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

"Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace;  to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed"   -Romans 4:16 [KJV] Most everyone would agree that there is immense need of salvation in the soul of all people. Just look around, there are churches and different denominations of religion everywhere. Surely, people are saying there is a necessity of salvation. The scriptures certainly make it plain that there is a need of salvation. For we read, "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23). The difference among men is, how is salvation received? Some say it is received by works, efforts and ceremony or being a member of a certain church. However, the scriptures plainly teach that salvation (the Lord Jesus Christ) is received by faith, not by works. It was said of Abraham, "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God and being fully persuaded that, what H e

My sins may grieve me, and indeed they do, but since Christ is all, since my salvation is based entirely on what He has done, what I have done is of no eternal consequence. Such a statement may trouble the mind of the legalist, for he simply cannot believe that his actions do not determine his destiny. However, the believer knows that God has "Predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ , " Ephesians 1:5. The believer's destiny has been determined by God, and secured by the person and merits of Jesus Christ. Will such preaching breed a sinful life or an antinomian spirit? Only in those who do not believe! However, in those who do believe, in whose heart resides the blessed hope of being like Christ, it is a purifying truth. "And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as He is pure , " (I John 3:3). Christ is ALL and that is all. - Gospel report by preacher Joe Terrell Grace Community Church of Rock

"And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON" - I John 5:11 [KJV] How often we are looking and looking in vain for life in ourselves. True it is that if God has quickened our souls we are partakers of life divine, of life spiritual, of life eternal, of the life that is in Christ and comes from Christ; and yet how often we vainly seek to find it warm and glowing in our breasts. If once given it never dies; but it is often hidden beneath the ashes, and thus though it slowly burns and dimly glows, yet the ashes hide it from view, and we only know it is there by some remains of warmth. "Your life is hid with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3) and therefore not only hidden as treasured and stored up safely in God, but hidden from the world, and even hidden from the eyes of its possessor. Christ is our life. There is no other. To look, then, for life in ourselves independent of and distinct from the fountain of