”Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments. Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.” | Psalm 119: 129-136

WHEREFORE

Since it is by the Word of truth that the believer is conceived…

Since it is by the sincere milk of the Word that believers grow… “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” (1 Peter 2: 2)

Since it is by the Word that believers are comforted… “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4: 18)

Since it is by the Word that believers will be confirmed unto the end… “I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.” (1 Corinthians 1: 4-9)

…the Holy Spirit gives us instruction on how brethren receive God’s Word.

BE SWIFT TO HEAR, SLOW TO SPEAK, SLOW TO WRATH

The Pharisees exhibited the opposite of these characteristics toward the Lord Jesus Christ.

The first message that the Word of truth ever preached, declared that salvation is by the sovereign, electing grace of God in Christ, in whom sinners are made complete.

“And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong” (Luke 4: 28,29)

Over the course of one day, the Pharisees attempted to entangle Christ in his words by using the Herodians, the Sadducees, and one of their own best lawyers, all of which the Word silenced.

The scribes and Pharisees claimed by their words to be doing “all for the glory of God.”

However, everything they did was in defense of their dead, rotting corpses.

Therefore they were swift to speak instead of to hear the Word of truth.

Their wrath was against Christ, the Word of truth.

“Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.” (Matthew 23: 2-3)

If we would hear God speak, we must give our full attention to his Word and put off the old dead sinner, with our vain traditions and imaginary thoughts of how sinners are saved.

“For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:” (Galatians 1: 13-16)

~ Pastor Clay Curtis

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 8 February, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Ewing, New Jersey

“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.” | 1 Timothy 3: 16

God has a will.

His understanding guides His will and His will determines all His actions. God’s will is eternal, “Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.” (Acts 15: 18) God is eternal, no new will can arise or there would be a change in God.

God’s will is unchangeable, “I am the Lord, I change not.” (Malachi 3: 6)

God’s works in time were planned in eternity. God’s will is always efficacious. It is His omnipotent will. His will is always carried out, “None can stay His hand or say unto Him what doest Thou?” (Daniel 4: 35) “My word shall accomplish that which I please and shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Isaiah 55: 11)

The will of God is not conditional, Jacob was chosen and Esau rejected before either had done any good or evil. (Romans 9: 11) The will of God has no cause outside of itself. His is the planning, the calling, and the applying and in none of this does He await the fulfilling of conditions, but rather He makes the condition.

The will of God is sovereign.

In the making of the world; the number of worlds, what is in them, how long in the making, all of this as it pleased Him. (Psalm 135: 5-6)

From spiritual things, it is, “Even so Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.” (Matthew 11: 26)

~ Pastor Henry Mahan

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 31 August, 2008 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky

“I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right. Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” | Isaiah 45: 19-22

Believer, what a Saviour God has provided for His people!

The Almighty God, (John 1: 1) yet all tender Saviour and Shepherd! (John 10: 11)

How well fitted is He to be our Great High Priest. (Hebrews 2: 17)

How sufficient is He to supply our every need. (Colossians 2: 9-10)

How complete His wisdom and grace to provide for us perfect atonement and full justification from all sin. (Hebrews 9: 12)

May God be pleased to give us a greater love, adoration, and reverence for our Saviour and Lord.

We love to sing, “Hallelujah! what a Saviour, who can take a poor lost sinner, lift him from the miry clay, and set him free!”

~ Pastor Tom Harding

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 27 December, 2020 | Previous post date: 29 December, 2020

“But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other [places] | Philippians 1: 12-13

Sooner could the ocean prove too little for a small fish or the sky be too small for a swallow than the grace of God prove insufficient for one of God’s people. Not all their weaknesses, failures or sins can use it up.

~ Pastor Joe Terrell

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 4 October, 2020 | Previous post date: n/a