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Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (20-22SEP19)

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:

"Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." -ROMANS 3:24 [KJV]

All who are justified, that is, graciously declared righteous by God because of the redemptive work of Christ Jesus, are said to have been justified "freely." "Freely" is translated "without a cause" in John 15:25, where our Lord said to His disciples, "They hated Me without a cause." Our Lord Jesus was hated by His enemies though there was no reason in Him as to why He should be despised. Even so, those whom God justified are declared righteous though there is no reason in them as to why He should justify them. This declaration of righteousness was therefore done without any consideration of anything in them or anything done by them. They are accepted by God without any cause in them at all, the sole reason being found outside of themselves, "the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." All of those sinners in whose stead Christ died and arose are declared by God to be justified based upon the completed redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ as their Substitute and Savior. Justification is, therefore, a blessing of pure grace.

-Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd