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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (10-12DEC21) 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: “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.”   -Philippians 4:4 [KJV] Let us learn the meaning of the word “Rejoice,” not just in doctrine, but in  experience.  There is always cause to rejoice in the Lord:  in His BLOOD that cleanses (1 John 1:7-9) .  His RIGHTEOUSNESS that perfects (Romans 4:6; Philippians 3:9) .  His LOVE which never fails (Jeremiah 31:3; 1 Corinthians 13:8) .  His PROVIDENCE which works all things for our good (Romans 8:28) .  His INTERCESSION, which is continual (Hebrews 7:25) .  And in the fact that our names are in the Book of Life (Revelation 13:8) .  All by His grace! -preacher Henr...

"For He said, Surely they are My people, children that will not lie: so He was their Saviour." -Isaiah 63:8  [KJV] Oh what a tenderness of expression is contained in these words! Jesus not only takes His people into relationship with Him, but undertakes for their faithfulness. In the birth of God's everlasting purpose, this was done from everlasting; so that in one and the same moment, we are His people, His children, His brethren, His wife, His redeemed, His fair one, made comely in His comeliness, and in His blood cleansed, and in His righteousness justified before God. And observe, my soul, the grounds of this relationship: surely, He saith, they are My people. Not only as God's workmanship and property, but as His purchase. Not only in first giving them being, but in giving them new being in Christ Jesus.     The Lord hath taken them into covenant with Him in Christ, and granted them a charter of grace and salvation in Jesus. Sweet and precious thought. God the F...