CENTRAL GRACE BULLETIN

Central Grace Church

3596 Franklin Street Rocky Mount, Virginia

Website: www.centralgracechurch.com Email: centralgracechurch@gmail.com

August 28^th 2023

9:30 am --------------------------------------- Going Up Harnessed Out of the Land – Exodus 13:17

10:00 am ------------------------------------- The Redeemer Speaks to the Sinner – Ruth 2:8-23

Wednesday: 7:00 pm ------------------------- The Sinner Calls on the Redeemer – Ruth 3

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*** The following article was in our bulletin three years ago. It is time to read it again.

Things That Promote Peace– By Henry Mahan

“Let us therefore follow after the things which promote peace,

and things wherewith one may edify another” -- Romans 14:19

1. Be careful to LOVE one another with a true heart. “Love covers a multitude of failures.”
2. Avoid a spirit of ARGUMENT AND DEBATE. One may win an argument and lose a friend.
3. Beware of JEALOUSY. Jealousy destroys happiness and builds suspicion.
4. Beware of ENVY. Let us learn to rejoice in another’s gifts, blessings, and happiness.

God gives as HE will!
5. Do not MEDDLE in the private lives and domestic affairs of others.
6. Guard against a TOUCHY TEMPER: “For every trifling thing to take offense

shows either great pride or little sense.”
7. Learn to KEEP A CONFIDENCE. “He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.”
8. Strive to HEAL DIFFERENCES. “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
9. Be always ready to FORGIVE ANYTHING. “Forgive us our sins AS we forgive those who sin against us.”

Recorded, Counted, Determined and Appointed – by Scott Richardson

Our birthplace is recorded—Psalm 87:6. Your steps are counted (Job 31:4). Your days are determined; the number of your months are with God. He has appointed your bounds that you cannot pass (Job 1:5). You can change nothing. You cannot make one hair black or white. You cannot add one cubit to your stature no matter how much thought you give to the task (Matthew 6:27). Stature . . . the word has to do with length as well as height. You cannot add eighteen inches to your life's journey. The day of your death and the way of your death is surely fixed by the God of Heaven as is the decree he gave to the sea when he said, “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall the proud waves be stayed" (Job 38:11). And, this was all written in God's book before you had any being. What will God do? He will do exactly as he pleases. He will do what he purposed (Isaiah 14:27). “But he is of one mind, and who can turn Him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth” (Job 23:13). My friend, you are in the hands of a living God, and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God. You have no hope but his mercy. “For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy” (Romans 9:15-16).

I Am Not Satisfied With My Faith -- By Horatius Bonar

“But I am not satisfied with my faith,” one will say. No, of course you are not, nor are you likely to be so. At least, I should hope not! If you wait until you are satisfied with your faith or anything else about you to enjoy peace of heart, you will never have it. The Bible does not say, “Being satisfied with our faith, we have peace with God.” It reads, “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” Between these two things there is a vast difference. Be content to be satisfied with Christ, who is faith’s glorious object; and LET FAITH BE FORGOTTEN! Actually, the end of faith is dissatisfaction with ourselves and greater satisfaction with our Lord. Faith, no matter how strong, has nothing to give us. Faith bids you look away from self and look to Him who says, “Look unto Me and be ye saved, for I am God and there is none else.” Remember the words of John the Baptist; “He must increase, but I must decrease.” Self, in every form, must decrease; and Christ must increase. There is but one thing with which our God is entirely satisfied – the Person and work of His dear Son! “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.” The Holy Spirit’s work in convincing us of sin is to make us dissatisfied with ourselves. And when He enables us to see the fullness of God and the glory of God in the face of Christ, WE WILL BE SATISFIED WITH HIM! Then will pardon and peace be given without delay.