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pastorbennettsnotes — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:30:20 +0000

Our website www.millmontgmc.org will probably be up and down throughout the next week due to some updating. Thanks for your patience.

Sin’s Role in Salvation

pastorbennettsnotes — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:12:45 +0000

Notes from sermon preached in Millmont God’s Missionary Church 10:50 AM service, August 29, 2010. http://millmontgmc.org/listen.aspx

The Gospel reveals the righteousness of God through faith. (Romans 1:17) The Gospel (the revealed righteousness of God) is needed because of the work of sin. God’s wrath is poured out against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. (Romans 1:18) So God’s wrath is revealed by sin and sin in understood through the law. We understand these truths about the wrath of God poured out on sin.

All are ungodly and unrighteous. (Romans 3:9/The judgment of God upon all in Romans 2:5 and the resulting discussion in verses 6-16.)

The Wrath of God is poured out upon all. (Romans 1:18)

God revealed Himself in His own creation in such a convincing way that people are entirely without excuse before Him. (Romans 1:18-20)
People made this revelation of God into something more like themselves. (Romans 1:21-23)
God gave them up to uncleanness. (Romans 1:24)
People worshiped the creature more than the creator. (Romans 1:25)
God gave people up to vile affection. (Romans 1:26-27)
People did not even desire to retain God in their knowledge. (Romans 1:28)
God gave them over to a reprobate mind until people knew the threat of God’s judgment, but took pleasure in offending God. (Romans 1:32)

These truths lead us to understand that the condition of the human race is that they are:

Without excuse. (Romans 1:20)
Without cause for judging the wickedness of others. (Romans 2:1/See 2:17-29)
Without favor before God in regard to earthly accomplishment or lineage. (Romans 2:11/See 2:17-29)
Without righteousness (Romans 3:10)
Without boast. (Romans 3:27)

God’s wrath is revealed in the condition of the human race. The culmination of God’s wrath will be at the revealing of judgment upon the sinful at the end of the age. God has revealed His wrath before the end of the age so that The Gospel might be preached and the elect/called/lost redeemed.

The Gospel redeems the human race through faith and not works. (Romans 1:16-17)

The Law works wrath in that it reveals transgression. (Romans 4:15)

Faith works Divine Favor (Grace). (Romans 4:16) Only faith can provoke God to give grace. Favor from God cannot be earned by law-abiding.

Grace allows imputed righteousness to be applied to the sinful in response to faith. (Romans 4:23) this righteousness imputed works redemption that brings:

Peace with God. (Romans 5;1)
Reconciliation with God. (Romans 5:10)
Atonement for sin. (Romans 5:11)
New life in imputed righteousness revealed through the indwelling Spirit of God. (Romans 6:4)

Your sin is not revealed to you in order to separate you from God, but God in mercy reveals your sin through the law so that you might have redemption through faith. God offers you the righteousness you cannot manufacture and gives you a righteous life authored by His Grace! (Romans 5:1-2)

Website Update

pastorbennettsnotes — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:54:35 +0000

Our audio from May until August will be updated on our website September 1. Thanks for your patience during much transition!

Joe Cassidy

pastorbennettsnotes — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:52:17 +0000

We will miss our Brother!
Viewing Friday 7-9 PM, Saturday 10 AM
Funeral Saturday 11 AM

GMC 75th Service Video Available Online

pastorbennettsnotes — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:04:33 +0000

God’s Missionary Church – 75th Anniversary Service from Jon Plank on Vimeo.

Be looking for more posts soon!

pastorbennettsnotes — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:58:45 +0000

Be looking for more posts soon!

Dreams

pastorbennettsnotes — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:09:53 +0000

This kid, Joseph, who seemed to take away his mother’s reproach (Gen. 30:23) seems to bring nothing but reproach.
- He tells on his brothers and families. (Gen 37:2)
- He is favored by his dad and hated by his brothers. (37:3-4)
Note: His dad gave him a favorite son t-shirt for reinforcement.
- He has dreams about the whole family bowing down to him. (He tells the family that he had the dreams!!)
- He spies on his brothers at his father’s request.

Through all of this God is preparing him for the future.

Lessons:
1. When God chooses you for His use you may not always be liked.

2. Circumstances are not given to be hated, but to form us for future moments of Divine use. Don’t hate your life, look for God’s plan in it all. You won’t see the plan, but keep faith in the plan. You will see it some day. (Romans 8:28)

Galatians 4:1-7

pastorbennettsnotes — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:57:20 +0000

Great passage here. Reminds us that we cannot work for what God has already given us. We would like God to require great feats of endurance or skill, but He just provided Christ.
God also provides His Spirit to help us understand our new standing with God. God is our “daddy”. We belong to Him, not as a servant, but as a son. If we are sons and daughters of God then we are truly heirs to all of heaven’s goodness.
You can’t gain favor with God. Faith in Christ’s death and atonement for you gives you favor with God. Such favor that you become an heir to heaven and all of God’s great power.
This means that when you have need of God’s great ability, He will supply it. This means that when you ask something foolish, He will interpret your request according to His Divine plan for you. Thank God, He treats us as family. His patience and grace are Divine.

Beyond Reproach

pastorbennettsnotes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:41:57 +0000

Genesis 30:23
“God has taken away my reproach” -Rachel
Rachel was tormented by a fellow-wife and a marriage relationship full of complications. She tried to take away her own reproach by making deals and lost each time. In time God gave her a blessed son. She named him Joseph. She realized God had given her this gift-child to take away the reproach she had been battling.
What reproach is keeping you down?
Jesus Christ is the gift which takes away all reproach. His redemption and regeneration remove the reproach of sin and wicked living. Your new life is beyond reproach.

STANDING in the GAP

pastorbennettsnotes — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:45:07 +0000

These verses give us a picture of the United States of America at the present time. We are faced with habitual ease. Yes, we have been made a little uncomfortable in the last number of years, but ease continues to dominate. God is looking for people to:

Identify their surroundings!

Draw near to God!

See the Gap between our surroudings and God!

Stand in the Gap before God!

Stick-Figure Exposition