March 2014, Vol. 2, Ed. 3 - Gospel Light Baptist Church

Monthly newsletter for March 2014
Vol. 2 Ed. 3
In this issue:
Country Style Bible Wisdom:
Only One Way Out
Did you know that before you were saved, you were much like a
bumble bee or vulture? Instead of directing our attentions upwards
to Heaven to seek answers, we often tried to find our own way out,
ending ultimately in failure. There’s only one way to escape the
wages of sin—and that is through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Begins on page 10.
Church Outreach: Church Van Ministry
In the middle of 2012, the Lord answered the prayers and needs of
our church by providing us a van as a means to grow our local outreach ministry. Read how the church van ministry began, where it
has taken us to, and the direction it continues to grow.
Begins on page 15.
This Month’s Devotional:
There’s only one way…
Towards the end of February, leaders of the Catholic faith met in
Rome where the Pope released a statement declaring that it was not
essential to believe in Jesus to get to Heaven. The Bible actually
teaches that belief in the Lord Jesus Christ is the only way to
Heaven and the only way we can approach our Heavenly Father.
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March 2014
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Contents of this issue:
A Message from Pastor Ramsey
For Ladies Only - Mrs. Brenda Ramsey
Nursery schedule
Cleaning and mowing schedule
Country Style Bible Wisdom
Church Outreach: Church Van Ministry
March birthdays and anniversaries
Monthly Devotional Thought
Weekly service schedule
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page 9
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page 12
page 13
page 17
page 23
Coming up in March:
2nd
9th
11th
15th
18th
29th
30th
2:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
Bridal shower for Katie
Second Sunday Singing
Ladies’ Meeting
Byron and Katie’s Wedding
Colonial Assisted Living Center
Church workday
Lord’s Supper and Pot Luck
(early evening service)
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I
am so sick of winter. I am so
ready for SPRING! I keep telling
myself, “Every day that goes by is one
day closer to warm weather. Brenda and
I have talked about packing up and moving south (just
kidding). When we think we have it bad we need to look
at the weather in Minnesota and Michigan. No matter
how bad it gets here there is always someplace that is
worse off than we are.
Isn’t that the way it is in our own personal lives?
We think our world is falling apart, with no hope, and we
go sit under the pity tree. We find ourselves feeling sorry
for ourselves. We believe nobody cares. Wake up! And
look around you. There are those that are in worse shape
than we are.
You know, I am like everybody else and I have
problems too. But something happened on February 26,
2014 that has made me look at reality. One of my dearest friends and co-laborers in the ministry lost his wife in
death. I can’t imagine what pain he is going through
even as you read this some weeks later. I am his pastor
and yet I felt so helpless to help him in his time of need.
Too often husbands and wives take each other for
granted. We get to the place that we no longer kiss each
other good night before we go to sleep. We no longer tell
each other “I love you” when we leave to go to work. We
never know if it is the last time we see one another on
the face of this earth.
Too often we have a disagreement and we go to
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bed mad at one another. God tells us in Ephesians 4:26,
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon
your wrath. Don’t go to bed without resolving your disagreement. We never know what we will wake up to.
Husbands, love your wives. Ephesians 5:25, Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the
church, and gave himself for it. And Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord, as
found in Ephesians 5:22” Life is too short. James 4:14,
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For
what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a
little time, and then vanisheth away.
This should be a wakeup call for all of us today.
Not only for our relationships with our spouses but also
our relationship with those that are lost and need the
Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
-Until next month,
Pastor Alan Ramsey
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church can be unified in one of two ways. You can freeze
together, as the Church of the Frozen Chosen; or you
can melt together with the fire of the Holy Spirit.
John Hagee (1940 -
)
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don’t know about you,
but I am tired of the
snow, cold and ice. I am looking forward to spring time,
warm weather, sunshine, green
trees and flowers. We have lots
of activities to look forward to
this spring and summer. It’s
For Ladies Only
time to get our Women’s Ministry in gear. We need all the laMrs. Brenda Ramsey
dies of the church to get involved in our ladies ministry.
Let’s face it, God made us all different but there’s no reason why we can’t all band together as Christian women
and head in the same direction. We can allow our differences to tear us apart or we can use them to make us
stronger. We all have different strengths and weaknesses and God has a way of using those to make us better as a group. So I don’t want any of you to miss joining
in just because you think you don’t fit in. Please don’t let
anything hold you back. Everyone is welcome to come
along and get on board with us! We need all types of
women of different ages, personalities, and yes even different little quirks to make this an exciting and fulfilling
ministry.
