Eager Avenue Grace Church Sunday, August 28, 2016

The following hymn was written in 1771 by Augustus Toplady, the writer of “Rock of Ages” –

A Debtor to Mercy AloneA debtor to mercy alone, of covenant mercy I sing;

Nor fear with Thy righteousness on, my person and offering to bring; The terrors of law and of God, with me can have nothing to do;

My Savior’s obedience and blood, hide all my transgressions from view.

The work which His goodness began, the arm of His strength will complete;

His promise is yea and amen, and never was forfeited yet; Things future nor things that are now, not all things below nor above, Can make Him His purpose forego, or sever my soul from His love.

My name from the palms of His hands, eternity will not erase; Impressed on His heart it remains, in marks of indelible grace. Yes, I to the end shall endure, as sure as the Earnest is given;

More happy, but not more secure, the glorified spirits in heaven.

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Worship Services

Sunday August 28, 201610 am: “God’s Word Fulfilled” / Revelation Series / Revelation 17:15-18Bill Parker

11 am: “Love in Deed and Truth” / 1 John 3:13-18Bill Parker

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EAGER AVENUE GRACE CHURCH

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:21

Eager Avenue Grace Church Sunday, August 28, 2016

True faith is a total confidence in Christ alone as the Sole Accomplisher of salvation. For this reason, it is obvious that many professors of religion and even of grace, are not true believers. They cannot be because they do not know from the holy scriptures WHO the Lord Jesus Christ really is and, most of all, WHAT He actually accomplished in His suffering and death on the cross. As Paul said, how can you believe on Him of whom you have not heard. The masses of deceived souls rally around their favorite preachers rather than the One who by Himself saved His people from their sins. Their faith is a believing of what their favorite preacher says rather than a believing of what God has actually said in His Word.

-- Pastor Gary Shepard

Every doctrine which teaches us to do or endeavor anything toward our acceptance with God, stands opposed to the doctrine of the Apostles; which, instead of directing us what to do, sets before us all that the most disquieted conscience can require, in order to acceptance with God, as already done and finished by Jesus Christ. What Christ has done is that which pleases God; what He has done is that which quiets the guilty conscience of man as soon as he knows it; so that whenever he hears of it, he has no occasion for any other question but this – Is it true or not? If he finds it true, he is happy; if not, he can reap no comfort by it. If then we slight the comfort arising from the bare persuasion of this, it must be owing, at bottom, to our slighting this bare truth, to our slighting the bare work of Christ, and our considering it as too narrow a foundation whereon to rest the whole weight of our acceptance with God. Whereas all Christians of the same stamp with Paul can never see it in too bare a light, and are ready to say, Far be it; that we should glory, save in the cross, where that work was finished. – Copied

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A True Believer

A true believer is one who has committed his whole salvation to one Person – the Lord Jesus Christ. As the apostle Paul wrote – “for I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day” (2 Timothy 1:12).

Birthdays

Jeremy Pannell - Aug. 30th Rodney Hiers - Aug. 30th

Cassie Broxton - Sept. 3rd

Hymns

August 28th Service “At Calvary”– p. 477 “Hallelujah! What a Savior!” – p. 127

EAGER AVENUE GRACE CHURCHPastor Bill Parker

Eager Avenue Church

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We are a sovereign grace fellowship dedicated to the glory of God, the pre-eminence of Christ, the salvation of sinners, and the edification of God’s people through the preaching and teaching of the Gospel from God's Word.

Eager Avenue Grace Church Sunday, August 28, 2016

It takes a miraculous, powerful, and even invincible work of the Holy Spirit to convince self-righteous sinners such as we are that our works and efforts to obey God, even our efforts to follow Christ, do not make us holy or righteous before God. Good works are the fruit of the life, power, and grace of God given us in and by the Lord Jesus Christ, but good works do not make us good. Tears of repentance and sorrow are the workings of Christ in the hearts of His people, but these tears do not and cannot wash away or cleanse us from our sins. It is the blood of Jesus Christ alone that cleanses us from ALL sin and makes us righteous in God’s sight. As we endeavor to worship the Lord with our songs, our prayers, our messages, let us remember that the only way God can and will accept us or our efforts is through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ alone. – Pastor Bill Parker

Call To Worship (Tune – My Savior – p. 226) (Words by Pastor Jim Byrd)

Upon the cross the Savior died, For those the Father sanctified;

God’s law was fully satisfied, And Jesus cried “It’s finished.”

Our God ordained in cov’nant grace, That His own Son would take our place; And when He bought His chosen race,

The Victor cried “It’s finished.”

Behold a wondrous mystery, That Jesus died by God’s decree,

To save His sinful family, O what a truth, “It’s finished.”

May Jesus Christ be magnified, For by His blood we’re justified;

His resurrection signified, Redemption’s work was finished.

We bless the Lord for such a Friend, For Jesus Christ our thanks ascend;

So sing the praises without end, Of Him who cried, “It’s finished.”

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