Warm greetings, friends, near
and far. The Lord Jesus Christ be magnified
forever and ever. His loving kindness, tender mercies,
and compassions are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness. His mercy endureth forever. This
is Senator Save coming at you with the following short evangelistic
gospel message, and God willing, this broadcast will reach you,
Leema 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. Perfect righteousness. Humanly
speaking, one of the reasons people don't come to Christ is
simple. They think they don't need to. After all, in everyday
life, it's only sick people who need the doctor. Then there's
others who feel they are decent and good, and therefore qualified
to approach God. But as one old-timer says, There
are people who quite misunderstand the gospel. They think that their
righteousness qualifies them to come to Christ, whereas sin
is the only qualification for man to come to Jesus. When we are keenly aware of our
sins, it is then that we see our need for the Savior. The
more we understand of the holiness of God, the more we see the necessity
of being clothed in the flawless righteousness of Christ. We see
that nothing but a perfect righteousness is suitable for our approach
to God. Either we are covered in our
own sins and failures, or by His righteousness alone. So let's
look again at Jesus. See him once more at Golgotha. Look at them tearing off his
clothes, the very clothes the sick had touched for healing.
There he is, naked. But why? It was so that we might
be clothed in His perfect righteousness and be unashamed. Without His
righteousness, we would all, as it were, stand naked and exposed
before the justice of God on the day of judgment. Look at
Calvary. With angry nails, they fastened
him to the cross. They pierced those feet that
had carried him to proclaim the good news. With hatred, they
hammered their spikes into his hands. What harm had those hands
ever done? They were the hands of help and
healing, yet in their fury, wicked men fastened him to the cross.
Hear the blows of the hammer. Listen to his screams. See the
blood. As William Rees wrote, here is
love, vast as the ocean, loving kindness as the flood, when the
Prince of Peace, our ransom, shed for us his precious blood.
Who his love will not remember? Who can cease to sing his praise?
He can never be forgotten throughout heaven's eternal days. Who nailed Him to the cross?
Was it the Jews for jealousy? Was it Pilate to show his power?
Was it the soldiers for spite? No, it was none of these. It
was our sins that nailed Christ Jesus there, yours and mine. As one old time preacher said,
our sins struck the hammer. It was our sins that bruised
and wounded Him. It was us who crucified Jesus. Let me ask, is Jesus your righteousness? Preacher George Whitefield said
it like this, here's something we must learn. Going to church
and being good will not give us access to God. The only access
we can have is if we have the righteousness of Christ, nothing
but Christ, nothing but Christ. We need Christ alone and Christ
only to be our righteousness. He went on to ask, what is the
last time you thought of the love of Christ in dying for you?
Is Jesus ever in your thoughts? Do you love him? If you love
Him and He is your righteousness, let the righteousness of your
Lord be continually in your mouth. Talk about His righteousness.
Recommend His righteousness to others. Think of the greatest
of the gift, as well as the sufficiency of the giver. Tell that Christ
is your righteousness and that you are saved, not because you
are good, but because Christ Jesus is your righteousness. Jesus is wonderful. Even though
our sins had caused a sinkhole of destruction, he pulled us
out of that pit at the cross. In Christ, we are brought out
of the pit to the throne, released from bondage and clothed with
righteousness. Now we face our destiny. We have
an appointed day, a day of judgment. But in that day, He, the Lord
Jesus, will present us faultless and flawless before the throne
of grace with exceeding joy. Please see Jude verses 24 and
25. We shall hear the pro announcement
of not guilty. Is this enough for you? Is there
anything you would like to add to the righteousness of Christ?
His righteousness is perfect. And that's the gospel truth.
That was from preacher Myles McKee. Conformed to the image
of Christ Jesus by his spirit. A reading from 2 Corinthians
3.18. But we all with open face beholding,
as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
A view of Christ's glory and a foretaste of the bliss and
blessedness it communicates has a transforming effect upon the
soul. We are naturally proud, covetous,
and worldly, often led aside by and grievously entangled in
various lusts and passions, prone to evil, averse to good, easily
elated by prosperity, soon dejected by adversity, peevish under trials,
rebellious under heavy strokes, unthankful for daily mercies
of food and raiment, and in other ways, ever manifesting our base
original. To be brought from under the
power of these abounding evils and be made meat for the inheritance
of the saints in light, we need to be transformed by the renewing
of our mind and conform to the image of Christ. Now, this can
only be by beholding His glory by faith. as the apostle speaks,
but we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the
Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even
as by the spirit of the Lord. It is this believing view of
the glory of Christ which supports under heavy trials producing
meekness and resignation to the will of God. We are therefore
bidden to consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners
against Himself, lest we be wearied and faint in our minds, and to
run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus. Sickness, too, sometimes befalls
us when we need special support. The sands of our time are fast
running out, and there is no turning the glass. Our days are
passing away as the swift ships, as the eagle that hasteth to
the prey, and death and eternity are fast hastening on. When the
body sinks under a load of pain and disease and all sources of
happiness and enjoyment from health and strength are cut off,
when flesh and heart fail and the eye strings are breaking
in death, what can support the soul or bear it safe through
Jordan's swelling flood? but those discoveries of the
glory of Christ that shall make it sick of earth, sin and self,
and willing to lay the poor body in a grave, that it may be forever
ravished with his glory and his love. Thus we see how the glory
of Christ is not only in heaven, the unspeakable delight of the
saints, whose glorified souls and bodies will then bear an
exceeding and eternal weight of glory, but here on earth in
their days of tribulation and sorrow, this same glory as revealed
to their hearts, supports and upholds their steps, draws them
out of the world, delivers them from the power of sin, and gives
them union and communion with Christ, conforms them to His
image, comforts them in death, and lands them in glory. We thus
see Jesus, like the sun, not only illuminating all heaven
with his glory, the delight of the Father, the joy of the spirits
of just men made perfect, and the adoration of all the angelic
host, but irritating also the path of the just on earth, casting
his blessed beams on all their troubles and sorrows, and lighting
up the way where when they follow their Lord from the suffering
cross to the triumphant crown. That was from preacher J.C. Philpot
who gave that gospel message back approximately the year of
our Lord, 1860. A reading from 1 Timothy 1, 15-17. This is a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause
I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show
forth all longsuffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter
believe on him to life everlasting. Now unto the King eternal, immortal,
invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and
ever. Amen. Hallelujah, praise the Savior.
For an old eternity, God ordained that He would save us. Christ
from sin would set us free. Lo, He left His throne of glory,
came into this world of woe, satisfied His law and justice
to pay all the debt we owe. Hallelujah, praise the Savior. By His blood and agony, He redeemed
His chosen people. fully won the victory. Jesus
bruised the head of Satan, put away iniquity, reconciled us
to the Father when he died at Calvary. Hallelujah, praise the
Savior. On him all our hopes depend. Prophet, priest, and king of
glory. What a brother, what a friend. Robed in pure and righteous garments,
soon in heaven we shall be. And with all the ransomed army,
praise his name eternally. Hallelujah. It is written in
Isaiah 45, 22, where our Lord Jesus Christ commands, look unto
me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth for I am God and
there is none else. The master, Christ Jesus, says
also in Matthew 11, come unto me all you that labor and are
heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and
learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart. and ye shall
find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden
is light." 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!