The Offender Needs A Savior Psalms 14:1-3 Psalms 53:1-3 Ecclesiastes 7:20 Romans 3:9-12 Romans 3:23 Romans 6:20-23 Romans 5:6-8 Ephesians 2:8-10 2 Corinthians 5:21 Matthew 5:3 10.02.20

 

THE OFFENDER NEEDS A SAVIOR

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¹ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good. ² The LORD looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.  ³ All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.  Psalms 14:1-3 (NIV)

 

¹ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is no one who does good. ² God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.  ³ Everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.  Psalms 53:1-3 (NIV)

 

²⁰ There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20 (NIV)

 

⁹ What shall we conclude then? Are we any better ? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. ¹⁰ As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; ¹¹ there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. ¹² All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”  Romans 3:9-12 (NIV)

 

²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.  Romans 3:23 (NIV)

 

²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. ²¹ What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! ²² But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 6:20-23 (NIV)

 

⁶ You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷ Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Romans 5:6-8 (NIV)

 

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰ For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV)

 

²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.  2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)

 

³ “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”  Matthew 5:3 (NIV)

 

BUTTER

“The glass is first emptied before you pour in wine.  God first empties man of himself, before He pours in the precious wine of His grace.  Until we see our own poverty, we will never see Christ’s value.  Poverty of spirit makes Christ sweet to the soul.  When a man sees himself as wounded to death, how precious is the balm of Christ’s blood.”  Thomas Watson

“It is well to be poor, when the knowledge of our poverty serves but to unfold to us the exhaustless riches of divine grace. That grace can never suffer any one to go away empty. It can never tell anyone that he is too poor. It can meet the very deepest human need; and not only so, but it is glorified in meeting it. This holds good in every case. It is true of every individual sinner…Grace is the grand and only resource for us all.  It is the basis of our salvation; the basis of a life of practical godliness; and the basis of those imperishable hopes which animate us amid the trials and conflicts of this sin-stricken world. May we cherish a deeper sense of grace, and more ardent desire for glory!”   C H MacIntosh

“There is no idol like self…These balloons the devil has blown up with pride, and they are swelled in their own conceit…They build a tower of their own righteousness…Yet there is a crack in their foundation and they need the ‘Rock of Ages’…There is not a more dangerous precipice than self-righteousness…How many does this damn!  How many have perished by being their own saviors!”  Thomas Watson       

“There are such difficulties in the way of our salvation as could never be overcome but by that grace of God which is almighty.  ‘What is impossible with men is possible with God.’ His grace can work on the soul, so as to alter the bent and bias of it, and give it a contrary leaning.”    Matthew Henry

“You cannot be your own Saviour, either in whole or in part.”   Hudson Taylor

“Christians are rapidly losing sight of sin as the root of all human woes. And many Christians are explicitly denying that their own sin can be the cause of personal anguish. More and more are attempting to explain the human dilemma in wholly unbiblical terms: temperament, addiction, dysfunctional families, the child within, codependency, and a host of other irresponsible escape mechanisms promoted by secular psychology. The potential impact of such a drift is frightening. Remove the reality of sin, and you take away the possibility of repentance. Abolish the doctrine of human depravity and you void the divine plan of salvation. Erase the notion of personal guilt and you eliminate the need for a Savior.”  John MacArthur

“The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist.  He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin.  And that is why so many are fatally deceived…there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of Fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.”   A. W. Pink

“The grace of God does not find men fit for salvation, but makes them so.”   Augustine

“God’s willingness to show mercy appears by His joyfulness when sinners take hold on His mercy.  God’s goodness is that He rejoices at the salvation of sinners and is glad when His mercy is accepted.  God rejoices when a poor sinner comes in and takes hold of His mercy.  What an encouragement to believe in God!  He is a God of pardons.  Mercy pleases Him.  Nothing prejudices us but unbelief.  Unbelief stops the current of God’s mercy from running, shut God’s bowels, closes the cavity of Christ’s wounds, so no healing virtue will come out.  As far as the heavens are above the earth, so far is God’s mercy above our sins.  What will tempt us to believe, if not the mercy of God?”  Thomas Watson

“Shallow thoughts of sin lead to shallow thoughts of God and salvation. Ignorance to the depths of our sin leads to ignorance to the depths of the beauty of Jesus Christ.  All sons and daughters of Adam are by nature children of wrath, sons of disobedience, and willing slaves of the one to whom our father fell: Satan (Ephesians 2:1-3).  In our father Adam, ‘None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.’ (Romans 3:10-12). Our hearts are deceitful above all things and desperately sick (Jeremiah 17:9). We are born in sin (Psalms 51:4).’  The tree of our race is poisoned at the root.”   Greg Morse

“Man needs, above all else, salvation.”   Norman Goodacre

 

“What are believers saved from?  From their former position under the wrath of God, the dominion of sin, and the power of death; from their natural condition of being mastered by the world, the flesh and the devil; from the fears that a sinful life engenders, and from the many vicious habits that were part of it.  How are believers saved from these things?  Through Christ, and in Christ.  Our salvation involves first, Christ dying for us and second, Christ living in us and we living in Christ, united with Him in His death and risen life.  This vital union, which is sustained by the Spirit from the divine side and by faith from our side, and which is formed in and through our new birth, presupposes covenantal union in the sense of our eternal election in Christ.”   J I Packer

 

“Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?”   Martin Luther

“The greatest ground for joy imaginable is to have our names written in heaven.”  Matthew Mead

HEART SAVOR

• ·         There is no one righteous, not even one.
• ·         All have sinned.  All need a Savior.  Praise Jesus we have One.
• ·         The greatest joy is knowing we are saved from sin’s penalty and God’s wrath.  The  beloved rest secure in Him.