My Anchor Holds - King’s Heralds Seek Ye the Lord - King’s Heralds On a Rugged Hill - Del Delker Since I Have Been Redeemed - King’s Heralds

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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

How Salvation Began

Lift up the trumpet and lovely ring. Jesus is calming again. Cheer up Pils. Be joyful. Jesus is calming. Again. This says the voice of prophecy, A voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days. Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Call me again. Call again. Again. From our voice of Prophecy Studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration ad music with the king's Heralds del Delker, Brad Braley and the Voice of prophecy Speaker hm s Richards, a seventh day Adventist minister. The the winds may Blow. I'm an and in Christ. I shall on my board so small and for almost twelves like of Day In Christ, I can Shall And so small and I shall Never Our father in heaven. We seek th blessing upon this broadcast and upon everyone who listens wherever they may be. Remember our heroes in India, in Africa, in Europe, in Australia, New Zealand, all over America, the islands of the sea and father in heaven draws near to the cross today in Christ's name. Oh Jesus. Blessed redeemer sent from the heart of God hold us who bow before the near to the heart of God. Bob Edwards first tenor of the king's heralds takes the solo part now in a musical setting by Roberts of this biblical injunction seeking the Lord. While he may be found, Lord, he let forsake his way and the man he unto the Lord unto Lord mercy, let the forsake his way and thee man he thought. And unto The Lord And unto the Lord he have mercy. He have mercy, mercy, mercy. He mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy and mercy. Here now is HMS Richards, the voice of prophecy speaker, his subject. How salvation began. I think it was Bishop wf McDowell who said that he would not go across the street to give India new theology because India already has more theology than she can take care of or understand. He would not cross the street to give China a new code of ethics because the code they already have is better than the life they live. He would not go to any effort, whatever, to give Japan a new religious literature because they already have a better literature than their religious life. But he said, if it should please God, he would go across every street on earth and around the world again and again to give India, China, Japan, Africa, and all the rest of the world. The message that there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. We endorse that attitude. So you see where we stand on this subject of salvation and that's right where the Apostle John stood when he said, if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ is son cleanse with us from all sin. One John one, seven. Yes, we are just that old fashioned here at the voice of prophecy. By God's grace we proclaim a blood bought salvation. We believe that Christian preachers should not only preach Christ but should preach Christ crucified, as did the apostle Paul, first Corinthians 1 23. But how did salvation begin? For we know it was ready when the first man sinned. Salvation was no afterthought in the part of God. He made no provision for something that he did not know was coming. Sin we are told is the transgression of God's law. One John three verse four, and the wages of sin is death. Roman 6 23 right there in the Garden of Eden, the whole population of the earth fell into sin. That is the first two and only people in existence at the time. And to them was the gospel preached by God himself. Just think of it, the first sinners had the first gospel preached to them. It's strange to say this sermon was really the sentence pronounced upon Satan in the garden. The Lord said, I will put enmity between the and the woman and between thy seed and her seed itch shall bruise thy head, thou shall bruise is here. Genesis three 15, this sentence uttered in the hearing of our first parents was to them a promise. It foretold the age long conflict between man and Satan. It declared that the power of the terrible adversary would at last be broken. The seat of the woman here pro promised is of course Jesus Christ, who not only came to fulfill his part in the plan of salvation but was the man of salvation. The first man Adam had failed, surrendered to the adversary. Jesus came and took upon himself humanity and became the second Adam of the world. He gave his life an atoning sacrifice upon the cross that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. During the thousands of years from the time of Adam and Eve until Jesus died upon the cross, it was just as certain that he would die for man as though he had already done so he had been promised as the deliverer. Every sacrifice of bleeding lambs pointed forward to him as the lamb of God, which take the way the sin of the world God the apostle says, foresees the future and call us those things, which be not as though they were Romans four 17. So those who live before the cross looked forward to a coming Christ and we who live after the cross, look forward to the Christ who has come and who will come Again. Someone has said that the only difference between the atonement is set forth in the Old Testament and that presented in the New Testament is that in the old, the sheep died for the shepherd. In the New Testament, the shepherd died for the sheep. The fact is that both the bleeding lamb on the altar of sacrifice in Old Testament days and the high priest in the temple were symbolic of the work of our savior. When the jailer at Phillip, I heard that midnight sermon as recorded in the 16th chapter of Acts, he asked, life's greatest question serves, what must I do to be saved? It's important for us to notice that in his answer, the apostle did not tell him that there were several different ways in which he could be saved. He pointed to one way and one way only and said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved. Jesus Christ as our substitute, our sacrifice made atonement for us upon the cross. It is in this that we must believe as did the jailer of old. This all comes through God's grace and through his grace alone. As the same apostle tells us in Ephesians two, verses eight and nine, four, by grace are you saved through faith and thatnot of yourselves. It is the gift of God not of works. L any man should boast. There are some Christians who seem to think that they can be saved by keeping the commandments they speak of their good life, their morality, their works of mercy. The