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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (28FEB-01MAR20) 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 our sins and from Hell: "Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee: and let such as love Thy salvation say continually, let God be magnified." -Psalm 70:4 [KJV] Every believer can truly identify and say with David, that we love the salvation that God has abundantly, eternally and sovereignly given to the poor and needy sinner in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no doubt that everyone is in need of salvation (Rom. 3:23), but few seem to have any real interest. The warning of scripture is, "how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation" (Heb. 2:3). Why does the true believer love the salvation of God? Let me give you se...

"And hath put all things under H is feet." -E PHESIANS 1:22 [KJV] H OW VAST , HOW NUMEROUS , how complicated are the various events and circumstances which attend the Church of God here below, as she travels onward to her heavenly home! But if all things as well as all persons are put under Jesus' feet, there cannot be a single circumstance over which H e has not supreme control. Everything in providence and everything in grace are alike subject to H is disposal. There is not a trial or temptation, an affliction of body or soul, a loss, a cross, a painful bereavement, a vexation, grief or disappointment, a case, state or condition, which is not put under Jesus' feet.   He has sovereign, supreme disposal over all events and circumstances. As possessed of infinite knowledge He sees them, as possessed of infinite wisdom He can manage them, and as possessed of infinite power He can dispose and direct them for our good and His own glory. How ...

"God, W ho is rich in mercy." -E PHESIANS 2:4 [KJV] Mercy well suits a sensible sinner; and the riches of God's mercy especially suit those who are brought down in real extremity of soul to see and feel how abundant He must be in mercy, how overflowing in the exceeding riches of His grace, that they may venture to entertain a hope of an interest in it, as freely coming down to them in their low and lost estate. We know mercy, feelingly and experimentally, before we know love. Love is first in God, but it is not first in our experience of it; nor do we go to God when made first to feel our need of mercy, as if we were objects of His love, or could venture to  entertain the remotest idea that a God so holy could love a sinner so vile; but we go to Him to obtain mercy, as the Apostle speaks: "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need" (Hebrews 4:16). Mercy is the ...