Welcome to City On A Hill Sovereign Grace Baptist Chapel!

02/06/10

We meet in our home @ 7:00 pm on Friday.

We are a family friendly church.

Please call or e-mail me for more information.

Michael Lyman

1414 Spruce Drive

Spring City, TN 37381

Home: (423) 365-0780 Cell: (423) 618-6108

sovereigngracebaptist@msn.com

Distinctives:

- The Gospel -
1 Corinthians 1:17-2:16; Acts 13:48

- Outreach -

Matthew 28:18-20; Romans 1:16-17

- The Lord’s Table & Baptism -

1 Corinthians 11:11-34; Matthew 28:18-20

- Teaching the whole counsel of God -

Acts 20:26-38; John 15:15

- Public Reading of Scripture -

1 Timothy 4:12-16

- Singing Psalms and Hymns -

Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16

JESUS thus Himself discloses to the wounded sinner’s sight:

Hear His gracious invitation, “I have life and peace to give,

I have wrought out full salvation, sinner, look to Me and live.

Pore upon your sins no longer, well I know their mighty guilt;

But My love than death is stronger, I my blood have freely spilt:

Though your heart has long been hardened, look on Me—it soft shall grow;

Past transgressions shall be pardoned, and I’ll wash you white as snow.

I have seen what you were doing, though you little thought of Me;

You were madly bent on ruin, but I said—It shall not be:

You had been for ever wretched, had I not espoused your part;

Now behold My arms outstretched to receive you to My heart.

Well may shame, and joy, and wonder, all your inward passions move;

I could crush thee with My thunder, but I speak to thee in love:

See! your sins are all forgiven, I have paid the countless sum!

Now My death has opened heaven, thither you shall shortly come.”

Dearest Savior, we adore Thee for Thy precious life and death;

Melt each stubborn heart before Thee, give us all the eye of faith:

From the law’s condemning sentence, to Thy mercy we appeal;

Thou alone canst give repentance, Thou alone our souls canst heal.

John Newton Hymn 61 - The Olney Hymns

As It Was In The Days Of Noah

Luke 17:26-30 "And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. "

Noah preached for 120 years before the flood and had not one convert outside of his own family. At least one of his sons, Ham, did not believe and was cursed. Still he preached and was faithful to the call of God to build the ark. Noah is listed as one of the three most godly men in the OT. Ezekiel 14:14 "Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness," says the Lord God. " We are called to teach the whole counsel of God, this means election and reprobation. When Jesus was in the temple for his dedication this prophecy was made about Him: Luke 2:34-35 Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, "Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which will be spoken against (yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." Jesus Himself confirmed this over and over again in His ministry. John 10:25-33 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one."

Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

If you are a sheep you will listen and follow, if not you are not one of Jesus' sheep.

Eternal Bliss or Eternal Torment?

Daniel 12:1-3

"At that time Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever."

We live in a time of unprecedented turmoil and godlessness and yet multitudes of people refuse to look to God for deliverance. His attributes and majesty are clearly seen in creation both here on earth and in the heavens and yet the truth is suppressed in unrighteousness like the Holy Spirit spoke through the apostle Paul in the epistle to the Romans. People have put hope in money... it is going, going, gone. In government, and they put us and our children and grandchildren further into debt to give money to men and companies who have squandered what they already had time and again. In celebrities and those who hope to be one and they let them down and are never able to satisfy. They are immoral and lawless and love adversity and these vices are worn by most as a badge of honor in a dark and dying world... the Spirit of God speaks through Paul to declare:

Ephesians 2:1-3 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

Jesus unlike money, people talented or not, is just the opposite. He is faithful and true, He is the Shepherd of His sheep, He came to save the lowly, and He makes them to be like Himself while still in this present world. In Him dwells all of the fullness of the Godhead bodily, He is the Prince of peace, His name is wonderful, He is holy and makes those who come to Him holy as well. He came to His own, and at His first coming, the Jews rejected Him, however we see from the books of Daniel, Romans and Revelation that that will not always be the case. He came meek and lowly the first time to sacrifice Himself for His own, the next time He will come with wrath and justice to rule the nations and fulfill His promises to the patriarchs and His church. In the book of Hebrews He is found to be the final word from God and the fulfiller of the law and shadows of the Old Covenant. We are told in the book of Acts that God now commands everyone to repent and believe in the Son or be as the fool in the Psalms that says there is no God and at the end of time begs the rocks to fall on him rather than to humble himself and repent. Will your end be in eternal bliss or eternal torment?

2 Corinthians 2:14-17 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

John 14:18
"You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.

John 1:16-17
And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."

John 14:18

"I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you."

2 Corinthians 3:17

"Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

1 Timothy 4:16

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.