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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (03-05APR20) 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:   What A Saviour   Believer, what a Saviour God has provided for His people! The Almighty God [JOHN 1:1 ] , yet all tender Saviour and Shepherd [JOHN 10:11 ] ! How well fitted is He to be our Great High Priest [HEBREWS 2:17 ] . How sufficient is He to supply our every need [COLOSSIANS 2:9-10 ] . How complete His wisdom and grace to provide for us perfect atonement and full justification from all sin [HEBREWS 9:12 ] . May God be pleased to give us a greater love, adoration, and reverence for our Saviour and Lord. We love to sing, "Hallelujah! what a Saviour, Who can take a poor lost sinner, lift him from the miry clay, and set him free!"

“ God's predestination is like all His blessings, unless we are brought by sovereign mercy joined with power to bow to it, we will never be blessed by it! To predestinate means to mark out and determine before hand. While He determines all things by it, it specifically has to do with His elect. It has to do with individuals: "For whom He did predestinate.." [ROMANS 8:30 ] . God predetermined that a people that He chose in Christ would receive all the inheritance of grace!”   - Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard

"Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." -H EBREWS 12:14 [KJV] To possess this holiness is a necessary and indispensable meetness for the inheritance of the saints in light; but this meetness must be wrought in us by the power of God's grace, for I am sure that in ourselves of it we have none. But see its necessity. What happiness could there be in the courts of bliss unless we had a nature to enjoy it? Unless we were made capable of seeing Christ as He is, and enjoying His presence for evermore, heaven would be no heaven to us. Nothing unclean or unholy can enter there. Sanctification therefore must be wrought in us by the power of God, to make us meet for the heavenly inheritance, and He therefore communicates of His Spirit and grace to give us heavenly affections, holy desires, gracious thoughts, tender feelings; and above all that love whereby He is loved as the altogether lovely.   By the sanctifying operations of His Spirit, He separates