Our women’s ministry can have an impact on our
church. Through our women’s ministry, we can improve
our relationship with each other.
We can improve our prayer lives.
We can improve out bible study.
We can improve the way we
mentor and teach the younger
girls in our church. We can improve the community. We can
improve our relationships with
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each other and with our spouses. We can improve the
support we have among each other as women. We can
even improve our laughter and emotional states. In the
long run, we can improve our church as a whole because
when we as women are doing our part to further the
cause of Christ, we will see results. There’s such potential among us. In Philippians 3:13-14, Paul is talking
about how he had to let go of those things that were
holding him back and just keep going forward. That’s
what we all have to do, not only in our individual Christian lives but when it comes to our women’s ministry as
well.
Our first ladies meeting for the year 2014 will be
on March 11th at 6:00. We meet in the fellowship hall
and have a time of refreshments, games and devotions.
At our first meeting we will be having a special speaker.
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ake care of giving up your first zeal; beware of cooling in
the least degree. Ye were hot and earnest once; be hot and
earnest still, and let the fire which once burnt within you still
animate you. Be ye still men of might and vigour, men who serve
their God with diligence and zeal.
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Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)
hen you get into a tight place and everything goes
against you, till it seems as though you could not hang
on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place
and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
This month’s nursery schedule
Sunday
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a.m. service
p.m. service
Midweek
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Michelle
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Amy
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Bonita
No Nursery
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Tracey
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Tracey
Bonita
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Carla
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Michelle
Brenda
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Michelle
30
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Bonita
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If you are interested in serving in the church’s nursery
ministry, please see Mrs. Bonita Coghill. She will be
happy to discuss it with you.
Current nursery workers: If you know of any dates
next month that you will not be able to work in the nursery, please let Mrs. Bonita Coghill know by the 15th of
this month.
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Mrs. Amy Shofner will be sharing her heart with us
about the matter of submission. (Please don’t let this
scare you). Amy is a wife, mother and a nurse. She also
is our piano player, sings specials and also teaches our
toddlers Sunday School. (She is a busy lady) Please,
please, please make plans to attend our 1st meeting of
the year.
Plans are also under way for our Annual Mother
Daughter Banquet on Saturday, May 10th. The theme
will be announced soon. I think you will really enjoy it.
I am looking forward to seeing all of you at our meeting
on March 11th.
Mrs. Brenda Ramsey
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s the deacon of our church, I still
have a lot to learn. With your
prayers, and mentoring from Pastor Alan
Ramsey, I will get there. As a member of
Gospel Light Baptist Church, if you need me, do not hesitate to give me a call. I am honored to be your deacon.
Bro. Kenny Blake
With loving thoughts and memories, this edition is dedicated to
Gayla Owens
December 25, 1962—February 26, 2014
This month’s church cleaning and mowing schedule
Week
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Cleaning
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Roy and Bonita Coghill
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Alan and Michelle Simmons
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Roy and Bonita Coghill
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Alan and Michelle Simmons
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If you are interested in helping maintain the church
building or property, please see Mrs. Brenda Ramsey or
Mrs. Bonita Coghill, or you can sign up on the schedules
posted on the closet door near the pastor’s office and rest
rooms.
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Brother Eddy Owens
Adult Sunday School Teacher
Worship Leader at Colonial
Assisted Living Center
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wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from
the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the
law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin (Romans 7:24
-25).
If you put a buzzard in a pen that is 6 feet by 8
feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of
its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. Why?
Because a buzzard always begins a flight from the
ground with a run of 10 to 12 feet. Without space to run,
as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.
The ordinary bat that flies around at night, a remarkably creature in the air, cannot take off from a level
place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can
do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully,
until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can
throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a
flash.
A bumblebee, if dropped into an open bottle, will
be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees
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the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to
find some way out through the sides near the bottom. It
will seek a way where none exists, until it completely destroys itself.
In many ways, we are like the buzzard, the bat
and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to
do is look up.
Sometimes the world is like a open bottle to people, They find them self’s at the bottom and trying to find
a way out of some kind of problem. They might be struggling with a drug addiction, alcohol addiction, etc.
They look for many ways out but they seem to
never find one. They try many ways to get out but still
after trying over and over they still find their self’s trap
at the bottom trying to escape. Not knowing all they
have to do is look up and find God and ask him to help.
