SHREVEPORT GRACE CHURCH
2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE-SCRIPTURE ALONE-GRACE ALONE
JULY 15, 2007
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORSHIP
SUNDAY
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 55 (Mike)
Call to Worship: ‘O Mystery of Love Divine’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: I Corinthians 12 (David)
Hymn:
# 340- ‘Nearer, Still Nearer’
Message: THE SIXTH AND
SEVENTH VIALS- Revelation
16:12-21
Hymn:
# 294- ‘Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us’
AFTERNOON WORSHIP – 12:30PM
Hymn: #- ‘334- ‘Be Thou My Vision’
Scripture Reading: Esther 1 (Jim)
Hymn: #- ‘228-’My Faith Has a Found a Resting Place’
Message: SAFEGUARDS AGAINST COMPROMISE- Numbers 32:6-42
Hymn: # 351- ‘Jesus Keep Me near the Cross’
WEDNESDAY
7:00 PM- Mid-week Service
Nursery care available for all services for ages 4 and younger
Ken Wimer, Pastor- ( (318) 687-4943
E-MAIL: pastor@shrevegrace.org
WEB SITE: http://www.shrevegrace.org Updated weekly with audio lmessages now available on-line.
RADIO BROADCASTS: 9:00 AM (CST)Sunday on KWKH, 1130 AM, Shreveport, LA or live streaming at http://www.am1130thefan.com/pages/listen_live.html
CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune: ‘#52- ‘Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned’)
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mystery of love divine
That thought and thanks o'erpowers;
Lord Jesus, was our portion Thine,
And is Thy portion ours, [Repeat]
Thou didst fulfill each righteous deed,
God's perfect law express,
That we the sinful ones might plead
Thy perfect righteousness, [Repeat]
Our load of sin and misery
Didst Thou, the Sinless bear;
Thy spotless robe of purity
Do we the sinners wear, [Repeat]
ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL
“Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead, according to my gospel,” 2 Timothy 2: 7
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he gospel we preach honors God the Father in every attribute of His character. It exalts God the Son as the Lord our Righteousness and excludes all boasting in the sinner. It shepherds our mind away from self, toward the ONE who is all our salvation. This gospel reminds us that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, is that ONE who is both God and Man. He is the Christ, very God of very God, one with the Father in the essence of His Deity. He is the Creator, Giver and Sustainer of life. This can only be attributed to His Deity, as no man can create life.
He is man, conceived in the womb by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He is “of the seed of David.” Mary “was of the household and lineage of David.”(Luke 2:4) He took into union with His Deity, true sinless humanity, body and soul that He might be “raised from the dead,” based on satisfaction to law and justice. His death can only be attributed to His humanity because God cannot die, but this man who is God did die. As God Man He put away sin, brought in everlasting righteousness and translated His people into the Kingdom of God’s dear Son. His resurrection from the dead is God’s declaration that righteousness is established and imputed, justification is accomplished for His people and eternal glory only awaits our exit from this life. This and more, according to my gospel. Woe is unto me if I preach not this gospel, (1 Corinthians 9: 16). WINSTON PANNELL – Albany, Ga.
A JUST GOD AND SAVIOR
“Who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me,” Isaiah 45:21
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here can be no salvation of sinners on any other basis than the just satisfaction of God’s righteousness. God’s righteousness is the cause of which salvation is the effect! It was based on the foreseen satisfaction of God’s law and justice in the coming, doing, and dying of the Lord Jesus that the Psalmist declared, “Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; and my tongue shall sing aloud of THY RIGHTEOUSNESS,” Psalm 51:14.
The righteousness of God was satisfied on behalf of elect sinners in a two-fold manner at the cross- their sins discharged to the Savior, and His perfect obedience charged (imputed) simultaneously to their account. This righteous satisfaction at the cross was accomplished according to God’s eternal purpose and decree, and the effect is the actual salvation of every one for whom Christ died. Since law and justice have been satisfied, there remains nothing but the sure salvation of ALL for whom Christ died. KEN WIMER
MADE RIGHTEOUS IN HIM
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hen Christ came in the flesh, He had the perfect nature that some today claim to have had imparted to them, via a new sinless nature. My question is, ‘If they have received a new sinless nature, how does it manifest itself, since none can honestly claim to have a sinless Christ-like nature while in the flesh? An honest examination of our service to God and the way we deal with our fellow human beings, for example, in comparison with Christ’s own perfect actions and attitudes, should clearly help us know where we stand on this vital issue of imparted vs. imputed righteousness. A believer, saved by grace, must humbly acknowledge with Paul himself that in the flesh dwelleth no good thing (see Rom. 7:18).
None can be Christ’s and yet delight in sin, but can one be Christ’s and cease from sin? That’s what perfection means, doesn’t it-sinless? Who can claim to be sinless? That’s exactly what endears Christ, the perfect Lamb, to me the sinner because it’s in Him that I have been made the righteousness of God (2 Cor. 5:21), and not in this flesh. He only is my righteousness and that by imputation, not impartation!
VIDJE KOBOU
THE CHRISTIAN’S GRATEFUL SONG
Isaac Watts wrote:
‘Twas the same love that spread the feast
That sweetly forced us in;
Else we had still refused to taste,
And perished in our sin.
We believe that every child of God is conquered in will, affections, and understanding. Christ must do all and be all. ‘He must increase, I must decrease,’ is the Christian’s rule. Attraction and need meet when Christ is revealed to the sensibly guilty sinner. He grudges not then to be indebted altogether to the grace of God in Christ for life and salvation. ‘Not unto us,’ not to our ‘good free-will’ or any other act of qualification in us- ‘but unto thy Name, give glory, for thy mercy and thy truth’s sake.” That is the Christian’s grateful song.
J. H. GOSDEN
SUBSTITUTION
In Napoleon’s time, in one of the conscriptions, a man who was selected to go to war had a friend who loved him to the point of being willing to go in his place. So, his friend joined up in his name, and was sent off to the front, where he was killed in action.
Some time after, Napoleon needed more men, and inadvertently the first man was called up a second time. ‘You cannot take me: I am dead,’ he said, ‘because in such and such a battle you left me buried on the field. Look up in your books and see.’
They looked and found he had been killed in action. ‘It must have been a substitute,’ they said. ‘Yes true!’ he replied, ‘he died in my stead and the law has now no claim on me.’ 1 Peter 3:18.
COPIED