CALL TO WORSHIP

(Tune – Doxology)

(Words by Pastor Gary Shepard)

Upon the high and sovereign throne,
Sits One who by Himself alone,
Has purged our sins and gone on high,
That those in Him should never die.

There at the right hand ever nigh,
Of that great Majesty on high
Amidst the creatures crying loud,
Almighty God in flesh there crowned.

Is this the One who just before,
Our sins in His own body bore,
There justly dying in our place,
For all the chosen of His grace?

Yes, it is He, the King of kings,
A full salvation now He brings;
The Victor, He now sits at rest
Forever all our Righteousness

And only those He makes to see,
Salvation by His cross made free;
Can see in Him by all expressed,
God’s grace that reigns through righteousness.

TODAY’S SERVICES – Messages by Pastor Bill Parker

BIBLE CLASS – 10:00 a.m. –

Why We Need the Righteousness of God (2) – Romans 1:22-32

MORNING WORSHIP – 11:00 a.m –

• OPENING – 1 John 5:12-13

• CALL TO WORSHIP (above)

• HYMN – Praise Him! Praise Him! – p. 442

• READING – Psalm 24

• MESSAGE – Qualified, Delivered, & Forgiven – Col. 1:12-14

• CLOSING HYMN – Thank You, Lord – p. 221

Debbie and I will travel this week to Ashland, KY. The Lord willing, I will be back home and preaching in our service next Sunday. Please keep us in your prayers. –The Pastor

PUTTING ON CHRIST

Does Satan accuse you, that you are a sinner before God, and cursed by the law of God? The charge is just – OWN IT. Yet this need not destroy your peace of conscience. PUT ON CHRIST, your breast-plate of righteousness. “For, He was made sin for us, that we sinners might be made the righteousness of God in Him,” (2 Corinthians 5:21).“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us,” (Galatians 3:13). By Him, all who believe are completely justified, fully discharged, and perfectly acquitted from ALL things (Acts 13:39). Though “sin hath reigned unto death, yet grace reigns through the righteousness of Jesus Christ our LORD, unto eternal life” (Romans 5:21). Now why is Christ, His grace and righteousness, thus held forth to us in Scripture? Surely it is that we should so put Him on in our conscience as to answer every demand of law and justice, silence every accusation of Satan, possess peace and joy in God knowing assuredly that we have eternal life in Christ. O this living and abiding in the LORD is precious! It is living like ourselves, children of God, members of Christ, and heirs of glory! --William Mason, 1773

“For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.” (Galatians 3:27)

All who have been united to Christ by God will without fail be brought by the Holy Spirit to “put on Christ.” What does this mean? It means they will put Him on by God-given faith, which is believing in Him and trusting Him for all salvation and righteousness before God.

– Copied

“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, SEEING THAT YE HAVE PUT OFF THE OLD MAN WITH HIS DEEDS; AND HAVE PUT ON THE NEW MAN, WHICH IS RENEWED IN KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED HIM: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” (Colossians 3:8-11)

Everyone who believes in Christ has “put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him.” What does this mean? The “new man” describes what a believer is in Christ and what Christ has made him to be as a sinner saved by grace who believes in and trusts the Lord Jesus Christ for all salvation and eternal life. To put this new man on is to believe what God says of us as believers in Christ and not what we see or feel in the flesh. God’s Word to all whom He has given the gift of faith is that they are saved from sin by His grace, justified (not guilty, righteous) by His grace in Christ, sanctified by His grace in Christ, and preserved unto glory in and by Christ.