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p^r, ’s Column ~ | “The Way Of Grace” “'TVa., * iney way of Grace" By J.M. Little We praise the Lord for this hour, for the opportunity to : come and be with you at this time. Our subject; "The Way of Grace." Yeu may ask the question, what is meant by The Way of Grace When 1 say The Way of Grace 1 simply mean how God saves a sinner. Let me begin by asking you some questions. Do you know the Way of Grace? Do you know Christ? Are you saved? The Way of Grace is set forth very plainly in the Scrip tures from Gen through Reve lation In Genesis 1:2 we find these Words, "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." Just as the earth was in darkness so is a sinner in darkness. This verse gives us a picture of man in his totally blinded and depraved state out of Christ. Just as the earth was in total darkness in Gen. 1:2, so is every sinner in darkness. As a sinner you have no light, you live and every move of your entire being is in darkness But listen to the last part of verse 2 "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." And what did God the Holy Spirit do? Vs. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." JusraS IheHjlfts^ed Holy Spirit>h£d light uponthi?— Earth stria brought it out of darkness, so it is in the Way of Grace, or in saving a sinner. We have stated that every sinner is in total darkness Why is that so? In John 8:44 who find these Words: “Ye are of your father the devil.” Every sinner by nature is a child of the Devil. There is a teaching abroad in the land today that "all of us are God's children.” Well, Paul said let God be true and every man a liar. This teaching that all of us are God's children is just a doctrine out of Hell. If every one is a child of God, why are men at each other's throats like bull dogs? If you have any spiritual sense at all you won’t believe this lie that everybody is a child of God. That is a teaching of the Antichrist. \ since a sinner is Dorn a cnna * of the Devil and in blindness, how can he be saved? Now I want you to, listen with an , open mind impcan. I w4jjj|jg you to listen as for'eternity for your soul is at stake. If you make a mistake about how God saves a sinner, then that means the loss of your poor soul. I want to bring this message as though it were my last message, it may be my last message. It may be the last message you will ever hear so you listen. I'm going to lay down some things you are going to know experi mentally before you are ever saved, if you ever are to be saved. In Eph. 2:1 "And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” The word "quickened” in this verse means “made alive.” As every sinner by nature is dead in trespasses and sins, it is the Holy Spirit who comes and sheds light in the dark ened sinner’s heart, awaken ing him or making him alive to the fact he is a lost sinner. This is the Effectual Call to the sinner’s heart Just as the Holy Spirit said Let there be light in Gen. 1 verse 3 and He shed light upon this dark Earth, so it is in the salvation •i a s nner. The command ’ comes from God on high, Let there be light in that sinner's heart. And the Holy Spirit sheds the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ into your heart and you see for the first time that you are a lost sinner Has this ever happened to you? tf not then you are not saved If The Holy Spirit has never shed light into your darkened heart you know not hing about Christ. You may have an intellectual know ledge of Christ, but that won't get you to heaven my friends. After the sinner is awak ened, or Effectually Called, then he has to be convinced of Sin, of Righteousness, and of Judgment. In other words you must be brought through Holy Spirit Conviction. I realize there are a lot of preachers, Bible teachers, and deacons who say they are saved but they don't know what I'm talking about when I use the terms Effectual Calling and Holy Spirit conviction. Moat of our preachers and Bible teachers have gone through the Bible schools and on through the seminaries and have missed Holy Spirit con viction. That Is one of the reason they don’t know where to put this and they don't know where to that. They will read somethings in the Word and bul*n their brains out trying to figure where to put it. There are seven basic doctrines of the Word If you know those seven basic Doctrines you know where to put the things of the Word that Holy Spirit teaches ><r.. *t this time I’m not preaching on the seven J. M. Little me to set forth before you the seven basic doctrines of the Word you'll have to invite me back another time. Some of the things I am setting forth are included in the seven basic doctrines however Now let's go on and see some of the things