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Who Can Tame the Tongue?

“The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.” | James 3: 8

Obviously no man can tame the tongue.

I have tried to tame mine, and out come words of criticism, hurt, and self-justification.

But God can and does tame the tongue.

I cannot tame my tongue, but I want it to be tamed by the grace of God!

Lord, tame my tongue, so that the words that come out my mouth are true, gracious, kind, and encouraging.

Somebody once said that everything that passes through our lips ought to go through these three checkpoints:
1) Is it true?
2) Is it necessary to say? and
3) Is it kind?

When, by the grace of God, our words go through those three checkpoints, we are speaking with a tamed tongue.

Tamed by the grace of God.

~ Pastor Todd Nibert

Click here to listen to the message “The Tongue”

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FreeGraceRadio.com Bulletin Article date: 5 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Danville, Kentuky

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Dealing With Sin

“And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.” | Matthew 26: 75

How different from us does Christ deal with sin!

I would venture to say that Peter would never have been allowed to preach had we been in the Lord’s place. Or if he had, our confrontation with Peter would likely have made Peter unwilling to preach.

There is no question that this confrontation with Peter was because of Peter’s denial. But it is interesting to note that the Lord never once mentioned Peter’s denial. He did not ask Peter to rehearse his crime. Neither did the Lord require Peter to resolve to do better. Peter’s resolve had not helped him before and it would not likely help him later. Nor do we find our Lord laying out a plan of action for Peter so that he will not fail in the future.

Our Lord went straight to the heart of it with a simple question, “Peter, do you love me?”

With that question asked three times, our Lord forgave Peter’s sin, cleared his conscience, fit him for service and revealed to us the strongest resistance to sin.

I would be willing to bet that every time after that when Peter was tempted to deny the Lord for fear, he remembered the Master’s question, “Peter do you love me.”

No whip of law or fear of punishment, just simple love.

~ Pastor John Chapman

Click here to listen to the message “Peter Denies Knowing Christ”

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FreeGraceRadio.com Bulletin Article date: 4 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Danville, Kentuky

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Jesus Christ Is The Alpha and Omega

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” | Revelation 1: 8

What glorious, powerful and true statement this scripture proclaims.

The Lord Jesus Christ is sum and substance, the beginning and the ending of all the Holy Scriptures. The whole message of the Bible is all about the person and work of Christ from Genesis to the Revelation. (Luke 24: 27; Luke 24: 44; John 5: 39; Acts 10: 43)

The Lord Jesus Christ Himself is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end of all the law of God. He is the law giver and the very one who fulfilled every demand of the law for His people. (Isaiah 42: 21; Matthew 5: 17; Romans 10: 4; Galatians 3: 13)

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end of all creation. He is the one that created all things by the word of His power and sustains all things. (Colossians 1: 16) He is the one that will end this world and create a new heaven and earth wherein dwells righteousness. (John 1: 1-3; 2 Peter 3: 10-13)

The Lord Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending of all our salvation. (Colossians 3: 11) It starts with Him from eternity past (Revelation 13: 8) and is carried out to its full completion in eternal glory. (Romans 8: 29-30; Philippians 1: 6)

What a glorious Lord we serve.

He is the Lord God Almighty who was, who is and who is to come; there is no other. (Revelation 4: 8; Revelation 4: 11-17; Isaiah 45: 5-7)

Our Lord Jesus Christ never changes in His character, purpose and glory. (Malachi 3: 6; Hebrews 13: 8)

He is the only Just God and Saviour. (Isaiah 45: 21-22; Romans 3: 24-26)

He is the very Saviour and Redeemer that we urgently need and must have and the only one the God has provided for us. (Genesis 22: 14; Acts 4: 12; Philippians 4: 19)

~ Pastor Tom Harding

Click here to listen to the message “Who Is Accounted Worthy?”

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 31 October, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky =mahan

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CONCERNING SPIRITUAL GIFTS

”Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.” | 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11

Those who are chosen by God’s grace, redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ and quickened and made alive by the Holy Spirit have no reason to boast of any personal achievement.

