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 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. God is satisfied and so am I. There's a wonderful verse in
Romans 4, 5. This amazing statement tells us that God acquits the
ungodly, not the godly. But how can he do it and yet
remain righteous? After all, he is of purer eyes
than to behold evil and cannot look on iniquity, Habakkuk 1.13. Has God changed? Impossible,
see Malachi 3.6. But as Romans 3.21 through 26
teaches us, God is just and the justifier of him which believes
in Jesus. This is an amazing truth. Through
the bloodshedding of our Lord Jesus Christ, God can now, in
perfect consistency with himself, justify the ungodly. And this
blessing comes to those that work not, but believe. Therefore, the way to be saved
is neither by our good works, nor by becoming good, and certainly
not by deserving it. If those ways were true, we would
not have salvation by grace, but salvation by debt. See Romans
4.4. The way to be saved, however,
is by trusting on Christ alone. We are called to rest entirely
on Him, and not on any supposed goodness we may have. This is
what scripture calls grace, and grace is not debt. Romans 4-5. By the way, are you looking forward
to the time when you'll find yourself face-to-face with God?
However, before you answer this, consider that the scripture says
it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. Hebrews 10 31. That should strike
fear into the most stalwart of hearts. So what are we to do? As sinners, wrath should be our
just reward. We deserve it. We have earned
it. There is nothing we can do to save ourselves. But this is
where the good news comes in. Because of our inability to save
ourselves, God came into this world in the person of the Lord
Jesus and lived and died, the just for the unjust. See 1 Peter
3.18. At the cross, he endured the
wrath due to his people. He died, he was buried, but rose
from the dead and ascended into heaven. Heaven is satisfied with
what Christ has done. Are you? When explaining what
the cross means for believers, Scott Richardson said, the voice
from the cross did not summon men to do, but to be satisfied
with what has already been done. It is finished. Sacrifice of
the Lord Jesus Christ is the only perfect thing which has
ever been presented to God on man's behalf. As it is written
in Leviticus 22, 21, it shall be perfect to be accepted. There shall be no blemish therein. The father is satisfied with
the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus. Are you? What a blessing
to know that the father is satisfied. and glorified in what Christ
has done. Since that is true, we can be
at rest. We can be satisfied with the
gospel because God is satisfied. Never, never, never will we be
satisfied until we have believed that God has found infinite satisfaction
in the doing and dying of Christ for us. My God is satisfied. His welcoming voice I hear. He
owns me as his child. I can no longer fear. With confidence,
I now draw nigh. And Abba, Father, Abba, cry. And that's the gospel truth.
That was from preacher Myles McKee. Exodus 14, 13, fear ye not, stand
still and see the salvation of the Lord. The people of God were
now in a great straight, even at their wits end. Perish they
must to all human appearance. A wide ocean is before them.
Inaccessible mountains surround them. An enraged monarch pursues
them. Death in various shapes presents
itself to them. Yet for all this, Moses says,
fear not. peevish unbelief and carnal reason. It might suggest, what? Not be afraid when inevitable
destruction must be our doom? Why won't Moses talk to us after
this mad enthusiastic rate? But in the view of apparent destruction,
Moses tells them of a certain salvation and commands them to
stand still and behold it. We do not hear one word from
Moses to soothe their fears or comfort their minds from any
considerations of what they were in themselves, what good works
they had done, what terms and conditions they had performed
to entitle them to the Lord's favor. No. But they were at this
very moment indulging carnal reason in the murmurs of unbelief. Why hast thou brought us forth?
