SHREVEPORT GRACE CHURCH

 

2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118

 

CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE

 

OCTOBER 29, 2006

 

OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORSHIP

 

SUNDAY

 

BIBLE CLASS- 10:00 AM

The Fire on Abraham’s Sacrifice- Genesis 15:17
 

MORNING WORSHIP- 11:00 AM

Scripture Reading/Prayer:  Psalm 18 (Mike)

Call to Worship:  ‘Souls for whom the Lamb was slain’

Scripture Reading/Prayer:  Acts 19 (David)

Hymn:  #351- ‘Near the Cross’

Message: The Brazen Serpent Lifted Up- Numbers 21:1-9

Hymn:  #118- ‘When I Survey the Wondrous Cross’

The Lord’s Table

Closing Hymn: # 192- ‘According to Thy Gracious Word’
                              

FELLOWSHIP MEAL – 12:30PM

 

 

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: #328- ‘Close to Thee’

 

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ome, ye humble sinner-train,

Souls for whom the Lamb was slain,

Cheerful let us raise our voice;

We have reason to rejoice,

Let us sing, with saints in heav’n

Life restored, and sin forgiv’n

Glory and eternal laud

Be to our incarnate God.

Now look up with faith and see

Him that bled for such as we.

Seated on His glorious throne,

Interceding for His own.

What can sinners have to fear,

When they view the Savior there?

Hell is vanquished, heav’n appeased,

God is satisfied and pleased.

 

HE IS JUST AND HAVING SALVATION

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem:  behold, thy King cometh unto thee:  He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass,” Zechariah 9:9

 

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ere is a prophecy of Christ coming into Jerusalem in that last and final week, and the people throwing their coats before Him, and that wild colt now tame, with Him sitting on his back.  He is moving inexorably, unstoppably toward the Propitiation.  What does He have with Him?  He is just…but He has salvation.  Christ, by His obedience, satisfied all of God’s requirements.  He took upon Himself, in His body and soul, all the penalties that were due God’s elect, and He bore those requirements and those penalties to their exhaustion.  Therefore, there could be no more requirements or penalties on behalf of the elect. 

God was just in what He did, but it enabled Him in that act to become justifier.  The very act by which God became just, He also became justifier, Romans 3:25, 26.  To separate Him becoming just from His justifying work is not found in the Scriptures.  He is both just and justifier in that single, sole act in the body and soul of Christ.  He is just and having salvation and He worked it out at the cross.

DAVID SIMPSON, Powell, TN


 

A DOXOLOGY OF PRAISE TO THE LORD JESUS

“Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”       2 Timothy 1:17

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he apostle Paul breaks forth in a doxology of praise to Christ for His sovereign mercy and abundant grace.  What does He emphasize?  Consider these 5 characteristics:

  1. His eternality as sovereign King in nature, providence, and saving grace- John 5:22, John 8:24. As God, He is the same yesterday, today and forever as Prophet, Priest, and King- Heb 13:8.
  2. His immortality as the living God and living Redeemer- Revelation 1:18.  He came and died as a man, although God! (Literally the word ‘immortal’ means ‘incorruptible,’ Acts 13:35).  He died once as the sin-bearer, but now lives for evermore no longer bearing the sin of His people, having put it away, and the Father satisfied.  And so His people stand perfect in that righteousness that was accomplished by Him and imputed to their account, by which they shall also live forever in Him- Romans 6:9-11; 2 Cor. 5:14-21.
  3. His invisibility in that He is ascended into heaven and we see Him no more.  He was manifest in the flesh for a season, as the visible image of the invisible God, but now is risen and ascended, yet still in a body- John 16:10; 2 Cor. 5:16.  While we see him no more, for now, yet- ‘whom having not seen, we love,’ awaiting the day when we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is, I Jn. 3:2.
  4. His wisdom in creation, providence, salvation and judgment- Proverbs 8.  In Him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge- Colossians 2:3 with Isaiah 33:6.  To the believer He was made wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption- 1 Corinthians 1:30, 31. By Him, the wisdom of God is most glorified in that mercy and justice met together in Him at the cross, enabling God to be the just justifier of sinners through His precious blood.
His majesty revealed through the honor and glory due to Him- Jude 24, 25.  Christ is crowned with honor and glory, and He is worthy of it.  It becomes all men to honor the Son, as they do the Father- John 5:23. There is no honoring of the Father apart from the Son.  He is the brightness of His glory, even the very glory of God Himself. He is the very glory of salvation, and all the grace of which His elect sons are the objects, is given to them because of His dignity, not only as the Son of God, but the Savior of His people, both now and through all eternity.                                                                  KEN WIMER
 

GRACE FOR THE GUILTY

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sn’t it amazing that man hasn’t changed at all from the time when our representative man Adam fell in the garden? Adam thought that the fig leaves he had made for himself covered his sinfulness, while in reality it exposed his need of something he no longer possessed- A RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT EQUALED THE DEMANDS OF GOD’S LAW AND JUSTICE. The Pharisee in the parable in Luke 18 teaches us something about how unregenerate men THINK that what they do, or don’t do,  makes the difference between being saved or condemned, even going so far as attributing the performance of their deeds to God. This man said, “I THANK THEE that I am not as other men are, etc,” Luke 18:11. Then he showed how much he valued what he did as making the difference concerning eternal life. “I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of ALL that I possess.”  In other words, he went over and above board to make sure God noticed what he did.  He actually thought God owed him eternal life. Here is the problem with this Pharisee and all of us by nature. If we could obey God’s holy law perfectly, it is still not enough. For as many as are of the WORKS OF THE LAW (trying to earn eternal life by their obedience) are under the curse (NOT THE BLESSINGS OF GOD), as it is written, cursed is everyone who continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.” (Gal.3:10. 

God requires that we love Him perfectly from the cradle to the grave and He requires that we love our neighbor as our self (WHICH INCLUDES OUR WORST ENEMY).  I know that you’re thinking: WE CAN’T DO THAT?  However, salvation is not conditioned on what we do, but what the Lord Jesus Christ did in His obedience unto death.  He fulfilled all of the conditions to the law’s precepts in His perfect obedience to God, and satisfied its penalty in His death.  The sin of His people was imputed (charged) to His account, and upon completion of His work, His righteousness was imputed (charged) to their spiritual account so fully that God has forever justified (declared righteous) every sinner for whom Christ died.  Like the publican in Luke 18, we MUST approach God as mercy beggars on the basis of God’s mercy to us in Christ at the cross. “God be merciful (literally, be propitious, i.e., make satisfaction based on Christ’s righteousness alone) to me THE sinner.”(Luke 18:13)

RICHARD WARMACK, Ruston, LA