Welcome to Rescue Baptist Church

                        

                         Pastor John Reeves

                       Church (530) 677-1710

                               email: www.rescuebaptist232@gmail.com

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Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

Psalm 66:3-4

 

SCHEDULED MEETINGS

Sunday Morning Bible Study                      10:00 AM

Sunday Morning Worship                           11:00 AM

Friday Night Bible Study                               7:30 PM

 

OPENING HYMN

Redeemed                               Pg521

SCRIPTURE READING

PSALMS 7

OFFERTORY

WORSHIP HYMN

Heaven Came Down              Pg495

Message

Eyes Wide Open

1 Timothy 2:14

CLOSING HYMN

 Victory In Jesus pg473


LOVE NOT THE WORLD!

    Nothing is more dangerous to the souls of men than the love of the world. Nothing more effectually chokes out the influence of the gospel in a man's heart than the cares of this world. Nothing is more difficult to avoid than an undue attachment to this world. Therefore, John sets these four words up as a beacon. They stand in blazing letters to warn us of great danger. "LOVE NOT THE WORLD:"

    Beloved, this world and all that it offers is no more than a bubble that soon must burst. Your money, your farms, your houses, your influence, your families, everything here is temporary. It will all vanish away. We laugh at the small child who cries when the bubbles he is playing with burst. But, for a rational man to be so attached to a bubble is a most irrational thing.

    Are you God's child? Are you risen with Christ? Do you live in the hope of eternal glory? Then count this world to be a dead thing. Live no longer for this world. Set your heart on things above. Live above this pile of rubbish that must soon burn. Live to do the will of God, seek the glory of Christ, further the gospel of the grace of God, and serve the people of God. Quit seeking those things for which unbelieving men live; and seek those things which are above: life, immortality, and glory. "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."

    May the Lord God graciously burn these words into your heart and mine - "LOVE NOT THE WORLD!"

                                                                Pastor Don Fortner


THREE THINGS REGARDING GOD’S GRACE

1.     Grace is always sovereign. “Therefore, hath He mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He hardeneth” (Romans 9:18).

2.     Grace is always free. “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24).

3. Grace is always saving. “By grace are ye saved” (Ephesians 2:8).

God’s grace is not an offer up for man’s acceptance or rejection.  His grace sovereignly, freely saves! We cannot believe grace without believing these three things regarding grace.

                                                                          Pastor Todd Nibert


HE IS THE SAME

     I have an aunt who will be eighty years old in July.  While we were visiting last week and discussing world affairs, she said, “This is such a strange world from the one I grew up in.”  Being born in 1901, she has seen many changes.

     Isn’t it wonderful that amidst all the changes that the world has undergone politically, morally and spiritually, our Lord remains the same?  He is the same yesterday, today and forever.  Praise His immutable, matchless and amazing grace!

     His precious blood still cleanses the believer from all his sins.  Not only his past sins and present sins, but also all his future sins.  He bore the sum total of the sins of His people.  All of my sins were future when He bore them at Calvary.

     His precious grace still reigns in the hearts of His people.  He still works in them, “both to will (desire) and to do (perform) of His good pleasure.”  The good work He begins in the believer, He will carry out to completion.  He will never leave nor forsake one single sheep!

     His precious incarnation is still manifest, in that He is “touched with the feeling of our infirmities.”  So total and complete were His earthly experiences that no saint can ever undergo any trial or temptation that is beyond His own experiences, thus His understanding and sympathy are with His people in every situation.  Though He bring trials upon us for our own good, our spiritual development and growth, His heart beats with ours in every pain and He cherishes every tear that falls from our eyes.

                                                                         Maurice Montgomery


 “Our nature struggles fiercely against being saved without our works and tries to deceive us with a grand illusion of our own righteousness.  So we may find ourselves attracted to a life that merely appears to be righteous.  Or because we know we aren’t righteous, we may be frightened by death or sin.  Therefore, we must learn that we should have nothing to do with any other way of becoming righteous, except through Christ alone.”

                                                                                        Martin Luther


ANNOUNCEMENTS

·       FELLOWSHIP DINNER scheduled for December 8th, and

       THE LORD’S TABLE of REMEMBERENCE

·       Our Friday Night Bible Study will resume this coming Friday

 
FOOD FOR THOUGHT


THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING CHRIST

--Philippians 3:1-11--

  “I know that there are some things that are important to us; there are some people that are important to us.  However, in light of our great need of Christ nothing else is that important. We need his blood for cleansing, his righteousness for acceptance, his intercession for forgiveness; the list goes on.  We need Him.  As the woman with the issue of blood said, ‘If I can but touch the hem of his garment, I shall be made whole.’ Without Him we are lost, undone, and unaccepted by the Father. There is no material thing or human relationship that can supply my spiritual need; however, in Christ we are complete.  In Christ we have all that we need to stand in God’s presence accepted.  I cannot express how important it is to know Christ; all material things will burn up, and all fleshly relationships will be dissolved.  However, our relationship with Christ will never be dissolved nor diminished, and it will only grow sweeter. Judge the importance of everything in light of Him.”

