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GOOD NEWS!

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (2 9-31 MAY20) 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: A RIGHTEOUSNESS PLEASING TO GOD “ Although I am a sinner, yet I despair not; for Christ, Who is my Redeemer and my Righteousness, liveth. In Him I have no sin, no sting of conscience and no fear of judgment. In Christ there is no condemnation. I am indeed a sinner as touching this present life, but I have the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD which is above this life, Who is CHRIST MY LORD. In Him I rejoice.” -preacher Martin Luther

Encouragement in Christ

"That I may see the good of T hy chosen." -P SALM 106:5 [KJV] Did you ever see any good in God's chosen? Oh! "how goodly are thy tents,  O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!"  Did you ever see what good God has blessed H is people with, and how good it is to be one of them? All God's people see that there is a "good" in God's chosen family, peculiar to them, and that they sigh and long for. But some will say, Had David never seen it when he penned this psalm? Aye, surely; he had seen it. But did he not want to see it again? Yes; he had lost the sight of it, the sweet vision of it had retired, the old veil had come back, his eyes were dim, he wanted fresh "eyesalve."   So with us; we have seen, we trust, at times "the good of God's chosen," have felt our affections drawn towards them, and drawn up towards God, and have said, "Whom have I in heaven but T hee? and there is none upon earth that...