CHRIST OUR ONLY AND PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (15-17JAN19)

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:

"He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD" (Proverbs 17:15). In a court of law, for a guilty man to be declared innocent and a just man to be condemned, each would be a horrible miscarriage of justice. However, that which men must not do is THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL, but the Lord does this without any breach of His law, but to the glory of His grace. It is written that God "JUSTIFIETH THE UNGODLY" (Romans 4:5) and the way He justified the wicked was by charging the sins of His chosen people to His just and innocent Son and then He condemned Him to die for crimes which were His only by imputation. In the same way that their sins became His, by imputation, His righteousness became theirs. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation...For He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (II Corinthians 5:19, 21).

-Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd