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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (08-10JAN21) 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 Spirit Gives Life to the Message God’s preachers do not go forth alone into the world to persuade sinners to believe, love, and come to Christ by their own logic, rhetoric, and power of persuasion. The Holy Spirit goes before them and with them to quicken, awaken, and give sinners eyes to see the beauties of Christ, ears to hear Him, and hearts to understand the gospel of grace and love the Redeemer (Psalm 110:3) . The bride has been chosen (II Thessalonians 2:13) , the servant will endure all things (II Timothy 2:9-10) , the bride will hear the voice of her Beloved through the message of the servant (John 10:23-30) , and the bride will come (John 6:37-40) . -c

"Thou hast kept the good wine until now." -John 2:10 [KJV] The good wine of the gospel must be Jesus Himself, for He, and He alone, trod the wine-press of His Father's wrath, when the Lord bruised Him and put Him to grief. This is the wine which, in scripture, is said to cheer both God and men; for when God's justice took the full draught of it for the sins of the redeemed, the Lord declared Himself well pleased. And when the poor sinner, by sovereign grace, is first made to drink of the blood of the Lamb, he feels constrained to say, the Lord had kept the good wine until now ; for never before had his soul been so satisfied.  Oh, precious Jesus' how sweet is the thought! Thy first miracle converted water into wine. Moses' ministry, under thy commission, was first manifested in turning water into blood. Yes, dear Lord! when once Thy grace hath wrought upon the heart of a sinner, Thou makest his most common mercies, like water, to become richer than wine.