Warm greetings, friends, near
and far. The Lord Jesus Christ be magnified
forever and ever. His loving kindnesses, tender
mercies, and compassions are new every morning. Great is His
faithfulness. His mercy endureth forever. This is Sinner Saved coming at
you with the following short evangelistic gospel message,
and God willing, this broadcast will reach you, Lima Charlie,
loud and clear. It is my hope and prayer unto
God Most High, the only Holy Father, that His only begotten
Son, Christ Jesus, the Lord our righteousness, be greatly exalted
that His everlasting gospel be clearly proclaimed, that the
pride of mere flesh and blood men be humbled, and that His
elect saints be greatly encouraged, cheered, and comforted in these
evil and perilous days. Please consider having paper
and pencil handy to jot down the scriptural references for
your own follow-up study. And so we begin with the weekend
gospel message to follow for all hands. Heads up! Please find enclosed encouragement
in so great salvation by the perfect and finished work of
our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy, and wretched sinners
by His sovereign free grace. That is to say, Almighty God
in His unmerited favor to save me and you from our sins and
from hell. Glory to God Most High! The Master, Christ Jesus tells
us in Matthew 5.16, let your lights so shine before men that
they may see your good works and glorify your Father which
is in heaven. To glorify God is the highest
ambition of angels. The brightest seraph before the
throne has no higher aim, no greater happiness than to bring
glory to his name. And yet a poor sinner on earth
may glorify God as much and in some way more than the brightest
angel in the courts of eternal bliss. what different views the
eyes of God and the eyes of men take of events passing on the
earth. What glory is brought to God
by all the victories gained by one country over another. I have
thought sometimes that a poor old man or a feeble, decrepit
woman lying on a workhorse pallet fighting with sin, self, and
Satan, yet enabled amidst all to look to the Lord Jesus, and
by a word from His lips, overcoming death and hell, though when dead,
thrust into an elm coffin to rot in a pauper's grave, brings
more glory to God than all the exploits of Nelson or Wellington,
and that such victories are far more glorious than those of Waterloo
or Trafalgar. It is true that the parish officers
will not proclaim such a victory, nor will bells ring or cannons
roar at such exploits. But the God of heaven and earth
may get more glory from such a despised creature than from
all the generals and admirals who have ever drawn up armies
in battle or sunk hostile fleets beneath the waves. Truly does
the Lord say, my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways. It is indeed marvelous that glory
should be brought to his great name by what his people do and
suffer upon earth, that their feeble attempts to believe, to
love, and to hope in him, to speak well of his name, and to
adorn his doctrine in their life and conversation should redound
to his honor and praise. Wondrous indeed is it that a
poor insignificant worm, whom perhaps his fellow mortal will
scarcely deign to look at, or passes by with a shrug of contempt,
should add glory to the great God that inhabiteth eternity,
before whom the highest angels and brightest seraphs bow with
holy adoration. Well, may we say, what are all
the glorious exploits that men are so proud of compared with
the tribute of glory rendered to God by His suffering saints?
You may feel yourself one of the poorest, vilest, neediest,
worms of earth. And yet, if you believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ with a living faith, hope in His mercy, love
His dear name, and in your vocation, adorn His doctrine by a godly,
consistent life, you are privileged above princes and nobles, yea,
even above crowned heads, and all the glory of man, because
you are bringing glory to Almighty God. It matters not what may
be your station in life. You may be a servant, master,
wife, husband, child. Your rank and station may be
high or low, but whatever it be, still in it you may bring
glory to God. If a servant, by obedience, cleanliness
in industry, and attention to the directions of your master
or mistress, if a master or mistress, by kindness and liberality to
your dependents, and doing all you can to render the yoke of
servitude light. There is not a single Christian
who may not glorify God, though in worldly circumstances he be,
or seem to be, totally insignificant. Glory is brought to God by those
who live and walk in his fear, and more sometimes by the poor
than by the rich. Only adorn the doctrine of God
in all things, and you will bring glory to God in all things. That
was from preacher JC Philpott. the way, the truth, the life. Come hear the message of the
Lord. To God, Christ is the way, and
those who follow other paths have surely gone astray. Christ
Jesus is the only truth, the word of God revealed, and those
who find their hope in him, a good foundation build. He is the life
to lifeless souls, to sinners dead in sin, who have no worthiness
themselves, nor righteousness within. He is the way, the truth,
the life, so on His blood rely. For those who fail to trust in
Him, forevermore must die. Christ's work for us. I rejoice that the Holy Spirit
