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I Am What I Am, By The Grace Of God

“But by the grace of God I am what I am” | 1 Corinthians 15: 10

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” (Ephesians 2:8)

Until we see our sin, we will never understand, love or be thankful for God’s sovereignty, His election or His finished work of salvation.

Men and women naturally reject God’s sovereignty because they do not want to be ruled by someone else. Mankind wants to rule himself. Men and women naturally reject God’s election because they think that if God didn’t choose for them to be saved, it would be unfair and wrongful treatment to them. Men and women naturally reject God’s finished work in salvation through the blood of Christ ALONE because they pridefully and self-righteously believe that they have something good in themselves that they can add to Christ’s work.

But after sinners truly see their sin, they LOVE God’s sovereignty, because they know that their own rule over themselves has only brought absolute ruin to them. They LOVE God’s election, because they know that God’s unconditional election is the only hope that sinners like them could ever have of being saved. And they LOVE God’s finished work in salvation, because they know that there is NOTHING they could add to it but the deadness of their sin. They know that if Christ doesn’t finish the work, it’s not going to be finished!

Men and women by nature hate everything about God… until God causes them to hate everything about themselves. Once men and women truly hate what they sees in themselves, they will LOVE everything that they see in their merciful, loving, gracious Lord. At that moment, they all will confidently and humbly say: “I am what I am, by the grace of God.”

~ Pastor Gabe Stalnaker

Click here to listen to the message “The God Of Manoah And His Wife”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 23 August, 2020 | Previous post date: n/a

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KNOWING YOUR ELECTION OF GOD

“Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.” | 1 Thessalonians 1: 4

It seems that there are an increasing number of people who hear the doctrine of election and become deeply concerned with whether or not they are one of God’s elect.

That is not the issue.

The issue is, are you trusting in Christ alone for the forgiveness of sin and the imputation of perfect righteousness?

Do you think that the woman with the issue of blood who crawled to the Lord Jesus, hoping to touch but the hem of His garment, was wondering whether or not she was one of God’s elect? No! She touched Christ and was made whole. That proved that she was chosen of God before the foundation of the world.

Do you think that the dying thief on Calvary’s cross was concerned with whether or not he was chosen and elected of God before time ever was? No! He simply said, “Lord remember me when you come into your kingdom,” and that was the result of his election.

What hungry man would hesitate and say, “I wonder if it is the will and purpose of God that I should eat?” If he is hungry, he will eat.

What weary man would say, “I wonder if it is the predestinated purpose of God for me to sleep?” There are none that I know of, for a man that is tired and weary will simply fall to sleep. Sleeping and eating come as natural to us as believing God ought to.

Yet, being spiritually dead, we must first be given life in order to partake of the Bread of Life and the Water of Life, which is Jesus Christ. It is then that the sinner realizes that God chose them unto salvation before the world was ever made!

Will folks ever learn that election shuts no one out of heaven’s glory?

Actually, it is what shuts them in!

~ Pastor David Eddmenson

Click here to listen to the message “Purpose”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 26 January, 2020 | Previous post date: n/a

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Salvation Is Of The Lord

“But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD.” | Psalm 37: 39

We have all heard of putting the cart before the horse. That summarizes man’s religion.

It inverts the divine order. It makes forgiveness the end rather than the beginning of salvation.

Man’s religion says you must believe before you can have life, rather than you believe because you live.

It says God will if you will, rather than God will and you shall.

It makes man the deciding factor rather than God. Anything that has man as the deciding factor is doomed for failure.

Thank God, “Salvation is of the Lord.”

~ Pastor Todd Nibert

Click here to listen to the message “What Does The Resurrection Mean?”

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Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church Bulletin Article date: 13 September, 2020 | Previous post date: n/a

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We Preach Christ Crucified

To make a thorough study of all that is wrong with man, all of the specific consequences of the fall, would be a considerable undertaking requiring great time and effort. Yet we know that unless the Lord opened our hearts and understanding to His truth, we would yet be entirely ignorant on the subject. But if God is pleased to just show us Christ crucified, one glimpse of the Son of God at Calvary, will make us to know what we are. The horror of what we are. And that same glimpse, of that same One, will reveal how God made right all that is wrong.

For the elect of God, all that we are and all that He is, is revealed at the cross. Our condemnation, and our sure hope, in one look. We preach Christ crucified.

~ Pastor Chris Cunningham

Click here to listen to the message “Praise Ye The Lord”

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Article date: 14 January, 2018 | Previous post date: n/a