BIBLE CLASS- 10:00 AM

Creation- Genesis 1

MORNING WORSHIP- 11:00 AM

Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 10 (Mike)

Call to Worship: ‘Come Raise Your Thankful Voice’

Scripture Reading/Prayer: Acts 12 (David)

Hymn: #144- ‘Hark! Ten Thousand Harps and Voices

Message: Trumpets of Warning- Revelation 8:6-13

Hymn: #266- ‘Fade, Fade, Each Earthly Joy’

AFTERNOON WORSHIP – 12:30PM
Hymn: #509- ‘The Sands of Time Are Sinking’

Scripture Reading/Prayer: 2 Kings 23 (Jim)

Hymn: #475- ‘Redeemed’

Message: The Water of Separation- Numbers 19:7ff

Hymn: #212- ‘Nothing But the Blood’

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here is not a single blessing of grace and salvation which is not secured and deposited in him. Ah, my friends, it is well for us they are treasured up in Christ Jesus, because in him they are safe and secure. The Holy Spirit, in his appointed time, convinces the heart of the poor sinner of the need of these spiritual blessings; He gives him deeply to feel his need, and puts a cry in his heart after them. The Lord says, "I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them." The poor sinner will never come to Christ, bow down before him and seek the Lord's blessing, until he is brought into poverty, destitution and indigent circumstances. He will never flee to Christ for refuge until every other resource fails him, and he is at his wits' end and knows not what to do. But, blessed be his name, Christ is a refuge for the helpless and the destitute.

“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,” Isaiah 61:10

t is important to remember that when speaking of salvation, it is a term that covers a broad spectrum of God’s work in delivering sinners including their election from eternity, their redemption, justification and reconciliation at the cross, their effectual calling by the Gospel and the regenerating work of the Spirit, their keeping in Christ until death, and their final glorification throughout eternity. Each one of these could be described as a garment of that salvation which belongs to every sinner saved by grace. When the Bible speaks of being saved by grace, it covers every garment, much as we would say that a person is fully dressed once they have put on their under garments and pants, shirt, shoes, and socks (men), or blouse, skirt, hose, etc. (women).

Clearly as in dressing there is an order, so in salvation there is an order from election to final glorification. The whole expression “he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation"; might better be understood “with salvation as garments”, that is the salvation of God in Christ, as purposed in eternity, worked out by Christ at Calvary, and embraced by the sinner through the inner working of the Spirit of grace, and which is ALL our adornment before God! This is what it is to put on Christ, publicly displayed by identification with Him in the waters of baptism upon Him being revealed in us, and then walking in Him, His doctrine and word throughout this life by grace- Galatians 3:27.

However, in Mid-eastern dress, regardless of what is worn underneath, there is one overriding garment worn that covers the body from head to toe. Notice here, it is described as the dress of a bridegroom or that of a bride. It is as a bridegroom puts on the best clothes he has on his wedding day, and makes the appearance of a prince in his richest robes, or as the high priest when he had on all his sacerdotal garments. Picture also the bride dressed in her finest to the admiration and joy of the bridegroom. So is the church of Christ, the Assembly of God’s redeemed and justified ones, richly and magnificently arrayed in the righteousness IMPUTED of Christ, to which each member has been clothed by God, once for all, upon completion of Christ’s work at the cross. All are clothed alike in the same ROBE, and ALL stand in the same relation before God, clothed alike with the garment down to the feet; and are righteous as He is righteous, by IMPUTATION, and are therefore a bride made ready for her husband (Revelation. 19:7, 8; 21:2 Isaiah 62:5). Without this robe, already made and imputed by God in Christ at the cross, there cannot be and never will be any acceptance of sinners with God- Matthew 22:12.

e preach faith, not as a condition of salvation, but as the “gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8). And the faith we preach is as distinct from any natural belief of the human mind as the internal revelation or testimony of the Spirit of God is distinct from the testimony of men: the one is external and natural, the other is internal and spiritual; the one is comprehended and received by the natural powers of the human mind, the other can be understood and relied on only by spiritual life imparted. In a word, we believe that the predestination of God has fixed eternally the point that none but that system of salvation that God has decreed, that truth which God has revealed, and that order which He has established, shall stand. We would, therefore, be wholly conformed in understanding, in feeling and walk to that system, be grounded in that truth, and bounded and defined by that order which God has revealed.

Being thus established in the truth of God and sustained by His word, if persecution come, let it come, we shall feel the assurance that the “two beasts” that the “Image”, and all their drilled and mustered forces, can go no farther in their rage than our God has determined to permit them, that they cannot afflict us, only as He has designed the affliction in mercy upon us, that they cannot take our lives one moment before our Father has accomplished His wise purposes with us in this vale of tears.