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

The Greatest Speech God Ever Made Part 2 by D. G. Miles McKee (For Part 1, see last week’s Wednesday Word).   Before we consider Isaiah 53:1-7, let’s stir up our pure minds by way of remembrance and think of John 12:41.  There we are told that the enthroned King of Isaiah 6 is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.  Now, Isaiah realizes that the despised sufferer in Isaiah 53 is the very same person he had encountered in Isaiah 6 … and he is stunned! You can tell by the way Isaiah is writing chapter 53 that he is living in the events and vividly seeing them.  He is writing with a sense of shock. The One whom he sees as despised, deserted and dying in agonizing pain is the same One he saw high and lifted up in overpowering splendor. Can we be unmoved when we read this passage? Remember how in Mark 14:33 when Christ came near to Gethsemane the pressure of our sins intensified into a crushing horror.  He was ‘sore amazed and very heavy.’ Literally, He was astounde...

Friends, Hope this finds y'all well and in good health. Please be advised that this Friday evening there'll be a fifteen-minute Gospel message sent out via WWCR on World Band/Short-Wave radio at 3.215 MHz (3215 KHz) called, " Storm Warning: Prove All Things "  commencing at 2115 Hours ( 9:15 PM) Central Time . The goal is to exalt Christ JESUS and to encourage His people and to warn all hands to flee to Him immediately. If you don't have a Short-Wave radio you can still listen online by going to  https://wwcr.com/  a couple minutes prior to the broadcast and then on the left side of their page, under Main Menu, click on   " Listen Online ."   Then you'll see   "WWCR-1."   Underneath that click on either   "Windows Media Player"   or   "MP3 Players." We ain't selling nothing, just pointing folks to Christ our great salvation and blessed hope. Cheers, friends. The LORD JESUS be magnified!

"And they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance, and found Him not." -Luke 2:44, 45 [KJV]   May we not gather a lesson of sweet instruction from the anxious and fruitless search the parents made for Jesus in the days of His flesh? What kinsfolks and acquaintances shall we now search among for the Saviour? My soul, how little of Jesus is to be found in this Christless generation! What parlour conversation makes mention of His name? Is it not plain and evident, from the general, nay almost universal silence observed in all companies concerning His name, and offices, and characters, and relations, that Christ is not there?       Shall we seek Him among the professors of the gospel? Who are they that honour Jesus? Not they who deny His Godhead; not they who deny the influences of His Holy Spirit; not they who set up their own righteousness as part, or the whole of their justification before God. Jesus is not in that house, in that family, in that...

"Carry down the man a present." - Genesis 43:11 [KJV]      Ah, poor Jacob, how unconscious wert thou that this man, the governor of Egypt, was so near and dear to thee, and that his bowels yearned to tell thee how much he loved thee. And O ye sons of Israel, who would have had power to convince you while you were bowing down before Joseph under the dreadful apprehensions which agitated your minds, and he was assuming a voice of displeasure, that this very man was your brother? My soul, and what was all this, heightened to the greatest possible degree in the real love and affection of Joseph towards his family, compared to that love of Jesus which passeth knowledge? Jesus is thy brother, and he is the governor, not of Egypt only, but of heaven and earth. The famine, it is true, is sore in the land, and to Him thou must go for sustenance, or thou wilt perish for ever. But wilt thou carry down The Man a present? My soul, what hast thou to carry? Not thy duties, nor thy pr...

"And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth" -Hebrews 9:15-17 [KJV] Every year a list is published with the names of people who stand to inherit money, land or other possessions. However, because they cannot be located or notified, their inheritance goes unclaimed. Sometimes these people are the legal beneficiaries of vast sums of money yet many will never receive that which is rightfully theirs simply because their whereabouts is unknown. The Lord Jesus Christ, in old eternity, wrote His last will and testament, and it is called the Covenant of Grace. In that legal, binding agree...

"The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry." - Psalm 34:15 [KJV] My soul, never more allow thyself to suppose that thou art overlooked or forgotten amidst the immensity of God's works. Is it not the province of a father to attend to the wants of his children? And will not God regard His own, that cry night and day unto Him, though He bear long with them? This was the very argument of our Redeemer. Do you, saith Jesus, "that are evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; and shall not your heavenly Father give His Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" But, my soul, while thou art taking comfort from this view of divine love, take with thee another sweet thought from this precious verse of scripture.     Whose eyes are thus upon thee, and whose ears are thus open to thy cries, but those of the Lord Jesus? Oh how sweet the thought, that by reason of the Son of God, as Christ, being in our nature, and He having taken...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (25-27JUN21) 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: “ Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength : even to Him shall men come; and all that are incensed against Him shall be ashamed.” -Isaiah 45:24 [KJV] Christ is “the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth;” (Romans 10:4) and, under deep depression of spirit, real faith will be vehemently struggling after the enjoyment of this truth, and the soul will be feelingly crying, “O to be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith!” The L...

