{"id":6060,"date":"2021-05-23T06:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T06:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2021-05-23T06:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T06:51:24","slug":"bulletin-edition-may-2021-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6060","title":{"rendered":"Bulletin Edition May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Grace and truth came by\nJesus Christ.” \u2013John 1:17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.C.Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way to learn truth is to be much in prayer to the Lord Jesus\nChrist; as you lie upon your bed, as engaged in your daily occupation, to be\nfrom time to time looking up to the Lord himself as he sits upon his throne of\ngrace, and be begging of him to teach you himself, for he is the best teacher.\nThe words which he speaks, they “are spirit and life.” What he writes\nupon our hearts is written in characters which will “stand every storm and\nlive at last.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We forget what we learn from man, but we never forget what we\nlearn from Jesus. Men may deceive\u2014Christ cannot. You can trust no minister\nreally and fully. Though you may receive truth from his lips, it is always\nmixed with human infirmity. But what you get from the lips of Jesus, you get in\nall its purity and power. It comes warm from Him; it comes cold from us. It\ndrops like the rain and distills like the dew from his mouth; it comes only\nsecond-hand from ours. If I preach to you the truth, I preach indeed as the\nLord enables me to speak. But it is he who must speak with power to your souls\nto do you any real good. Look then away from me; look beyond me, to him who\nalone can teach us both. By looking to Jesus in the inmost feelings of your\nsoul, you will draw living truth from out of his bosom into your own, from his\nheart into your heart, and thus will come feelingly and experimentally to know\nthe blessedness of his own declaration\u2014”I am the truth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALL-SUFFICIENT GRACE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(John MacDuff, “The Faithful Promiser”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you,\nalways having all sufficiency in all things \u2014 may abound to every good\nwork.” 2 Corinthians 9:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-sufficiency in all things! Believer! Surely you are\n“thoroughly equipped for every good work!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace is no scanty thing, doled out in pittances!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a glorious treasury, which the key of prayer can always\nunlock \u2014 but can never empty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a fountain \u2014 full, flowing, ever flowing, over flowing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark these three ALL’S in this precious promise. It is a\nthree-fold link in a golden chain, let down from the throne of grace, by the\nGod of grace. “All grace!” “all-sufficiency!” in “all\nthings!” and these to “abound.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh! precious thought! My need cannot impoverish that\ninexhaustible treasury of grace! Myriads are hourly hanging on it, drawing from\nit \u2014 and yet there is no diminution. Out of that fullness we, too, may all\nreceive, “grace upon grace!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My soul, do you not love to dwell on that all-abounding grace!\nYour own insufficiency in everything, met with a divine “all-sufficiency\nin all things!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in all circumstances and situations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in all vicissitudes and changes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in all the varied phases of the Christian’s being!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in sunshine \u2014 and in storm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in health \u2014 and in sickness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in life \u2014 and in death!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace for the old believer \u2014 and the young believer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace for the tried believer, and the weak believer, and the\ntempted believer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace for duty \u2014 and grace in duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace to carry the joyous cup with a steady hand \u2014 and grace to\ndrink the bitter cup with an unmurmuring spirit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace to have prosperity sanctified \u2014 and grace to say through\ntears, “May Your will be done!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you,\nalways having all sufficiency in all things \u2014 may abound to every good\nwork.” 2 Corinthians 9:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Do We Fulfill The Law By Faith In Christ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rom. 8:4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Paul declares that we fulfill the law’s\nrighteousness, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. He is not\nsaying that the Holy Spirit of God enables the believer to personally fulfill\nthe law. To suggest such a thing is to suggest that believers are enabled by\nthe Spirit to attain sinless perfection in this world, for nothing short of\nperfection can fulfill the law of God. Paul is simply declaring that we do not\nnullify,or make void,the law through faith in Christ. Rather, “we\nestablish the law”(Rom. 3:31). How?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. THE LAW REQUIRES COMPLETE SATISFACTION FOR SIN. “The\nsoul that sinneth it shall die.” We fulfill this requirement of\nsatisfaction by offering to God the precious blood of Christ’s atonement. He is\nthe propitiation, the satisfaction, for our sins. When the law looks upon the\nblood of Christ, it is silent. It cannot require more. That blood is our death\ninsofar as God’s law is concerned. Because we died in Christ, we are dead to\nthe law (Rom.7:4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. THE LAW REQUIRES COMPLETE LOVE TO GOD. It requires the total\nconsecration of our lives and hearts to the will, worship, and glory of God. We\nfulfill this requirement by offering the consecrated love of Christ to God in\nhis life upon the earth as our Representative. And with that, only with that,\nGod is well pleased (Matt. 17:5).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. THE LAW DEMANDS PERFECT LOVE AND DEVOTION TO OUR NEIGHBOR.\nAnd we fulfill this requirement by offering to God the perfect love and\ndevotion of Christ to his people, even unto death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     As our sins became his, Christ’s\nrighteousness is ours by imputation. His death is our death. His obedience is\nour obedience. And his life is our life (Rom. 5:19). By trusting Christ,\noffering him back to God as our only grounds of hope and life, we fulfill the\nlaw and do all that God requires of us. In Christ we pay what we owe, restore\nwhat we took away, and perfectly obey God (Read Ezek. 33:14-15). None of our\nsins which we have committed shall be mentioned to us. We have done that which\nis lawful and right. We shall surely live (Read Ezek. 33:16).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don Fortner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief among ten thousand,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  the altogether lovely One!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(by Octavius Winslow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With what pen, dipped though it were in heaven’sThe Authority\n& Power of the Word upon the Heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

