April
3, 2022
Weekly
Schedule of Services
Sunday:
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10:15 AM
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Bible Class
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11:00 AM
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Morning Service
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Thursday:
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7:00 PM
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Mid-week Service
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Services
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Web Address
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Weekly Meeting Location
and mailing address
251 Green Lane
Ewing, NJ, 08638
Clay Curtis, pastor
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Phone: 615-513-4464 | Email: clay@freegracemedia.com
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Articles
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Our summer meeting
is scheduled for July 8–10.
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Proverbs 18:3:
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy
reproach.
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“The head that once was crowned with thorns
Is crowned with glory now.
A royal diadem adorns
The mighty Victor’s brow!”
–Isaac Watts
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The prevalence of unbelief and indifference in the
present day ought not to surprise us. It is just one of the evidences of that
mighty foundation-doctrine, the total corruption and fall of man. How feebly we
grasp and realize that doctrine is proved by our surprise at human incredulity.
We only half believe the heart’s deceitfulness. Let us read our Bibles more
attentively and search their contents more carefully. Even when Christ wrought
miracles and preached sermons there were numbers of His hearers who remained
utterly unmoved. What right have we to wonder if the hearers of modern sermons
in countless instances remain unbelieving? ‘The disciple is not greater than his
Master.’ If even the hearers of Christ did not believe, how much more should we
expect to find unbelief among the hearers of His ministers? Let the truth be
spoken and confessed: man’s obstinate unbelief is one among many of the
indirect proofs that the Bible is true.
–JC Ryle
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FOLLOW ME
Follow Me is the command Christ gives to
all of His disciples. We have a tendency to think that means to imitate Him. We
should imitate Him in all that He does, but that is not the idea conveyed in
following Him. If you follow someone, you keep your eyes on them. If you look
down at your feet you cannot follow them. If you look to the side of someone
else you are not following them. If you look behind you to a past experience
you cannot follow them. To follow someone is to keep your eyes glued upon them.
Have you ever been in a crowded and unfamiliar place, where you had to keep your
eyes on the one you were following? If you take your eyes off of them for even
a second, you will lose them! To follow Christ is to look to Him, and you
continue looking to Him by continuing to look to Him only. If we make following
Him anything else, we will take our eyes off of Him and look somewhere else!
–Todd Nibert
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Men
will not come to Christ unless he draws them. Sometimes, when I am trying to prepare a sermon to
preach, I say to myself, “Why must I take all this trouble?” If men were in
their senses they would run to Christ without calling. Why must we put
this business so temptingly? Why must we plead? Why must we be so earnest?
Because men do not want to come, not even to their own Savior. They do not
wish to have their sins forgiven. They do not wish to be renewed in heart;
and they never will come—no, not one mother’s son of them—unless he that sent
Christ to them shall draw them to Christ. A work of grace in the heart
is absolutely necessary before the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus will be
accepted by any one of us. Jesus said, “Ye will not come to me that ye
might have life.” What our Lord said is true to this hour; man has not improved
an atom.
–Charles Spurgeon
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Psalm
98:1: «A Psalm.» O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous
things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
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HATING SELF AND LOVING CHRIST
“He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in
this world shall keep it unto life eternal” (John 12:25).
Every
believer is an ardent and passionate lover of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is only by His sovereign grace (1 John
4:19). Because we are in love with
Christ we hate ourselves, what we are by nature, sinners by birth, practice and
choice. We love what the Lord has made
us by His grace, objects of His mercy, grace and love (1 Cor. 15:10; 2 Tim.
1:9). Saving faith forsakes all else, and every false refuge of lies, every
phony hope and every wild experience and looks to Christ, cleaves to the Lord
and trusts Him for all salvation.
However, we still have this old sin nature
to daily contend with of which we are told to “put off the old man with his
deeds and put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness”
(Eph. 4:23-24). This is the same testimony of those sinners, like, Job, Isaiah,
David and the apostle Paul recorded in the Word of God, who were saved by grace
and in love with Christ but hated what they were by nature.
Job said, “I have heard of thee by the
hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor (hate) myself,
and repent in dust and ashes” (Job 42:5-6). Isaiah said, “Woe is me! for I am
undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a
people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts”
(Isaiah 6:5). David said, “For I
acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and
done this evil in thy sight” (Psalm 51:3-4).
Paul said, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body
of this death?” (Romans 7:24)
Those who are in love with themselves, are
those who look to themselves for salvation, loving their self-righteousness,
embracing their works and will for salvation instead of looking to Christ alone
(Isa. 45:20-24). Those who are in love with themselves are certainly strangers
to the way God saves sinners in Christ. (Isa, 64:6-7; Luke 16:15; John 14:6;
Acts 4:12).
May the Lord be pleased to continually
cause us to hate what we are by nature, sinners and to love Christ and look to
Him for all salvation, “He is altogether lovely” (Luke 9:23-26; Phil. 3:7-14).
–Tom Harding