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GOOD NEWS!

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(04-06DEC20) 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 their sins and from Hell: “ This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief” ( I Tim othy 1:15 ) . The Lord Jesus Christ said, “I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth His life for the sheep” (John 10:11) . Why did He lay down His life for His sheep? It was because they are sinners, and sin must be punished with death. Christ, the good Shepherd, laid down His life for the sins of His sheep charged to Him. Now if He died for His sheep who are sinners, He will most certainly receive them as sinners. Christ receives His sheep, sinful men and women, as objects of His Father's love and as trophie

God's Word to our hearts

"It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God ." -Matthew 4:4 [KJV] "Man shall not live by bread alone." There is heavenly food to support his soul, as well as natural food to support his body. If a man is supported spiritually by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, if this be the only food the Lord's people enjoy, how little they have! If you and I have no more religion than that which comes from what God has spoken into our soul; if that be the bread we are to live upon; if that be the strength of our heart; if that be our living portion and our dying sufficiency;—how it narrows up our religion into so small a compass, that sometimes we seem to require a microscope to see whether we have any or not.   But thus we learn this lesson, "that man liveth not by bread alone." He cannot live by doctrines in the head. He cannot live by bodily gestures. He cannot live by rites