Warm greetings, friends, near and far. The Lord Jesus Christ be magnified forever and ever. His loving kindnesses, tender mercies, and compassions are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness. His mercy endureth forever. This is Senator Save coming at you with the following short evangelistic gospel message, which is sponsored by preacher Wayne Boyd and the Brothers and Sisters in Christ. First Baptist Church here in Michigan. And God willing, this broadcast will reach you, Lima Charlie, loud and clear. It is my hope and prayer unto God Most High, the only Holy Father, that His only begotten Son, Christ Jesus, the Lord our righteousness, be greatly exalted. that his everlasting gospel be clearly proclaimed, that the pride of mere flesh and blood men be humbled, and that his elect saints be greatly encouraged, cheered, and comforted in these evil and perilous days. Please consider having paper and pencil handy to jot down the scriptural references for your own follow-up study. And so we begin with the weekend gospel message to follow for all hands. 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, wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace. That is to say, Almighty God in His unmerited favor to save me and you from our sins and from hell. No, a powerful little word. There is a two-letter word which often occurs oftentimes in scripture is this little word no. So let's just pause for a moment and look at four of the times This powerful reward occurs in the Bible. May the Lord grant us understanding as we consider them. Number one, firstly, in the book of Psalms, we read, the fool has said in his heart, there is no God. Psalm 53, one. Notice that the words there is in this verse are in italics. That means that they have been added by the translators. So in the original language, the verse simply reads, the fool has said, no God. Observe the man who lives like there is no God. He's a fool It matters not how brilliant people say he is God says he is a fool. He prefers his wisdom to God's wisdom. He's a fool He lives without accountability to God. He's a fool. In his supposed wisdom, he disregards the heavenly gifts of Christ. He's a fool. He often says we should live the best way we can and help our fellow man. Good for him, but he's a fool. Why? Because he says there is no God. He pats himself on the back and congratulates himself for his supposed good deeds, but he is a fool. Number two, next we encounter another powerful no. We read, there is none righteous. No, not one. Romans 3.10. If our confidence and trust is in our supposed righteousness, it is a false trust. It is a rubber crutch and we will perish. Here's the gospel truth. God's righteousness has been fully revealed in Christ and he, therefore, will have none of ours. We must submit ourselves to his righteousness alone. Now here's more gospel truth. The only righteous people before God are those who by faith have received the righteousness of Christ as their own. It matters not how many good deeds they have done. If they do not have the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, they have no acceptable righteousness before God. Number three, that is Isaiah, we read another no. There we read, I, even I am the Lord and beside me there is no savior. Isaiah 43, 11. Alas, many are trusting in their own righteousness and morality, instead of to Christ alone as their only Savior. But what could be plainer than this precious truth? Beside me there is no Savior. This is the powerful declaration of the Lord Himself, the One who could say, I, even I, am the Lord. He came into the world as the Savior, saying plainly, if you believe not that I am He, you shall die in your sins, John 8, 24. But this is not all, he gave himself a ransom for us. See 1 Timothy 2.6, he laid down his life for us. His precious blood was shed for us. And now he lives again and has risen and sits on the throne of God for us. This is he who is declared to be the savior and there is no savior beside him. Have you trusted him for your destiny? Number four, finally, what is the result of trusting Jesus as your savior? Here it is. There is now therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. What a wonderful truth. Believers are completely delivered both now and forever from all condemnation and damnation. Christ Himself has taken the believer's place on the cross and borne our judgment once for all, and now we are in Him. Summary, folks. The fool has said there is no God. There is none. No, not one righteous. There is no Savior but Christ. There is no condemnation for those in Christ That's the gospel truth. That was from preacher Myles McKee Almighty God is sovereign Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we meet with, either to good or bad luck and fortune. There are many events in the world which men look upon as mere accidents, yet all these come by the counsel and appointment of heaven. King Solomon tells us in Proverbs 16, 33, that the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. However disordered and fortuitous things may be with respect to us, yet they are all determined and directed by the Lord. When that man drew a bow at random, or by venture, in 1 Kings 22.34, it was merely accidental with respect to him, yet it was God that guided the motion of that arrow. so as to strike the king of Israel rather than any other man. Nothing then comes to pass, however random and uncertain it may seem to be, but what was decreed by Almighty God. Let the people of God comfort themselves in all cases by this doctrine of the divine decrees and amidst whatever befalls them, rest quietly and submissively in the bosom of God, considering that whatever comes or can come to pass proceeds from the decree of their gracious friend and reconciled father who knows what is best for them and will make all things work together for their good. Oh, what a sweet and pleasant life would you have under the heaviest pressures of affliction, and