SUNDAY AUGUST 8, 2021
MICAH 7:18
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
WELCOME TO RESCUE BAPTIST CHURCH
“Sinners are welcome at this church. We are a local body of the Lord Jesus Christ. As you spend time with us, you’ll soon discover we’re an imperfect church, with an imperfect pastor, yet by God’s undeserved grace, we preach, believe, and know the perfect gospel of our never-failing Lord Jesus Christ. We call His name Jesus for He shall, (not might, not maybe) but shall save His people from their sins, and every sinner that trusts in Christ is complete in Him, saved to the uttermost” HEBREWS 7:25 (copied)
SCHEDULED MEETINGS
Sunday Morning Bible Study 10:00 AM
Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM
Friday Night Bible Study 7:30 PM
OPENING HYMN WHEN WE ALL GET TO HEAVEN PAGE 542
SCRIPTURE READING
PSALMS 87
WORSHIP HYMN TRUSTING JESUS PAGE 355
DEVOTIONAL
MESSAGE
CLOSING HYMN HOLY, HOLY, HOLY PAGE 2
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our condolences to Mike Lesher and his family of the loss of his father at age 90. Vernon Haze Lesher went home to be with the Lord. July 25th, 2021
I WILL LOVE THEM FREELY
Hosea 14:4
“I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely:
for mine anger is turned away from him.”
We are nothing, we have nothing, and we can do nothing that would cause God to love us. If God loves me, it will have to be freely. One might ask, “You love Jesus, don’t you?” “Your love for God counts for something doesn’t it?” “Your love for Christ must prove something?” Yes, it does! It proves that “He first loved me.” “I love Him because He first loved me.” (1 John 4:19)
If God ever loved me, he loved me freely. If He ever loved me freely, He still loves me freely for His free love is eternal, without beginning and without end. What comfort that is to a sinner who still is nothing, still has nothing, and still can do nothing that would enable him to barter and bargain with God. Truly, if God would ever love us, it would have to be freely. David Eddmenson
We think if we could only put away all our doubts, fears, sins, sorrows, unbelief and indifference all would be well with us in this life. Not so. Our Father in his holy Wisdom teaches us individually that it is better to confess, “My times are in Thy hands." By great trouble, God brought David to pray, “Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me and hear me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort.” That is exactly what God is doing by all these troubles. He shows us we have no strength but Christ. He causes us to trust in the LORD. He causes us to cry for Christ our Righteousness to deliver us. He causes us to escape by making us resort to Christ our Strong Habitation. Spurgeon said, “It was well for Jacob that he had an Esau with armed men to drive him to his God. He could say afterwards, “It was good for me to have been afflicted.” Anything that brings us into close fellowship with God, however evil in itself, works for us the grandest form of good.” "Sovereign Ruler of the skies, Ever gracious, ever wise, All my times are in Thy hand, All events at Thy command."
Clay Curtis
