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

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." -Matthew 6:34 [KJV] Believer, are you anxious about tomorrow? Do the thoughts of next week and next month and the end of the year cause your mind to become weighted down with anxiety? Listen to the words of your Master. He says, "Take no thought for tomorrow." He tells us not to add tomorrow's cares to the cares of today. We have sufficient evil in this day without adding tomorrows care to it. The question is not "what if that or this happens tomorrow?" The question is "how will you get through today?" The answer is God's grace is sufficient for this day. Sufficient to overcome the evil of this day is the grace of God which shall be given you today. You do not need grace for tomorrow only grace for today. "It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, be

How can the Lord God be merciful and gracious, forgiving iniquity and sin, yet by no means clear the guilty? He can only forgive sin by punishing the guilty to the full satisfaction of His holy justice in a perfect Substitute! God will punish your sin, either by your everlasting torment in Hell, or by His Son's substitutionary sacrifice in your place on the cursed tree. The Lord Jesus Christ satisfied God's wrath against the sins of His people. All men outside of Christ must suffer forever in Hell, because finite men can never satisfy an Infinite God. What a sobering thought! God is absolutely holy. We are absolutely sinful and obnoxious to Him. We must have a Mediator between the Holy Lord God and sinners like us. He must plead our cause, and be heard and accepted upon the grounds of justice satisfied. Thank God, there is ONE who pleads the merits of His shed blood, who takes sinners and washes them clean, as white as snow! -Gospel report by preacher Eric