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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (07-09SEP18) 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. "Christ is to be answerable for ALL those that are given to Him, at THE LAST DAY, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ’s charge and care of these that are given to Him extends even to the very day of their resurrection that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, “ I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day” (John 6:39). -Gospel report by preacher Thomas Brooks (1608-1680 A.D.)

Before creation came to be, Or sun’s first rays had shined; The destinies of all mankind Were by God’s will assigned. He chose a people for Himself, And willed that they would be; Saved by His free and sovereign grace, The Lord’s own family. Entrusted to the Son were all The Father chose in love; And to redeem them from the fall, He came from heav’n above. The work appointed for our Lord, To save His chosen bride; The Son of God came forth to do, His name be glorified! All we like sheep had gone astray And turned to our own way; How infinite the debt we owed, A debt we could not pay. But Jesus came and paid it all, He died sin to atone; No blood or righteousness could save, But that of His alone. The mighty Spirit of the Lord, Whose grace we do extol; He draws us unto Jesus Christ Who makes our spirits whole. Now in the Lord we make our boast, Christ is our hope and plea; E’er long we all shall dwell with Him, Throughout eternity. To th