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 Almont, Michigan, USA. 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. All is transparent and harmonious
to his eye. We live in a world of mysteries.
They meet our eye, awaken our inquiry, and baffle our investigation
at every step. Nature is a vast arcade of mysteries. Science is a mystery. Truth is
a mystery. Religion is a mystery. Our existence
is a mystery. The future of our being is a
mystery. And God, who alone can explain
all mysteries, is the greatest mystery of all. How little do
we understand of the unexplicable wonders of a wonder-working God,
whose thoughts are a great deep, and whose ways are past finding
out. But to God, nothing is mysterious.
In his purpose, nothing is unfixed. In his forethought, nothing is
unknown. In his providence, nothing is
contingent. His glance pierces the future
as vividly as it beholds the past. He knows the end from the
beginning. All his doings are parts of a
divine, eternal, and harmonious plan. He may make darkness his
secret place, his pavilion round about him dark waters and thick
clouds of the skies. And to human vision, his dispensations
may appear gloomy, discrepant, and confused. Yet he is working
all things after the counsel of his own will, and all is transparent
and harmonious to his eye. Excellent. That was from old
timer preacher Octavius Winslow. Jeremiah 32, 40, the Lord speaking
here, I will put my fear in their hearts and they shall not depart
from me. I will and they shall. Such is God's gracious way of
saving his people while proud legal hearts and self-righteous
spirits puffed up with notions of free will are ever contending
for terms and conditions to be performed by dead sinners in
order to be saved or by creatures insufficient of themselves to
think a good thought to secure and make effectual salvation
to their own souls. But this fear of God is a blessing
of the covenant of grace. Naturally, the fear of God is
not in our hearts. It is one black mark of an unregenerate
person. He has no fear of God before
his eyes. How awful! How deplorable is
this! Yet, naturally, we fear not the
power of the Lord, nor dread His wrath, nor are we at all
sensible of our danger. What wonder of love! What matter
of thankfulness that the Lord hath put His fear in thy heart,
O Christian! The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of wisdom. It is perfectly consistent with
the strongest faith, the most inflamed love, and the highest
spiritual joy. Though by faith in Jesus we are
delivered from a servile, slavish fear of God, which fills us with
legal terrors, yet we are possessed of a filial, loving fear towards
him as to a tender and affectionate father. This fear shall dwell
in the hearts of saints all their days. This fear keeps souls from
sinning against the God of love. The blessed effect of it is that
they shall never depart from me, saith the Lord. Thy soul,
believer, being rooted and grounded in the truth as it is in Jesus
by the Holy Spirit, expecting life and salvation through faith
in him, shall never depart from this good old way of the Lord
into bypass of human errors and destructive ways of total apostasy
and final unbelief. The Lord's fear shall preserve
thee in thy Lord's truth. Though thine enemies, the world,
the flesh, and the devil, should surprise thee into sin against
thy Lord, should draw thee from sweet communion with him, yet
shalt thou fear to lie down in thy shame while confusion covers
thee. Thou shalt remember Jesus ever
lives to save to the uttermost all sinners who come unto God
by him. Thou shalt fear to seek any other object but him. So
shalt thou return by faith and repentance to him. As it is written
in Proverbs 28 14, happy is the man that feareth always. Salvation is forever nigh, the
souls that fear and trust the Lord, and grace descending from
on high, fresh hopes of glory shall afford. Christ's righteousness
is gone before to give us free access to God. Our wandering
feet shall stray no more, but mark his steps and keep the road. Preacher William Mason. What
a wondrous Savior. Lo, the Son of God descended
from our guilt to set us free. Shed His blood to seal our pardon
when He died at Calvary. Jesus, what a wondrous Savior.
He is all our hope and plea. Sing His praises, you who know
Him, now and for eternity. With the eye of faith, we see
Him hanging on the cross of shame, dying to redeem His people. Hail
the Savior's matchless name. To the cross they nailed the
Savior. For the guilty Jesus died, sacrificed by God the Father. By his blood we're justified. Christ arose in mighty power,
then ascended, sovereign King. Praise the name of our dear Savior.
He to us is everything. Soon he will descend from heaven.
