CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune – I Love Thy Kingdom – p. 188)

Not what these hands have done

Can save my guilty soul;

Not what this toiling flesh has borne

Can make my spirit whole.

Thy Work alone, O Christ

Can ease the weight of sin;

Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God

Can give me peace within.

Thy love to me, O God,

Not mine, O Lord to Thee

Can rid me of this dark unrest,

And set my sprit free.

I bless the Christ of God,

I rest on love divine;

And with unfaltering lips and heart,

I call this Saviour mine!

TODAY’S SERVICES

BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. – Brother Jim Casey

• MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –

• OPENING

• CALL TO WORSHIP (above)

• HYMN – There Is Power in the Blood – p. 198

• READING – Jeremiah 17

• MESSAGE – The Spirit Must Convince – John 16:1-9

Brother Mark Pannell

• CLOSING HYMN – Depth of Mercy – p. 233

Birthdays: Jimmie Mathis – Sept. 17^th | Tony Wages – Sept. 18^th

David Alvord – Sept 20^th | David Tennyson – Sept. 23^rd

I am preaching this morning, tonight, and this Wednesday at the Thirteenth Street Baptist Church in Ashland, KY, where Brother Jim Byrd is pastor. Please pray for our services there and here – that the Lord will bless us by His grace and power in true spiritual worship.

–Pastor Bill Parker

REMINDER – SPECIAL MEETING OCTOBER 6-8 WITH PASTOR RICHARD WARMACK AS OUR GUEST SPEAKER.

“For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.”

(Psalm 38:18)

Let not these words stagger the faith of the believer in considering them as spoken by Christ. As the sinner’s Surety, He was truly made sin for His people, so the Scripture declares, yea, also a curse for them. Hence, in the eye of the law, Christ and His seed are one (Gal. 3:13; 2 Cor. 5:21).

–Robert Hawker

Many wonder how that Christ, as He is prophesied in Messianic psalms such as in Psalm 69:5, could honestly call the sins of His people His own sins. The answer is that as the Surety of His people the sinless and incorruptible Christ could truly call the sins of His people HIS because they were imputed to Him by the Father. As Christ is our Surety, we as His people can truly call His righteousness OURS because it has been imputed to us by the Father. Our sins did not become His in any other way but by imputation, but this was enough for Him to be obligated by legal debt to stand under the curse and condemnation of the law for us as our Substitute (2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 2:17). His righteousness did not become ours in any other way but by imputation, but this is enough for us to be blessed of God with all spiritual blessings in Christ. Because our sins were imputed to Christ, He was justly condemned by God and justly suffered unto death to pay our sin-debt. Because His righteousness has been imputed to us, we are justly declared not guilty by God. We are justly declared righteous in God’s sight, and we justly receive the gift of spiritual life from Him who is our life. This is a miracle of God’s grace and the heart of the true Christian Gospel. –Pastor Bill Parker

JESUS CHRIST IS THE LOGIC OF GOD

The Lord Jesus Christ is the living Word of God – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). He is the complete and final revelation of the glory of the Godhead. And if we as sinners are to know anything of God, salvation, and how to have a right relationship with God, there must be a revelation from and of the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified. The Greek word for “Word” in John 1:1 is “logos.” We derive our English word “logic” from it. There are many who claim that when the Gospel is communicated to a sinner in the power of the Holy Spirit unto salvation, logic and reason are not involved. But this is far from the truth. It is true that human logic and reasoning are not involved because as sinful human beings we are the most illogical and unreasonable beings in the universe when it comes to God and His ways. Salvation by the works and the wills of men is utter foolishness. This is why the true Gospel seems foolish to us before we are brought by God to faith in Christ and repentance of dead works (1 Cor. 1:18). But when the Holy Spirit shows us the reality of who God is, who we are, and who Christ is as the one and only way of salvation and righteousness with God, we find this truth is the only right, logical, and reasonable way for sinners to be saved and for God remain just. This is why God commands – “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isa. 1:18). This revelation of Christ as the righteousness of God in Whom sinners are saved, justified, forgiven, regenerated, and preserved is the only logical way salvation can come to sinners. –Pastor Bill Parker

GOD’S ATTRIBUTES SEEN IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST