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The Country Baptist Church
Newsletter
1 Mile south of Interstate 30
on HWY 19
July 25, 2010
Pastor: Bro. Harace Hammond
Pastor’s E-Mail: cbcpastor@toast.net
Web Site: www.baptistsonline.org/cbc
"The Voice Of The Country Church" |
| We
Ask You To Pray For:
Sis. Elaine Woodall, Bro. Charles & Mary Hammond &
family, Bro. Archie & Barbara Griffin, Waylon & Pat
Abercrombie with their daughter & son, Randy & Donna
Johnson, Roberta Bruce & family, Barbara Fails, Jim
& Linda Meier, Tyson & Dina Taylor & 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,
Steve & Kimberlee McCool & children, Melissa Smith &
children, Brother David & Anne Shortt, Jewell
Mathis, Justin Horne, Janette Sims, Jean & Cheryl,
Letha Langford, David Ellis and family, Virgil
Young, Gwen Davis, Allison Rodgers Clay, Angela
Hutson, Tiffany & Shannon Lemmon, Bob Ellis, Reese
Carrington, Ronda Douglass, Nancy, Rosa Tomlin,
Pastor & Sister Hammond, Katie Fitch & 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, Clara
Burnett, Nicky & Joyce Brackeen & Cathey & Joanne,
all of our Troops and their Families. |
| A Thought For The Week:
Learning From God – Unchanging Love
From the Pastor: Dr. M. J.
Seymour, Sr.
"Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? … For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Rom. 8:38-39) "Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for
ever." (Heb. 13:11) Nothing that has been created by
God can separate us from His love, which is in
Christ Jesus, be they physical or spiritual.
Most folks have a tendency to use
the word "love" when they more properly ought to use
the words "like or lust." This misuse of words
creates a confusion of thought and understanding on
their part and others. Correct word usage would
certainly clarify many misunderstandings. Many would
not jump in and out of marriages if they would
simply use proper wording as "I lust after you,"
instead of "I love you." There is definitely a
difference between the two. Love is a lasting
unconquerable commitment, while lust is simply a
temporary passion that passes away when it is filled
up, or turns to lust after some other objective.
With God there is no questionable uncertainties, nor
is He the author of any such confusion. God chooses
His words very carefully, for they are set and
committed for eternity.
When God says He loves, it is
a binding vow that cannot be torn asunder, though
the gates of Hell will surely try.
We find in the Holy Scriptures
these instructions: "Beloved, if God so loved us, we
ought also to love one another." (I Jn 4:11) If our
Father’s love is not as changeable as the wind,
regardless of conditions and circumstances, then
neither is the love that He has bestowed upon us to
share with others. We are not perfect, yet He still
loves us unwaveringly. We miserably fail so many
times, but God never fails to continue loving us.
His words are abundantly clear, there is absolutely
no set of events, any person, or any spirit that
will ever be able to separate us from His eternal
love. When God loves it is unchangeable. Beloved, if
this is the way of the Father and is His directives
to us, ought not we also to love with an everlasting
love? True love is not a
conditional attribute. Godly love is unprovoked,
unconditional, unselfish, and unchanging. Brethren,
let us learn from our heavenly Father how to love. |
MANY a man may see his portrait here! The
spendthrift hacks away his estate and falls into
destitution and disgrace. The drunkard cuts at his
health and strength, his family comfort and
household peace, and when he has finished his mad
work, he drops into ruin, through his own folly. The
man of low, debauched habits, is chopping, with
fearful effect, at his own body and soul, and will,
ere long, rue the lusts which hurl him into disease,
agony, and death. There are other fools beside the
man in the woodcut, who are lopping off the branch
which holds them up. It is base ingratitude when men
are malicious and cruel to those who are their best
friends. Wives and parents often have to feel sharp
cuts from those whom they lovingly support and are
anxious to preserve from ruin. Shame that it should
be so!
 Self-righteous
reader, you are ready to join with us in any censure
which we may pass upon the madness of the sins we
have just hinted at; but permit us to ask you,
whether you yourself are not photographed in our
picture? You are resting upon the bough of good
works, and yet, every day, your faults,
imperfections, and sins are rendering it less and
less able to bear your weight. It never was a firm
support, and if you know yourself, and are candid
enough to confess your shortcomings, you will at
once perceive that it has become, in the judgment of
conscience, a very frail dependence, quite unworthy
of your confidence. Had you never sinned, and,
consequently, never made one gash in the bough, we
might tolerate your trusting to it; but since you
have cut at it again and again, and it is ready even
now to snap beneath you, we pray you, leave it for a
surer resting-place. All reliance on self in any
form or shape is gross folly. Feelings, works,
prayers, almsgivings, religious observances, are all
too feeble to support a sinful soul. "Other
foundation can no man lay than that is laid—Jesus
Christ the righteous." "Whosoever believeth in him
is not condemned." " He is able also to save them to
the uttermost who come unto God by him, seeing he
ever liveth to make intercession for them." Trust
Jesus and he will never fail you.
C. H. Spurgeon |
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