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. 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 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. The Gospel and Faith, part two. from Romans 5, 1. Therefore,
being justified by faith, we have peace with God. What a wonderful
gift of God faith really is. It enables us to take hold of
the so great salvation that has been accomplished in and by Christ
Jesus. When we are given faith, it agrees
with God's verdict that our human righteousness is no cleaner than
a filthy rag. Please see Isaiah 64, 6. In the light of this, faith causes
us to abandon all hope of ever being saved by our own goodness.
The more we are bathed and washed in the gospel, however, the more
we will realize that it is not because we have been born again
or been filled with the Spirit or have had this or that new
blessing that we are fully accepted. Faith sees clearly that we are
not made more accepted in heaven because of experiences. Faith's
vision is not foggy. Faith does not rest on our experience,
no matter how intense they have been. Faith sees our full acceptance
before God rest entirely upon Christ's experience for us and
not on our experience of God. Faith also sees that we are not
saved because we are good and are trying to be obedient to
God. Faith sees, however, that the
obedience of Jesus Christ is entirely superior to our faulty
attempts at obedience and totally sufficient to satisfy all the
demands of God's holy and righteous character. You might say, but
surely this is a dangerous teaching. Are there not those who will
twist this kind of thing and live like the devil? Of course
there are! But does that mean that we should,
therefore, hold back from proclaiming the gospel and its applications
because some people may pervert them? When the person of Christ
and his doing and dying is preached, faith is generated and the believer
is reduced to nothing. It is the preaching and application
of the gospel which produces true humility in that it brings
us to an end of ourselves. Faith will cause us to continually
hold sentiments like these. Nothing in my hand I bring. Simply
to thy cross I cling. Naked come to thee for dress. Helpless look to thee for grace. Foul I to the fountain fly. Wash me, Savior, or I die. Because gospel faith will cause
us to see our bankruptcy and destitution, the gospel, when
properly expounded to the church, will cause us to follow Christ. A truly destitute person has
nowhere else to go but to Christ and nowhere else to look but
up. That person sees their spiritual poverty and it humbles them.
They must now turn in reliance and trust to Christ Jesus, who
alone can do for them that which they cannot do for themselves. Jesus taught that true discipleship
was to deny self, take up our cross, and follow Him. This is
exactly what happens when we receive salvation by faith alone. Faith fully agrees with and embraces
God's verdict that we, in ourselves, are nothing, and that we stand
in total need of the Savior. In that way, we are broken. Self
is denied, the cross is taken up, and we follow Christ. Faith
sees that the true believer is already crucified with Christ
and that He, Jesus Christ alone, is their life. And that's the
gospel truth. Great message from preacher Miles
McKee. The Lord Jesus tells us in John
3.18, he that believeth on him is not condemned. Dost thou believe
on the Son of God is the most important question in the world.
Faith in Jesus is the one thing needful. Without this, the day
of life is a state of sin and condemnation, the night of death
full of terror and the day of judgment most dreadful. It cannot
be otherwise. As we are all malfactors under
the sentence of the law, the thoughts of execution must be
most alarming. But what the eye doth not see,
the heart doth not rue." Meaning, hate. What the eye does not see,
the heart does not hate. Put it that way. Sin naturally
blinds men's eyes, hardens their hearts, in vain self-righteous
hopes deceive their souls into an insensibility of their undone
state. What a special mercy to know
one's self. What distinguishing grace to
know Jesus. What peculiar favor to know one
is delivered from condemnation by Him. This is the joyful privilege
of every believer. Though the law condemns him as
a transgressor, yet God doth not impute sin, but imputeth
righteousness unto him, a righteousness which is equivalent to every
demand of the law, even the perfect righteousness of the ever-blessed
man and mediator, Jesus, our brother, our surety in the flesh.
Therefore we are not condemned. Sin cannot condemn us, it is
all atoned for by the blood of Jesus. The law cannot condemn
us. That is satisfied, yea, more
it is magnified and made honorable by the obedience of the God-man,
Jesus, more so than it could have been by all the obedience
of a world of innocent, spotless saints, or of the whole company
of the heavenly host of angels and archangels." The justice
of God cannot condemn us, for what charge can the strictest
justice bring against a righteous person? God's faithfulness and
truth cannot condemn. They are engaged in the behalf
of the righteous. As it is written, God is faithful
and just to forgive us. and His love and mercy embrace
such on every side. For the righteous Lord loveth
righteousness. Thus is the man blessed that
believeth in Jesus, righteous in Christ through faith, yet
not faith, but Jesus is his righteousness. By faith he ever glories in Jesus
as his all in all. He that abides in Jesus enjoys
what? Perfect freedom from the being
of sin? No, but this blessedness, perfect
freedom from all condemnation for sin. He brings forth fruit
to the glory of God. He is an heir of the inheritance
among them who are sanctified by the faith which is in Jesus. See Acts 26, 18. What thou hast spoken in the
word, apply unto my conscience, Lord, that faith may echo back
the sound, and love and joy and peace abound. Who shall condemn? Faith boldly cries, I have a
friend beyond the skies. If Satan's sin and law be set,
my surety doth from all acquit. Outstanding. That was from Old
Timer preacher, William Mason. This is a grand and joyous truth
that Christ, the Lord of all, befriends poor sinners, loves
them too, though sinful through the fall, though sinful through
the fall. Like sheep, his people went astray,
but Christ the shepherd sought. He finds the lost and wandering
ones. His precious blood has bought.
His precious blood has bought. The woman looked within her house,
the silver coin to find, and so the spirit of our God seeks
sinners lost and blind, seeks sinners lost and blind. Like
foolish sons, we left the Lord and sinfulness re-roam, but God
through Jesus will receive the prodigals back home. The prodigals
back home. The sheep, the coin and erring
son were sought and all were found. So Jesus seeks and saves
the lost. This is a joyful sound. This
is a joyful sound. The Lord Jesus. spake the following,
which you can find located in Luke 15, verses four through
seven. What man of you, having a hundred
sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and
nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until
he find it? And when he hath found it, he
layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth
together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with
me, for I have found my sheep, which was lost. I say unto you
that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth
more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance."