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Kitchens Creek Baptist Church
7231 Monroe Hwy @ Kitchens Creek Rd
Ball, Louisiana 71405

Email: Pastor Milton W Howard
Mailing:  PO Box 740
Ball, LoUiSiAna  71405-0740

Weekly Church Bulletin
November 17, 2024

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT – john bunyan 

One day, as I was passing into the field, suddenly this sentence fell upon my soul: 'Thy righteousness is in heaven.' And I thought that I could see Jesus Christ at God's right hand. Yes, there indeed was my righteousness, so that wherever I was, or whatever I was doing, God could not say about me that I did not have righteousness, for it was standing there before Him. I also saw that it was not my good feelings that made my righteousness better, and that my bad feelings did not make my righteousness worse, for my righteousness was Jesus Christ Himself, 'the same yesterday, and today, and forever,' Hebrews 13:8. Now, indeed, the chains fell off my legs, and I was loosened from my afflictions and irons. My temptations also fled away so that from that time forward those dreadful Scriptures terrified me no more. Now I went home rejoicing because of the grace and love of God, and went to my Bible to look up where the verse was found that said, 'Thy righteousness is in heaven.' But I could not find it. And so my heart began to sink again, until suddenly, there came to my remembrance I Corinthians 1:30, 'Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption.'  From this, I saw that the other sentence was also true. 

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After hearing a sermon on God's wrath against sin, a man in the congregation raised an objection to the preacher. He said, "A loving God would never send a person to hell."  The preacher replied, "That is exactly right. A LOVING God would never send a person to hell, but a JUST God would. We must understand that God's love is in Christ and Him crucified, and there is no love from God outside of Christ. God's love is towards those for whom Christ died to satisfy the just demands of His law against their sins. 'Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins' (1 John 4:10)."
UNKNOWN 

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Love is the Queen of the Christian graces. It is a holy disposition given to us when we are born again by God. It is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. True spiritual love is characterized by meekness and gentleness, yet it is vastly superior to the courtesies and kindnesses of the flesh. The true nature of Christian love is a righteous principle which seeks the highest good of others. It is a powerful desire to promote their welfare. The exercise of love is to be in strict conformity to the revealed will of God. We must love in the truth. Love among the brethren is far more than an agreeable society where views are the same. It is loving them for what we see of Christ in them, loving them for Christ's sake. The Lord Jesus Himself is our example. He was not only thoughtful, gentle, self-sacrificing and patient, but He also corrected His mother, used a whip in the Temple, severely scolded His doubting disciples, and denounced hypocrites. True spiritual love is above all faithful to God and uncompromising towards all that is evil. We cannot declare, 'Peace and Safety' when in reality there is spiritual decay and ruin! True spiritual love is very difficult to exercise because it is not our natural love. By nature we would rather love sentimentally and engender good feelings. Also many times true spiritual love is not received in love, but is hated as the Pharisees hated it. We must pray that God will fill us with His love and enable us to exercise it without dissimulation toward all.
Arthur W. Pink 

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CALL TO WORSHIP
John Fawcett – 1782 

Thy presence, gracious Lord, afford;

Prepare us to receive Thy word;

Now let Thy voice engage our ear,

And faith be mixed with all we hear.

Distracting thoughts and cares remove,

And fix our hearts and hopes above;

With food divine may we be fed,

And satisfied with living bread.

To us Thy sacred word apply

With sovereign power and majesty;

May we in faith and godly fear

Rejoice and walk in what we hear.

Father, in us Thy Son reveal;

Teach us to know and do Thy will;

Thy saving pow'r and love display,

And crown Thy gospel with success. 

(Tune: Doxology) 

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(Psalm 25:4-7)  "Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.  Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.  Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.  Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD."