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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (19-21JUN20) 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: "But how may you know that any doctrine is that of THE TRUE GRACE OF GOD?" I answer, " If it exalts the glory of the grace of God as the sole and entire cause of salvation, if it humbles the creature and excludes all boasting, if it provides for the honor of God's holy law and justice, if it is a solid and sure ground of strong consolation to the saints, and if it is a doctrine according to godliness . These are the infallible rules whereby you may form your judgment of the truth of the doctrines you preach. No principle can be true which is not calculated to sub-serve and secure those important ends. It will be your wisdom to examine well all senti

"For H e shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul." -P SALM 109:31 [KJV] How cheering, how comforting it is, to have a friend to stand by us when we are in trouble. Such a friend is Jesus. In the hour of necessity, H e comes as a friend to stand by the right hand of the poor creature, whose soul is condemned by guilt and accusations. But H e stands in a far higher relation than that of a friend; H e stands too as a Surety and a Deliverer . He goes, as it were, into the court; and when the prisoner stands at the bar, H e comes forward and stands at his right hand as his surety and bondsman; H e brings out of H is own bosom the acquittance of the debt signed and sealed with H is own blood, H e produces it before the eyes of the court, and claims and demands the acquittal and absolution of the prisoner at whose right hand H e stands. He stands there, then, that the prisoner may be freely pardoned, and completely justified