7 through 12 of Acts chapter
4. And when they had set them in
the midst, they asked, by what power or by what name have you
done this? Then Peter, filled with the Holy
Ghost, said unto them, ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel,
if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent
man by what means he is made whole. Be it known unto you all,
and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead,
even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is
the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become
the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in
any other. For there is none other name
under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. I want to speak this morning
primarily on verse 12. On verse 12, Peter has been talking
in the verses that we read for our text this morning about the
impotent man, the man who had been raised up by the power of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And this story, of course, is
found in the third chapter of the book of Acts. And he goes
through the process of what God has done
and he says in verse 9, if we this day be examined, If we're
being examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by
what means he is made whole, by what means his ankle bones
and feet have been healed and strengthened so that he might
walk again and be here standing in your midst. He says, be it
known unto you all and to all the people of Israel, that by
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised
from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you
whole. And this is the stone which was
set at naught of you builders. You builders, being the religious
people of the day in which the Lord Jesus Christ was on earth,
you set him aside and you said, this is not, this stone here
shouldn't be in the building, but this is the stone which you
set it on, which has become the head of the corner. And then
he goes on to say, I'm going to tell you more than what you
wanted to know. You wanted to know by what means
this impotent man was healed. I've told you that, and now I'm
going to tell you something else. I'm going to even give you more
than what you asked for, and that is neither is there salvation
in any other. For there is none other name
under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Now
they didn't ask anything about salvation, they didn't ask anything
about how they could be reconciled to God and how they could have
eternal life, but Peter said, I'm going to give that to you
also, and here it is. Now beloved, this morning I want
to speak to you on the subject of the intolerance, the intolerance
of God's religion. Now I recognize that this is
a message that would cause the hair of the religionist to stand
on edge. Those that are just simply interested
in religion, they would of course be offended by what we have to
say here to you this morning. But I hope that the Lord will
be pleased to own this message and that you might be helped
and blessed as you hear what we have to say this morning concerning
Acts chapter 4 and verse 12. Now, the intolerance of God's
religion. Neither, neither is there salvation
in any other. For there is none, there is none
other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be
saved. Neither is there salvation in
any other. Now in old times, the heathen
who had different gods, all of them respected the gods of their
neighbors, the little G-O-D's of their neighbors. For instance,
the king of Egypt would confess that the gods of Nineveh, that
they were true and real gods. And the prince of Babylon would
acknowledge that the gods of the Philistines were true and
real gods. But Jehovah, the God of Israel,
put this as one of his first commandments. In Exodus chapter
20 and verse 3, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. He would not allow his people
Israel to pay the slightest possible respect to the gods of any other
nation. He would not allow it. He would
have no rival. He said, Thou shalt have no other
gods beside me. Thou shalt hew them in pieces,
is his language. Thou shalt break down their temples
and cut down their groves. Now all other nations were tolerant,
the one to the other, But the Jews could not be tolerant of
any of the gods, the little gods of the nations. Now one part
of the religion of the Jews was, Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy
God is one God. Now that as the consequences
of the belief of the Israelites that there was but one God, and
that one God was Jehovah. The Israelite felt it to be his
bounden duty to call all pretended gods by nicknames and to spit
on those little gods and to treat them with contempt. To look down
upon them and to mock them and to poke fun at the little gods
of the heathen. Now the Christian religion is
just as intolerant as this. Now you may find that to be rather
offensive, but if you listen to me carefully, I believe this
morning that you'll understand before I'm finished what I'm
talking about. Now all false religions of the
world, they lend credence to one another. Now, what I'm saying
is that all false religions, they can sleep peaceably in the
same bed with one another. Because all false religion comes
from the devil, and the devil is the father of all of them.
