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
and His unmerited favor to save me and you from our sins and
from hell. A reading from 1 Chronicles 29
11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and
the victory and the majesty for all that is in the heaven and
in the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord,
and thou art exalted as head above all. Upon the cross of
Calvary, the Savior took my blame. He suffered untold grief and
pain to put away my shame. The wrath of God poured out on
Him while hanging on that tree. The condemnation for my sin,
He bore it all for me. Twas in this way the Lord of
all could justly make me whole. Forgive my sinfulness and guilt,
and save my wretched soul. The blood of Christ poured out
for me, my pardon has secured. For all the vengeance due my
sin, the Lord himself endured. Who can condemn the sons of God
since Christ for us has died? The Father sees our substitute
and we are justified. Washed in his sin-atoning blood,
the Savior's name we bless. Christ Jesus is our all in all. He is our righteousness. Jesus is omniscient. Last time
we discovered that Christ is omnipotent, meaning all-powerful.
Now we'll consider that Christ is omniscient. That means He
knows all things! We read in Revelation 5, 6 of
a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven
eyes. The seven eyes present a picture of the lamb's perfect
omniscience. This language corresponds directly
with Zechariah 3.9 and Zechariah 4.10 where we encounter God's
omniscience displayed by the seven eyes. God knows everything. He is omniscient. Let's face
it, if he didn't know everything, he wouldn't be much of a God.
He would be a limited sort of fellow and certainly no one to
whom we could bring our deepest concerns and questions. However,
it is of interest to note that the scriptures declare that it
is Yahweh alone who knows the hearts of men. In 1 Kings 8,
39, we read, for thou, even thou only, know the hearts of all
the children of men. Yahweh, because of his omniscience,
knows all things. He knows all men and knows and
sees all that lurks in our hearts. John Gill, an old theologian
and preacher of righteousness, put it well when he says, omniscience
belongs only to God. It is his prerogative to know
the heart and search the reins. Yahweh knows that all goes on
in the hearts of man. Sarah laughed inwardly when she
overheard that she was to have a child, but Yahweh heard her
all the same. He misses nothing and sees everything. It is Yahweh who searches the
hearts of men, yet in Revelation 2.23, we discover that it is
Jesus who is the searcher of the innermost thoughts and purposes
of the heart. In that verse, Jesus says, I
am He, which searches the reins and hearts. This is almost Jeremiah
17, 10, word for word, where it is written, I, the Lord, search
the heart. I try the reins, even to give
every man according to his ways and according to the fruit of
his doings. Once more we see that Jesus and Yahweh are one
and the same. Of course there is no surprise
here because Jesus had displayed this attribute of deity many
times during his earthly ministry. In Matthew 9, verse 3, which
is a passage we have dealt with under the matter of Jesus forgiving
sins, we see that Jesus knew the unarticulated thoughts of
the scribes. When Jesus saw into their hearts,
he was giving proof of his deity. When Mark deals with this passage,
he adds that Jesus knew by his spirit, Mark 2, 8. This means
that even though the thoughts of the scribes were well-hidden,
in the secret recesses of their hearts. Christ, by his divine
spirit, knew clearly and distinctly what they were thinking. This
means he is God. Friends, also see Matthew 12,
25, Luke 6, 8, and Luke 9, 47. Again we read in John verses
24 through 25, but Jesus did not commit himself unto them
because he knew all men and needed not that any should testify of
man for he knew what was in man. An old theologian tells the story
of how a great Grecian artist was fashioning an image for a
temple and was diligently carving the back part of the goddess.
Someone said to him, you need not finish that part of the statue
because it is to be built into the wall. The artist replied,
the gods can see in the wall. The Greek artist had the wrong
God, but the right idea of the omniscience of deity. God sees
everything. He's omniscient. Finally, in
Colossians 2, 3, we discover that anything there is to know
is hidden in Christ. We read, in whom are hidden all
the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. For all knowledge to be in Christ
means that all that can be known is known by Christ. Christ is
therefore omniscient and thus qualified to be our only suitable
master and God. Great God, how deep thy counsels
lie. Supreme in power art thou. All
things to thy omniscient eye are one eternal now. Good message. That's the gospel truth till
he comes. That was from preacher, Myles McKee, as it's written
in Psalm 69.5, my sins are not hid from thee. King David was
inspired by the Holy Spirit to write many psalms, some of which
are classified by Bible scholars as messianic, meaning that David
spoke both of himself, literally, and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
typically and prophetically. Psalm 69 is a messianic psalm. When we read verses like Psalm
69 verse five, which says, O God, thou knowest my foolishness and
my sins are not hid from thee. we can easily see how such language
applies to David as a sinner saved by the grace of God in
Christ. Like all true believers, David
confessed that he and himself was a foolish man who had no
wisdom but Christ and the Word of God in Christ. He confessed
that even as justified, by God based on the imputed righteousness
of Jesus Christ. And though not charged with this
sin by God, in himself he was still a sinful man. Friends,
see Psalm 32 verses one through two, Romans four, six through
eight, and also Romans eight, 33 through 34. He knew his sins
were not hidden from God's view. See 2 Samuel 12 verse 9 and Psalm
51 verse 4. But how could these words in
any way apply to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who in Himself
was and is the sinlessly perfect God-man, who did not sin and
knew no sin? The answer can only be found
within the context of Holy Scripture, which reveals from the beginning
that God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, was appointed
in the everlasting covenant of grace by God the Father to be
the surety, substitute, and redeemer of His chosen people, having
their sins imputed, meaning charged or accounted to Christ, and to
die in their place to satisfy the justice of God for them,
His people. As one writer stated, David might
truly say this, but not our Lord, unless He refers to our sins
imputed and laid to His charge. He was made to be sin for us.
2 Corinthians 5.21 Foolishness can never be applied to Christ
Himself, for He is Himself the very wisdom of God see Proverbs
8 verses 22 through 36 But it is true that sinful men charged
him with foolishness and he bore the foolishness of all the sins
of his people on the cross 1st Corinthians 1 verses 21 through
27 Jesus Christ was never made to be a sinner and he was never
corrupted or contaminated with the sins of his people, but he
bore in himself all the guilt and punishment of all the sins
of his people imputed to him. This is how he himself could
truly and rightfully say, my sins are not hid from thee, our
sins became his sins by imputation." That was from preacher Bill Parker. "'Tis a point I long to know.
"'Oft it causes anxious thought. "'Do I love the Lord or no? "'Am
I His or am I not? "'If I am, why am I thus? "'Why this dull and lifeless
frame? "'Hardly, sure, can they be worse
"'who have never heard His name. "'Could my heart so hard remain? "'Prayer, a task, and burden
prove? "'Every trifle give me pain? "'If I knew a Savior's love?
When I turn my eyes within, all is dark and vain and wild, filled
with unbelief and sin. Can I deem myself a child? If
I pray or hear or read, sin is mixed with all I do. You that
love the Lord indeed, tell me, is it so with you? Yet I mourn
my stubborn will, find my sin a grief and thrall. Should I
grieve for what I feel if I did not love at all? Could I joy
his saints to meet, choose the ways I once abhorred, find at
times the promise sweet, if I did not love the Lord? Lord, decide
the doubtful case. Thou who art thy people's son,
shine upon thy work of grace, if it be indeed begun. Let me love thee more and more.
If I love at all, I pray. If I have not loved before, help
me to begin today. That was from preacher John Newton. Christ is all and in all. Colossians 311 there is only
one thing that matters in our temporal life on this earth and
that one thing is a person Christ Jesus our Lord in the end everything
that we have accomplished will turn out to be emptiness and
Everything that we have accumulated will vanish away but to leave
this world holding on and to Christ himself and is to leave
this world holding on to the fullness of eternity. In that
day, everything will be nothing and Christ will be all. Lord,
teach us to cling to the one thing needful. That was from
preacher Gabe Stalnaker. 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 Jesus,
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
Christ. Maranatha.