The Baptist Bible Hour now comes to you under the direction of Elder Lasser Bradley Jr. Mm-hmm. Dozen tumblers seem My great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my government, the triumphs of this race. This little Sarah Bradley Jr. inviting you to stay tuned for another message of God's sovereign grace.
Today we are celebrating the completion of 73 years on the air with the Baptist Bible Hour. And so we're bringing you a special anniversary program. And our theme for this program is Psalm 105 verse 1. O give thanks unto the Lord. Call upon his name, make his deeds known among the people.
You see, there are three sections here.
So first, we want to give thanks to the Lord that He has enabled us to be on the air for 73 years. He has opened doors of opportunity and supplied our needs. Number two. call upon his name. We have called upon his name, and continue to do so.
We know we desperately need him. As the hymn writer expressed it, I need thee every hour. Number three. make known his deeds among the people. We've been endeavoring to do that through all these years.
We've talked about God as the sovereign creator of heaven and earth. The God who delivered his people from Egyptian bondage, part of the Red Sea, brought down the walls of Jericho. And on the list goes. and we have emphasized his marvelous works of grace. that He elected a people before the foundation of the world, and predestinated them to be conformed to the image of His Son.
that in the fulness of time He sent His Son into the world, and declared, Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins. After Jesus died on the cross to put away sin, he arose victorious over the grave and then ascended back to heaven with the promise He will come back. Wonderful grace of Jesus, greater than all. Oh my sin, how shall my tongue be scribed? With prayers shall my praise begin?
Taking away my My burden, sending my spirit. Free for the wonderful grace of Jesus Reaches Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus Deeper than the mighty rolling sea. Where did you make it so? Broader than the stone for my transgression. Shoot it, pray for my love, my sin and shame my sin.
Oh, magnify the precious name of Jesus. Praise His name. One of our sermons this past year was entitled. Let not your heart be troubled. Over the past years.
I've preached a lot of funerals. I preached the funerals of little babies. of children. Teenagers. young adults.
Soldiers. Old people. Even families. And many a time I've stood the side of the grave and Red. From 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
That though the body is sown in weakness, it's raised in power.
Sown in dishonor, it's raised in glory. But one day I was Walking back to my car after reading. That text. And the thought crossed my mind. What if it's not real?
I've been taught that from earliest childhood. I've been reading that scripture. It's a comfort to believe it. But what if it's not real? What if it means that all these bodies I've seen lowered into the earth?
I just gone back to dust. And that's the end. We may have our momentary doubts. But Jesus deals with that here. And gives us Assurance.
The words out of Jesus' own mouth, if it were not so, I would have told you. I haven't just led you along. I haven't just Yeah. nurture you so that you felt good about the situation. I'm telling you the truth.
Jesus Christ is the truth personified.
So out of the mouth of Jesus, he says, yes, there is life after death. Yes, there is a resurrection. Yes, you're going to be with me someday. A place for you. A place prepared By the Lord.
Especially Okay. For you. I go to prepare a place for you.
So I know he's preparing a place for All of his family. But it says a place. For you. A Christian home. is a place where you feel loved.
You feel accepted. You feel secure. You may have Many are pleasant. situations to deal with. in the workplace, in the schoolroom.
Among people from a variety of backgrounds that you encounter in life. But when the day's work is done. You want to get home. When you understand. You have a place.
You have a home. Where sometime, someday, you will go and abide forever. It ought to change your whole outlook while you're here. I'm here just for a short time. There may be discord in the home where I'm living, but I'm thinking about that day I'll be in a home where there is perfect tranquility and accord.
Get along with everybody there because they're going to be. Transformed just like I am. And there'll be no sin, and there'll be no jealousy, and there'll be no harshness, and there'll be no unkind words. There'll be. Love or ever.
It's a place. Where you'll be with Jesus. You've been taught about Jesus. Reviewing the words of Jesus, singing about Jesus all your life. And when you arrive home, You're same.
Fanny Crosby penned these words.
Some day the silver cord will break And I no more as now shall sing. But oh the joy when I shall wake within the palace. of the king. In the course And I shall see him face to face, And tell the story saved by grace. And I shall see him face to face.
and tell the story. Saved by grace.
Someday My earthly house will fall. I cannot tell how soon 'twill be. But this I know, my all in all. has now a place. in heaven.
For me. One of the messages from our series on the book of Joshua was entitled Forward March. We must then observe. To do all that He is commanded, not just meditating on His Word, not just reading the commands, but doing them. I would say For any of you here today.
who had an experience of grace. You've come to faith in Jesus Christ. But you've never been baptized. What holds you back? Why is it you've never taken up your cross to follow him and to become identified with him?
He calls on us to obey. Here's command. And for any who say, well, I have taken up my cross, I'm following Jesus, what does that mean? The cross is not just a burden for you to carry. The cross is a place to die.
The Apostle Paul said, I die daily. Are you dying out to self? to selfish desires. to the desires of the flesh. Are you dying out?
So they didn't Instead of thinking always, what's best for me, what's my comfort zone, what do I want to do? Your concern was me. What does My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. What me to do? Do you pray?
without ceasing. Do you display the qualities? of a Christian. With somebody observing you. Say, as they did of those in the early days of the church, they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus.
