Weekend
Gospel message to follow for All Hands (24-26AUG18)
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 their sins and from Hell.
NO
OTHER WAY
"And
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the
Son of man be lifted up" (John 3:14). The
deliverance of sinners from the claims of divine justice was
dependent upon Christ bringing in everlasting righteousness for them
by the sacrifice of Himself, therefore the Savior said to Nicodemus,
"even so MUST the Son of
Man be lifted up." It was in this way the demands
of God’s law would be upheld and all the sins of those people
entrusted to the Surety before the world began would be taken away,
never to be remembered again. Those who insist that sinners can, by
will, worth or work, make themselves acceptable to God, render the
death of Christ needless and ineffectual. "If
righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain"
(Galatians 2:21). Jonathan Edwards said, "If there be ground
for you to trust in your righteousness, then all that Christ did to
purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it,
is in vain." Our salvation was conditioned upon the
faithfulness of Christ to fulfill His covenant obligation and give
His life a ransom for many. There was no other way for a holy God to
save sinners.
-Gospel
report by preacher Jim Byrd
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