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

"The top of Pisgah." -Deuteronomy 34:1 [KJV] There is somewhat truly interesting in this account of Pisgah, to which Moses ascended before his death. The relation, no doubt, was intended to convey seasonable instruction, of a spiritual nature, to all true believers in Christ, in their Pisgah contemplations of the promised land. My soul! sit down this evening, and see what, under divine teaching, thou canst make of it. Probably thy Lord, thy Jesus, may grant to thy faith, sights yet more glorious than even Moses beheld in open vision, when he went up to Mount Nebo. "The top of Pisgah" afforded to the man of God, a beautiful prospect of Canaan; and as we are told, that "his natural force was not abated, neither his eye become dim;" he might possibly view the boundaries of Israel's dominions; which, in point of extent, reached but little more than fifty miles in one direction, and about three times that length in another.   Indeed, we are informed, th...

"The L ORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion." - Psalm 20:1, 2 [KJV] When the soul has to pass through the trying hour of temptation, it wants help from the sanctuary. And nothing but help from the sanctuary can ever stand it in any stead. All other help leaves the soul just where it found it. Now why does the Lord send help from the sanctuary, but because the soul to whom help is sent stands interested in the Father's love, the Saviour's blood, and the Spirit's teachings—interested in the eternal covenant transactions of the Three-One Jehovah . Help is sent him from the sanctuary, because his name has been from all eternity registered in the Lamb's book of life, graven upon the palms of His hands, borne on His shoulder, and worn on His heart.   He was in the sanctuary when his covenant Head stood up on his behalf, and in the Lord's book all his me...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (06-08MAY22) 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 - from our sins and from Hell: TRUE FAITH Faith takes God at His Word and lays hold of Christ for everlasting salvation. “ Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31). Faith is the hand that reaches out and touches the hem of His garment, but faith does not cure spiritual diseases, Christ does. Faith drinks freely of the Water of Life, but faith does not create soul thirst for Him, nor does it quench it; Christ causes the thirst, and He satisfies it. Faith feasts upon the Bread of Life but does not generate the desire to spiritually eat of Christ nor does it relieve that desire. Christ alone can stir the heart to hunger for Him and then draw us near to feast up...