February
27, 2022
Weekly
Schedule of Services
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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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Clay Curtis, pastor
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Phone: 615-513-4464 | Email: clay@freegracemedia.com
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Proverbs 17:25: A foolish son is a grief to his father, and
bitterness to her that bare him.
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Imagine a hospital
that would have no dealings with sick people.
That is the church of the Pharisee.
When the Pharisees murmured that Christ received sinners, the great
Physician told them “They that be whole have no need of the physician, but
they that are sick.” (Mt 9:12) All who think they can contribute to their
salvation really imagine themselves to be whole. Therefore, they have no need of Jehovah
Rapha, “I am the LORD that healeth thee.”
Christ greatly offended the Pharisees in that day and still does in
this day when they hear Christ speak to them through the preaching of the
gospel, saying, “But go and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy and
not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance.” (Mt 9:13) “Ah, but once we repent then it is a co-effort between
us and Christ!”, says the Pharisee. By
that they reveal they still have not learned what it meaneth. Repentance is the continual call of Mercy
whereby the believing sinner is continually coming to the great Physician who
alone heals.
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“Beloved, I wish above
all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul
prospereth.” 3 Jn. 1:2 Being in good physical health is something
that every man naturally desires, but while we’re all striving to maintain good
health, we still behold ourselves getting older and weaker. But when a believer
begins to contemplate how healthy he truly is, in Christ, he’s got great reason
to rejoice. He’s had an old stony heart removed and a new heart of flesh
imparted. He has new eyes to see something of the glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ and new ears to hear the glorious voice of the Savior that speaks
to His own. The believer is now spiritually alive in Christ and he shall never
die (Jn. 11:26). O, may the Holy Spirit give us more understanding as to how
healthy we are in Him.
–Marvin Stalnaker
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“He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the
earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.” Is. 42:4
There is a beautiful song in
our hymnal titled: “How Great Thou Art.” The third verse of that song says, “And
when I think that God, His Son not sparing, sent Him to die, I scarce can take
it in – that on the cross, my burden gladly bearing, He bled and died to take
away my sin…Then sings my soul!” Once salvation is revealed to a child of
God, from that moment forward the soul of that child sings the glory and
greatness of the God who saved him or her. The body may break, but the soul
will never stop singing! The heart may ache, but the soul will never stop
singing! Everything about the physical, mental, and emotional state of the child
may be silenced under the overwhelming weight and oppression of sin but knowing
what the blood of Christ has done for sinners will cause the soul of that child
to never stop singing, “My Savior God, to Thee; How great Thou art, How
great Thou art!”
–Gabe Stalnaker
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“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness
thereof; the world and they that dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1).
Men live on the earth
and divide it into countries ruled over by kings. They divide it into states
and territories and give them names. They divide the land among themselves into
farms and ranches, and issue deeds of ownership. But the earth is not man’s; it
is the Lord’s. He said, “Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine”
(Job 41:11).
Men are but tenants,
subject to eviction at any moment. The great land-owner and sovereign sits in
the heavens and laughs at the title deeds of these worms in the dust. “The
fullness thereof” may mean the fullness of its entirety; its wealth, its
life, its past, present, and future. The SEA is full of water, despite all the
creatures, despite all that feed upon it. The AIR is full, notwithstanding all
the lungs that breathe it. The SOIL is full, though billions of trees, plants,
and vegetables derive nourishment from it.
All the earth and all that dwell on the
earth belong to the Lord Jesus. They are His sons or His servants; they are His
sheep or His goats; they are His vessels of mercy or His vessels of wrath; but
all are His. And here is the chief reason, given in verse 2 of the same Psalm: “For
He hath founded it.” HE CREATED IT! He has the right to do with His own
what he will. O that men would be wise and praise the Lord, kiss the Son, and
bow before Him in worship and subjection. “There is no want to them who fear
the Lord and wait upon Him.”
–Henry Mahan
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LIFE AND REST
Matthew 12:1: At
that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples
were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Christ is our Sabbath because he is our Rest and our Life. The Lord led the disciples through this
cornfield on the sabbath day on purpose.
He did it to teach them (and us) that he is our Rest and our Life. Luke says, “it came to pass on the second
sabbath after the first,…” (Lu 6:1) Like Christ is the last Adam after the
first, like he is the second Covenant after the first, so Christ is the second
Sabbath after the first. He was
eternally before all three. Scripture says, “He taketh away the first that
he may establish the second” (Heb 10:9).
The Lord is our Sabbath
Rest because he is our Life. We have eternal life because Christ is our
righteousness. Eternal life is righteousness.
Scripture says, “if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of
sin; but the Spirit is life because of Righteousness.” (Rom 8:10) Christ is
our Life because he is our Righteousness.
Not only is Christ our
Life, he provides all for our temporal life.
Everything necessary for life is from Christ’s hand. The world is his.
That cornfield was his. These disciples
were his. He led them through the
cornfield on the sabbath day because he knew his disciples were hungry. So he
provided them corn. He knew they needed
to be reminded that he is their Sabbath-rest so he did this on the sabbath day
to teach them he is the Sabbath rest of the believer.
These two things are
connected: Rest and Life. Christ is our Rest because he is our Life and Christ
is our Life because he is our Rest. Knowing Christ is all to us spiritually and
know Christ provides all for our temporal life, we have rest. We know he has
and shall provide all (Jn 6:35; Ps 37:25).
Oh, what rest to have the assurance that
Christ is our Life. He has and shall
provide all. Therefore, Christ is our
Rest!