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

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(11-13DEC20) 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: "The Gospel is the proclamation of God's free love — the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our depraved world. Nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved — loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.” -Horatius Bonar

"Come unto M e, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28 [KJV] When we rest, we find relief to our weary limbs. So spiritually. When the soul comes to Jesus, H e gives it rest and relief from its burdens; as well as deliverance from anxiety, and cessation from the labour that distresses and distracts it. He promises to give this— "Come unto M e, and I" —who else can do it? None, either in heaven or earth— "Come unto M e, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." How?   By communicating to the soul out of His infinite fulness, by sprinkling upon the conscience His atoning blood, by shedding abroad in the heart His dying love, and enabling the soul to believe on His name, and cling to His Person. In this there is rest—nothing else will do it—nothing else will give it. Other remedies will leave us at last under the wrath of God. But he that comes to and leans upon Jesus, His finished work,