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

"...and confessed they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."   - Hebrews 11:13 [KJV]   O, ye worldly-minded professors, can ye read this without being ashamed and reproved? What will bring a man to this confession? Will sickness, and a near approach to death? O! no. Men return from the most dangerous illness, to greater love of the world, and more ardent pursuit after the things of it. Look at a dying worldling. See him, like a drowning man, clinching the faster what he has grasped for his hope and help. Men not only live fools, but die fools too. Their senses beguile them: their reason befools them: they reject the plainest truths before them. Nothing will kill the love of a bewitching world in a deceitful heart, but the view of heaven by faith. No man will confess himself a stranger to the world, and a pilgrim on the earth, until he sees himself “a fellow-citizen with the saints, and of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19.) As we say, we will not quit a...

"Therefore His sisters sent unto Him, saying, Lord! behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that, He said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby ." -John 11:3, 4 [KJV]   My soul! ponder these words. It may be said now, as it was then, Lord, behold he whom Thou lovest, yea, many our Lord Jesus loveth, are at this present hour sick! Who shall calculate the number? Who shall mark down the tears of the sorrowful of the Lord's people? But Jesus knows them all; yea, appoints all; and He it is, of whom it is said, "He putteth their tears into His bottle: are not these things noted in Thy book?" These words suggest another sweet thought. The sorrowful sisters, in their message to the Lord Jesus, did not tell Him that one whom they loved was sick, but one whom Jesus loved . There could be no doubt of their love to their brother: but their application to Jesus was on accoun...

"That I may rejoice in the gladness of Thy nation." -Psalm 106:5 [KJV] What is "the gladness of God's nation?" To be saved "without money and without price;" to be saved by grace—free, rich, sovereign, distinguishing grace, without one atom of works, without one grain of creature merit, without anything of the flesh. This is "the gladness of God's nation ; " to rejoice in free grace, grace super-abounding over the aboundings of sin, grace reigning triumphant over the dreadful evils of our heart. It is grace that "gladdens" a man's heart.    Oh! sweet grace, blessed grace! when it meets our case and reaches our souls. Oh! what a help, what a strength, what a rest for a poor toiling, striving, labouring soul, to find that grace has done all the work, to feel that grace has triumphed in the cross of Christ, to find that nothing is required, nothing is wanted, nothing is to be done. It is a full and perfect, com...

Audio Gospel Sermon ~ "God is Omnipotent" -by preacher Gary Shepard (52 minutes) Great is our LORD JESUS and greatly to be praised! https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/518261033281149

"Man must repent and believe in order to be saved, not to be born again. Repentance and faith are acts of men through God’s enablement. The natural man cannot repent and believe in order to be saved. If the natural man could repent and believe, he would not be depraved.  Religionists deny depravity when they say an individual by his faith can repent and believe.  They deny the spiritual inability of the sinner. This is humanism which is so prevalent among denominations today. We condemn secular humanism, but secular humanism is not as heinous as religious humanism.  Thinking one can be influenced to spirituality by another is unscriptural. The natural man cannot repent and believe. Liberals, modernists, Arminians, and humanists are all in the same category. They all believe there is a spark in man which only needs to be fanned. However, regeneration is God’s giving man the ability to do spiritually what he was unable to do naturally. Repentance and faith are ...

He will sustain you! "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. "   -Psalm 55:22 The promise is not that the Lord will remove the load we cast upon Him, nor that He will carry it for us — but that He will sustain us so that we may carry it. He does not free us from the duty — but He strengthens us for it. He does not deliver us from the conflict — but He enables us to overcome. He does not withhold or withdraw the trial from us — but He helps us in trial to be submissive and victorious and makes it a blessing to us. He does not mitigate the hardness or severity of our circumstances, taking away the difficult elements, removing the thorns, making life easy for us — but He puts Divine grace into our hearts, so that we can live sweetly in all the hard, adverse circumstances. II Corinthians 12:9, "My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness."      ...