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

Once while listening to a “televangelist” on TV, I heard him say as he was supposedly praying for his listeners, “ I release unto you the efficacy of the blood of Jesus.” I thought, what blasphemy! Then, the thought occurred to me, that’s what most preachers today are telling people to do! This is the very essence of modern 'freewill' works religion. It is the basis of the decisionism that false religion promotes today. Neither man’s work nor man’s will shall be allowed to determine the success of God’s purpose or the efficacy of Christ’s blood. The truth is, the efficacy of the blood of Jesus is what releases us! If it hasn’t, then we are yet in bondage and shall remain so for all eternity. Faith does not release the efficacy of the blood of Jesus, it realizes it, receives it and relies upon it as the single ground of our salvation. Christ made peace by the blood of His cross. His blood obtained eternal redemption for us. He purchased the church with His own blood. The bloo...

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost." -Luke 19:10 [KJV] "The Son of man is come."  What a blessed coming! The Lord Jesus seems to have taken to Himself, with the tenderest condescension to our wants, that gracious title, "the Son of man." He was the Son of God, and that from all eternity; but He delights to call Himself the Son of man. We want one like ourselves, wearing the same nature; carrying in His bosom the same human heart; one who has been, "in all points, tempted like as we are, yet without sin;" and therefore able to sympathise with and to succour those that are tempted.   A sinner like man, when made sensible of his pollution and guilt, cannot draw near unto God in His intrinsic, essential majesty and holiness. Viewed as the great and glorious Being that fills eternity, Jehovah is too great, too transcendently holy, too awfully perfect for him to approach. He must therefore have a Mediator; and th...

  "HE KNOWETH THEM THAT TRUST IN HIM"                                                                                                                                                  -Nahum 1:7 [KJV] He knows our frame, and bears patiently with us. He knows our temptations, and brings His succour ( help ). He knows our transgressions, and forgives them. He knows our sorrows. and sweetly soothes them. He knows our accusers, and confounds them. He knows our enemies, and scatters them. He knows our tears, and will wipe them away. -preacher Thomas Brad...

Christ said to the religious Jews in His day, “He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God” (John 8:47) . That men will hear men there can be no doubt. They will receive the witness of men. But no man apart from the grace of God will hear GOD. Unless we are chosen of God, redeemed of God and quickened by the Spirit we cannot and will not hear God. To hear God we must “hear God’s words..” The truth is, a man may speak the truth but we only believe what we know to be true from God’s words. We only believe God when we have seen it for ourselves in His word! That’s why so many people are deceived, they receive the witness of men, of preachers often times who do not speak according to God’s words. God’s preacher wants people to see if they telling the truth by checking them in God’s word. The Bereans were said to be “noble” because they searched the scriptures to see if the things Paul said was true. Paul was an apostle of God but the...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(1 8 - 20 SEP20) 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 SECURITY OF THE SHEEP "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand." -John 10:27-29 [KJV] There is no stronger passage to be found in the word of God guaranteeing the absolute security of every child of God. They are His sheep, they follow Him, they have eternal life, they are in the hand of Christ, the Father gave them to Christ (John 6:37; John ch. 17, vss. 2, 6, 9, 11, 12, 24), and they are in the Father’s han...

  " Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth." -Romans 8:33 [KJV] He against whom sin is committed, the Lawgiver, and the righteous Judge, justifies them from every charge; not by teaching them the way of justification, nor by infusing righteousness into them, or on account of any works of righteousness done by them, but by pronouncing them righteous through the imputation of the righteousness of His Son unto them: observe, that "God’s elect," as such, are the objects of justification; which proves the eternity of it; the speciality of it as belonging to particular persons, and the everlasting security and continuance of it. –preacher John Gill (1697 – 1771 A.D.)

  "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." -Romans 10:13 [KJV] The NAME OF THE LORD signifies the Lord Himself. His name reveals WHO He is, WHAT He has done, WHY He did it, and WHERE He is now! And none other NAME can save (Phil ippians 2:6-11) . Jehovah-jireh "The L ORD will provide" (Gen esis 22:13-14) . Jehovah-rapha "The L ORD that healeth" (Exo dus 15:26) . Jehovah-nissi "The L ORD our banner" (Exo dus 17:8-15) . Jehovah-shalom "The L ORD our peace" (Judges 6:24) . Jehovah-ra-ah "The L ORD my shepherd" (Psalm 23:1) . Jehovah-tsidkenu "The L ORD our righteousness" (Jer emiah 23:6) . Jehovah-shammah "The L ORD is present" (Ezek iel 48:35) . To call upon His name is to humble ourselves before Him, to recognize His majesty, to believe His promises, and to hope in His mercy. -preacher Henry T. Mahan (from his commentary on Romans) http://w...