CENTRAL BULLETIN

Central Grace Church

3596 Franklin Street Rocky Mount, Virginia

Website: www.centralgracechurch.com Email: [email protected]

September 23^rd . 2018

9:30 am -------------------------------------------------- Knowing God’s Will – 1 Thessalonians 4

10:00 am----------------- The Blessed People, Blessed Book & Blessed Lord – Revelation 1:1-8

Lord willing, brother Mike Walker will be here to preach to you next Sunday, 30^th. Mindy and I are going on a belated anniversary trip (to an undisclosed destination). Sunday, October 7^th, brother Walter Pendleton will be here to preach for you. I am scheduled to preach October 5-7 for Lincolnwood Baptist Church, Houston, TX, David Pledger, pastor.

Birthdays: September: 25^th – Janine Kess, October: 18^th – Joshua Montgomery, 24^th – Rebecca Kess

Cleaning This Week: Hollands, Next Week: Davises / / / Nursery: Karen / Debra

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All That I Need

In John 14:6, Christ is said to be, “The way, the truth and the life.” In I Corinthians 1:30, Christ is said to be made unto me, “Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.” This covers all that I need to stand in God’s presence, only a fool would look for more. -- John Chapman

Put In Trust With The Gospel -- But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak;

not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. --1 Thessalonians 2:4

What a privilege to preach the unsearchable riches of the Lord Jesus Christ. God called preachers understand that they are “allowed of God” and “put in trust with the gospel.” To think that God would trust me with the preaching of His glorious gospel is so humbling and at the same time with it carries a tremendous load of responsibility. God has “allowed me” to preach the Gospel of His redeeming grace in Christ. God has “put me in trust with the message of Christ and Him crucified.” I surely don’t take it lightly.

“But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.” God gets all the glory in the preaching of Christ and in the saving of sinners. We are not allowed of God to preach tickling things to itching ears, like man’s free will decision and works of man’s so-called righteousness. Those things are pleasing to men! We preach the things that are pleasing to God, the things which trieth our hearts.

Beloved, you too have been allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel. Are you telling others about His free and sovereign grace in Christ? It is your responsibility to do so. God has put you in trust with the task. May God enable us to be faithful to Him -- David Eddmenson

The following two articles were written by Richard Sibbes, Preacher & Pastor in England (1577-1635)

Love is Communicative

If we have a true love to God, then we have a desire of union and communion with Him. We will be much in meditating of Him, in speaking to Him and conferring with Him. Those therefore that go on from day to day, without private speeches with God, or solacing of their souls in Him, what affection have they to Him ? Love is communicative ; and what desire of communion can that soul have that lives a stranger to his Maker ? Can we say we love One with Whom we never confer or speak to any purpose ?

No Reason To Fear Death

Why should we fear death, that is but a passage to Christ? It is but a grim sergeant that lets us into a glorious palace, that strikes off our bolts, that takes off our rags, that we may be clothed with better robes, that ends all our misery, and is the beginning of all our happiness. Why should we therefore be afraid of death? It is but a departure to a better condition? It is but as Jordan to the children of Israel, by which they passed to Canaan. It is but as the Red Sea by which they were going that way. Therefore we have no reason to fear death. Of itself it is an enemy indeed, but now it is harmless, nay, now it is become a friend, amicable to us, a sweet friend. It is one part of the church’s jointure, death. ‘All things are yours,’ saith the apostle, Paul and Apollos, ‘life and death,’ 1 Cor. 3:22. Death is ours and for our good. It doth us more good than all the friends we have in the world. It determines and ends all our misery and sin; and it is the suburbs of heaven. It lets us into those joys above.