The Gospel By Which We Are Saved

Q: What does the Bible say about the gospel of salvation?

The Bible affirms that the gospel is the power of God for salvation to all who believe. The Bible emphasizes the centrality of the gospel in salvation, particularly in 1 Corinthians 15, where Paul states that he preached the gospel which is the message by which believers are saved. This gospel is not merely a set of doctrines but a declaration of the good news that Christ died for our sins and rose again, fulfilling the scriptures. This truth assures believers that salvation is fully rooted in God's redemptive plan, as revealed throughout the entirety of the scriptures.

Q: Why is the gospel important for Christians?

The gospel is essential as it brings salvation, hope, and the foundation for Christian faith. For Christians, the gospel is not just a message but the foundation of their faith and hope. It is through the gospel that believers are justified before God, made right by the sacrificial death and resurrection of Christ. As Paul explains, this gospel is by which we are saved and is critical for standing firm in the faith. The importance of the gospel is seen in its ability to set believers free from sin and death, and it calls them to live in a way that honors their Savior. It is vital that Christians remain anchored in this truth, as it guides their entire way of life.

Q: How do we know the gospel is true?

The gospel is validated by scripture and the historical reality of Christ's death and resurrection. The truth of the gospel is firmly established in scripture, as Paul underscores by referencing that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. Both the Old and New Testaments point to this truth, confirming that Jesus is the promised Messiah who fulfilled all that was foretold. The historical accounts of Jesus's life, death, and resurrection further validate this message, confirming that God's promises to His people are true and trustworthy. Ultimately, faith in this gospel offers assurance of salvation, rooted in the very character of God and His redemptive plan.

Q: What is meant by salvation according to the gospel?

Salvation according to the gospel means being justified and reconciled to God through Christ. The gospel presents salvation as a profound work of God where individuals are justified, redeemed, and reconciled to Him through faith in Christ. It encompasses the belief that Jesus's death paid the penalty for sin, thereby satisfying the justice of God. This justification is a gift of grace, received by faith, and leads to a transformed life that honors God. By embracing the gospel, believers enter into a relationship with God, marked by forgiveness, freedom, and the assurance of eternal life. It is a salvation that is complete, entire, and rooted in the faithfulness of God's promises.

All right, 1 Corinthians 15 again,
please. 1 Corinthians 15. One word can sum up the ministry
of the Apostle Paul. And I certainly am hopeful that
that one word can sum up the ministry of this preacher. And that is this, Paul was a
gospel preacher. He wasn't an organizer, promoter,
socializer, entertainer. He was a gospel preacher. He
said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. He told Timothy, writing
to him from prison, he said, don't you be ashamed of the gospel
either. I'm not ashamed of the gospel. It's the power of God
and the salvation. He said on another occasion,
I'm separated to the gospel. I'm obsessed with it. I'm devoted
to it. And on another occasion, he said
necessity is laid upon me. I don't have a choice. Woe is
unto me if I don't preach the gospel. When I get up here, you
expect to hear the gospel. Because the gospel, I'm not ashamed
of it. I'm separated to it, and necessity,
need, is laid upon me. I must preach the gospel. And
here in our text, 1 Corinthians 15, verse 1, he says, Moreover,
brethren, in other words, let me remind you, brethren, let
me remind you, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached
unto you. I preached the gospel to you.
Now, I know there's a lot of preaching today that can be dubbed,
in reality, foolishness. I listen to some of them rant
and rave and foam at the mouth and run up and down here and
carry on all this sort of thing. Some preaching today is utter,
absolute foolishness. But Paul said this, it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching. Not what these fellows are doing,
but what the religious world and the natural world calls foolishness,
and the religious call the stumbling block, that is the preaching
of the cross. The preaching of the cross is
to them who perish foolishness. And so it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching the cross to save them that believe. And then in Romans 10, Paul said,
well, how are they going to hear without a preacher? Whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord, and that is his name, his
character, his attributes, who he is, whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved. But how shall they call
on him in whom they have not believed, and how shall they
believe in him of whom they've not heard, and how are they going
to hear without a preacher? Our Lord Jesus was a preacher.
Did you know that? Jesus began to preach. That's
what scripture said. Solomon, the king, he didn't
say the king was a preacher. He said the preacher was a king.