that take place under Holy Spirit con viction after the sinher is awakened In John 16:7-11 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for i^ I go not ' away, the Comforter: will not come unto you; but if I depart, 1 will send Him unto you. And when He is come, He will reprove (convict) the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on Me; Of righteousness, because I go to My Father, and ye see Me no more; Of judgment, because the nrinlv nf :Kic world is judged." When the Holy Spirit makes a sinner alive the sinner sees for the first time that he has never believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. Before that you boasted of your belief in the Lord or in His Word. Now you come to see under the reveal ing work of the Holy Spirit that you did not have true saving faith. You come to see that your entire being is governed by unbelief. You come to see that your whole nature is just one mass of sin. What is your nature? Your na unbelief, hatred,-' meanness, pride and rebel lion. The more you see your unbelief the more you try to believe, and the more you try to believe the more you find yourself tangled in unbelief. Every soul, every living soul sitting before, as you sit be fore me you are a living soul, out of Christ you have a hard heart of unbelief. Under the brooding work of the Holy Spirit you come to feel your heavy heart of unbelief. Have you ever felt the weight of your heavy heart of unbelief? If not, then you are not saved. Now you may trot down a church aisle and give the preacher your hand and say, yes preacher, I believe. But if the Holy Spirit has never revealed to you your unbelief then you know nothing about believing on the Lord Jesus i.nrisi 10 me saivauon oi your soul. Can you go back to the time when you were awakened to the (act you were lost and saw your heart of unbelief? If you cannot go back to the time you admitted in your heart to God that you were lost, then you cannot say you are saved. If you cannot go back to the time you took your place before God as a lost sinner and tell what God saved you from apd what God saved you to, then you are not saved. Of judgment, when the Holy Spirit awakens the sinner He shows that sinner the judg ment he is under with his father the devil. By nature you are a child of the Devil. When man sinned in the Gar den of Eden by eating of the forbidden tree, he, in disobey ing God gave allegiance to the Devil and became a child of the Devil. Now, are you a child of God or a child of the Devil. It was the woman who first disobeyed God. A woman led the human race into slave ry. Women were first in the Fall, and first in the Resurrec tion. Now, men are just as bad as women, but a devilish woman is a spitfire. Women are silly, so says the apostle Paul. Now, I'm not preaching on a woman's place today but you women would be much better off if you were in your Dlace The awakened tinner be ing convinced of judgment tees that unless God saves him, his doom and final end is the same as that of his father the Devil The Lord made no redemption for the Devil and fallen angels You see that unless you get to Christ your part will be with the Devil and his angelr. in the fire. In Matt, 25:41 "Then shall He say unto them on the left hand, depart from me, ye cureed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels ". Thereat a two souls who know there Is a Hell, one is the awakened sinner. He knows there is a Hell because he sees the reality of a small hell in his heart. And he knows he will spend eternity in Hell if God doesn't save him. The other soul who knows there is a hell is the believer. He knows there is a hell because he has been delivered from it. I realize there are preachers in this generation who tell you there is no hell. Any preacher who tells you there is no hell is an enemy of the Gospel, an enemy of your soul, and God did not call that man to preach: God never calls a man to misrepresent Him. In Numbers 16 we saw a group go down to hell alive. Let me repeat, any preacher who preaches to you that there is no hell is an enemy of your soul and you are a fool for listening to him. If God could lie to us about hell then He could lie to us about heaven. God is not a liar, God is true. Some years ago aeross the street an agnostic teacher ^Jrie^ooverUirow^n^beliefin I r hell like this, “you show me in the Bible where hell means fire, preachers don't preach hell-fire no more Well, when she wakes up in hell she'll know jthere is fa hell because she is going to feel those flames You may think you are smart by denying Hell, that just shows that you don't believe the Word of God. You'll never get saved calling God a liar. Every soul out of Christ sitting here before me, you are calling God a liar every