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 Brethren in
Christ, at First Baptist Church located in Almonte, 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 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. Friends, the following was said
by self-righteous religious rebels who hated the Lord Jesus Christ.
From Luke 15 too, they scorned and they said, this man, speaking
of the Lord Jesus, this man receiveth sinners and eateth with them. There are two kinds of religion
in the world. One is where a person has a real
knowledge of himself as a sinner. The other includes many branches,
and almost all who hold it acknowledge man is sinful by nature being
taught it from childhood. Yet they do not feel sin has
separated them from God, but think they can approach him by
some good work. To be sensibly knowing you're
a sinner brings a big burden. You feel the coldness it brings
upon you, the disinclination to approach God. and it distresses
you, it brings discomfort. So naturally, if something cold
is applied, you feel the discomfort. And if it were continued, you
could not live. You feel warmth to be applied
to remove the discomfort. Those who feel the cold that
sin produces need to come to the fire for warmth. They are
ready to give up prayer and reading, but they cannot. If you are hungry,
you must eat. The hunger is so uncomfortable.
If you are cold, you require warmth for comfort. You feel
praying in your heart, Lord, I am cold. Let some of thy rays
fall on me from thy habitation. I am helpless. I feel I cannot
pray. Give me a prayer, O Lord. I feel my failings, and I'm sorry
for them. That makes a coming sinner, and
God says in Matthew 11, 28, come unto me, all ye that are weary
and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. For these, Jesus Christ,
the Lord, came into this world. He receives them, Matthew 1,
23. His name shall be called Jesus,
for He shall save His people from their sins. For this purpose
He left the skies and took upon Him the form of a servant, that
He might come to them, and they to Him. They must do so. They are separate from all others.
There is a barrier between. Others work for themselves to
make themselves so-called acceptable to God, The sensible sinner wants
Jesus Christ to work for him. He cries, God, be merciful to
me, the sinner. It alters the whole character.
Faith, conversation, pursuits to be a sensible sinner. That is to say, if you know you
are a sinner. When God withdraws the power
of His grace from His people at times to show them what they
really are, they have a discovery of themselves that none have
but such as have grace in their hearts. None but these cry, Lord,
don't leave me to that, or Lord, don't leave me to myself, and
loathe and abhor themselves. There is such a callousness about
sin that when it works it hardens more and more, and the soul dreads
to be left to it. Lord, sooner let me feel the
smart, the pain that is, than be callous and insensible of
sin. Lord, I am a beast. No good thought
can come out of our hearts unless the Lord puts it there. Not a
thought in prayer nor in confession unless he gives it. John the
Baptist said, A man can receive nothing except it be given him
from heaven. It is of no use to tell a child
of God to repent and be sorry for his sins. That is what he's
doing every day. But that does not take them away. It is of no use to tell him he
must be humbled before God. That is what he is every day. But his humility will not cleanse
his conscience. There is only one thing that
will do it. There is a fountain open for
sin and uncleanness. 1 John 1.7, the blood of Jesus
Christ, his son, cleanseth us from all sin. Hallelujah. That
alone, nothing else, will take sins away. That is the object
set before the sinner. That blood was shed for the remission
of sins, for nothing else. The soul is fixed upon it. Oh, that I might be drawn into
that new and living way and find access to God through the death
of Jesus Christ. These sinners Jesus Christ has
to do with. He has not to do with all sinners,
that is certain. You may feel such things that
you think he can have nothing to do with you, but this is true,
friends. All the fitness he, meaning the
Lord Jesus, requireth is to feel your need of him. The sun might
have shone upon this world in all its splendor, but what of
that if there had been none to need it? The grace of Jesus Christ
is for every sinner that feels a need, that is dark and needs
light, that is cold and needs warmth, polluted and needs the
fountain opened for sin and uncleanness. This man, the Lord Jesus Christ,
this man receiveth sinners. None have this discovery of themselves
in this life without grace. We will let alone what all will
have in the next. I could tell a natural man what
he is, but he would not believe it. He is spiritually dead. The
word Pharisee is taken from the same word as sanctified. It means
set apart from all that is evil, from evil company as the Pharisees
thought they were, and the Pharisees said, This man receiveth sinners,
and eateth with them. He will ever receive sinners,
only for them he came. He never sent away a sinner,
but eateth with every one. To eat with another is a pledge
of lasting friendship. If he eats with you once, It
is a pledge he will again. If he does so today, he will
tomorrow. It is a pledge he will never
break fellowship with you, that he will never forsake you. Have
you found his words and eaten them once at any time? He will be with you to the end.
