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

"A man in Christ." -II Corinthians 12:2 [KJV]   My soul! thy last evening's meditation was sweet, (was it not?) in contemplating thy Jesus, as glorious in His own person, and as glorified in His people. Wilt thou add to that subject, for it is part of the same, for thy present thoughts, what is suggested in this motto, "a man in Christ?" Dost thou fully enter into the pleasing apprehension of what the phrase implies? Now, who shall fully describe it; or who is competent fully to conceive the whole extent of it? "A man in Christ , " must imply every thing connected with a oneness, an union, a part of himself; yea, "a life hid with Christ in God." "A man in Christ" is as much a part in Christ's mystical body, as the head, or hand, or foot, is a part of that body to which those members belong.   Hence, (which is indeed a sweet part of the subject) every one who is "a man in Christ , " is, to all intents...

"Being justified freely by His grace." -Romans 3:24 [KJV] And it is because grace is free it can reach us. How free is the sun in sending forth its enlightening, warming beams; how free the clouds in discharging their watery treasures; how free the dew in falling from the face of heaven; how free the wind in blowing where it listeth. Now these are scriptural types and representatives of the free grace of God. It shines as freely as the sun; drops as freely as the rain; falls as freely as the dew; and blows as freely as the wind.  But not in grace as in nature to all men. I mean not that; but all to whom it comes it comes freely. And whenever it so comes it communicates precious things with it. As the sun lights and warms, as the rain fertilises, as the dew softens, as the wind invigorates, so it is with the grace of God which comes out of the fulness of Christ. It enlightens the understanding, warms the heart, fertilises the soul, softens the spirit, and invigo...

"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 preacher of righteousness

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: 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 on...

"No man is able to pluck them  out of My Father’s hand" (John 10:29). 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 hear ...

 Based upon Romans 1:16-19 and preached by Henry Mahan.   The LORD JESUS be magnified!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK5_uVwZqIY