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Fairmont Grace Church, 3701 Talladega Highway, Sylacauga, AL (2026)

05/16/2026

FAIRMONT GRACE CHURCH
May 17, 2026

“In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.” – Arthur W. Pink

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CALL TO WORSHIP
(Tune: Doxology)

The Lord is King! Lift up thy voice,
O earth; and all ye heav’ns, rejoice!
From world to world the joy shall ring,
“The Lord omnipotent is King!”

The Lord is King! Child of the dust,
The Judge of all the earth is just.
Holy and true are all His ways,
Let every creature speak His praise.

O when His wisdom can mistake,
His might decay, His love forsake.
Then may His children cease to sing,
“The Lord omnipotent is King!”

He reigns! Ye saints, exalt your strains,
Your God is King, your Father reigns.
And He is at the Father’s side,
The Man of love, the Crucified.

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FROM BEGINNING TO END

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:” – Phil. 1:6

The good work Paul speaks of is that wondrous work of grace that only God can do. I was born into this world dead in trespasses and sins and was helpless to do anything to change it. Death renders us about as helpless as it is possible to be. So if spiritual life comes to me, it will not be by anything I do for myself, but by what God alone does for me and in me. If I believe, it is because God gave me faith, if I’m willing to come to Christ, it is because God made me willing in the day of his power. If I continue to follow Christ, it is because Christ will not let me go. If God waits for the sinner to take the first step to Christ, none will ever be saved. But when God draws sinners to his Son, they will come, and they’ll keep coming because God will continue this good work of grace in them until that blessed day when they all are gathered together with Christ in glory. – LC

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NEWTON’S DYING THOUGHTS – Henry Mahan

In the last few months of his life, John Newton, author of the famous old hymn “Amazing Grace,” became so weak that he had to stop preaching and eventually was confined to his bed. His friends said that he never feared age nor death. To a close friend he wrote, “Through God's grace I am perfectly well, yet laboring under a growing disorder for which there is no cure--old age. But I am glad for this disease, for who would live always in such a world as this?”
One day, with a feeble smile, he told a friend, “I am like a person going on a journey on a stagecoach, who expects its arrival every hour and is frequently looking out the window for it.” Later he said, “I am packed and sealed and waiting for the post.” One day he said, “What a thing it is to live under the shadow of the wings of the Almighty!”
Shortly before he died, he told visiting friends, “My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Saviour.” John Newton died on a Monday evening, Dec. 21, 1807, at the age of eighty-two.

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ALL THINGS ARE YOURS – Scott Richardson

“Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;”
l– 1 Corinthians 3:21

If you are a Christian, “all things are yours.” You have an everlasting Father, the mighty God. He is called the true God and God blessed forever. He came where we were and found us naked and clothed us, starved and fed us, wounded and healed us, unclean and sanctified us, poor and made us rich, in bonds and set us free, enemies and reconciled us, condemned and justified us, lost and saved us, dead and he gave us life. So it can be said according to the scriptures, there is rest for the weary, food for the hungry, strength for the weak, and pardon for the guilty. For all things are yours, but nothing is yours until God becomes yours by union with his Son. You must bow and kiss the Son lest he be angry. “Christ is the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.”

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EXCELLENT KNOWLEDGE – Maurice Montgomery

I don’t know much else, but through God’s amazing grace I do know Him. I know His sovereign, redeeming, justifying love in Christ Jesus to poor lost sinners. And I know this: the older I get, the less concern I have whether I learn anything that isn’t related to Christ and His redeeming love and grace. I long to be like the apostle Paul who said, “I count all things but loss for the excellency (surpassingness) of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.”

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REMEMBER WHOSE YOU ARE!

When a prince was about to travel, he asked his tutor for some maxims, by which to govern his behavior, and received this: “Remember that you are the son of a king!”
Let all Christians remember that they are the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, and “if sons, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ!”
– William S. Plumer

04/25/2026

FAIRMONT GRACE CHURCH
April 26, 2026

“There is sometimes on trees and flowers what florists call a false blossom: how many such do we see in the world of professing Christians!”
– Augustus Toplady

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∙ WELCOME: Bro. John Reeves, pastor of Rescue Baptist Church, Rescue, CA, and his wife, Cathy. John will bring the message today.

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∙ HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Pete Thweatt – 27TH

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CALL TO WORSHIP
( Tune # 168: How Firm a Foundation )

A refuge for sinners the Gospel makes known,
'Tis found in the merits of Jesus alone;
The weary, the tempted, the burdened of sin
Are never excluded from entering in.

