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 and 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 the New Creature
in Christ, part three. Closeness to God always makes
a person feel undone. Consider Abraham. The Lord had
just told him he was about to incinerate Sodom and Gomorrah.
He'd had enough of their wickedness and now stood ready to vaporize
the whole vile mess. Abraham's reply is astonishing. He says, basically paraphrasing,
Lord, I've talked to you and I'm already incinerated. Actually,
what Abraham said was that he was but dust and ashes. But it's the same thing. See
Genesis 18, 27. Abraham had drawn close to God
and had encountered true holiness. As a result, he felt as vile
as the people of the doomed cities. He felt the same judgment they
were about to receive was due to him. Consider also Job and
his miserable comforters. Remember Job? He was afflicted
with a plague of Sabians, a plague of Chaldeans, a plague of violent
weather, and because of these things, he lost everything. Then
he endured a plague of boils, the plague of a nagging wife,
and then, finally, the plague of well-meaning friends who just
had no clue about what was really happening. These friends argued
with the pitiable man that his afflictions must have been a
result of sin in his life. He'd been bad to the widows or
some such thing, they reasoned, but each time they attacked,
Job launched a stout and robust defense. After all, he was, he
argued, a God-fearing and a good man who walked uprightly. But
then God showed up. This changed Job's tune. Check it out in Job 40 verse
four, where Job admits to the Lord, behold, I am vile. His friends couldn't get him
to admit this, but now confronted with the very presence, of the
Almighty God, he sees that his own righteousness was nonexistent
compared to the Lord's. And then remember Isaiah? He
was the great woe preacher of his day. His favorite text was,
woe unto you. He dealt out woes saying, woe
unto this one and woe unto that one. But one morning Isaiah went
to the temple and there he encountered the Lord. The seraphim were declaring,
holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is
full of his glory. Isaiah took in the scene and
immediately declared, woe is me, I am undone. What had happened? The woe to this one and a woe
to that one preacher had changed his tune. It was now, woe unto
me. What had happened? What was the
reason for this outburst? The reason was that nearness
to God had made him feel undone. The truth is, holy people never
feel holy, and people who feel holy are never holy people. The closer we get to God, the
more keenly we are aware of our own depths of depravity. The
closer we get to God, the more we discover that sin is a much
bigger issue than we first thought. At the start, for me, it was
just a matter of cleaning up the external actions, but now,
As the Holy Spirit led, I could see that sin ran like a deep
cancer. I love that quote from old preacher
William Mason at the beginning of part one of this series. It's
worth reading again. A holy man is so far acquainted
with the corruption of his own heart that instead of condemning
others, he is apt to account them better than himself. The
imperfections of a believer's sanctification make him continually
depend on Christ for his justification. I have found this truth to be
very real. I am so sinful that sometimes I don't even realize
that I'm sinful. Even the act of preaching could
be a time of gross and vile sinfulness for me. You see, many times I
find myself in competition with the Lord Jesus, for who gets
the glory in the sermon? Will it be Jesus or me? This
has been a huge struggle. The difficulty is my orphaned
heart wants everyone to like me and wants them to think I
am a great preacher. Not being satisfied with the
acceptance of Christ alone, I crave the applause of strangers. That,
my friend, is refusal to believe the gospel. It is wickedness
of the highest order. In addition, how dare I use the
Lord's pulpit in the Lord's message to carve out my own fan club?
So what if my listeners like me? Am I here to glorify the
Lord or myself? And then the Holy Spirit reminds
me that if I seek to please men, I am not the servant of Christ.
And thus the struggle with sin intensifies and even more so
as I grow closer to the Lord. So where does this leave the
scripture? If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things
have passed away. Behold, all things are become
new. why it leaves it exactly where
it should be. But is it true? Yes, it's precisely
true. But what does it mean? It means
exactly what it says. It says, if any man be in Christ,
that's the key. That's where the new creation
lies. It is only in Christ that the old has passed away and all
has become new. In Christ, I am totally, fully,
and perfectly righteous. That's new. The old sinful me
in Adam has passed away. When I was in Adam, I was a stranger
to God, but now in Christ, I've been brought near. That's new.
