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

"And the earth helped the woman."   -Revelation 12:16 [KJV] How blessed is it to see the hand of the Lord, when no hand beside can be near to help! And that when our situation is as lonely and forlorn as that of the pelican in the wilderness, Jesus is still near; and we are never less alone than when alone! When the church brought forth her offspring, and hell stood ready to devour it, God sheltered it from his jaws. And when he cast forth a flood to sweep the church away, the earth helped the woman, by opening its mouth, and swallowing it up.   My soul! Look into thine own circumstances, and trace the Lord's dealings, and thou wilt find a great multitude o£ corresponding instances. It is from the inattentive minds of the Lord's people, that mercies so often pass and repass, and they see them not. There are thousands of them in every believer's life, that he is as unconscious of, as the world are of the sweet-blowing flower of the desert, which sheds her rich perf...

"I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." - Revelation 1:18 [KJV] O what a mercy that He Who was dead lives at God's right hand! that He lives as a risen Head; that He is not a dead Saviour; but a Saviour that lives for evermore; that can and does bless; that can and does comfort; that can and does bring the soul safely through all. He is not a Saviour that stands as it were upon the brink of a river, and pulls us out when we have swum half way out ourselves; He is not a Saviour that will take us half way to heaven, and then, as Rutherford says, let us "fend" or shift for ourselves.  He must take us to heaven throughout. We are nothing, we have nothing without Him. He must be, as He is, our "all in all." We value Him in His death, nothing but His death could reconcile us to God; we value Him in His life, nothing but His life can save. We want salvation now; salvation in the...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (23-25SEP22 A.D.) 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: In the Scriptures, we see that salvation by God’s free and sovereign grace based on the glorious Person and finished work of Christ as the Surety, Substitute, Redeemer, Life-giver, and Preserver of God’s elect is an all-glorious and all-encompassing truth. It spans both eternity and time where what God has purposed, decreed, and declared in His eternal mind, is worked out and accomplished in time as He “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Ephesians 1:11).   We are creatures of time, and we can only think in terms of time. But let us not try to bring God down to our level. God suspends time. He is not subject to time, and...