Sovereign Grace Baptist Church

Free Grace Media

Of Princeton, New Jersey

 

AuthorClay Curtis
TitleWeekly Bulletin 10-2-2016
Bible TextIsaiah 53:11
Date01-Oct-2016
Article Type Bulletin
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October 2, 2016

SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH

 

LOCATION

Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd Floor

150 Washington Street

Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 08553

Clay Curtis, pastor

Telephone: 615-513-4464

 

Schedule of Services

Sunday 10: 15 AM Bible Class

Sunday 11:00 AM Morning Service

Thursday 7: 30 PM Midweek Service

 

Services Broadcast Live @ www.FreeGraceMedia.com/live

 

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NURSERY

We have a nursery equipped with a digital flat screen television broadcasting all services live, for children four and under.  

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All articles by the pastor unless otherwise noted.

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“There is as much faith, yea more, in moderating the affections under a full estate, as there is in depending upon God for supplies when we have nothing.”—A.W. Pink

 

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WHEN ALL PREACH CHRIST

 

1 Corinthians 14: 24: But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 25: And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

 

This is God’s declaration of what God promises to do in his local church through the preaching of Christ and him crucified.

 

1) Through the preaching of Christ crucified, God convicts, judges and reveals to his lost child the sins of his own heart—“he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 25: And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest.”

 

2) Through the preaching of Christ crucified, God gives his lost child a broken and contrite heart to fall down and worship God—“and so falling down on his face he will worship God.”

 

3) Through the preaching of Christ crucified, God unites his newly born, beliving child with his church—“and report that God is in you of a truth.”

 

This teaches us it is futile to use any other method to reveal sin, bring about true worship or unite a sinner to the church of God.  Only when a sinner has experienced this work by the power of God through the simple preaching of Christ crucified will one hate his sin, worship God and unite with God’s people.  Preaching works. Nothing else does.  Those who are saved this way will tell you it is so. Better yet, we have God’s word on it!

 

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1 Corinthians 1:21: For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

 

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A COFFIN IN EGYPT

Genesis 50: 26: So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Throughout his life Joseph is a preeminent type of Christ.  Even in the long resting place of his dead body we see a type of Christ. They embalmed Joseph’s body and laid it in one of those Egyptian coffins shaped like his human body.  But his body was not buried. Through all Israel’s years of suffering and bondage in Egypt, there lay the bodily shaped coffin of Joseph. As the bondage of Egypt became heavy, they looked to that coffin and remembered the promise Joseph declared at his death, “God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land to the land he promised.”

 

Brethren, we have a reminder of God’s promises which is far better! We have not a full coffin, but an empty tomb; not one whose body is yet with us but the Forerunner ‘who is entered for us, Jesus Christ our successful Redeemer. In Christ, faith beholds all God’s promises are yes and amen in Christ!  

 

Therefore let us live as Joseph lived. Let us live so that when our brethren remember us they do not remember us but remember God’s promised salvation in Christ! And just as they looked to that coffin to hear Joseph’s last word, let us ever look to Christ at God’s right hand and hear Christ promise, “God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

 

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Arminian infidelity limits the merit, power, efficacy, and worth of Christ’s blood, blasphemously asserting that though Christ died for the whole world, he really accomplished nothing for anyone. The Word of God limits the intent, design, purpose, and scope of the atonement, proclaiming redemption fully accomplished for all God’s elect. — That is to say, redemption accomplished for every sinner who trusts the Son of God.  Pastor Don Fortner

 

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I Like What you are Saying

"I like what you are saying," was the reply of a friend at the door Sunday night. I had expressed my joy over his presence with us and his reply of I like what you are saying could not have pleased me more.

     It was not I like you or I like the music or I like the atmosphere or I feel it’s my duty to attend but I LIKE THE GOSPEL YOU PREACH. 

     The gospel that is good news to the needy and glad tidings to the troubled will find itself welcome with the Lord's sheep. You pray for me and come to the services and I will seek the Lord's message for us! If it is God's truth and you are God's children, then you too will like what I am say­ing. Pastor Henry Mahan

 

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THE TRAVAIL OF HIS SOUL

 

Isaiah 53: 11: He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.

 

Jehovah’s Servant, our Substitute, the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished the work God sent him to do.

    He” is the GodMan. (Acts 8: 32-34)  In order for God alone to receive all the glory in the salvation of sinners then God himself must do the whole work of salvation beginning to end. (Is 42:8; 43:7; 48:11; Jo 2: 9) The purpose for which Christ came is to declare the righteousness of God in the justification of his people. (Rom 3: 26)  Only the holy Lord Jesus Christ could be made the sin of his people and die under the justice of God in our place that God might be just. Being God himself, he is also the eternal Justifier of all who believe in Jesus. (Rom 3: 26; Heb 2: 14-18; Gal 4: 4-5) This is that glory that God will not share with another. 

     Shall” declares unfailing, prevailing certainty.  This is the language of Jehovah.  God never speaks in possibilities.  No sinner has absolute power to speak this way or make anything come to pass. (Jer 10:23; Pro 16: 1; 2 Cor 3:5; Ja 4: 13-16) But God does as he will. (Is 46: 8-11) This is why the Holy Spirit told Mary in no uncertain terms, “thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Mt 1: 21) The LORD God said of Christ, “He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.” (Is 42: 4) At Calvary, the Lord Jesus conquered sin, death and hell and his people are more than conquerors in him.

     The travail of his soul” speaks of the indescribable severe labor, pain, exhaustion, vexation, sorrow, grief, and trouble Christ endured to give his people eternal life on the cross. Christ used an illustration of childbirth to comfort his disciples,

John 16: 20: Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21: A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22: And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

We cannot begin to comprehend our Savior’s travail as he bore separation from God on the cross in place of his people. (2 Cor 5: 21; Gal 3:13; Ps 22: 1; Lam 1:12; 2: 3; 3: 5)

     And shall be satisfied” means in every respect God our Savior is satisfied.   Christ is satisfied that he glorified the triune God by his travail. (Rom 3:21; Jn 17: 4: I) He is satisfied because Christ himself is also glorified. (Jn 17: 5; Heb 12: 2; Eph 1: 20-22; Phil 2: 9-11) Christ is satisfied with his elect ransomed by his blood. (v12; Gal 3: 13; Heb 1: 3; 10:14; Jn 17: 22-23; Is 54: 1-5)

    By this one verse, God declares not one who Christ redeemed shall be lost. Christ shall one day stand and say, “Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me.” (Is 8: 18; Eph 5: 27) He will see all his saints stand before him, resplendent in his glory and perfect in his beauty and “He shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied!”