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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (03-05AUG18) 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 AWFULNESS OF SIN Judge the awfulness of sin by the punishment required to remove it. We know that a just God would never require an unfair payment for sin. His justice would not demand more, nor settle for less, than the price required to remove it. Behold the cross of Calvary. See who is fastened to the cursed tree. It is the Lord's Anointed, the holy, spotless, eternal Son of God. Why does He hang there? Why does He suffer so? Why does He cry out, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Why does He die? It is because He bore the sins of His own people on the cross, and since a holy God demands satisfaction for cri

The Son of God, in cov’nant love, The law to satisfy; Descended from His throne above, To suffer, bleed and die. ‘Twas by His death God’s justice was Completely satisfied; And by the work of Christ our Lord, The law was magnified. Upon the cross the Savior bore, The weight of all our sin; For us He paid the ransom price, And righteousness brought in. Christ triumphed over sin and death Then took His seat on high; And by the power of His blood, To God He brings us nigh. Each sinner in whose stead Christ died, Will in this Savior rest; And all who trust in Him are robed, In spotless righteousness. Tune to "HOW SWEET THE NAME" CM Words by JIM BYRD ====================================== THE WORD OF TRUTH Some say it makes no difference what a man hears or believes with regard to religious matters, as long as he "believes on Jesus," no matter who he imagines him to be or to have done. An inspired apostle, however, wrote