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, which is sponsored by preacher Wayne Boyd and the
Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus at First Baptist Church
located in Almonte, Michigan, USA. 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 fetish 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 Lord Jesus Christ says, the
kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11, 12. We say hunger
will break through stone walls. Desperate circumstances make
men violent. Thus it is with a convinced sinner. He sees himself in the city of
destruction and Moses has set his house on fire about his ears. As Mr. John Bunyan says in his
book, Pilgrim's Progress, Now he cannot think of God, sin,
death, judgment, heaven and hell with indifference. No, he is
awake. He sees the importance of them.
His soul is alive. He feels the weight of them.
He finds sin has destroyed him. The law terrifies him. Death
stares him in the face. Judgment alarms him. He trembles
to see hell moved from beneath to receive him. Now his fancy
good works, his morality, et cetera, stand him in no stead. He hungers after righteousness.
His apprehensions of wrath make him violent. His hunger is keen. He besieges the kingdom of God
with eager prayer. He forces his way through every
opposition. He breaks through every wall
of obstruction with, oh, give me Christ, or I perish. Give me his blood to pardon me,
his righteousness to justify me, or I am damned forever. This, friends, is fleeing for
refuge. This is like one escaping for
his life from dreadful flames and devouring fire. This is being
violent. Such take the kingdom. of God
by force. Though by grace we are brought
into the kingdom of God and enjoy pardon of sin and peace with
God through our Lord Jesus Christ, yet the Lord forbid that we should
so lose our conviction of divine truths as to have done with holy
force and violence. Soldiers of Christ, to arms! What? Think of laying down your
weapons of defense and folding your hands to sleep on an enemy's
ground when all around are up in arms against you? Come, come,
there's enough yet before you to alarm you and to call up your
violence. Sin is within you. Satan is plotting
against you. The world would ensnare you. Death and judgment approach you.
As it is written, the day of the Lord will come as a thief
in the night in which the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth
also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. Oh, dream
not over dry doctrines and empty speculations so as to be proof
against the force of these solemn events and to lose your holy
violence. Back to 2 Peter chapter 3 verses
11 and 12. For seeing that all these things
shall come to pass, what manner of persons ought we to be in
all holy conversation, looking for the coming of the day of
the Lord? Brethren, be not too secure.
Let me ask the important question. What is it to be a Christian? How may hearts be assured vain
is all our best devotion if on false foundations built true
religions more than notion something must be known and felt that was
from preacher William Mason reading from Philippians 1 verses 9 through
11 and this I pray that your love may abound yet more and
more in knowledge and in all judgment that you may approve
things that are excellent that you may be sincere and without
offense until the day of Christ being filled with the fruits
of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ unto the glory and
praise of God and The more we know the Lord Jesus Christ, the
more we shall love Him. The more we know of his glorious
person as Emmanuel, God with us, that is, the more we shall
love him as a suitable and all-sufficient mediator. The more we know of
his atoning blood as revealed to and sprinkled upon a guilty
conscience, the more we shall love him as having shed that
precious blood to redeem us from the lowest hell. The more we
know of His righteousness, the more we shall see how adapted
it is to our needy, naked condition, and the more we shall love Him
for having suffered in our place instead. The more we know of
His dying love, the more we shall love Him for the display of that
love. Does not the apostle pray that
we may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth
and length and depth and height, and to know the love of Christ
which passes knowledge? Ephesians 3.18-19. But may I
add that the more we know also of ourselves, of our desperate
case, of our ruined condition, of our miserable state as poor
lost sinners, the more we know of the evils of our heart and
what we deserve as having broken God's holy law and as having
so continually backslidden from him. And the more we see his
forbearance and longsuffering, his lovingkindness and tender
pity to us, in spite of all our base desserts and shameful requittals,
the more we shall see him to love. The more too we know of his grace,
the more we shall value it, and the more we know of his glory,
the more we shall fall in love with it. Thus, as these precious
things are opened up more and more clearly to our spiritual
understanding and sealed more powerfully by a divine witness
upon our heart, the more warmly are they embraced in love and
the more is the soul conformed to divine image, for the new
man is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created
him." Colossians 3.10. To behold this glory is the very
blessedness of the gospel and the choicest treasure which God
can bestow, as it is written in 2 Corinthians 4.6, for God.
who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in
our hearts to give the light of knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ. Excellent message from preacher
J.C. Philpott. Rejoicing in Imputation
The Apostle Paul and the psalmist David speak of a blessed man. Blessed means happy. Oh, how
happy! The individual who is blessed
of God is the one to whom God imputeth righteousness without
works. It is the one to whom the Lord
will not impute sin. Romans 4 verses 6 through 8. What a great work of God's grace
it is when we are made to know the reality of this imputation. It is the only means by which
our sin is ever really removed from us and the only means by
which we are ever righteous. Those who do not know the truth
of it or do not desire to understand it are those who seek to establish
a righteousness of their own before God. Without imputation,
there is only condemnation. Imputation involves a real transfer
of sin to another. See Isaiah 53, 6. And the one
to whom it is transferred assumes the full responsibility of it.
All sins of God's elect were imputed or transferred to Christ. He, in His death, assumed the
full responsibility and therefore suffered the full penalty of
it. That is His substitutionary death
on the cross for His saints. Talk about good news! I'm gonna
read that again. That is Christ's substitutionary
death on the cross for His saints. The sinless one who has been
made sin for us dies in our place. His righteousness was imputed
to us and we are made the righteousness of God in him. See 2 Corinthians
5.21. Paul tells us that God justified
Abraham and he was counted a righteous man by God. How did this sinner
Abraham become such before God? He believed God's promise. to
provide a perfect righteousness for him in one outside of himself. That one is Christ. But then
Paul records the good news. Now it was not written for his
sake alone that it was imputed to him, but for us also to whom
it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our
Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses and was raised
again for our justification. See Romans 4, 22 through 25,
friends. So great and real was the transfer
of my sin to Christ and the transfer of his righteousness to me that
I could rest, rejoice, and look forward to meeting him as the
righteous judge. My sin is gone for he put it
away. And my righteousness is perfect.
It is his righteousness. I know this because God has declared
it in his word and revealed it by his spirit through the gospel. It is his promise, and by God-given
faith, I believe it. Excellent message from preacher
Gary Shepherd. Any folks near Jacksonville,
North Carolina, look up preacher Gary Shepherd. Sovereign Grace
Baptist Church. The glorious spectacle of all
things done. Faith does not come to Calvary
to do anything. It comes to see the glorious
spectacle of all things done and to accept this completion
without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the,
it is finished of the sin bearer and says, amen. That was from
old timer Horatius Bonar. Faith, dear reader, is neither
encouraged nor discouraged by anything we find in ourselves.
It is neither encouraged by our graces nor discouraged by our
sinfulness. for faith looks out of self unto
another. Nothing will afford such encouragement
to believing prayer as a sight of the lamb on his mediatorial
throne. See Revelation 5, 6. No matter
how desperate may be our case, how often we have failed and
fallen, how low we have sunk, it is always the believer's privilege
to turn into his redeemer and say, Look thou upon me and be
merciful unto me, as is your way unto those that love thy
name. Psalm 119 verse 132. It shall be well with the righteous. Isaiah 310. In the spiritual
things, all your temptations, all your darkness, all your wandering,
God will overrule. It shall be well with you, believer.
There shall never be a night, but that morning shall come.
There shall never be a day of trouble, but there shall be a
filling. There shall never be bringing
down, but that he will raise you up again. Let it be either
darkness or light. sorrow or grief, night or day,
life or death, time or eternity, it shall be well with the righteous. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Maranatha.