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 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
and his unmerited favor to save me and you from our sins and
from hell. The Lord's mysterious dealings. Psalm 66, 10, The Lord's dealings
with His people in the wilderness are very much to this purpose
and to this end, to prove them and to know what is in their
hearts. Has the Lord implanted life in your soul? Has He touched
your conscience with His finger? Has He begun a work of grace
upon your heart? If so, in your travels through
this wilderness, there will be things from time to time to prove
the reality of this work upon your soul. You will have temptations. Now, when temptations come, It
will prove whether you have the fear of God in your soul to stand
against the temptation, or whether you fall under the temptation,
or if you fall under the temptation, whether you are ever recovered
out of it. And if you are a living soul,
the Lord will keep bringing circumstance upon circumstance, event upon
event, one thing after another. And all these things, as they
come upon you, shall be made to prove whether the fear of
God be in your soul or not. Now, if the fear of God be not
in a man's heart, he must decline. He must fall away. Satan will
be more than a match for everyone except God's own family. Sin
will overcome and destroy everyone, but those whose sins are pardoned
through atoning blood and dying love, and the world, sooner or
later, will overcome every one who has not the faith of God's
elect, whereby alone the world is overcome. Thus the Lord, in
his mysterious dealings, and how mysterious his dealings are,
proves the reality of the work of grace in every heart where
that work has begun. Improves the hypocrisy of all
who have but a name to live while their soul is dead before God
That was from old-timer preacher JC Philpott Just as if I'd never
sinned Some have said that to be justified is to be just as
if I'd never sinned but the truth is justification deals completely
with the fact that I have sinned and God being just, his justification
has to have a just basis. When Paul wrote in Romans chapter
8, it is God that justifies, he immediately followed with,
it is Christ that died. The death of a sinless substitute
for sin is necessary for God to justify a sinner. Justification
is clearly an act of God. He declared all His people as
having been justified freely through the redemption that is
in Christ Jesus. All in Him are now without sin. But justification does not excuse
sin or in any way diminish its vileness and offensiveness to
God. No justification declares the
sinner righteous. and also declares the justifier
as righteous. Let me say that again. Justification
declares the sinner righteous and also declares the justifier,
Almighty God Himself, as righteous. Good message from preacher Gary
Shepherd. A reading from Jeremiah 23, 29. Is not my word like as
a fire, saith the Lord? How comforting this reflection.
We who are sometimes a far off are now made nigh by the blood
of Christ, Ephesians 2.13. How happy is that soul when it
finds nearness of access to God and enjoys sweet converse with
him. Then with Jeremiah it says, let
me talk with thee, Jeremiah 12.1. Then the Lord condescends to
hear and reply. As here, he appeals to the soul's
experience and asks, what effect has my word had on thine heart?
Is it not like fire? Let us consider this, that the
word of the Lord may be glorified by us tonight. Number one, it
is the property of fire to communicate light. So doth the word of God. The entrance of thy word giveth
light, as it is written in Psalm 118, 130. When we were darkness itself,
how did the word enter and shine into our hearts and give us the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ?
In seasons of darkness, how often has the word brought light into
our souls? As it is written in Psalm 119,
105, thy word is a light unto my path. Number two, fire gives
heat. How often has the Lord warmed
our cold hearts and melted down our hard hearts with the fire
of his word of love and grace. As it is written in Jeremiah
31 3, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore
with loving kindness have I drawn thee. Say, has not such a word
as this been in the heart as burning fire shut up in our bones? See Jeremiah 20 verse 9, Lord
multiply such burning seasons. Number three, fire consumeth,
so doth the word. When it burns in the heart, it
consumes our cursed lusts, hateful pride, deceitful, self-righteous
hopes, vain and worldly desires, legal terrors, and tormenting
dread of death. Lord, cause this heavenly fire
to burn in our hearts and consume more and more. Number four, the
Word, like fire, purifies. Ye have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the Spirit, as it's written in 1
Peter 1.22. While the fire of the Word burns
within, purity is preserved in heart, lip, and life. Number
five, fire causeth smoke. No sooner doth the word kindle
fire in the heart, but the smoke of incense, of prayer and praise
ascend up to the Lord. Christ compares his church to
pillars of smoke. See Songs of Solomon 3.6. Excuse
me, friends. And his people, he compares to
smoking flax. See Matthew 12.20. For the word
of the Lord is like fire in their hearts, and their affections
like smoke ascend up unto him. O thou great Inditer, meaning
the Holy Spirit of the word, cause the word of Christ to dwell
in us richly in all wisdom, that we may continue in his word,
that it may be manifest that we are his disciples indeed. See John 8.31. The Lord appeals
unto each soul for proof of what he saith. Doth not his word our
powers control when it is known by faith? Like fire it burns
our hearts and doth our lusts consume and fills with love our
every part and doth our works perfume. That was from preacher
William Mason. A reading from Jude verse 3. Beloved, when I gave all diligence
to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for
me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly
contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. In this day of blasphemy, lukewarmness,
and indifference, we are seeing how few want the completed revelation
of truth. Nothing is superfluous in the
sphere of truth. Jude 3 states three important
facts. Number one, this is God's final
gift of objective truth. Number two, it is once for all
given. Number three, is given to the
saints of God. Saints are to struggle in behalf
of God-given truth. Giving up any part of truth makes
a saint guilty of a breach of allegiance to Christ. Giving
up any part of scripture to please oneself or in order to keep the
company of its opposers results in giving up other parts of truth. The Bible is the one and only
standard. It is essential to maturity,
see 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17. It is not continuing to be written Remission of sins by the blood
of Christ It is written in Hebrews 9 22 And almost all things are
by the law purged with blood And without shedding of blood
there is no remission Never imagine that the power of the blood of
the Savior to wash away guilt and sin is somehow or other conditioned
upon the sinner's faith being added to that blood. It is certainly
true that none are pronounced forgiven, but those who are brought
by the spirit of grace to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And
by him, all that believe are justified from all things, from
which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. See Acts
13 39. However, that is not to say that
faith procures forgiveness. It is the blood that maketh atonement
for the soul. Leviticus 17 11 in whom we have
redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according
to the riches of his grace Ephesians 1 7 That was from preacher Jim
bird God does deal in credit. I heard a man who was preaching
on the subject of imputed righteousness say that when it comes to our
justification before God, he said God does not deal in credit. The gospel truth is that when
it comes to a sinner's justification before God, God most certainly
does deal in credit. In our justification, God credited
our sin debt to Christ, whom God made to be our surety. Christ,
our surety, stood in our place, having our sin debt charged,
accounted, credited, imputed to Him. And having made Christ
to be our surety, God sent His Son into the world as our substitute
to redeem us, meaning to pay our sin debt in full with the
price of His blood. Also, having made Christ to be
our surety, substitute, and redeemer, God charged, accounted, and imputed
His righteousness to us. Our sins cannot be credited to
our account. Please see Romans 8, verses 33
through 34. Our sins cannot be credited to
our account because they were credited to Christ's account.
And He paid the debt in full for us. The fact that God credited
our sin to Christ does not deny, negate, nor diminish the fact
that He had to come in time and pay our sin debt with His blood. That means His death on the cross. And having paid that debt, He
was raised again because of our justification. See Romans 4,
25. The fact that God has credited
Christ's righteousness to us does not deny, negate, nor diminish
the fact that we, in our experience, must be born again by the Spirit
and brought to faith in Christ and repentance of dead works.
For a man to preach a message on the subject of imputed righteousness
and to claim that God does not deal in credit is the ultimate
contradiction. It is a denial of the true gospel
of God's free and sovereign grace based upon Christ being made
sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
See 2 Corinthians 5 verses 19 through 21. That was from preacher
Bill Parker. It is written in Isaiah 45 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 the master, the Lord Jesus says in Matthew 11, 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 Christ Jesus today, not tomorrow, for none of us
are promised another day on this earth. 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. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.