February 1, 2026
What About My Sin?
The believer walks by faith, not by sight. Faith believes what God says when it cannot be seen any other way. The child of God cannot see in any part of their experience that they are “dead to sin”. Rom. 6:2. Sin seems to them to be very much alive. Yet God says that our “old man was crucified with Christ”. Rom 6:6. The Lord tells us to “reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin” Rom 6:11. Our sin nature will remain with us until we are separated from this body of death. Like an incurable disease, the believers desire and hope are to have its manifested symptoms minimized. God’s medicine for this terminal disease is faith in Christ. The only way sin will be restrained from “reigning in our mortal bodies”, Rom 6:12, is not by the works of the law or the determination of the will. We do not use carnal weapons in a spiritual war. 2 Cor 10:4. It is by looking through the eye of faith to the glorious person and accomplished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. We do not fight to kill sin. We believe God in reckoning it to be in Christ, already dead. ~GE
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The Old Man in A Believer
God has left in all His children the old man, to remind us of our base origin, to hide pride from our eyes, to exclude boasting from our lips, and to keep us from putting any confidence in the flesh. It
is to exercise our grace, especially patience; to make us watchful, to make us sensible of the depth of man’s fall, and finally, to exalt the grace of God; to make us sick of self, and sick of the world, sick of sin, and to teach us to prize Christ the Great Physician, and to make us long for that perfect rest which remaineth to the people of God. ~William Huntington 1745-1813
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Every sermon sent by God Almighty will always find its focus in the Person of the Lord Jesus. He is the Alpha and Omega of life. He is the answer to all eternal questions and the purpose of all things. Comfort in all trials is found by hearing the message of Christ which proclaims His glory, work, and honor. We will never be found to honor Him more than to hear and believe His Gospel which, beginning with Moses and throughout all the prophets and in all the scriptures, declare those things that are concerning Him. ~Marvin Stalnaker
“Ye Are Complete in Him” – Colossians 2:10
The believer’s standing in Christ does not fluctuate with his feelings, not even the increase or decrease of his faith or understanding or anything else. He stands complete in Christ. God would never trust any of His children to stand before Him at any time in their own selves – that is, in their merits or certain good frames of mind. He knows our frame. He remembers that we are yet dust. Therefore, He has on purpose provided for them this perfect standing in Christ Jesus. “Ye are complete in Him,” the Holy Ghost said, in another place, “Ye are perfect in Christ Jesus” (Col. 1:28). The very nature of our God requires us to be perfect and complete before Him at all times. He, out of necessity, therefore provided all this for His children: a perfection, a completeness, which can never be diminished. It is as unchanging as God Himself (Heb. 6:17; 13:8). ~Bruce Crabtree
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Is The Law Sin? – God Forbid
If I measure a crooked wall with a perfect plumb line, it reveals the crookedness of the wall but does not remove it.
If I take out a bright light on a dark night, it reveals to me all the pitfalls and hindrances, but it does not remove them.
Now the plumb line and the lamp do not create the evils which they point out. They neither create nor remove but simply reveal.
So it is with the law. It does not create the evil in man’s heart; neither does it remove it. But with unerring accuracy, it reveals it.
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.” Romans 7:7. ~Scott Richardson
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God never said, “Do the best you can do.” God said, “Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.” (Leviticus 19:2) “It shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.” (Leviticus 22:21). Perfection can never come at the hand of the sinner. Perfection comes at the hand of Christ the perfect Savior. That is why His grace is always sufficient. For His strength is made perfect in our weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9) ~David Eddmenson
CALL TO WORSHIP
Lamb of God, Thou now art seated
High upon Thy Father’s Throne
All Thy gracious work completed
All Thy mighty vic’try won.
Every knee in Heav’n is bending
To the Lamb for sinners slain
Every voice and harp is swelling
Worthy is the Lamb to reign.
Thou for us art interceding
Everlasting is Thy love
And a blessed rest preparing
In our Father’s house above.
Soon Thy saints shall rise to meet Thee
With Thee in Thy Kingdom reign
Thine the praise and Thine the glory
Lamb of God for sinners slain!
(Tune: “Jesus Calls Us” p. 374)
NURSERY
This Week 10:00 Mary Wiginton 10:45 Zobi
Next Week 10:00 Ruth 10:45 Star
Birthdays
Feb 5 Maylee Hardman Feb 6 Jennifer Dunbar
Feb 6 Hailey Hansen
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I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD. Ps 122:1-4.