CENTRAL BULLETIN

Central Grace Church

3596 Franklin Street . Rocky Mount, Virginia

Email: [email protected] Website: centralgracechurch.com

August 12^th 2018

9:30 am -------------------------------------Will There Be Revival In Israel? – Romans 11

10:00 am ------------------------------- The Goodness and Severity of God – Romans 11:22

Birthdays: August: 13^th – John Sheesley Jr., 19^th – Henry Mahan, 20^th – Madelyn Holland

31^st – Roberta Sword & Betty Hodges / September: 7^th – Malinda Mahan, 8^th – Mac Torrence

Cleaning: Sheesleys, Next Week: Bobbitts & Berrys / / / Nursery: Kathryn / Karen

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A Broken and Contrite Heart

Nine tenths of our trouble and difficulty may be traced to a lack of brokenness and contrition of spirit and heart. It is marvelous how we get on from day to day, in the family, in the assembly, in the world, in our entire practical life, when self is subdued and mortified. . . We are enabled to bear reproach and insult, to overlook slights and affronts . . . How often, alas! it is otherwise with us. We exhibit a stiff, unyielding temper; we stand up for our rights we maintain our interests; we look for our own notions. All this proves, very clearly, that self is not habitually measured and judged in the presence of God.

God will have broken material. He loves His people too much to leave them in hardness and unsubduedness; and hence it is that He sees fit to pass us through all sorts of exercises in order to bring us into a condition of soul in which He can use us for His own glory. The will must be broken; self-confidence, self-complacency, and self-importance must be cut up by the roots. God will make use of the scenes and circumstances through which we have to pass, the people with whom we are associated in daily life, to discipline the heart and subdue the will. And further, He will deal with us directly Himself, in order to bring about these great practical results. – C.H. Mackintosh

Enoch Walked With God

A man that walks with God is one of God’s friends. That unhappy enmity and dislike which men naturally feel toward their Maker has been removed; he feels perfectly reconciled and at peace (through Christ). How indeed can two walk together except they be agreed? He does not hide himself from the Lord, like Adam in the trees of the garden, but he seeks to be in constant communion with Him; he is not as many who are uncomfortable at the idea of being alone with God for he is never perfectly happy excepting in His company; he feels he cannot be too much with Him, because he desires to be of the same mind, to think like Him, to act like Him, to be conformed to His image. Such a one was Enoch. – J.C. Ryle

“Only Be Thou Strong And Very Courageous.” — Joshua 1:7

Our God’s tender love for His servants makes Him concerned for the state of their inward feelings. He desires them to be of good courage. Some esteem it a small thing for a believer to be vexed with doubts and fears, but God thinks not so. From this text it is plain that our Master would not have us entangled with fears. He would have us without carefulness, without doubt, without cowardice. Our Master does not think so lightly of our unbelief as we do. When we are desponding we are subject to a grievous malady, not to be trifled with, but to be carried at once to the beloved Physician. Our Lord loveth not to see our countenance sad. It was a law of Ahasuerus that no one should come into the king’s court dressed in mourning: this is not the law of the King of kings, for we may come mourning as we are; but still He would have us put off the spirit of heaviness, and put on the garment of praise, for there is much reason to rejoice. The Christian man ought to be of a courageous spirit, in order that he may glorify the Lord by enduring trials in an heroic manner. If he be fearful and fainthearted, it will dishonour his God. Besides, what a bad example it is. This disease of doubtfulness and discouragement is an epidemic which soon spreads amongst the Lord’s flock. One downcast believer makes twenty souls sad. Moreover, unless your courage is kept up Satan will be too much for you. Let your spirit be joyful in God your Saviour, the joy of the Lord shall be your strength, and no fiend of hell shall make headway against you: but cowardice throws down the banner. Moreover, labour is light to a man of cheerful spirit; and success waits upon cheerfulness. The man who toils, rejoicing in his God, believing with all his heart, has success guaranteed. He who sows in hope shall reap in joy; therefore, dear reader, “be thou strong, and very courageous.” – Spurgeon