Apostle tells us plainly and positively in Galatians two 16 that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ. For by the works of the law, shall no flesh be justified. There's nothing wrong with the tan commandments. For we read that the law is holy in the commandment, holy and just in good. That's Roman seven 12. Every one of God's commandments is just as binding today as it ever was. But the point is that Christians cannot save themselves. No man can save himself or earn his salvation by keeping the 10 Commandments. He must trust only in the Lord Jesus Christ for his salvation. Let us read Second Corinthians 5 21 for he that is God made him Christ to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. There's some Christians who go to the other extreme and say that since no man can be justified by keeping the 10 Commandments, and since salvation is only by grace, the Christian is under no obligation whatever to observe the 10 Commandments. We should never forget that the grace of God that bring us salvation Titus two 11 does not release us from the obligation of obedience. No one can be saved by the works of the law, but everyone who is truly saved by grace will find that the very righteousness of that same law is fulfilled in him who walks not after the flesh but after the spirit. Romans eight, one. There are two perils which we must avoid. Legalism on the one hand and antinomianism, that's a long word or anti-colonialism on the other, the apostle Paul sets forth this gray truth. In Romans three 20, Romans five, one another texts. He says, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in God's sight. How then are we justified? The next text answers being justified by faith. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans five, one. But does justification by faith make void God's law? Listen to the third text. Romans 3 21 or 31, do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid, yay, we establish the law. Some religious teachers seem to feel that faith makes God's law void. But let the apostle answer. He says, God forbid. And if God forbids it, we can forbid it too. The other day someone came to a young friend of mine who's attending college and said, abruptly, how do you know that God loves us? What makes you think that he loves me? Well, of course the answer to that doesn't take any theology. One doesn't need to have a degree from a seminary to answer that question, just take a look at Calvary and see Jesus hanging there upon the cross. Now that's the answer. It's all summed up in the one text. For God's soul loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Lonely Hills, The rugged cross. Oh, Upon that Cross They hung in God. Beloved, the lovely one from heaven togged the prince of glory for Me Crushed and broken. He suffered my Free. He took my sin Away And our privilege to see Jesus by faith upon the cross to accept him as our savior. And so we can enter into this salvation by faith right now because we trust him. Though he have never actually seen him. Here are the words of the apostle Peter whom having not seen he love in whom though now you see him not yet believing. He rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory receiving the end of your faith or the object of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. One Peter one, eight, are you happy for end in your salvation? It's your privilege to be the very object of your faith is the salvation of your soul. And this salvation through grace is found through all the writings of the prophets of the Old Testament, as well as in the words of Jesus and the apostles in the new. We find that in one Peter one 10. Think of it, the Old Testament prophets prophesying of salvation by grace. And what were they talking about? What were they searching in their own writings? We read in verse 11 that there were searching what the spirit of Christ had said beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. So we see that salvation began right in the garden of Eden where the first sinners found it. In God's promise, Abel showed his faith by offering the bleeding lamb and sacrifice down to the ages. Patriarchs and prophets proclaimed salvation, searched their own writings to see what the spirit of Christ revealed concerning it. So by faith they saw the sufferings of Christ. They saw the shadow of a cross arise upon a lonely heal. They heard the despairing cry. My God, my God, why has forsaken me? They knew that he the sinless one must to be treated as we sinners deserve, that we might be treated as he deserves. They looked forward to the glory that should follow his second coming and his eternal kingdom. Let us be happy. In the salvation revealed in Eden proclaimed by the prophets in the Holy Sanctuary service preached by the Lord Jesus and the Holy Apostles and by the reformers and the people of God through all the ages and now comes to its mighty climax just before the second come of Christ, which brings the day of victory. No wonder blind Fanny Crosby sang so sweetly redeemed, how I love to proclaim it, redeemed by the blood of the lamb redeemed through his infinite mercy, his child, and forever I am I know I shall see in his beauty the king in whose Lord I delight, who lovingly guard us my footsteps and give with me songs in the night and soon She and all the children of God, you and me and all who trust him will sing a glad new song. When the morning Dawns and the shadows flee away. Sing. Sing. I have been redeemed of my redeemer. Save your king. Since I have been Redeemed, Since I have been redeemed, since I have been, I will glory his name. Since I have been Redeem, I will glory in my savior Name. I have a home for me since I have been where I shall. Since I have been Reading, Since have been redeemed. Since I have been redeemed, I will glory his name. I have been Redeemed. I will glory my savior Name. Jesus wants to be our best friend. So then let us look up to him. Ever going forward in faith, Have faith in God and Christ, the son of man, have faith in God to meet the sinners. Ban, have faith in God for his salvation plan. Have faith, dear friend in God. We hope you'll remember that every Thursday is prayer day at the voice of prophecy and in the homes of our friends around the world, a worldwide circle of prayer. Every Thursday, be with us again next week for another broadcast brought to you by the voice of prophecy. And now we say the Lord, bless the and keep the the Lord. Make his face shine upon the and be gracious unto the the Lord. Lift up his countenance upon the, and give the peace.

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