ever’

hy is glorying in the cross the opposite to glorying in the flesh? Because the cross, far from being the work of man, is the work of God. Far from demanding merit from man, righteousness is accounted to men. Far from requiring works from the flesh, justification is freely bestowed by Christ’s merit. Far from obliging men to earn favor, grace is freely lavished upon debtors. Far from expecting anything from sinners, everything is accomplished by Jesus Christ. Far from the curse falling upon transgressors, the curse fell upon the Substitute. SELECTED

“And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;)…” Deuteronomy 21:22, 23

ur Lord Jesus never committed a sin worthy of death, however, those for whom He died as their Substitute did. In fact, we were not even alive when we committed that sin. It was in our father Adam that we all became guilty- BY IMPUTATION, Romans 3:23. Conversely, we were not yet alive when the Lord Jesus Christ, the Last Adam, came and lay down His life. However, by His ONE OBEDIENCE, those for whom He died were saved from condemnation- their sin put away, and the very righteousness of God imputed to them, Romans 5:19. Even as He did not commit the sin worthy of death but it was charged to Him, neither did we ever obey God’s law, but it was charged to our favor in HIS obedience unto death, 2 Corinthians 5:21. What grace! Our Lord was accounted guilty by imputation, and not by any contamination of His holy nature. He suffered and died willingly as the Substitute and yet Sinless victim, which was required of any sacrifice that God would accept- Compare Malachi 1:6-8 with Hebrews 7:26. He was made sin for us, not personally, but sin and its full penalty were charged to His account. Even so, we are made righteous, not by any righteousness that we have done, but by His obedience having been charged to our spiritual account upon completion of His death, and thereby justifying us from all sin, guilt, and condemnation. Whether by Him being made a curse, or us being made righteous, it was all by imputation!

The apostle Paul wrote in Galatians 3:13- ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.’ The curse was imputed in Adam to us, but transferred fully, freely and finally to Christ in His death. Just as in Adam, all of the elect were at once charged with his guilt and disobedience, so in Christ’s obedience unto death we were at once charged with His righteous obedience and declared justified, once for all- Romans 5:9-11.

Such was the eternal purpose of God, accomplished by Christ, and revealed by the Spirit of God to the hearts of sinners for whom He died. Let us bow in grace and wonder! KEN WIMER

“And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out”

he ever-burning fire on the Jewish altar seemed to set forth the unsatisfactory nature of these sacrifices; for, though thousands of goats, of bullocks, of rams, and of lambs were consumed, still the fire burnt on, crying as it were, “Give, give.” And, as that flame was kindled from heaven, how did it shew that sin remained unatoned for, the law unfulfilled, justice unsatisfied; and that in all the multiplied offerings the Divine Lawgiver had found no pleasure. They were only like promises of payment; and the unextinguished fire seemed like that word, “In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God.” And oh, what a glorious contrast: “It pleased the Lord to bruise Him;” because every stroke brought payment of the debt. He did find pleasure in that sacrifice, because it brought honour to His Divine attributes and salvation to His people.

Thenceforward the altar fire burns not again; the fire of justice has gone out as regards the Church, for the blood of the Lamb has quenched and extinguished it. And “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” Oh, what fathomless depths of grace and love are in those words! The sins were remembered against Him, but they shall not be remembered against them; for them waits no unquenchable fire. When their Surety said, “It is finished,” justice said, It is enough. He quenched His Father’s flaming sword in His own vital blood. LETTERS BY RUTH BRYAN, 1805-1860