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On The Death of Christ

“Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant! And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.” | 2 Samuel 9: 6-7

Christ did not die to win our sympathy, nor did He die to win our friendship.

He died so that a holy God could save our souls.

He died so that “GOD COULD BE JUST AND THE JUSTIFIER OF THE UNGODLY.”

His death is not a PATTERN but a PAYMENT.

His death is not an EXAMPLE, but an ATONEMENT.

His death does not REVIVE US, but it REDEEMS US.

If you are not saved, it is not because His blood is not sufficient nor does not have the power to save, but because you reject this remedy.

God will not pardon without satisfaction by the blood of Christ.

If you ever see this “Fountain opened,” you will cry with the woman of Samaria, “Give me this water, that I thirst no more.”

~ Pastor Milton Howard

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FreeGraceRadio.com Bulletin Article date: 16 April, 2012 | Previous post date: n/a | Danville, Kentucky

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EXCEPT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS BE PERFECT

“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

Beloved, it is by the doing and dying of Christ that we are saved.

Indeed, through the death of His sin atoning blood and the life of His perfect righteousness as our substitute, we are and SHALL BE SAVED. (Matthew 1: 21) It is not enough that you have your sins forgiven, in fact you must be made the perfect righteousness of God! Through Christ, through His perfect life as a man, our Heavenly Father 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)

All the Scribes, all the Popes, all the Buddhas, Mohamed and all who follow them—all need a righteousness that exceeds their own to go to heaven; they need the perfect righteousness of Christ. Reader, God give you grace to hear and believe His Son, for without His righteousness, no one comes to the Father, as our Lord plainly tells us “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14: 6)

Beloved, it is by the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus Christ that we are saved – for if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. (Romans 5: 10)

To you who believe; rest with us, for we have received double of the Lord’s hand! Not only do we have a full and complete pardon of all our sins; much more beloved, He has removed our iniquity from us and clothed us with His perfect life; indeed His perfect righteousness. AMEN! (Genesis 3: 21; Isaiah 40: 1-2; Isaiah 54: 17; 1 Corinthians 1: 30)

~ Pastor Joseph Murphy

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 2 May, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a

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A PERFECT SACRIFICE

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” | Matthew 11: 28

God cannot have a blemished priest at His altar or a blemished sacrifice thereon. Both the priest and the sacrifice must be perfect. (Leviticus 21-22)

Now we have both the perfect Priest and the perfect sacrifice in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, He having offered Himself without spot to God.

In Him we have all that God requires, whether as the victim or the Priest.

We have all that God could require, and all that a man could need.

~ Pastor Scott Richardson

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 2 May, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a

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Do You Know The Lord?

“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.” | Titus 3: 5

I recently had someone ask me if I trusted in works. My first reaction was to say God forbid!

But I answered this way: Yes, I trust in works; but they are not my works.

I trust in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I trust in him and what he did for sinners like me. He did for me what I couldn’t do for myself. He worked out a perfect righteousness for me.

I trust Him and his work alone for all my salvation.

His works are now my works.

~ Pastor David Eddmenson

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 20 June, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a

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Christ Our Hope

“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;” | 1 Timothy 1: 1

What is hope?

Hope is expectation with a reasonable basis.

What the world calls hope is an empty wish. It’s like a child holding a present on their birthday hoping to find what they want.

But, hope in the scriptures is defined as a person: Christ in you the hope of glory. This hope comes through a Godly persuasion, “…I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” (2 Timothy 1: 2)

Also, “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8: 38-39)

The believer’s hope is not ‘I hope, I hope, I hope.’ But it is hope founded upon the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our expectations fully depend on His appointments, His coming as the God man, His obedience, His suffering, His death, His resurrection, and His present reign in glory. “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” (I John 5: 12) Paul said “he was an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior, and the Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope. (1 Timothy 1: 1)

May the Lord be pleased to make Him our hope for the glory of His own name.