The apostle Paul uses this powerful phrase, “no man” two times in one verse to exclude any from exalting the deeds of the flesh. We were ignorant Gentiles, carried away unto dumb and dead idols, until the grace of God set us free in Jesus Christ our Lord. (Ephesians 2: 11-13)

Consider these three statements:

All that every believer knows; God, in His mercy taught us! The gospel of God’s grace and glory is not something that the natural and carnal mind reasons out. The gospel must be revealed by the Holy Spirit. Salvation is not by education, but rather by revelation. The world by wisdom does not know God. (1 Corinthians 1: 21) God, the Holy Spirit must take the things concerning Jesus Christ and shew them unto us, or we will never understand the true gospel. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit” (1 Corinthians 2: 9-10)

All that every believer has; God, in His love gave us! There is not a single spiritual blessing that the believer enjoys that has not been freely given to us. (1 Corinthians 1: 30) We are justified freely by His grace. (Romans 3: 24) God has loved His people freely in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. (Hosea 14: 4) Although all the spiritual blessings are freely given to us, they came at a great price to our Lord. He fully paid our sin debt with a great price, His own blood. (Acts 20: 28) “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8: 32)

All that we are; God, in His grace made us! By nature we are born in sin and shapen in iniquity. (Psalm 51: 5) By His grace we have been made trophies of His love and mercy. (Ephesians 2: 4-8) Every believer can truly say with the apostle Paul, “by the grace of God I am what I am” (1 Corinthians 15: 10) We are saved from our sin by His grace. (Romans 4: 16) We are redeemed from the curse of the Law through Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3: 13)

Therefore every believer can rightly boast of what God has done for us through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Salvation is all of God’s grace, all in Christ Jesus and all for His glory.

We say with the apostle, “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Galatians 6: 14)

~ Pastor Tom Harding

Click here to listen to the message “Salvation Is Of The Lord”

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FreeGraceRadio.com Bulletin Article date: 3 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Danville, Kentuky

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The Full Sum of Our Preaching

”For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;” | 1 Corinthians 1: 22-23

Times have changed but men have not.

Most religionists still seek signs, tongues, feelings, and experiences.

The other camp of religionists still seek wisdom, intellectualism, and philosophy.

But God’s preachers PREACH CHRIST.

They know Christ, love Christ, and desire that others know Him.

Such a vast, infinite, and heavenly gospel can never be exhausted; so, we preach Christ today and tomorrow, as our first and last message, and as the full sum of our theology.

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “They That Wait”

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“That’s Dangerous Doctrine!”

”Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?” | Hebrews 10: 29

How often I have heard those words from preachers who are trying to excuse their compromise of the gospel and persuade others to be less dogmatic in their assertions of gospel truth.

When we preach the believer’s absolute security in Christ “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” (John 10: 28) the Arminian cries, “That’s dangerous doctrine!”

If we assert God’s sovereign election “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love” (Ephesians 1: 4) the free-willer cries, “That’s dangerous doctrine!”

As soon as we affirm the believer’s freedom from the law “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace” (Romans 6: 14) the legalist cries, “That’s dangerous doctrine!”

When we declare the eternal justification of God’s elect in Christ “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 works monger cries, “That’s dangerous doctrine!”

Understand this: – No truth of God is dangerous!

All truth is blessed, delightful, and encouraging to the faith and holiness of God’s elect.

In over 40 years of pastoring I have heard many excuses for the ungodly acts of men. But I have never heard even one believer attempt to justify any evil thing by the doctrine of God’s free and sovereign grace in Christ!

Those who suggest that free grace is dangerous or will promote licentiousness, simply know nothing of the grace of God.

~ Pastor Don Fortner

Click here to listen to the message “The Most Hideous Doctrine In The World”

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 31 October, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky

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He Has Made Him Sin

”For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” | 2 Corinthians 5: 21

The Lord Jesus being made sin for us must extend beyond the idea of the imputation of our sin to Him.

We would never be made the righteousness of God in Christ as a result of His being merely charged with our sin. No, He must also suffer for those sins. He must not merely bear our sins, but must bear them on the tree of curse and punishment. To bear the sins of someone else and suffer in their place is the very definition of a sin offering, so we understand Paul to mean that the sinless Christ was made a sin offering for sinful us. Paul’s words are essentially the same as the prophet Isaiah in 53: 10 of his prophecy, “…you shall make his soul an offering for sin.”

In the original Hebrew the word “offering” does not appear, for, in the language of the old testament, the word for sin and the word for the offering to put it away are one and the same.

Nor is our being made the righteousness of God in Christ merely an act of imputation.

In the case of our being “made” the righteousness of God, the word signifies a change in the very essence of a thing. In being made a sin offering, Christ’s status before God was changed, as the word signifies; but His essence remained unchanged. But, in being made the righteousness of God, our very essence is changed.

Christ’s sacrificial death did not make us the righteousness of God in Him, but opened the door to the other works of God’s grace which do, indeed, make us the righteousness of God.

Christ’s work for us made possible God’s work in us.

Thus, beginning with the New Birth and finishing with our glorification to be like Christ, we are quite literally made into something different from what we were at our natural birth: our nature is changed by God.

When in glory, we shall not be righteous only by a legal act of imputation, but we shall be essentially righteous, even as the Lord Jesus Christ is righteous. And even now, the born again child of God possesses a new nature called spirit – the restored image of God – which is flawless in every respect. It is the beginning of the New Creation and bears the image of the One Who made it. It is incapable of sinning, for it is the offspring of its Perfect Creator.

