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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
August 09, 2026

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT – c.h. spurgeon

I have told you before of the bricklayer who fell off a scaffold, and was taken up so injured that it was seen that he must soon die. A good clergyman, bending over him, said, "My dear man, you had better make your peace with God." The poor fellow opened his eyes, and said, "Make my peace with God, sir? Why, that was done for me more than eighteen hundred years ago by him who took my sin, and suffered in my stead." Thank God for that!

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(Romans 1:16)  "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
The Gospel of the free grace of God in Christ is the message of the Bible.  It is the only message that God uses to call sinners.  It is the only message that glorifies God.  It is the only message that gives hope to the sinner.  It is the only message that is needed today.
MWH

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(Galatians 2:16)  "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."

What is justification?  It is not the making us righteous in person, but in state.  The Papists confound it with sanctification, and some Protestants do the same.  But justification stands opposed to condemna­tion.  It is the absolving a man from a charge, the acquitting him when accused, and pronouncing him righteous.  Only as we are really guilty, we cannot be justified by disproving the offense, but by the non-imputa­tion of it, and treating us as innocent.  The manner is described by the Apostle: "We are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath set forth as a propitiation for sin." The blessing is full and complete, for we "are justified from all things." It is permanent and irreversible: "Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." It is also a present benefit.  The percep­tion of it may be wanting, but the state is real; they have passed from death unto life, they are accepted in the Beloved.  And blessed, says David, is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.  Blessed in his duties, blessed in his comforts, blessed in his trials.  For him affliction has no curse, death no sting, eternity no terror.

This inestimable blessing is obtained by the faith of Christ.  We are often curious, and ask for reasons when we should be satisfied with facts.  It is not necessary to be able to explain precisely how faith jus­tifies the soul.  It should be enough for us to know that it is a truth clearly revealed.

And since, O my soul, none are justified that do not believe, and all that believe are justified, let me apply my heart unto wisdom.  Instead of losing myself in subtle inquiries and angry disputes, let me do two things:           

Let me observe, first, the importance, of this faith.  It is, in a sober sense, as important as Christ.  What therefore is ascribed to him meritoriously, is ascribed to faith instrumentally.  He is the well; but by faith we draw water out of it.  He is the refuge: but a refuge cannot screen us unless it be entered.  He is the bread of life; but food cannot nourish us unless it be eaten; and all this is done by faith only.

Let me, secondly, ask, seriously and earnestly, have I this faith of Christ?  Do I believe the record, that God bath given us eternal life, and that this life is in his Son?  And am I repairing to him, and trust­ing him alone for salvation?  How does my faith sow?  Does it "sow in tears?"  How does it rejoice?  Does it "rejoice in Christ Jesus," and has it "no confidence in the flesh?"  How does it work?  Does it "work by love?"  How does it travel?  How plead?  Can I say, "I will go in the strength of the Lord God; I will make mention of his righteousness only?"

William Jay – Morning Exercises

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CALL TO WORSHIP
Isaac Watts – 1706

Not all the blood of beasts
On Jewish altars slain
Can give the guilty conscience peace
Nor wash away the stain.

But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb.
Takes all our sins away,
A sacrifice of nobler name
And richer blood than they.

My faith would lay her hand
On that dear head of Thine,
While like a penitent I stand
And there confess my sin.

To our Redeemer, God,
Wisdom and pow'r belongs,
Immortal crowns of majesty
And everlasting songs.

(Tune: "I Love Thy Kingdom")

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(Isaiah 66:1-2)  "Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?  For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word."