That's right. He counted his office as preacher. Much higher than his office as
king. The preacher was a king. And our Lord said to his disciples,
go into all the world and preach. Preach the gospel. Brother Mews said one time, this
was forty years ago, he said there are not many great
sermons preached anymore because the preachers have left their
first love and they are involved in and
taken up with too many other things to be great preachers. They have too many meetings to
attend, they have too many visits to make, they have too many clubs
to attend, they have too many activities and socials, and they
don't study, and they don't wait before God in prayer, and they
don't get a message from God, and therefore there's not much
great preaching. That's right. But you know the apostles, when
the news was brought to them that some certain people had
been neglected socially and materially and financially and so forth,
they said, you get some men to take care of this business. We'll
give ourselves to what? The ministry of the Word and
prayer. And Paul was separated to the
gospel, preaching the gospel. Preaching, God will bless preaching.
If that preaching is prepared and prayed over, and that preaching
comes first, and that preaching glorifies him, and that preacher
is obsessed with his gospel and dedicated to him, and that preacher
is in the ministry. And I'll tell you preachers that
are here, when you enter the ministry, You cease from family
responsibilities, children's responsibilities, social responsibilities. They come third, fourth, and
fifth. And you'll never be a preacher
until that takes place. That's exactly right. You'll
never be a preacher until your wife is no longer first, and
your children are no longer first, and your obligations to your
family. Somebody says, well, I've got a family. Not anymore,
you're a preacher. You're God's preacher, you're
God's servant, that's right. As those who have wives as though
they had none, jobs as though they had none, that's right,
preaching. And when that becomes your obsession,
and that becomes first, not first, but all, not first, all, determination
to preach Christ. and go where he leads you, go
through the door he takes you through, declare his message,
and that message is first. You've got company in the house,
go to your study. Tell your company goodbye. You
see, we've become so socialized and pastors have become so much a chief executive officer
of an organization that you don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
If you have to hurt them for the gospel, hurt If you have
to neglect them for the gospel, neglect them. You'll never be
a preacher until you neglect everything but the gospel. As
long as you're neglecting the gospel for everything else, God
won't bless your message. That's just all there are to
it. So, I preach the gospel. Paul was a preacher, a preacher,
a preacher of the gospel. And he said, I preach this gospel
to you and listen to this. And said, you received it. You
received it. You listened to my gospel. You
listened to my gospel. You heard my gospel. You believed
it. You received it. You received it. You received
it into your hearts. Not just into your heads. Into
your hearts. Though you didn't understand
it all. You couldn't explain it all. Some of you here couldn't
stand up here in gear of a systematic theological essay on the scriptures,
but you know Christ in you. You know Christ in you. You receive.
I had a man say to me one time, and I have to say the same thing.
He said, you know, he said, I hear you preach, and I go away. And he said, if someone were
to come up to me and ask me to give him your outline, I couldn't
do it. If they were to ask me sometimes,
what text do you use, I couldn't tell them. It just somehow, I
don't retain everything. I don't either. But he said,
I'll tell you this, while you're preaching it, I believe it. While
you're preaching it, I receive it. While you're preaching it,
I say, that's what I believe. That's what I believe. And I
may not remember it when I get down to the corner. I may not
be able to give you verbatim what you said, but I know while
you preached it, I received it. And that's the main thing. I
believed it. I received it. I believed it.
And he said, not only have you received it, but when you stand,
you stand. And I tell you this, when you
stand, it's going to cost you. It's going to cost you when you
stand. It's going to cost you some friends. It's going to cost you some family
members. It's going to cost you some persecution,
it's going to cost you some harassment, but when you stand. I preach
the gospel. There are a lot of folks who
hear the gospel. There are some folks who receive it and take
a stand. They take a stand. I like what
Martin Luther said when they brought him. You know, Germany
was just all Catholic, just ruled and reigned and dominated. obsessed
and in bondage and slavery to Catholicism. It was everywhere.