The child of God – who still finds no good thing in his flesh – is yet flawless in his spirit; and in those things the spirit does, he acts without sin.

~ Pastor Joe Terrell

Click here to listen to the message “The Judgment Seat of Christ”

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FreeGraceRadio.com Bulletin Article date: 3 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Danville, Kentuky

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Some Basic Facts

“The Bible is the word of God” | 1 Timothy 3: 16

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.

It contains no error whatsoever.

We do not derive our doctrine from men nor denominations.

The Bible is our rule of faith and practice.

“To the Law and the testimony; if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them” (Isaiah 8: 20)

Christ Is The Gospel.

He is both the subject and the object of the gospel. It is about Him (Romans 1: 1-3) and for His glory. (Colossians 1: 18) “Christ is ALL” are the words of scripture. (Colossians 3: 11)

He is ALL in the scriptures, ALL to God, ALL in salvation, and ALL to every believer. The SURE and ONLY HOPE of every child of God is wrapped up in the PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST. Salvation is caused by the work of Christ, His effectual atonement for His people, (Matthew 1: 21) and experienced by knowing and bowing to the Lordship of Christ. (John 17: 2-3)

Every aspect of salvation from the beginning (election) to the end (glorification) is all of God’s grace!

Salvation is not what you do for God but what He does for you.

No part of salvation can be ascribed to man.

To credit any part of salvation to the religious efforts, good works, or free will of man is to DENY salvation by grace. “Salvation is of the Lord” (Jonah 2: 9) “By grace are ye saved through faith, and that no of yourselves; it is the gift of God; not of works lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2: 8-9)

Christ and his salvation is not received by doing but by believing.

“This is the work of God, that ye BELIEVE ON HIM Whom He hath sent.”

Anyone who trusts Christ for salvation will be saved.

“The just shall live by faith.”

~ Pastor Todd Nibert

Click here to listen to the message “Him With Whom We Have to Do”

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FreeGraceRadio.com Bulletin Article date: 2 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Danville, Kentuky

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The Foundation Of God Stands Sure

”Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods. Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD. For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.” | Psalm 97: 7-9

“He that is of God heareth God’s word”(John 8: 47)

Sometimes we get so frustrated and depressed because men and women deny the truth which is so evident and reject the counsel of God so plainly declared in His Word. Well, I can tell you this; if a person belongs to God by eternal election, has been born of God by divine regeneration, and is truly indwelt by the Holy Spirit of truth, he will hear God’s Word and receive it with affection, reverence, and obedience!

“His commandments are not grievous” (1 John 5: 3)

It is more profitable and enjoyable to love than to hate, to forgive than to hold a grudge, to smile than to quarrel, to behave kindly than to act ugly.

The way of the transgressor is hard, not the way of the believer.

The life of faith and love is the good life.

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “The Foundation Of God Stands Sure”

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 31 October, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky

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OUR REDEEMER

”As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is His name, the Holy One of Israel” | Isaiah 47: 4

We often use the terms “particular redemption” and “limited atonement” as we preach the gospel of Christ.

If we indeed use these terms scripturally we are saying, all for whom Christ died shall be saved, no more – no less. The word of God sets forth this grand and glorious truth from beginning to end.

However, living faith, the faith that God Almighty gives in regeneration is not in this doctrinal point, or in any doctrinal point. Saving faith has for it’s Object the Redeemer, rather than any work that He wrought.

There is a difference.

The Bible does not say, “Believe in particular redemption and thou shalt be saved”. The Bible says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved”. We often hear folks say, “I came to the doctrines of grace”. Our redeemer said, “Come unto me”.

What I am saying is this, the Lord Jesus Christ alone is our redeemer.

In him alone is all truth revealed.

We trust the one who redeemed, he who made eternal redemption efficacious.

Those who know Christ, believe on Christ, look to Christ and trust Christ for all their salvation, believe he accomplished eternal redemption for them and all for whom he died.

But, as for our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

We labour to preach Christ and all truth in Him. It is he that adorns all truth with his glorious Person. We desire to point sinners to Christ, in whom alone is life.

I fear that many may find a false security ( as once I did ) in having arrived at and giving mental accent to some doctrinal truth rather than having a living faith in a living person, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I realize that some will disagree with me and say I am confusing the issue. However, salvation is not in what we know and believe, salvation is in “the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world”.

As for me there is no argument or debate, Christ Jesus is my Redeemer – “For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth” (Job 19: 25)

~ Pastor Tommy Robbins

Click here to listen to the message “The Exaltation of Christ”

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FreeGraceRadio.com Bulletin Article date: 1 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Danville, Kentuky