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

“My heart shall rejoice in T hy salvation.” -P SALM 13: 5 [KJV]   This is the message of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, salvation is of the Lord, His doing, His faithfulness and His sacrifice; therefore His people do rejoice in Him at all times (P HILIPPIANS 3:7-9; II T IMOTHY 1:9) . 1). He is the Author of it , before there was a sinner there was a Saviour; before Adam fell in sin; Christ stood as the everlasting Surety, Saviour and Sacrifice for all our sin (H EBREWS 7:22; 13:20; I J OHN 1:7; R EVELATION 13:8) . 2). He is the Accomplisher of our salvation , He bought us with His own blood (A CTS 20:28; H EBREWS 1:3) ; freely justifies us by His grace (R OMANS 3:24) and gives us a perfect justifying righteousness through His faithfulness (R OMANS 4:6-8; G ALATIANS 2:16). 3). He is the Applier of salvation , He will have mercy on whom He will (M ATTHEW 11:25; R OMANS 9:13-16; P HILIPPIANS 1:6) . 4). He is the Administer of salvation ...

“He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” -M ATTHEW 28:6 [KJV] What does it mean for sinners like us to know that the Lord is risen? First of all it means, He died! The sinless One died! Why did He die? How could He die? He died because the sin of His people was pressed into Him, and He was judged before the throne of God for the sin that He carried. The only way that the spotless, holy Lamb of God could die was by bearing the sin of His people. So the fact that He died means, that’s exactly what He did! But the glorious announcement continues… He was laid in a tomb after suffering the righteous judgment and punishment of God so that His people wouldn’t have to, but He is not still in that tomb! He is risen! That means: the sin is gone, the punishment is over, and God is satisfied! God the Father is satisfied with Christ, and He is satisfied with us IN CHRIST! Every bit of that happened, exactly as the Lord Jesus Christ said it wou...

I know that we are not “Calvinists” in the sense that we are followers of John Calvin or, for that matter, any man. But I am not ashamed to be identified with faithful men of the past who preached and boldly contended for the gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace. We must not be ashamed of our pedigree. The old truth that Spurgeon preached, that Whitefield preached, that Calvin preached, that Paul preached is the truth that I must preach today or be false to my conscience and my God. Mr. Spurgeon one said, “The primary need of the church is not simply more evangelism nor even more holiness (in the first place) but a return to the full truth of the gospel of God’s free grace.” For convenience, he was prepared to name “Calvinism.” I cannot SHAPE the truth in order to get along with preachers and organizations which do not believe it. I cannot take the rough edges off nor the offence from such doctrines as the fall, election, and effectual atonement. Most preachers (if they wil...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (10-12MAY19) 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: "No truth shines with clearer luster in the Bible than that salvation, from first to last, is of God. God is sovereign in salvation! He often selects . . . the poorest, the vilest, the most depraved, the most fallen, as if utterly to explode all idea of human merit, and to reflect the free grace of His heart in its richest luster. O precious truth! It stains the pride of human merit! It lays the axe at the root of self! It humbles and abases! It empties and lays low! It ascribes all the praise, honor and glory, might, majesty and dominion, of the new creation in the soul, to the Triune God! No worthiness of the creature allures Him to the sinner...