November 5^th , 2017

9:30 am ------------------------------------------------------------Joy No Man Taketh – John 16:12-32

10:00 am ------------------------------------------------ The Deaf Hear & The Blind See – Mark 7 & 8

Wednesday: 7:30 pm--------------Be Of Good Cheer, Christ Has Overcome The World – John 16:33

Little Commitment, Much Indifference

We see so little true commitment, so much indifference, and so few dedicated people in today’s religious world that we may be prone to accept this attitude as normal. But it is not so! David wrote in Psalm 147:18, “He sendeth out His word and MELTETH THEM.” Paul wrote in Romans 8:6, “To be carnally minded is death; but to be SPIRITUALLY MINDED is life and peace.” If God is pleased to move in love and grace upon a person, the very life of Christ is formed in him and UNBELIEF is driven out by God-given-faith. INDIFFERENCE departs at the revelation of God’s glory in the face of Christ. IGNORANCE vanishes as Christ is revealed in His work of redemption as Just and Justifier. SELF-PRIDE disappears before His grace and mercy. SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS has not the slightest claim in the light of His perfect obedience. SELF-LOVE takes an awful beating in the light of His love for us. No! It would be IMPOSSIBLE for a true child of His great, invincible grace to be indifferent or uncommitted after the melting of His word and the revelation of His love. ­– Henry Mahan

The apostles of Satan are not saloon keepers and drug pushers, but for the most part ordained ministers. Their message may sound very plausible and their aim appears very praiseworthy, yet we read of them as being false apostles of Christ and therefore deceitful workers. No marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. (2 Cor. 11:13-15).

God Bless America

Everywhere you look you see the slogan, ‘God Bless America.’ What people mean by that is, God give us prosperity, make us free from troubles, and protect us from our enemies. Very few in America realize that material prosperity is one of our greatest problems, for the Lord hath said: “how hardly shall they that have riches enter the kingdom of Heaven.” And the troubles that befall this nation are because it is in trouble with God. This nation, which is supposed to be ‘under God’, under His reign, rule and favor; is in fact, under His wrath. The wrath of God is revealed from Heaven every day. Like Egypt of old, though plague after plague comes upon us, no one seems to see the wrath and judgment of God in these things.

If we look around we can clearly see the rise of wars, calamities, droughts, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, pestilence, disease and disasters; yet no one, except God’s true people, see it as the judgment of God upon this idolatrous nation and world. The religious, so-called Christian world is quick to say God has nothing to do with any of these things, when in fact God is the One doing ALL OF THESE THINGS . . . in anger, wrath and judgment against an ungodly nation and world. Is God blessing America? . . . or are we under His curse?

It would be the greatest blessing of God upon America if He would bring it to its knees in repentance, crying out for mercy from the hands of the God we have sinned against and the Christ we have rejected. O’ may God bless America in this way.

Gospel-Hardened