How do they know that? Because they maintain that attitude, that spirit. That conduct in life. For Joshua. This was a new beginning.
He was leading the people into new territory. The wilderness wanderings were behind them, but there were many, many challenges ahead. Paul wrote in Philippians 3:13, forgetting those things that are behind. And reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Forward march.
In a message entitled Longing for Home, I spoke again of that great day when we go home to be with the Lord. We Claim the promises of God. And we are but strangers and pilgrims here. We're just passing through this world. This is not our home.
We're longing for home. And further in that message I said, And then we look at Revelation chapter 21 verse 3. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. And he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people. And God himself shall be with them and be their God.
Isn't this something wonderful to be thinking about? Longing for home, longing to be in that place where he will dwell with his people. God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. Doesn't that sound wonderful?
No more no more pain. No more crying. No more disappointment. Tears wiped away. No more temptation, no more sin.
No more broken hearts. but with him forever. Longing. Logging. We're home.
Life is the gift of God. And we are to make the best. Of it all, and the time that we have here to live for His glory. None of us know how much time we have. As we go down the path of life and get older, and we see the fulfillment of what Scripture tells us, that this whole tabernacle is beginning to.
Look toward the end. We think more about this is what's on the other side. But while we're here, we're to thank God for the life He's given us and seek to live it to His glory. In 1 Timothy 6, 17, Paul says, Nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.
So he's given us things that we are to enjoy. It doesn't mean that a Christian has to be sour and always frustrated and unhappy. It's all right to be happy. It's all right to rejoice. You're to rejoice in the Lord always.
Be thankful for what you have.
So We're thankful for what we have here, that we have family and friends. Daily provisions. I want to pause now in this special anniversary program to express my appreciation for those of you. who are long term listeners. I've had people write and tell me that they were introduced to the broadcast by their parents when they were a small child.
They've continued listening all their life, and now recommend it to their children and their grandchildren. I'm especially thankful for you who have supported this ministry, making it possible for us to stay on the air. I also want to express my appreciation for James Kenneth, our broadcast engineer. He has worked with us for several years Sing. That the programs are properly assembled and then sent on to the stations.
He is also the host of our daily broadcast. Thursday is our radio production day. and we enjoy having lunch at McDonald's.
Some of his grandchildren are my great grandchildren, so we can enjoy sharing pictures and family stories as well as talking about the broadcast. I also want to give thanks for my wife, Emily. She is a wonderful wife, a wonderful mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and she worked as the office manager here at BBH for about forty years and did a marvelous job. I thank the Lord for her assistance in this work.
Now I want to encourage you to write us. It is vital that we hear from our listeners with support in order to keep these stations on the air.
So if you want us to stay on your station, please write us, mention the call letters of that station, or indicate the website where you hear the program. Our address is Baptist Bible Hour, Box 17037, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45217. or you can go to our website at BaptistBibleHour.org and make a donation there.
Now, if you request it, I will send you our booklet, Six Things to Remember in the Time of Crisis. You may already have a copy because we published this a number of years ago and had great response to it, but you might want a copy to give to a friend. Or you might have misplaced yours and would like another one.
So just request the book. Six things to remember in a time of crisis when you write us at Baptist Bible Hour, Box 17037, Cincinnati, Ohio, four five two one seven. And then, in a message entitled All Sufficient Grace. We spoke of God's purpose in our trials.
So one of the purposes of our trials. is to subdue pride. Secondly, to bring us to the place that our joy is not in our circumstances but in the Lord. And to learn that when I'm weak, then am I strong. His grace is sufficient.
for all seasons and all circumstances. sufficient in prosperity or in loss. We need His grace even when all is going well. Paul said, I've learned in whatsoever state I am. There to be content, whether I'm prospering or whether I'm suffering loss.
You know, some people can't take prosperity. If things go well for them, then they drift away. They forget about God. You need His grace to keep you on track even when you're being prospered. To recognize his hand in your prosperity, to give thanks for what he's blessed you to enjoy.
So, His grace is sufficient for prosperity and loss, for sickness and health. His grace is sufficient for the days of youth, the particular temptations that you young people encounter as you face an ungodly world. His grace is sufficient for you, mothers and fathers with young children, when you need so much help and guidance along the way. His grace is sufficient. His grace is sufficient for the older ones to begin to look toward the end of the journey.
It's easy sometimes to begin to feel a bit of self-pity and say, well, my race is almost run.
Well, hallelujah. Think about it. Nearing the end of the race. That means things that are better are just ahead, on the other side. Your inheritance is over there.
Rather than being depressed, be joyful that ultimately you'll be with the Lord. And as the apostle said, to die is gain, his grace is sufficient. Whatever the season of life, In which you're found at the moment, whatever your individual circumstances may be. Let us rejoice and say with the beloved apostle that we embrace this truth as Jesus says, my grace. is sufficient for thee.
I recently had someone ask me about the tulip doctrine.
so I decided to present that series again. The acronym TULIP stands for T Total Depravity. You unconditional election. L limited atonement, Irresistible grace, and P Perseverance. It is important to get the first one, total depravity, right, in order to get the rest of it right.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no, not one. you have equickened who were dead in trespasses and sin.
So when you see man's utter ruin, you recognize his inability to save or help save himself. you then know salvation must be by grace. See, it's Very explicit. To point out That God Is the one who give salvation. It's according to his plan, according to his purpose.
And all of these who were ordained to eternal life believed. I go back again to Romans 8. We read a part of that a moment ago, but we're going to look at a little more of it. Following that twenty-ninth verse, Which says that he has predestinated a people to be conformed to the image of his son. Then He says in the 30th verse, Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Verse 33, Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.
Now this passage has sometimes been referred to as the chain of grace. Here is God before the foundation of the world. predestinating of people to be conformed to the image of his son. The predestinated are called, the called are justified, the justified are glorified. You start with a specific number that were predestinated.
You come to the specific number when they are glorified. This message you can preach backwards as well as forward. You look out to glorification. There's a great multitude. Resurrected, glorified, conformed to the image of his Son.
Who are the glorified? The glorified are the justified? Who are the justified? The justified are the called? Who are the called?
They're the predestinate. Look at it in either direction. It's all of God. He receives all the glory. In Colossians chapter 3, verse 12.
Paul is giving A word of practical exhortation. And includes in it The truth. that God's people are chosen. Colossians 3.12. Put on, therefore, as the elect of God.
Holy and beloved, bounds of mercies. kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering. Put on these things, these things which are The fruit of the Spirit. You put them on, and the reason you can do that is because you are of the elect of God. Then in Second Timothy Chapter 1.
Verse 9. The last word of the eighth verse. is God.
So we include that as we read verse 9, God who hath saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
So on the negative side, He says it's not according to our works. On the positive side, it is according to His purpose and grace, and it was given to us when? Before the foundation of the world. Oh maising praise, how sweet the sound that saved the rest of my life was blood, but now I see. And then in one message, we talked about the hymn God Leads Us Along and its author.
Today we bring you the second part of a message entitled God Leads Us Along. We have referred to the words of the hymn by that title. It's a beautiful hymn that describes our travels, sometimes going down through the deep waters, sometimes in the fiery furnace, and again coming out on the top of the mountain. Our text is John ten three. He calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
So we first have taken note of the fact that God leads His children. just as he led the children of Israel in olden times, led them in their wilderness wanderings. He leads us to day. The psalmist said, My times are in Thy hand and that gives us great consolation as we travel in life to know that we are resting in the hand of Almighty God. And then, secondly, we have noted that God leads His children through trials.
Some through the waters, some through the floods.
Some to the fire. This speaks of intense troubles. But the promise that God gives, thou shalt not be burned.
sometimes in the valley, in the darkest of night. And then we come today. to consider that in the midst of our sorrows Satan may oppose us, but God is our helper. And then The hymn says and away up in glory. Eternity's day.
God leads his dear children along. 1 Thessalonians 4:17, Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
So along the way He leads us through the waters and through the floods. He leads us through the fire. He leads us through the valleys and up on the mountaintops and days of joy and refreshment and days where the Son of righteousness smiles upon us and we feel his presence and say, oh, how good. to know that the Lord is our Savior and that He is with us. And ultimately, we look to the end of the journey when he leads us on to that higher ground, catching us up in the air to be with him.
And so shall we ever be. No more disruptions, no more dark days, no more valleys, no more disappointments, no more struggle with sin, no more enemies, but to be in the presence of Jesus Christ, basking in the sunlight of his love forever. That's the hope we have. Yes, he leans his sheep. He leads his own.
In nineteen forty-two, Sometime after the death of George A. Young, who wrote this hymn. Haldor Lilinus who was a hymn writer. publisher of hymns. In fact, His most famous one is Wonderful Grace of Jesus.
He decided to track down George Young's widow. He got an address in a small town. And driving there, he stopped at a gas station. to ask for directions. When the attendant saw the address, He said, why, sir?
That's the county poorhouse. Up the road about three miles. And mister? When I say poorhouse, I really mean poorhouse. Not knowing what to expect.
Linus made his way there. He found Mrs. Young, a tiny elderly woman. in surroundings that were far from pleasant.
However, She radiated the joy of the Lord and spoke of how He had guided her and her husband for many years. Then she exclaimed, God led me here. And I'm so glad he did. You know, about every month Someone comes into this place to spend the rest of their days. And many of them Don't know my Jesus.
I'm having the time of my life introducing them. Isn't it wonderful? How God leads. God Leads His dear children. Oh no.
Has it been leading you? to convict you of your sin and show you your need of a Savior. Has he been leading you to show you that there is no other Savior but Jesus? Has he been leading you to become his follower? Future.
I hope you will let us know that you have listened to this 73rd anniversary broadcast today. You can write us at Baptist Bible Hour, Box 17037, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45217, or you can go to our website at baptistbiblehour.org.
Now until next week at this same time, may the Lord richly bless you all.
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Some through the waters, some through the flood, some through the fire, but all through the blood.
Some through great sorrow, but God gives the song in the night season and all the day long.