Take us home to be with him. Evermore to sing his praises
with the saints and seraphim. That was to the tune of the old
gospel hymn, Love Divine, words by Jim Bird. Kindness Someone said that kindness
is the truest revealer of a person's greatness Kindness is that ability
to love and treat people more than they really deserve to be
loved and treated Kindness is like snow everything it covers
becomes beautiful the psalmist said of the Lord for his merciful
Kindness is great toward us and the truth of the Lord endureth
forever praise ye the Lord psalm 117 verse 2 Paul wrote to Titus
and said, but after that, the kindness and love of God our
Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness, which
we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us by the
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed
on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that being
justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life. Titus chapter three, verses four
through seven. There is no question but what
the greatness of the Lord is seen in His works of creation
in Providence, but the salvation of sinners by the person and
work of the Lord Jesus. That is the truest measure of
the great kindness of the Lord. In salvation there is clearly
manifested His justice, wisdom, power, grace, love, and kindness. He showed everlasting kindness
to those who do not deserve even the least of His mercies. The
Lord loved the unlovable and manifested, quote, the riches
of His grace and His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus,
end quote. Ephesians 2, 7. In his truth
and mercy, God has covered our sins, actually removing them
from us by the blood of his Son, and has made us to be whiter
than the snow. David asked in 2 Samuel 9, 1,
Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I
may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? Upon learning that Jonathan's
lame son remained yet alive, Mephibosheth, was fetched to
the king. In great mercy, David said unto
him, Fear not, for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan
thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy
father's. and thou shalt eat bread at my
table continually." 2 Samuel 9, 7. Even so, the Lord our God
showed His kindness for Christ's sake, and in His Son, He has
restored unto us all that we lost in our father, Adam, and
infinitely more. Children of God, in light of
the Lord's kindness to us, be ye kind one another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven
you. Ephesians 4, 32. Charity suffereth long and is
kind. Charity envieth not. Charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. 1 Corinthians 13, 4. May
God give us grace to show kindness, even to those who deserve no
kindness, even as he showed kindness to us. And the master said in Luke 6,
35, the Lord Jesus said, but love ye your enemies and do good
and lend, hoping for nothing again. And your reward shall
be great and you shall be the children of the highest, for
he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. That was a great
message from preacher Jim Byrd from 13th Street Baptist Church,
located in Ashland, Kentucky, USA. His mercy endureth. I read from Psalm 136.1. Oh,
give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth
forever. Brethren, God's mercy is from
everlasting and is a treasure that can never be spent, never
exhausted unto eternity. If God will but continue to be
merciful to me, will a poor soul say, I have enough? Hath God
pardoned thee hitherto, and yet thou sinned again? Can he stretch
his mercy a little further? Why, he will stretch it out unto
eternity, unto everlasting. And if one forever be not enough,
there are 26 forevers in this one psalm. That's chapter 136,
brethren. That was from Thomas Goodwin. When our Savior died, He redeemed
all of those given to Him by the Father in covenant grace
and mercy. At the appointed time, the people of God are called
home through death to be with Christ, for He satisfied all
the demands of divine justice for our salvation. And the Spirit
has granted us faith in the Savior. Though we sorrow when a loved
one or someone we worshipped with goes home to glory, how
blessed are those who enter into the presence of the king. As
it is written in Psalm 116 verse 15, precious in the sight of
the Lord is the death of his saints. Let us never imagine,
however, that the ransom in heaven are any more loved or valued
by our Savior than the saints who still remain here. A farmer
sows his seed, the corn grows, and he begins to gather his harvest
into his barn. Certainly the crop collected
in the storage bin is important to him, but no more so than the
corn still growing on the stalk. He will continue to reap his
corn, or his crop, rather, until all has been gathered into his
barn. Even so, though many of the saints of God are with the
Savior in glory now, he will not fail to gather all of his
people into his garner at the last, for all are treasured by
the Lord. It is written in Isaiah 45, 22,
where our Lord Jesus Christ commands, look unto me and be saved all
the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else And
the master, Christ Jesus the Lord, says in Matthew 11, verses
28 through 30, 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 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, the
ark of our salvation, may we be delivered from the fierce
wrath of Almighty God which is coming soon upon the wicked.
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,