But the religion of the Bible, God's religion, beloved, it came
from heaven. It was born in heaven. It's God's
religion. It's God's truth. Now they will
admit, that is the false religions of the world, they will say that
there is salvation in 50 different religions. It doesn't make any
difference what your religion is. At last your religion will
glorify you. At last your religion will get
you to heaven. Now that's what all of the false
religions of the world, they're tolerant of one another. And
they will of course agree that there's some good in other religions. But the religion of the Bible,
how intolerable is God's religion? Well, you find it here in the
12th verse of Acts chapter 4, neither is there salvation in
any other. Now that's how intolerant the
Christian religion or God's religion is. There is salvation in no
other but this one name, and that is the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now it is ever the intention
of the natural man to remove all of the sharp edges of the
gospel all of the sharp edges of the message of the gospel
and to water down the message of the gospel so that it will
not offend anybody, so that everybody will be able to get along together. Now that's the way natural man
looks at religion. Now, he wants it to be pleasing
He wants it to be acceptable to everybody around him. So he
gets hold of the Bible and begins to pare off all of the angles
and the sharp edges of the gospel. But the angles and the sharp
edges of the gospel, beloved, we find in those much of the
power and much of the saving force of the gospel. I was reading
the other day that in the general conference of the United Methodists,
By an overwhelming vote, the delegates to the church meeting
approved a new hymnal, which many believe will be a model
for other denominations in years to come. Now several of the songs
in their hymnal will be eliminated completely, or several of the
hymns will be revised because of their offensiveness. And an
entire verse for an example of, oh for a thousand tongues to
sing, it'll be dropped completely because the words were deemed
to be offensive to handicapped persons. Now you listen to this.
Hear him ye deaf, his praise ye dumb, your loosened tongues
employ. Ye blind, behold your Savior
come, and leap, ye lame, for joy. Now, I'll have a word to
say about that in a minute, but there's another hymn that they
have also wanted to do away with, and it's this. Have Thine Own
Way, Lord. And it'll be revised because
one verse is considered to perpetuate an offensive racial stereotype. And listen to this, if you will.
Have Thine Own Way, Lord. Have thine own way, search me
and try me, Master, today. Now that is considered by them
to be a racial stereotype. Quieter than snow, Lord, wash
me just now, as in thy presence humbly I bow. Now evidently it
does not matter to these religionists that the words of both of these
songs are absolutely perfectly scriptural. That doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter at all. They're more concerned with offending
men than they are of offending the God of the Bible. Now the
God of the Bible has made clear statements. God's Word teaches
that all by nature are spiritually deaf, that they're spiritually
dumb, that they're spiritually blind, and they're spiritually
lame by nature. Spiritually, we are all totally
disabled, beloved. Spiritually, we are all handicapped. And not only are we handicapped,
but beloved, we are in a position by nature where we cannot do
anything for God. We are dead in sin and we are
desperately in need of the resurrecting and healing power of the Spirit
of God. Every one of us. Now listen to
me. And according to the Word of God, all men by nature are
filthy and foul and unclean before a holy God, needing to be washed
in Christ's blood, needing to be made clean and presentable. before we ever come into the
presence of a thrice holy God. Every one of us need to be dressed
up in robes of white. We need to have our sins forgiven
and our sins put away before we can come before God. But these
Methodists have decided that such truths are offensive and
they must be removed from their hymnals lest someone would get
upset unless somebody would be offended, unless somebody would
be cut, as it were, by the sharp edge of the intolerable gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, however, I want them to
know this. I would have all men to know
this, that though men drop the offensive words from their songbooks,
and though they even water down In the Bible, their translations,
there is no change. They cannot change the truth
of the Word of God. They cannot change God's truth. Sinners are deaf, dumb, blind,
and lame, and polluted, and they all need the Lord's salvation. They need the salvation of God.
Now, it is true that the vast majority of people in and out
of religion are offended. by the gospel of God's grace
to sinners through Jesus Christ. They are offended at the singularity
of the message that salvation is in none other except the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now the message of sovereign
mercy to the unworthy through the person and work of someone
else is insulting to the natural man. It's insulting to his mind,
to his intellect, that someone else besides him must provide
all that God demands of him or he cannot be saved. That's insulting
to the natural man. And yet I say unto you that it
is scripturally insane for a lost sinner, a condemned sinner, one
who is a sinner against God to be offended by this message. It is, I say, spiritually insane. Now this is the message, the
message of the gospel is a message of glad tidings. Would a drowning
man be offended if you threw him a life preserver? Would he
be? Well, not if he was in his right
mind. Well, would a man dying of a
terrible disease be offended by a cure? Would a man who's
been poisoned be offended by an antidote? Would a man dying
of a bad heart be offended at the prospects of receiving a
new one? Well, listen to me, my friend.
