Thank GOD, Jesus Does Grade On A Curve Part 2 From Christ The KING Presbyterian Ministries, Rev Paul Wallace APC
Paul Wallace
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Thank GOD, Jesus Does Grade On A Curve
Part 2
This Series is a quick response to a couple of Tweets by Nationally Known Pastors who said “Judgement Day Won’t Be Graded On A Curve”
Well, we can only hope and Pray it is, as truly NONE of us can be saved of our own deserving, it also looks the Mean Spirited Church Elder who proclaimed to me during a heated exchange “And You think You should be a Pastor”, well to this sad individual who is given to Lying and Manipulation (yes He Is a Church Elder!!!)worthy of a Con Artis, I NEVER said I should be a Pastor, the LORD lead Me to be a Pastor and for the record, And this happens to me ALL the Time, when I was asked by the HOLY SPIRIT “Do You think Your Good Enough to Be a Pastor?” it wasn’t until I said for the third time, NO! I am not worthy, that the HOLY SPIRIT said, “Now You are ready to Be a Pastor” as ONLY Jesus Christ is Worthy! One would think this pompous Elder would have known this, But rest assured Jesus DOES Grade on a Curve and rescues us AS We Are in the State of Total Depravity.
The Heresy “Judgement Day Won’t Be Graded On A Curve” must addressed and corrected as it is not Biblical, but indeed “Worldly Religious”, that is aligns with the Worlds False Religions and their teaching of self-correction, a teaching the first 2/3 of the Bible already told us was WRONG!
So as we run to worship, let’s keep in mind the TULIP Understanding, may the HOLY SPIRIT open our eyes & ears to the false teaching of 90% of the Application part of each weeks sermon.
Call To Worship
Psalm 9:1 ? <<For the choir director; on Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.>> I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders.
?2 I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
Processional
Holy, Holy, Holy LORD GOD Almighty
Trinity Lutheran Church
Reading, Pennsylvania
Passing Of The Peace Of Christ
May the Peace of Christ Be With You
ALL: And Also With You!!
Please take a minute to pass the peace of Christ
Hymn
First Reading
Exodus 20
1 ? Then God spoke all these words, saying,
?2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
?3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.
?4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
?5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,
?6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
?7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
?8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
?9 "Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
?10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
?11 "For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
?12 ? "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
?13 "You shall not murder.
?14 "You shall not commit adultery.
?15 "You shall not steal.
?16 "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
?17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
?18 ? All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.
?19 Then they said to Moses, "Speak to us yourself and we will listen; but let not God speak to us, or we will die."
?20 Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid; for God has come in order to test you, and in order that the fear of Him may remain with you, so that you may not sin."
?21 So the people stood at a distance, while Moses approached the thick cloud where God was.
?22 ? Then the LORD said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.
?23 'You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.
?24 'You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
?25 'If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.
?26 'And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.'
(NAS95)
This Is The Word Of The LORD
Response By All; Thanks Be To GOD
The LORD’S Prayer & Apostles Creed Read By All
Matthew 6:9 ? And Jesus said "In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
?10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
?11 Give us this day our daily bread.
?12 And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.
?13 And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Christian What Do You Believe?
I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
Born of the Virgin Mary,
Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
Was crucified, dead, and buried:
He descended into hell;
The third day he rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost;
The Holy Catholic Church;
The Communion of Saints;
The Forgiveness of sins;
The Resurrection of the body,
And the Life everlasting.
Amen.
The Doxology
Praise GOD From Whom All Blessings Flow: Tune All Creatures of Our God and King
Faith Presbyterian Church
Tacoma, Washington
Lift High The Cross
Second Reading
Romans 3:1-20
1 ? Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?
?2 Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
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?3 What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?
?4 May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, "THAT YOU MAY BE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED."
?5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)
?6 May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?
?7 But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?
?8 And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.
?9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;
?10 as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
?11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
?12 ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE."
?13 "THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING," "THE POISON OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS";
?14 "WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS";
?15 "THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD,
?16 DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR PATHS,
?17 AND THE PATH OF PEACE THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN."
?18 "THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES."
?19 ? Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;
?20 because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
This Is The Word Of The LORD
Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD
Thank GOD, Jesus Does Grade On A Curve
Part 2
1st How are We doing on those Ten Commandments?
Our first reading to us to a part of the Bible that actually trips the vast Majority of Church goers, and I fear it can be north of 80% up, as we have been taught over the years to read the Bible as a How to achieve Righteousness and Goodness, and not the correct way as, how have we failed to Keep these Commandments.
You see each of us fail daily, if we are honest to keep the first Commandment fully in our, to have no other Gods other than GOD, is indeed a time when we must honestly say we are NOT even close to keeping Number One as thoughts creep into our heads, and possessions, money and power subplace the role.
Sadly, it is the 10 Commandants however that actually are used to mislead the Church, Synagogue, Mosque, and yes the other world religions into thinking they are doing okay with this list as the compare it to others they witness, like some grotesque and twisted scale analogy an analogy that when taught correctly, as with the Commandments, can only doom us to hell.
Let’s be honest, have you ever really been in a Sunday School or Church Service, where the Teacher, or Pastor stopped at the end of them and said these 10 Commandments alone are exactly why we should be Doomed to Hell, and deservedly????
I know you, as I, never have, as that would be telling the truth.
