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Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (15-17NOV19)
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:
THE
GREATEST TRUTH OF ALL
Child
of God, do you see yourself as a poor, pitiful, and sinful creature?
Does the Holy Spirit Who resides within you continually convict you
of your sins and lack of perfection? Imagine how it would be if all
of your sins were recorded in God’s law-books to be held against
you in the day of Judgment! As the psalmist wrote, “If
Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?”
[PSALM
130:3].
Certainly none of us would pass this test. But the psalmist goes on
to write, “But
there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared” [PSALM
130:4].
How is this possible when we know that God is holy and must punish
ALL sins and condemn all sinners to whom sin is charged? Here is the
greatest truth that we as sinners saved by God’s grace in Christ
can know because of God’s holy Word. It is the greatest truth
because it is the Gospel that concerns the glorious Person and
finished work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
As we consider HIM Who is our Great High Priest, we must never forget that as sinful as we are and as wretched as we see ourselves, because of the perfect righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ imputed to our accounts, the Lord God can never impute our sins to our account. And this is all due to the merits of Christ, God manifest in the flesh, and His obedience unto death as our Surety, Substitute, and Redeemer, Who, having our sins charged to Him, secured complete forgiveness of all our sins and complete salvation from all sin. The following words found in Holy Scripture apply to every sinner who has been brought by God to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and repent of their own dead works – “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us” [ROMANS 8:33-34]. It is in this way that the Lord God states emphatically, “And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more” [HEBREWS 10:17]. This truth is the foundation of our faith and the motivation for obedience.
As we consider HIM Who is our Great High Priest, we must never forget that as sinful as we are and as wretched as we see ourselves, because of the perfect righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ imputed to our accounts, the Lord God can never impute our sins to our account. And this is all due to the merits of Christ, God manifest in the flesh, and His obedience unto death as our Surety, Substitute, and Redeemer, Who, having our sins charged to Him, secured complete forgiveness of all our sins and complete salvation from all sin. The following words found in Holy Scripture apply to every sinner who has been brought by God to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and repent of their own dead works – “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us” [ROMANS 8:33-34]. It is in this way that the Lord God states emphatically, “And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more” [HEBREWS 10:17]. This truth is the foundation of our faith and the motivation for obedience.
—Gospel
report by preacher Bill Parker
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