"And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden-censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which was before the throne." - Revelation 8:3 [KJV]   My soul, behold this mighty Angel, even thy Jesus, in His priestly office. Look at Him with an earnest eye of faith before thou goest this morning to the mercy seat. See His golden censer, with His much incense, and contemplate both the fulness of merit in His own glorious Person, and the fulness of efficacy in His work and righteousness for the sure acceptance of all His redeemed. Go near, my soul, having boldness to enter now into the holiest by the blood of Jesus. Hear thy great High Priest bidding thee to take shelter under His golden censer, and behold Him presenting thy person and thy poor offerings upon the golden altar, even His divine nature, before the throne. Yes, Lord! I would draw nigh in Thee, and by Th...

  Christ crucified! Let God be praised, Who came in flesh, a Man of days; And in His body on the cross, There died to save from Adam’s loss. Christ crucified! The Woman’s Seed Passover Lamb, His blood to plead; His people from their sins to save, From hell and death and from the grave. Christ crucified!  God’s wisdom known. His holiness and love now shown. His mercy, truth and righteousness, In Him now meet and sweetly kiss. Christ crucified!  Has always been My All before the world began. He as my Head stood in my place, In everlasting cov’nant grace. Christ crucified!  The Gospel cry! Good news for sinners such as I! And since He made me hear and see, This One, this work, is all my plea. Christ crucified!  His blood applied By God and conscience justified. When death shall bring its ebbing tide, My vessel this: Christ crucified! Words by preacher Gary Shepard - 88.88   To the tune of, "Just As I Am"

"And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations." - Isaiah 25:7 [KJV] What a precious promise was this with which the Lord comforted the church under the old testament dispensation, that the faithful might look forward to the new testament dispensation, when Jesus, in the holy mountain, where He finished transgression by His triumphant death, would effectually remove the covering which had blackened all faces, and had separated between God and guilty sinners. And, that the gracious promise might be had in everlasting remembrance by thy people, the evangelists were commissioned to tell the church, that in the moment Christ died, the vail of the temple was rent in twain, by an invisible hand, from the top to the bottom.       My soul, see how Jesus, thy Jesus, hath most effectually fulfilled this precious promise. There was a vail of covering spread to separate thee for ever from God, had not ...

  THE GREATEST SPEECH GOD EVER MADE : Part 1 by D.G. Miles McKee Hebrews 1:1-2, “God … Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son…” History is riddled with wonderful and mighty speeches – Consider the Gettysburg address or any of the moving speeches Churchill made during the Second World War. God is also a speech maker.  He made many speeches through the ancient Hebrew prophets. Yes, He spoke by the prophets but His finest speech was made in the person of His son … the God/man … the Lord Jesus Christ.  Christ’s whole life was an articulate speech announcing to us exactly what God was like. Indeed, the greatest speech God ever made about Himself was on that day 2000 years ago when our Master was impaled on a Roman gibbet.  Unfortunately, we can become so familiar with this event that we cease to be amazed by it.  But what an astonishing speech Christ Jesus made at the cross! Isaiah the prophet had a vision of this event and was stunned. To get t...

     No man has a true desire for the salvation of men's souls who does not first have a desire for God to be honored and glorified above all things. The individual who believes or preaches a gospel in which God is not glorified, one in which His justice is not fully satisfied as His grace is shown, not only doesn't truly desire to see men's souls saved but most likely is not saved himself. A salvation which does not begin with God, which is not provided for altogether by God, which does not save all whom He purposes to save and which does not keep all He saves...does not glorify God.  The chief end of all things in salvation as well as in general is the glory of God.  -preacher Gary Shepard https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=allsovgrace

"...NOT by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy He saved us..." -Titus 3:5 [KJV]      Ritualism, or externalism, or traditionalism are all different forms of self-righteousness; man's self-invented ways of pleasing or appeasing God, or paying for admittance into heaven. These forms of self-righteousness are a human apparatus for procuring God's pardon. They are the means by which the performer of them hopes to win God's favor--perhaps, also, man's praise--most certainly, his own esteem. Every act, or performance, or ceremony, which honors self, exalts self, or gives prominence to self--is an accursed thing. It is an abomination in the sight of God--however religious, or sacred, or solemn, or devout, it may seem to man. It is to self-righteousness in some form or other, that man is always tending. Man attempts to make up for this badness, or to cover it over, by works, and devotions, and ceremonies. All this is pure ...

  "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with a cluster of grapes."   - Numbers 13:23 [KJV]      Was not this single cluster of God's earnest to the people of the sure possession of the land where those delicious fruits grew? And was not the size and weight of this one branch a sample how full and extensive all the blessings, both of the covenant and of the promised land, should be to the after possession of God's people? My soul, dost thou not see in it then a precious representation of Jesus, that one branch, and of all that cluster of blessings which are in Him? Well might the church cry out concerning the Redeemer, "My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi." For whether this camphire, this copher, denotes the vine of Cyprus, or the fruit of the palm-tree, in either, or in both, the soul-strengthening, soul-exhilarating, soul-healing virtues of this unnumbered excellencies, may well be ...