Incoming GOOD NEWS Report [25MAR22]

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (25-27MAR22)

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 –Almighty God’s unmerited favor– from our sins and from Hell:

DO WE TRULY GLORIFY GOD?

God reveals His glory to His people in His Word through the glorious Person and finished work of Christ – “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (II Corinthians 4:6). To glorify God is to be the motivation and goal of our whole lives as sinners saved by grace in and by the Lord Jesus Christ –“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God” (I Corinthians 10:31). To glorify God is to be the motivation and goal of our worship – “I will praise Thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify Thy name for evermore” (Psalm 86:12). To glorify God is to be the motivation and goal of our witness to the world – “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).

Our very existence as justified and sanctified persons should be to “to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6) so that we can proclaim from our hearts – “Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen” (I Timothy 1:17). Most people who call themselves “Christian,” and who claim to live for the glory of God, actually deny God’s glory because it is impossible to glorify God while denying and/or ignoring what God reveals of Himself in His Word. Most perceive God, not from what God reveals in His Word, but as they naturally think within themselves (see Psalm 50:21). Most today think of God as one who loves everybody and is trying to save everybody, and who sent Christ to make salvation possible only for those who choose, out of their own goodness and so-called “free will,” to believe on Him. This is not the God of the Bible.

Most reject God’s sovereign, electing grace to save sinners who by nature will not choose Him or believe in Christ. But when Moses asked the Lord, “I beseech Thee, shew me Thy glory,” the Lord said, “I will make all My goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy” (Exodus 33:18-19). In dealing with this truth of God’s glory, the apostle Paul wrote that this proves that “it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy” (Romans 9:16; also see John 1:13). To understand that God’s electing grace is the only source of salvation, that Christ’s righteousness imputed is the only ground of salvation, and the Holy Spirit’s work in the new birth to give life to dead sinners and bring them to faith in Christ and true repentance is the fruit of salvation which truly glorifies God.

–preacher Bill Parker of Eager Avenue Grace church located in Albany, Georgia USA

Website: https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=reignofgrace

“Storm Warning: Prove All Things” is a fifteen-minute Gospel broadcast each Saturday via WWCR on World Band/Short-Wave radio at 9.350 MHz (9350 KHz) at 18:00 Hours (6 PM) U.S. Central Time. The goal is to exalt Christ JESUS; to encourage His people and to warn all hands to flee to Him immediately.

This can also be heard on-line by going to WWCR(dot)com a few minutes prior to the broadcast. Click on “Listen Online.” Then scroll down to transmitter “WWCR-2,” underneath that choose either Windows Media Player or MP3 player. Click “Play.” If the broadcast goes silent “Refresh” the page and click again the Play button.

The LORD JESUS be magnified!