This refuge for sinners God's love did ordain
In Jesus, the Lamb, from eternity slain;
In Christ the Redeemer Who lived and Who died,
God's law and His justice are now satisfied.

Should conscience accuse us, as often it may,
The blood of our Saviour has put sin away;
In Jesus, our Surety, the sinner can view
A city of refuge and righteousness too.

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“HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE”

“Who hath saved us, and called us with an 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.” – 2 Timothy 1:9

The salvation of a sinner is not an afterthought with God, or some sort of backup plan. Far from it, as is plainly stated here and throughout God's Word. Salvation has never been according to the works of man, but entirely according to God's own eternal purpose and grace. Does God save people by accident or unintentionally? Of course not. The calling of sinners in time is not the cause of their being saved, but the effect of it. The cause is according to God's own purpose and grace. What a blessed truth and good hope this is. If my hope of everlasting salvation is in any part according to my works, then it is not God’s salvation and is really a false hope. The salvation of God is all “according to His own purpose and grace given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.” Salvation that is all God's doing sounds so much better than a salvation that is all mine, which is no salvation at all. – LC

“’Twas grace that wrote my name – In God’s eternal book;
’Twas grace that gave me to the Lamb – Who all my sorrows took.”

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ABRACADABRA!...
– Charles Spurgeon

Ritualism is the most popular religion in the world, because it is all “Abracadabra!” Done in a minute – nothing to think of, nothing to care about, nothing to sorrow over. It is all a mere matter of external religious forms. The little that is needed of them can be done without thought, and they can go on in their sins as pleasantly as ever.
But the religion of the Word of God is not so. It is, “Rend your hearts, and not your garments!” “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength!“ This is too hard a demand for the wicked. And as for repentance and faith, the ungodly cannot enter upon such spiritual duties, for they have no desire for them. The carnal mind hates the mention of spiritual things.

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A PRESENT SALVATION

“Behold, now is the day of salvation.” – 2 Corinthians 6:2

Yesterday is gone. We do not have the promise of tomorrow. NOW is all we have. I know that I cannot save anyone. I know that you cannot save yourself. However, the Gospel is preached for a verdict. I pray that we would be blessed of God TODAY to see the beauty of Christ and all that is in him for sinners such as ourselves.
– Tommy Robbins

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LORD, HELP ME

“Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.” – Matthew 15:25

“Lord, help me” is one of the simplest and most honest prayers a person can pray. It comes when strength runs out and answers aren’t clear. There’s no pretending in it, just a real need for God. This short prayer reveals humility. It admits we can’t do life on our own. And that’s not weakness; it’s where true strength begins. Whether in crisis or everyday moments, “Lord, help me” keeps the heart dependent on Christ. And when it comes from the heart it never goes unheard.
– Pastor David Eddmenson

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HELPLESS

Every religion but the Gospel of Christ is a self-help religion. The Gospel is for those who cannot help themselves. If you cannot help yourself, a self-help religion will do you no good. But the Gospel comes to me where I am...helpless...and saves me. The Gospel is perfectly suited for ones who cannot save themselves. If you can help yourself, the Gospel is not for you.
– Pastor Todd Nibert

04/08/2026

FAIRMONT GRACE CHURCH
April 12, 2026

“David’s pen never wrote more sweetly than when dipt in the ink of affliction.” – William Mason

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Before Your Throne We Sinners Bend – Don Fortner
(Tune: Doxology)

The Father in wisdom profound,
A ransom for our souls has found.
Before His throne we sinners bend,
Our hearts and pray, “Free-grace extend!”

Eternal Son, incarnate God,
Our Prophet, Priest, Redeemer, Lord;
Before Your throne we sinners bend,
And pray, “Savior, free-grace extend!”

Blest, sov’reign Spirit, by whose breath,
Poor souls are raised to life from death;
Before Your throne we sinners bend,
Eternal life to us extend!

Great God, our Father, Spirit, Son,
Eternal God, great Three in One;
Before Your throne we sinners bend,
Your mercy, love, and grace extend!

