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The Righteousness Of God

Psalm 143

What do you know about the righteousness of God?

Not only His personal and essential righteousness, but the righteousness and holiness He requires of all who would “see the Lord,” and the righteousness He has purchased and provided for them?

I can show you from the Scriptures the awful and awesome importance of the subject.

The very NAME of our Redeemer is, “THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.”

“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)

The heart and essence of the gospel is to reveal THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” (Romans 1: 16-17)

Our Lord’s being made sin and dying on the cross for us was in order that we might be made, “THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM.”

“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 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: 20-21)

The Apostle pronounces all religious people unsaved who are ignorant of THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD and who are seeking to establish their own righteousness. “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” (Romans 10: 1-4)

“For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5: 20)

“Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,” (Romans 4: 6)

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

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

Click here to listen to the message “Quickened For Christ’s Name Sake” (29:38 minutes)

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 8 May, 2022 | Previous post date: n/a | Pikeville, Kentucky

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Growing In Grace

“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.” | Ephesians 2: 8-9

In this blessed verse Paul gives us six things concerning God’s grace in Christ that we must consider in order to begin to understand it.

  1. GRACE has been defined as “unmerited favor.”
  2. If grace is unmerited, then none can claim it as a right.
  3. If GRACE is “unearned and undeserved,” then none are entitled to it.
  4. If GRACE is a “gift,” then none can demand it.
  5. If GRACE is a “free gift” then, God has the right to bestow it upon whom He will. (Don’t you give gifts to whom you want?)
  6. If salvation is by GRACE then, the very chief of sinners, the worst of the worst, is not beyond the reach of Divine mercy.
  7. Because salvation is by GRACE, boasting is excluded and God gets all the glory.

    “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.” (Ephesians 1:6)

    ~ Pastor David Eddmenson

    Click here to listen to the message “Growing In Grace” (31:26 minutes)

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    Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 30 June, 2024 | Previous post date: n/a

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    The Miracle Of Salvation

    ”Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” | Romans 3: 19

    The Lord Jesus Christ performed many miracles while upon this earth.

    He cast out devils, healed lepers, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf; He raised the dead.

    While these miracles certainly prove Him to be the Christ, they are also illustrations of how the Lord saves sinners.

    Every sinner the Lord saves, is all these things… possessed by a devil, a sinful leper, deaf, dumb, blind and dead in sin.

    Salvation is a miracle of God’s sovereign grace and power.

    Nothing more or less can save a sinner but the power of Christ; the Word Truth, the gospel.

    May the Lord be pleased to perform a miracle today.

    ~ Pastor Paul Mahan

    Click here to listen to the message “What The Law Saith” (16:54 minutes)

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    Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 15 June, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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    Christ’s Atonement

    ”These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” | John 17: 1-3

    Some people love the doctrine of universal atonement because, they say, “It is so beautiful. It is a lovely idea that Christ should die for all people on the earth.”

    They say, “Universal atonement commends itself to the instincts of human nature; there is something in it that is beautiful.”

    I admit there are some times when beauty may be associated with error; but while natural men admire the doctrine of universal atonement, I will show you what such a supposition involves.

    1. If Christ on the cross intended to save every person by His death, then He intended to save people who were already dead and in eternal condemnation; for there were myriads already cast away because of their sins for which (you say) He died.
    2. If it were our Lord’s intention to save all people, how deplorably has He been disappointed; for we have His own testimony, “Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and MANY THERE BE WHICH GO IN THERE AT.”
    3. To imagine for a moment that our Lord was the substitute for the sins of all men and that God, the Father, having poured out His wrath on their substitute, afterwards will punish the sinners themselves for the same sins for which Christ died, seems to conflict with ideas of divine justice. In fact, to hold that Christ offered an atonement and satisfaction for the sins of all men, and that some of those people will be condemned for those same sins, appears to be monstrous inequity! God forbid that we should attribute such conduct to our just and wise God!

    ~ Charles H. Spurgeon

    Click here to listen to the message “Christ’s Prayer and Work” (15:30 minutes)

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    Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 15 June, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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    Blasphemous Modern Preaching

    ”For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?” | Malachi 2: 16-17

    Modern preaching in mainstream religion is this: ‘God loves you and wants to save you if you will let him, and he sent Jesus to die for your sins. So if you will accept him as your personal savior and start living right and coming to church, you will be saved.’

    This is the so-called gospel of every false preacher and false church throughout the world.

    That false gospel is not only blasphemous and dishonoring to God and His Son, but is completely contrary to the Word of God and the Truth of the Gospel.

    It is also contrary to good sense.

    “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1: 21)

    What kind of ‘god’ is he, who wants to do something but cannot because puny man won’t let him?

