CENTRAL BULLETING February 14, 2016

Central Grace Church

3596 Franklin Street . Rocky Mount, Virginia

February 14^th, 2016

9:30 am Bible Study-------------------------------------------- The Tongue Tamed– James 3:1-12

10:00 am Service ------------------------------ Power To Cast Out & Cleanse – Matthew 10:1-8

Nursery Today: Second Service: Jill O. Alt. – Debra H.

Cleaning Schedule: This Week: Debra & Polly , Next Week: Mike & Karen A.

Birthdays: February: 20^th—Lanie Bobbitt, 22^nd – Irene Davis, 28^th – Tammy Fannin

F Our brother John Maiko went to be with the Lord last Tuesday night. John was 80 years old We rejoiced when God brought him here years ago and rejoice that He has now taken him home. Our love, prayers and sympathy go out to Kathryn and family.

Our Mediator

Everything that God says to men, he says through a Mediator. Everything that God does to men, for men, or with men, he does through a Mediator. Everything that God reveals and makes known about himself, he reveals through a Mediator.And that Mediator is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the God-man, our Savior (1Tim.2:5). --Don Fortner

A Born Again, New Creature in Christ

I cannot recall the exact words, but John Owen once said something like this: ‘The two greatest soul damning delusions in the world are: (1) Men and women think they can be in the kingdom of God and go to God’s heaven without being born again; (2) Men and women think they can be born again and not be new creatures in the Lord Jesus Christ.’

This, sad to say, describes the majority of Baptists in our day. They teach (and practice!) that sinners may enter the kingdom of God through a simple change of mind, giving mental assent to a few chosen verses of Scripture, and/or repeating some form of a so-called sinner’s prayer. But the Scripture is plain and clear, “You must be born again.”

Furthermore, they teach that once the sinner has gone through this ritual of decision making, then he or she is certain for heaven, though they show no interest in God, His Word, His gospel, His glory, or His people. But the Scriptures are plain and clear, “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold; all things are become new.”

Precious soul, if the faith you have has not caused you to think differently, love differently and live differently than you did before you possessed it, then the sooner you get rid of it the better. God’s people are born again, born of the Spirit of God, created in righteousness and true holiness. That precious faith which God gives to His elect is a “working faith,” a faith which “works by love” (Galatians 5:6; I Thessalonians 1:2-10). -- Maurice Montgomery

IT IS I

“Be of good cheer: It is I ; be not afraid.” – Mark 6:50

It is I who formed you in the womb, and brought you forth into your present existence. It is I, the Lord your God, who has fed you, and clothed you from that hour up to the present moment. It is I, the Lord your God, who has preserved you on every side. When you were upon a sick bed, it is I, the Lord your God, who visited your soul, raised up your body, and gave you that measure of health which you do now enjoy. It is I, the Lord your God, who placed you in the situation of life which you do now occupy. It is I, the Lord your God, who deals out to you every trial, who allots you every affliction, who brings upon you every cross, who works in you everything according to My own good pleasure. When we can thus believe that the Lord our God is about our bed and our path, and spying out all our ways, when we can look up to Him, and feel that He is the Lord our God, there is no feeling more sweet, more blessed, more heavenly. “Be of good cheer: It is I; be not afraid.” – J. C. Philpot