October 24, 2021

HYMN OF THE DAY
Seek Ye My Face
Psalm 27:8

Once, I was afraid to seek the Lord's face.
My sins had separated me from God.
Christ said, "Seek ye my face," by sov'reign grace.
My heart said, "His face I'll seek." He's the Lord!

I am a sinner with no hope within;
Under God's justice and deserving hell.
But Jesus Christ, in mercy, bore my sin.
When I sought His face, my fears He did quell.

When I saw His face, I saw my Savior.
The pity in His eyes said, "I love you."
The blood He shed has freed me forever.
Christ Jesus paid the ransom that was due.

One day I will see my Lord face to face.
With a new body, I will be like Him.
For aye I'll praise Him for amazing grace.
Face to face I will be with Christ, my Friend.

Tune: Abide with Me, #75
By: Gary Spreacker

THE MOTHER SIN

The Apostle exorted us to “lay aside every weight and THE SIN which so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us” (Heb. 12:1). THE SIN he is talking about that doth so easily beset us is the sin of unbelief. Unbelief is the Mother of all sins. It is the ONE sin from which all sin derives its life. Every sin, every disobedience, every act that is contrary to God begins with unbelief.

This awful sin manifests itself in many different forms. One form of it is INDIFFERENCE. How can anyone be indifferent about Christ, the gospel, and the church, unless they are beset by the sin of unbelief? Unbelief also takes form in murmuring, covetousness, and discontentment.

It was because of unbelief that God said “So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest” (Heb. 3:11). What shall we do about this horrible sin that so easily besets us? There are two things; one is, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb. 12:2). The second remedy is to do as the man who brought his child to our Lord. “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; HELP THOU MINE UNBELIEF” (Mark 9:23-24). - Pastor

Christ is the wisdom of God; and in the knowledge of this Christ there is wisdom for you; nor wisdom only, but life, forgiveness, peace, glory, and an endless kingdom! Study him! Acquaint thyself with him! Whatever you are ignorant of, be not ignorant of him: whatever you lose, lose not him. To gain him is to gain eternal life, to gain a kingdom, to gain everlasting blessedness. To lose him is to lose your soul, to lose God, to lose God’s favour, to lose God’s heaven, to lose the eternal crown! O my friend and fellow-man, I charge thee, and again I charge thee, whatsoever thou losest, lose not him. - Copied

BEHOLDING HIS GLORY

This one thing I know, that if a person sees the Glory of God they will bow down and worship Him who alone is worthy. But where does one see the glory of God? God’s word says it is revealed in Christ our Lord (II Cor. 4:6). “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His Glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (Jn. 1:14).

Behold His glory as the “Word of God” for He was the Word who was in the beginning with God things (Jn. 1:1-4). A word is an expression, a vehicle of thought. The Word of God is diety expressing itself. The true and living God expressed Himself through Christ, which is why He is called the Word of God.

“No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him” (Jn. 1:18). Christ as the Word made flesh told out God, He is the invisible God made visible.

The Lord Jesus is God’s final statement. Before He came, God spake by the prophets, but now in these last days, he has spoken unto us by His Son. He is God’s alphabet, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the End, He which was, which is, and which is to come.

A word is the means of manifestation, communication and revelation. Our Lord was God manifest in the flesh, he communicated the will of God, He revealed the character of the blessed Godhead. The unknowable, unsearchable God was and is made knowable, unsearchable God was and is made knowable by Christ the Word. Oh! Behold His glory! As the Word made flesh, he communicated the love, grace, truth and mercy of God to sinners.

He was full of grace and truth. Behold His glory as our substitute; fulfilling the Law, obeying God, taking our sin upon His own body and dying on the tree to put our sin away.