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“THERE AM I”

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” – Matthew 18:20

I read these words in an article Bro. Henry Mahan wrote: “I wonder if we do not often meet together in the name of Christ and forget the guest of honor.” I know that, apart from God’s grace, I will do that very thing. I don’t want to do that. Each time I gather here with you, I want to come feeling my need to worship our Lord and Savior, to truly bow before him in my heart, sing his praises, and call upon his name. With such an honored guest, let us, like Mary, set at His feet and give Him our undivided attention. Jesus Christ has that right and deserves no less. – LC

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“FEAR NOT”

“And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation.” – Genesis 46:3

The Lord appeared to Jacob “in the visions of the night” to say to him “fear not.” Jacob’s fear had to be removed. It is both displeasing and dishonoring to God for us (“the sons of Jacob”) to walk in carnal fear (Matthew 6:19-33). Fear is an indication of a quarrel with God’s will. Jacob must go down to Egypt by God’s command; but he was afraid. He was afraid to obey God’s command. We must not judge him too harshly. Who has not been guilty of the same offense? God will never send us where He will not go with us. God will not require us to do anything He will not enable us to do. No believer will ever meet a trial or temptation in the path of obedience through which God will not sustain him (1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:24). His word to his servant is, “Fear not.” – Don Fortner

I know not when I go, nor where,
From this familiar scene;
But Christ is here and He is there,
And all the way between.
– Annie Johnson Flint

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MY CREED

An excerpt from the diary of James Smith: March 12, 1854

I learn daily more of the depravity of my own heart – and consequently see more and more of the necessity of Christ's free, full, and complete salvation. Jesus must save me. I have no merit, but His; no righteousness but His; no name to plead before God, but His!
His blood must cleanse me,
His obedience must clothe me,
His Spirit must purify me,
His Word must direct me, and
His grace must qualify me for the enjoyment of the inheritance of the saints in light.
My creed is: Jesus all – self nothing!

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LOOK WHO IS COME INTO THE WORLD!

A man once said, “The early Christians did not say in dismay, Look what the world has come to; but rather in delight, Look WHO has come into the world!” Perhaps we need to be more like those early Christians. While it is impossible for those who walk in the light to ignore or be indifferent toward the “works of darkness,” yet we should fix our hearts upon Zion’s King, the Lord Jesus Christ, and rejoice with thanksgiving that such an One came into this sinful world and performed such an amazing, effectual work of love for those who were His natural enemies.
– Maurice Montgomery

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Lord, save us and we will be saved. Call us and we will come. Speak to us and we will listen. Feed us and we will be fed. You have started the work; You must finish it. We are completely at Your mercy. We are the work of Your hands.
– Pastor Gabe Stalnaker

04/05/2026

FAIRMONT GRACE CHURCH
April 5, 2026

“God has two thrones: one in the highest heavens, the other in the lowest hearts.” – Abraham Wright (1611-1690)

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WILL THERE BE ONE EMPTY PLACE IN HEAVEN?
(Tune # 445: No, Not One)

Will there be one empty place in heaven?
No, not one! No, not one!
Will one be missing whom God has chosen?
No, not one! No, not one!

Refrain: Jesus Christ, our almighty Savior,
Shall never fail to save His own.
He'll never lose one of His redeemed ones -
No, not one! No, not one!

God will not charge one sin to His children -
No, not one! No, not one!
Nor will He ever for sin condemn them -
No, not one! No, not one!

There's not a sheep that shall e'er miss heaven -
No, not one! No, not one!
Not one to Christ, the Good Shepherd, given -
No, not one! No, not one!

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“THIS SAME JESUS”
– Acts 1:11
OR
“ANOTHER JESUS”
– 2 Corinthians 11:4

If someone would tell me that they had known my dear friend and pastor, Don Fortner, and that “he sure was a skinny little fella and couldn't have weighed more than a hundred pounds or so”, I would immediately tell them that they were obviously talking about a different Don Fortner than the one I knew.
And when I hear so many people talk about Jesus Christ as someone who “wants to save sinners, but they just won't let him”, I know that they are not talking about “this same Jesus” the apostles saw ascend back to heaven in glorious majesty after He had accomplished everything God the Father sent Him into this world to do.
The apostles were told “this same Jesus” would return in the same glorious majesty as when He was taken up! Oh, may the God of all grace not allow me or you to trust in another Jesus who cannot save, that would be fatal. May God grant this sinner His precious gift of faith to: “Look unto me, (Christ), and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” – LC

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CHRIST EXALTED PRINCE AND SAVIOR

“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory,..” – John 17:24

Suppose a king's son should get out of a besieged city, and leave his wife and children behind, whom he loves as his own soul; would this prince, when arrived at his father's palace, delight himself with the splendour of the court, and forget his family in distress? No: but having their cries and groans always in his ears, he would come post to his father, and entreat him as ever he loved him, that he would send all the force of his kingdom to raise the siege, and save his dear relations from perishing. Nor will Christ, though gone up from the world, and ascended into his glory, forget his children for a moment that are left behind him.
– William Gurnall ( 1617-1679)

