{"id":6211,"date":"2022-06-26T06:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6211"},"modified":"2022-06-26T06:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:23:49","slug":"bulletin-edition-june-2022-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6211","title":{"rendered":"Bulletin Edition June 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I\ndid not die; another\u2019s life, another\u2019s death, I stake my whole eternity. \n       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Horatius Bonar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gospel <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gospel is not a plan to be followed, or a program to be\npracticed.  It is not a precept or a principle to be understood. The\ngospel is a person. The second person of the triune Godhead, who bore the sins\nof God\u2019s elect and by the sacrifice of Himself put them away once and for all.\nHe was raised from the dead, ascended into glory, and is right now seated at\nthe right hand of the majesty on high. He is the sovereign Saviour of sinners.\nHe is the Substitute and Surety for His people. His name is Jesus, for He has\nsaved His people from their sins. He is Faithful and True to all His promise.\nWhat \u201cgood news\u201d (gospel) it is for the soul of a sinner to know they have an\nadvocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One. He himself is the sum\nand substance of the gospel.            \n  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Elmquist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By nature, all men are idol-maker. Like Demetrius the\nSilversmith, he labours in the idol factory of his own darkened imagination to\nforge his false gods. Like the little statues of Diana, these gods have eyes,\nbut they do not see, ears have they, but they hear not\u2026 They that make them are\nlike unto them. They are always looking for physical evidences of their god.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the new birth the Lord crushes all our idols. We set our\naffections on things above, where Christ sittith on the right hand of God. Col\n3:1. Minding the things of the spirit, we look to the eternal things which\ncannot be seen.  They say, \u201cwhere is your God?\u201d We say; \u201cour God is in the\nheavens: and He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased.\u201d Ps 115:2-3  We look\nthrough the eyes of faith into the eternal counsel of God. We find our hope in\nthat it pleased the Lord to bruise the Lamb slain before the foundation of the\nworld. Our God is in the heavens sat down, for His works were finished from the\nfoundation of the world.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Elmquist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Him<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 John 3:2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBeloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear,\nwe shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

O how I wish that I\ncould love Christ as He loves me, and love others as He loves me. If I could\nbut just one time be as gracious to others as my heavenly Father is to me and\nforgive them as He has forgiven me. If my Lord would grant me just one time to be  as faithful to Him as He has\nbeen to me and trust Him as He deserves to be trusted, I would be a happy man\nfor that moment. But thanks be to His great and holy name, Christ does all\nthese things perfectly for me. My greatest hope and earnest expectation is that\none day when He appears, I will clearly see Him as He is, and I shall be like\nHim! \n             \n              ~David\nEddmenson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Power of Grace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grace of God\nmakes all men who feel its power to be BRETHREN! We are one family in Christ.\nGrace makes the prosperous give his hand and help to the poor. Grace makes the\nhealthy to reach out and care for the weak and sickly. Grace makes the learned\nand the intellectual to stoop from their so-called dignity and embrace the\nignorant and the unlettered. Grace makes the important to be polite and\nconsiderate of the lesser. Grace makes the elder to be understanding and\npatient with the impulsive youth. Grace makes the offended to forgive the\noffender and to forget the offense. Let the grace of God lay hold of a man\u2019s\nheart; then pride, envy, and bitterness go to their graves! \n         \n         ~Henry Mahan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Splendid sins!<\/strong>
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\n(Charles Spurgeon<\/a>)
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\n“Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the\nfaith of Jesus Christ!” Galatians 2:16
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\nSee the uselessness of mere morality<\/em>. Honesty, morality and such\nthings may be very good among men. But all these things put together, without\nfaith, do not please God.
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\nWithout saving faith, all moral virtues are but splendid sins!<\/strong>
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\nYou will as surely be lost if you trust to your good works, as if you had\ntrusted to your sins!
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\nTrust Jesus, and you are saved.
\nTrust self, and you are damned.
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\nUnbelief <\/em>nullifies everything!
\nIt is the dead fly<\/em> in the ointment!
\nIt is the poison <\/em>in the pot!
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\nAll the moral virtues,
\nall the benevolence of philanthropy,
\nall the kindness of unselfish charity,
\n\u2014give no title to Divine acceptance, for “without faith it is impossible\nto please God.” Hebrews 11:6
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\nThe cardinal error against which the gospel of Christ has to contend, is the\ntendency of the human heart to rely on salvation by its works<\/em>,\nor morality<\/em>, or virtues<\/em>.
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\nThe poor sinner trying to be saved by his morality or good works, is like a\nblind horse going round and round a mill, and never getting a step further, but\nonly being whipped continually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doctrines floating in the brain?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

