SHREVEPORT GRACE CHURCH
2970 Baird Rd., Shreveport, LA 71118
CHRIST ALONE - SCRIPTURE ALONE - GRACE ALONE
June 1, 2008
SUNDAY
MORNING WORSHIP - 11:00 AM
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Psalm 101 (Mike)
Call to Worship: ‘Jesus, the Lord, Enthroned on High’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: 1 Timothy 1 (David)
Hymn: # 46- ‘O for a Thousand Tongues’
Message: The Vineyard- Isaiah 5:1-11
Hymn: # 212- ‘Nothing But the Blood’
Hymn: # 475- ‘Redeemed’
Scripture Reading/Prayer: Job 15 (Jim Pennywell)
Hymn: # 210- ‘Saved By the Blood’
Message: SEPARATED BY GRACE - Deuteronomy 7:1-8
Hymn: # 488- ‘My Redeemer’
WEDNESDAY
7:00 PM - Mid-week meeting
Nursery care available during all services; for ages 4 and younger.
Ken Wimer, Pastor- ( (318) 687-4943
E-mail: pastor@shrevegrace.org
Web Site: http://www.shrevegrace.org
Audio Messages Available On-Line; Updated weekly
Radio Broadcast: 9:00 AM (CST) Sunday on KWKH;
AM Radio 1130, Shreveport, LA area or LIVE streaming at http://www.kwkhonline.com/common/gap_streamer.php
Call To Worship
(Tune: #655 ‘Jesus Shall Reign’)
1 – Jesus, the Lord enthroned on high,
To Thee we look, to Thee we cry;
We long to view Thy lovely face,
And sweetly sing Thy matchless grace.
2 – Thou hast redeemed our souls from death,
And blessed us with a living faith;
And Thou wilt safely lead us home,
Where sins and sorrows never come.
3 – Dear condescending God, appear,
And bless us with a holy fear;
Give solid joy and sacred love,
And every idle thought remove.
4- Then shall we feel a solemn frame,
And magnify Thy sovereign name;
And with a holy, reverend awe,
Yield sweet obedience to thy law
IN DUE TIME
"For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly." Rom 5:6
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y soul bind up this sweet and precious scripture, and carry it about with you in your bosom, and in your heart, that it may help you at any time, and at all times, when your strength seems gone, and there is no power left. Was it not when the whole nature of man was without strength, that Christ was given of the Father? And was it not equally so, when Christ came to seek and save that which was lost? And was it not in due time when Christ died for the ungodly; due time in his resurrection, due time in his ascension, "when he ascended up on high, led captivity captive, and received gifts for men, yea, even for the rebellious, that the Lord God might dwell among them?" Go further yet, my soul, as it concerns yourself--was it not due time indeed. when Jesus passed by and saw you in your loathsome state of sin, cast out to perish, and when no eye pitied you, that then his eye showed compassion to you, and bid you live? Who more ungodly than you? Who more weak? Who more undeserving? Did Jesus then look upon you, call you, strengthen you when you were without strength, and has he helped you to this hour? Oh then, trust him now, trust him for ever. "His strength is made perfect in your weakness." And depend upon it, when you are most weak in yourself, then is the hour to be most strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. He that in due time died for the ungodly, will be your strength in due time of need.
ROBERT HAWKER
AT THE CROSS
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
1 Peter 2:24
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he whole Gospel is summed up in this one verse (Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?). The answer to every one of these questions is the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, who He is and what He accomplished at Calvary. If our eyes are ever from the cross, then we have been bewitched [led away into error by craftiness], Galatians 3:1.
WHO? Him, who Himself ‘bare our sins in His own body ON the tree.’ We see here that the only place where the sin of God’s elect was put away was on the tree. This had been foreordained and prophesied by God the Father, and clearly no sin was put away before the cross, since Christ is said to have born (carried) our sins in His own body ON THE TREE. This was the sole end of Christ’s sufferings, that HE HIMSELF should put away the sin of His people in His death at the cross- Galatians 3:13. It is clear then that there could be no forgiveness of sins, no satisfaction of a holy God, and no redemption or justification, except that this man of God’s right hand FIRST and FINALLY has made satisfaction at the cross! God was longsuffering and forbearing in not imputing the trespasses of His people in the Old Testament to them, waiting the day of fulfillment in Christ’s death, Romans 3:25.
WHAT? “That we, being dead to sins…” The result of Christ’s work is that those for whom he died are now dead to sin, or no longer under its curse or condemnation. Those of the Old Testament lived under a continual reminder of their sin through the atoning (covering) animal sacrifices which could NOT put away sin. In those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year, Hebrews 10:3. But, by the ONE offering of the BODY of Jesus Christ, once for all, He has sanctified His people forever, Hebrews 10:10. If we are the Lord’s we have been freed (justified) from sin’s curse and condemnation before God once for all (Romans 6:7)
WHEN? When He died! Hebrews 1:3; WHERE? -‘ON THE TREE!’
WHY? ‘We should LIVE unto righteousness’- He put sin away, and the result is justification (righteousness) full, free, and final by that redemption- Romans 3:24. When regenerated by the Spirit, His people live by faith on that righteousness established, worked out, accepted and imputed once for all to them upon completion of Christ’s work at the cross, Romans 10:3,4. Being bought with the price of His blood, they live unto HIM who is ALL their righteousness.
HOW? ‘By whose stripes ye were healed,’ Isaiah 53:5. Only at ONE PLACE, by ONE PURCHASE, ONE PRICE, and ONE PERSON was this accomplished- ‘In His body on the tree.’ KEN WIMER
THE PRINCE OF PEACE
“Him hath God exalted with his right hand [to be] a Prince and a Savior, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins, “Acts 5:31.
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n referring to the Lord Jesus, as thus exalted, whom God has exalted as a Prince, I must direct your attention to His character as the Prince of Peace, the Mediator between God and man. What does the Apostle Paul say of his character in that precious second chapter of the Epistle to the church at Ephesus? There he speaks of Him having made peace BY HIS BLOOD. There is a blessed clause in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, and fitting no one so well as Himself; it is this, “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Christ has made peace between a holy, just, and righteous God and a fiery law, and poor, guilty, sinful, file, rebellious man. “There is one God and one Mediator between God and man;” and that Mediator is Christ Jesus, the Prince of Peace. And how has He made peace? O my friends, He has made peace by shedding His own most precious blood; by dying the just for the unjust; by putting away sin by the sacrifice of Himself; by being made a curse that we might enjoy the blessing. So that Christ Jesus, in His glorious Person, is the Prince of Peace through His redeeming blood.
JOHN KERSHAW- 1841
FORGIVENESS WITH THE LORD
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ut of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O LORD. LORD, hear my voice: let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared. I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in His Word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with HIM is plenteous redemption. And, He shall redeem Israel from ALL his iniquities.
Psalm 130