Prayer
List
Nell Hall is
having sciatica nerve pain
Don
Harrington will have surgery on his right eye sometime in September.
Wanda
Peterson is home with Home Health.
Dan Tucker
is home recovering from heart surgery.
Leta Embry
will have to have more tests some time in September..
Kerry King’s
mother has stage 4 cancer. She has begun treatment.
A friend of
Helen Counts, Carol Moore has been diagnosed with cancer.
Jerry
Foster’s nephew Carl Reid is in TMC
A.C. Quinn’s
neighbor Beverly Roberts is having heart problems.
Robert
Embry’s uncle Glen Durham has swelling of the leg as well as
cancer.
Aramanda
family, Andy LeDane, Eddie Griffin, James and Florene Griffin, Jerry
and Betty Harris, Don Hickerson, Larry Lee, Lester and Billie
Phillips, Mary Jean Turner, Jack and Diane Arnold, Don Boyd, Betty
Clark, Glenn Durham, Doris James, Dan LeDane, Gary Hickerson, Beryl
Miller, Dean and Della Price, and Terry Turner.
Serving in
the military:
Dakota Smitherman has been deployed to Afghanistan.
Travis Counts has been deployed to Kuwait.
Faith Balzen
Cody Blomstedt
Let us pray
for our country and government leaders and those who are in harms
way, military and civilian personnel.
“The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much…
The Ladies
Bible Class will begin September 6 at 10:00AM. All ladies are
invited and encouraged to attend.
Men’s
Business Meeting is Sunday Sept. 11 after evening worship services.
All men are invited and encouraged to attend.
Pantry
Item: Assorted Cereal
Sept. 11th
Prayers: Morning: Butch Balzen – Don Harrington
Evening: Robert Courtney – Kerry King
Scriptures: Greg Counts
Baptism,
Repentance, and the Problem of Sin
By
David Shearer
I have
observed that some folks are taking a different view of baptism and
overlooking some vital things, which the Bible teaches.
While it
is true that Baptism cleans us from sin Acts 2:38, it does not
give us a license to sin or continue in sin. Some think once you’re
baptized you have your fire insurance so you can do whatever you
want. This is not a new idea but some are propagating it today with
false teaching.
Paul
recognized this problem in Rom. 6:1-2,
“…Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.
…”. In Heb. 10:26 the writer says this, “For if
we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins”.
The Bible
teaches with these scriptures and others that we cannot keep
willfully sinning.
It boils
down to a repentance issue. What is repentance? Well, essentially
it is turning your back on sin and walking in the other direction.
Jesus said in Luke 15:3 and emphasized again in verse 5,
“I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like
manner perish”. The key is turning away from sin or getting
out of the sin that is in your life, so sacrifice for sin, which
Christ did for you, will remain in effect.
The
problem of sin is as old as man. Divorce is an acceptable thing.
“Shacking up” is what society deems as OK. Immoral behavior is
approved in the courts and legislators as being common and tolerant
and the right thing to do. However, in God’s eyes these actions
are still wrong and abhorred by God.
The line
between what God’s Word says and what man’s laws say is often a
cavernous abyss that leads to death spiritually.
A bank
robber who becomes a Christian by being baptized while in possession
of the stolen money cannot keep it because it would be a sin to do
so. So it is with marriage, immoral life styles and the like. We
must be careful not to let man’s laws and ways be accepted as God’s
way.
(Marshalltown
church of Christ, July 18, 2008)