Weekend
Gospel message to follow for All Hands (09-11NOV18)
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:
CHRIST
OUR SUBSTITUTE
"Pilate
released...Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had
scourged Him, to be crucified"
(Mark 15:15). The guilty is set free and the Innocent is put to
death. The great sinner is delivered and the Sinless One remains
bound. Barabbas is spared, and Christ is crucified. This is the
manner in which God justifies the ungodly. He does it because Christ
has paid what they owe. He has suffered in their place, the Just for
the unjust. They deserve punishment, but a mighty Substitute has
suffered for them. They deserved eternal death, but a glorious Surety
has died for them.
We are all by nature in the position of Barabbas. We are all guilty, wicked, and worthy of condemnation, but "when we were without hope" Christ the innocent died for the ungodly and now God for Christ's sake can be just, and yet "Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." May we never rest until we can say by faith, "Christ is mine, I deserve hell, but Christ has died for me."
We are all by nature in the position of Barabbas. We are all guilty, wicked, and worthy of condemnation, but "when we were without hope" Christ the innocent died for the ungodly and now God for Christ's sake can be just, and yet "Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." May we never rest until we can say by faith, "Christ is mine, I deserve hell, but Christ has died for me."
-Gospel report by preacher Scott Richardson
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