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

"I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb." -Isaiah 48:8  [KJV] Humbling as the view is, it is profitable to look back, and trace all the way the LORD our God hath brought us, through many a year in the wilderness, to humble us, and to prove us, and to shew us what is in our heart; and this perhaps is the sweetest of all subjects, when the Holy Ghost takes us by the hand, and leads the heart back. Even from the first moment of conversion, to the very moment when taking the review, every step serves to prove what this scripture sets forth, that the Lord knew that His people would deal very treacherously, and be transgressors from the womb.     My soul! let thy meditation, this evening, as it concerns thyself be to this amount: Where wert thou, when in a state of unawakened nature, and as all other carnal persons, intent only upon the best means of fulfilling to the desires of the flesh; living without God, and without...

"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus."   -Ephesians 2:6 [KJV] There is a distinction between being quickened together with Christ and being raised up together with Him. Is not this true in the experience of God's people? To be quickened into divine life, to be convinced of sin, to have the fear of God planted deeply in the soul, is the commencement of a work of grace. But this is not a deliverance, not a being raised up out of darkness, bondage, doubt, guilt, and fear. This is not a knowledge of Christ, and the power of His resurrection; this is not a full coming out of the dark and silent tomb into the glorious light and warmth of day. But here is the great blessedness of a mystical union with the Lord Jesus Christ that, as by virtue of interest in Him there is a partaking of the benefit and power of his having been quickened, so there is a partaking in the benefit and power of his having been raised up. God does no...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (28-30JAN22) 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 ~ JUDGMENT OCCURRED AT THE CROSS! “ The glorious good news of the Gospel is that, "It is finished." Justice has been satisfied, righteousness has been established. The believer rests exclusively in a finished work. On the other hand, the religious moralist strives daily under a crushing weight of duties and expectations, looking to a future judgment on his performance, where he may, or may not be rewarded. For the believer, this judgment occurred at the cross and there is no possibility of future condemnation. The believer is counted by God to be the very righteousness of God in Christ (II Corinthians 5:21). Therefore, the believer i...