July 27, 2008
Sunday 10:00am WLEX TV Channel 18

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


HYMN FOR THE DAY
Thou, Christ, the great Jehovah art
The Fount of holiness
And, God with us, Thou art become
The Lord our Righteousness.

Oh, wash us with Thy blood and clothe
With Thy pure spotless dress
Oh, hide us in Thyself, and be
The Lord our Righteousness.

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What we in work profess
Oh, make us like unto Thyself
The Lord our Righteousness.

Pour on us showers of Thy grace
Increase our fruitfulness
That we may yield Thine own to Thee
The Lord our Righteousness.

So, in Thy glorious image raised
May we Thy mercy bless
And sing forever praise to Thee
The Lord our Righteousness.

(Tune: “Come Holy Spirit, Heavenly Dove” p. 158)

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Birthdays
27th – Kelli Willis


“It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.” - Proverbs 20:3

 

The Lord said in Luke 12:15, “Take heed and beware of covetousness.” In Col. 3:5, covetousness is called idolatry. Covetousness is the sin that made Paul realize he was a sinner (Rom 7:7).
Every sin has covetousness contained within it. Men covet power, prestige, pleasure, and do what is necessary to get what they covet. Men leave the simplicity of Christ because they covet something other then simply being saved by Him. Covetousness is listed last in the Ten Commandments. Perhaps this is because it is the summary of all sin! Every natural man is consumed with covetousness!
The only thing that can keep a man from coveting is for him to have so much that there is nothing left to covet. Only the believer has that much, because having Christ, he has all. The man who has all has nothing to covet.

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He that preaches Christ, preaches the Gospel; he who does not preach Christ preaches no gospel. It is no more possible for there to be a gospel without Christ than a day without the sun, or a river without water, or a living man without a head, or a quickened human body without a soul. No, Christ Himself is the life, soul, substance, and essence of the mystery of the Gospel of God. – C. H. Spurgeon


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Eternal life is to know the living God and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent. It is to have the LIFE of Christ, the PRESENCE of Christ, the SPIRIT and MIND of Christ, and the very GLORY of Christ begotten, created, and formed in us. CHRIST IN YOU is the hope of glory. Until the miracle of grace is performed, our religion is but a form of godliness.
- Pastor Henry Mahan


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If your faith be a God-communicated one, it is evidence by your turning away from all creature confidences, by a renunciation of your own self-righteousness, by a repudiation of all your own works. - A. W. Pink

 

BLESSED PREACHING

Blessed is the preacher who can shut men up to free and sovereign grace and yet lovingly, sincerely invite all men to look to Christ and be saved. Blessed in the preacher who knows that “Salvation is of the Lord”, who has the patience to wait upon the Lord to regenerate, awaken, and call his hearers; yet he prays for their deliverance, urges them to close with Christ, and beseeches them to “be reconciled to God.” Blessed is the preacher who can preach with equal force and confidence both the preservation and the perseverance of believers. He will not “turn away from us and we will not depar t from Him.” Blessed is the preacher who can rejoice in imputed righteousness, “With His holy garments on, I am as spotless as His dear Son”; and yet, along with his congregation hunger and thirst for spiritual growth and personal godliness. Blessed is the preacher who can find and preach both justification and sanctification at Calvary. We do not go to Calvary for justification and then Sinai for sanctification; we are “complete in Him.” Blessed is the preacher who can preach prophetical truth in such a way that his hearers are looking for the returning Christ and not only the return of Christ. Blessed is the preacher who administers believers baptism, presides at the Lord’s table, and oversees the business of the Lord’s church, not according to the “way we do it in our circles and according to our customs and tradition,” but according to the Word of God. It may be that if preachers and people return to the Scriptures, someone will ask, “What kind of church is this?” And we can answer, “It is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which He loved and purchased with His own blood and of which He is the sole Head.”
- Pastor Henry Mahan