When we confessed our sins and acknowledged our
need for God’s forgiveness, God cleanses us and makes
us new. Those of us who have known the Lord for many
years may have the tendency to forget what we’ve been
rescued from and forgiven of.
Sharing about our past and current failures and
giving praise to God for forgiveness will help us not to
come across as “holier-than-thou” to people who don’t yet
know the Lord.
(Romains5:10) We too were once separated from
the Lord because of our sin and were considered His enemies.
(1 Timothy 1:13) Paul knew he had personally
done wrong and sinned against God. He wrote, “ I was
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formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a disrespectful
man” (V.15) He even called himself the “chief” of sinners.
The truth is we’ve all been trap in sin and tried to escape
and been guilty of plenty, but we’ve look up and God has
showed us the way out. And God deserves the glory for
showing us the way out and for having mercy toward us.
Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. But faith looks
up. As long as we keep our face toward the light, the
shadows will fall behind us.
Bro. Eddy Owens
E
arly in 2012, Pastor Alan Ramsey began sharing
with the church his vision for church growth, which
included a van ministry to help grow our church outreach. Shortly after sharing that vision with the church,
Pastor Ramsey set Brothers Richard Shofner and Byron
Floyd out with a mission to find a van that would not
only be within the budget of the church, but that would
suit the church’s transportation needs. The vision that
the Pastor shared became a need as around March 2012,
Brother Don Sadler (1937-2013) became one of the first
to become dependent upon our church’s van ministry.
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By mid-2012, and with the hard work of Bro. Shofner and Bro. Floyd, Gospel Light Baptist Church had a
van donated that met the needs of the church. Without
the hard work and dedication of Bros. Shofner and Floyd
and the assistance of PPG, Bartlett’s Collision Center,
and Bluegrass Towing and Auto Repair, the van would
not have become a reality as soon as it did. Since mid2012, the van ministry has been an important part of the
outreach ministry for the church, allowing it to expand
into areas that no one had even expected.
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March
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Birthdays and anniversaries
Hailey Meredith
George Pullum
Rosetta Stone
Jeremy Webb
Jaxon Pullum
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Byron & Katie Floyd Wedding
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Carrie Crowley
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Kenny Blake
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Steve Alexander
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Betty Reed
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Kenny and Jean Ann Blake Anniversary
31
Bella Meredith
If you have a birthday or anniversary this month and
we didn’t list it here, please let Mrs. Brenda Ramsey
know. We would like to celebrate that special occasion
with you and update our information.
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Over the next few
months, Bro. Don Sadler
and Bro. Eddy Owens were
the only two riders for the
church’s van ministry, but
in March of 2013, Pastor
Ramsey received a phone
call from Bro. Patrick From Center, left, right: Eddy
McLevaine, a student at the Owens with Benjamin and Patrick.
are just a few of that benefit
Earl C. Clements Job These
from our church van ministry
Corps, who was interested (February 9, 2014).
in attending church services at our church. That very next Sunday, the church
van made its way to the Job Corps Center in Union
County to pick up Bro. McLevaine and a friend of his,
André Flemming. Within a matter of months, as the result of the church’s faithfulness in providing the van
ministry and Bro. McLevaine’s soul winning efforts, from
mid-May 2013 to the present, the van ministry has
brought bringing between three to six Job Corps youth to
church each Sunday. Since then, we have even seen
three youth from Job Corps follow the Lord in believer’s
baptism.
As with most of our church ministries, the church
van ministry continues to grow. Although the number of
Job Corps youth fluctuates between three and six any
given Sunday, growth has been limited since the van’s
capacity is six passengers and one driver. With this in
mind, since the end of last year, Pastor Ramsey has
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shared that his vision is for the church to get a twelve to
fifteen passenger van to not only accommodate the potential growth of our Job Corps outreach, but to use for
church-planned fellowship outings where a larger van
would make group travel easier. Please continue to support our van ministry and its growth through your
prayers.
If you are interested in helping with the van ministry, please
see Pastor Alan Ramsey.
In today’s busy pace, it is easy to simply run out of
time before we run out of things to do. It is easy to allow
our personal time with Jesus to be replaced by the worries of everyday life. It starts by postponing our prayer
time until a more quiet time of the day; soon we then say
that we’ll spend time in prayer and Bible study before
bedtime. Before we realize it, our time with Jesus becomes nonexistent as our days become full, unorganized,
and we are left feeling spiritually drained.
The first step in making our relationship with
Jesus a priority is that we
must have a desire to set
Jesus first. We have a tendency to make sure that we
get things done that we set
as high priority or that we
want to get done. Do not
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phy of “Jesus understands” because it is an excuse. We
would find it hard to accept that excuse from a family
member; instead of hearing, “Oh, I am sure you understand,” most people would hear it as “I simply didn’t care
enough about you…” The apostle Paul wrote, I beseech
you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
God, which is your reasonable service (Romans 12:1).
Our personal time with the Lord is part of that
reasonable service that Paul is writing about. Here are
some suggestions on how we can make our time with the
Lord Jesus Christ a priority in our lives and spend quality time with him:
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Wake up thirty minutes early and use the quiet time
to read the Bible and pray. Nothing improves our
time with the Lord than when we choose a time
where we can study and read uninterrupted.
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Listen to a Christian radio station. Whether it is a
station dedicated to broadcasting music or Bible
teaching, it is amazing how just by changing our listening habits when we are in the car or in an office
can change our daily outlook and mood.
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Subscribe to free devotionals such as Our Daily Bread
that provides structured daily readings. Sometimes
having a daily devotional guide helps to motivate us
to be faithful in our personal Bible reading time.
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Subscribe to Sword of the Lord newspaper. Each two
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tionals, and other materials that are designed to
strengthen your walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Take a weekly prayer list home and each day, lift up
a different handful of names to the Lord. The
church’s prayer list is a great starting point for those
wanting to strengthen their prayer life. Our church’s
prayer list is divided into broad categories that makes
it easier to know what to pray for.
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Keep a daily prayer journal where you write down
what you prayed for. Periodically go back through it
and mark a line through those prayers you’ve witnessed God’s answer to. This will serve to strengthen
your prayer life as you begin to see God answering
prayers.
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Borrow audio CDs from the church library. Each
Sunday morning, the AM service, beginning from the
scripture reading through the end of the preaching
service is recorded.
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Borrow DVDs from the church video library. Adult
Sunday School and the AM service are videotaped
each week. The AM service recording starts from the
beginning of the scripture reading through the end of
the preaching service.
It takes effort to make our relationship with Jesus
a priority in our lives but there is no greater joy this side
of Heaven than to have a life that is Christ-centered.
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eave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step
out into the invincible future with Him.
Oawald Chambers (1874-1917)
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The March Devotional Thought:
There’s only one way...
Brother Alan Simmons
Newsletter Editor
More devotionals are available at
www.thedailywalk.org
T
owards the end of February, Pope Francis made a
declaration at a meeting of Catholic bishops and
theologians that any teachings on the subject of Hell and
eternal damnation of the unbeliever are doctrines that run
contrary to the love of God. He further stated that Christianity is just merely one of many avenues that end in the
presence of God. In an effort to be more appealing, more
moderate to a lost and dying world, the man who considers himself as the leader of the Christian world has made
a pronouncement that runs counter to the teachings of the
Bible.
Jesus spoke on this very issue during his earthly
ministry. He stated clearly that he was the only way to
Heaven: Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, I am the door of the sheep… I am the door: by
me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in
and out, and find pasture (John 10:7,9). Jesus further defines his role as the door: Jesus saith unto him, I am the
way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). There is no other way into
Heaven. There’s no debate about it; there’s no alternative
to believing in Jesus. If a person does not believe in Jesus
there is no alternate way, no detour that will bring man
into Heaven. Jesus is the only way to the Father.
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Since the fall of Adam, mankind has been born into
sin. Jesus clearly taught that it was through him that we
gain access to the Father. This was understood by the
apostle Paul as he explains that it is through our faith in
the Lord Jesus Christ and his completed work on the cross
that allows us that access: Therefore being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this
grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of
God (Romans 5:1-2). Again, our access to God our Heavenly Father comes through the Lord Jesus Christ! We
have peace with God not by our own righteousness but
through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Jesus warned those in the crowds during his
earthly ministry: Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is
the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is
the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life,
and few there be that find it (Matthew 7:13-14). If there
were other ways to Heaven and to the foot of the throne of
God, why would Jesus direct those around him to seek the
“straight path” if all paths did indeed lead to God? Why
make the effort to identify Himself as the “way, truth, and
life” and why call himself the “door” if he was simply one
of many? The truth is that there is only one path—and it
is often too simple for the lost world to believe that it
really is that simple. We admit we are sinners, we repent
of our sins, we confess that Jesus is Lord. No special
prayers, nothing for us to do because the work—
atonement for our sins—has already happened for us on
the cross of Calvary!