                   Pastor John Chapman


 
The Work of God

"Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." (John 6:29)

  “The Scriptures show that the most pleasing element in faith to the eye of God is the fact that it HONORS HIS SON, for God dearly loves His Son.  There is no way we could ever comprehend the depth of the love of the Father towards His only begotten Son. The opposite of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, is confidence in our own righteousness.  This is a dishonor to the merit and salvation of Christ. But when we throw away all confidence in our own righteousness and have no hope but in the great atonement which Christ has made, we honor the Lord Jesus Christ, God delights in it, and will honor our faith.  He will not cast away a soul that clings to that great High Priest.”

                                                                                                  Pastor Milton Howard


SALVATION IS OF THE LORD

     God never intended for His Gospel to be complicated or hard to understand. It’s not hard to understand, however, it is impossible to believe apart from God’s divine revelation and intervention. But the message of the gospel is quite simple. I love the simplicity that is in Christ Jesus. The statement that Jonah made concerning his salvation and the salvation of all God’s elect is made in five simple words. “Salvation is of the Lord.” (Jonah 2:9) Does that statement need explaining? NO! Those five words mean exactly what they say.

     The Lord Jesus, when telling His disciples of His love for them said, “I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”  But in order for us to know Who does the saving, our Lord simply states, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”  When it comes to our salvation, God’s Word is clear about Who does the electing and the choosing of a sinner. God does! The Lord meant exactly what He said.

     The problem today is that men and women have been convinced that they must participate in their salvation. Men and women want to do something. They want to have a part in the matter. They want to share in the glory of it. They want to add their will, work and worth, but God will not share His glory with another. (Isaiah 42:8)

     In John chapter 6, the Lord Jesus said, “No man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.” And immediately we read, “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.”  Why do you think that was? Did they misunderstand the Lord Jesus? No, no, no. They understood exactly what He said, they just hated what He said.

     Salvation is a powerful work of grace that only God can do! Only God can give a dead sinner life and cause them to take sides with God against themselves. When a sinner does that, I can assure you that they are a saved sinner. (Ephesians 2:8-9)                     

                                                                                  David Eddmenson


 “Men do not know that God has provided a Righteousness for all believers.  For every soul born of Adam WHO WILL believe in Christ, there is a perfect righteousness - not ours, but God’s.  God came here in human form, not bound to be obedient, but being found in fashion as a man, He became obedient - obedient unto His own Law and fulfilled every jot and tittle of it.  He was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, and His obedience is our obedience if we believe.  God looks at us as if we had done what His Son had done.  To that Righteousness is the eye of the believer ever to be directed, on that Righteousness must he rest, on that Righteousness must he live, in that Righteousness must he die, in that Righteousness must he appear before the Judgment Seat, in that Righteousness must he stand forever in the presence of the Righteous God Who required it and provided it freely to every poor sinner who will trust in God’s Son.”

                                                                  Brother Scott Richardson



Only those who are enlightened by God the Holy Spirit will believe in their heart and confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord of heaven and earth.  Those who do not confess that Jesus Christ is ‘Lord of all’ HAVE NOT CONFESSED CHRIST AT ALL!  As a man, Jesus Christ, by His supreme sacrifice at Calvary, removed all the sins of all of His chosen people from God’s sight forever.  As the resurrected, exalted God-man, He now rules over this whole universe, and everything in it, as ‘LORD OF ALL!’  Believe that Jesus Christ is your Savior, and bow down to Him as the Sovereign Despot, or die in your sins and suffer the righteous judgment of God in eternal torment.

                                                                            Pastor Gene Harmon 


“Come unto Me, all you who are weary and heavy laden--and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).

  “What did our Lord here signify, when He bade all the weary and heavy laden to come unto Him?  It is quite evident that coming to Christ is something more than a physical act.  Coming to Christ in the sense He here invited, is a going out of the soul after Him, a desire for Him, a seeking after Him, a personal embracing of and trusting in Him.  It is the heart turning from the love of sin to the Savior!  In short, coming to Christ is the whole soul of a guilty and self-condemned sinner--turning unto a whole Christ, in the exercises of all our facilities, responding to His claims upon us, prepared to unreservedly trust, sincerely love, and devotedly serve Him.”

                                                                                                   A. W. Pink