September 3^rd 2023

9:30 am ------------------------------Entangled in the Land – Exodus 14:1-4

10:00 am ------------------------------------- To The Praise of the Glory of His Grace – Ephesians 1

Wednesday: 7:00------------------------------- Redemption, Marriage, Birth – Ruth 4

The Gospel is the story of . . .

a people very bad – a God very good

a people very sinful – a God very merciful

a people very foolish – a Lord all-wise

a people very fickle (changing) - a Lord Who never changes

a people very small – a God very great

a people very poor – a Lord very rich

a people completely helpless – a God with all power

a people very finite – a Lord God eternal

a people very low – a God very high

a people that died in Adam – all made alive in Christ

a people who lost all in Adam – all restored in Christ

a people who break the law – a Lord Who fulfilled it

a people who are all lost – a Lord and Shepherd Who finds them

a people who always fail – a God who cannot fail

a people with sin and trouble over their heads – a Lord Jesus Christ with all under His feet

a people very unstable – a God Who is their Rock

a people who hate God – a God Who Loves them

a people full of enmity – a God Who reconciles them

a people in bondage – a Deliverer Who sets them free

a people under hard taskmasters – a God of tender mercies

a people not worth saving – a Lord Who saves them anyway

a people with no redeeming qualities – a Lord Who redeems them anyway

a people ready to sin – a God ready to pardon

a people who will not come – God who makes them willing

a people who cannot come – a God who comes to them

a people that are lame – a King that sends and fetches them

a people that leave the Lord – a Lord Who never leaves them

a people afar off – a Lord Who brings them nigh

a people who can do nothing – a Lord Who does all for them

a people who play the harlot – a Lord Who is their faithful Husband

a people dead and deep in sin – a Lord Who was made sin for them

a people in great debt – a Lord who paid it all

a people who blasphemed His Holy Name – a Lord who saves for His Name’s Sake

a people of wrath – a God with thoughts of peace

a people, stiff-necked/hard-hearted – a God with largeness of heart, Who breaks their heart

a people who play the prodigal – a Father who brings them home and kisses them

a people very selfish – a Lord very generous

a people naked – a Lord Who stripped Himself to cover them

a people guilty – a Substitute Who took their blame

a people who need mercy – a God Who delights to give it

a people who forget God – a God Who cannot forget them

a people who forget His Word and can’t forget their sins – a God who cannot forget His Word nor remember their sins.

a people who need a Lamb – a Lord Who became one

a people who need a Righteousness – a Lord Who provided His own

a children who mess up everything – a Father who fixes all

a children who act foolish/childish – a Father who pities and knows their frame

a people compassed with infirmity – a Faithful High Priest who took the same

a people harassed by Satan – a Lord Who chained him.

a people always crying – a Lord who always hears them

a people fearful/facing death – a Lord who died and arose to ease their fears

a people who begin as worms – a Lord who makes them as angels