And Martin Luther saw the error of it, the wickedness of it,
the idolatry of it, and he took a stand. And it cost him. They tried to kill him his whole
life, somebody tried to kill him. They chased him, hounded
him, harassed him, finally brought him before this huge assembly
of priests and cardinals and bishops and all these folks on
orders of the Pope to hear him out, to try him, to execute him
if they had to, and he stood alone, right in the midst of
all these folks around him that despised him and hated him and
hated the gospel he preached and the Christ he preached and
the free grace he declared. And he stood before them, right
in front of them, and declared, Here I stand! I can do no other. And that's what Paul says about
these people. I remind you I preached the gospel
to you, I declared the gospel, and you received it. You received
it and took a stand. Now watch this, verse 2, "...by
which you are saved." This is the gospel by which you are saved,
this gospel I preached, this gospel you received, this gospel
wherein you stand. And when you stand, like Joshua
said to everybody, who's on the Lord's side, let him stand. Let him stand. God's not going
to bless compromise. God's not going to bless this
in and out, this gray area, this wishy-washy, this I don't know,
maybe it's so. God's not going to bless this
live and let live. He's not going to bless this,
well, everybody's going to heaven, we're just traveling different
roads. No, sir, you're going to stand. If God is sovereign, let it be
known. If God has a covenant of grace
and an elect people and Christ died to redeem us and the Holy
Spirit effectually quickens sinners, let's take a stand. Here I stand,
this gospel. And he says, by which you are
saved. Now, here is the burning question. Here is the burning
question. Will the gospel I preach save sinners? He says, this gospel, Paul says,
this gospel I preach is the gospel by which you're saved, you're
justified, redeemed, you're saved, delivered, made a child of God. By this gospel you're saved.
Will the gospel I preach save? Will the gospel you believe save? Will it? Will the gospel you
support save? Will it? That's the question. I'm not asking, does our gospel
suit our fancy. I'm asking, will it save? I'm
not asking, is our gospel agreeable to our thoughts? Somebody said,
well, that's what I think. That's not what I'm asking. Is
it agreeable to your thoughts? I'm asking, will it save? I'm not asking, do your friends
approve? I'm asking, will your gospel
save? I'm not asking, is this what's your denomination for?
Well, you know, Baptists have stood for the truth. Have they
ever stood for the gospel? Will their gospel save? That
which men preach today, will it save? You say, well, I believe
what my mom and dad believed. Will their gospel save? I'm not asking will it reform
them and make them join the Church and give up their licentious
living. I say, will the gospel your mom
and dad believe, will it save sinners? I'm not asking does
it sound reasonable. I'm asking, will it save? Paul said, I preach the gospel
to you which you receive wherein you stand. That gospel is the
gospel by which you are saved. I'll tell you this, my gospel
will save you. This gospel I'm preaching to
you this morning and I have preached to you through the years, if
you receive it, if you believe it, if you stand in it, if you
love it, if you continue in it, unless you're like Judas, It'll
save you. That is, he said, unless you
believed in vain, unless you're a hypocrite, unless you're playing
a game. If you're playing a game, it won't. But this gospel which
I preach, if you receive it, if you believe it, if you stand
in it, and if you keep in memory what I preached unto you, it'll
save your soul. As sure as God reigns, he'll
save you. This gospel, by which you're
saved. You know how I know this gospel
is saved? I'll give you four or five reasons, if you want
to write them down. Here's the first one. It's according to
the scriptures. It's not according to Mr. Calvin
or Mr. Luther. It's not according to
Mr. Mahan. It's not according to
our old Baptist catechisms and confessions of faith and seminary teachings. It's according
to the Scriptures. Read this, verse 3. For I deliver
it unto you, first of all, that which also I receive, how that
Christ died for our sins." Here's a phrase that we've got to get
a hold of. Charlie, isn't that right? It's
according to the Scriptures. Well, the Scriptures, Brother
Mahan, from Genesis to Malachi, it's
in the New Testament Scriptures. When the Apostle Paul was writing
this, he was referring to the Old Testament, the scriptures.
And almost every time the word scriptures appears in the New
Testament, it's talking about the scriptures, Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, the scriptures. You see, my friends, Jesus Christ
is the seed of woman. The most important thing about
his death is who died. A lot of people have died on
crosses. A lot of religious martyrs have
died. A lot of reformers have died. A lot of so-called messiahs have
died. But this is no ordinary man. This is the seed of woman. This
is the seed of Abraham. Go back and read it. This is
that prophet like unto Moses. This is our priest, our tabernacle,
our mercy seat, our atonement. This is the serpent lifted up,
as in Numbers. This is the city of refuge, as
in Deuteronomy. This is the kinsman-redeemer,
as in Ruth. This is the king of kings and
lord of lords, as in Kings and Chronicles and Samuel. This is
Job's redeemer. This is David's shepherd. This
is Solomon's wisdom. This is God-man. Turn to Luke 24. Let me show
you this. He died for our sins according
to the scriptures. According to the scriptures.
