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

  "Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." -Micah 7:19 [KJV] When God takes all our iniquities with His own hand, and casts them with His own arm into the depths of the sea, they will never come out of those depths to witness against the family of God in the great and terrible day. Your sins now may seem to be all alive in your breast, and every one of them to bring accusation upon accusation against you. This sin is crying out for vengeance, and that for punishment. This slip, this fall, this backsliding, this foolish word, this wrong action, are all testifying against you in the court of conscience. Do what you may, be where you may, live how you may, watch and pray how you may, keep silent and separate from the world or even from your own family how you may, sin still moves, lives, acts, works, and often brings you into guilt and bondage. But if God has had mercy upon us, He has cast all our sins with His own hands into the depths of the sea, and t...

Christ did not die for sinners so that God would be merciful and love us. Rather, it was because the Lord was merciful and because He loved us that Christ was sent to save us from our sins. "God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8) . "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10) . God’s love for His people did not commence with the death of Christ; the death of Christ is the result of God’s everlasting love for His chosen people. -preacher Jim Byrd https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=13thstbaptist

  A Little to a Lot by D. G. Miles McKee   The Lord can do a lot with a little. Just consider how in John 6:1-14 the Lord was given a little food ( 5 loaves and 2 fish ) and turned it into a feast.  Little was placed in hands of the Lord and He made it a lot.  Isn’t that just like Jesus? I recently read of how an evangelist was ministering many years ago in the Lake District of England.  There he met an 80-year-old lady who told him how her shop had come into being. It all started in her Sunday school class when, one day, one of her young students came to her after class with a request. He held up a shining sixpence and said, “Please, Mrs. Cameron, will you give this sixpence to Jesus?” Startled, she almost told the child she couldn’t do that, but upon her shoulder she felt the restraining hand of the Lord who seemed to direct her, “Take it.” “Alright,” Mrs. Cameron told the boy, “I’ll give it to Jesus.” That night she held up the sixpence and prayed, “L...