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 Senator Save 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 times. 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
and His unmerited favor to save me and you from our sins and
from hell. Jesus, our sacrifice. And they
bring Him unto the place Golgotha, which is being interpreted the
place of the skull. Mark 15, 22. What sacrifice can
we make that will impress God more than Christ's sacrifice
on Calvary? None! In the light of one great
sacrifice made by Christ Jesus, our best efforts at self-denial
fade to oblivion. The great missionary David Livingston
sacrificed everything to bring the gospel to the continent of
Africa, yet he said, I never made a sacrifice. We ought not
to talk of sacrifice when we remember the great sacrifice
which Christ made for us. Indeed, the heart of Christianity
is neither about us nor our sacrifices, it is about Jesus. As P.T. Forth said, Christianity is not
the sacrifice that we make, it is the sacrifice that we trust. Consider this on the day of his
death. The Lord Jesus was brought to Golgotha, the place of the
skull. Look at him, the perfectly pure
and lovely one, holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from
sinners. He is brought to a wretched place, littered with skulls and
bones, stripped naked, and publicly executed. as Isaiah said, he
is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. Did you hear that word? Slaughter. Let's not pull punches or try
to sanitize this. The Lord Jesus was slaughtered
and cursed for us. Jesus, the greatest kindness,
and most gracious man who ever lived is led to Golgotha where
he will writhe in tortured agony. But how can this be? His life
was one of doing good, yet he is condemned to a wretched place
where the worst of the wicked are executed. As Isaiah prophesied
in 53.12, he was numbered among the transgressors. Look at him
again. He is more than a man. He is
God manifest in the flesh, the God man. One word from him and
the armies of heaven will mobilize and suddenly appear to defend
him. Look at him concealing his sovereign power as he refuses
to save himself. Pity the wicked men who contrived
to kill Him. They are laughable. They thought
they engineered events that day, but look again at them and see
the reality. See them, unknown to and despite
themselves, fulfilling His will. They mean this vile act for evil,
but God means it for good and for salvation, and it's all according
to His plan. So here He is. the ruler and
judge of the universe being led as a lamb to the slaughter. Look again at the leaders of
religion. This is the day they have plotted
and planned for. Yet look closely again and see,
despite all their supposed power, they are impotent. Again, see
who it is who is really in control. It is the Lord Jesus. He did
not resist them. A man in charge does not need
to resist. one glance from his eyes could have slain them all.
Look at the cruel, wicked men fulfilling his will, but listen
to the master in marvel, for he says, no man takes my life
from me. I have power to lay it down. John 10, 18. So here in his sovereign
authority, he moves all history, the will of man and the hatred
of all his enemies to one inescapable conclusion, the cross. But why
did he allow himself to be led as a lamb to the slaughter? Was
it because he was compassionate, gracious, and righteous? Yes,
but more than that, he went there because no amount of sacrificing
or religious observance on our part could rescue or redeem us. Excuse me, friends. And so they
brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha, the place of ultimate
disgrace. In Jerusalem in those days, parents
would warn their children that if they took the wrong path in
life, they would end up at Golgotha. It was the end of the line, fit
only for the lowest of the low. And so the Lord of glory, Jesus,
identifies with the lowest, the vilest, and the worst. Don't
ever think, therefore, that you have gone beyond his reach or
exhausted his love. You can never exhaust a love
that goes to Golgotha for you. And that's the gospel truth. From preacher Miles McKee. The
sweetness of manifested pardon. Is anything too hard for the
Lord? Genesis 18, 14. The Lord will
make us feel that though his arm is not shortened, that it
cannot save, nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear, yet he is
to be inquired of. He is indeed a God that worketh
wonders. Apparent impossibilities are
nothing with him. He has but to speak and it is
done. But he will make us know his
power by making us feel our weakness. He will often keep at a great
distance and for a long time in order to make us value his
presence. He will make us sink very low
that he may lift us very high. He will make us taste the betterness
of the gall and wormwood of sin, that we may know the sweetness
of manifested pardon. He will teach us to abhor ourselves
in our own sight and loathe ourselves for our abominations, before
we shall see and know ourselves washed in his blood, clothed
in his righteousness, and to stand before him without spot
or wrinkle or any such thing. The Lord in one sense is easy
of access upon His throne of grace, but in another sense very
hard to be got at. He invites His dear people to
come and spread their wants before Him. He encourages them with
a thousand promises. He says in our text, is anything
too hard for the Lord? But He will make us set a due
value upon His visitations. They shall not be given to us
very easily or very frequently, that we may not hold them cheap.