Luke 24. Listen to this. Our Lord talking
to his disciples in Luke 24, 26. They were confused. He said so many things I have
to say to you that you're not able to bear. Later on, you'll
understand them. But Luke 24, 26, he said, Ought
not Christ to have suffered these things, to enter into his glory?
And beginning at Moses, Genesis, and all the prophets, he expounded
unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Himself. Look at verse 44. And he said to them, Now these
are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you,
that all things must be fulfilled which are written in the law
of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the
scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus
it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the
same day, the third day, According to the scriptures, turn back
to our text, 1 Corinthians 15, verse 3. I delivered unto you
first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for
our sins according to the scriptures. He was buried, he rose again
the third day according to the scriptures. He's the Passover
lamb, Christ is our Passover lamb. He's the smitten rock,
he's the manna from heaven, he's the bread from heaven. He is,
he did, he will do all that's in the scriptures. Those things
are written of him. Lo, I come to do thy will in
the book, it is written of me, O my God. So my gospel is saved
because it's according to the scriptures. It's no foreign recipe, it's
no prescribed religious duties and responsibilities to appease
a holy God, it's the gospel according to the scriptures. And then secondly, my gospel
is saved because he's the God-man, promised, prophesied, and pictured. God said the Lord himself will
give you a sign. A virgin shall be with child.
Thou shalt call his name Immanuel, God with us." You see, this Jesus
of Nazareth is the one who from the beginning made all things.
By whom, for whom, all things were made and by whom all things
consist. God said again, Behold, unto us a child is born. and
a son is given. A child, a new child, a new person
to walk this earth is born, but he's not the son born, he's the
son given. And the government shall be on
his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor
of the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Jeremiah said in chapter 23, listen to this, listen to this,
Behold the days come, saith the Lord, I'll raise up unto David
a righteous branch. A king shall reign and prosper,
shall execute judgment and justice in the earth, and in his days
Judah shall be saved. Israel shall dwell safely. That's
spiritual Israel. And this is his name, whereby
he shall be called the Lord our righteousness." Our Lord came
to Samaria and encountered the woman, crossed her path, and he created an interest. He said, if you knew who was
speaking to you, you'd ask of me and I'd give you living water.
She never thirsted again. Oh, she said, give me that water.
He said, go call your husband. He crossed her path. He created
an interest. He presented a problem. Or she
said, I perceive you a prophet. Now, she says, she fell back
on her religion. She said, our fathers worshipped
in the mountain. You Jews worship in Jerusalem. So often people
do that. when you cross their path with
the gospel, when you talk about this eternal life, and then they'll
try to fall back on some old religious experience, you know.
They'll bring up their religion. Well, you Baptists do this, and
you Methodists do this, and you Presbyterians do this, and you
Catholics do this, and that's the way to go. Our Lord said,
Woman, you don't know what you worship. You worship you know not what.
You're just going around in circles and so did your fathers. I know
whom I worship. God's spirit. They that worship
God, worship God in spirit. Not in form and ceremony and
places, in spirit. And God seeketh such to worship
him. Oh, she said, well, when the Messiah comes, he'll tell
us all things. He said, I'm he. That's what I believe. My gospel
is saved because he's he. Yes, sirree. Don't go to the
mountain. Don't find anything there. Don't
go to Jerusalem. There's nothing there. Don't go to the front. Don't
go to the preacher. Go to him because he said, I'm
he. I'm he. If you believe not that
I am He, you'll die in your sins. That's right. My gospel is saved
thirdly because it honors God's law. There's no way in this world,
I just might as well give up trying, there's no way in this
world that I can emphasize the holiness of God. If I could preach
here this morning the infinite, absolute, immutable holiness
of God, it would scare every one of us to death. That's exactly
right. The holiness of his word, the
holiness of his law, the unchangeableness, the immutability of his holiness,
he won't compromise it. He won't take the edge off of
it. He won't trim it down. He requires absolute, unconditional
perfection and promises judgment and wrath and a curse upon everyone
that continues it not in all things written in the book of
the law to do it. Who shall stand in his presence?
He that hath clean hands, pure heart, who has never lifted up
his soul to vanity, who has never even exaggerated. Oh, God, if you mark iniquity,
who will stand? But there is forgiveness with
thee. There is somebody in my place,
in my stead, in my room for me. And you came to this earth in
flesh and blood and bones, born of a woman, born under that absolute,
unconditional, holy, unchangeable law, and kept it! A man kept
it! He kept it so perfectly that
Almighty God the Heavenly Father looked down and said, I'm pleased
with him. I'm pleased. And he could say,
I always do those things that please my Father. He prayed thy will be done, but
he also had the power to pray his will. He said, I will that
those you have given me be with me where I am. You don't pray
that way. But he could, because he is the God-man, and he's perfect. Oh, that's my righteousness.
