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

"He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness."  - Deuteronomy 32:10  [KJV] My soul, behold in this view of Israel thy case and circumstances. Where did Jesus find thee, when He passed by and bade thee live, but cast out, loathsome in thy person, and perishing in nature? Remember then, it was Jesus found thee, and not thou Him. And where wast thou born, and new-born, and nursed, and educated, and trained? Was it not in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness? Can any thing be better suited to represent thy state by nature? Is not the heart of man like the heath upon the desert, that knoweth not when good cometh? Is it not like the ground, dry, parched, and barren? And as a wilderness is a land not inhabited, full of perplexed paths and intricate ways, without food, without sustenance, and no springs of water; can any thing more strikingly resemble' the whole of thy spiritual circumstances, when Jesus called thee from darkness to light, and...

"The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and He knoweth them that trust in Him. But with an overrunning flood He will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue His enemies."   -Nahum 1:7-8 [KJV]

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (21-23MAY21) 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: THE SALVATION OF REBELS The first man sinned against God in the garden and, as the federal head of mankind, plunged us into a state of separation from our Creator. Let it be known, however, that the fall of Adam, far from frustrating or ruining the purpose of God, worked to its fulfillment. It is in the salvation of sinners that God’s greatest glory is manifested and all His attributes are wonderfully displayed. Note that Adam and Eve, when they heard the voice of God, “hid themselves from the presence of the LORD” (Genesis 3:8) . Was the Creator coming to justly pronounce their doom? Would they feel the fury of His anger? Must they perish...