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 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. An immense truth. It has been
pointed out many times that salvation is entirely found in Christ.
We are in Him. We are blessed in Christ, chosen
in Him, accepted in Christ, redeemed in Him, given an inheritance
in Christ. We are complete in Him. There
is no condemnation in Christ. Recently, I read about a very
wealthy man who, with his devoted son, shared a passion for art
collecting. They traveled around the world
together, adding only the finest paintings to their collection.
Including among them were works by Picasso, Van Gogh, and Monet. The old man was a widower, but
his son filled up the void in his life, and this was their
common bond. However, war erupted and the
young man enlisted and was sent overseas. Day after day, the
old father prayed, held his breath, and waited for news. One autumn
day near Thanksgiving, the dreaded telegram came, bordered in black. The young man had died in combat,
trying to evacuate those caught under fire. Distraught and lonely,
the old man faced the upcoming holidays with anguish and sorrow. On one late December morning,
a knock sounded at the door. The father opened it to find
a soldier there carrying a small package. As they talked, the
soldier said, your son and I became very close and he told me all
about your joint art collection. I myself am an artist and I wanted
to give you this. The man took this package in
his feeble hands, unwrapped it, and there was a portrait of his
son in striking detail. It wasn't a masterpiece, but
it was the most precious work of art the old man had ever seen.
As he gazed at it, he wept. As the young soldier left, the
lonely father pushed aside thousands of dollars worth of art to hang
the portrait of his son in the prized spot over the fireplace. As the months passed, the old
man received letter after letter from his son's friend, telling
him of his son's bravery and selflessness, of how many lives
he had saved, and how many more he had touched. With each passing
day, the portrait over the fireplace became more precious, and he
told his friends that it was the greatest gift he had ever
received. The following spring, the old
man grew ill and died. The art world was full of anticipation,
wanting to get its hands on this man's fabulous collection. A
day was set to auction it all off, and according to the old
man's instruction, the first painting was one that was not
on any museum's list, the painting of the man's son. When the auctioneer
asked for an opening bid, the room was silent. Who will open
the bidding at $100, he asked. The moments stretched on awkwardly,
and finally somebody in the back of the room said, let's go on
to the next piece. No, replied the auctioneer. We
have to sell this one first. Finally, a man spoke. Will you
take $50 for the painting? I knew the boy, and I liked him,
so I'd like to have it. $50, we have $50, shouted the
auctioneer. Will anyone go higher? No one
did. Going once, going twice, gone
in the gavel fell. Everyone breathed a deep sigh
of relief, thankful that now they could proceed with the real
auction and get their hands on the masterpieces. But imagine
their shock when the auctioneer suddenly declared that the proceedings
were over. A loud clamor arose, stunned
disbelief. What do you mean it's over? The
people shouted. What about the masterpieces?
The auctioneer replied, it's very simple. According to the
will, whoever takes the son gets it all. Let's put on our gospel
glasses and consider this story. When we believe in and on the
Lord Jesus Christ, we are given all spiritual blessings in him. See Ephesians 1, 3. The Bible
also says, God has given us eternal life and this life is in his
son. He who has the son has life. He who does not have the son
of God does not have life. From 1 John 5, verses 11 and
12. Whoever has the son has it all. And that's the gospel truth. From preacher Myles McKee. The
everlasting gospel equals the perfect law of liberty. Where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3.17
The gospel is the perfect law of liberty, therefore the very
perfection of liberty, and thus thoroughly and entirely free
from the least taint of bondage, the slightest tincture of servitude.
It is this precious or perfect freedom which distinguishes it
from the law, which worketh wrath and gendereth to bondage. It
is therefore a freedom from sin, from its guilt as having the
heart sprinkled from an evil conscience, from its filth by
the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. from
its love through the love of God, shed abroad in the heart
by the Holy Ghost, from its dominion as not being under the law but
under grace, and from its practice by becoming servants to God so
as to have our fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life. How then can this pure, holy,
and precious gospel be condemned as leading to licentiousness?
