“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
And the peace of God,
which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain.” Author: Joseph Terrell
Tune: Doxology 1. Come, let us sing the song of songs, The glory which to Christ belongs; The hosts of Heav'n began the strain, “Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain.”
* 2. Slain to redeem us by His blood, And makes us kings and priest to God, To cleanse from ev'ry sinful stain, “Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain.” * 3. Among a thousand hearts and songs, His sacred name fills all our tongues; All pow'r in Heav'n and earth proclaim, “Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain.” * 4. Long as I Live and when I die, This song of songs shall be my cry; And while in Heav'n with Him I reign, “Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain.” ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Sovereign, Supreme Disposal (J. C. Philpot, "Meditations on Ephesians") “And hath put all things under His (Christ's) feet, and gave Him to be the head over all things to the church," Ephesians 1:22 How vast, how numerous, how complicated are the various events and circumstances which attend the Christian here below as he travels onward to his heavenly home! But if all things are put under Jesus’ feet, there cannot be a single circumstance over which He has not supreme control. Everything in providence and everything in grace are alike subject to His disposal. There is not . . . a trial, a temptation, an affliction of body or soul, a loss, a cross, a painful bereavement, a vexation, a grief, a disappointment, a case, state or condition, which is not put under Jesus’ feet. He has sovereign, supreme disposal over all events and circumstances. As possessed of infinite knowledge He sees them; as possessed of infinite wisdom He can manage them; and as possessed of infinite power He can dispose and direct them for our good and His own glory. How much trouble and anxiety would we save ourselves, could we firmly believe, realize, and act on this! If we could see by the eye of faith that . . . every foe and every fear, every difficulty and perplexity, every trying or painful circumstance, every looked for or unlooked for event, every source of care, whether at present or in prospect are all at His sovereign disposal, what a load of anxiety and care would be often taken off our shoulders! |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The Free, Sovereign Grace of God! (Octavius Winslow, “Christ, Our Righteousness”) “Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified.” Romans 8:30 The justified sinner stands the closest to God, of any created being in the universe. Nearer to the throne of the Eternal, he cannot stand. What marvelous love! Who will dare assert that salvation is not, from first to last of free, sovereign grace! Let your eye pierce the veil which falls between earth and heaven. Behold that shining, worshiping being, standing so near to the throne of glory, bathed in the overpowering effulgence (extreme brightness) of its rays! Who is He? He was once a sinner upon earth, the vilest of his race, the dishonored of his generation, forsaken by man and abhorred of God. But Jesus found him in his lost estate, and divine love drew him, and sovereign grace rescued, pardoned, and saved him! And now washed from all his guilt by the blood, freed from all condemnation by the righteousness of Christ he stands before the throne “blameless,” a “king and a priest unto God.” Such is the great love of Jesus! And all this grace, and all this glory, and all this bliss flows from the free, sovereign grace of God!
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