Beloved, God’s elect, God’s people: we trust not in ourselves, nor in men, we trust not in our own righteousness, we trust not in our own strength, but rather ever so blessedly by God’s grace in Christ, we trust in God’s name, in His righteousness, in His power, in His strength. Oh LORD we trust in you! LORD, let your people ever shout for joy, because “thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name, be joyful in thee!”

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Psalm 5:11 - Let all those that put their trust in Thee rejoice | Pastor Joseph D. Murphy

Reader, do you know what comfort is to be found in having the Spirit of God reveal to your heart the meaning of this one blessed word, double? You see, our good and ready to forgive God declares that His people have received of His hand double! Not only has God forgiven His people for the iniquity of trying to establish their own righteousness (while they were dead spiritually); He has also forgiven them of all their transgressions! [Psalm 86:5, Romans 10:3-4, Isaiah 64:6, Ephesians 2:1]

Isaiah 40:2 - Double! | Pastor Joseph D. Murphy

We see in this verse our brother John, rejoicing in the glorious gospel of our dear Lord Jesus Christ. He knows, as you do beloved, that our Lord gave His life as a ransom for all men. Not just elect men from among one nation, but elect men from among all nations. You see, while our Lord Jesus Christ did not die for the sins of all men without exception — He did die for the sins of all men without distinction; poor and rich, Jewish and non-Jewish. We read in the book of Revelations how our Lord was slain “and hast redeemed us to God by His blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation” (Revelation 5:9).

John 3:16 - The Propitiation For The Sins Of All Nations | Pastor Joseph D. Murphy

Reader, are you able to rejoice in this blessed description of the redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ? Beloved believing sinner, He is able to save you to the uttermost! What the Old Testament priesthood was unable to do, being but a shadow and not the substance, the Son of God being the reality of redemption is able to save His people to the uttermost! And not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own precious blood, by the sacrifice of Himself.

Hebrews 7:25 - He Is Able To Save Them | Pastor Joseph D. Murphy

…call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins (Matthew 1:21) Before our precious Savior was born, yes, even from eternity, He was purposed to come “into the world to save sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15). And in another place our Lord tells us “The Son of man came to seek and save what was lost” (Luke 19:10). What a comforting truth this is — knowing that the Lord Jesus Christ will actually and really save His people from their sins. Oh what comfort there is in knowing that all our sins have been forgiven — ALL of them beloved. Sins of the past, sins of the present, and sins of the future! Beloved, there is absolutely no sin left out from His forgiveness; otherwise we could never be saved from our sins. And the certainty of this salvation does not come from something we have done, do, or that we can do, but rather it is because of everything that the Lord Jesus did and does to save us. Indeed, “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25). Beloved, that is why we know, most assuredly, that ALL our sins are forgiven. Not only because He died and paid for them, but because He rose from the dead and He ever liveth to intercede on our behalf so that we may be saved—never to be lost! Alleluia! Reader, it is of the utmost importance that we make this observation: notice that it is not said that the LORD JESUS will save everyone from their sins; no no, rather the word of God says that He shall save His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). This sets forth, how that there is a personal and intimate relationship between Him and His people. This is shown to us in John chapter 10, where our Lord declares: “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep” — “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine” — “…and I lay down my life for the sheep” — “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are One” (John 10:11,14,15,27-30). Beloved believing sinner, rejoice in Christ! and again I say, rejoice! You are one of His sheep, He died for you; and because of what He has done, you have a complete salvation and you will never perish; for He has given you eternal life. May God grant, both the reader and writer alike, ears to ever hear His precious voice and find our feet following Him. May we be among the many that will discover, as John writes ever so blessedly in the gospel that bears his name, “he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God” (John 3:21, Ephesians 1:19). AMEN! Article orignally published in LA MISIÓN DE ITZINCAB weekly bulletin

Matthew 1:21 - Christ Shall Save His People | Pastor Joseph D. Murphy

if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work (Romans 11:16) [Reader,] you must go to Him with all your wrinkles, and all your foulness, and everything else that is hideous and say, “Lord, I have no beauty, I have no merit, nothing to plead, nothing to urge, but my guilt. ‘Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.’” Then you shall be saved. When a man cannot pay to God a penny [on the dollar] of all his debts, then he will be frankly forgiven all; but as long as he promises that he will make [restitution], and do his best to pay what he owes to divine justice, in the [vain] hope that Jesus Christ will make up the rest, there is no hope for him [Proverbs 20:22]. The Lord Jesus Christ will not be a mere make-weight for you. Do you think that you are to get onto the scale, with your ‘beautiful righteousness’, and that you are to be accounted somebody of great importance, and that Christ is to do the little that you cannot do?—that is to be “Christ and Company,” or rather, “Self and Company,” and that you are to be the head of the firm, and Christ to be a kind of [silent] partner? He will not do it; it would be a disgrace to Christ to yoke you with Him in such a fashion. You might as soon yoke a gnat with an archangel as think of your going in to help Christ save you. To join a filthy rag from off a dunghill with the golden garments of the King cannot be permitted [Isaiah 64:6-9]. Christ will be everything, or else He will be nothing; you must be saved wholly by mercy, or else not at all. There must not be even a trace of the fingers of self-righteousness upon the acts and documents of divine grace. It must be all of grace; “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work” (Romans 11:6). There can be no more mingling of the two together as the ground of hope than oil will mix with water, or fire will burn beneath the sea. [Reader,] you cannot be saved by your own merits.

Romans 11:16 - All Christ or No Christ At All | Pastor Charles H. Spurgeon

…Christ is all, and in all (Colossians 3:11) An influential ‘teacher’ recently made the following statement at a ‘Bible conference’… “…there are a lot of things I don’t know, I’ve said this so many times, I don’t even know how my own spiritual life works—I don’t. Look, Paul says in Galatians 2:20 ‘I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live; yet not I…’—he didn’t know either!” And somehow, fearful thing, this moved his audience to laugh hysterically. Reader, it is no laughing matter for any professing Christian to say that they don’t know, or that Paul didn’t know how his spiritual life works; this is someone, I fear, who has not been taught of God to know that Christ is all, and in all [John 6:45]. Well then, did Paul not know how his spiritual life works as this man claimed? Paul writes… “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I—but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). So Paul did know who was responsible for his spiritual life. For he tells us plainly, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I—BUT CHRIST LIVETH IN ME.” Beloved, everything we hear must pass through this gate: Christ is all. If what we hear is contrary to Christ is all, we need to get away from it. Indeed, if anything we believe runs contrary to Christ being our all, and in all; [all our justification and all our sanctification] indeed all our life, it is not after Christ and it’s dead wrong! [Read 1 Corinthians 1:30-31]. Beloved, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” (Colossians 2:8). AMEN!

Colossians 3:11 - Christ Is All | Pastor Joseph D. Murphy

…O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God [Micah 6:6-8] Reader, with what shall I come before God? How can I be accepted before God? How can you be accepted before God? Only by three things and each of them are made only by Christ. Sinner, do justly; do justly in and through the life of God’s Son. “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Sinner, love mercy; love the mercy of God in and through the death and resurrection of His Son. For salvation “is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy” (Romans 9:16). Sinner, walk humbly with thy God; walk humbly in and through the perfection of His Son. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Romans 8:1). Beloved, there is no condemnation, for those who look away from the pride of their flesh and look humbly, by the Spirit, to the perfect walk of another, Christ Jesus, their Lord. AMEN!

Micah 6:6-8 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord? | Pastor Joseph D. Murphy

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