We worship our God the Father of His people. In the Old Testament the Israelites were called the people of God. They were recognized as His children. They sang songs of praise to God for His sovereign ways and mighty works (Psalm 138). They praised Him whose lovingkindness is everlasting (Psalm 136). Yet, in the trials and struggles of life induced by sin and the sinful nature, the people often found themselves in trouble. Disobedience gave way to captivity by foreign pagan nations. During the captivity to Babylon their captors demanded them to sing songs of Zion (Psalm 137). The…
Sunday Morning Calls to Worship
Call To Worship, February 1st 2015
We worship God our Father who adopted us as His children. The heavenly Father conferred upon us the status of adoption through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit applies the spirit of adoption to us. This Trinitarian work gives us good reason to rejoice; not only are we justified and regenerated, but we are predestined to become the sons and daughters of the Father as fellow heirs with our Lord and Savior. We will inherit the kingdom of heaven as adopted children. We were conceived in sin, born of the flesh and blood of Adam with the sinful will of…
Call to Worship, January 25 2015
We worship our God, the one and only sovereign King. God oversees His creation with His foreordaining power and with the same He sustains all existence. God is King over all the earth not by democracy, but by His very being. His being is all powerful and He does not need a vote of confidence. So, He predestined all things according to His most free and holy will. God did not seek direction or consultation from any other being. He reigns over all and sits on His holy throne. No one will thwart, balk, foil or frustrate His will. His…
Call to Worship, January 18 2015
We worship our God who knows neither accident nor fate. He made all things, including us, with His great skill. He is intimately acquainted with all our ways. We cannot flee from Him because He is everywhere in simultaneous perfection. He knows our next word before we speak it, where we will go before we make our plans, and our trials before they hit us. God not only knows all, but he ordained all. He determined our appointed times and the boundaries of our habitation (Acts 17:25-26). How wonderful He is that in His plan He predestined the salvation of…
Call to Worship January 11, 2015
Pastor Silas Mercer wrote on behalf of the Phillips Mill Church in Wilkes county Georgia, in 1787, “We are fully convinced that Salvation is all of grace, or all of works; for they cannot be mixed in this business; and if it be by grace, then the doctrine of the Election, or God’s love to his people, is the very foundation of our salvation; and is that foundation of God which standeth sure…”[1] In addition, the Georgia Association confessed in the Abstract & Decorum of 1790, “We believe in the everlasting love of God to His people, and the eternal…
Call to Worship – January 4. 2015
As we enter a new year we praise our God, who helped us in years past, and stands as our hope for years to come. When people and culture are against us, the one God who chose us, saves us and keeps us will remain the same. God never changes even in His electing grace. His election of many discloses His sovereignty and mighty power over mankind. No one will thwart his will. Not even the man of lawlessness or one antichrist will overcome His omnipotent reigning power. Therefore, let us praise and honor Him as we consider all the…
Call to Worship – December 14 2014
We worship the God who elected many to salvation by His grace and for His glory. The word election, in the biblical/theological sense has fallen on hard times. No word seems to foster more frustration, redefinition and denial among Christians. B.B. Warfield wrote, “It is sad to witness the death of any worthy thing, —even of a worthy word. And worthy words do die, like any other worthy thing —if we do not take good care of them. How many worthy words have already died under our very eyes, because we did not take care of them… The religious terrain…
Call to Worship – December 7, 2014
We come to worship the God of grace. He lavished His grace upon his people through the kind intention of His will from eternity past. He graciously sent His Son, with honor, blessing and all authority, to redeem the Israel of God. Jesus, being one with the Father, rules the world in truth and grace. In loving-kindness God sealed us in His Son by the work of His Spirit. He planned, accomplished and applied all of this to a people descended from the race of Adam. We were conceived in sin and born with a sin nature, but God being…
Call to Worship, November 23 2014
We worship our God who placed us in Christ Jesus. When people are born, in reality, they exist as sinners in the headship of Adam by nature. So, when a person is regenerated, by the Spirit, they repent and believe in the provision made in Christ (Messiah). In Christ redemption was accomplished and righteousness is imputed. Therefore in reality they no longer are in Adam, but they are now in Christ, which means justification actually takes place for the believer. Those who are “in Christ” should have no fear of the union with Him fading, weakening, disintegrating or struggling. Union…
Call to Worship, November 16, 2014
We worship our God who blessed us with the heavenly blessing of union with Christ. We are actually in Christ; by God’s will through redemption, with an inheritance by adoption, joining in the summation of all things in Christ and our hope is in Him to the praise of His glory. Our union in Christ is real, therefore it is not mystical, although it may be mysterious to some degree. The reality of our union with Christ comes forth in the aforementioned benefits established by Paul in Ephesians Ch. 1. The testimonies and commands of God tell us of our…