~ Pastor Darvin Pruitt

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 3 January, 2021 | Previous post date: n/a 7 January, 2021

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His Resurrection and Our Regeneration

“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” | Romans 1:17

The power of God that quickened us and made us to live spiritually is, in the Scriptures, compared with that power which raised Christ from the dead.

Christ died for our sins and was raised for our justification. (Romans 4: 25) We live because He lives; and we are free from sin because our Surety, who bore our sins, is now free from them. But there is a likeness between His resurrection and our regeneration and quickening. (Ephesians 1: 19-20)

1). His resurrection is called a begetting. He is the first-begotten from the dead. Our regeneration is called a begetting. (1 Peter 1: 3)

2). His human body was lifeless in the grave, as natural men are dead in sin and without spiritual life (Romans 5: 12)

3). His human body could not raise itself, as we cannot give ourselves life. (Romans 9: 13-16; James 1: 18)

4). His resurrection was the pure, unaided work of God, as is our regeneration. (Ephesians 2: 1)

5). His resurrection led to His exaltation at the right hand of God and is where, in our representative, Jesus Christ, we are already seated. (Ephesians 2: 6)

~ Pastor Henry T. Mahan

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 20 June, 2021 | Previous post date: 1987 | Pikeville, Kentucky

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An Important Question

“Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.” | Job 33: 24

There is one ransom that delivers men from the pit of hell. God found it or provided it in “giving His only begotten Son.”

The ransom is called “the righteousness of God.”

It is the absolute and perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ to God’s holy law; obeying its precepts and suffering its penalty.

It is to that righteousness, to Christ that we must look and be saved. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”

It is upon that righteousness alone that we as believers must rest; and on that righteousness alone we must live, die, and appear before the righteous LORD God. (Isaiah 61: 10)

~ Pastor David Pledger

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 3 January, 2021 | Previous post date: 5 January, 2021

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No Sufficiency in Ourselves

“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;” | 2 Corinthians 3: 5

When will we sinners believe the Lord?

We will believe when the Lord makes us see we have nothing good in us but that Christ is All.

We will cast our care into the hand of the Lord when the Lord makes us see that we cannot provide for ourselves but that he careth for you.

We will be strong only when the Lord makes us know we are utterly weak but that Christ is all our strength.

This is so in things spiritual and temporal.

The LORD provides all.

We have no sufficiency in ourselves for anything.

~ Pastor Clay Curtis

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Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Bulletin Article date: 15 June, 2014 | Previous post date: n/a | Ewing, New Jersey

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Look And Live!

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. | Psalm 86: 3-5

Throughout the Bible that act of faith by which we receive eternal life is spoken of as a look. Like those children of Israel who were bitten by the fiery serpents had to look to the brazen serpent for life, we must look to Christ crucified for life eternal.

Salvation begins in a look. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else” (Isaiah 45: 22) We must look away from ourselves to Christ for our entire salvation.

Salvation is maintained by a look. “Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12: 2)

Salvation will end in a look. “And they shall see his face” (Revelation 22: 4)

If you hope to see the Savior’s face with joy in glory, you must look to him now.

Look, I say, look to Christ!

Look and live!

~ Pastor Don Fortner

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Zebulon Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 20 June, 2021 | Previous post date: 1987 | Pikeville, Kentucky

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I Shall Be Satisfied

“All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.” | Leviticus 13: 46

Those who have been saved are those who are “being saved.” (I Corinthians 1: 18; Philippians 2: 12, 13)

Those who have learned of Christ are those who “are learning” of Him. (John 6: 45; Matthew 11: 29)

Those who truly know the Lord are those who “desire to know Him.” (Philippians 3: 7-10)

Those who have seen the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ are those who continue to cry unto the Lord, “I beseech Thee, show me Thy glory.” (Exodus 33: 18)

These are the people who say, from the heart, “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake with thy likeness” (Psalm 17: 15)

-Pastor Maurice Montgomery

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 29 December, 2019 | Previous post date: n/a