I will be their God—and they shall be My people! 2 Corinthians 6:16

What a sweet title, “My people!” What a cheering revelation, “Their God!”  How much of meaning is couched in those two words, “My people!”
Here is speciality. The whole world is God’s—heaven, even the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s, and He reigns among the children of men. But of those whom He has chosen, whom He has purchased to Himself—He calls them especially, “My people”.

In this word there is the idea of proprietorship. In a special manner the “Lord’s portion is His people.” All the nations upon earth are His, and the whole world is in His power—yet His people, His chosen people, are more especially His possession, for . . .
  He has done more for them than others;
  He has bought them with His precious blood;
  He has set His great heart upon them;
  He has adopted them into His redeemed family;
  He has loved them with an everlasting love—a love which many waters cannot quench, and which the revolutions of time shall never suffice in the least degree to diminish.

Dear friends, can you, by faith, see yourselves in that number? Can you look up to heaven and say, “My Lord and my God—mine by that sweet relationship which entitles me to call You Father—mine by that hallowed fellowship which I delight to hold with You when You are pleased to manifest Yourself unto me as You do not unto the world?”

Can you read the Book of Inspiration, and find there the evidences of your salvation? Can you read your title written in His precious blood? Can you, by humble faith, lay hold of Jesus’ garments, and say, “My Christ”?

If you can, then God says of you, and of others like you, “My people!” for, if God is your God, and Christ is your Christ, the Lord has shown special, particular grace to you—then you are the object of His choice, accepted in His beloved Son!  “I am my Beloved’s, and my Beloved is mine!” Song of Songs 6:3

-C. H. Spurgeon

“I will satisfy her poor with bread.” Psalm 132:15

The Lord has given a special promise to Zion’s poor—”I will satisfy her poor with bread.” Nothing else? Bread? Is that all? Yes! That is all God has promised—bread, the staff of life. But what does He mean by “bread”? The Lord Himself explains what bread is. He says, “I am the bread of life: he who comes to Me will not be hungry; and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if anyone eats of this bread he shall live forever.” The bread, then, that God gives to Zion’s poor is His own dear Son—fed upon by living faith, under the special operations of the Holy Spirit in the heart. “I will satisfy her poor with bread.”

But must not we have an appetite before we can feed upon bread? The rich man who feasts continually upon juicy meat and savory sauces, would not live upon bread. To come down to live on such simple food as bread—why, one must be really hungry to be satisfied with that. So it is spiritually. A man fed upon ‘mere notions’ and a number of ‘speculative doctrines’ cannot descend to the simplicity of the gospel. To feed upon a crucified Christ, a bleeding Jesus!—he is not sufficiently brought down to the starving point, to relish such spiritual food as this!

Before, then, he can feed upon this Bread of life he must be made spiritually poor. And when he is brought to be nothing but a mass of wretchedness, filth, guilt, and misery—when he feels his soul sinking under the wrath of God, and has scarcely a hope to buoy up his poor tottering heart—when he finds the world embittered to him, and he has no one object from which he can reap any abiding consolation—then the Lord is pleased to open up in his conscience, and bring the sweet savor of the love of His dear Son into his heart—and he begins to taste gospel bread. Being weaned from feeding on husks and ashes, and sick “of the vines of Sodom and the fields of Gomorrah,” and being brought to relish simple gospel food, he begins to taste a sweetness in ‘Christ crucified’ which he never could know—until he was made experimentally poor. The Lord has promised to satisfy such. “I will satisfy her poor with bread.”

-J.C Philpot

“We know that all things work together for good, to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28

Yes, even all the falls and all the sins of the saints shall work for their good. Oh . . . the care, the fear, the watchfulness, the tenderness, the zeal — which God raises in the souls of His saints by their very falls! Oh the hatred, the indignation, and the detestation—which God raises in the hearts of His children against sin—by their very falling into sin!

Oh what love to Christ, what thankfulness for Christ, what admiration of Christ, what cleaving to Christ, what exalting of Christ, what drawings from Christ’s grace — are saints led to, by their very falls!

It is the glory of God’s holiness, that . . . He can turn spiritual diseases—into holy remedies! He can turn soul poisons — into heavenly cordials! He can prevent sin by sin, and cure falling by falling!

O Christian! What though friends and relations frown upon you, what though enemies are plotting and conspiring against you, what though needs, like armed men, are breaking in upon you,
what though men rage, and devils roar against you, what though sickness is devastating your family, what though death stands every day at your elbow — yet there is no reason for you to fear nor faint, because all these things shall work for your good! Yes, there is wonderful cause of joy and rejoicing in all the afflictions and tribulations which come upon you—considering that they shall all work for your good.

-Thomas Brooks

I want every child of God to realize the fact that at this very moment all of his sins are gone – effectually, completely, perfectly gone – through the great sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. All of your sins, from the cradle to the grave, sins before conversion and sins after conversion, and sins of every kind are washed away in Immanuel’s precious blood.

Since Christ has died in our stead, under the sentence of God’s law, we shall never be charged with sin. God has removed our sins from his book, from his memory, and from us. In Christ we have been freed from sin. “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12).

