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

"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." -Matthew 5:16 [KJV]   To glorify God is the highest ambition of angels. The brightest seraph before the throne has no higher aim, no greater happiness, than to bring glory to H is name. And yet a poor sinner on earth may glorify God as much, and in some way more, than the brightest angel in the courts of eternal bliss. What different views the eyes of God and the eyes of men take of events passing on the earth. What glory is brought to God by all the victories gained by one country over another? I have thought sometimes that a poor old man, or feeble, decrepit woman, lying on a workhouse pallet, fighting with sin, self and Satan, yet enabled amidst all to look to the Lord Jesus, and by a word from H is lips overcoming death and hell, though when dead thrust into an elm coffin, to rot in a pauper's grave, brings more glory to God than all the explo...

“ ...For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of H im that calleth ” -Romans 9:11 [KJV] God’s eternal purpose and decree of election is free in every sense. It totally depends on His will and His choice alone. Being firm and unchanging, it cannot be altered or made void by anyone or anything in earth or hell. It does not depend on human works in any way but on Him who calleth alone! God’s election of certain sinners to salvation in Christ will stand because Christ has stood for them! =============== Few there are in our day who love the plain and undecorated gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel without musical enhancement, illustrative enrichment and enthusiastic presentation comes as an unpalatable thing to tastes of today’s hearers. Yet, the gospel without these things is the children’s bread, the sheep’s food, and the words of life to...

Many brethren that we know and love are going through difficult trials right now. Some are enduring sickness, others are enduring loss. Our Lord told us in J OHN 16:33 that our life in the earth would be this way. He said, “...In the world y e shall have tribulation...” The reason all of God’s people suffer tribulation is because all of God’s people suffer with sin. Sin is the root of all our trouble. Sin destroyed our souls; it destroys our bodies; it destroys our peace, and brings nothing but trials and trouble to us and everything around us. But in the same verse our Lord said, “These things have I spoken unto you, that IN ME ye might have peace.” The reason all of God’s people can have peace in Christ, in spite of all of our trials and tribulation, is because Christ has overcome all of the sin that has destroyed us! Christ has redeemed our souls; Christ has redeemed our bodies; and Christ has secured eternal peace and rest for all those who are in Him. It is true: i...

“ He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit sayeth unto the churches.”   - Revelation 3:22 [KJV] “ One of the old preachers is reported to have said, ‘ I preach as one who may never preach again, as a dying man to dying men.’ How solemn a thought that is to those of us charged with preaching. Let us not tickle the ears of dying men with the trifles of earthly issues and vain religion. But does this principle not apply in some way to the man who listens? Ought we not say every time we come to worship, ‘ I listen as one who may never hear again, as a dying man among dying men’ ? God grant us the same seriousness in hearing as we expect in preaching!”    - Gospel report by preacher Joe Terrell Grace Community church of Rock Valley, Iowa USA Audio Gospel Sermons here: https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=gccrvia