I want you to see how terribly insane this is, how spiritually
insane it is for a person to be offended at the gospel of
Jesus Christ. Would a starving man be offended
by a loaf of fresh baked bread? Would a thirsty man be offended
by a cup of pure cold water? My friend, listen to me this
morning. If you're here in a state of nature, if you're here having
never been brought under the cleansing blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ, you are drowning in the waves of God's justice. They
are ready to overwhelm you, and Christ is the only life giver,
and He is the only life preserver. We have the cancer of sin in
Christ. Beloved is the only cure. We
have the poison of iniquity in us and Christ is the only antidote. You need a new heart and Christ
alone can give you a new heart. Now has the bread and water of
life that your famished and thirsty soul must have, have you received
that? It's in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is. the bread and the water
of life. How can you possibly be offended
with Christ and his gospel? If you are, then beloved, I say
to you this morning that you're spiritually mad. And that's exactly
where the religious world in our day and time is. They're
all spiritually mad. spiritually mad because they
will not have the Lord Jesus Christ as their Redeemer and
Savior. It's got to be Christ plus, it's
got to be Christ and something else. Now, beloved, as a preacher
of the Lord Jesus Christ, my message has already been chosen
for me. Whenever the Lord called me to
preach, He didn't say, now you find something to preach to people. You get out and find something. Dig up something. I mean, make
it a new thing. Something suitable for the age
in which you live. No, beloved, when the Lord calls
a man to preach, the message that he's to preach has already
been chosen for him. Neither is there salvation in
any other. There is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Now Paul said,
we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord. 2 Corinthians
4 and verse 5. And again in Galatians 1.8. But
though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached unto you, then let him go to
hell, let him be accursed. Now years ago, there was a preacher
by the name of William Romaine, and he was asked one time why
he preached Christ so much. And he answered, people wonder
that we always preach Christ, but the truth is that we have
nothing else to preach. We don't have anything else to
preach. That's all we have. That is the one message of the
Bible. Bishop J.C. Ryle admonished a
group of preachers. He said, let your sermons be
dyed red with the blood of Jesus Christ. And why not? The poet John Kent said this
in 1803, sin is lost beneath the flood, drowned in the Redeemer's
blood. Zion, oh how blessed art thou,
justified from all things now. Well, preach Christ, said Charles
Spurgeon to an inexperienced student preacher. I have, was
his reply. Then preach him again and again,
the veteran preacher said. He said, be always at it. Preach Jesus Christ. That is
the only message. There neither is there salvation
in any other. Now the message of good news
that God will show mercy to sinners because of the person and work
of his beloved son is the theme of the ministry of this pulpit
here. It's the theme of the ministry
of the New Covenant Baptist Church and I pray that it'll never grow
old, and you'll never grow tired of it, and I'll never grow tired
of preaching it, and you'll never grow tired of hearing it. Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners. For sin, not his
own, he died to atone. And beloved, this is our message. The message is neither is there
salvation in any other. Now our message may be offensive,
but beloved, it is true and it is not new. This is not a new
message that we preach. And one old brother down south
said, if it's new, it cannot be true, and if it's true, it
cannot be new. This is, beloved, a true message. It may be offensive, but it's
not a new message. John the Apostle preached the
Lord Jesus Christ. In 1 John 1 and 3, he said, That
which we have seen and heard declare we unto you. And this is the preaching of
John the Baptist in John 1 and 29. He said, Behold the Lamb
of God. And Philip in Acts 8 and 5, the
scripture says he went down to Samaria and he preached Christ
unto them. Peter preached Christ also in
Acts 2 and 36. God hath made this same Jesus. whom ye have crucified to be
both Lord and Christ. This was Paul's message in 1
Corinthians 2 and 2. I determine not to know anything
among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. So beloved, our
orders are clear and the example has been set before us. We're
to preach the message that will never grow old or obsolete. Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners. 1 Timothy 1 and 15 and then our
text here this morning, Acts 4 and 12. Neither is there salvation
in any other. Now salvation, that word, what
a blessed, what a blessed word that is. Perhaps this is the
greatest word in the language of men. this word, salvation. I know that there was a day long
ago when this was a most blessed word to me. I lost a young, lost,
condemned sinner, a sinner who had no hope, no hope, and was
stripped and robbed of every false hope, nowhere to turn. It was a blessed word to me,
salvation, salvation. Neither is there salvation in
any other. And so it was a glorious day
when I heard a clear message on the fact that salvation was
in the person of God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now salvation
is also a very inclusive term, it really is. It takes in all
the blessings of the grace of God in this life and all the
bliss of heaven's glory throughout an endless eternity. It does,
this word salvation. It doesn't only apply to escaping
from hell, it talks about all the blessings of grace, it includes
it all, and all the bliss of heaven's glory. Now what is it?
Well, salvation is to be saved from sin. It's to be saved from
its penalty, its power, and someday, thank God, from the very presence
of sin. It's the redemption of our souls
from the curse of the law, Galatians 3 and 13. It's the receiving
of our hearts, the renewing of our hearts by the Spirit of God,
Titus chapter 3 and verse 5, where it says, not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He
saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost, the renewal brought about by the Holy Ghost. Now to be
saved is to be loved of God. To be saved is to be chosen of
God. To be saved is to be justified
in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, forgiven of all sin,
adopted into the family of God, and accepted at the throne of
God in the Beloved One, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now if I have salvation,
I have wisdom, I have God's wisdom, I have God's righteousness, I
have God's sanctification, and I have all the redemption that
there is, and that is in Christ. And if I have salvation, I have
all of those because all of those are in Christ, and Christ has
been made all of this to those who believe in Him. And so we
have it all. Salvation is the undoing, if
you please, of all that Adam did and more than that. Salvation is the total restoration
of a man from his fallen state. Salvation in Christ fixes our
standing before God more secure than it ever would have been
if we would have never fallen in Adam. If we had a perfect
human righteousness, then that's all we would have, and we might
have a standing before God in that. But in Jesus Christ, we
have a standing before God that's more secure than it ever was
before, because now we stand not in perfect human righteousness,
but in the righteousness of God Himself. We stand in the person
of God's Son, and with His holy garments on, we are as holy as
the Holy One. We're in Christ, and we're accepted
before the bar of God. Now that's what salvation is.
Grace finds us broken in pieces by the sin and fall of our father
Adam. defile, stain, corrupt, and condemn,
but salvation heals our wounds, it takes away our curse, and
it washes us clean, and it sets our feet on the rock, Christ
Jesus. That's what salvation does for
those that are chosen by God, and in its final end, salvation
lifts us up above all principalities in power, and it cradles us on
the shoulders of the shepherd, It carries us into the fold. It calls together the friends
and the neighbors and it rejoices over us and it preserves us in
that fold through life and then at last it brings us up to the
green pastures of heaven beside the still waters of bliss where
we lie down forever in the presence of the Chief Shepherd never more
to be disturbed. Isn't that wonderful? Beloved,
that's what salvation, that's what it is. I'm talking about
this all-inclusive word. I'm talking about this great
word in the language of man, salvation. That's what I'm talking
about. I'm talking about God delivering
poor, defiled sinners, deaf, dumb, blind, lame sinners into
this great position of being accepted and saved by the Lord. This salvation, listen, has come
to those of us who have it. To those of us who have it, and
it's not presumptuous for somebody who's got it to talk about it. It's not. But it's come to those
who have it. only by the virtue of Christ's
blessed name, only by His merit, only by His power, only by His
authority. That's the intolerable religion
of God, that it's only by His Son. Neither is there salvation
in any other. Now my friend, salvation should
be a matter of great concern to you. It should be. I think that if you are aware
that you have a never-dying soul, that you're going to live somewhere
for all eternity, that you're going to have to face God one
of these days, I would think that salvation would be a matter
of great concern to your heart. You are by nature lost. You're
without Christ, you're without hope, you're without life, you're
without God in this world. You are a cursed member of a
cursed race. Soon your life on this earth
will end, it'll be all over, your body will return to the
earth, and your immortal soul will stand naked before God in
the judgment. This ought to concern you. This
ought to be a matter of great concern. Salvation. How can I
be saved? How can I be a child of God? How can I miss all of the judgment
that's coming upon the world of the ungodly and it's going
to be poured out even upon my own sin? Now God's going to require
two things of you. In that day when you stand naked
before Him at His judgment throne, two things God will require.
