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If You Need This, This Is For You

”Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.” | Isaiah 41: 10

Are there any evidences that a person can have of being physically alive?

Yes there are… Breathing lungs, a beating heart, and a thinking mind will all be present and active.

If any of those three are absent; if the lungs no longer breathe, the heart no longer beats, or the mind no longer thinks, then it cannot be said that the person shows the evidence of life. The same can be said concerning Spiritual life.

When Spiritual life is present, the quickening breath of God’s Holy Ghost will be in the soul; faith IN and ON Christ will be in the heart; and a right view of God, man, and salvation will be in the mind.

When a continual, fervent, immediate need for Christ is within a person – the breath of God’s Spirit is in the soul.

When Christ becomes a sinner’s only hope, and only desire; when a sinner stops looking to his own works for salvation, and starts looking to Christ’s work on the cross alone – true, saving faith is in the heart. And when a sinner throws out every word but God’s word, and says: “let God be true, and every man a liar” – repentance has come to the mind.

When these things are present, God given life has come!

~ Pastor Gabe Stalnaker

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 9 February, 2020 | Previous post date: 5 May 2022

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Whosoever Will, Take It Freely

”He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.” | Psalm 62: 6

Have you any other rock but Christ?

I do not ask you whether you have a feeling of enjoyment of it. I know you will rejoice in Jesus when the Holy Spirit enables you. But have you any other refuge?

Can you go out into eternity resting upon any other rock but the Lord Jesus Christ?

Have you any other righteousness but His?

Can you lean upon, desire, or want any other than Christ’s righteousness?

“No,” says the soul, “None but Christ! None but Christ!”

Bless your poor heart, then, you shall have it as sure as God has wrought the desire in your conscience and brought you to trust alone in Jesus for refuge, for righteousness, for salvation, by stripping you of all false props and dependencies.

Such a soul as this will trust in the Lord, overcome all opposition, and be more than a conqueror through Him that hath loved him.

~ John Warburton

Click here to listen to the message “Whosoever Will, Take It Freely”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 11 February, 2018 | Previous post date: n/a

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David Encouraged Himself in The LORD His God

“And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.” | 1 Samuel 30: 6

Every child of God needs to learn to encourage himself in the LORD his God.

This is true because every child of God will at some time as he goes through this sin cursed world meet with discouragement. David was discouraged because he felt responsible for the loss of not only his family but the families of all of his men. He had led his army away from their camp, leaving them left to be prey for the Amalekites. His men who were loyal to him were so grieved for the loss of their families that they spoke of stoning him.

What does he do in such a sad situation, when he and his men were so discouraged? He turned to the LORD his God to encourage himself. None of us will ever be discouraged because of the things that discouraged David, but there are many other causes which may discourage us. We all face sickness, disappointment, loneliness, being misunderstood by family and friends, and a host of other troubles.

How did he encourage himself in “the LORD his God?”

Did he remind himself of “the tender mercies” of the LORD his God?

Did he remind himself of God’s everlasting covenant of grace?

Did he remind himself of the truth: “the LORD is my Shepherd, I shall not want?”

Did he remind himself that nothing is impossible for “the LORD his God?”

Did he remind himself that “the LORD his God” is able to bring good out of evil, which He soon did? We soon read: “David recovered all.”

We are not told how David “encouraged himself in the LORD his God,” but we do know that there is never a lack of truths in the LORD our God with which we may encourage ourselves.

~ Pastor David Pledger

Click here to listen to the message “It is Finished”

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