Stephen Charnock said, “When sin is pardoned, it is never charged again; the guilt of it can no more return than east can become west, or west become east.” Spurgeon said, “Our sins are so effectually removed that we shall not ultimately suffer any loss or damage through having sinned. That detriment was laid on Christ. His was the loss: ours is the gain. His was the suffering: ours is the unutterable joy.” And God himself says, “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins” (Isaiah 43:25).             

-Don Fortner

As God’s love is without a cause, so it is without beginning. “The love of God which is in Christ” is not of yesterday. It did not begin in time. It bears the date of eternity upon it. He declares, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love” (Jer. 31). Try to realize this, if you can – As God the Father loved his Son from eternity, so he loved us from eternity. And as God’s love is in Christ, his love for Christ and his love for us are the same! (Read John 17:23). As he beholds his people in his dear Son, he loves us as he loves his Son, delights in us as he delights in his Son, and is pleased with us as he is pleased with his Son. 

-Don Fortner

2 Corinthians 2:14-16

  The apostle gave thanks unto God because as he preached Christ, God always made him to triumph and made manifest the savor (spread abroad the knowledge of Christ) as the savor of a sacrifice. This savor is unto God a sweet savor of Christ in them that are saved. The preaching of Christ is a savor of life and death, and as Christ is preached, he is life to them who believe, receive, bow to, and rejoice in Him as their only pleas and righteousness before God. But even as Christ is preached, He is a savor unto death in them that perish – to them who won’t believe, won’t receive, won’t bow to, and don’t rejoice in Christ. They feel they don’t need the savor of a sacrifice before the holiness and justice of God. When the gospel is preached, there are two things always taking place (even though most are unaware of it); some are being prepared for glory, others are being hardened. Some are being brought to the light, some are left sitting in darkness. Some see Christ and His glory; others see no beauty about Him. Some who hear the gospel have their hearts made tender towards sin; others have their hearts hardened in sin. No wonder we say, “Who is sufficient for these things”? The question we should all be asking is, “How is the preaching of the gospel affecting me”?

-Donnie Bell, pastor of Lantana Grace Church in Crossville, TN, USA

The gospel conference will be held at:
Redeemer’s Grace Church
4702 Greenleaf Rd
Sellersburg, IN 47172

Guest Preachers and Agenda:

Friday, July 22, 2022

7:00 PM EDT: David Eddmenson

7:45 PM EDT: Gabe Stalnaker

Pizza will be served in the fellowship hall- All welcome!

Saturday July 23, 2022:

10:00 AM EDT: Clay Curtis

10:45 AM EDT: David Eddmenson

Lunch will be served in the fellowship hall- All welcome!

Sunday July 24, 2022

10:00 AM EDT: Gabe Stalnaker

10:45 AM EDT: Clay Curtis

Lunch will be served in the fellowship hall – All welcome.

If you have any questions regarding our conference, or our church, please feel free to call anytime.

Pastor Fred Evans

Phone 502-558-7762

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God is beseeching through us. We implore on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20)

We preachers need to listen to our own sermons often and determine whether or not we are doing what we were sent to do! Are we being, as Paul said, “ambassadors for Christ?” Paul also said, “I preach Christ — I determine to know nothing but Christ.” There is a great temptation to preach about the gospel instead of preaching the gospel. There is a tendency to preach the doctrines of election, atonement, and second-coming, sending our hearers away convinced of the truth of the doctrines but not in love with, and in awe of, the Son! Christ is the end of all preaching. “We are chosen in him.” All things are in Christ. “Christ in you” — that is the hope of glory!

-Henry Mahan

Every soul has a beloved; something or someone in which to glory, rejoice, and enjoy.

To a believer, CHRIST is his beloved! He worships, loves, rejoices, and glories in the Lord Jesus above all things. Christ is my Beloved and I am His. Christ; His fellowship, His love, and His approval, are preferred above people, possessions, pleasures, or pursuits. Could One so illustrious and supreme deserve any less? “Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside You (Ps. 73:25)!”

-Henry Mahan

Have we not all in our various ways, set up some beloved idol—something which engaged our affections, something which occupied our thoughts, something to which we devoted all the energies of our minds, something for which we were willing to labor night and day? Be it money, be it power, be it esteem of men, be it respectability, be it worldly comfort, be it literary knowledge, there was a secret setting up of SELF in one or more of its various forms, and a bowing down to it as an idol.

The man of business makes money his god. The man of pleasure makes the lust of the flesh his god. The proud man makes his adored SELF his god. The Pharisee makes self-righteousness his god. The Arminian makes free-will his god. The Calvinist makes dry doctrine his god. All in one way or other, however they may differ in the object of their idolatrous worship, agree in this—that they give a preference in their esteem and affection to their peculiar idol, above the one true God. “And the idols He shall utterly abolish.” Isaiah 2:18

There is, then, a time to break down these idols which our fallen nature has set up. And have not we experienced some measure of this breaking down, both externally and internally? Have not our idols been in a measure smashed before our eyes, our prospects in life cut up and destroyed, our airy visions of earthly happiness and our romantic paradises dissolved into thin air, our creature-hopes dashed, our youthful affections blighted, and the objects from which we had fondly hoped to reap an enduring harvest of delight removed from our eyes?

And likewise, as to our religion—our good opinion of ourselves, our piety and holiness, our wisdom and our knowledge, our understanding and our abilities, our consistency and uprightness—have they not all been broken down, and made a heap of ruins before our eyes?

-J.C Philpot