Welcome to Rescue Baptist Church

                                       

                                 Pastor John Reeves

                       Church (530) 677-1710

                       email: www.rescuebaptist232@gmail.com

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SUNDAY AUGUST 22, 2021

COLOSSIANS 3:1-4

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

WELCOME TO RESCUE BAPTIST CHURCH

“Sinners are welcome at this church. We are a local body of the Lord Jesus Christ. As you spend time with us, you’ll soon discover we’re an imperfect church, with an imperfect pastor, yet by God’s undeserved grace, we preach, believe, and know the perfect gospel of our never-failing Lord Jesus Christ. We call His name Jesus for He shall, (not might, not maybe) but shall save His people from their sins, and every sinner that trusts in Christ is complete in Him, saved to the uttermost” HEBREWS 7:25                                           (copied)

 

SCHEDULED MEETINGS

 

      Sunday Morning Bible Study                      10:00 AM

      Sunday Morning Worship                           11:00 AM

      Friday Night Bible Study                                7:30 PM
 

OPENING HYMN          COME THOU FOUNT                          PAGE 2

 
SCRIPTURE READING

PSALMS 92

 
WORSHIP HYMN           MORE ABOUT JESUS                     PAGE 389

 
MESSAGE

 
CLOSING HYMN   THE WAY OF THE CROSS LEADS HOME  PAGE 471
 

THAT WE MIGHT KNOW

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know…” (1 Cor 2: 12)

   This “knowing” is not only an understanding of the truth but it is God making us “receive the love of the truth.” (2 Th 2:10)  The “spirit of the world” loves darkness and hates light. (Jn 3: 19-20; Rom 8: 7) But when God gives a new spirit, “the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” (Rom 5: 5) Thereby, God causes us to receive the love of the truth.

                                                                                             Pastor Clay Curtis 

THE GREATEST BLESSING

  “An old timer wrote: ‘My friend, you may think to live very well without Christ, but death will be unbearable without Him.  You are confident and secure at present, but death will destroy your confidence.  Your tree is fair and secure now, but when the wind comes, if your root is not in the Rock of Ages, down your tree must come forever.  You think these worldly pleasures and ways of the flesh are so good; but when your years increase and you reach the bottom of this poisoned bowl, they will be as bitter as wormwood; and worse than gall shall be the daintiest of your drinks.’

    When I read this, I gave thanks to our Lord for delivering us from THIS BODY OF DEATH through our Lord Jesus Christ, and old age and death are no longer to be feared but DESIRED; that death is no longer LOSS of life and joy, but GAIN of eternal life and glory.  While we mourn the temporary absence of our dear loved ones whom the Lord has been pleased to take to glory, we do not sorrow as those who have no hope; for we know, ‘Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints’ (Psalms 116:15) and leaving this world and going to be with Christ is the GREATEST BLESSING of blessings!”

                                                                                    Pastor Henry Mahan
 

Grace is Not Offered but Given

  “Anytime a preacher presents the grace of God as an offer on God’s part to anybody who is willing to receive it, he has not preached grace as the Bible does.  The Bible does not say, ‘But God, who is rich in mercy for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins has offered us His grace ‘….it says God hath ‘quickened us together with Christ, by grace are ye saved.’ Grace is not offered; grace is given!  And when grace is given, it always saves and is always received!  We do not have a choice as to whether or not we will accept God’s offer of grace. Grace saves! Grace is not something we use to aid in our salvation - Grace saves us!”

                                                                                      Pastor Todd Nibert
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Hebrews 11:6: