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The Ark of Salvation: Flee to Christ Today

"The LORD shut him in." -Genesis 7:16 [KJV] Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not of the world. Into the sin, the gaiety, the pursuits of the multitude we cannot enter; we cannot play in the streets of Vanity Fair with the children of darkness, for our heavenly Father has shut us in. Noah was shut in with his God. "Come thou into the ark" ... by which He clearly showed that He Himself intended to dwell in the ark with His servant and his family. Thus all the chosen dwell in God and God in them. Happy people to be enclosed in the same circle which contains God in the Trinity of His persons, Father, Son, and Spirit. Let us never be inattentive to that gracious call, "Come, M y people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee, and hide thyself...

Jesus Christ Saves Sinners

Lord now Thy people meet, To praise and worship Thee; We bow ourselves before Thy feet, And homage raise to Thee. For Thou art God alone, Eternal, Lord of all; On bended knee before Thy throne, Upon Thy name we call. Though far from Thee we strayed, "Show mercy," is our cry; Without Thy sovereign grace and aid, We must forever die. O grant that we would live, To praise and honor Thee; All laud and glory we will give, Now and eternally. Exalt Thy Son O Lord, Who hung upon the tree; ‘Twas by His death we were restored, And justified by Thee. He is our Righteousness, His death upon the cross; Saved us from our great sinfulness, From endless pain and loss. TUNE: " This Is My Father’s World" SM/DOUBLE Words by JIM BYRD ------------------------------------------ "For God so loved the world, (which He was, in Christ, reconciling to Himself) that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in H...