Before we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we
were kept apart from God because of our sins. Even as
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tices us to willfully sin. The Bible teaches that our God is
holy and because of his holiness, we are kept apart from
him by our sinful state. Again, the apostle Paul explains,
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are
made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who
hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle
wall of partition between us (Ephesians 2:13-14). It is the
sacrifice of Jesus that allows us to be drawn closer to God
and that same sacrifice that acts as the doorway to allow
us access to God. The apostle Peter also understood the
cost that was paid by Jesus that allows us to have such
free access to the Father: For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring
us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by
the Spirit (I Peter 3:18). Without Jesus acting as that
doorway –as that sacrifice for our sins— we would not
have access to the Heavenly Father! Our sin would stand
in defiance of God, demanding eternal punishment—
eternal separation from God in a place described as a
place Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched (Mark 9:48) and a place where those who are
not saved shall be tormented day and night for ever and
ever (Revelation 20:10c).
As Christians who do believe in the completed work
of Jesus Christ as our only hope and assurance of our
faith, the apostle Paul does comfort us about our ability to
commune directly with God, through Jesus; According to
the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our
Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him (Ephesians 3:11-12). In fact, the
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apostle Paul tells us that we can enter into God’s throne
room through prayer Having therefore, brethren, boldness
to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus (Hebrews
10:19). Because of the blood of Jesus, we can pray for our
needs, we can lift one another in prayer, and we can lift
our voices in praise to Him.
There are lost people, some of them family, friends,
and co-workers that are looking for answers. Some of
them will hear the words of Pope Francis and deduct that
since he is seen as the head of the Catholic faith, then how
can his words be wrong? As Christians, we have a responsibility to stand in the truths we learn through the preaching and teaching of His Word: As ye have therefore received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built
up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been
taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest
any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world,
and not after Christ (Colossians 6:2-8). We have an obligation to remain in our faith that we know to be true according to the Bible.
We have an obligation to be that which the Lord
called Ezekiel to be: So thou, O son of man, I have set thee
a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt
hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me
(Ezekiel 33:7). What are we to warn them about? The very
thing that Peter warned about: But there were false
prophets also among the people, even as there shall be
false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction (II Peter 2:1).
Until next month—
Bro. Alan Simmons
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March 2014
Volume 2, Edition 3
The Bulletin Board
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Kentucky and any fees as required by the city of Henderson. Gospel Light
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newsletter has copies that are
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Are you interested in
advertising your service or
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Contact Brother Alan Simmons
and see what your options are to
have your advertisement featured here!
Save your printer
cartridges
In an agreement with one of our
suppliers, Gospel Light Press is
now a collection point for recycling of used printer cartridges.
Bring your used cartridges (any
model) and our church will receive a $1.00 credit for each cartridge recycled.
This credit will be applied to the
publication expenses of the
church’s monthly newsletter.
If you’re like me, you get a half dozen magazines and
newspapers around the house that you get each month
that once you have finished with it, you do not know
what to do. You hate to throw them away but you know
you cannot keep them. Well, as a suggestion, once you
no longer need this edition of the monthly newsletter,
why not give it to someone you would like to invite to
church or leave it in the waiting room of your next doctor’s or dentist’s appointment?
If you have been given this newsletter or found it as you
were waiting for an appointment, we would love to invite
you to visit us at Gospel Light Baptist Church. On the
back cover you will find a map of the area in Henderson
where we are located. If you live within the Henderson
area and need transportation, please contact us and we
will make arrangements to bring you to our services.
Schedule of our services
Saturday Morning Visitation
10:00 a.m.
Sunday School
9:45 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship Service
10:45 a.m.
Sunday Evening Service
6:00 p.m.
Wednesday Night Service
6:00 p.m.
Colonial Assisted Living Center
(Third Tuesday of each month)
18th of March
2:00 p.m.
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1. RECOGNIZE YOUR CONDITION:
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For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)
No one is good enough to go to Heaven on his own merit. No matter how much good
we do, we still fall short.
REALIZE THE PENALTY FOR SIN:
For the wages of sin is death...(Romans 6:23)
Just as there are wages for good, there is punishment for wrong. The penalty for our
sin is eternal death in a place called Hell.
BELIEVE CHRIST DIED FOR YOU:
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us.(Romans 5:8)
Christ’s great love for us was shown when He died on the cross to pay our sin debt.
TRUST CHRIST ALONE AS YOUR SAVIOR:
But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23) For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13)
Everlasting life is a gift purchased by the blood of Jesus and offered freely to those who
call upon Him by faith.