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

  LOOK TO CHRIST, Not Your Obedience! Those who profess to believe on Christ but who do not seek to follow the Lord and honor Him in their lives have an empty and worthless profession. Christ said, "If ye love M e, keep M y commandments." A sinner who has been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and brought to genuine faith in the Son of God will seek to "adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things" [ Titus 2:10 ] . Though we know we are sinful in ourselves, yet we do seek to glorify the Lord as we go about our daily activities. However, we must never look to our obedience (which is imperfect at best), in any measure, as the means of acceptance with God. Those who seek God’s approval by any other way than the blood and righteousness of Christ will someday learn they made a fatal mistake.      -preacher Jim Byrd http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=13thstbaptist

"Wherein shall it be known that I and T hy people have found grace in T hy sight?" -Exodus 33:16 [KJV] Grace is always " found ." It is not earned, nor merited, nor worked into; but it is found; and if a man never "found" it, he never had it. It is stumbled upon, so to speak, as the Lord sets forth in the parable of the man who found the treasure hid in a field [ Matt hew 13:44 ] . The man was not thinking about the treasure. He was, we may suppose, ploughing in the field. He had no idea that there was gold beneath the clods. But he finds it all on a sudden, in the most unexpected and unlooked-for manner, and for joy thereof "goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field." So it is with the way in which grace is found. It comes so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and so sweetly into a man's soul, that when it comes he is like a man who has found something which he had no conception of till he found it. He had no idea what it was

The true church of the living God consists of sinners saved by the grace of God through the Lord Jesus Christ. They are all who were chosen by the Father before the foundation of the world. They are all for whom Christ was made Surety and who are justified in Him. They are all whom Christ, as their Substitute, redeemed by His blood shed on the cross of Calvary. They are all who are sanctified by the Holy Spirit in the new birth and brought to faith in Christ and repentance of dead works. They are all who persevere unto glory, not by their own power and goodness, but as they are sovereignly and powerfully preserved by God’s power, goodness, and grace. All whom the Father chose, the Son died to redeem. All whom the Son redeemed, the Holy Spirit sanctifies, quickens, and calls. All whom the Holy Spirit sanctifies, quickens, and calls, will, by God’s grace and power, persevere unto glory. -preacher Bill Parker Eager Avenue Grace church of Albany, Georgia USA http://www.sermonau

  Where can we find Blood Atonement? D G Miles McKee   The following is a piece I recently discovered in an old tract.  I hope you enjoy it.     At Easter time, some many years ago, a “Mission to the Jews” was held in San Francisco. One evening, the meeting was thrown open for discussion and Jewish folk were welcomed to ask questions or to give their testimonies.   One old Gentleman stood and said: “This is Passover week my Jewish brethren, and as I sat here, I was thinking how you will be observing it. You will have put away leaven from your houses; you will eat the ‘motsah’ (unleavened wafers) and the roasted lamb. You will attend the synagogue services and carry out the ritual and directions of the Talmud. However, you will leave out that which Jehovah requires most of all. He did not say, ‘When I see the leaven put away, or when I see you eat the motsah or go the synagogue; but His word was, ‘When I see the blood I will pass over you.’ Ah, my brethren, you can substitute no