Availed at Calvary:
Our nature, sinless, sharing,
He lived, thus to provide
Our righteousness, and bearing
Our sins, for us He died.
4 The Savior slain is risen!
He ever lives to plead
At God’s right hand in heaven
Our cause in all our need:
No other name can save us,
None to the Father come
But by this same Lord Jesus,
Our Savior, God the Son!
5 God now commands to all men:
Repent of sin; believe
This Gospel of salvation,
And Jesus Christ receive!
He lives and pleads to save us
Unto the uttermost:
Convict, convert and call them—
Lord God, the Holy Ghost!
6 O Triune God, Jehovah,
Beside Thee there is none:
We worship, praise and bless Thee
Who hast Salvation won:
We laud the holy Father,
the co-eternal Son,
and Holy Ghost—none other,
Our God, the Three in One.
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Preparatory Reading: Old Testament: Genesis 28; New Testament: Matthew 17 Psalm: 17
1 Timothy: Reading over Chapter 1
The burden of the Word of the Lord in this first chapter of 1 Timothy has been to preserve the purity of sound doctrine, and through it the saving power of the Gospel. Let me review and reflect on this chapter, hiding God’s Word in my heart, praying that my heart might be sound in His statutes.
Prayer for the defense and confirmation of the Gospel:
Glory to God in the highest
And on earth peace goodwill toward men!
Glad tidings of great joy to all people hast Thou published to us
O Lord God:
To us a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
His Name is Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins.
Thou hast anointed Him, and the Spirit of the Lord is upon Him
To preach good tidings to the poor
Deliverance to captives, sight to the blind, liberty to the bruised!
He has come to seek and to save the lost
To give His life a ransom for many to save sinners.
And we have received this Gospel.
For our sins He has died according to the Scriptures
He was buried and rose the third day according to the Scriptures
This same Jesus Thou hast made Lord and Christ
Exalted to Thy right hand, O Father,
He has received the promised Holy Ghost
shed Him forth abundantly
with the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Spirit
to justify us by grace and make us heirs of eternal life.
In His Name
Repentance and remission of sins is now preached to all nations
As we go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
To us hast Thou entrusted the Gospel.
We are separated unto the Gospel of God
Set for the defense and confirmation of the Gospel.
How can men hear without a preacher?
How can we preach except we be sent?
God Triune, be pleased to make our feet beautiful
who preach the Gospel of peace
Grant us to finish our course with joy
The ministry we have received of the Lord Jesus
To testify the Gospel of the grace of God!
Confirm this glorious Gospel, O blessed God, to our lives
That our daily conversation become the Gospel of Christ;
That we adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things:
Teach us to know nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified
And preach the Gospel with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven
In demonstration of the Spirit and power.
Make us not ashamed of the Gospel
But be pleased by it to manifest Thy power to salvation
to all who believe.
Send us in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ,
Ready if needs be to lose life itself for the Gospel’s sake,
to forsake all in its service,
even to preach in regions beyond where Christ is not named.
Further the Gospel, O Lord, in all that happens to us
That Christ be magnified in us by life or death.
Forbid that we abuse our trust or authority in Thy service
In uncleanness, guile or deceit, covetousness or vainglory
But rather preach Christ Jesus the Lord
And ourselves but His servants
Not as pleasing men, but Thee, O God,
Which triest and searchest our hearts.
Strengthen us in Thy power to partake of the afflictions of the Gospel
Bless us when men revile us, persecute us
And say all manner of evil against us falsely for Thy Son’s sake:
Let the Spirit of glory and of God rest upon us
When we are reproached for the Name of Christ
And get to Thy Name the glory in us
As partakers of Christ’s sufferings
That the Gospel of God be spoken boldly
In power, in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance.
And defend, O Lord, we pray, Thy Gospel
From all that would corrupt us from the simplicity of Christ
with another “Jesus”, another “spirit,” or “another gospel”
Which is not another, but would pervert the Gospel of Christ.
Sanctify Thy Son in our hearts, and enable us
To give an answer for the hope in us
With meekness and fear, and a good conversation.
Make us hold fast Thy faithful Word as we have been taught
And enable us by sound doctrine
both to exhort and convince all gainsayers.
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