excerpt by J. C. Philpot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God is essentially invisible. “He dwells in the light which\nno man can approach unto, whom no man has seen, nor can see.” (1 Tim.\n6:16.) When, therefore, he would make himself known to the sons of men, it must\nbe by his works or by his words. The first way of making his power and glory\nknown is beautifully unfolded in Psalm 19\u2014”The heavens tell of the glory\nof God. The skies display his marvelous craftsmanship. Day after day they\ncontinue to speak; night after night they make him known. They speak without a\nsound or a word; their voice is silent in the skies; yet their message has gone\nout to all the earth, and their words to all the world.” This is the\ntestimony which God gave of himself to the Gentile world, but which, through\nthe depravity of man’s heart, has been universally misunderstood, perverted and\nabused, as the Apostle speaks\u2014”since what may be known about God is plain\nto them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the\nworld God’s invisible qualities\u2014his eternal power and divine nature\u2014have been\nclearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without\nexcuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave\nthanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were\ndarkened.” (Rom. 1:19-21.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The secret spring whence this flows, and the eternal foundation\non which this rests, is the incarnation of God’s dear Son. He is “the\nWord”\u2014the Word emphatically, originally, essentially; and so called not\nonly because he is the express image of the Father, as the word is the image of\nthe thought, but because he has declared or made him known, as our uttered word\nmakes our thoughts known. John therefore bare witness of him\u2014”No one has\never seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made\nhim known.” Had there, then, been no incarnate Word, there would have been\nno revealed word; and had there been no revealed word, there would have been no\nwritten word; for all that was revealed was not necessarily written, as John\nwas bidden to seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write\nthem not. (Rev. 10:4.) And as without the incarnate Word there would have been\nno revealed or written word\u2014so the power of the written word is derived from\nthe power of the incarnate Word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

brightest hues, can we portray the image of Jesus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perfection of our Lord was the perfection of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

holiness. His Deity, essential holiness; His humanity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

without sin, the impersonation of holiness. All that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was, said, and did, was as flashes of holiness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

emanating from the fountain of essential purity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and kindling their dazzling and undying radiance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

around each step He trod. How lowly, too, His<\/p>\n\n\n\n

character! How holy the thoughts He breathed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

how pure the words He spoke, how humble the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

spirit He exemplified, how tender and sympathizing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the outgoings of His compassion and love to man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is “the chief among ten thousand, the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

altogether lovely one!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALL-SUFFICIENT GRACE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(John MacDuff, “The Faithful Promiser”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you,\nalways having all sufficiency in all things \u2014 may abound to every good\nwork.” 2 Corinthians 9:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-sufficiency in all things! Believer! Surely you are “thoroughly\nequipped for every good work!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace is no scanty thing, doled out in pittances!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a glorious treasury, which the key of prayer can always\nunlock \u2014 but can never empty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a fountain \u2014 full, flowing, ever flowing, over flowing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark these three ALL’S in this precious promise. It is a\nthree-fold link in a golden chain, let down from the throne of grace, by the\nGod of grace. “All grace!” “all-sufficiency!” in “all\nthings!” and these to “abound.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh! precious thought! My need cannot impoverish that inexhaustible\ntreasury of grace! Myriads are hourly hanging on it, drawing from it \u2014 and yet\nthere is no diminution. Out of that fullness we, too, may all receive, “grace\nupon grace!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My soul, do you not love to dwell on that all-abounding grace!\nYour own insufficiency in everything, met with a divine “all-sufficiency\nin all things!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in all circumstances and situations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in all vicissitudes and changes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in all the varied phases of the Christian’s being!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in sunshine \u2014 and in storm!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in health \u2014 and in sickness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace in life \u2014 and in death!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace for the old believer \u2014 and the young believer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace for the tried believer, and the weak believer, and the\ntempted believer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace for duty \u2014 and grace in duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace to carry the joyous cup with a steady hand \u2014 and grace to\ndrink the bitter cup with an unmurmuring spirit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace to have prosperity sanctified \u2014 and grace to say through\ntears, “May Your will be done!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you,\nalways having all sufficiency in all things \u2014 may abound to every good\nwork.” 2 Corinthians 9:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrace for Grace\u201d \u2014 John 1:16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Christ we have received, from his boundless fulness, grace\nbecause of grace. \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have received redeeming grace because of electing grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

regenerating grace because of redeeming grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

sanctifying grace because of regenerating grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

believing grace because of sanctifying grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

persevering grace because of preserving grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

grace in time because of grace in eternity, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

experimental grace because of covenant grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

pardoning grace because of promised grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

imparted grace because of imputed grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

everlasting grace because of everlasting grace, \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

the fulness of grace because of the freeness of grace, \u2014 heaps\nof grace upon heaps of grace (1 Cor. 1:30; Gal. 3:13-14; Eph. 1:3-2-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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