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

"I sat down under His shadow with great delight, and His fruit was sweet to my taste." -Song of Solomon 2:3 [KJV] My soul! hear what the church saith concerning her Lord, in those early and distant ages, before thy Redeemer became incarnate, and mark the strength of her faith and love. Did old testament saints thus sit down with a recumbency on the person, work, and finished salvation of Jesus, as those determined to arise no more, when they beheld Christ only through "the shadow of good things to come;" and shall not thy rest in Christ, and thy enjoyment of Christ, be equal, and even greater than their's? For shame, my soul! let it never be said, that their views of Jesus, Who was then yet to come, and had all the vast work of redemption to perform, were as lively as thine, or their delight in those fruits of His salvation, which they partook of by anticipation, sweeter to their taste, than they are now enjoyed by thee.   Thou hast lived to see the whole comp...

"Say unto my soul, I AM thy salvation ." - Psalm 35:3 [KJV] To keep water sweet, it must be perpetually running; and to keep the life of God up in the soul, there must be continual exercises. This is the reason why the Lord's people have so many conflicts, trials, painful exercises, sharp sorrows, and deep temptations,—to keep them alive unto God; to bring them out of, and to keep them out of that slothful, sluggish, wretched state of carnal security and dead assurance in which so many seem to have fallen asleep—fallen asleep like the sailor upon the top of the mast, not knowing what a fearful gulf is boiling up below. The Lord, therefore, "trieth the righteous." He will not suffer His people to be at ease in Zion; to be settled on their lees, and get into a wretched Moabitish state. He therefore sends afflictions upon them, tribulations, and trials, and allows Satan to tempt and harass them.   And under these feelings the blessed Spirit, from time to time, ra...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (13-15MAY22) 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: Be Loving and Kind, But Tell the Truth It is very important that we as true believers and as witnesses of Christ in this world conduct and express ourselves in a loving and kind way. But love and kindness are never expressed when we fail to tell lost sinners the truth about salvation. The greatest love and kindness we can show to lost sinners is to tell them of God’s love, grace, and mercy that can only be found in the glorious Person and finished work of righteousness in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is truly loving and kind to tell lost sinners that outside of Christ, there is no love for sinners from God but only hatred and wrath. It is truly lo...