It is because its power I say again, it is because its power,
its preciousness, its happy, holy, heavenly liberty have never
been experimentally known by some who, like the Galatians,
do all they can to frustrate the grace of God by turning again
to the weak and beggarly elements whereunto they desire to be in
bondage. Whilst others, like those monsters
of wickedness, whom Jude and Peter denounced with such burning
words, pervert and abuse the liberty of the gospel unto licentiousness,
sporting themselves with their own deceivings, and while they
promise others liberty, are themselves the servants of corruption. Now
the liberty of the gospel, as revealed in the scriptures, and
made experimentally known to the soul, steers, so to speak,
between these two extremes, and is as perfectly free from the
least intermixture of legal bondage as from the least taint of antinomian
licentiousness. It is indeed this holy liberty,
heavenly power, and gracious influence of the precious gospel
under the teaching and testimony of the Holy Ghost which makes
it so suitable to our case and state when first convinced of
sin and cast into prison under guilt and condemnation. What
release but a perfect release would suit our deplorable case
as prisoners in the pit where there is no water, shut up under
the wrath and guilty fear through a condemning law and accusing
conscience. This pure and precious gospel,
therefore, comes down to our pitiable state and condition
as a message of pure mercy, revealing pardon and peace through a Savior's
blood, and when, by grace, we can receive, embrace, and entertain
it as a word from God to us, proclaiming liberty as with a
jubilee trumpet through every court and ward of the soul. What
were we before this precious gospel reached our ears and hearts? Were we not bond slaves to sin,
serving diverse lusts and pleasures, taken and led captive by Satan
at his will, and while we talked about enjoying life, were, through
fear of death, subject to bondage? When we saw the saints of God
not daring to do what we did greedily, we thought that they
were the slaves and we the free men. Not knowing that to whom
we yield ourselves servants to obey, his servants we are, whether
of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness. Not knowing
that Jesus saith unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of sin. That word servant in
the Greek literally means slave. John 8.34, and that our boasted
freedom was real servitude, whilst their apparent bondage was real
freedom. For they had an interest in that
precious declaration, if the Son therefore shall make you
free, you shall be free indeed. John 8.36. Outstanding message
from old-timer preacher J.C. Philpott. Jesus Christ, our God
and Savior, guide and counselor and friend, bearing all our misbehavior,
kind and loving to the end. Nothing but thy blood, O Savior,
can relieve us from our smart. Nothing else from guilt release
us. Nothing else can melt the heart.
Law and judgment do but harden, all while thy work alone but
a sense. of blood brought pardon soon
dissolves a heart of stone. Trust him, he will not deceive
us, though we see through glass so dim. He will never, never
leave us, nor will we depart from him. That's an old gospel
hymn entitled Jesus Calls Us. It is written in Proverbs 21.1,
the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of
water. He turneth it whithersoever he
will. When Paul described the grace of God bestowed upon the
churches at Macedonia in 2 Corinthians 8, the evidence that he gave
his grace to them was then giving themselves to him, as it's written
in verse 5, but first gave their own selves to the Lord. It is
the grace of God that causes someone to do that. We give ourselves
to him when we see we are his anyway. His not only by creation,
but by redemption. It is only in giving ourselves
to Him and seeing we are not our own that we have the right
perspective of life. This perspective of belonging
to Him makes us realize it is not our will that is important,
but His will. The cry of our heart is, take
my will and make it thine. It shall be no longer mine. What
contentment there is in that! What misery there is when my
will does not seem to line up with his! If we belong to him,
the cry of our hearts is, Not my will, but thine be done! Humility and Worry A reading
from 1 Peter 5, 6 and 7. Humble yourselves therefore unto
the mighty hand of God, that he might exalt you in due time,
casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. There
are several things that take place in our hearts when we humble
ourselves under God's mighty hand, but Peter only mentions
one thing. When we humble ourselves before
God, we cast all of our care upon Him. Care is anything that
causes us anxiety. When we humble ourselves, we
really believe that we have no control over that which causes
us anxiety, so we cast it on Him, trusting Him to take care
of us. It is pride that causes worry. We prove by worry that we think
there is something we can do about it. Humility simply casts
the care upon the Lord, as is then carefree. A few of those
messages were from unknown preachers of righteousness. 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. And Christ Jesus says again 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.
you 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.