2025-10-26 Sermon Notes1
| Speaker | Archibald Allison |
|---|---|
| Date | 2025-10-26 |
| Location | Emmaus Orthodox Presbyterian Church |
| Passage | Psalm 106.8 |
| Title | Why God Saves Sinners |
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📖Bible Passage
Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
Points
- When we look at the magnificence of the world, two questions inevitably arise:
- Who made this world?
- Why was this world made?
- The answer to these questions is clear. God made all this world, and he made it for His glory.
- And when we see the Church, the multitude of once sinners who are now saved these questions arise:
- Who saved all these sinners?
- And why were these sinners saved?
- The answer to these questions is Christ saved all these sinners, and He saved them for His name's sake.
- It is not one Person of the Trinity who saves us, but all. All of God saved us.
- God saved His people even though they were stubborn, ungrateful, and disobedient:
- Psalm 106.7 Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
- Our fathers didn't understand: They were foolish people
- Yes, God can even save fools. You do not need to be wise to find and understand the Gospel. You simply need to believe and receive it.
- Our fathers didn't remember
- Isaiah 1.3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know. My people don't consider."
- Who would keep an ox who would continually forget it's master and disobey? And nevertheless God saved and kept His people even when they continually forgot Him.
- Our fathers didn't understand: They were foolish people
- Psalm 106.7 Our fathers didn't understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn't remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
- God certainly did not save us because of our actions or anything in us.
- God did not save us because we are righteous (for we aren't).
- God did not save us because we are wise, or lovely, or good, or virtuous (we are not).
- So why then, did He save us? For His name's sake.
- By saving us God displays His might
- God vindicates His name.
- For everyone who slanders and ridicules God's name, their arguments are utterly refuted by His actions. By saving His people God demonstrates the He is lovely beyond compare.
Nevertheless
- Notice the obstacles removed by the word nevertheless.
- Nevertheless despite every sin of the most wretched sinner, our Savior bore the penalty of sin Himself. This is mercy and love.
- Romans 5.8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Application
- Allison: "Sinner I comfort you not in your sin, but in your repentance. Sinner, know that there are saints in Heaven who were once as sinful as you are. Take heart, penitent, God will have mercy on you."
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2025-10-26 Sermon Notes1
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