He would have given thee living<\/strong> water.”<\/em> John\n4:10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How blessed a thing is vital godliness! That is the thing I always\nwish to contend for. Not for forms and ceremonies, or doctrines\nfloating in the brain<\/strong>\u2014but for the life of God in the soul. That is the only\nthing worth knowing\u2014the only thing to live by\u2014and the only thing to die by. How\ndifferent is vital godliness received into the heart and conscience, by the\noperation of God the Spirit! How different is this fountain of living water\nfrom the ‘stagnant, dead water’ of lip service, formality, and hypocrisy! We\ncannot now be satisfied with lip religion, pharisaical religion, doctrinal\nreligion, a name to live while dead, the form of godliness without the power. A\nliving soul can no more satisfy his thirst with mere forms and ceremonies\u2014than\na man naturally thirsty can drink out of a pond of sand. He must have living\nwater<\/em>\u2014something given by the Lord Himself, springing up in his soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A thousand different shapes & colors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

False religion<\/em> takes on a thousand\ndifferent shapes and colors<\/strong>. All false religion, just in proportion as it\nseizes hold of the mind\u2014blinds it to the truth\u2014fills it with prejudice\u2014sears\nthe conscience\u2014hardens the heart\u2014inflames it with party zeal\u2014and makes every\nfaculty boil over with hatred, fury and bigotry against all who don’t see as it\nsees!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until our eyes are divinely opened<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

“And their eyes were opened, and they knew Him.”<\/em> Luke\n24:31<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we know savingly, experimentally, feelingly\u2014we know only by\ndivine teaching. We cannot see Jesus until our eyes are divinely opened<\/strong>.\nThe sun may shine in all its glory\u2014does that communicate light to the eyes of\nthe blind? or warm the corpse lying in the coffin? The blind see not\u2014the dead\nhear not. The living, the living alone see and know the Son of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fleshly religion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

“Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the\nflesh<\/strong>, nor of the will of man, but of God.”<\/em> John\n1:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flesh, however high it may rise, can never rise above itself.\nIt begins in hypocrisy\u2014it goes on in hypocrisy\u2014and it never can end but in\nhypocrisy. Whatever various shapes it puts on\u2014a fleshly religion<\/strong> never\ncan rise above itself. There is\u2014no brokenness of heart\u2014no contrition of\nspirit\u2014no godly sorrow\u2014no genuine humility\u2014no living faith\u2014no spiritual hope\u2014no\nheavenly love shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit\u2014in those that are\n“born after the will of the flesh.” No abasing views of self\u2014no\ntender feelings of reverence towards God\u2014no filial fear of His great name\u2014no\nmelting of heart\u2014no softening of spirit\u2014no deadness to the world\u2014no sweet\ncommunion with the Lord of life and glory\u2014ever dwelt in their bosoms!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flesh, with all its workings, and all its subtle deceit and\nhypocrisy\u2014never sank so low as self abhorrence and godly sorrow\u2014and never\nmounted so high as into communion with God. The depth of the one is too\ndeep\u2014and the height of the other too high for any but those who are “born\nof God.” This birth by “the will of the flesh,” leaves a man\njust where it found him\u2014dead in sin\u2014destitute of the fear of God\u2014and utterly\nignorant of that divine teaching, which alone can save his soul from eternal\nwrath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Works That I\nDo Bear Witness Of Me”  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John 5:36<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 All the marvellous works performed by and ascribed to our\ndear Saviour declare his eternal Godhead. His works are an abiding, constant\nwitness to his Deity. CREATION: He who created all things out of nothing is\nGod. And Jesus Christ is our Creator (John 1:2-3; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:10;\n3:4; 11:3). PROVIDENCE: That One who sovereignly rules over all things\nwith absolute power is God. And he who rules the universe is Jesus Christ our\nLord (John 17:2; Col. 1:17; Heb. 1:3). MIRACLES: The supernatural miracles performed\nby our Lord while he walked upon the earth proclaimed, “This Man is\nGod” (Matt. 11:4-5). He made the lame to walk, the blind to see, the deaf\nto hear, and the dead to live. He calmed the raging sea and multiplied the\nloaves and fishes. Who but God could do these things by his own power, in his\nown name? REDEMPTION: No man, but a Man who is God, could redeem us from the\ncurse of the law and the bondage of sin. The Man Christ Jesus is God, for he\nhas redeemed us (John 19:30; Gal. 3:13; Heb. 9:12). “If he\nwas not the mighty God, he could never have been able to have wrought and\nobtained the redemption and salvation of his people by his own arm. What gave\nvirtue and efficacy to his blood to purchase his church and people, and cleanse\nthem from their sins, is his Deity; and so to his righteousness to make it a\njustifying one before God; and to his sacrifice to make it expiatory of sin,\nand acceptable to God” – (John Gill). It is the eternal Deity of Christ\nthat makes him an able Savior, makes his righteous obedience to the law\nmeritorious, his blood effectual, his sacrifice acceptable, and\nsecures a place in heaven for sinners. PARDON: None but God can forgive sin.\nAnd Christ does forgive the sins of his people (Mk. 2:7-10). JUSTIFICATION:\nOnly God can justify the ungodly. And Christ justifies his elect (Isa. 53:11).\nRESURRECTION: Certainly the fact that our Lord Jesus Christ raised himself from\nthe dead and shall raise all from the dead is proof that he is God\n(Rom. 1:4; John 2:19; 10:18; 5:28-29; I Thess. 4:16-17).\nAnd JUDGMENT: At the last day Christ will demonstrate his eternal Deity by his\njudgment of all men in the great and terrible day of the Lord. None but God can\njudge all the world in perfect righteousness. And that God who\nis the Judge is Jesus Christ (John 5:22; Matt. 25:31-46; II\nCor. 5:10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

“What Think Ye Of\nChrist?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 22:42<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Most people go to hell\nasking questions about religious matters. One of Satan’s most deceptive snares,\nwhereby the souls of men are blinded to the glory of Christ, is religious\ncuriosity. The Herodians asked, “Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar?”\nThe Sadduccees were curious about the resurrrection body. The Pharisees asked,\n“Which is the great commandment in the law?” The point is this – Most\nPeople avoid dealing with the real soul-searching issues of the gospel by\ngiving themselves up to vain questions about religion. Religious people are\nstill asking the same questions as the Herodians, Sadducees, and Pharisees. Who\nwill be the greatest in heaven? What kind of body will we have in the\nresurrection? Who are the guests at the marriage feast? What does the law say?\nAnd they are, like their predecessors, going to hell, because they miss the one\nissue which is of eternal consequence – WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? My friend,\nyour eternal destiny hinges upon your ability to answer that question properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must have A BIBLICAL\nANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. We think that Jesus Christ is the perfect and eternal\nGod. We think he is the perfect representative man. He came to this earth with\na mission to accomplish. He came here to save his people. The God-man was born at Bethlehem to\ndie at Calvary. We think that Jesus Christ actually accomplished the\nredemption of his people, through his one sacrifice for sin. We think according\nto the Scriptures, that he now sits upon the throne of glory as the sovereign\nLord of all things. To think anything less than this of Christ is to think\ncontrary to God’s revelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But our text speaks of\nmore than mere doctrinal knowledge. We must have AN EXPERIMENTAL ANSWER TO THIS\nQUESTION. How do you think of Christ? Those who are truly born-again have been\ntaught of God, and learned to think properly of Christ. We think that Christ\nalone is precious. Christ is our only hope of acceptance with God. We think of\nChrist with all confidence, expectation, and desire. He is all. Christ is all to\nbe trusted, all to be loved, all to be preached, all to be hoped for. He is all\nin earth and all in heaven, all in time and all in eternity. Jesus Christ is\nall in all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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