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Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (12-14JUL19)

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:

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES
A doctrine is not true because a preacher you like spoke it or an author you respect wrote it. There is but one truth. "Sanctify them through Thy truth; Thy word is truth" (John 17:17). Let us, therefore, be like the Bereans who, upon hearing Paul and Silas, "received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched (examined, investigated, enquired into) the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:11). Their investigation was to determine either the excellence or the defectiveness of the preaching of these two men.

I am not afraid to submit my doctrine to the scrutiny of the Word of God and I call upon you to "search the Scriptures" and see if the things I declare to you are set forth in the Book of God. Does the Bible teach that God is sovereign? "I will do all My pleasure" (Isaiah 46:10). Does the Bible teach God’s election of some unto salvation? "God hath from the beginning chosen you unto salvation" (2 Thessalonians 2:13). Does the Bible teach the fall and total depravity of man? "Death passed upon all men for that all have sinned" (Romans 5:12).

Does the Bible teach the triumphant work of Christ upon the cross in the stead of His people? "By one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified" (Hebrews 10:14). Does the Bible teach the necessity of the Spirit’s work of regeneration? "Ye must be born again" (John 3:7). Does the Bible demand faith in Christ, faith which must be given by the Lord? "By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8). Does the Bible teach the eternal security of the sheep for whom the good Shepherd laid down His life? "I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish" (John 10:28). 

Does the Bible teach there is but one way to God and to heaven; one way of salvation, life, righteousness, forgiveness and acceptance? Christ said "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life; no man cometh to the Father, but by Me" (John 14:6). Does the Bible teach that the rescue of sinners from the dunghill of sin to the heights of glory is all of God? "The salvation of the righteous is of the LORD" (Psalm 37:39). Does the Bible teach that this salvation is all of grace? "To the praise of the glory of His grace wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved" (Ephesians 1:6). "Search the Scriptures" and see if these things are so.

 
-Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd

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