He'll require, number one, complete satisfaction for all your sins. And number two, he's going to
require a perfect righteousness, and without these two things,
you're going to be cast off forever into the lake of fire, that place
of eternal death, where you'll die for all eternity, never,
never, never to see the light of the glory of God. Now listen
to me this morning, this ought to sober you because you cannot
produce either of these things, neither of these things, neither
of these two things can you produce that God requires. You can't
produce them. Neither is there salvation in
any other. There is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. You cannot provide these two
things that God will require of you in that day. Now listen,
atonement for sin and righteousness can only be found in the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ. They're not to be found in a
church, they're not to be found in religion, they're not to be
found, listen to me, they're not to be found with the preacher,
they're to be found in Christ and Christ alone. If you die
without Christ, you die without hope, but if you have Christ,
You have everlasting life. John 3 and 36 says, He that believeth
on the Son hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. 1 John 5, 12 and 13 says, He
that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not the Son hath
not life. Listen in verse 13, these things
John said, I've written unto you, that believe on the name
of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life,
and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God. That name. That's the only name
given among men. Under heaven! whereby we must
be saved, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now beloved, you
cannot obtain salvation by anything that you can do. You cannot obtain
it. Now I doubt that anyone comes
to God directly through the straight gate. We're told to, but not
very many come to God directly. Now works are so ingrained into
our natural religious consciousness that we all, like the prodigal
son, have to give them a try. We all got to give them a try.
We got to try to fix ourself up. We got to try to do better. We got to try to start doing
something and stop doing other things and try to fix ourselves
up so that God will have to do with us. Well, beloved, it won't
work until we're beaten, until we're foiled, until we're defeated
in our effort to fix ourselves up. We will not come to Jesus
Christ. We won't do it. We come to Christ
only when we're pressed to do so by necessity. When we find
that He alone is the way to God. He said, I am the way, the truth,
and the life. He said, I am the door. By me,
if any man enter in, he shall be saved. I am the door. I am
the way. And until, beloved, we're pressed
to do so by necessity, we will not come to God on our own. We won't do so. Now, good works,
religion, reformation, baptism, prayers, tears, vows, and resolutions
will never bring salvation to your soul. It'll never bring
you out. Listen, if you've been trying
to do something to get saved, give it up at once. There is
no salvation outside this one talked about in Acts 4 and 12. No salvation anywhere else. It's
Him. Neither is there salvation in
any other. Trust Christ. Trust Christ alone.
Christ alone is salvation. And I assure you this morning
on the authority of God's Holy Word that there is salvation
for sinners in Jesus Christ. There is salvation for sinners
in Jesus Christ. You have no other hope. Now beloved,
if you do not find salvation in Jesus Christ, you will not
find it anywhere else! Because it's not to be had anywhere
else. Let the religion escoff all he
wants. It's not to be had anywhere else.
It's found only in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's how implorable
God's religion is. If you get to God's heaven, you
go God's way through God's Christ, and you cannot get there any
other way. And I dare say that if you become
a student of the Word of God and read your Bible and meditate
upon it, that God will reveal that solemn truth and fact to
your never-dying soul. You must come to God through
the one mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's how narrow this
thing is. Now listen. He's your only hope. The man who trusts so much as
a single cares breath to his own works and his own efforts
has missed the way. He's missed Christ. Christ will
receive all the glory of saving your poor soul. He'll get all
the glory fixing you up and washing you up and making you without
spot and blemish. He'll get all the glory for it
or He'll not touch the case. He'll not touch you. He'll receive
it all. You'll sing that heavenly anthem
unto Him who washed you and clothed you Himself. And it'll be unto
Him the glory will be given or you will not be in the choir,
my friends. You'll only be in the choir if
He dresses you, if He washes you, if He fixes you up so that
there'll not be a spot or blemish or anything found in you. That's
the only way you'll get in the choir in eternal glory. Now, listen. We cannot trust
partly to our works and partly to the Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
there are many in theologians, say, that you by yourself cannot
save yourself. And they'll go on to say that
Christ by himself cannot save you either. But the two of you
together can do what neither one of you apart can do for you. Now beloved, this is utter blasphemy
