Weekend
Gospel message to follow for All Hands (14-16DEC18)
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:
It
would be good for all to think about that man Noah in the light of
present religious thinking. Noah was a man who wasn’t seeking God
but God in grace found him and made him the object of His grace in
Christ! His faith was the evidence of God’s grace to and in him not
the cause of it (see Hebrews 11 & Genesis 6:8). His preaching
was about righteousness not about morality, politics or life lessons.
Being a “preacher of righteousness,” he was
the only true gospel preacher on earth at the time. He preached a
hundred and twenty years and didn’t have a convert outside of his
own family. His was the only church on earth but there were only
eight members. He was a man of one message... “flee to the ark
for safety.” That ark was a type of Christ crucified and
so he continued to preach as he built it at God’s command. Can you
imagine the ridicule and scoffing he endured as he built a boat when
there was no water to float it in, no rain falling? Why did he do it?
Because he believed God! He was not “broad minded” as most
so-called preachers are in our day. He boldly declared that there was
only one “way” to escape the coming wrath of God in the flood,
the ark.
There
is only ONE WAY to escape the coming judgment also sure to come upon
this earth and that is Christ Who is the Way. He is the true
Ark. Noah could not boast of how many buildings he built or “family
life centers.” No, day after day he preached the gospel of
salvation in Christ alone, by grace alone through faith alone.
Believe, get in the ark. Fail to and perish in your sin. Day
by day passed by as Noah preached and men scoffed but the day came
when the flood came. What were the inhabitants of earth doing? Eating
and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage. It was “business as
usual” until the day the flood consumed them. Spiritually dead and
oblivious to the truth, they “knew not until the flood came,
and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be” (Matthew 24:39). Like Noah, we preach Christ crucified,
warning every man, urging all to GET IN THE ARK, trust Christ, His
blood and righteousness alone. Look to Him and be ye saved. There is
salvation in no other!
-Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard
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