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 Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(02-04OCT20)

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:

SALVATION IS OF THE LORD!

“But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: He is their strength in the time of trouble.” -Psalm 37:39 [KJV]

What glorious and blessed truth that shines on every page of Holy Scripture. We as needy, great and guilty sinners need a mighty and victorious Saviour, who is almighty to save (Isaiah 63:1; Hebrews 7:25). The Lord Jesus Christ is the only answer and remedy for our sin. He is the Saviour that saves (Matthew 1:21), the Redeemer that delivers and justifies (Galatians 1:3-5; Romans 5:6). What a full and complete revelation God gives of His, so great salvation…it is ALL of the Lord (Hebrews 2:3). Notice each of these five words:

1). Salvation; is the total and complete deliverance from all our sin. From the penalty, guilt and power of sin to condemn us (Romans 8:1, 32-35).

2). Salvation IS; because our great God is the God of salvation. God is love (1 John 4:8-10). God is good (Psalm 73:1). God is merciful and delights to show it to sinners (Micah 7:18-19; 1 Timothy 1:15).

3). Salvation is OF; Not of works, not of merit, not of the law but rather ALL OF GRACE ALONE (2 Corinthians 8:9; Acts 15:11; 2 Timothy 1:9).

4). Salvation is of THE LORD, there is just one way of salvation. Our Lord plainly said that He is The Way, The Truth, The Life, The Door, The Light, The Bread of life, The Good Shepherd, and The Resurrection (John 14:6; 10:9;
8:12; 6:35; 11:25).

5). Salvation is of the LORD; the Lord Jesus Christ. It is who He is that gives infinite power to what He accomplished for us upon the cross (Acts 20:28). Christ crucified is the only sacrifice for sin (1 Corinthians 2:2). The Lord did not die to make an effort to put away sin but rather to make COMPLETE ATONEMENT for the sin of His people that God might be the just God and Saviour (1 John 4:10; John 19:30).


-copied


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