Better to serve the Egyptians than to perish here, etc. Hence
observed first, in times of difficulty, in seasons of distress, when
sin rages, conscience accuses, the law condemns, carnal reason
suggests, unbelief prevails, and we poor sinners are at our
wits end, seeing justice pursuing, all hope in help failing. and
despair at the door when the salvation of Jesus is to be looked
unto. In such seasons, how doth this
quell our fears, compose and comfort our minds? Secondly, what is it to stand
still and see the salvation of the Lord? Is it to cease from
prayer and all other means of grace? As some say, be still,
stir not hand nor foot in the way of duty. No, for contrary
to this, the Lord ordered the people to go forward. What is
it then but in the midst of fears in the sight of danger in the
dread of destruction To cease from all self-confidence to attend
to the voice of the lord to rely upon his gracious promises And
quietly to hope for his great deliverance Oh For oh precious
word says moses the lord shall fight for you and what then he
shall hold your peace How soon how effectual? Did the Lord do
this? He both destroyed their enemies,
saved them, silenced all their unbelieving fears and unreasonable
murmurings. They saw their enemies no more
forever. Stand still, O soul. Admire,
adore, love, and confide in a gracious, wonder-working, sin-saving Lord. Look on thine enemies as the
foes of thy Lord. He hath promised their destruction
and thy salvation. Rejoice to think of that day
when thou shalt see the Lord in glory and thine enemies no
more forever. Stand still, my soul, salvation
view, as finished by thy Lord. Reject thy fears, believe anew
thy Lord's supporting word. That was from preacher William
Mason. election and faith. There is
no doubt that the Bible teaches that God has an elect people
chosen by him and free and sovereign grace in Christ Jesus before
the foundation of the world. They are known by being brought
by the Holy Spirit to hear and believe the gospel of God's grace
in Christ Jesus, wherein the righteousness of God, the entire
merit of Christ's obedience unto death as their surety and substitute,
is revealed to them and received by them. They all, without exception,
believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as he is revealed in the gospel. Please see 1 Thessalonians 1
verses 4 through 5 and also 2 Thessalonians 2 verses 13 and 14. However,
the gospel does not address lost sinners as being either elect
or non-elect. It addresses them as sinners
who have nothing to recommend them unto God and who are in
need of God's free, sovereign grace and the Lord Jesus Christ
to save them. It addresses them as who are
totally depraved, dead in sin, and in need of righteousness
they cannot produce. It commands all who hear it to
believe in Christ as He is identified in the gospel and to repent of
their own dead works and idolatry. The gospel promises salvation
to all whosoever will who've come to God pleading the righteousness
of his son All who do are identified in the Bible as elect according
to the foreknowledge of God the father through sanctification
of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ first Peter 1 2 and When we hear the gospel then,
the question for us to ponder is not, am I elect or not elect? The question is, do I know I
am a sinner and that I have only one hope of salvation, of being
accepted with God, of being forgiven and having eternal life, Jesus
Christ the righteous. A great message from preacher
Bill Parker. Most Churches teach and preach
a man-centered gospel As though the happiness of man was God's
chief concern God's chief concern is his own glory. In fact reality
exists for one purpose That God would be glorified in the death
of his son Demonstrating to all creation that he is a just God
and a Savior That was from preacher Kenneth Halloran Let all who
name the name of Christ as witnesses before men be diligent and proactive,
that our dealings with others are just and honest, that our
promises to others are true and well-intended, that our worship
of God is devout and sincere, and that our lives before men
are moral and blameless. We know the heart and substance
of our witness before men is the message and light of the
gospel of God's free and sovereign grace, in and by the Lord Jesus
Christ. The means of our witness before
men is the preaching of the gospel, pointing sinners to Christ and
His righteousness alone for salvation, not to ourselves or our works. Our prayer to God is for the
salvation of sinners by His grace, not glory and esteem for ourselves
from men. No one will be saved simply by
looking at us. Salvation is by looking to Jesus
Christ, the author and finisher of our faith. Excellent message. When Jesus died on Calvary, salvation's
work was done. Redemption was accomplished by
God's eternal son. Christ bore our sins and sorrows.
He made them all his own and died to honor justice, our sin
debt to atone. Oh, what a wondrous savior. Oh, what a matchless friend.
What love and great compassion, which none can comprehend. The
Lord came down from glory, his very life he gave. He died by
God's appointment, our guilty souls to save. With deepest gratitude,
Lord, we praise thy gracious name and thank thee for Christ
Jesus, who took our sin and blame. Oh, may we fully trust him. May he within us dwell, who died
to seal our pardon and save our souls from hell. sung to the the old hymn the
church's one foundation and the words were written by preacher
jim bird 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.