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

“ Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I AM THE DOOR OF THE SHEEP .” -J OHN 10:7 [KJV] I love how the Lord always teaches His people through things that they can understand. We all know what a door is. It is a way of access. It is a way of entrance. A door is used to let some in. A door is the means to keep some in and shut others out. How beautiful a “door” illustrates who and what Christ is to the believing sinner. Christ is not just “a door,” He is “THE door.” There is no other door. He is the only door. “ For t here is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” ( I TIMOTHY 2:5 ) . Christ is the door of the sheep . He is not the door for goats. He is not the door for the whole world. He is the only access that the sheep have to God. He said, “I am the door: by M e if any man enter in, he shall be save d ” . We can only enter in “by Him” (J OHN 10:9) . Sinners cannot enter of themselves; they are dead in

"Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the L ORD of hosts." -ISAIAH 6:5 [KJV] God has described His Zion as "full of wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores." When the Church of God fell in Adam, she fell with a crash which broke every bone and bruised her flesh with wounds which are ulcerated from top to toe. Her understanding, her conscience, and her affections were all fearfully maimed. The first was blinded, the second stupified, and the third alienated. Every mental faculty thus became perverted and distorted. As in a ship-wrecked vessel the water runs in through every leak, so when Adam fell upon the lee-shore of sin and temptation, and made shipwreck of the image of God in which he was created, sin rushed into every faculty of body and soul, and penetrated into the inmost recesses of his being. Or to use another figure; a

“ ... testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ .” - A CTS 20:21 [KJV] Repentance is the hand releasing my idols; faith is an empty hand that reaches out to Christ for His gift of grace. Repentance is godly sorrow over sin; faith receives a full pardon from Christ. Repentance cries, “God be merciful to me a sinner” ; faith embraces the sinner’s Saviour. Repentance is a genuine hatred for the pollution of sin; faith is seeking cleansing in Christ. Repentance is the leper covering his mouth and crying, “Unclean, unclean” ; faith is the leper coming to Christ and saying, “Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean” (LUKE 5:12) . -Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan Audio Gospel Sermons here: https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=mahan