Our 29th Annual Bible Conference starts this Friday at 7 PM No Service tonight or Wednesday.
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“Pilate released...Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged Him, to be crucified” (Mk. 15:15). The guilty is set free and the innocent is put to death. The great sinner is delivered and the sinless one remains bound. Barabbas is spared, and Christ is crucified. This is the manner in which God justifies the ungodly. He does it because Christ has paid what they owe. He has suffered in their place, the just for the unjust. They deserve punishment, but a mighty substitute has suffered for them. They deserved eternal death, but a glorious surety has died for them.
We are all by nature in the position of Barabbas. We are all guilty, wicked, and worthy of condemnation, but “when we were without hope” Christ the innocent died for the ungodly and now God for Christ’ sake can be just, and yet “Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.” May we never rest until we can say by faith, “Christ is mine, I deserve hell, but Christ has died for me.” -Pastor Scot Richardson
I spent over thirty years “growing in righteousness” and I now see that I had no righteousness. All my righteousness was as bloody rags. I was and am nothing but a sinner and that my only hope is in Christ. Salvation comes through faith and not through works. It is entirely the work and gift of God. It is instantaneous and complete and is obtained by looking to Christ alone, looking to his blood alone for acceptance with God.
- Wayne Stuvick
Psalm 139:17 "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them
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Have you thought what a comfort it is to have a God we can trust, a God who condescends to think on us, to consider our needs, and then supply them? What if all we had to believe in was "the laws of nature," "mother nature," "the big Guy," "a Supreme Being," or, "the man upstairs?" What if all we had to look forward to was some set of "laws" and "powers" acting apart from God? There are many who try to get away from the thought of a personal God; One who redeems, preserves, and provides for His people. The Bible declares a personal God who takes a special interest in His people, and thinks on them with a tender, gracious consideration. This is what David said, "How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!" What a blessing it is to be able to pray, "Our Father, who art in Heaven." The greatest blessing is to know God thinks on us.
- Pastor Milton Howard
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I am saddened when I think of the myriads of people who, in earnestness and sincerity, will meet today and listen to useless, graceless, Christless sermons. They will be admonished about morality and human kindness, but they will not hear of God’s free and sovereign grace. Be thankful that God has put you where you can hear about mercy for the sinful through the redemption that is in the Lord Jesus Christ.
-Pastor Jim Byrd
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The Bible is a book that records the activity of God, not man. It is not a record of man seeking and searching after God and striving to find him. It is the exact opposite. It is man going astray and God coming after him. As he came down in the garden of Eden at the beginning when man sinned, so he has been coming down ever since, and he came down supremely in the person of His only begotten Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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