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 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 finding closed encouragement
and so great salvation by the perfect and finished work of
our Lord Jesus Christ and saving poor, needy, and wretched sinners
by his sovereign free grace. That is to say, almighty God
and his unmerited favor saved me and you from our sins and
from hell. Storms, Sinking Ships, and the
Sleeping Savior Part Two. Just to recap on our story, the
disciples have followed Jesus straight into a storm and has
gone to sleep. See Mark chapter four. The disciples
start to panic and they waken Jesus with the cruelest of words,
paraphrasing here, don't you care that we are about to perish?
Then in one of the great biblical scenes, the creator of the universe
arises from his sleep, stretches himself to his full height and
rebukes the storm by calling out, peace, be still. or in one
word, hush. Suddenly the wind got quiet,
the waves got quiet, and even Big Peter got quiet. The disciples
knew they were in the presence of majesty. It's no wonder they
asked, behold, what matter of man is this, that even the winds
and the waves obey him? It's no wonder they were amazed
Jesus had just given them a revelation of his deity. There are so many
applications that can be made from this passage of scripture,
but for our purposes, we must confine ourselves to but one.
When Jesus calmed the storm, he was demonstrating that he
was the Lord, the almighty Yahweh of Psalms 107. Here's what the
psalmist says. Then they cry unto the Lord in
their trouble, and he brings them out of their distresses.
He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof be still.
Then are they glad, because they be quiet. So he brings them unto
their desired haven. That's Psalm 107, verses 23, In Mark chapter 4 we are faced
once more with undeniable proof that Jesus of the New Testament
is the Yahweh of the Old. In the Old Testament, it's Yahweh
to whom the people cry in the midst of the storm, but to whom
did they cry in the New Testament? They cried to Jesus. It was Yahweh
who calmed the storm in the Old Testament, but who calmed the
storm in the New? It was Jesus. Jesus did many
wonderful things simply to demonstrate that he was God in flesh appearing. In addition to calming storms,
Jesus walked on water. See Matthew 14, verses 22 through
25. When we study the scriptures,
we discover that to walk on water is the divine prerogative of
Yahweh. Think about it. When's the last time you saw
anyone walk on water that wasn't frozen? Indeed, the possibility
of such a thing as a person walking on water is non-existent. According
to the Jameson, Fawcett, and Brown commentaries, the Egyptian
hieroglyphic for impossibility is that of a man walking on waves. Even Neptune, the Roman god of
the sea so-called, was never depicted as walking on water.
Instead of walking, he swam. Then Job, when reflecting on
the mightiness of God, declares, In chapter 9, verse 8, Also consider
this. When it came to crossing the
Red Sea, God opened the water for Moses. When it came to crossing
the Jordan, God opened the waters for Joshua. and the waters opened
for Elijah. See 2 Kings 2.8. But when it
came to himself, Yahweh just walked over it like it was a
highway. If Jesus had split the water, we would have seen that
he was a great prophet. But since he walked on water,
we see he is God. And that's the gospel truth till
he comes. That message was from preacher
Myles McKee. For those who have an interest
in Christ and are made partakers thereof, although sin may grieve
them, trouble and perplex them, and by its deceit and violence
cause them to contract much guilt in their surprisals, yet they
need not despond or be utterly cast down, there is a stable
ground of consolation provided for them, in that, as it is written,
there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. That
was from old-timer John Owen. Christ's heirs is written in
Titus 3.5, not by works of righteousness which we have done, A very young
believer was in deep distress. He went to his pastor, a man
wise in the faith, and told him, no matter how much I pray, no
matter how hard I try to obey, I simply cannot seem to be faithful
enough to my Lord. I wonder if I'm truly saved.
The pastor saw his dog lying on the floor and gave the young
believer the following lesson. Do you see this dog? He is my
dog. He is house trained. He never
makes a mess. He is obedient. He is a pure
delight to me. Out in the kitchen, I have a
son, a baby son. He makes a mess. He throws his
food around. He fouls his clothes. He is a
total mess. But who is going to inherit my
things? Not my dog. My son is my heir. If you trust
in Christ, even with little faith, you are Jesus Christ's heir,
because it is for you that he died and rose again. Brethren,
we are heirs of Christ, not through our perfection, but by his perfection,
not by our works, but by his grace, not by our diligence,
obedience, and faithfulness, but by his alone. Let us all
strive to remember this. And that was from an unknown
preacher of righteousness. Not an insult, but a necessity. The doctrine of the total depravity
of all men without exception is not revealed to insult us.
