Warm greetings, friends, near
and far. The Lord Jesus Christ be magnified
forever and ever. 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 are 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 in His unmerited favor to save me and
you from our sins and from hell. Saved by sovereign grace. By the Lord's determination,
I was chosen to salvation. What a wondrous proclamation. Saved by sovereign grace. With
His blood, the Savior bought me. Lovingly, the shepherd sought
me. And His Spirit now has taught
me. Jesus saves from sin. Member
of a holy nation. Saved from endless condemnation. By the Spirit's generation, I
have life in Him. Lost in sin, the Savior found
me. Broke the chains of sin that bound me. Oh, what love and grace
surround me. I am safe in Him. What a refuge
of salvation. Christ, the rock, is my foundation. This, my joyful contemplation,
saved forevermore. And that was from preacher Jim
Bird. Salvation is holy of grace, not
only undeserved but undesired by us until God is pleased to
awaken us to a sense of our need of it. Then we find everything
prepared that our wants require or our wishes conceive, yea,
that he has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask
or think. Salvation is holy of the Lord
and bears those signatures of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness,
which distinguish all His works from the puny imitations of men. It is every way worthy of Himself,
a great, a free, a full, a sure salvation. It is great whether
we consider the objects, miserable, hell-deserving sinners, the end,
the restoration of such alienated creatures to his image in favor
to immortal life and happiness, or the means, the incarnation,
humiliation, sufferings, and death of his only beloved son.
It is free without exception of persons or cases, without
any conditions or qualifications, but such as he himself performs
in them and bestows upon them. That was from preacher John Newton.
Hark, how the gospel trumpet sounds. Christ and free grace
therein abounds. Free grace to such as sinners
be. And if free grace, why not for
me? The Savior died and by his blood
brought rebel sinners near to God. He died to set the captives
free. And why, my soul, why not for
thee? Thus Jesus came the poor to bless,
to clothe them with his righteousness. That robe is spotless, full,
and free, and why, my soul, why not for thee? Eternal life by
Christ is given, and sinful men are raised to heaven. Then sing
of grace so rich and free, and say, my soul, why not for thee? Jonah 2.9c, salvation is of the
Lord. Entirely so, from beginning to
end, it is God's great salvation in its origination, in its effectuation,
in its application, in its consummation. Man contributes nothing to it
whatsoever. All the Trinity are concerned
and engaged in it. The Father is the author of salvation
from sin, Christ the purchaser, the Spirit the conveyor. It is
the Father who begets the elect, James 1, 17 and 18. Yet they
are declared to be the seed of Christ, Isaiah 53, 10, while
they are born of the Spirit, John 3, 6. That was an excerpt
from chapter 12 of the book entitled, The Satisfaction of Christ by
Arthur W. Pink. Highly recommend it, brethren,
The Satisfaction of Christ. The Gospel is no other than a
pure promise, a free declaration of peace and pardon, righteousness,
life, and salvation to poor sinners by Jesus Christ. The sum and
substance of it is that this is a faithful saying and worthy
of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners. 1 Timothy 1.15, and that, friends,
was an excerpt from John Gill's writing, The Doctrine of Imputed
Righteousness Without Works. Romans 5.6, Christ died for the
ungodly. God's righteous grace comes to
us through the law-honoring, justice-satisfying, sin-atoning
work of the Lord Jesus. Here, then, is the very essence
of the Gospel, the proclamation of God's amazing grace, the declaration
of divine bounty, altogether irrespective of human worth or
merit. in the great satisfaction of his son, God has brought near
his righteousness." Isaiah 46, 13. That was an excerpt from
chapter 7 of the book entitled, The Doctrine of Justification.
Another one from Arthur Pink, highly recommend it. The miracle
announced by the gospel is that God comes to the ungodly with
a mercy that is righteous. And in spite of all their depravity
and rebellion enables them through faith on the ground of Christ's
righteousness to enter into a new and blessed relation with himself. Clear Bible truth on God's sovereignty. Possessing infinite intelligence,
God can't do other than behave as God. He has one mind and one
will. He acts in the wisest and truest
possible way. If one's understanding begins
with this wicked world, the individual will conclude either God doesn't
exist or he isn't sovereign. If one, however, begins with
the scriptures, he will do no other than conclude that Almighty
God is sovereign. Purpose God acts according to
his good pleasure and he hath purpose in himself Ephesians
1 9 Job concluded of God in chapter 23 verse 13. He is of one mind
Or excuse me. He is in one mind and who can
turn him God's will is eternal and immutable It's guided by
his holiness and love. It's effectual and conditioned
on nothing outside of himself Power, consider this exaltation
in 1 Chronicles 29, 11, and 12. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness
and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty.