time you speak to a friend. Since you do not believe the record God gave of His Son you are calling Him a liar. The same God you are calling a liar is the same One keeping you out of Hell The awakened sinner, being convinced of judgment sees that only a cob-web of mercy is holding him out of hell. You can't tell a sinner under Holy Spirit conviction there is no hell because he knows there is one and unless God pardons him he knows he's going there. Of righteousness, the Holy Spirit shows the awakened sinner he has no righteousness that will get him to heaven Man in his natural state is proud and self-righteous. It is Satan's business to give a sinner the false idea he is good, or has some good in him even though he may have some bad in him. From that has come the false leaching that there is some good in the worst of men. This doctrine that there is some good in the worst of men is a lie out of hell. You listen to the Word of God. God's Word settles . everything Isa 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and out iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away." Man comes before God as a filthy rag Subscribe To The Post! I REPORT OF CONDITION Consolidating domestic subsidiaries of the METROLINA NATIONAL BANK of CHARLOTTE In the state of NORTH CAROLINA, at the close of busi 7 --rS ~ ness on March 31,1078 published in response to call ~ made by Comptroller of the Currency, under title 12, United States Code, Section 161 Statement of Resources and Liabilities . Thousand of Hollars * Cash and due from banks .. thousands U.S. Treasury securities ....'...,n-i i ( Obligations of other U.S. Gov t agencies and corps .. l^yy'l Obligations of States and political subdivisions.. 0 Other bonds, notes, and debentures . 0 Federal Reserve stock and corporate stock . 41 Trading account securities .. 0 Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell . 0 Loans, Total (excluding unearned income).!. 5,718 Less: Reserve for possible loan losses. <37j Loa ns,Net.77777777777777777. Direct lease financing .. Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets representing bank premises Real estate owned other than bank premises Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding. Other assets.. . . . . ..7777777777..7.7.7. total assets .r.r^.-...:.rr-..tttt:..t... Demand deposits of individuals, prtnshps , and corps . 2.482 Time and saving deposits of individuals, prtnshps., and corps. 3.240 Deposits of United States Government ..7.. 199 Deposits of States and political subdivisions .7.7. 1415 Deposits of foreign govts, and official institutions.-. 0 Deposits of commercial banks.~. o Certified and officers’checks . 141 TOTAL DOMESTIC DEPOSITS . 7.479 Total demand deposits . 2.824 Total time and savings deposits.. 4.655 Total deposits in foreign offices ... 0 TOTAL DEPOSITS IN DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN OFFICES 0 Federal funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase . 1,550 Liabilities for borrowed money .7.....7. '.. 9 Mortgage indebtedness and liability for capitalized leases .”. 11 , Acceptances executed by or for account of this bank and outstanding 0 Other liabilities .:. . 42 TOTAL LIABILITIES (excluding subordinated notes and debentures 9.062 Subordinated notes and debentures . 0 , Preferred stock No shares 0 (par value!. 0 Common stock a No shares authorized 97,500 „ . b. No shares outstanding 87,500 (par value) 875 surplus ... - Undivided profits ...* ^ Reserve for contingencies and other capiUl reserves n TOTAL EQUITY CAPITAL ... -. . " TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY CAPITAL ... J(J ^ Average for 30 calendar days ending with report date Cash and due from banks. 7nfi Fed funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell 0 Total loans .... . 5 354 Time deposits of >100,000 or more in domestic offices 2! 145 Total deposits . 8 285 Fed funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase m Liabilities for borrowed money.. () TOTAL ASSETS .••••••••••. ,, 0I2 Standby letters of credit (outstanding as of report date .. 0 Time certificates of deposit in denominations of >100,000 or more (outstanding as of report date. I WW Other time deposits In amounts of IIM.OM or more (outstanding as of report datei 157 I, Charles B Bowling. Jr , President of the above-named bank do hereby declare that this Report of Condition is true and correct to the best of my -- knowledge and belief April 26. 1978 We the undersigned director, attest the correctness of this statement of resources and liab.lit.es Wo defeat* that is has been examined by ua. and to the best of our knowledge and belief is true and correct. Rutji A. Roberts Kathleen R. Crosby J. 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