"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing." -Romans 7:18 [KJV] This is the knowledge which puffeth not up; but like love, edifieth the soul in deep humility: while it excites overflowing gratitude in the heart to Christ for His righteousness, to justify vile sinners. It is the knowledge of regenerate souls . I know: not only doctrinally, in notion and theory, but it is a confirmed truth, by heart-felt experience. I know it from day to day: I have proved it again and again: I am fully assured of it, as I am of my own existence, “that in my flesh dwelleth no good thing . ”  St. Paul’s judgment of himself was confirmed by experience. “But was he not a most eminent apostle, and holy saint?" Yes; still he confesses publicly before God, angels, and men, that he was the subject of a nature, which was earthly, sensual, and devilish. If no good thing dwelt in his flesh, is it not implied, that every evil dwelt there? Doubtless, he would be so...

"He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted: neither hath He hid His face from him: but when he cried unto Him He heard him." -Psalm 22:24 [KJV] My soul, behold Jesus, the Lamb of God, in this sweet scripture. Is it not said of Him, that in the days of His flesh "He offered up strong crying and tears, and was heard in that He feared? Though he were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered . " And was Jesus the Holy One, the afflicted One, also?  Was He truly so, when He bore thy sins? And was this the time to which the scripture refers, when God the Father had respect to the sufferings of Jesus, and neither despised nor abhorred them? Did the Father behold Him then through the whole as the sinner's Surety, and graciously accept Jesus and the church in Him? Oh then, my soul, think of this in all thy trials and afflictions. Carry all thy sins and sorrows to the throne. Jesus knows them all, sees them a...

"Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood." -Romans 3:24, 25 [KJV] Before we can have faith in Christ's atoning blood, we must see the glory of the Person of the Lord of life. "We beheld His glory , " said John, speaking of himself and the other favoured disciples, "we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." May I ask you a question, you who profess to know these things? Were your eyes ever anointed to behold the glory of Jesus? Did faith ever contemplate, did hope ever anchor in, did love ever flow forth to the glorious Person of Immanuel?  Was He ever precious to your souls? ever "altogether lovely" in your eyes? so that you could say, "Whom have I in heaven but Thee? and there is none upon earth I desire beside Thee ? " Now, if you have seen His P...

It would be good for all to think about that man Noah in the light of present religious thinking.  Noah was a man who wasn’t seeking God but God in grace found him and made him the object of His grace in Christ!   His faith was the evidence of God’s grace to and in him not the cause of it (see Hebrews 11 & Genesis 6:8) .  His preaching was about righteousness not about morality, politics or life lessons.  Being a “preacher of righteousness , ” he was the only true gospel preacher on earth at the time.   He preached a hundred and twenty years and didn’t have a convert outside of his own family.  His was the only church on earth but there were only eight members.  He was a man of one message... “flee to the ark for safety.”   That ark was a type of Christ crucified and so he continued to preach as he built it at God’s command.   Can you imagine the ridicule and scoffing he endured as he built a boat when there ...

"No man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand."   -John 10:29 [KJV] Think, my soul, how eternally safe and secure must the church of Jesus be, thus kept by the mighty power of God, through faith, unto salvation! What shall unclasp the hands of Jehovah? Who shall wrest the weakest, the humblest, the poorest of Christ’s little ones from the holding of His omnipotency?  Why then art thou, my soul, so frequently exercised with fears, and doubts, and misgivings? It is the Lord’s love that is the foundation of thy assurance, and not the strength of thy graces! His own free mercy, and not thy merit were the first causes of thy calling; and what is it now, in thy present preservation, but the same which holds thee up and carries thee through every difficulty?   "Yea, He loved the people; all His saints are in Thy hands" (Deuteronomy 33:3) . Precious Lord Jesus! It is enough. How shall a child of Thine perish when secured by such almighty support? Oh to h...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (27SEP25 A.D.) Heads-Up! Please find enclosed encouragement in "SO GREAT SALVATION" by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace - God's unmerited favor - from their sins and from Hell:     "The miracle announced by the Gospel is that God comes to the ungodly with a mercy that is righteous, and in spite of all their depravity and rebellion, enables them through faith ( on the ground of Christ’s righteousness ) to enter into a new and blessed relation with Himself." -unknown author