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

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (22-24JAN21) 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: SUBSTITUTION! Men do not know that God has provided a Righteousness for all believers. For every soul born of Adam WHO WILL believe in Christ, there is a perfect righteousness - not ours, but God's. God came here in human form, not bound to be obedient, but being found in fashion as a man, He became obedient - obedient unto His own Law and fulfilled every jot and tittle of it.  He was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, and His obedience is our obedience if we believe. God looks at us as if we had done what His Son had done. To that Righteousness is the eye of the believer ever to be directed, on that Righteousness must he rest, on that Righteous

"... t hey shall cry unto the L ORD because of the oppressors, and H e shall send them a Saviour, and a great one, and H e shall deliver them ." -Isaiah 19:20 [KJV] Mark, my soul, the sweet encouragement contained in these words. Here is a cry, and it is the cry of the soul; for it is directed unto the Lord. There is (as Elihu tells us) a cry of nature under oppression; but as this is not to God, it is evident that it never came from God; for he tells us, that none of them saith, "Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night?" Job 35:10 . But when the Holy Ghost convinceth of sin, and puts a cry in the heart by reason of it, He convinceth also of the righteousness of Jesus. Hence the difference of those cries is as wide as the east is from the west.  Mark, therefore, my soul, this distinguishing feature of grace, and see whether thy cries are praying cries, and not complaining ones.  And now observe what follows. When poor sinners thus cry unto the Lor