1st – THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
(1) Frustrating The Plans of Sinners – ‘And they made His grave with the wicked, but (He was) with the rich at His death.’
(2) Fulfilling His Own Purpose – Jesus Christ was crucified according to ‘the DETERMINED PURPOSE and foreknowledge of God.’ – Acts 2:23
2nd – THE INNOCENCY OF CHRIST – ‘Because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.’ In these few words we have a kind of summary declaration of the holy character of Jesus… or as the writer of Hebrews puts it, ‘(He was) holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners, higher than the heavens.’
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
