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“The Way Of Grace”
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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
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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
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and correct to the best of my
-- knowledge and belief April
26. 1978
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Wo defeat* that is has been examined by ua. and to the best of our knowledge and belief
is true and correct.
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