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

“ … and there is no God else beside M e; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside M e.” -I SAIAH 45:21 [KJV] The rareness of anything makes it valuable. This is apparent in gold, precious stones or automobiles. How rare is this statement found in Isaiah? It’s supported elsewhere but only here found in all the sixty-six books of the Bible. Let us be encouraged by such a matchless declaration. We find two singular truths. First, God is a “just God” . It’s an attribute; He can be no other way than just. He must dispense justice. God’s moral righteousness is articulated in His Laws and revealed in His judicial acts. Being an offense to His holy character, God must punish sin.    Consider: GOD IS A JUST GOD   Justice illustrated : Noah’s world was eradicated with the world-wide flood (G ENESIS ch. 6-8) . Lot’s world was leveled with fire and brimstone (G ENESIS ch. 18-19) .   Justice declared : The Lord would “…by no means clear the guilty...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands ( 03-05MAY 19) 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: “ For lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations; like as corn is sifted in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.” - AMOS 9:9 [KJV] Blessed promise to my poor soul; sifted, blown about by temptation. Look then to Jesus with it, and plead it under every new sifting time. Corn must be sifted, for it is much covered at times with tares and chaff. And so must the seed of Jesus, that the precious may be known and separated; "for what is the chaff to the wheat?" saith the Lord. Oh Lord, if it please Thee, for Thou knowest the necessity of it, sift me, try me, separate me, not only from the ungod...