He will always receive you. There is this word for you to
go upon. Seek and ye shall find, said
the master. If you go every day to Christ
Jesus, he will receive you every day. His friendship is everlasting,
friends. That was preacher Joseph Hatton. You and I stand on the verge
of an eternal world, and unless God Himself say to the soul,
I am thy salvation, we must eternally perish. The great body of professors
of religion are quite satisfied in talking about or hearing of
a salvation. They tell us what great salvation
God has accomplished for us, but if we will but close in with
it, if we will but do our part. And other professors please themselves
with talking about the discriminating doctrines of the gospel and more
or less ridicule the inward teachings and workings of Almighty God,
the Holy Spirit in the soul, and the feelings of the poor
sinner under them. But whenever the Lord, the Holy
Spirit, circumcises the heart of a sinner by the knife of the
law, he lays his heart open and lets the contents of the heart
begin to ooze up with abominable filth, guilt, and horrors. Nothing will then do for the
soul short of the Lord speaking and saying to such a soul, I
am thy salvation. That was old time preacher William
Gadsby. 1 John 3.16, speaking of our
Lord Jesus Christ, He laid down His life for us. Here is the
most profound, sublime, and glorious truth that human tongue can speak,
proclaimed in seven simple, one-syllable words. There is not a long, complicated
word in the entire sentence. Great thoughts can always be
expressed in simple words, such as thank you, or I love you,
But feeble thoughts need to be dressed up in rhetoric and fine
language. Someone said, today's intellectuals
need Latin words and confusing sentences to express their feeble
ideas. But God's servants are always
content to preach the gospel in the spirit and with the understanding. We do not preach for admiration,
but for edification. We do not preach to impress men,
but to instruct them. That was from preacher Henry
Mahan in the year of our Lord, 1986. And this short message
is entitled Comfort. How sweet the following considerations
be to a distressed believer. 1. There most certainly exists
an almighty, all-wise, and infinitely gracious God. 2. He has given
me in times past and is giving me at present, if I had but eyes
to see it, many and signal intimations of his love to me, both in a
way of providence and grace. 3. This love of his is immutable. He never repents of it or withdraws
it. Number four, whatever comes to
pass in time is the result of his will from everlasting. Consequently, number five, my
afflictions were a part of his original plan and are all ordered
in number, weight, and measure. Number six, the very hairs of
my head. are everyone counted by him,
nor can a single hair fall to the ground but in consequence
of his determination. Hence, number seven, my distresses
are not the result of chance, accident, or a fortuitous combination
of circumstances, but, number eight, the providential accomplishment
of God's purpose. Number nine, they are designed
to answer some wise and gracious end. Nor, number 10, shall my
affliction continue a moment longer than God sees meet. Number
11, he who brought me to it has promised to support me under
it and carry me through it. Number 12, all shall most assuredly
work together for his glory and my good. Therefore, number 13,
the cup which my heavenly Father hath given me to drink. Shall
I not drink it? Yes, I will, in the strength
he imparts, even rejoice in tribulation, and, using the means of possible
redress which he hath, or may hereafter put into my hands,
I will commit myself and the event to him whose purpose cannot
be overthrown, whose plan cannot be disconcerted, and who, whether
I am resigned or not, will still go on to work all things after
the counsel of his own will. And that was from preacher Augustus
Toplady. 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. And our beloved mighty master
also says in Matthew 11, 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
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. This about wraps up this evening's
broadcast. I trust almighty God will awaken
his sleeping elect and draw multitudes of men, women, and children around
the world. to his only begotten son, Christ
Jesus, the Lord our righteousness. Yehovah sidken you. Bless the
name. Baruch Hashem. If you are led
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