The Country Baptist Church Newsletter
1 Mile south of Interstate 30 on HWY 19
April 3, 2010
Pastor: Bro. Harace Hammond                               Pastor’s E-Mail: cbcpastor@toast.net
Web Site: www.baptistsonline.org/cbc

“The Voice Of The Country Church”

You Were Asked To Pray For:

 

 Bro. Archie & Barbara Griffin, Waylon & Pat Abercrombie with their daughter and son, Randy & Donna Johnson, Loyce Smith, Roberta Bruce and family, Barbara Fails, Jim & Linda Meier, Tyson & Dina Taylor and The Boys, Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia, Don & Wynell Hammond, Brenda Galusha, Baby Tucker Walker, Helen Stone, Bro. & Mrs. Pinson, Leta Ellis, Chet Reagan, Sidney Strawn, Amanda Tomlin, Helen Rowe, Kimberlee McCool, Janiece Stewart, Brother David and Anne Shortt, Jewell Mathis, Justin Horne, Janette Sims, Jean and Cheryl, Letha Langford, David Ellis and family, Virgil Young, Gwen Davis, Allison Rodgers Clay, Angela Hutson, Tiffany and Shannon Lemmon, Bob Ellis, Elaine Woodall, Reese Carrington, Jack Whittle, Ronda Douglass, Nancy, Rosa Tomlin, Pastor and Sister Hammond, Katie Fitch and Stephaine, Sarah Dooherty, Scott & Gina Sillivan, Otis Steward, Mark Ralston, Fay Johnson, Bro. Frank Pittman, David Lemmon, Martha Haygood, Kim Stevens, Lit Hatly, Brian Berry, Mike & Sally Leinhauserand, all of our Troops and their Families.

 

A Thought For The Week:

 

"They took Jesus, and led Him away."—John 19:16.

 He had been all night in agony, He had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, He had been hurried from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; He had, therefore, but little strength left, and yet neither refreshment nor rest were permitted Him. They were eager for His blood, and therefore led Him out to die, loaded with the cross. O dolorous procession! Well may Salem's daughters weep. My soul, do thou weep also.
  What learn we here as we see our blessed Lord led forth? Do we not perceive that truth which was set forth in shadow by the scapegoat? Did not the high-priest bring the scapegoat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat, and cease from the people? Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the sins of the people, so that if they were sought for they could not be found. Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce Him guilty; God Himself imputes our sins to Him, "the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all;" "He was made sin for us;" and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon His shoulders, represented by the cross; we see the great Scapegoat led away by the appointed officers of justice. Beloved, can you feel assured that He carried your sin? As you look at the cross upon His shoulders, does it represent your sin? There is one way by which you can tell whether He carried your sin or not. Have you laid your hand upon His head, confessed your sin, and trusted in Him? Then your sin lies not on you; it has all been transferred by blessed imputation to Christ, and He bears it on His shoulder as a load heavier than the cross.
  Let not the picture vanish till you have rejoiced in your own deliverance, and adored the loving Redeemer upon whom your iniquities were laid.

 C.H. Spurgeon                                                           

The Ground of a Sinner's Justification
 

"The perfect obedience of Christ, and His meritorious death, were both necessary as the ground of a sinner's justification. Neither would have been sufficient without the other. His obedience would not answer without His death; for the law which had been broken must be honored; and the penalty which had been incurred by the sinner must be endured by the Substitute. Neither would His death answer without His obedience; for it is the obedient, and not the punished, that the law justifies; he who keeps the precept, and not he who endures the penalty. It is only by satisfying both claims on our behalf, that Christ "of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."

Christmas Evans (1766-1838)

Danger of False Teachers

 

Easter

Today I will go through briefly the unholy worship of Easter. I will not at this time go in depth for lack of time and space.

Most of us have heard of the pagan/catholic beginnings of this holiday. In this article I will concentrate on what the scriptures say and do not say about this topic.

 

We will discuss the time/day.

In Luke 23:54 and in John 19:14,31 we learn that Jesus was crucified on the Jewish holiday of Passover. Leviticus 23:5 says “ In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover.” The first month on the Hebrew calender is the same as the month of April on the Roman calender we use today.

In Matthew 20:19, Mark 9:31; 10:34 and Luke 18:33; 24:7 we read where Jesus rose again on the third day. That would mean that He arose from the grave on April 17.

Also notice that the Passover started in the evening. Genesis 1:5 is an example of God's days. It says “And the evening and the morning were the first day.” So in Bible time the day started with the evening not in the morning as we do today. The Passover started when the morning of April 13th was finished and the evening of the 14th began. So according to the prophecies of the Son of God in the Old Testament Jesus had to die on the cross in the evening  of April 14th before the Passover began. Exodus 12:13; “And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.” The blood of Jesus is our “token” for God's final Passover. 

Matthew 27:45,46 tells us in “about the ninth hour” of the day was when he died.  Three days later He arose from the tomb. Now three days later would have been in the evening of the third day, the weekly sabbath or Saturday. Now the scripture tells us that they hurriedly took him down from the cross and put Him in the tomb because the sabbath was about to begin. This was a special sabbath and not the usual Saturday sabbath they observed every week. This was the Passover Sabbath. Remember the Passover was to take place on April 14th. According to historians April 14th in the year our Lord was crucified would have began on Wednesday evening. That means He was in the grave Wednesday night, Thursday, Thursday night, Friday, Friday night and Saturday. The third full day would have been Saturday so He would have arose on Saturday evening.

Mark and Luke tell us the women had prepared spices and ointments and were on their way to his tomb the morning of the first day of the week. This would have been the fourth day or Sunday. Jesus first appeared to the women in the morning on the first day of the week.

So as you can see many of the Easter traditions we observe today do not match with God's word and with world history.

Why do we move the day around? Shouldn't it be on the 17th of April every year?

Why do we observe Easter on Sunday morning? Did not His resurrection take place on Saturday evening?

The answer to these questions and many more that we could ask about this topic is that the Catholic church, under the guidance of satan, has tricked man into observing lies rather than truth. They have done this with every so called “Christian” holiday on our modern calender. To my knowledge there is only one holiday that the Lord told us to observe and that is the Lord's Day or the first day of the week(Sunday).

In America today we have been so brain washed into believing in fantasy that we have allowed even the truths of our Heavenly Father to be presented as fantasy.

Steve McCool