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

"Those that walk in pride H e is able to abase." -D ANIEL 4:37 [KJV] Amongst all the evils which lie naked and open before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do, pride seems especially to incur H is holy abhorrence; and the outward manifestations of it have perhaps drawn down as much as, or more than, any other sin H is marked thunderbolts. Pride cost Senhacherib his army and Herod his life; pride opened the earth to Korah, Dathan and Abiram, and hung up Absalom in the boughs of an oak; pride filled the breast of Saul with murderous hatred against David, and tore ten tribes at one stroke from the hand of Rehoboam. Pride drove Nebuchadnezzar from the society of his fellow-men, and made him eat grass as oxen, and his body to be wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown as eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. And as it has cut off the wicked from the earth, and left them neither son nor nephew, root nor branch, so it has made sad h...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (05-07JUL19) 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: "GOD TELLS US that His people are ACCEPTED IN CHRIST (EPHESIANS 1:6) . If a person is without Christ, then he has nothing that God will accept! God tells us that no man CAN COME unto the Father but by Christ; therefore, if a person is without Christ, he has no ground upon which he can approach God. Christ said, " I am the way, the truth, and the life ."   If He is THE WAY, there is no other way; if He is THE TRUTH, everything else is a lie; and if He is THE LIFE, everything apart from Him is death. Those who HAVE CHRIST have His blood for pardon, His righteousness for justification, His fullness for every need, His strength to support us, Hi...

The only real, lasting encouragement a sinner can have in this world is to be found in, through and by the glorious gospel of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. This gospel is the declaration that based upon the person and finished work of Christ, God will give grace and glory to all those in whose stead the Savior died and arose. It is not a message of stipulations man must meet in order for the grace of God to flow to the undeserving; rather, it is the announcement that God, for Christ’s sake, receives and saves a multitude of unworthy sinners. This is a salvation altogether of grace, conditioned only upon the blood and righteousness of the Son of God. 1. This message gives hope to sinners who merit the wrath of God. "When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly" (Romans 5:6). 2. This message gives peace and assurance to those who believe on Him. "Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art...