June 14, 2009
Sundays 11:00 am ; Channel 36 WTVQ
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.

Jesus Christ, our God and Savior
Guide, and counselor, and friend
Bearing all our misbehavior
Kind and loving to the end.
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Nothing but Thy blood, O Saviour
Can relieve us from our smart
Nothing else from guilt release us
Nothing else can melt the heart.

Law and judgment do but harden
All the while they work alone
But a sense of blood-bought pardon
Soon dissolves a heart of stone.

Trust Him, He will not deceive us
Though we see through glass so dim
He will never, never leave us
Nor will we depart from Him.

(Tune: “Jesus Calls Us” p. 374)

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Vacation Bible School is June 23-25 fro m 10:30am - 1:30pm.

Alden and Brooke Pennington will confess Christ in believer’s baptism this evening. If anyone else would like to be baptized, please let me know.

We extend our sympathy to Susan Holthaus and her family on the death of her mother this past week.

There will be a Bible conference at the Lantana Grace Church in Crossville, Tennessee this Friday thru Sund ay.

Birthdays
14th - Lauren Harries 15th - Silas Benton 16th - Andrea Bryan
16th - Monica Bryan 16th - Sean Weinstock


“A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.” - Proverbs 12:8

GRACE WORKS!
“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God that worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.”
&nbs p; - Philippians 2:12-13
We have all said with regard to some problem that needs our attention, “I’ll work it out.” When Paul says, “Work our your own salvation,” he is referring to anything in our lives contrary to salvation, anything contrary to faith, anything contrary to obedience, anything contrary to likeness to Christ. And when he tells us to do so with fear and trembling, this is not the fear of losing our salvation. This is the fear and trembling that comes form a reverence toward God and a desire to please Him. And then we are given this glorious assurance. What we work out is His work in us. When we work out our own salvation, it is because He is working in us, in giving us the desire to do His will, and the ability to do His will. Working out what He has worked in us i s the working of Grace. Grace works!


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Whatever ends God has purposed, he has purposed all the means which are necessary for their accomplishment. Why does the farmer till his ground and sow his seed? He knows that HE CANNOT CAUSE SEED TO VEGETATE AND GROW! But he knows that if God gives the increase, it will be through the instrumentality of these means and that IT IS ONLY IN THE USE OF THESE MEANS that he can hope to receive the increase.
Now we know that all the means used to effect the salvation of people are IN THEMSELVES, utterly powerless unless God makes them effectual to the salvation of some. What encouragement was there for the prophet Ezekiel to prophesy to the dry bones unless God had determined in connection with his preaching to give them life? What encouragement can there be to preach the Gospel of Christ to those who are dead in trespasses and sins unless GOD HAS DETERMINED TO GIVE EFICACY to the Word of His grace? The Lord has a chosen people on this earth; and, as the Gospel is the appointed means for effecting the salvation of His people, He will send it to those whom He designs to save. God “had much people in Corinth,” and for this reason he sent Paul there to preach the Gospel.
- Dr. Bennet Tyler (1784-1858)


WATER AND BLOOD
It is recorded that when the side of our Lord was pierced by the spear “forth with came there out blood and water.” In the Old Testament, in order to come into the presence of God, in the holy of holies, you had to pass through the courtyard of the tabernacle. In that courtyard there was a brazen alter for blood sacrifices, and a brazen laver of water to wash in. You could not come into the presence of God without the shedding of blood and the washing of water. This represents justification and sanctification. The blood typifies justification. The water typifies sanctification. Justification is having no guilt before God. Sanctification is holiness before God. While these are two different things, they can never be separated. To be wrong on justification is to be wrong on sanctification also! To be wrong on sanctification is to be wrong on justification also.
Out of Christ’s pierced side flowed blood and water…justification and sanctification, in perfect likeness=2 0to the Old Testament tabernacle. Both justification and sanctification come from the cross! One of the most deceitful errors of false religion is to say that justification comes from the cross, but sanctification is at least partly affected by our works. No! Both justification and sanctification come from the cross! He is my righteousness before God. He is my holiness before God. Everything God has for the sinner comes through the cross! If there is error in this matter of sanctification from the cross, there will invariably be error regarding justification coming from the cross. The doctrine of Christ is one whole. A denial regarding any aspect of the doctrine of Christ is a denial of the whole!


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God said to Abraham, “Unto thy seed have I given this land” (Gen. 15:18). But when He made that statement, Abraham did not have any children. Yet, it is referred to as an act which was already done. When God wills something, it is past tense before it takes place!

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&nbs p; Christ is only preached as ALL, when He is all that is preached! “I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.”