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

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (08-10OCT21) 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 - Almighty   God's unmerited favor to save us  from our sins and from Hell: Christ Gave Himself A Ransom For Many “Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and  to give His life a ransom for many." -Matthew 20:28 [KJV] Our blessed God and Saviour gave Himself for the all of the sins of His  covenant children and not for the sins of all mankind .  We call that  definite atonement or particular redemption or better yet, an effectual  atonement for sin (Hebrews 9:12 & 26; Hebrews 10:10-17) . When Paul writes in 1 Timothy 2:5-6; “For there is one God and one Mediator  between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who ...

"But Him they saw not." -Luke 24:24  [KJV] Mark, my soul, what is here said. Though Jesus sought out His disciples in the morning of His resurrection, and was found of them that sought Him not; yet many saw Him not, while He was thus gracious to many that looked not for Him. So is it now. Many, like those women, have seen the sepulchre, as it were, of Jesus, heard His word; nay, many saw His body when on earth, yet saw not God in Christ in Him.     "The grace of God," saith the apostle, "hath appeared unto all men;" that is, the gospel grace is preached in common before believers and unbelievers; but believers only see Jesus as the wisdom and the power of God for salvation; of others it may be said, as here, "but Him they see not." Oh precious Jesus, give me to see Thee as the Sent and Sealed of the Father, that my soul may have such a saving sight and knowledge of Thee as the apostle had, which flesh and blood cannot reveal, but the Father ...