April 20, 2008
Sunday 10:00am WLEX TV Channel 18

It is requested that children under the age of five stay in our nursery
so there will be no distractions during the preaching of the Gospel.

HYMN OF THE DAY
My God, my life, my love
Thee only I adore
My Saviour, Lord, my Priest, my King
My all forevermore.

O let my heart rejoice
Thy grace my ev’ry thought
But when I see Thee as Thou art
I’ll praise Thee as I ought.

Assist Thy servant, Lord
Thy gospel to proclaim
Let pow’r and love attend Thy word
And glorify Thy name.

Great is the Lord, our God
O let His praise be great
He makes His church His own abode
His most delightful seat.

(Tune: “I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord” p. 188)


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Birthdays
20th – Kim Daniel 20th – Becky Rigsby 24th – Don Martin


“Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.” - Proverbs 10:2

What is a preacher? - A preacher is a nobody who tells everybody about somebody who can save anybody.
– Pastor Scott Richardson

 

WHAT DO YE MORE THAN OTHERS?

“And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? Do not even the publicans so?” - Matthew 5:47
If I have been saved by the grace of God, I ought to do more than others. Look what He has done for me! He loved me before time began, gave His Son to die for my sin, gave me His very righteousness, and put His Spirit within me. Should I not do more than others? None should be more grateful than me! Certainly none are more indebted to His grace than me. Therefore I ought to do more than others. Sovereign grace is not a reason to do less. It is a reason to do more! The one who really believes grace will do more than the one who believes law. He will love more, forgive more, give more, and do more. Child of God, we ought to do more than others!

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Where can I go this Lord’s Day and hear the mercy of God, not the mechanics of grace? Where can I go and hear the love of Christ and not the law of God for saints? Where can I go and hear the righteousness of God fulfilled by Christ and not the righteousness of the creature to be rewarded by God? Let us say, by God’s grace, this will be the place and I will be the preacher. The message will not be flowery but full of grace; it will not be with enticing words of man’s wisdom but the sovereign mercy of God to helpless sinners in a language all men understand. Let the scholars, theologians and authors go elsewhere to have their intellects ‘challenged’. Lord make me THY VOICE to THY PEOPLE. - Pastor Henry Mahan


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“I commend you to God” – Acts 20:32
What better instruction could any minister give to his congregation? Don’t look to the Law; it will only serve to condemn you. Don’t look to religious ceremony; it will only serve to befuddle you. Don’t look to yourself; it will only serve to make you self-righteous. Don’t even look to the preacher; he is a sinner and needs grace just like you. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ to provide all things in salvation. He is made to the believer wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption (I Corinthians 1:30). Keep looking always to Him (Hebrews 12:1-2, Isaiah 45:22). – Pastor Tom Harding

“Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: keep the door of my lips” – Psalm 141:3
How great is our need of this grace because we are so inclined to speak unadvisedly (James 3:8). It is not that we intend to do hurt or harm to any, much less to dishonor our Lord by our words. But, in a moment of weakness, carelessness or emotion, we open our mouths and say something that we later wish we had not. Past mercies and present company is no guarantee against this. Moses did it in the presence of Aaron and the congregation of Israel (Num. 20:10); Elijah, by himself in the wilderness (I Kings 18:4); Peter in the presence of unbelievers (Matt. 26:74). Oh for grace to keep the door of my lips. Matthew Henry wrote: “Nature having made my lips to be a door to my words, let grace keep that door, that no word may be suffered to go out which may in any way tend to the dishonor of God or the hurt of others.”
-Pastor Charles Pennington

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Scripture, not logic, is our rule of faith; not one or two statements taken out of their context, but the whole analogy of faith. Error is truth perverted, truth distorted, truth out of proportion. To short-sighted human reason there appears to be a clash between Divine justice and Divine mercy, between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility; between law and grace, between faith and good works; but he who is really taught of the Spirit, is enabled to discern their perfect consistency.
- A. W. Pink

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Justification, as it is revealed in Holy Scripture, is much more than a mere forensic (legal) standing. It is a state of being (Rom. 5:1-11). It is more than a judicial declaration. Justification is the real emancipation of our souls in Christ. To be justified before God is to be free of guilt in your conscience by the sprinkling of Christ’s blood, that is by the Spirit’s application of Christ’s atonement (Heb.9:14).
- Pastor Don Fortner

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Regeneration makes no alteration on the flesh, but the Spirit. There is nothing in the flesh made holy. And there is nothing in the spirit left unholy. – Robert Hawker