has been pleased to quicken us, show us our need of God's salvation,
reveal the Savior to us, and grant us repentance toward God
and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Remember, however, it is not
the Spirit's work in us that made us the righteousness of
God, but the Savior's obedience and substitutionary sacrifice
for us. Please see 2 Corinthians 5.21. I would not lessen the necessity
of the new birth by the power of the Spirit, but it must not
be confused with the work of the Son of God in our stead. The Spirit works within us is
because of and the result of the Savior's work for us in the
satisfaction of divine justice. By His life and death, He honored
all the demands of the law for our redemption and justification,
and as a result, we are completely freed from any possibility of
condemnation. The Holy Spirit comes to ransom
sinners through the gospel and performs a miracle of grace within,
causing us to believe on Christ and rest in Him and His work
of redemption for our acceptance before God." That message was
from preacher Jim Bird of 13th Street Baptist Church located
in Ashland, Kentucky, USA. Ephesians 2.5, by grace ye are
saved. That one word, saved, is enough
to make the heart dance as long as life remains. Saved, let us
hang out our banners and set the bells ringing. Saved, what
a sweet sound it is to the man who is wrecked and sees the vessel
going down, but at that moment discovers that the lifeboat is
near and will rescue him from the sinking ship. to be snatched
from the devouring fire or saved from the fierce disease just
when the turning point has come and death appears imminent. These
are also occasions for crying, SAVED! But to be rescued from
sin and hell is a greater salvation still and demands a louder joy. We will sing it in life, whisper
it in death, and chant it throughout eternity. By grace, ye are saved. This is spiritual growth. The longer I live, the more I
feel that if there were one thing left undone, if the devil were
not conquered, sin not expiated, justice not satisfied, the law
not honored and magnified, death not overcome, and every burden
not carried, I should not have a ray of hope. I used to think
I saw this as clear as the noon day thirty or forty years ago,
but I saw it very differently than to what I see now. For I
see and feel now that if one hairbreadth is left for me to
do, to merit heaven, or bring as a plea before God, I am undone
forever and ever. But, on the Mount of Calvary,
the Lord Jesus Christ undertook the cause of His people, and
there is not a jot or tittle that He left undone. But, as
it is written in Hebrews 10, 14, by one offering He perfected
forever them that are sanctified." Here is complete perfection. Saved in the Lord with an everlasting
salvation. Outstanding that was from Isaiah
45 17 and that message was Was given by preacher John Warburton
in the year of our Lord 1853 Oh The wrath to come as it's written in Matthew 3,
7, but when he, meaning John the Baptist, saw many of the
Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto
them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from
the wrath to come? Remember the tremendous and overwhelming
fact that the wrath of God does not end with death. This is a
truth which the preacher cannot mention without trembling, nor
without wondering that he does not tremble more. The eternity
of punishment is a thought which crushes the heart. When an unbeliever
dies, you have buried the man, but you have not buried his sins. His sins live and are immortal,
they have gone before him to judgment, or they will follow
after him to bear their witness as to the evil of his heart and
the rebellion of his life. The Lord God is slow to anger,
but when he is once aroused to it, as he will be against those
who finally reject his son, he will put forth his omnipotence
to crush his enemies. Consider this, saith he, ye that
forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to
deliver." Psalm 50 verse 22. It will be no trifle to fall
into the hands of the living God. He will by no means clear
the guilty. Forever must his anger burn. We have nothing in scripture
to warrant the hope that God's wrath against evildoers will
ever come to an end. Oh, the wrath to come, the wrath
to come, the wrath, which after ages and ages will still be to
come and still to come and still to come. Well, might that mighty
preacher, George Whitefield, when he preached lift up his
hands, and with tears streaming from his eyes, and with breaking
heart cried to the crowds, oh, the wrath to come, the wrath
to come. Friends, it is imperative that
you flee to Christ Jesus today, not tomorrow, for none of us
are promised another day on this planet. Today is the day of salvation. Call upon the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ while He may be found, and seek Him while He
is near. Only by being in Christ, the
ark of our salvation, may we be delivered from the fierce
wrath of Almighty God, which is coming soon upon the wicked. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
which was and is and is to come. Great is our Lord Jesus Christ,
and greatly to be praised. Take heart, friends. Our mighty
and glorious King of Glory is inbound for His afflicted saints. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus! Maranatha!