It is not ask and have immediately. We have to learn what sin costs
our dear Redeemer. We have to see the holiness and
majesty of God. We have to learn that though
mercy is free and grace super abounds over the aboundings of
sin, yet it must be got at after many a struggle, many a cry,
many a sigh and groan, and many a fervent petition, that though
all fullness dwells in the Lord the Lamb, and he invites us to
come and take the water of life freely, yet is guarded on every
side by many things that would drive us back. Thus, he teaches
us to put due value upon his grace, upon the visitations of
his countenance, and the words of his lips. They cost the dear
Redeemer the deepest agonies of body and soul, and sufferings
of which no finite mind can form a conception, and therefore are
not to be given out without teaching us to know through what channel
they came, or what it cost the blessed Son of God to give out
of his fullness. those supplies of grace by which
He enriches our need." Good message. Hallelujah. From Deuteronomy
33, 27, the eternal God is thy refuge. Who is this eternal God? He is
the great and glorious Jehovah, eternal in His trinity of persons
and in the unity of His essence. Friends, you must see Deuteronomy
6, 4 and also John 10, verses 27 through 31. And what a depth of blessedness
there is in this God being an eternal God, and that in and
of this eternity, each person of the Godhead has an equal share. Look at the love of the eternal
God. How eternal was that? Not a thing of time, not fixed
upon us when we first brought into being, not issuing out of
his bosom first when we were quickened into divine life, but
a love from all eternity, as being the love of an eternal
God, as it's written in Jeremiah 31.3, I have loved thee with
an everlasting love. Therefore, with love and kindness
have I drawn thee. and how eternal are the thoughts
of God, those thoughts which were of good, not of evil. They
were eternal thoughts of peace to the church, eternal thoughts
of mercy to His beloved family, eternal thoughts of manifesting
His grace in the person and work of His dear Son, eternal flowings
forth of goodness and love to those whom He had chosen in Christ. that they might be one with him,
members of that glorious body of which his dear son should
be the head. And eternal purposes also that
nothing could defeat, that all the waves of time could not break
through, eternal wisdom also to devise, and eternal power
to accomplish. Oh, this eternal God. We look
back into eternity. We see what a God He was from
all eternity. And then we look forward to what
He will be to all eternity. And we see Him unchanging and
unchangeable, resting in His love without variableness or
the shadow of turning, whether in eternity past or in eternity
to come. Please see James 1.17. We think of the spirits of just
men made perfect. We follow in faith and hope the
souls of our dear departed friends. We view them drinking the pleasures
which are at His right hand forever, and so they will be there to
all eternity, ever basking in the smiles of an eternal God,
ever living in His favor, ever conformed to the glorious image
of His eternal Son, and ever drinking of fresh droughts of
love and bliss in His eternal presence. Oh, this eternal father
in the depths of his fatherly love and the gift of his dear
son. Oh, the love, condescension and
tenderness of this eternal son in the depths of his mercy and
grace and suffering, bleeding and dying for poor guilty sinners. Oh the wisdom, the power, the
grace and the blessedness of this eternal spirit in taking
of the things of Christ, unfolding the person of Jesus, bringing
him near, revealing him to the soul, sprinkling the conscience
with his blood and making him known and precious. What a depth
of gratitude is everlastingly due from the redeemed Church
of God to all the three sacred persons of the glorious and undivided
Trinity, and that both in His Trinity of persons and His love
and His unity of essence, the eternal God should be their refuge. Outstanding message from old-timer
preacher J.C. Philpott. It is written in Isaiah
45, 22, where our Lord Jesus commands, look unto me and be
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. Maranatha.