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

“ The death of Jesus Christ was not merely the example of a martyr’s death. No, it was a true and accepted sacrifice. His blood was shed as a sacrifice in the place of and on the behalf of His people to satisfy the offended and outraged justice of God. He offered Himself a sacrifice to God, for sins, that He might save His people from their sins. Any gospel that sets Christ forth as less than this is defective! “ But now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself” [HEBREWS 9:26 ] . Jesus Christ died as a Substitute, a Sacrifice and a SUCCESS !” - Gospel report by preacher Gary Shepard Sovereign Grace Baptist church of Jacksonville, North Carolina USA Please find enclosed link to audio Gospel sermons & Contact Info: https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=allsovgrace

For any who are under the false illusion that they are somehow growing in perfection and holiness, consider carefully the following excerpt taken from a letter by John Newton (preacher and author of the hymn, “Amazing Grace”) to a friend, written on Nov. 23, 1774 A.D. “ I have no idea of any permanent state in this life, that shall make my experience cease to be a state of warfare and humiliation.  At my first setting out, indeed, I thought to be better, and to feel myself better, from year to year.  I expected, by degrees, to attain everything that I then comprised in my idea of a saint.  I thought my grain of grace, by much diligence and careful improvement, would, in time, amount to a pound. That pound, in a farther space of time, to a talent, and then I hoped to increase from one talent to many, so that supposing the Lord should spare me a competent number of years, I pleased myself with the thoughts of dying rich. But, alas!  These golden expectations have

"I will not let T hee go, except T hou bless me." -GENESIS 32:26 [KJV] It is encouraging to the Lord's people as they are from time to time placed in similar circumstances of trial, exercise, perplexity, sorrow or distress with Jacob, to see the blessed result of his wrestling with the angel. He crosses the ford of Jabbok all weakness; he recrosses it all strength. He leaves his family, and wrestles alone, a fainting Jacob; he returns to them a prevailing Israel. He goes to the Lord in an agony of doubt and alarm, fearing every moment lest he and all that was dear to him should be swept off from the face of the earth; he returns with the Lord's blessing in his soul, with the light of the Lord's countenance lifted up upon him.   And is not this instance recorded for the instruction and consolation of the Lord's living family? Are they not from time to time in circumstances experimentally which resemble Jacob's circumstances literally?