There is a new gospel. There
is another gospel. The Apostle Paul talked to that
in the book of Galatians. You know, and I know many of
you have been raised in legalism. And after you came to Grace Gospel
Fellowship, you were set free. Remember how horrible sometimes
church was? What condemnation it wrought
deep in your heart? I can remember many times sitting
in church saying, well, I hope Jesus doesn't come right now
because I got a mess going on. I'd have to face that. You remember
all those stories about how, maybe you don't, maybe you never
heard this, all those stories about how God's gonna take his
big projector and put your life story from the time you were
saved, and then he's gonna pass out yo-yos for those of you who
did good things. I used to hear this quite often,
that after you die, God's gonna reward you according to your
good works. And I keep looking for me to
do one of those. It doesn't seem to happen. I am so glad that God not only
predestined me to salvation, but also those things that would
come out of me. He predestinated me to be pastor
here. He predetermined things that
are going on. at Grace Centers of Hope. He
works. You see, it's grace that puts
you in the way, grace that leads you along the way, and it's God's
grace that takes you all the way. Otherwise, you wouldn't
make it, nor neither would I. It's the work of grace. The old
gospel does not exhort men to pity Christ, but announces that
Christ has pitied them. Isn't that a great announcement?
The new gospel has turned God's free mercy to sinners into a
constitutional soft heartedness on God's part, which men take
for granted. Yes. You know, pastor, uh, I
know Christ died for everybody. God loves everybody. No, I'm
afraid you had that wrong. You can't find that in the Bible.
Christ dying for me belongs to my assurance as I believe on
him. You have no assurance that God
loves you and that Christ died for you outside of complete,
total faith in Jesus Christ. Blessed assurance Jesus is mine. The new gospel, turns the presentation
of Christ into a degrading way as a baffled Savior, balked in
what He hoped to do by human belief. You know, to save you,
God's got to overcome your lack of faith. He's got to give you
faith. Say, oh yeah, I know. Oh, you
know, pastor, I know we're saved by grace. For by grace are you
saved through faith. And that, not of yourself. It
is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. You
know why you're a believer? God gave you faith. You had none. And when you wouldn't come to
Him, He came to you. Oh, this is gospel preaching.
I feel good this morning. I feel good about what I'm saying.
I'm rejoicing in this truth that Christ loved me and gave himself
for me and I have trusted him. And that's my assurance every
day. Don't you mess up every day? I said, don't you mess up every
day? That's a little better. You think about God didn't need
you, you needed God. And so he came to you when you
wouldn't come to him.