Weekend
Gospel message to follow for All Hands (21-23SEP18)
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.
WHAT
GOD ALONE CAN DO
Man
cannot save or redeem himself. God alone can do this by His own power
and grace in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. Man cannot convert
himself. God alone can do this by His power and grace in and through
the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a good lesson for godly parents to
remember. Godly parents cannot convert their children. God alone can
do this. But godly parents can lead their children to Jesus Christ
and bring them up in the fear of the Lord. They can bring them under
the preaching of Christ which is the means the Holy Spirit uses in
the new birth (see James
1:18). And when they have done this, they have done all
they can do; for the Holy Spirit alone can change the heart. They
must be born again. Christ has said it. It is not a change of
sentiment, nor an outward reformation of life; it is a new heart
implanted by the Holy Spirit. If they are reborn from above, this is
not a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan. It is not
a spiritual birth resulting from the will or works of man. It is a
spiritual birth that comes only from God (see
John 1:11-13).
-Gospel
report by preacher Bill Parker
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