This gospel I'm preaching is a gospel that takes care of that
law, that satisfies that law. He honored that law. He honored
it. He made it honorable. He magnified
it. He kept it. These old Pharisees used to try
to skirt around it, you know. They used to try to find a loophole
in the law. That's what folks do today. They
talk about, well, it wasn't a bad sin. It's kind of a little white
lie, you know. That's skirting the law. That's
trying to get around it. Meet it head on. Christ met it
head on, in the flesh as a man, and kept it. And I'll tell you
this too, my gospel is saved because it enables God to be
just and justified. It not only enables God to enforce
his law, but it enables God to enforce his wrath. Will God punish sin? If he's
God, he will. Will God punish your sin? If
he's God, he will. Can God forgive your sin without
a substitute, without an atonement? If he's God, he can't. Well, could God sort of, you
know, put his tongue in his cheek and sort of, you know, hide?
No, if he's God, he can't. He said, I'm a just God and a
Savior. Thankful for that. If he'd have
just said, I'm a just God, I'd be running yet. I wouldn't find
no place to run, but I'd run. Boy, I tell you, some of you
folks, some of the folks in this world better diet and watch their
cholesterol and live as long as they can, because there's
certainly a wrath of God waiting. You just stretch it out. If you're
not a believer, you stretch it out, boy, as long as you can.
You better hope he spares you one more day, because after death
is judgment. And that God is an unrelenting,
uncompromising, unchanging, just God. But thank God in Christ
He's mercy. Mercy for sinners, mercy for
the guilty, mercy for a woman like the woman at the well, mercy
for a fellow like Peter, mercy for a fellow like Saul of Tarsus,
mercy for a slave trader like John Newton, mercy for sinners
like even me. Can I tell you what he had to
do? He had to die. Christ had to die. That's what
the cross is all about. The cross is not an offer, it's
an atonement. Jesus Christ didn't go to the
cross to set an example. He went to the cross to pay his
sin debts. You see, the flood of judgment
fell on Noah too. That rain didn't fall Everywhere
but on Noah, it fell on Noah. Well, you say, what saved him?
He was in the ark. And the ark took the judgment.
The firstborn in Egypt died in every home. No, a preacher didn't
die in Israelite's home. Yes, he did die in Israelite's
home. A lamb died, the firstling of the flock. God's judgment
fell on the whole country. But the reason they were saved
is under the blood of one who had died already. And God will punish sin. Every
sin I've ever thought, imagined, dreamed, said, done, whatever
you do, whatever, every sin, sin of omission, commission,
unintentional, secret sin, unknown sin, ignorant sin, God is going
to deal with every sin of every soul in judgment, either one of these Calvary's
cross. And I have no room or time for
people that say Christ has already paid all the sins of all the
people in all the world. If He did, we don't have any
sins. If He did, it's a universal salvation.
If He did, everybody's going to heaven, ain't no use preaching
no more. Let's go home, because everybody's saved. If God loves
me and Christ died for me, I'm saved. Justice cannot Christ
the man, first for my bleeding shirt, his hand, again for mine?
I'm not saying because I walked an aisle and joined a church
and confessed Christ in baptism. I'm saying because my sins are
paid for in the blood of Christ. That's right. You said He'd die for me. Well,
if you trust Him, He did. If you believe on Him, He did.
If you rest in Him, He did. If you love Him, He did. That's
right. That's right. Those are the folks
for whom he died. He died for his sheep. He said,
I lay down my life for the sheep. Thank God, I'm one of the sheep.
Are you? Yes, sir, I am, preacher. I believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't it wonderful? My gospel
is saved because it enables God to be just. Just and holy and
punishing. A righteous judge shall not the
judge of the earth do. Right? Yes, he will. Yes, he will. Yes, he will. He has and he does
and he will. And the only way that he can
be just and do right and punish our sins is somebody take him
for us. And he was wounded for our transgressions.
You know the rest of it. Fifthly, my gospel will save
because it's free. He said, what's that got to do
with? It's got a whole lot to do with it. If there's anything
to pay, I'm not a candidate. I don't have anything to pay.
