November 15, 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

HYMN OF THE DAY
Look upon me, Lord, I pray Thee
Let Thy Spirit dwell in mine
Thou hast sought me, Thou hast bought me
Take my heart and make it Thine.

Nought I ask for, nought I strive for
But Thy grace so rich and free
This thou givest by the Saviour
He hath all things who hath Thee.

Precious is the name of Jesus
Who can half its worth unfold
Far beyond angelic praises
Sweetly sung to harps of gold.

Guide me, O thou great Jehovah
Pilgrim through this barren land
I am weak, but Thou art mighty
Hold me with Thy powerful hand.

(Tune: “Jesus Calls Us” p. 374)

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Congratulations to Aaron and Jaime Greenleaf on the birth of their daughter, Macy Elizabeth! John and Shari Greenleaf are her grandparents.


Birthdays
15th – Carter Steeves 16th – Pamela Weinstock
19th – Kseniya Verenich 20th – Sarah Wilson 21st – Todd Meek



“By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.” - Proverbs 25:15
CAN YOU HAVE FAITH AND UNBELIEF AT THE SAME TIME?
“Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief.” Is this a contradiction? Can you have faith and unbelief at the same time? Absolutely! As a mater of fact, wherever you have real faith, you will always have unbelief right alongside of it. Why is that? Because we still have an evil nature. That evil nature does not believe. That evil nature cannot believe! It is the new nature that believes. If we only have one nature, faith and unbelief at the same time would be impossible. But because every believer has two distinct natures, called by our Lord the flesh and the spirit, our cry is continually, “Lord, I believe, help Thou mine unbelief.”


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“He is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14). Not our works, faith, repentance, evidences, or experience - He Himself is our peace. Because He is our peace, we have peace with God. He is at peace with us through Christ, and we are at peace with Him. Because He is our peace we have peace with one another. We are not in competition. Because He is our peace, we have peace within our hearts. If He really is our peace (and He is!) there is no reason for not having peace. “He is our peace” to all who can find peace nowhere else!


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I was reading in the works of Thomas Brooks the other day when I came across a short paragraph that thrilled my soul. My old heart said, “This is my Gospel, this is all my confidence, this is all my hope. This is the only Gospel there is for a sinner like me!”
Mr. Brooks said, “In this great charter – the covenant of grace – the Lord declares that He will require no more than He gives, that He will give all that He requires, and that He will accept what He gives; and what can God say more? And what can a gracious soul desire more?”
Dear souls, Christ is not only my Saviour, but He Himself is my salvation. He is my trust, my confidence, my hope, my peace, my rejoicing, my full, everlasting salvation – the FREE GIFT OF GOD to my poor soul! The Lord Jesus Christ is my “all, and in all” and I am “complete in Him.” - Pastor Maurice Montgomery
FREE FROM THE LAW
With regard to every believer, the law is null-and-void. It cannot accuse me of not keeping it perfectly...for Christ kept it perfectly, and united to Him, I kept the law perfectly. It cannot condemn me to eternal death…for Christ suffered the wrath of God on that cross, and united to Him, I suffered the wrath of God.
Therefore, every believer is completely free from the law – it cannot accuse me of disobedience, it cannot accuse me of eternal condemnation…for in Christ I obeyed it perfectly, and in Christ I suffered its penalty, and it has nothing more to say to me… “Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ” (Romans 7:4).
Does this then mean I can be indifferent to how I conduct myself before men and before God? Not at all! The rest of Romans 7:4 reads, “That ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.” The believer is now married to Christ, in love with Christ, and brings forth the fruit of love to God, to His people, and to all men. Not until we are made free from the law, are we then made free to love. – Brian DuFour


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Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were a present far too small
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
- Isaac Watts