Hope you are enjoying the “cool” weather. 🙂

Here is our bulletin for this week.

• PDF Bulletin FFC July 16 2017

GALATIANS MESSAGE 1 –  One Gospel – Galatians 1:1-12

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If I get it wrong, then I am accursed.

• Sobering. And, no, I am not speaking theoretically. If I get it wrong, then I am accursed.
• The gospel I mean. If I get the gospel wrong, then I am accursed. The same goes for you. Get it right or remain under the curse of God, crushed under the weight of his holy law. So we had better get it right then, hadn’t we?
• And you may notice that I am speaking of the gospel. We don’t have to call it the true gospel to identify it, to have it stand out among the other gospels. It is true, and we could rightly say the “true gospel,” but we are on very solid ground when we simply say “the gospel” because there is only one.
• In our text this morning the Apostle Paul speaks of a different gospel that is no gospel at all. So I repeat—there is one gospel.
• Our Galatians study is all about making sure we get this right. Why? Why does it matter? Because if we do not get the gospel right, then we will not be rescued from this present evil age.
• The message of Galatians is one of freedom, freedom from our sins, freedom from this present darkness. Escape. We need rescued. We need help; we need a Savior. The other gospels—the gospels that aren’t gospels at all—not only cannot rescue or deliver us from this present evil age, but they are part of the lie. You know the lie I am speaking of—the one where humans trade the truth of God for a lie.
• And is there any greater lie, is there any greater deception, than a gospel that leads to the judgment of God? Please tell me if I am missing something, but where is the good news in a story that ends in a lake of fire.
• John MacArthur shares this insight from his many years of ministry: One of the strange realities in my life that I never really anticipated is that I have spent so many years, preached so many messages, written so many books, trying, in a sense, to hang onto the gospel while it’s under attack from so called evangelicals. When I was in seminary, you know, we were kind of prepared to battle with liberalism, and we were prepared to defend the inerrancy of Scripture. We were prepared to be able to defend the true ministry of the Holy Spirit and get the right paradigm of sanctification, and deal with the sort of initial movement of what we now call the charismatic movement. We were learning how to address issues of liberalism and [to] counter Catholicism and deal  [with] the cults. But the gospel seemed to be sort of a settled issue in the evangelical world.
• Philip Ryken, speaking of MODERN GOSPELS, tells us that: More importantly, can you distinguish between the true gospel and all the false gospels in the contemporary church? We worship in a church of many gospels. There is the gospel of material prosperity, which teaches that Jesus is the way to financial gain. There is the gospel of family values, which teaches that Jesus is the way to a happy home. There is the gospel of the self, which teaches that Jesus is the way to personal fulfillment. There is the gospel of religious tradition, which teaches that Jesus is the way to respectability. There is the gospel of morality, which teaches that Jesus is the way to be a good person. [End quote.]
• But there is only one gospel, one effective rescue from the evil of this world, and that is God’s gospel. One plan, one gospel. No other way or ways.

We begin our Galatians study this Sunday.

GALATIANS MESSAGE 1 –  One Gospel

Galatians 1:1-12

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If I get it wrong, then I am accursed. The gospel I mean. If I get the gospel wrong, then I am accursed. The same goes for you. Get it right or remain under the curse of God, crushed under the weight of his holy law. So we had better get it right then, hadn’t we?

And you may notice that I am speaking of the gospel. We don’t have to call it the true gospel to identify it, to have it stand out among the other gospels. It is true, and we could rightly say the “true gospel,” but we are on very solid ground when we simply say “the gospel” because there is only one.

In our text this morning the Apostle Paul speaks of a different gospel that is no gospel at all. So I repeat—there is one gospel.

Our Galatians study is all about making sure we get this right. Why? Why does it matter? Because if we do not get the gospel right, then we will not be rescued from this present evil age.

The message of Galatians is one of freedom, freedom from our sins, freedom from this present darkness. Escape. We need rescued. We need a Savior. The other gospels—that aren’t gospels at all—not only cannot rescue or deliver us from this present evil age, but they are part of the lie. You know the lie I am speaking of—the one where humans trade the truth of God for a lie.

And is there any greater lie than a gospel that deceives and leads to the judgment of God? Please tell me if I am missing something, but where is the good news in a story that ends in a lake of fire.

John MacArthur shares this insight from his many years of ministry: One of the strange realities in my life that I never really anticipated is that I have spent so many years, preached so many messages, written so many books, trying, in a sense, to hang onto the gospel while it’s under attack from so called evangelicals. When I was in seminary, you know, we were kind of prepared to battle with liberalism, and we were prepared to defend the inerrancy of Scripture. We were prepared to be able to defend the true ministry of the Holy Spirit and get the right paradigm of sanctification, and deal with the sort of initial movement of what we now call the charismatic movement. We were learning how to address issues of liberalism and counter Catholicism and deal the cults. But the gospel seemed to be sort of a settled issue in the evangelical world.

Philip Ryken, speaking of MODERN GOSPELS, tells us that: More importantly, can you distinguish between the true gospel and all the false gospels in the contemporary church? We worship in a church of many gospels. There is the gospel of material prosperity, which teaches that Jesus is the way to financial gain. There is the gospel of family values, which teaches that Jesus is the way to a happy home. There is the gospel of the self, which teaches that Jesus is the way to personal fulfillment. There is the gospel of religious tradition, which teaches that Jesus is the way to respectability. There is the gospel of morality, which teaches that Jesus is the way to be a good person. [End quote.]

But there is only one gospel, one effective rescue from the evil of this world, and that is God’s gospel. One plan, one gospel. No other way or ways.

Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC July 9 2017

Our Pure Work for God

James 1-19-27

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Two more study sheets. Just meant to finish up; tie a few things together.

Yeah. So hours later here we are.

Very pleased with the result of the extra work though so not complaining.

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Our Pure Work for God 

James 1:19-27

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And it’s July. Yip.

Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC July 2 2017

Finished Revelation Series Sunday … 

REVELATION MESSAGE 30 – Revelation 22 

The Words of This Book

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“Thus says the LORD” …

• “Thus says the LORD” … That phrase is found 417 times in the English Standard Version … 419 times in the New American Standard Bible … and 415 times in the King James Version as “thus saith the LORD.”
• It is one of my favorite phrases in the Bible, and I love to hear it over the radio from the old preachers such as J. Vernon McGee, Vance Havner, A. W. Tozer or Oliver Greene—“Thus saith the LORD.”
• And maybe as we listen to these old preachers, maybe that AM signal barely reaches our location, and we hear the background static, the familiar crackling that provides the ambience that only radio gives. But there is no static, no fuzziness, in the message delivered—“Thus says the LORD” … God has spoken.
• Do not miss the obvious. Do not allow anything to distract us or obscure the words. Just as the Spirit spoke to each of the seven churches—”He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”—Christ speaks to us.
• God speaks his word to humanity—“Thus says the LORD” … Since the first week of creation, and until he closes the chapter on earth history at the final judgment, God speaks to us. In the past he spoke through his prophets and apostles, and now he speaks through faithful preachers. God speaks his word.
• The overwhelming testimony for the entire history of this earth will be that God spoke his word to every generation, including us … now … this morning …
• So what might God want us to hear this morning? What message might he have for us from the last chapter of the last book of the Bible? What recurring themes do we hear? What does he emphasize?
• Not surprisingly, he emphasizes his words. He tells us that his words are faithful and true. He tells us that we are blessed if we keep his words. And he tells us to not mess with his words; no adding to or taking away.

Beautiful, beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Here is this week’s bulletin.

• PDF Bulletin FFC June 25 2017