Sovereign Grace Baptist Church

Free Grace Media

Of Princeton, New Jersey

 

Author Various
TitleWeekly Bulletin 9-5-2021
Bible TextVarious
Date05-Sep-2021
Article Type Bulletin
 

September 5, 2021

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Bible Class

 

11:00 AM

Morning Service

Thursday:

 7:00 PM

Mid-week Service

 

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Proverbs 16:32: He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

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FREE IN CHRIST 

“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8:36) 

     Oh the joy a slave must feel when freedom comes to them!  Oh the greater joy a child of God has when freedom comes to them in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.  A believer is set free in every possible way by and in the Lord Jesus Christ.  All of our freedom is found in Christ. 

    A believer is set free from the power of sin.  Christ has made His people free to do what they could not do before: believe on Christ and have His righteousness. (Rom 8:1-4)  A believer is free from the law because Christ obeyed the law for us.  A believer is free from death.  A believer can never die the second, eternal death because Christ died for us.  A believer is free from the curse of the law because Christ was made a curse for us. (Gal 3:13)  A believer is made free from the ceremonies of religion because Christ has enabled us to worship God in the Spirit not in ceremony. (Phil. 3:3) A believer is free to come to the throne of grace at any time, for any reason, and find grace to help, as long as we come in Christ. (Heb. 4:16)

Frank Tate

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“Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.” 1 Corinthians 3:18

The fruit and effect of divine teaching is to cut in pieces, and root up all our fleshly wisdom, strength, and righteousness. God never means to patch a new piece upon an old garment. All our wisdom, our strength, our righteousness must be torn to pieces! It must all be plucked up by the roots—that a new wisdom, a new strength, and a new righteousness may arise upon its ruins.

     But until the Lord is pleased to teach us, we never can part with our own righteousness—never give up our own wisdom—never abandon our own strength. These things are a part and parcel of ourselves—so ingrained within us—so innate in us—so growing with our growth—that we cannot willingly part with an atom of them until the Lord Himself breaks them up and plucks them away.

     Then, as He brings into our souls some spiritual knowledge of our own dreadful corruptions and horrible wickedness—our righteousness crumbles away at the divine touch. As He leads us to see and feel our ignorance and folly in a thousand instances, and how unable we are to understand anything aright but by divine teaching—our wisdom fades away. As He shows us our inability to resist temptation and overcome sin, by any exertion of our own—our strength gradually departs, and we become like Samson, when his locks were cut off.

    Upon the ruins, then, of our own wisdom, righteousness and strength, does God build up Christ’s wisdom, Christ’s righteousness, and Christ’s strength. But only so far as we are favored with this special teaching are we brought to pass a solemn sentence of condemnation upon our own wisdom, strength, and righteousness—and sincerely seek after the Lord’s.

–JC Philpot

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Mt 25:37  Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

The only people that think they do not bear any fruit are the people who bear it.

Donnie Bell

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We still see the absolute necessity of this precious Savior in every respect, so that without him we can do nothing, as he himself has told us. We have need of him, when we are dark—to enlighten us; when we are dull and lifeless—to quicken us; when we are straitened—to enlarge us; when we are weak—to strengthen us; when we are tempted—to support us; when we have fallen—to raise and restore us; when we are full of doubts and perplexity—to comfort us and give us peace; when we are disquieted with fears—to encourage us; when we are staggering at the promises through unbelief—to confirm our faith. As none but Christ can do these things for us—he must be precious to our souls.    

John Fawcett

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WHAT DO WE COME HERE FOR?

I am afraid there are some who come merely because it is the time to come, because the hour of worship has come round; and others come only because a certain preacher happens to stand upon the platform. Ah! this is not how God’s own beloved ones come up to his house! They desire to meet with him. Their prayer as they tread the hallowed courts of God’s house will be “My heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.”  There is no hymn sung so well as when we really do praise Jesus in it. No prayer is so true as that prayer which really comes to the mercy-seat, and spreads itself before the all seeing eye. There is no preaching like that which is full of Christ, which gives forth a savor of his good ointments. Worship is not to be commended because of the glorious swell of a Gregorian chant, or because of the equally majestic volume of sound which this great assembly may send forth from that sweet instrument, the human voice. A service is not to be commended because of the eloquence of the preacher, or because of the display of learning which he is able to make in expounding his discourse. No, to the Christian it is, “Was the Master there?”  The question on the Sunday morning is, “What think ye, will he come up to the feast?”  Coming to the Lord’s table, the child of God’s business is not so much with the bread and the wine, as with his blood and with his flesh. May I feed on him? May I see him? And if I get to him, then it is well with me. If I have then to serve God in the public engagements of his house, let me say, “Come, my beloved, let us get up to the vineyards.”

–Charles Spurgeon