{"id":3236,"date":"2015-03-28T10:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T10:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2015-03-28T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T10:25:44","slug":"bulletin-edition-248-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3236","title":{"rendered":"Bulletin Edition #248 March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
God chose an elect people before the foundation of the world and gave them to Christ to redeem. Christ became what they were, yet without sin and lived perfectly and died in their place, being made sin for them. The Spirit of God called and caused them to hear the preaching of the Gospel. He saved them, He keeps them, and He will one day glorify them. Sounds to me like God should receive ALL THE GLORY. David Eddmenson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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CHRIST CRUCIFIED<\/strong>
\nThe preaching of Christ Jesus and Him crucified is hated by this religious world. But those who believe, and are saved, love it with a perfect love. It is our only hope, our Salvation. If we compromise on this to please the people of our day, we compromise the Gospel, and make the death of our Lord Jesus Christ of none effect. We have no Salvation. We have no hope. We will stand before a thrice Holy God with a hope only in what we can do to satisfy His justice. We will be obligated to pay our sin debt with the works of the flesh, while the Scriptures declare that, \u201cBy the works of the flesh shall no man be justified in His sight.\u201d What hope is there in this? None whatsoever. \u2013 Unknown<\/p>\n

THE SUBJECT OF THE FIRST BIBLE CONFERENCE
\n<\/strong>The closest thing we have to a Bible Conference in the New Testament is what took place in Acts 15. Some men from the church in Jerusalem came down to the churches in Galatia. Luke does not call them brethren, but \u201cCertain men\u201d. They came with this message to the Gentile believers, \u201cExcept ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.\u201d Paul said of these same people, \u2018There rose up a certain sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying that it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.\u201d The apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. And what was the matter they were considering? How much of salvation is by grace? How eloquently Peter answered the question when he said to those who would bring works in, \u201cWhy tempt ye God, to put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? But we believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they\u201d (Acts 15:10-11). Notice, Peter does not say that the Gentiles will be saved the same way the Jews will be saved. He says the Jews will be saved in the precise same way the Gentiles will be saved. The only way a Gentile can be saved is by 100% grace, even the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Electing, justifying, redeeming, life giving, preserving, glorifying grace. How much of salvation is by grace? All of it! This is the theme of every Grace Bible Conference. Todd Nibert<\/p>\n

For Me a Worm- Octavius Winslow.
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\n“The Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins” Galatians 1:3-4
\n“He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins” 1 John 2:2<\/p>\n

O what an astonishing truth is this! The Son of God offering Himself up a sacrifice for sin! He who knew no sin \u2014 who was holy, harmless, and undefiled \u2014 not one thought of evil in His heart \u2014 yet made sin, or a sin offering! O the magnitude of the thought! If God Himself had not declared it, we could not have believed it, though an angel’s trumpet had announced it.<\/p>\n

O blessed and adorable Immanuel! Was this the end and design of Your intense and mysterious sufferings? Was it that You should obey, bear the sin, endure the curse, and bow Your head in death \u2014 that I might go free? Was it in my stead, and in my behalf?<\/p>\n

O unexampled love! O infinite and free grace! That God should become incarnate \u2014 that the Holy One should so take upon Him sin, as to be dealt with by stern justice as though He were Himself the sinner \u2014 that He should drain the cup of wrath, give His back to the smiters, endure the shame and the spitting, and at last be suspended upon the cross, and pour out His last drop of most precious blood \u2014 and all this for me! For me a rebel! For me a worm! For me the chief of sinners! Be astonished, O heavens! and be amazed, O earth! Was ever love like this?<\/p>\n

“The Son of God, who loved me \u2014 and gave Himself for me!” Galatians 2:20<\/p>\n

DOCTRINES OF GRACE OR DOCTRINE OF GRACE?
\n<\/strong>If total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and the perseverance of the saints make up what is called the doctrines of grace, they are just that: doctrines. It is not without significance that every time the word \u201cdoctrines\u201d is used in Scripture, it always refers to false doctrine. Doctrines do not grip my soul. I may give assent to them and agree they are in the Bible. But, if I do not see them as necessary to my salvation, necessary to preach, and necessary to hear, this is a head knowledge of the Truth, without really believing it.
\nIt is not the doctrines of grace but the Doctrine of grace. The only doctrine that excludes all others. The only doctrine that tells how a sinner can be saved. The only doctrine that gives God all the glory. It could just as easily be called the Doctrine of need. For me to be saved, I need what the Doctrine of grace declares, and I need to hear the Doctrine of grace preached. If I can be satisfied with anything else, I really do not understand the Doctrine of grace at all.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Todd Nibert.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt shall be well with the righteous\u201d \u2013 Isaiah 3:10
\nIn spiritual things – all your temptations, all your darkness, all your wanderings – God will overrule. It shall be well with you. There shall never be a night, but that morning shall come; there shall never be a day of trouble, but a day of prosperity shall follow; there shall never be an emptying, but there shall be a filling; there shall never be a bringing down, but that He will raise you up again. Let it be either darkness or light, sorrow or grief, night or day, life or death, time or eternity, \u201cIt shall be well with the righteous.\u201d
\n– Pastor Scott Richardson<\/p>\n

A wonderful text!
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\nThe following is from Spurgeon’s, “Christ’s
\nIncarnation, the Foundation of Christianity”<\/p>\n

That is a wonderful text in Galatians 1:4,
\ndid you ever meditate upon it?
\n“Who gave Himself for our SINS…”<\/p>\n

Jesus never gave Himself for our RIGHTEOUSNESS,
\nbut He did give Himself for our SINS!<\/p>\n

Sin is a horrible evil, a deadly poison, yet
\nit is this which gives Jesus His title of Savior
\nwhen He overcomes it. What a wonder this is!<\/p>\n

