April 25, 2010
Sundays 7:00 am Channel 27 WKYT
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
Thou dear Redeemer, risen Lamb
We love to hear of Thee
No music’s like Thy charming name
Nor half so sweet can be.
O let us ever hear Thy voice
In mercy to us speak
In our High Priest we will rejoice
The Lord our righteousness.
By His own blood Christ satisfied
The law’s exact demands
God’s love provided in His own Son
Salvation in His hands.
Christ and Him crucified our theme
While in this world we stay
We’ll cling to Christ’s own finished work
When all things else decay.
(Tune: “O For A Thousand Tongues” p. 46)
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There will be a Bible Conference at the Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount,
Virginia this Friday thru Sunday. Speakers are Greg Elmquist, Marvin Stalnaker,
and Joe Terrell. Paul Mahan is Pastor.
Birthdays
28th – Jim Murphy 30th – Linda Rutledge
30th – Carole Pruitt 1st – Bob Pruitt
“It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search out their own
glory is not glory.” - Proverbs 25:27
“Charity….. beareth all things”
I Corinthians 13:7
The word “beareth” means literally to put a roof over. It means
“to cover with silence.” If I love somebody, there are negative
things I could say about them that would be true. But I would not be loving
them in doing that. If you love somebody you seek to cover their sins, faults,
and weaknesses. Not expose them! How grateful we are for the love of Christ,
who covers our sins with His blood and His silence. Oh, for grace to never
again say one negative thing about those we love! Love covers with silence!
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All ministers of Christ and all believers in the Lord Jesus are under the
strongest and most compelling constraint to do what they do and live as they
live. They are motivated by “THE LOVE OF CHRIST” – His love
for them and their love for Him! It is not the fear of hell, nor a desire
for special rewards, nor to establish a righteousness that they engage in
worship, works of faith, and labors of love. It is Christ’s eternal
love, which led Him to redeem them by His life and death, and the love of
God for Christ and His church and kingdom which is shed abroad in their hearts
by the Holy Spirit. “All the law is fulfilled in one word – LOVE
GOD AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER” (Galatians 5:14). It is unreasonable to suggest
than an unworthy sinner, loved with an everlasting love, chosen in Christ,
redeemed by His blood, and called with a holy , heavenly calling, would disregard
the commandments of His Lord and live a selfish, self-centered, and worldly
life! “For the love of Christ constraineth us.... that they which live
should not heneceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them
and rose again.”
- Pastor Henry Mahan
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WHY IS THE GOSPEL A MYSTERY TO MOST?
Proverb 8:9
Why is the Truth such a mystery to most? Why is the Gospel so clear to the
believer, yet the world does not see it that way at all? Because Christ said,
“It is not given to them but to you it is given.” The Gospel is
a revelation, a gift, a very personal one at that. Just as you and I give
gifts to whomever we will, so it is with the unspeakable gift of a revelation
of the Truth. He reveals it to whomsoever He will. And when He reveals the
Truth, it is, “all plain to him that understandeth and right to them
that find knowledge.” (Proverbs 8:9) - Pastor Paul Mahan
DISTINCTLY
“So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the
sense, and caused them to understand the reading.” (Neh. 8:8)
The word “distinctly” has several meanings – to separate,
to disperse, to wound. Those whom God has separated unto Himself, He teaches
them the true sense of the law – that it is not a rule of life, a moral
guide, or a path to a holier life…but it is an enemy, a sentence of
death, a way of wrath – “because the law worketh wrath”
(Romans 4:15). The harder you work at trying to keep the law, the more you
draw out the wrath of God against you.
Believers know this, for God has been their teacher, and has “caused
them to understand the reading.” We now know that “the letter
(the law, and my attempt at keeping it) killeth, but the spirit (faith in
Christ who kept the law for me) giveth life.” (II Corinthians 3:6)
May God continue to teach us that we “are not under the law, but under
grace.” (Romans 6:14). – Brian DuFour
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Faith, dear reader, is neither encouraged nor discouraged by anything we find
in ourselves. It is neither encouraged by our graces, nor discouraged by our
sinfulness. Faith looks out of self and unto another, to the Lord Jesus Christ
and the perfect merits of His blood and righteousness! Nothing will afford
such encouragement to believing prayer as a sight of the Lamb on His mediatorial
throne (Rev. 5:6). No matter how desperate may be our case, how often we have
failed and fallen, how low we are sunk, it is ALWAYS the believer’s
privilege to turn unto his Redeemer and say, “Look thou upon me, and
be merciful unto me, as Thou usest to do unto those that love Thy name”
(Psalm 119:132). - Copied