Warm greetings, friends, near
and far. The Lord Jesus Christ be magnified
forever and ever. His loving kindness is tender
mercies, and compassions are new every morning. Great is His
faithfulness. His mercy endureth forever. The Lord Jesus is going to tell
His people when we get to glory, And you can read this in Luke
17, 10. When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded
you, say, we are unprofitable servants. We have done that which
was our duty to do. This is a fatal stab to human
merit. This is a deadly blow to sinless
perfection. Oh, flee from the idea of any
merit in thee or thy works as from the face of the devil. It
is of the pride of Satan. Avoid the thought. of being perfect
in thyself, as thou wouldst the most damnable lie, it ariseth
from self-deceit, and it is established through ignorance of God's holy
law. Our dear Lord here instructs
us to be active, yet humble, to be obedient, yet self-abased,
to do all things, yet our own unprofitableness after all. Beware
you do not learn to decry that word duty. It is very common
for many so to do, as implying nothing but what is legal. Thy Lord here uses it. Be not
wiser than thy master. True, thou art freed from all
slavish duty and legal bondage in order to be justified and
saved thereby. But run not, hence, into lawless
liberty. Thou art bound to obey by the
love of God thy Father, commanded to serve thy Savior Jesus, and
this with the affections of a dutiful son and with the love of a sincere
friend. We serve the Lord Christ knowing
that in the Lord we shall receive as a free gift of grace, not
earned by duty and works, the reward of the inheritance. See
Colossians 3, 24. The rule of the duty of love
are the commands of the law of love. The end of obeying them
is not to make us righteous, not to exalt us in our own eyes,
not to lay a foundation to build ourselves up in self-righteous
confidence. No, says our Lord, after you have done all, renounce
all, humble yourselves under all, say we are unprofitable
servants in all. Well, but is not this very discouraging,
both to doing and hoping? not doing. The end of all this
is to adorn the gospel of grace, to glorify the God of grace,
to show a good example to the world, and to evidence the faith,
love, and hope of your soul, that you are alive to God, and
that these graces are alive in you, not to hoping Do you dread
that sentence cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness Matthew
25 30 that is one who is disobedient into every good work reprobate
who is a stranger a pure faith holy love and sincere obedience
all such are without hope in Jesus but unprofitable as er
see and confess yourselves to be and though you have no confidence
in yourselves or Your own doing yet. You are commanded to rejoice
in Christ Jesus And as it is written in Philippians 4 4 and
again rejoice and in 1st Corinthians 1 30 for he of God is made unto
us with wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption
and Ephesians 1 6 and we are made perfectly accepted in him
That was from preacher William Mason It has been suggested by
many that if we preach salvation as a sovereign gift of God, it
will cause men to sit still and fold their arms. It will not! But if men did so, we could not
help their case by giving them error. Our calling is not to
prove to you the reasonableness of any truth. God's word is true
whether men believe it or not. Our business is not to defend
any truth from its consequences. As preachers of the Lord, we
are to assert the truth because it is God's word, that if our
hearers do not like it, they must settle the quarrel with
their master. We are messengers christ is our message. The lord
has to reveal and apply the message He must make the willing or the
unwilling willing And to make the ungodly godly and bring the
rebel to the feet of christ or else salvation will not be accomplished
excellent message from preacher henry mahan Accepted in the beloved
if you and I among the righteous it is because we are made so
in Christ The apostle says and it's such a comfort to our souls
because it admits of no contradiction neither sin nor Satan can overthrow
it he was Christ being was made sin for us who knew no sin and
that it almost makes me afraid to utter the words. They're full
of such grandeur and immortal glory and shine like a diamond
set with all manner of beauty. We might be made the righteousness
of God in him." 2 Corinthians 5, 21. Come, poor child of God,
who are cast down by looking at your wanderings of heart,
carnality, and daily failings, and who perhaps have come here
full of confusion, feeling yourselves a helpless and wretched creature,
with your head hanging down like a bulrush. Look up to Jesus. He is the blessed head for the
righteous, the perfect center of all glory and beauty. Look
at the perfect work of Christ. He is the Lord our righteousness. Ye are complete in him, the scripture
says. Nowhere else do you see the churches
excepted in the beloved. And here it is, she stands righteous
in the sight of God. Now, do you want to know when
this took place? I cannot tell you. There is no
date, but what God himself has put to it. And that is from eternity. Past, present, and come are all
present with him. And he knew from everlasting
all that should ever come to pass. As it is written in Ephesians
1, verses 3 and 4, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings
in heavenly places in Christ, according as he hath chosen us
in him before the foundation of the world. Again, those that
are righteous before God are justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, Romans 3, 24. They are justified and completely
acquitted in Him, so that no just charge can be brought against
them. As it is written, who shall lay anything to the charge of
God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who
is He that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea,
rather, that is risen again, who is even, at the right hand
of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Romans 8, verses 33 and
34. So that those who are righteous
before God are made so in Christ. They are part of his mystical
body in union with the head. And all that Jesus is and has
as the head is imputed to and put upon them, the body. And
here it is, they stand everlastingly righteous before God. I know
and I'm sure that when the soul is brought to know that he is
righteous here, he does not want to be justified in any other
way. That was from preacher John War
Barton. The grand controversy between
corrupt nature and the Almighty is, who shall have the glory
of salvation, God or the creature? The pride of man says, the glory
of salvation is due to me, for I can save myself. But Jehovah
takes the glory of salvation to himself and says, I will have
all the glory thereof, for it is by my sovereign and efficacious
grace that men are saved. Thus pride is a principal cause
of the enmity there is in the carnal mind against God. It is
at the bottom of all the opposition made to those doctrines of scripture,
which illustrate and advance the almighty power and free grace
of God in the salvation of sinners. Another old-timer, excellent
message from preacher Augustus to Platy. The motive of God's
grace. Any claim of believing or any
personal view of the doctrine of God's free and sovereign grace
and the salvation of sinners by Jesus Christ alone that gives
a person an excuse not to fight sin in the warfare of the flesh
and the spirit is not of God. The glorious truth of salvation
conditioned totally and solely upon the Lord Jesus who by himself
fulfilled all the conditions is in no way a motivation for
sinners to live lives of sin and disobedience. The Bible shows
how it is the only honorable and right way to motivate believing
sinners to obedience that glorifies God and exalts Christ. Many conclude
that if the works of men do not contribute in some way or some
degree to our salvation and the establishment of our righteousness
before God, then there is no reason to try to obey God at
all. This only proves their spiritual deadness, because the only power
of motivation in their unregenerate hearts is legal fear of punishment
and mercenary promises of earned rewards. When God the Holy Spirit
brings a sinner to see his utter depravity and brings that sinner
to Jesus Christ for all salvation, forgiveness, righteousness, eternal
life, and glory, he gives that sinner a new heart and a new
spirit. One of the main evidences of
that new heart and new spirit is the motivation to obedience
and to be engaged in the warfare of the flesh and the spirit as
motivated by grace, gratitude, and love to God for all that
he has freely given us in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. as
the Apostle wrote, for the love of Christ constraineth us, because
we thus judge that if one died for all, then we're all dead,
and that he died for all, and they that which lived should
not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them
and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5, verses 14 through
15. That was from preacher Bill Parker. 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 Lord Jesus Christ, our beloved master, also says 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 Jesus Christ the Lord 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. Hagadosh Yisrael. Hallelujah. If you folks are led of the Lord
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