The first link between my soul and Christ is-
\nnot my goodness, but my badness;
\nnot my merit, but my misery;
\nnot my standing, but my falling;
\nnot my riches, but my need.
\nHe comes to visit His people, yet not to admire
\ntheir beauties, but to remove their deformities;
\nnot to reward their virtues, but to forgive their sins.<\/p>\n

Fully, Entirely and Perfectly!
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\n“You Shall Call His Name Jesus: For He WILL SAVE
\nHis People From Their Sins.” Matthew 1:21<\/p>\n

JESUS is nothing at all if He is not a SAVIOR.
\nHe is anointed to this very end. His very Name is a
\nsham if He does not SAVE His people from their sins.<\/p>\n

This Jesus of Nazareth, the King of kings, and Lord of
\nLords, is the one and only Savior. He, and none but He,
\nshall save His people. He, and not another, shall save
\nthem by His own act and deed. Singly and unaided, He
\nshall save His people. Personally, and not by another,
\nin His own Name, and on His own behalf, He shall, by
\nHimself, purge away His people’s sins.<\/p>\n

He shall do ALL the work, and leave none of it undone;
\nHe shall begin it, carry it on, and complete it; and
\ntherefore is His Name called Jesus, Savior, because He
\nShall Fully, Entirely, and Perfectly, Save His People
\nfrom Their Sins!<\/p>\n

Jesus Christ has come to seek and to save those who were
\nlost. If He does not save, He was born in vain, for the object
\nof His birth was the salvation of sinners. If He shall not
\nbe a Savior, then His mission in coming to this earth has
\nmissed its end, for its design was that lost sinners might
\nbe saved.<\/p>\n

Lost one, lost one, if there were news that ‘an angel’ had
\ncome to save you, there might be some good cheer in it;
\nbut there are better tidings still. God Himself has come!
\nThe Infinite, the Almighty, has stooped from the highest
\nheaven that He may pick you up, a poor undone and
\nworthless worm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paul an Apostle<\/strong><\/p>\n

I remember the first job I was ever sent to oversee as a foreman. I was the new guy and the crew had been with the company quite awhile. When they arrived I gave them their directions as I was instructed by the owner. Of course, they challenged my directions. My answer to their challenge was this: You will have to take it up with the owner. That immediately settled the dispute.<\/p>\n

Paul opens his letter with a statement of his office, a statement of who sent him, and of whose will he represented in the writing of this letter. Knowing that many will take issue with the contents of the letter he basically states these things as if to say to any who challenge his doctrine: You\u2019ll have to take it up with the owner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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<\/td>\nDarvin Pruitt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

TWO FALSE REFUGES
\n<\/strong>Perhaps the two greatest false refuges that men tend to hide in are yesterday and tomorrow. We look to something we did, felt, or experienced in the past to give us some assurance that it is well with our souls today. That is a false refuge! That is looking to self instead of looking to Christ only. Faith in Christ is always in the present! The other false refuge is tomorrow. I will _____________ tomorrow. Tomorrow has to do with our intentions. Yesterday and tomorrow are about what I have done or intend to do. Both are contrary to resting in Christ. Both are false refuges!<\/p>\n

EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH ONCE DELIVERED
\nJude tells us, \u201cIt was needful for me to write to you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints.\u201d The reason it is needful is that Jude knows that our flesh will find 1001 reasons not to. We don\u2019t want to be perceived as argumentative or contentious. We grow weary of conflict. We do not want to appear to always be negative. Need I go on? These thoughts have crossed all of our minds. That is why Jude knew we needed to be encouraged in this. He knew that Satan would not grow weary in this battle. Satan will continually seek to chip away at \u201cThe faith once delivered.\u201d The faith was delivered to the Saints, as a mailman delivers a letter. The content of the faith is in all the pages of the Bible. None of it can be left out! It was \u201cOnce delivered.\u201d That means there is a perpetual validity to this message. No additions, subtractions, or modifications are needed. And we are commanded to earnestly content for it. If you love somebody, you will speak in their defense if they are slandered. We love the object of \u201cThe Faith\u201d, the Lord Jesus Christ, and cannot bear when people say that which is derogatory to Him!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Todd Nibert.<\/p>\n

Sovereign grace is God\u2019s grace<\/strong>. And God\u2019s grace is Sovereign grace. If it is not Sovereign grace, it is not saving grace.
\nSovereign grace is the truth. Sovereign grace is the message that declares the electing love of the Father, the redeeming love of the Son, and the invincible love of the Holy Spirit.
\nSovereign grace is the Gospel! Any message that does not declare the Sovereign grace of God in Christ Jesus is \u201canother gospel\u201d!
\nSovereign grace is saving grace! Even those who are supposed to know something about salvation by grace have to remind themselves again and again that salvation is not by the works of the flesh, not at all, in any way!
\nSalvation is not by reformation; salvation does not come by decision; salvation does not come through church ordinances; salvation is not ours by church membership; salvation is in Christ the Lord.
\nThat\u2019s where salvation is \u2013 not in man\u2019s purpose, not in man\u2019s plan \u2013 it is in a person. It is not in a proposition, it is not in walking an aisle, it is not in a church ordinance. It is in Christ!
\nIt is not in a law; it is not in the deeds of the flesh; salvation is in Christ! A man does not have salvation until he comes by the power of God\u2019s Spirit through faith to a living, personal, vital, intimate union with Christ as Lord.
\nA man is not a Christian until he has a vital union with Christ. A man is not a Christian until he is inseparably joined \u2013 personally joined to Jesus Christ.\u2028A man is not a Christian until Christ becomes his life. Christ in you, the hope of glory. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Henry Mahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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