Jesus Christ - What a Savior - God's Amazing Grace is Amazing!

April 2018 – We keep expecting the cold and rain to give way to bright sunshine, warmer temps, and those feelings that say “summer is just around the corner.”  However, our Kentucky winter is being quite stubborn.  God’s promises are forever secure.  After Noah’s ark landed on the mountains of Ararat God said, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22).  God is faithful.  No need to worry.

Our Sunday morning sermon (April 8) is entitled “Jesus Christ – What a Savior.”  Whatever we do, whoever we are, whatever might happen or might not happen, Jesus Christ is Savior and Lord, and “Oh what a Savior Jesus IS.”  Whatever the question – Jesus is the Answer.  Whatever the problem – Jesus is the Solution.  Whatever the hurt – Jesus is the Healer.  Whatever the bondage – Jesus is the Liberator.  Whatever the burden – Jesus is the Overcomer.  Whatever the need – Jesus is the Supplier.  Whatever the sin – Jesus is the Forgiver.  He washes.  He justifies.  He sanctifies.  He and He alone is THE One and Only Savior.  He said it Himself; “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). 

Read and remember what Paul wrote to Titus, “a true son in our common faith” asking him to “affirm constantly” these things and that we “who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works” (Titus 3:1-8).  He writes about the “kindness and love of God our Savior” in Jesus and reminds us of Jesus’ amazing grace when he writes; “…not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

Sunday afternoon at 1:30 at WT is very special.  We have been studying about “God’s Perfect Peace” from Isaiah 26:3-4.  You and I can have God’s perfect peace every day if we’d follow three simple steps:  #1 – Empty Myself (mind, heart, conscience, and body of the things of the world), #2 – Fill Myself (with faith, hope, and love, with God), and #3 – Guard Myself.  We’ve talked about steps 1 and 2.  We will conclude with the task of guarding ourselves against regret, selfishness, fear, and doubt.  Hear and do.