Romans 3:10 as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
?11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD;
?12 ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE."
Is NOT Lying, is it????
You see the Bible has been taught, first to our Jewish Friends, then to us, and subsequently to our Muslim friends as a book that tells us how to improve ourselves to live a more GODLY life, as each week in the Pastor, Rabbi’s and Ulama each instruct us to strive to live a more GODLY life, the actual problem, and not teaching that we are a complete failure (see Genesis through Acts) as the entire text is NOT about our ability to improve ourselves, but our true desperate need to have a SAVIOR, REDEEMER, FRIEND, and LOVER of our Worthless souls, in other words, the ENTIRE World needs just exactly who HE says HE Is, Jesus the Christ of GOD.
This what of troubled Elder failed, and it sadly seems still fails to see, that Jesus ALONE is worthy to be a Pastor, Elder, Deacon, Priest, Rabbi, Ulama, and please insert your spiritual leader here___________.
The Bible is, and ALWAYS will be the Greatest Love Story, and Rescue Mission EVER envisioned, and All planned by our TRIUNE GODHEAD, EACH taking fully fulfilling THEIR Rescue role.
This leads us to the importance of understanding completely the Calvin TULIP.
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2nd Revisiting TULIP
The Reason for focusing on TULIP really is a Presbyterian thing, and as a Presbyterian I have been given an examination to become a Deacon in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and had to proclaim this as fact, during my Licensing in the Presbyterian Church of America as a Preacher I had to proclaim this as fact and a Ordained Pastor in the American Presbyterian Church too, every Elder and Deacon examination as well as Pastoral Exams the Applicant had to swear to this, and yet each week IT IS NOT PREACHED!
For the Record I believe in my heart that TULIP is the absolute laying out of the point of the Bible, and is NOT open to debate, as it is the whole point.
?It is also important to note that of the 12 Confessions of the Presbyterian Church USA Numbers 3-8 Demand You to proclaim as fact TULIP, that might surprise those in the PCUSA as they NEVER expunged there early Confessions and only added to them, So in fact I am more aligned to be a Pastor in the PCUSA as I can stand on as embracing 10 of their 12 Confessions, and if a person stood on numbers 11 & 12 they cannot in good conscience or honesty embrace 1-10, as 11 & 12 contradict the first 10 grievously.
Let’s remember what Tulip Means, and I am going to ask you simply is the statement of TULIP True or False, as you really believe them (I do hope the HOLY SPIRIT has Opened Yours and My Eyes to a Firm True on each)
Total Depravity ?
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement
Irresistible Call
Perseverance of the Saints
The answer of course is true on each, as we are naturally in a State of Total Depravity, and Dead in our trespasses and Sins as is laid out completely in the Bible Cover to cover.
It is only our Awakening from the by the Will of the FATHER, Fully Redeemed (Jesus buys ALL of Your Soul, and Sins not some) By the SON, and Awaken from the Dead by the HOLY SPIRIT while we are vial that screams to us Unconditional Election.
Limited Atonement is best explained by Jesus HIMSELF when HE tells of Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Jesus Blood is powerful enough to save ALL Human Souls and yet HE HIMSELF tells us of the Rich Man Not being redeemed, and This is not of our Choosing and we all fully deserve Damnation and Yet the FATHER Has Mercy on some of us.
Let’s be Blunt here, of our own Choosing ALL OF US WOULD GO TO HELL!!!!!
We had to have Mercy, Period!!!
Irresistible Call, perhaps the greatest truth in the fact that when one is awakened one is really awakened to the truth, and CANNOT Praise GOD resist.
Since we were Dead, this is a totally necessary step, and PRAISE BE TO GOD One the true Believer cannot say no to.
As Martin Luther put it the proof of GOD Given Faith and Calling, is the Fruit of the Redeemed life.
In other words, we don’t do good works to save us, we do good works because we have been saved by grace and as with a healthy Fruit Tree can do nothing but produce good fruit.
Of course, we all still struggle with sin, but we also know who by Grave our KING is Jesus the true Christ of GOD.
Perseverance of the Saints, simply destroys the Backslider notion, as the one who truly walks away was never HIS in the first place.
We cannot loose what we never gained as it was applied to us through Christ and HE will loose NONE the FATHER has given HIM.
We will finish up in our next lesson and indeed review TULIP one last time for now, I just hope it is now firmly foundational in our understanding of the Full Gospel, and Rescue of our LORD Jesus Christ.
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3rd Thank Our FATHER In Heaven, Christ Does Grade on a HUGE Curve!
So, let’s make this brief.
Does Jesus Grade on a Curve, Yes or No?
Of Course the answer is a huge Yes, and Yes it 0 for our Score 100 for Jesus and HE grades us to Stand Before Judgement as…………………………..
YES 100 (HIMSELF) .
In Christ alone
Pastor Paul
Hymn
Blessings
Laura Story
The LORD’S Feast
1Corithians 11:23 ? For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;
?24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."
?25 In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
?26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.
?27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
?28 But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
?29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly
Benediction
Jude 1:24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,
?25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
(NAS95)
Let Us Go Forth As Those Who Love And Proclaim Our Risen LORD And Savior Jesus Christ
Response By All: Thanks Be To GOD, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, AMEN
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Recessional
Crown HIM With Many Crowns
Our Friends at St. Bartholomew’s Church
New York City, New York?