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“BY THE OBEDIENCE OF THE ONE” – Romans 5:19

Before God enlightened me into the righteousness of Christ, and justification by it; I used to wonder how it was that, seeing Christ lived thirty-three years and six months upon earth, only his death, or at most, the last week of his life, should be of any avail for the salvation of sinners. But blessed be God, I have long seen that Christ was all that time working out a perfect obedience for my acceptance with the Father. “By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous,” is a text that amply accounts for his having spent above thirty-three years below previous to his crucifixion; and is a truth by which my soul is nourished and fed to life everlasting.
– William Romaine (1714-1795)

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GOD ONLY KNOWS!

“Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.” –Isaiah 53:4

We cannot fully understand the sufferings of Christ. God only knows what is in the curse of the law. God alone knows what is the true and utmost desert of sin. How, then, do we know what Christ suffered, when the punishment due to our sin, when all our iniquities met on him, and he had the curse of the law upon him! God only knows what is in these things.
– John Owen (1616-1683)

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MY EXPECTATION

“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.” – Psalm 62:5

He in whom ye trust, O believers, is a great God, and loves to do all things like himself. Wherefore look for great things from him; great assistances; great enlargements; great deliverances; yea, the forgiving of great sins, and the great gift of a great salvation.
–John Arrowsmith ( 1602-1659)

03/28/2026

FAIRMONT GRACE CHURCH
March 29, 2026

“All the plots of Hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line He has been drawing.”
– William Gurnall

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All Hail! Our Great Redeemer, Hail! – Don Fortner
(Tune: The Doxology)

All hail! Our great Redeemer, hail!
We know Your promise cannot fail.
Your chosen, ransomed ones shall come
To their prepared, eternal home.

Your sovereign grace demands a song,
From all the blest, returning throng.
Satan must yield his long held prey,
When Jesus sets His captives free!

The prince of darkness cannot keep
A single chosen, ransomed sheep —
They all shall come into his fold,
Whom He engaged to save of old!

His name, His honor, and His blood,
Are pledged to bring them home to God;
And all His church shall come and prove
Jehovah’s free unchanging love!

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“THAT I MAY KNOW HIM”

“That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.”
– Phil. 3:10

What proof of God's power to save to the very uttermost the apostle Paul was! What an “about face” Jesus Christ did to Saul of Tarsus that day on the Damascus Road. What an example Paul was that “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” What a pattern of Jesus Christ's marvelous mercy Paul became. But then, isn't this true of every sinner saved by grace? Of course it is. And like Paul, the desire and longing of their hearts afterwards is, "That I may know him." We long to know more and more of our great God and Savior. “And we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.” Believers are longing for that day! Are you? – LC

More about Jesus let me learn,
More of His holy will discern;
Spirit of God, my Teacher be,
Showing the things of Christ to me.

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WILLFUL IGNORANCE
– Tommy Robbins

"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."
– John 3:19

Contrary to popular opinion, I believe that man’s ignorance of truth is a willing Ignorance. The Scriptures declare that men love darkness rather than light and enjoy the pleasures of sin. This is evident when men hear the truth and hate it. Only a work of almighty grace in the heart will cause one to believe, bow to, and love the Gospel. The good news of the Gospel, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, will only be good news to the heart of a sinner when God awakens him to the glories of Christ and the sinfulness of his sin. Otherwise, he will remain in darkness and ignorance because he loves it there.

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ETERNAL LIFE
– Pastor Paul Mahan

“And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.” – John 17:3

The Lord Jesus Christ plainly tells us the meaning of eternal life. It is to know the only true God and Jesus Christ, Whom God hast sent. A person is born again, given life, when God, through the preaching of
the Word of life, the gospel. . . reveals Himself to that dead sinner . . . the only true God and reveals Christ Whom He sent to save, Christ, the sinners only salvation. This knowledge is not mere head knowledge but heart belief that God is sovereign and Christ alone is Saviour.

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BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE
–Thomas Brooks

Reader, remember this: if your biblical knowledge does not now affect your heart, it will at last, with a witness, afflict your heart. If it does not now endear Christ to you, it will at last provoke Christ the more against you. If it does not make all the things of Christ to be very precious in your eyes, it will at last make you the more vile in Christ's eyes.

