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

“ Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my B eloved come into H is garden, and eat H is pleasant fruits.” -S ONG OF SOLOMON 4:16 [KJV] We are, most of us, so fettered down by the chains of time and sense, the cares of life and daily business, the weakness of our earthly frame, the distracting claims of a family, and the miserable carnality and sensuality of our fallen nature, that we live at best a poor, dragging, dying life. We take no pleasure in the world, nor mix with a good conscience in its pursuits and amusements; we are many of us poor, moping, dejected creatures, from a variety of trials and afflictions; we have a daily cross and the continual plague of an evil heart; get little consolation from the family of God or the outward means of grace; know enough of ourselves to know that in self there is neither help nor hope, and never expect a smoother path, a better, wiser, holier heart, or to be able

     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: Sovereign Grace and T he Great Commission Those who are elected to life in Christ shall be saved; “All that the Father giveth Me shall come to M e” (J OHN 6:37) , but they shall be brought to Christ in genuine repentance and faith by God’s Spirit through the means He has appointed – THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL! ( I CORINTHIANS 1:21)… I urge, persuade, and beseech you to be reconciled to God, for “He hath made Him to be sin for us, W ho knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (II CORINTHIANS 5:21) . -Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=418131535290