March 30^th, 2014

Today’s Services:

9:30 am Bible Study

10:00 am Service .... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... Messages by Brother Terry Worthan

Birthdays: April: 3^rd -- Steven Parks (50^th!), 5^th -- Gladys Hodges, 7^th -- Cherrie Anderson

To Our Congregation: It is a delight to have Terry and Patsy Worthan back with us today. Brother Terry is pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Winston, GA. We are thankful they could be with us today.

ARMINIUS OR PELAGIUS?

Those of us in the Calvinistic Faith of the Gospel, call those outside the Calvinistic Faith “Arminians” in reference to those who followed the religious views of Jacob Arminius, the Dutch theologian (1560-1609). This is really not a fair label for our modern style religious system, with its mixture of free-will, easy-believism, charismatic drunkenness and liberal tommy-rot. The scriptural ignorance of historical Arminianism is far, far above the scriptural ignorance of this modern religious ten-headed beast.

Like the historical heresy of Jacob Arminias these modern ignoramuses call the justice of God to the bar of reason. They, with pride inflated confidence, wade in the deep, deep ocean of divine mysteries, dealing with the decrees of God, where the blessed and learned Apostle Paul could find no bottom, but cried, “O the depth!” These self-styled “bible-scholars” undertake to bring Paul down from his lofty bewilderment, “explaining” that “God foresaw that Jacob would believe, and that Esau would not believe, therefore the one was loved and elected, and the other was loved a little less and rejected.” Thus these modern “wise-men” in their schools of Christian mass-production have learned deeper divinity than what Paul learned in the third heaven.

The new breed Arminians are truly nothing more and nothing less than varnished offspring of Pelagius, the fourth-century moralist who fathered the modern day lie of spiritual “free-will”. They make the sheep keep the shepherd, and put the Sovereign God into the same extremity with the Persian King Darius, who would have gladly saved Daniel, but could not.

Who has “free-will” in the salvation of sinners? I’m going to stick with Paul when he quotes the audible words of Jehovah spoken to Moses in Romans 9:15, “…I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” In his own inspired words Paul concludes his argument saying, “So then it is not of him who WILLETH nor of Him who runneth, but of God who showeth mercy.”

The free-will of God in salvation had its beginning before man was eligible to vote. It had its beginning in the eternal council of God. Paul writing to Timothy in his second epistle discusses salvation in these terms, “Who has saved us and called us with a 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.” -- Terry Worthan

"Wait On The Lord" -- Psalm 27:13-14

Do not bind the Lord to a day or a way . . . But 'Wait on the Lord'.

Wait . . . as an obedient servant.

Wait . . . in hope as an heir.

Wait . . . in expectation as a believer.

Wait . . . in confidence as a son of God.

Wait . . . His way is not our way but His! So . . . Wait on the Lord! -- H.T.M. (3-14)

The LORD trieth the hearts-- Proverbs 17:3

A person can say every right word as they profess to believe on Christ. But by separating themselves from his Gospel and His people they deny every word by their works. Faith without works is the faith of devils and it is dead (James 2: 19-20). Christ’s people cannot be driven away because Christ cannot fail, “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that Thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” “Blessed art thou, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven.” -- John 6: 68-69; Mt 16: 17.