    That’s no ‘God’ at all, but a pathetic failure and an idol.

    If I am more powerful than him, I am more god than he is.

    “Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.” (1 Corinthians 13: 8)

    What kind of god is he who needs to be ‘accepted’ by mortals?

    Man is the one on trial, not God.

    It is up to God to accept man, not vice versa.

    And what kind of love is it that is helpless to do anything for me, or worse yet, stands by while I am perishing and will not save me?

    Why, my love for my child is not that weak!

    If I see her fall, I go pick her up.

    If I see her in danger, I go save her from it.

    And if the blood was shed for every person and some are now in hell, what good did it do?

    “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” (Hebrews 9: 12)

    Listen to what scripture says of God, Christ, His love and salvation. ‘GOD WILL WORK AND WHO SHALL LET IT?’ “Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?” (Isaiah 43: 13)

    ~ Pastor Paul Mahan

    Click here to listen to the message “Where Is The God of Judgment” (15:43 minutes)

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    Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 22 June, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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    Coming To The King

    “God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” | Galatians 6: 14

    Every believer says with Paul, ‘God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.’

    The reason we glory only in the cross of Christ is we really believe we have nothing to glory in in our flesh.

    It is nothing but sin.

    The only thing I find any real peace, joy, and comfort and rest in is in what Christ accomplished on the cross.

    When He said, ‘It is finished,’ my salvation was signed, sealed, and delivered.

    If any aspect of my salvation is dependent upon me, I have no peace.

    If it is 100% dependent upon Him… I have peace!

    Peace with what conviction we can say, ‘God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world’.

    ~ Pastor Todd Nibert

    Click here to listen to the message “Coming To The King” (34:20 minutes)

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    Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 12 August, 2018 | Previous post date: n/a

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    He Leadeth His Dear Children

    ”Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.” | 2 Corinthians 12: 14

    The silent influence of parental conduct is far greater, either for good or for evil, than most parents are aware of.

    You teach by what you say, you influence by what you do; and also by what you do not say, and do not perform.

    O parents, parents!

    Take care what you are teaching your children by your example.

    You are always influencing them for good – or evil.

    You are leading them to Heaven – or to Hell.

    Not a day passes, but you produce impressions, perhaps permanent impressions… either good or bad!

    ~ Pastor Bruce Crabtree

    Click here to listen to the message “He leadeth His dear children” (40:13 minutes)

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    Central Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 22 June, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a | Rocky Mount, Virginia

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    Unto Him

    “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.” | Jude 24-25

    This is the cry of every believing soul and the very heart of his worship of God.

    It is the perfect salvation, by a perfect Savior, to a perfect God.

    It is that a vile and wicked sinner is through the accomplished redemption of Christ made to stand faultless before the presence of a Holy God.

    Having saved such wretches as we are, He now sits at the right hand of God to insure that we never again fall.

    This is not only the heart of worship but the very heart of our faith.

    He is able.

    To top it all off Paul tells us that He performs this work with exceeding joy!

    God help us never to lose sight of Him or forget what He has done, is doing, and yet shall do for us.

    To Him be glory, majesty, dominion, and power both now and ever.

    Amen.

    ~ Pastor Darvin Pruitt

    Click here to listen to the message “Sovereignty And Unbelief” (29:00 minutes)

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    Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 5 August, 2018 | Previous post date: n/a

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    John Kent’s Dying Testimony

    “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.” | Colossians 3: 11

    We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.

    That portion cut me to the heart, while at the same time it has been my hope.

    If I am to stand by myself to give an account, I am lost forever; but it is the judgment seat of Christ.

    He is my surety and has paid all demands.

    I shall be tried there by a covenant of grace, not a covenant of works.

    Blessed be God for His great Salvation.

    I bless God that the promises of the gospel met me in all my wants, wounds, and wretchedness.

    I wish to die with “God be merciful to me a sinner” upon my lips.

    Click here to listen to the message “Appearing With Christ In Glory” (34:02 minutes)

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    Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 22 March, 2020 | Previous post date: 21 September, 2021

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    The Pity Of God

    ”Like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him” | Psalm 103: 13

    God pities His children, because they are pitiful. To pity someone, it has to come from the heart and from the affections.

    God Almighty pities His children from His heart and from His affections.

    Pity also means to have compassion, to be tenderhearted.

    Our covenant God showed His affections, His compassions and His heart in sending His Blessed Son into this world to be our Savior, to redeem us by His own blood.

    OH what love, what compassion was shown toward those for whom Christ died, to accomplish a perfect, complete salvation for His people!

    Thank God for His pity, His affections and His compassion given us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    ~ Pastor Donnie Bell

    Click here to listen to the message “An Ordered Betrayal”

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    Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 25 February, 2024 | Previous post date: n/a