Good News!
Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (30APR-02MAY21)
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 our sins and from Hell:
CHRIST IS ALL
- Every
child of God realizes that without Christ, he is nothing. Christ is our
peace, our hope, our joy, our preservation, our life, our wisdom, our
sanctification, our righteousness and our redemption; He is our all.
Should He forsake us or withdraw His presence from us (something that
can never happen), we would again be lost, dead and absolutely
unacceptable to a holy God. The fact of the matter is that we are
totally dependent upon the blessed Savior for everything. Our eternal
safety does not hinge upon our feeble hold of faith upon Him (though we
do believe and rely on Him), but upon His almighty grasp of us. And if
we ever become too self-confident and "think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think"
(Romans 12:3), may the Lord remind us that if He should ever release us
from the omnipotent embrace of His grace, we would immediately revert
back to unbelief, dead works of religion and self-righteousness. We
would be like the dog that is "turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire" (2 Peter 2:22). Paul’s words are true of us all, "For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing" (Romans 7:18). Christ is all!
-preacher Jim Byrd
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