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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (10-12AUG18) 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 GROUND OF OUR JUSTIFICATION If I were asked, What is the ground of our justification (being declared righteous and accepted) before and with God? I would answer without hesitation, The righteousness God has provided in and by His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, through His obedience unto death, which God has imputed (charged, accounted) to us.. There is no other ground of justification before God. Faith is not that ground; repentance is not that ground; obedience is not that ground. The ground of forgiveness and acceptance before God is entirely and exclusively the work of Christ on the cross as God the Father “ made Him to be sin for us” (ch