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

"Deal bountifully with T hy servant,   that I may live, and keep T hy word." - PSALM 119:17 [KJV] Can the Lord deal any way but bountifully with His servants? Why has He made you His servants? Why did He strike the chains of former servitude off your hands? Why did He bring you out of the service of sin, the world, Satan, and self? Why did He ever make Himself precious to your heart, win your affections, and enable you to give yourselves wholly unto Him? That He might cast you off? that He might mock your calamity? that He might trample you one day into hell? that He might leave you to yourself, that He might suffer Satan to overcome you, permit your lusts to destroy you; or allow your sins to be tied one day, like a mill-stone, round your neck to sink you into hell? Oh, can our heart ever indulge thoughts so derogatory to sovereign grace? Was it not because the Lord had bounty in His heart towards you, that He first turned your heart towards Hi...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (19-21JUL19) 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 man has a true desire for the salvation of men's souls who does not first have a desire for God to be honored and glorified above all things. The individual who believes or preaches a gospel in which God is not glorified, one in which His justice is not fully satisfied as His grace is shown, not only doesn't truly desire to see men's souls saved but most likely is not saved himself. A salvation which does not begin with God, which is not provided for altogether by God, which does not save all whom He purposes to save and which does not keep all He saves...does not glorify God. The chief end of all things in salvation as well as in general ...