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A COMPASSIONATE HIGH PRIEST– Robert Hawker

“Wherefore in all things it behoved Him to be made like unto His brethren...” – Hebrews 2:17

The Son of God, in our nature, having finished His redemption work, and returned to heaven, wears that nature in an everlasting union with His GODHEAD. So that as God and Man in one Person, He hath a perfect sense and apprehension of what constitutes the nature of both. He knows as GOD. He feels as MAN. Hence, it follows, that His consciousness of what our nature is by His own, cannot but make Him enter into an intimate concern and fellow-feeling, in all that belongs to His church. He knows all, enters into the concerns of all, and feels for all His afflicted people.

03/21/2026

FAIRMONT GRACE CHURCH
March 22, 2026

“A man is not a Christian unless he can say with Paul, “I am what I am by the grace of God!”’ – Martyn Lloyd Jones

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A PRAYER FOR WORSHIP
– Joe Terrell
(Tune: Doxology)

Oh Lord, Our hearts and souls aspire,
To lift up from this earthly mire;
Oh may we think of heav'nly things,
And know the joy Thy presence brings.

Lord, let us see the Savior's face'
And let us taste of Thy sweet grace;
May opened ears Thy glories hear,
And may we smell thy fragrance near.

Be pleased to open Heaven's store,
And on our heads Thy blessings pour;
All wretched poor and needy we'
Where can we go if not to Thee?

Oh may this day be blessed the most,
That Jesus Christ becomes the host
To feed our souls with living bread,
And with our souls, in joy to wed!

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GRACE BY ONE MAN – Romans 5:15

Every believer thanks God for that man from whom they first heard the gospel. And they thank God for every faithful man they have since heard that glorious gospel from. Though they have heard that blessed message of God's free grace from many faithful men, there is only one man from whom that grace is given, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is more healing by the grace from Christ than killing from the sin in us. The grace by this man, the God - man, reaches deeper than the stain has gone. The grace of God that brings salvation is not by the preacher man, or the priest man, or any other man, but there is abounding grace by one man only: Jesus Christ. Thank God for grace by this man! – LC

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A MATTER OF JUSTICE – C. H. Spurgeon

The pardon, which God gives us, is not a smothering up of our sins, nor a blinding of justice. God is as just in his pardons as in his punishments. It shall be seen at the last, when believers enter into their glory, that they rise there by law, just as surely as the lost sink down to hell by law: that is to say that the Lord Jesus hath rendered to the law such recompense by his perfect obedience, and his matchless atonement, that it shall be as just on God's part to save his elect as to condemn the unbelieving world.

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JESUS CHRIST IS BURNT GROUND

Many years ago, I heard my pastor, Henry Mahan, give this story in a message. “There was a wagon train going out west. While on their way they saw a prairie fire ahead of them coming their way. The wagon master had the men to burn out a large area and move the wagons onto the burnt ground. As the fire drew closer a little girl expressed fear to her father. Her father said, “Don’t be afraid we are standing on burnt ground, where the fire has burned once it cannot burn again.”
I say to every believer who has any fear of death or judgment, remember, Jesus Christ is burnt ground. Where the fire of God’s wrath has burned once it cannot, will not burn again.
– Pastor John Chapman

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CHRIST IS ALL AND IN ALL
– Colossians 3:11

There is only one thing that matters in our temporal life on this earth, and that one thing is a Person - Christ Jesus our Lord. In the end, everything that we have accomplished will turn out to be emptiness, and everything that we have accumulated will vanish away. But to leave this world holding on to Christ Himself, is to leave this world holding on to the fullness of eternity. In that day, everything will be nothing, and Christ will be ALL! Lord, teach us to cling to the one thing needful.
– Pastor Gabe Stalnaker

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ADVOCATE AND INTERCESSOR

There is an Advocate and Intercessor always waiting to present the prayers of those who come to God through Him. That Advocate is the Lord Jesus Christ. He mingles our prayers with the incense of His own almighty intercession. Our prayers, as poor as they are in themselves, are mighty and powerful in the hands of our High Priest and Elder Brother. The bank note without a signature at the bottom is nothing but a worthless piece of paper. The prayer of a poor child of Adam is a poor and feeble thing in itself; but once endorsed by the hand of the Lord Jesus, it availeth much.
– Scott Richardson

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THE GREAT WORK OF REDEMPTION

Great was the work of creation, but greater was the work of redemption. Great wisdom was seen in making us, but more miraculous wisdom in saving us. Great power was seen in bringing us out of nothing, but greater power in helping us when we were worse than nothing. In the creation, God gave us ourselves; in the redemption, He gave us Himself.
– Thomas Watson

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