November 27^th , 2016

9:30 am ------------------------------------------------------Christ Declares Who He Is – John 5:17-31

10:00 am ---------------------------------------------------------------------True Grace , Part 1 – 1 Peter 1

Wednesday: 7:30 pm-------------------------------------------------------True Grace, Part 2 – 1 Peter 2

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Business As Usual – Matthew 24:37-39

Our Lord Jesus Christ speaking of His second coming in Matthew 24:37-39 informs us that men and women will be found just like they were in the days of Noah. Before God sent His flood of wrath and judgment people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. In other words, they were conducting business as usual. Men and women gave no thought to the Eternal One, nor to eternity “until the flood came and took them ALL away, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”

Lost sinner, it will be no different when Christ comes to earth again. Men and women will be conducting business as usual, giving no thought or consideration to their eternal souls. However, by the grace of God, there will be (as it was in the days of the flood) a remnant of chosen sinners saved. All who were in God’s Ark in Noah’s day, found secure refuge. All today who are found in God’s Ark, the Lord Jesus Christ, will also be saved from the eternal wrath of God to come. (1 Thessalonians 1:10) Who does God shut up in the Ark of Safety? Like Noah, only those who have found grace in the eyes of the Lord! (Genesis. 6:8) Has this amazing grace found you, or is it business as usual with you? – David Eddmenson

I spoke, yesterday, with a brother minister, who had been a pastor in America, and I asked him why he was so anxious to go back again where the climate had so greatly tried him. He answered, "I love the people to whom I preach." "What sort of people are they?" I enquired. "Well," he replied, "they are a people who come together anxious to get good. They do not try to find fault with me; but they seek to get all the good they can out of the gospel I preach." "Well," I said, "it is worth while crossing the ocean to go to a congregation of that sort of people." – Spurgeon

Why must every sermon be Christ?

1. Christ is our Deliverer. (Col. 1:13) Why do we need deliverance? For we are captives of sin and Satan (2 Tim. 2:24-26). So I preach Christ, the Deliverer.

2. Christ is our Reconciler. (Col. 1:20-21) Why do we need reconciliation? Because we are at enmity with God Almighty (Rom. 5:10). Can you imagine that awful fact? So I preach Christ, the Reconciler.

3. Christ is the Bringer of Grace. (Rom 3:24) You do not go get grace; Christ brings grace. How will poor sinners get grace if we preach not Christ the Bringer? So I preach Christ, the Bringer of Grace.

4. Christ is Completeness. (Rom. 8:2-4) Who does not want to be complete? So I preach Christ, our Completeness.

5. Christ is our Comfort. (2 Thess. 2:16-17) In all the perplexities of life, people need comfort. It is found only in Christ. So I preach Christ, the Comforter.

6. Christ is the Supplier of Need. I said need, not want (Phil. 4:19). How can poor sinners have any hope without Him who fulfills spiritual and physical need? So I preach Christ, the Supplier of Need.

So, there is not more than Christ. He is the whole counsel of God. Preach more than Christ?? God Himself summed it up. Christ is all. What is more than all?? –Bruce Crabtree

“It seems to be one of the peculiar gifts of the Christian Sisterhood to be the means of holding the entire fabric of the Christian Church in sacred love! And though in our belief they ought not to do this by public speech, yet by a quiet conduct, active sympathy and the patient endurance and holy persistence of affection, they may help to keep the Church well bolted together…Happy is the Church that abounds in Christian matrons and younger women willing to be serviceable for Christ!” -- Spurgeon

Pay What You Owe – ‘Owe no man anything, but to love one another . . .” – Romans 13:8