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. 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. 2 Corinthians 1.20, for all the
promises of God in him are yea, and in him, meaning Christ, amen,
unto the glory of God by us. Through the workings of our carnal
frames, it is natural to us all to seek comfort from legal work
instead of gospel promises. When a poor sinner is taught
by man to believe, unless he performs the condition, he cannot
receive the blessing of the promise, From this mistaken notion he
labors and toils for a season, but finding himself unable to
reduce the doctrine to practice, he sits down in dejection and
gives up all hope of mercy in this way. This will always be
the case where sincerity is not suffered to give way to self-deceit. But when the sun of righteousness
arises with glory in the soul, these mists of ignorance flee
away. When the free love of the everlasting
covenant is made manifest to a sinner's heart by the Spirit,
he cries out in wonder and ecstasy, this is all my salvation and
all my desire. When by faith he beholds Jesus,
the surety of the covenant, sees all the promises of life and
salvation center in him, Jesus becomes the hope of his soul
and the promise, the joy of his heart. Blessed be God for a precious
Christ, precious promises and precious faith. What could our
God do more? What could he give more to his
people than what he hath graciously done for them and freely given
to them? Disciple, wherefore dost thou
doubt? Why art thou reading a gloomy
lecture over thy fallen state? Why sittest with folded hands
and dejected look, because thou feelest the corrupt workings
of thy sinful flesh? What have thy legal thoughts
brought forth but that black monster called unbelief? This dares to gainsay the truths
of God, deny his promises, set the Savior at naught, and rob
him of his glory. What, because thou canst not
find nor feel anything in thyself to deserve God's love, or for
which he should make one promise of mercy, wilt thou therefore
conclude against the greatness of his love and freeness of his
promises? Yea, but it is for that very reason because thou
hast nothing in thyself but sin and misery. Thy God will have
all the glory of his own grace in saving thy soul according
to his promise in Christ Jesus, the lamb who spilt his blood
for sin, who hath righteousness For the naked and a tongue to
plead the cause of the destitute has all the promises in his hands
to bestow the blessing of them on his needy members. Therefore,
out of his fullness we receive and grace for grace. So the Holy
Spirit giveth us to believe and come to the inexhaustible fullness
of Jesus for our every supply. Here we may fix our faith and
in the assurance of truth be confident. We shall want nothing.
For this very end is connected with our comfort, the glory of
God. Therefore, every promise of grace
here and glory hereafter are sure. Yay and amen. So be it, according to God's
purpose and grace in Christ Jesus. Please see 2 Timothy 1.9. That
was from preacher William Mason, approximately the year of our
Lord, 1780. Christ our surety. Our surety expressly said to
have been made both sin and a curse for his redeemed, that they might
be made the righteousness of God in him. Friends, please see
2 Corinthians 5.21 and also Galatians 3.13. And what a blessedness
is there contained in this one view of the completeness of the
church in Jesus. So that in the very moment that
the child of God feels the workings of corruption within himself
and is groaning under a body of sin and death, which he carries
about with him, though he sees nothing in himself but sin and
imperfection, yet sometimes, as it appears to him, growing
imperfections, Yet looking to the Lord Jesus Christ as His
surety, and considering the Redeemer's holiness, and not anything in
Himself as the standard of justification, here He rests, His well-founded
hope. This was blessedly set forth
by the Holy Ghost, as it is written in Isaiah 45, 24, Surely shall one say in the Lord
have I righteousness and strength Even to him meaning Christ shall
men come and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed
Excellent message from old-timer preacher Robert Hawker It is
written I will make mention of thy righteousness even of thine
only Consider if the righteousness by which we are justified be
a perfect righteousness, then we are not justified by our obedience
to gospel precepts. But the righteousness whereby
we are justified is a perfect righteousness, which is the righteousness
of Christ alone. Friends, please see Hebrews 1.8,
Matthew 6.33, and Romans 4.6. An everlasting righteousness. See Psalm 119, verse 142. That righteousness which justifieth
us before God, as it is not ours, so it is not in us. But as it
is Christ's righteousness, so it is in him. In me you shall
have righteousness and strength. Please see Psalm 71 verses 15,
16, 19, and finally verse 24. I will make mention of thy righteousness,
even of thine only. Justice and mercy do both meet
in this justification. justice, and that he will not
justify a sinner without a perfect righteousness, and yet mercy,
and that he will accept him for such a righteousness, that is,
neither in him nor done by him, but by his surety, meaning Christ,
but by his surety for him, the guilty sinner. The joy of a believer
would always be unspeakable did he always apprehend his happiness
in and by Christ alone. In a word, the pure, glorious,
matchless, and spotless righteousness of Christ is a soul's righteousness. And resting place, as it is written
again, I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine
only. For thy righteousness is an everlasting
righteousness. In those days shall Judah be
saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name
wherewith she, meaning the church, wherewith she shall be called
the Lord our righteousness. Jeremiah 33, 16. Excuse me, friends. The perfection of Christ's righteousness
is held forth unto us, and always lieth before us, that we may
be thankful for it, and peaceable with it, and rejoice in the bestower
of it. Outstanding. A message from a
preacher, Robert Purnell, the year of our Lord, 1657. For by
grace alone. A reading from Ephesians 2, verses
eight through nine. For by grace are ye saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of
works, lest any man should boast. By grace are ye saved. There
is no present salvation except that which begins and ends with
grace. No man can preach or possess
a present salvation Except those who preach and believe that we
are saved by grace alone The work is finished any other way
of salvation is dependent on the sinner and it will fail That
short message was from preacher Henry Mahan Substitution Salvation
by substitution was embodied in the first promise regarding
the woman's seed and his bruised heel, meaning Christ. Victory
over our great enemy by his subjecting himself to the bruising of that
enemy is then and there proclaimed. The clothing of our first parents, With that which had passed through
death in preference to the fig leaves, which had not so done,
showed the element of substitution, as that on which God had begun
to act in his treatment of fallen man. Abel's sacrifice revealed
the same truth, especially as contrasted with Cain's, for that
which made Abel's acceptable and himself accepted was the
death as the victim, as substituted for his own. That which rendered
Cain's hateful and himself rejected was the absence of that death
and blood. The slain firstling was accepted
by God as symbolically Abel's substitute, laid on the altar
till he should come the woman's seed made of a woman made under
the law to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive
the adoption of sons. See Galatians 4 verses 4 and
5. From the beginning, God recognized this principle in his dealings
with man, the just dying for the unjust, and the blessed one
becoming a curse, that the cursed might be blessed. It is this
truth that the gospel embodies, and it is this that we preach
when, as ambassadors for Christ, we pray men in Christ's stead
to be reconciled to God. God's free love to the sinner
is the first part of our message. God's righteous way of making
that free love available for the sinner is the second. Who
God is and what Christ has done make up one gospel. The belief
of that gospel is eternal life. As it is written in Acts 13,
39, all that believe are justified from all things. With a weak faith and a fearful
heart, many a sinner stands before the altar. It is not the strength
of his faith, but the perfection of the sacrifice that saves.
And no feebleness of faith, no dimness of eye, no trembling
of hand can change the efficacy of our burnt offering, meaning
Christ and Him crucified. The vigor of our faith can add
nothing to it. Nor can the poverty of it take
anything from it? Faith in all its degrees still
reads the inscription as it is written the blood of Jesus Christ
his son Cleanses us from all sin Hallelujah, that was from
preacher Horatious bonar It is written in Isaiah 45, 22, 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. The master also 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, and 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
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 almighty
and glorious King of Glory is inbound for His afflicted saints. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus! Maranatha!