In my hands, no price I bring. It's got to be free. If the gospel
requires anything from me in order to please God, then I have
no hope. Because in the flesh, no man
can please God. But it's free. He freely forgave
them, being justified freely by his grace. Well, see that?
Romans chapter 3. Let's look at it. Romans 3. Romans
3 verse 24. Listen to this. And you know, I get tired of
people saying, I got saved. Brother, you don't got saved,
we're being saved. I hope some people get saved.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Getting saved, not like catching
a bad cold, getting a cold. Salvation is a work God does. Being justified freely, how? Freely! By his grace, through
the redemption that's in Christ Jesus. What's a redemption? It's a price paid. If you go
down to the palm shop and leave your watch, they give you some
money, you go back in two weeks and do what? Redeem it. How do
you redeem it? I stand on my head, I shake hands
with the shopkeeper, I go run around the block and burn candles?
No, I pay for it. I pay for it. And what I pay for
is mine. Isn't that right Bob? I pay for
it, it's mine. And he's a crook that keeps it.
And my God's not a crook. And he that spared not his own
son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not freely
with him give us all things? You mean no conditions? He met
them all. That's what I believe. My gospel
is saved. Anybody here, I don't care what
you've done, what you've said, where you've been, what you are,
I don't care. He's able to save to the goodermost
them that come to God by him. God will even save some of you
religious Pharisees. He did one, not a whole lot of
them, but he did one, Saul of Tarsus. He'll save the chief
of sinners. It's free. I picture old Barabbas
standing up on that hill, chains off his arms and off his legs, and his old prison guard is cast
aside and he's got him a new robe. Barabbas is standing up
on the hill, looking down there on that other hill, there's a
man dying on a cross. Took his place, died his death. in his stead, and he's free because
that man died. That's it. And I'm free because
that man, Jesus Christ, died. And I'll tell you this, last
of all, my gospel was saved because it is eternal. Eternal gospel. Who can separate us from the
love of God? Tribulation, distress, famine, death. height, depth,
any other creature, who shall separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord? Who can condemn me?
Christ does. Who can lay anything to the charge
of God's elect? It's God that justified us. It's
eternal. I tell you, he said this, the
gifts and calling of God are without change. I change. You do too. Let's face it. A lot of changes. Thank God he
never changes. Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm
down. It never changes. He said, I
am the Lord, I change not, therefore you're not consumed. I don't
change. Will your gospel save? Mine will. It's according to the Scriptures.
It's the gospel of the God-man. It's the gospel that's free.
It's the gospel that honors God's law. It's the gospel that enables
God to be just and justified. And it's a gospel that never
changes. It saved Moses and it saved me. Not a different gospel for the
Jew and the Gentile, for the white and the black. Same gospel.
Same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon Him, for there's
no difference. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. Therefore, whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Let's sing a hymn. It's number
219. Some of our folks are going to
follow the Lord in baptism. You know, they say, when I preach
or you preach this gospel, you've preached it, I've received it,
I believe it, I do stand in this gospel. Now what do I do? That's what they said at Pentecost,
what shall we do? And Peter said, repent and be
baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Confess Christ. Go through the Bible. People
didn't confess Christ by raising their hands who were saved. People
confessed Christ in the New Testament following the Lord in baptism.
Lydia was baptized, Cornelius was baptized, Ethiopian eunuch
was baptized, Philippian jailer was baptized. They all were.
They confessed Christ. Go into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature he that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. That's the confession of Christ.
It's the blood that cleanseth. It's the blood that puts away
our sin. But when we're baptized, we're saying this, I'm identified
with Christ. I'm identified with this Redeemer.
When he died, I died. When he was buried, I was buried.
When he arose, I arose. To walk in newness of life, I'm
declaring unto the world, to all men, Jesus Christ is my Lord. And I'm identified with the Christ
who died and was buried and rose again. It's not a law that saves
me. It's not legalism. It's not even
theology. It's not doctrine. It's not an
agreement in words. It's a death and a burial and
a resurrection. When you eat the Lord's table,
it's the same thing. This is my body broken for you. This
is my blood shed for you. Take this body. Eat. And this
blood. So both baptism and the Lord's
table are the gospel. in type, in picture, the death
of Christ, the burial and resurrection of Christ. That's what these
folks are saying this morning. They're saying that when Christ
died, I died. I'm His, and He is alone. While
we stand to sing 219, just sing those verses and then one chorus,
Mike, can you? All the verses in one chorus,
and the ladies who are going to be baptized will go back and
prepare. Let's stand while we sing.

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