Exhortation

Back when I was learning to drive, I “discovered” a pretty nifty extension that the instructors use to have over-riding control of the car — they had the brake pedal extended to the passenger side of the car to immediately stop the car should anything go wrong.

It was a good thing that my instructor only had to use it once when I made a rather stupid mistake while making a U-turn. With the additional brake pedal on their side, it didn’t matter how much I stepped on the accelerator pedal; the car just wouldn’t move until the instructor was entirely sure that it was safe to move on.

In many ways, God’s sovereignty in our lives is much like the instructor and his extended brake pedal. While the additional safeguard in the car made me feel at ease (mostly), God’s sovereignty in our lives should give us joy.

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In this second sermon I’m featuring in as many days, Paul Washer teaches about Biblical manhood.

This sermon was first preached Sunday July 27, 2008 at Grace Life Church of the Shoals (formerly First Baptist church of Muscle Shoals). You can buy part 2 of the sermon on DVD, download the mp3, or buy the CD here.

Total run-time: 48:46 minutes.

If you’d like to watch this later, follow this link to the page at YouTube.

James White with a timely and sobering message to all Christians who live in this day and age when many truths are built on nothing but shifting sands except that which is established upon the Rock — the Lord Jesus Christ.

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 2:8

I’ve just come home from the hospital visiting my mom who has just undergone a surgery on her right knee. Visits to hospitals always remind me of the frailty of life itself — that one day, rich or poor, king or peasant, we’ll have to face the ultimate destiny of all man: death.

What matters is what happens after death, for that is the beginning of one’s fate in eternity, be it abject suffering in hell or overflowing joy in the presence of the Lord, our Creator and God. As Christians, we all have the truth that those who die without Christ are condemned to suffer the wrath of God for their sins against God no matter how much good works they have done during their time on earth.

The question, therefore, is what are you doing about it?

Beloved: we know very well that people need the Lord, and we’d do well to share the Gospel whenever we can, in season and out of season. May this song exhort and encourage us all to continue to share God’s good news of salvation through Christ Jesus with the lost.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Romans 1:16

Shabbat Shalom.