what heavenly serenity and tranquility of mind would you enjoy, would you cheerfully acquiesce in the goodwill and pleasure of God, and embrace every dispensation, no matter how sharp it may be, because it is determined and appointed for you by the eternal counsel of His will. Outstanding, old-timer preacher Thomas Boston. Did the Spirit of God ever convince you of sin? Do you see yourself liable to the curse of the law and the just vengeance of God for the innate depravity of your nature and the transgressions of your life? Do you come to Christ humbled and self-condemned, sensible that unless you are clothed with the merits of Him, our elder brother Christ Jesus, you are ruined and undone and can never stand with joy or safety before the Holy Lord God? If so, lift up thy head. Redemption is thine. Thou art in a state of grace. Thou art translated from death to life. Thou art an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. But if you never felt nor desired to feel this work of the Holy Ghost upon thy heart, this conviction of sin, this penitential faith, all the supposed righteousness of thine own wherein thou trustest is but a broken reed, a painted sepulcher, and the trappings of a Pharisee. Well stated from preacher Augustus to Platy. Is that too good to be true? The only way that God could accept us and receive us and save us is for him to have viewed all our sins to be on our surety and dealt with by our substitute bearing in his own body our sins on the tree. And now he doesn't see them anymore. Is that right? Is that too good to be true? It scares people to death. I'm telling you people who rest in their works and most especially these vile false religionists and preachers who preach salvation by works. It scares them to death for somebody to say that God does not see the sins of his people in them. But I'm going to tell you something. Before a just God, he cannot see, as that old hymn writer said, he cannot see my sins in me and my sins in my substitute, Jesus, at the same time. Impossibility, Paul says. Well, excuse me, Paul says, this is the gospel, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. Do you hear that? That word impute has something to do With charging he has not charged the sins of his people to them this world of people in the lord jesus christ Which by the way is not every person in this world, but the world he's talking about this world and people in christ God has not imputed or charged their sins to them. How in the world could he do that? He did it by charging them to Christ. He did it by charging to Christ so that this is what Paul says is committed unto us as the gospel. He has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. That was from preacher Gary Shepherd, a transcript of the sermon, Does God See the Sins of His People? Romans 1 16, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Says Mr. John Bunyan. Of all the men that I've met within my pilgrimage, Mr. Shame, I think, bears the wrong name. This bold-faced Shame would never have done. I could scarcely shake him out of my company. He would be continually haunting me and whispering me in my ear. Indeed, this Shame is a bold villain. That was an excerpt from Pilgrim's Progress. Have you not found the same? Lord, pardon thy servant that this shame still cleaves unto me. Lord, I am ashamed of myself that I ever should be ashamed of thee and thy gospel. Lion of the tribe of Judah, drive away this shame from my heart. Consider first its origin. It is begotten by pride. We are proud of good names, our characters, our reason, and understanding among the men of the world. If we openly profess the gospel of Christ and live and walk under the influence of it, we cannot do as the rest of the world does. Hence, we soon shall get a nickname, be called a Methodist, and deemed a fool, a madman, an enthusiast. Pride cannot bear this. It is ashamed of it. Then, secondly, it works by fear. Fear says, take heed to yourselves. Do not go too far. Keep your gospel to yourselves. You will surely suffer for it if you will lose your friends, character, and business. You will set all the world against you. And then, how will you live? Thirdly, you see that pride and fear are the cursed offspring of atheism and unbelief. They banish the providence of God and the promises of His grace out of our mind. Hence, it is plain that faith, a living faith, in the gospel of Christ will drive pride, fear, and shame out of the heart. Get ye to hell from whence ye sprang. Oh, consider the dishonor it is to precious Christ to be ashamed of His glorious gospel. Does that bring to our souls the glad tidings of the pardon of our sins, peace with God, justification before Him, and eternal enjoyment of Him through the salvation of Christ? Did He make Himself of no reputation for us? Did He endure the cross and despise the shame of hanging naked upon it as a cursed malfactor, Sabres? And shall we be ashamed of him? Where then is our faith in him and love to him? It is one thing to be beset with shame, and another to give way to it. A lively faith begets a warm love. Then, shame durst not show his base head. Without thee, O Jesus, we can do nothing. Through thy strength we can do all things, Lord. Strengthen our souls in the faith and love of thee. Oh, suffer us never, never to be ashamed of thee, and of thy dear cross. but let us ever glory in thee and of thee. And dear Lord, help us that we may never be ashamed to thee and thy gospel by an unchristian life and unholy walk. To God, we still would cleave with ever growing zeal. If millions tempt us Christ to leave, oh, let them never prevail. Outstanding preacher, William Mason. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was and is and is to come. Great is our Lord Jesus Christ and greatly to be praised. Take heart, friends, our mighty and glorious King of glory is inbound for his afflicted saints. Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus, Maranatha, Thank you.