through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23

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Words: Pastor Gary Shepard Tune: This Is My Father’s World (F. R. Sheppard)

1. O precious Savior dear, We cast our all on you.

By faith we see you near to us, And always find you true.

Our hope is in your blood, Shed once upon the tree,

Our refuge from the flood of wrath, Safe always we will be.

2. O Christ the wisest One, Our Righteousness divine,

The sanctifying Son of love, Redeemer by design.

Rejoice now chosen ones, Praise God for sov'reign grace,

To Jesus Christ alone we come, We ev'ry blessing trace!

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Grace will not allow the strong to boast, nor the weak to despair.

Grace will not allow the mature to presume, nor the young to doubt God’s love.

Grace will never catalogue sin --- No sin is so small that it will go unpunished without His blood, and no sin too great that His blood won’t atone.

Grace opens the door wide for all who believe on our Lord Jesus Christ, and shuts the door of mercy to all who do not believe. --John Flavel

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Know for your comfort that the weakest believer is as nearly related to God, as a Father, as the strongest believer is. Every branch of a tree is not alike strong nor big, and yet the tenderest twig is united to the root. The weakest believer is clothed with the white raiment of Christ’s righteousness and is as much sanctified and justified thereby as the strongest.

There is no condemnation to all who are in Christ. The weakest believer shall endure to the end. They are all kept by the power of God through faith to salvation. It is not he that believes strongly who shall be saved, but he that believes! “Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.” --Ebenezer Erskine

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“For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:10

You who have believed with your hearts unto righteousness, give God the whole glory; and pray that you may continually have more enlivening views of that imputed righteousness on which He has caused you to trust.

As, on the one hand, nothing can warrant and animate your joy; so, on the other (to quote a man, now with God), "Nothing can effectually kill sin but a clear beholding of Christ's righteousness." Cleave to this sure and steadfast anchor, and you will finally rise superior, both to the waves of affliction and to the mud of your own lusts and corruptions. --Augustus Toplady

I depend wholly and alone upon the free, sovereign, eternal, unchangeable and everlasting love of God; the firm and everlasting covenant of grace, and my interest in the persons of the Trinity; for my whole salvation: and not upon any righteousness of my own, nor any thing in me, or done by me under the influences of the Holy Spirit; nor upon any services of mine, which I have been assisted to perform for the good of the church; but upon my interest in the persons of the Trinity, the person, blood and righteousness of Christ, the free grace of God, and the blessings of grace streaming to me through the blood and righteousness of Christ; as the ground of my hope. -- John Gill

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