The revelation of total depravity in the Bible is the diagnosis
of a terrible disease we all have by nature, the terrible
disease of sin. Because of self-righteousness
and pride, the natural man sees it as an insult to his self-proclaimed
dignity and goodness, but he does not know the real depths
of his own depravity and the seriousness of sin as it rules
and mars his whole life in being. Total depravity does not mean
that we are all as bad as we could be in the eyes of other
sinful human beings. Thank God for his restraining
power to keep us from going the full depths of our fallen sinful
nature. Total depravity means, number
one, we have no righteousness of our own working. Man lost
what righteousness he had when Adam fell and brought us all,
the whole human race, into sin and depravity and death. See
Romans chapter 3 verse 10 and also chapter 5 verse 12 of Romans. Number two, we cannot work out
righteousness by our best efforts to keep the law and obey God.
Righteousness cannot be attained by our works. See Romans 3 verses
19 and 20, also Ephesians 2 verses 8 through 9. And number three, because we
all fell in Adam, we are born spiritually dead with no desires
for the things of the glory of God in the Lord Jesus Christ.
We do not know, desire, or seek after righteousness of God's
way in the gospel of his free and sovereign grace through the
Lord Jesus Christ. Please see Romans 3, verses 11
and 12. This is revealed to God's people
by the Holy Spirit in the new birth. as he convicts us of sin,
righteousness, and judgment, showing us our need of Christ
through the grace of God and his righteousness alone for our
complete salvation and justification before God. This is when the
Holy Spirit imparts life to a dead sinner and gives that sinner
a desire to seek and cling to Christ by faith for all salvation. Amen. That was from preacher
Bill Parker. It is written in Romans 10, 4,
for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believeth. To what purpose doth the apostle
Paul bring this passage, that Christ is the end of the law,
but that by these words he might confute their vanity, who think
to establish their own righteousness in the fulfilling of the law?
You think by your keeping the law you can attain to the end
of it, that so you may obtain the grace of the Lord? It is
not you that can reach the end of the law. Neither doth God
aim at it that you should reach it, but he hath constituted and
ordained Christ to be the end of it. Therefore, the righteousness
of God must be the righteousness of Christ. The righteousness
that God aims at is perfect, a righteousness that reaches
to the very end of the law. Your righteousness can never
reach to the end of it. It is Christ alone that does
it. It's from a very old preacher
long ago, Tobias Crisp. Good message. A reading from
Jude verse 24 and 25. Now unto him that is able to
keep you from falling and to present you faultless before
the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise
God our Savior be glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and
ever. Amen. The true Christian has
enough to make him genuinely happy. All of his sins are forgiven
and forgotten. He is adopted into God's family. His person is justified before
God. He is clothed in the perfect
righteousness of Jesus. He is a child of God. He is regenerated
by the Holy Spirit. He was this he has the spirit
of adoption in his heart. He is at peace with God and God
is at peace with him That was from an unknown preacher of righteousness
Call to worship that grace that reigns in righteousness, a just
God and a Savior, He, this way He must forever be, from old
eternity was wrought a purpose of His grace to show. Eternal
love then did design to send the Son down here below. Christ
came and lived the perfect man, submissive to the Father's will.
Then on the cross He died to save, and there His blood did
freely spill. that sacrifice for sins then
made the debt to justice satisfied. Now all for whom he suffered
there must now be freely justified. Hallelujah. It is written in
Isaiah 45, 22, where our Lord Jesus Christ commands, look unto
me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and
there is none else. And the master, Christ Jesus,
says also in Matthew 11, verses 28 through 30, come unto me,
all ye 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. This about wraps up this evening's
broadcast. I trust Almighty God will awaken His sleeping elect
and draw multitudes of men, women, and children around the world
to His only begotten Son, Christ Jesus, the Lord our righteousness. Yehovah Sidkenu. Bless the name. Baruch Hashem, Holy One of Israel. Hakadosh Yisrael. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord God, holy, holy,
holy Lord God Almighty Which was it 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 Kings and King of Saints,
the King of glory is inbound for his afflicted saints. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus,
Maranatha.