December 10^th 2023

9:30 am Bible Study

10:00 am Service--------------------------------------------Messages by brother Eric Floyd

Wednesday: 7:00 pm --------------------------------------------United By One, In One – Ephesians 4:3-6

Looking To Christ For All

“Who (Christ) is made unto us, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption” (1 Cor.1:3).

“Christ is all” (Col.3:11)

All intelligent Christians are agreed as to the fundamental truth of “Righteousness without works.” All freely and fully admit that we cannot, by any efforts of our own, work out a righteousness for ourselves before God. But it is not just so clearly seen that righteousness and sanctification are put upon precisely the same ground in the Word of God. We can no more work out a sanctification than we can work out a righteousness. We may try it, but we shall, sooner or later, find out that it is utterly vain. We may vow and resolve; we may labor and struggle; we may cherish the fond hope of doing better tomorrow than we have done today; but, in the end, we must be constrained to see, and feel, and own, that as regards the matter of sanctification, we are as completely “without strength” as we have already proved ourselves to be in the matter of righteousness.

And, oh! What sweet relief to the suffering one who has been seeking for satisfaction or rest in his own holiness to find, after years of unsuccessful struggle, that the very thing he longs for is treasured up in Christ for him—his own this moment, even a complete sanctification to be enjoyed by faith! Such a one may have been battling with his habits, his lusts, his tempers, his passions; he has been making the most laborious efforts to subdue his flesh and grow in inward holiness. But alas, he has failed! He finds, to his deep sorrow, that he is not holy, and he reads that “Without holiness no man shall see the Lord” (Heb 12:14). Not, observe, without a certain measure, or attainment in holiness, but without the thing itself; which every Christian has, from the moment he believes, whether he knows it or not. Perfect sanctification is as fully included in the word “salvation” as is “righteousness,” or “redemption.” He did not get Christ by effort, but by faith; and when he laid hold on Christ he received all that is in Christ. Hence, it is by abiding in Christ he finds power for the subjugation (control) of his lusts, passions, tempers, habits, circumstances, and influences. He must look to Jesus for all. – C.H. Mackintosh

Christ is Ours – William Tyndale, England, preacher, martyr – 1500-1536

Christ is our Redeemer, Deliverer, Reconciler, Mediator, Intercessor, Advocate, Attorney, Solicitor, our Hope, Comfort, Shield, Protection, Defender, Strength, Health, Satisfaction, and Salvation. His blood, His death, all that He ever did, is ours And Christ Himself, with all that He is or can do is ours. His blood-shedding and all that He did, does me as good service as though I myself had done it. And God, as great as He is, is mine, with all that He hath . . . as a Husband is His wife’s, through Christ and His purchased redemption.

Christ is All I Need

“Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” (Psalm 85:10)

When I read this verse of divine inspiration, I can only think of one person and one thing: — Christ and Him crucified. Mercy I could never deserve and truth I could never see, have met together for me in Christ my Lord. For you see, Christ alone is Truth. God’s mercy that I so desperately need is only found in Him. In Christ alone have mercy and truth met together in perfect harmony for me an undeserving sinner. And because God caused them to meet together, now perfect righteousness I could never perform or provide and peace I could never buy or embrace have kissed each other in Him. Christ is truly made unto me all I need; and He is all that God requires. – David Eddmenson