November 13^th 2022

10:00 am --------------------------------------------------------Message by Kevin Thacker

11:00 am ---------------------------------------------------------Message by Britt Worthan

Who is Sufficient For These Things?

“For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the

savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?”

-- 2 Cor.2:15-16

Every time I am about to preach, I pray the Lord would give me the ability to speak to every soul there as if no one has

ever heard of the Lord Jesus Christ- that every person is lost and must come to Christ for life! AND I pray that He enables

me to tell of our Great God’s faithfulness and promises to His people, with all comfort and assurance- as though every

person there has come to Him and was surely His child! Then I ask-“Who is sufficient for these things?”

If we preach only Christ and Him crucified, the Word of God,His person and His work- HE will accomplish both! Not me.

-- Kevin Thacker

God’s Purpose

We have our plans, God has His purpose. Our plans are always subject to change. God’s purpose is never subject to change. Job_23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Ephesians_1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Ephesians_3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

2 Timothy_1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

-- John Chapman

THOSE WHO FOLLOW CHRIST . . . Are Not Spared Sorrows and Troubles in the World

“And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full And He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake Him, and say unto Him, Master carest thou not that we perish?”

Health, wealth and happiness advocates who promise their followers immunity from earthly sorrows and sufferings do not get their doctrine from the Bible. Here are the chosen disciples of the Lord in great anxiety. The faithful little flock which

believed, when priests, scribes and Pharisees were all alike, unbelieving, is allowed by the Shepherd to be much disquieted. The fear of death breaks in upon them; the deep water seems likely to go over their souls. Peter, James, and John, pillars of the Church about to be planted in the world, are much distressed. Perhaps they had not reckoned on all this; perhaps they had expected that Christ’s service would lift them above the reach of earthly trials; perhaps they thought that He could raise the dead, heal the sick, feed multitudes, and cast out devils with a word, He would never allow His servants to be sufferers on earth.

Perhaps they had supposed He would always grant them smooth journeys, fine weather, easy course and freedom from trouble and care. If the disciples thought so they were mistaken. The Lord Jesus taught them that one might be of His chosen

servants and yet go through many an anxiety and endure many a pain.