Sermon Sunday – John A. Broadus – The Neccesity of Atonement

The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth from all sin. I John 1:7

My hearers, what is the most wonderful event that ever occurred on earth, that ever happened in the universe? The history of our race is so full of wonderful events-you might well pause for your answer. My answer would be this: by far the most wonderful thing that has ever happened in the universe, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ the Lord. If without philosophizing, if in simplicity you will take what God’s Word declares concerning it, you will not only see this to be so, perhaps you will feel it to be so. If you will remember who he was-the thought would startle us if we were not so used to it-if you will remember how he died, how the Lord of life and glory, the sinless one, how he died in suffering and shame, and above all if you will remember what he died for, what his death is declared in the Scriptures to mean for the universe and for us, then you will believe that this is the great wonder of all wonders. And yet, God be thanked, it may be the simplest matter of each individual human heart’s everyday experience to rest upon that wonderful thought. There are many things we can never comprehend as to their nature, which are yet unquestionable as facts and essential to our existence. To declare before heaven and earth that all our hopes are turned upon the atoning death of Jesus Christ, a man may do that, may live on that atoning death, although it be a mystery he cannot solve. Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – John A. Broadus – The Neccesity of Atonement…

Sermon Sunday – John A. Broadus – Christian Joy

Rejoice in the Lord alway! and again I say rejoice. Philippians 4:4

A person who reads this letter of Paul to the Philippian Christians will hardly fail to observe, how often the apostle speaks of joy; how often he alludes to his own sources of joy; how often he bids his brethren to rejoice. There must be significance in this. The apostle Paul was not a man to use many words without meaning; and that divine Spirit, that guided him in what he wrote, never speaks for naught. When we read again and again injunctions like this, “Finally my brethren rejoice in the Lord,” or “in all things by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, make your requests known,” etc.; or when he says, “for your furtherance and joy of faith,” “that your rejoicing may be more abundant,” “I joy and rejoice with you all; for this cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me”; or, in the text, bids them “rejoice in the Lord alway,” repeating the injunction with unusual and very marked emphasis, “and again I say, rejoice”-when we read all these passages and more than these, in one very brief letter, we may be assured that the writer was very earnest in his own rejoicing, and was quite anxious that his brethren should rejoice too, and was certain that they had ample cause of rejoicing. Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – John A. Broadus – Christian Joy…