Sunday, September 30

MORNING SERVICE: [Click on song title for iTunes Preview]
You, You Are God (Beach)
Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King (Robinson/Miller)
At Calvary (Newell/Towner)
My Jesus I Love Thee (Featherston/Gordon/Red Mountain Music)
The More I Seek You (Neese)
The Old Rugged Cross (Bennard)

EVENING SERVICE: [Click on song title for iTunes Preview]
Blessed Assurance (Crosby/Knapp/Third Day)
You Have Saved Us (Baloche/Gowell)
Oh, the Deep, Deep Love (Francis/Kauflin)
O the Blood (T. Miller/M. B. Miller)
Nothing But the Blood (Lowry)
There Is A Fountain (Cowper/Traditional American melody)

On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand

Our congregation will be doing the Indelible Grace arrangement of "On Jordan's Stormy Banks" very soon.

VERSE 1:

On Jordan's stormy banks I stand,

And cast a wishful eye

To Canaan's fair and happy land,

Where my possessions lie.

VERSE 2:

All o'er those wide extended plains,

Shines one eternal day;

There God the Son forever reigns,

And scatters night away.

CHORUS:

I am bound (I am bound)

I am bound (I am bound)

I am bound for the promised land,

I am bound (I am bound)

I am bound (I am bound)

I am bound for the promised land.

VERSE 3:

No chilling winds nor poisonous breath

Can reach that healthful shore;

Sickness, sorrow, pain and death,

Are felt and feared no more.

REPEAT CHORUS

VERSE 4:

When shall I reach that happy place,

and be forever blessed?

When shall I see my Father's face,

And in His bosom rest?

REPEAT CHORUS

1997 Christopher Miner Music

Propitiation

On the cross, God displays both His love and His wrath; His wrath poured out on sin, His love demonstrated by the provision of His Son. The blood that Jesus Christ shed on the cross satisfied the wrath of God against the sin of man. The judgement, punishment, and wrath that sinful man deserved was satisfied in the death of the sinless Son of God. Jesus Christ, the propitiation for our sin.

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." (Romans 3:23-26 KJV)

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4:10 KJV)

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV)

Standing on the Promises

Many of us grew up singing the hymn "Standing on the Promises." The minister of music in the church where I grew up (who also happened to be my dad) was an 'every stanza' kind of guy. I remember singing four verses and a refrain. Looking back in the hymnal that we used (the Baptist Hymnal, of course), that's how many verses there were, four. Recently, however, I discovered that there are actually five verses to this hymn. The third stanza was not included in the Baptist Hymnal. Having read it now, I'm a little sad that it wasn't. It says...

Standing on the promises, I now can see perfect, present cleansing in the blood for me; Standing in the liberty where Christ makes free, standing on the promises of God.

"For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." (2 Corinthians 1:20 KJV, italics mine)

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed." (John 8:36 KJV)

Praise the Lord! I think we'll sing it this Sunday!

Adam, Us & the Plan of God (Genesis 1 - 5)

1. Man was made by God (1:26), in the image of God (1:27), for the purpose of spreading the glory of God in all the earth (1:28).
2. God gave man the breath of life (2:7), a place to reside (2:8-14), a work to do (2:15), an exception to guard (2:16-17), and a wife to cherish (2:18-25), so that he could live a soul-satisfied, joy-filled, God-honoring life (ch.1 & 2).
3. Man sat passively by while his wife (family) was under attack (3:1-6a), he fell drastically low when he was faced with his sin (3:6b), he tried horribly wrong to cover his sin when he knew that he'd fallen (3:7), he hid quietly away when confronted with his disobedience (3:8-10), and he blamed, incorrectly so, the reason for his fall (3:11-12), so that every person after him would be born into sin and condemned by their sin (3:17-19 & Romans 5).
4. God punished for Adam's sin (3:17-19), provided for Adam's forgiveness (3:21), banished from Adam's home (3:23a), gave a continuation to Adam's task (3:23b, 4:1-2a, 4:25 & 5:1-5), in order to maintain His own holiness and to demonstrate His own grace (Romans 5).