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Occasionally I’m asked if WMUU is a Christian or a secular station, and that’s a fair question since we air both sacred music and Christian programming as well as Easy Listening music.  I’m always very glad to tell the WMUU story.  Not just because I work here, but because it’s a story that has been making – and continues to make - an eternal impact on teeming thousands of lives since going on the air on September 15, 1949.

To answer the question directly, WMUU is a Christian station.  Since our first day of broadcasting, the number one goal of WMUU has been to have a spiritual impact on the communities we serve.  Our only desire is to point men and women, boys and girls to the Lord Jesus Christ in everything we do.  Our wholesome secular music and our sacred programming are all designed to raise a godly standard for Christ.  We want to present Christ as the only Son of God who left heaven’s glory to become the God-Man.  We want to tell the Gospel story of how Jesus Christ “died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.”  (I Cor. 15:3-4)  We want all men everywhere to know that Christ’s shed blood is the only currency that can or will be accepted in the judgment court of Heaven to redeem sinful man.  Every musical note, every word spoken on WMUU has but one purpose:  to point men and women to the Savior.

Before we can receive God’s salvation and be saved from an eternity in Hell, we must realize we are LOST.  This first step is very often the hardest for people to accept.   We all see ourselves as pretty good.  As we look around, we can almost always say, “I’m not as bad as that guy.”   All of us will admit that we have done some wrong things, but we somehow think a loving God will overlook our sins.  We like to think He will look at everything we have done in our lives and find that the good things out weigh the bad, and the Almighty will allow us into Heaven.

That’s a nice thought, but it is wrong.  The Bible is clear about how God sees us.  “The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.  They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy:  there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” (Psalm 14: 2-3)  “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23)  Also in the New Testament book of Romans, God’s Word tells us, “As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10)  Both the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible agree on man’s desperate condition.  The prophet Isaiah wrote, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.  (Isaiah 53:6)  God doesn’t compare us to other men.  He compares us with His only begotten Son - Jesus Christ who is absolutely perfect and without sin.  “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” (Heb 4:15)

When the convicting power of the Holy Spirit convinces us we are sinners before God, our first reaction is often to “turn over a new leaf” and get busy doing good things.  In short, we attempt to work our way to Heaven, hoping our good deeds will outweigh the bad.  The Bible says our good deeds are foul rags.  “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 our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”  (Isaiah 64:6)  God has provided a way for us to get to Heaven, and there is no OTHER way to be saved from our sins except submitting to the way God tells us in his Word. 

Many of us think going to church every Sunday will get us to Heaven.  Some think being kind and friendly to others will save us.  Still others believe giving their time and their money to worthy causes will be enough to have God look favorably on us and admit us to a heavenly home.  Jesus Christ said plainly, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by Me.”  (John 14:6)  God provided the way to Heaven and no other method will work.  You see, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosever believeth in Him (Jesus Christ) should not perish but have everlasting life.”  (John 3:16)

So if we recognize we are LOST sinners and that we cannot save ourselves, what can we do?   Let me say it again, we can do nothing, absolutely nothing.  It has all been done for us by God’s Son, Jesus Christ.  God’s court of justice demands that our sin be paid for with blood.  Not just any blood, but the blood of a spotless, perfect Person who was willing to take our place as a sacrifice for our sin. The writer of Hebrews says, “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.  (Hebrews 9:22)  Remission means to release from the penalty.  The only way God will release you and me from the penalty of sin is with the payment of blood from a perfect, spotless sacrifice.  It is our faith – our total trust – in the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ that saves us from Hell.  We must believe that Christ died in our place, to pay our sin debt.  Our faith in His sacrifice saves us, not our works, not our benevolence, not our generosity.  “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”  (Acts 4:12)  Christ paid our sin debt in its entirety.  Nothing is lacking.  Nothing can be added.  It is “once and for all” settled.  All you must do is reach out, by faith, and accept this priceless gift God offers you.  There is no OTHER way!

In my mind’s eye, I often visit the day I realized I was a sinner on my way to Hell.  It was many years ago when I was a twelve year old boy. As the preacher spoke, the Holy Spirit made me see my desperate condition.  I didn’t know exactly what to do, but I knew if I got to Jesus, I would be all right.  The weight of my world was lifted off my shoulders when I prayed a simple prayer and asked the Lord Jesus to forgive my sin and to come into my heart and make me His child.

When God tells us to repent, He means we must change our mind, go in a different direction, and experience a genuine abhorrence for our past sins.  We must start living God’s way and not our own, self-centered way.  All too often, people repent and are sorry because their sin was uncovered and they were caught.  That is not godly repentance.  That is a salve for our conscience.  Jesus Christ plainly said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.”  (Luke 13:3)

God not only saves us from eternal punishment in Hell, but He stays with us as we journey through life.  We can – and must – DEPEND on Him.   In fact, it is impossible for you and me to live a Christian life without the empowering of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  In his encouragement to Timothy, the Apostle Paul wrote, “…nevertheless, I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He (Christ Jesus) is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day (of judgment).”  (2 Timothy 1:12)   For many years, I’ve found the Person described in Jude 24-25 completely able to do what the verses claim:  “Now unto Him (Jesus Christ) that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.”