In Christ, the orphan has now been adopted. That's new. I was once God's enemy, but now
in Christ, I've been reconciled. That's new. In Christ, the lost
has been found. That's new. In Christ, the slave
has been bought back. That's new. In Christ, the captive
has been liberated, and all because of the finished work of one man,
the God-man, Jesus the Christ, who loved me and gave himself
for me. The truth is this, as a result
and benefit of the gospel, I'm a brand new creature in Christ.
My status before God has been changed. I have a new righteousness,
which is totally outside of me in Christ. His righteousness
is now mine and I am in him. The place where all things are
new is not in me, but in Christ. And that's the gospel truth.
Outstanding message from preacher Myles McKee. Look upon me, Lord,
I pray thee. Let thy spirit dwell in mine.
Thou hast sought me, thou hast bought me. Take my heart and
make it thine. Not I ask for, not I strive for,
but thy grace so rich and free. This thou givest by the Savior. He hath all things who hath thee. Precious is the name of Jesus,
who can half its worth unfold, far beyond angelic praises, sweetly
sung to harps of gold. Guide me, O thou great Jehovah,
pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but thou art mighty.
Hold me with thy powerful hand. Do you want salvation God's way? Do you believe God saves sinners
even when they do not want to be saved? You may think this
is a strange question, but it was recently asked of me. The
answer is no, but we must go to the scriptures to understand
what goes on in the salvation of a sinner. The Bible teaches
that no sinner by nature wants or desires salvation God's way
by free sovereign mercy and grace in and by the Lord Jesus Christ
alone. We read this in passages such
as John 6, 44, and Romans 3, verses 9 through 18. These are
just a few examples that show us the reality of man's depravity. Sinful man wants salvation, but
he wants it on his own terms, like Cain of old, by works for
which he can boast. When God saves a sinner, does
He save that sinner even if that sinner does not want to be saved
God's way? No. When God saves a sinner,
God alone by His power and grace makes that sinner willing to
believe in, rest in, flee to the Lord Jesus Christ for all
salvation, all forgiveness of sin, all righteousness, all eternal
life and all glory. He does this by the power of
the Holy Spirit in the new birth as he imparts to that sinner
a new knowledge, a new heart, and a new spirit. See Ezekiel
36. verses 26 27 Hebrews 8 verses
10 through 12 God the Holy Spirit by the preaching of the gospel
of Christ Convinces that sinner of sin of righteousness and of
judgment so that under true invincible Holy Spirit conviction That sinner
is more than willing to run to Christ as fast as he can and
hold on for dear life the question then We all need to ask and consider
is this Do I want salvation God's way by his grace in the Lord
Jesus Christ? All who truly desire this salvation
have been made willing by the power of Almighty God Friends,
please see Psalm 110 verse 3 that message was from preacher Bill
Parker and of Eager Avenue Grace Church located in Albany, Georgia,
USA. A spiritual fragment of truth. This blessed Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth, Romans
10, four. And under deep depression of
spirit, real faith will be vehemently struggling after the enjoyment
of this truth. And the soul will be feelingly
crying O to be found in him, not having mine own righteousness,
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of
Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. The Lord
reveals the glorious righteousness of Christ's faith and faith receives
and bears witness to the conscience of its reality and of its blessed
suitableness to the sinner's case and to the honor of God. It is one branch of the work
of faith to enter into the blessedness of this justifying righteousness,
and so under the power and unction of God the Holy Ghost to bring
justification into the sinner's conscience, thus enabling him
to say, as it's written in Isaiah, in the Lord have I righteousness
and strength. That was a good message from
old-timer preacher William Gadsby. To God the only wise, our Savior
and our King, that all the saints below the skies their humble
praises bring. Let all our powers be joined
His gracious name to praise. May joy and love fill every heart
and every voice be raised. His blood on Calvary's shed has
full atonement made. God's holiness is magnified.
The sin debt fully paid. Christ will present our souls
unblemished and complete before the glory of his face in his
own righteousness. Hallelujah. 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.