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The Greatest Story Ever Told

“And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.” | Genesis 22: 7-8

The Character and Covenant of Christ Render Salvation Certain

The common delusion of the day in which we live is to think of and speak of Christ as if He were merely a Saviour who had done all He could to save all mankind, but after all, had left it quite uncertain whether any will be eventually saved; whereas, His official character (Prophet, Priest, King, Messiah, Redeemer, Mediator, Covenant Head, Surety, Lord), and consequent covenant engagements, render the salvation of all His church a matter of infallible certainty.

~ Joseph Irons

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Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 17 October, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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IN CHRIST HIMSELF

“That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” | Ephesians 1: 10-11

The Holy Spirit does not reach after something novel, new, nor spectacular in order to glorify Christ or to preach Christ to men.

He does not need tongues, fleshly emotion, bodily healings, and creature fame and importance in order to bring glory to Christ and call out His sheep.

He finds Christ’s glory IN CHRIST HIMSELF!

If we want to honor Christ, glorify Christ, and preach Christ, we must not look for something outside of Christ; but we must honor Him by preaching that which is His already – His deity, His person, His man-hood, His life, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, His intercession, His return!

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 7 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Ewing, New Jersey

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The Righteousness of Faith

“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” | Romans 10: 4

If all our works were perfect and we expected salvation thereby, we would still be living in total unbelief, because the end of every precept of God’s holy law is that we believe on his precious Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

~ Pastor Clay Curtis

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 7 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Ewing, New Jersey

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The Power of Darkness & Power of God

”Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.” | Psalm 119: 9

What does God’s word say about me?

Psalms 51: 5 says Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. In Romans 7 Paul says, For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing. If a man is honest with himself he cannot deny that statement. Romans 7: 24 O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? We, like King Belshazzar, have been weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

What does God’s word say about God?

Genesis 1: 1 says In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. God is Holy, he is everything that we are not. Psalm 115: 3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. There is one God, he is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end of all things. God is that which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. God changeth not, Hebrews 13: 8 says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and forever. God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. We have sinned against God and that sin must be punished. The wages of sin is death. Romans 5: 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

Does God’s word say if I have any hope?

Ephesians 2: 4-5 says this, But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. Lamentations 3: 22 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. The sinners hope is in Christ Jesus. Apart from his grace and mercy can no one be saved. 2 Corinthians 5: 21 says 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.

How can I enter into this hope?

Mathew 19: 26 tells us With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Ephesians 2: 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. In Acts, Paul and Silas told the Phillipian jailor Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Consider those people who were bitten by the fiery serpents back in Numbers. They lay there dying, unable to do anything about their condition. Moses interceded for the people and made that serpent of brass and set it upon a pole. And it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

That’s how we enter into this hope, by God’s grace he enables us to look and live.

The Lord makes us like old blind Bartimaeus and we cry Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me!

“It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.” (Lamentations 3: 26)

~ Brady Floyd

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Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 17 October, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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Spiritual Plenty in Temporal Famine

“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.” | John 6: 32

The error of the Jews here should be a warning to us.

They thought Moses gave them the manna. But it was God and not Moses. He was only the humble instrument. They ought to have looked through the instrument to God. But the eye rested, where it is ever so prone to rest–on the human medium.

The Lord here leads them to look beyond the human instrument to God–“Moses gave you not that bread… but my Father,”

O what creatures of sense we are.

We live so much in the outward and visible, as almost to forget there is anything beyond. All that we gaze upon here is but the avenue to what eye hath not seen, nor ear heard…

Thus should we ever look through nature, to nature’s God.

Thus shall we enjoy God’s gifts, when they lead us up to Him; and then shall we not make idols of them, and so run the risk of their removal.

Everything in nature and providence is but the “Moses” between us and God. Let us not be like the Jews of old, so taken up with Moses as to forget the “greater than Moses,” from whence they all proceed.

~ A.W. Pink

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 7 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Ewing, New Jersey

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After His Kind

”And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good” | Genesis 1: 24-25

I have observed that animals are most comfortable when they are with their kind. Over the years, I have noticed the same in people.

When people are in their comfort zone, it is when they are with people like themselves. The World enjoys the company of the world, because they are with their kind – sons of darkness.

Believers are in their comfort zone when they are with other Believers, the reason being, they are with their kind – sons of God.

When the World and Believers are together, both are out of their comfort zone, why? Because they are not with their kind. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3: 6)

When people see me, which kind do they see me the most comfortable with? – That’s who I am. –

~ Pastor John Chapman

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Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 17 October, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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IS THE LAW SIN?

“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.” | Romans 6: 14-15

If I measure a crooked wall with a perfect plumb line, it reveals the crookedness of the wall, but does not remove it.

If I take out a bright light on a dark night, it reveals to me all the pitfalls and hindrances, but it does not remove them.

Now the plumb line and the lamp do not create the evils which they point out. They neither create nor remove, but simply reveal.

So it is with the law.

It does not create the evil in man’s heart; neither does it remove it. But with unerring accuracy, it reveals it.

What shall we say then?

Is the law sin? God forbid!

~ Pastor Scott Richardson

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 7 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Ewing, New Jersey

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THE WORK OF GOD

“Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” | John 6: 28-29

Notice that they asked about the “works of God.”

The depraved sinner thinks God requires many and great “works” to be done on the part of the sinner.

The taller the works, the wider the works, the more demanding the works, and the sinner will go after them with both hands.

But when told that God is not looking to the sinner’s many wonderful works, but that this is “the work of God” — to believe on him whom he hath sent – the sinner finds that to believe on Christ, and part with his own self-righteousness, is entirely beyond his ability to perform.

~ Pastor Clay Curtis

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 7 September, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Ewing, New Jersey

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BEING JUSTIFIED FREELY

“Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” | Romans 3: 24

What does it mean to be justified?

I am sure that there have been many definitions given and I by no means can fully expound all that is involved in sinners being justified before God. However, I am sure that it means to be eternally pardoned from all sin by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 1: 18)

It means to be acquitted and vindicated of all charges before the holy justice of God. (Jude 24)

It means to be made and regarded righteous in God’s sight. (Colossians 1: 21-22)

How are sinners justified?

By God as the source, “It is God that justifieth.” (Romans 8: 33)

By grace as the spring and fountain, “Justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3: 24)

By Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and blood atonement as the ground, “Being now justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him.” (Romans 5: 9)

By His resurrection as the proof and evidence, “Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.” (Romans 4: 25)

By faith as the means to receive this salvation in Christ, “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” (Romans 5: 1)

~ Pastor Tom Harding

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 3 October, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky

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Spiritual Growth By The Word

“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” | 1 Peter 2: 2

One certain evidence of spiritual life is growth.

The grace of God that brings salvation causes one to “grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Spiritual life is the life of faith, and “faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.” And it is not just ‘reading the bible’ but feeding on Christ. He said, “except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood ye have no part in me.” That is faith in Christ. And that faith cometh by the hearing and reading of God’s Word.

The Word of God (gospel) is the seed that is sown in the heart and soul, bringing forth new and spiritual life. The Word of God is the food of that new soul, causing it to grow and bring forth fruit. God’s Word is called milk (for babes), meat (for strong men and women), bread, butter, honey… FOOD for the nourishment and growth of our spiritual bodies.

Just as poor diet, bad food and vices can stunt physical growth, leaving one weak and sickly; a poor diet of God’s Word, lack of hearing the preached Word, lack of fellowship, and the things of this world can stunt the growth of a believer.

Would it not be well to start the day with God’s Word?

Would it not be a good thing to supply our minds, hearts and souls with good food to go on? (Rather than fill them with junk.)

“Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.” And even more important than the reading of the Word is the hearing of the Word preached. It is like a double portion of food; a many course meal of good food for the soul, already prepared for you. You need only come with hunger and dine. The soul who comes to the gospel table often will be fat and prospering; while the one who stays away will have leanness of soul.

“Desire the sincere milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby.”

~ Pastor Paul Mahan

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Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 3 August, 2014 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia