CENTRAL BULLETIN

Central Grace Church

3596 Franklin Street Rocky Mount, Virginia

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

October 20, 2019

9:30 am -------------------------------------------------------No Lie is of The Truth – 1 John 2:18-26

10:00 am ---------------------------------------------Is There Oil In Our Vessels? – Matthew 25:1-13

Message to Hear: by Bruce Crabtree -- http://www.sermonaudio.com/jumpto.asp?m=s&k=111161005010

Lord willing, I will be preaching this weekend in the meeting of Grace Baptist Church of Lewisville, Arkansas, where brother Darvin Pruitt is pastor. In my absence brother Tom Harding, pastor of Zebulon Grace Church, Pikeville, Kentucky, will preach to you next Sunday.

Our meeting with brother Clay Curtis is a little over two weeks away. Pray the Lord will bless us and bring someone.

Birthdays: Rebecca Kess – 24^th , Karen Anderson – 28^th

Cleaning: Ogles, Next Week: Mahans / / / Nursery: Helen / Kathryn

Listen to live audio of services on: www.mixlr.com/centralgracechurch

Listen to: WYTI Radio – Rocky Mount, VA - 8:00 AM – Sundays -- 1570 AM / 104.5 FM,

It is Good For Me To Draw Near To God – Psalm 73:28

God is love, mercy, grace, peace, wisdom, goodness, holiness, joy, happiness and all things good and pleasurable. At Thy right hand are pleasures forever more. To be near to God is to experience these good things. To be near to God is to feel His love, mercy, grace, peace & c. On the other hand, to be afar off from God is to have none of these things; but rather the opposite. To be far from God is to feel and experience hate, guilt, shame, hopelessness, helplessness, strife, evil, sin, anger, wrath, malice and all things evil. How does one draw near to God?

In fear as a guilty sinner in need of mercy and forgiveness. We first draw near by calling, “God be merciful to me the sinner. He is nigh unto them that call upon Him in truth.
By faith in Christ. God be merciful to me for Christ’s sake. Let the blood be propitiation for me on the mercy seat. Forgive me for Christ’s sake. Have mercy on me for Christ’s sake. Accept my plea for Christ’s sake. .

Inward Grace

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. -- Romans 8:9

Inward grace and faith will always produce outward works of love and kindness. It is impossible to have one without the other. Grace within produces grace without. Love within is manifested in outward works. Faith within is reflected in outward obedience. Hope within leads to outward peace. Gratitude within makes men generous to others. Let us fear having a dead-letter, orthodox form of religion, denying the life-changing power of his grace. – HTM

Where Sin Abounded -- "Where sin abounded, grace did abound much more exceedingly." Romans 5:20

Sin has abounded—fearfully abounded in thought, word, and deed—but grace does much more abound! Take your sins, then, with all their horrid and dreadful aggravations—sins against light, conscience, love, mercy, and blood. Examine them well— search thoroughly, as far as you can—their height, depth, length, and breadth—until your knees tremble, and your heart sinks with fear and dread. Must you perish? Must you sink to rise no more? Is all hope gone? Is hell your destined unavoidable place? Look, look, see this view of the gospel declaration concerning grace. Only get this brought by the Spirit into your heart, "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound"—and your debts are at once liquidated. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin! "All sin!" How comprehensive! What sin does this not embrace? And take with it, too, this word from the Lord's own lips, "All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men." Then all vile, infidel, blasphemous thoughts and suggestions—all the pride, unbelief, infidelity, obscenity, and filth of a depraved, desperately depraved nature—all the dregs of that foul sewer which floods the imagination—all the hard, rebellious uprisings of a carnal mind at enmity with God—all the heavings and tossings of a heart bottomless as hell—with all the boilings-up, fermentings, and workings to and fro of an abyss of iniquity—all, all evil from within and from without—shall be forgiven—and is already forgiven to the repenting, believing children of God! – J.C. Philpot