is what it is. It's absolute ignorance of the
Word of God for anyone to make a statement like that. The truth
is that Jesus Christ can by Himself save the sinner. And that He
can by Himself do all, provide all that God demands. That He Himself can set a table
Whereupon we find all of the banquet of God spread, and wherein
we can find all that refreshes the soul, all that renews the
soul, all that prepares the soul and makes it meet for the inheritance
of the saints in life. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
Savior. Thou shalt call His name Jesus
for He shall save His people from their sins. Neither is there
salvation in any other. And I want to make that crystal
clear to you that Christ is able to save. Now hear me out. We
must come to the place where we're utterly stripped of everything. We cannot come with anything
in our hands. We got to come, we got to come
like we are in our true character. We got to come as sinners. We
got to come as the deaf, the dumb, the lame, the blind, the
handicapped, if you please. And more than the handicapped,
we got to come as we are really in need of life. in need of life
from the hand of him that has life in his hands. He said, I'm
life. The words that I speak to you,
they're spirit and they are life. And that's what you need. You
don't need another suit of clothes. You need Christ. You need life
is what you need. And until you get alive, you're
dead in sin. Now listen to me. I love to find
those who have nothing good about them. A lot of preachers around
looking for people that's got something good about them and
they want to preach to them. But not me, beloved. I want to
preach to those who have nothing good about them. I want to preach
to those who have nothing in their hands! who are there sitting
empty, and they're stripped of all of their professed goodness
and righteousness, and they see clear through what they are by
nature, and they're sick of what they are, and they want true
life and want real righteousness. They don't want this. Righteousness
of the religion is these people running around talking about
they're so holy and they're so good and they're so righteous,
but if you watch them day in and day out, you see that they're
just absolute hypocrites. They don't really have any righteousness.
You want the real thing. Well let me tell you this, you'll
never get the real thing till you get to Christ. And you get
to Him, your own rock, your own solid rock my friend, your own
foundation, your own rock when you get to Him. And you're never
going to find any imperfection with Him. And you're never going
to find anything wrong with Him. You can find it with religionists
and other folks around you maybe, but not Christ. Christ is absolute
perfection. And when you find people with
their hands empty and they're stripped, glorious thing to be
able to preach the grace of God to those kind of people. And
because they're hungry for the... Now if you were in the hospital
and you wanted to get the attention of the physician, the nurses,
what would you do? Would you put a sign up over
your bed saying there ain't nothing wrong with me. Leave me alone.
There's nothing wrong with me. No, you wouldn't do that. Actually,
you'd be more inclined, I think, to appear worse than you really
were. I think you'd be more inclined when the doctor came in and said,
how are you doing today? I'm in bad shape. I'm in bad shape. I hardly made it through the
night. I need help desperately. Now listen, you certainly can't
exaggerate. your low and sinful condition
before God. You can't exaggerate that. You
might exaggerate your physical condition before a doctor. You
might exaggerate that. But listen to me, there's no
one here that can exaggerate their sinful condition before
a thrice holy God. You just can't do it. You can't
do it because you're ever bit as bad as God said you was. You're
ever bit that bad and you are dead in sin and you are wretched
and undone. You are in need of washing and
cleansing. You are in need of healing. And
your situation is desperate before God. And you don't have to exaggerate. Honey, just own your own condition
and your own situation. And come before God in that state,
in that condition. And salvation is in Christ. Listen, Isaiah 45 and 2. Look
unto me. and be saved all the ends of
the earth for I am God and there is none else. There is none else. I can do it. You look to me.
You look to me. He is able. The hymn writer said
he is willing. Doubt no more. He is able. He is willing. Doubt
no more. I hope this morning that you've
been able to see something of what this text means. Acts chapter
4 and verse 12. Neither is there salvation in
any other, for there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved. How intolerable is God's
religion? Right there it is. It's just
God's way, that's all. But are you so spiritually mad
that you'd be offended at this? This is your only hope. This
is your only, your only escape. There is no other way. Look to
Him. Look unto me and be saved over
the ends of the earth. I'm God and there is none else. Father, we thank you for your
word. For your truth and the privilege of preaching, I pray
that you will own the message and use it, and I pray that somebody
here today might be able to rejoice in a Savior found and praise
Him for all eternity. I ask it in Jesus' name, and
for His sake alone, Amen.