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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (15-17MAY20) 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: “ For of H im, and through H im, and to H im, are all things: to W hom be glory for ever. Amen.” -R OMANS 11:36 [KJV] There is nothing more comforting to believers than God’s sovereignty over all things [ROMANS 11:36 ] . Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials, we believe that God has ordained our afflictions, that God overrules them, and that God will sanctify them for our good and His glory. There is nothing for which we ought to contend more earnestly than the truth of God’s rule and reign over all things, all creatures, and all their actions [PSALM 135:5-6 ] . The Throne of God, His right to sit on that Throne, and His right to

  GIVING THANKS TO THE FATHER - COLOSSIANS 1:12-15 [KJV] In these verses of scripture, the Apostle to the Gentiles reminds every believer in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, about their spiritual biography. Paul gives to us a summary regarding the experience of grace that is common to all who believe the gospel of sovereign, and irresistible grace [ACTS 15:11 ] . Here are five things to remember about the salvation that God works in His elect [JOHN 10:27-30; P HILIPPIANS 1:6 ] . 1). God made us fit or qualified to be saints, "The Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light." All are unfit by nature to be a partaker of the inheritance of grace [ROMANS 3:23; 5:12 ] . The only thing that we deserve to be a partaker of is God's holy judgment against our sin [ROMANS 6:23; E ZEKIEL 18:4 ] . God in His sovereign mercy [TITUS 3:5; R OMANS 9:16 ] , is the One who has made us fit for His presence through Christ Jesus

"Ye are bought with a price." - I CORINTHIANS 6:20 [KJV] How deep, how dreadful, of what awful magnitude, of how black a dye, of how ingrained a stamp must sin be, to need such an atonement—no less than the blood of Him who was the Son of God—to put it away. What a slave to sin and Satan, what a captive to the power of lust, how deeply sunk, how awfully degraded, how utterly lost and undone must guilty man be to need a sacrifice like this. "Ye are bought with a price." Have you ever felt your bondage to sin, Satan, and the world? Have you ever groaned, cried, grieved, sorrowed, and lamented under your miserable captivity to the power of sin? Has the iron ever entered into your soul? Have you ever clanked your fetters, and as you did so, and tried to burst them, they seemed to bind round about you with a weight scarcely endurable?   But have you ever found any liberty from them, any enlargement of heart, any sweet going forth from the priso