Thou reignest over all. in thine hand is power and might. God never exercises sovereign
power except to fulfill His purpose, and He never fails to fulfill
His purpose. Man's inability contrasted with
God's ability is a persistent theme within the Holy Bible.
Providence In Daniel 4.35, this is recorded of the Almighty.
He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and among
the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or
say unto him, what doest thou? What God doeth or does is his
providence. It would seem our chaotic culture
today would welcome the truth of God's sovereign providence.
The disavowal or diminishing of God's sovereignty in premise
or practice is the denial of the God of the Bible. Gospel
preachers proclaim God's sovereignty in grace, conditioned exclusively
on Christ Jesus. Thankfully so. The justice of
grace. Grace is amazing, and therefore
righteous grace is that the justice of God, which once stood against
us as sinners alienated from God, now stands for us as those
who have been reconciled to God in Christ Jesus. The words of
Augustus Toplady ring true to the scriptures. Justice cannot
twice demand payment at my bleeding surety's hand, and then again
at mine. It is the justice of the thrice
holy God that stands to guarantee our continued security before
the law and throne of God. John tells us that all confessing
sinners are cleansed from all sin and that God is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins. God's justice demands the forgiveness
of all the sins of those for whom Christ died. This is because
His death for sin actually put away sin by satisfying all that
the justice of God required, which was death. It is Christ
that died. Can justice allow any for whom
He died to be condemned? Can justice require payment at
the hands of the substitute and then required it again at the
hands of those he represents? Negative, no, this cannot be. Justice that must demand the
death of every soul that sins must also demand the full justification
of every soul whose sins are made an end of in the dying of
Christ. Justice sees all who are in Christ
as Christ himself. Such is the true nature of imputation. All believers are seen by divine
justice as being in Christ because they are in Christ. I suppose
it could be said that justice is the backbone of grace, giving
it strength, applying the full benefits of Christ's work to
every object of God's grace. Justice upholds the integrity
of God's sovereignty in ingrace. He will have mercy to whom He
will have mercy, and be gracious to whom He will be gracious.
Someone may rise to say, that's not fair. To which justice immediately
replies, God can do with His own what He will, and if He leaves
some men to face the consequences of their sin, He is just in doing
so. But He must set free every sinner
redeemed by Christ's blood, because I, the Father, have been satisfied
and honored. Justice found a sweet satisfaction
for my sin and the bloody sacrifice of Christ, but it also guarantees
the liberation, blessing, and keeping of my soul because of
that blood. Outstanding. God's faithfulness
and justice are ever the twin guards that secure forever God's
elect. That was from preacher Gary Shepherd
of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church, located in Jacksonville, North
Carolina, USA. We must have a righteousness
in which Jehovah Himself cannot find a flaw, a righteousness
which Jehovah cannot mend, a righteousness which neither sin nor Satan can
mar. And unless we have on a righteousness
of this nature, we can never enter into the blessedness of
the world to come. Where then are we to find it?
Eternal praises to the matchless mercy of a covenant God! We have it in the blessed person,
glorious work, and spotless obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
therefore, as it was essential for Him to fulfill all righteousness,
for his people. He loved the Lord, his God, with
all his heart, with all his mind, and with all his strength. He
began at the beginning and went through holily, righteously,
steadily, every step of the law of God, in all injustice and
righteousness. He fulfilled every iota of it
and gave it immortal glory and honor. The law could only require
the perfect obedience of a perfect man, but he gave it the perfect
obedience of the God-man, and stamped forever a holy dignity
and majesty on it, in order to manifest that this glorious righteousness
is suited to every sinner's case, to all their needs, and to honor
and glorify all the perfections of God. And thus, He has forever
perfected them that were sanctified, all those who are set apart for
Himself. They are perfected forever in
His own blessed obedience and spotless righteousness. And this
righteousness which God gives shall endure forever." That was
from preacher William Gadsby in the year of our Lord, 1843. 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. Also
the master says in Matthew 11, 28 through 30, come unto me all
you 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 Sidkenu, bless His name, Baruch Hashem. If you are led of the Lord to
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Maranatha.