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Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (11-13FEB22)
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 -God's unmerited favor- from our sins and from Hell:
“THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jeremiah 23:6, KJV).
While believers always trust Christ and submit to His righteousness as the sole basis for our acceptance before God, there are four times when we must be especially certain that we are looking only to Him Who is “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
1. When we have sinned and have feelings of shame, conviction, remorse and despair we must look to Christ and His righteousness. The life of a child of God is lived with two constants: the realization of personal guilt, and the remembrance that “the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). Our record before God is perfect for, He sees us in “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” God has never looked to us, but to our Surety and Substitute, His Son, for satisfaction to His just demands. We are “made the righteousness of God” in that One “Who loved us and gave Himself for us.”
2. When we feel like we have done a good work and conducted ourselves in a way that we believe pleases God we must look to Christ and His righteousness because a good feeling about self is really pride rising up in the heart. We must never look to our obedience or any deed that we have done for comfort or assurance. Keep in mind that any good work which we do is only because the Lord ordained that work and gave us the desire, opportunity and ability to perform it. Remember that “...all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6). Our best deeds have the foul stench of sin upon them. Christ alone is our righteousness. We are never accepted because of our obedience, for ours falls woefully short of perfection. We are accepted for His “obedience unto death, even the death of the cross.” He is indeed “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
3. When we approach God with any request we must do so with a faith-look to Christ and His righteousness. We make our petitions to the Father and ask Him to grant them, not because of our goodness, but because of the goodness and righteousness of our Mediator. To request anything of God in our name and because of our works would be foolish. We make our petitions known unto the Lord in the Name of that One Who is “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
4. When we face death and meet the Lord, we must still be looking to Christ and His righteousness for all our salvation. In that day when we stand before God, the only righteousness which will avail will be the righteousness established by Christ, freely imputed [-charged] to us, and gladly looked to and received by His chosen people. Then, even as now, every true believer will stand spotless and without blame in that One who lived, died, arose and ever intercedes for us. What is His name? God’s people know His Name well; in fact, the church has the same as the Savior’s, “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” (Jeremiah 33:16).
-preacher Jim Byrd of 13th Street Baptist church of Ashland, Kentucky USA
Sermon Audio site: https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=13thstbaptist
"Storm Warning: Prove All Things" is a fifteen-minute Gospel broadcast each Saturday via WWCR on World Band/Short-Wave radio at 5.935 MHz (5935 KHz) at 18:00 Hours (6 PM) U.S. Central Time. The goal is to exalt Christ JESUS; to encourage His people and to warn all hands to flee to Him immediately.
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The LORD JESUS be magnified!
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