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

Outstanding Christ-honoring Gospel message of great comfort and encouragement to God's justified, sanctified and redeemed saints (see link below). By preacher Clay Curtis of Free Grace YouTube Channel. Message under 33 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prAT2h_PQTI&t=1875s

"These all died in faith." -Hebrews 11:13 [KJV] An officer in the Navy, who held me exceedingly in derision on account of religion, was taken dangerously ill. To my great surprise, he sent for me. I found him in distress of soul: spoke freely to him of our lost estate, of Christ’s love and salvation, and prayed with him. He wept sore: clapping his hands to his breast, he cried out, “O, my God! have I got a soul?” As though he had never known it before. Turning to the place where I kneeled, he said, “Where have I lived, that I never heard these things before? O I shall never forget what I have heard this night!” I visited him to his last moments, and trust he died in the faith, and hope to see him in glory.  “Heaven is a house full of the miracles of Christ’s free-grace,” says one. There is the once idolatrous Manasseh; the murdering, adulterous David; the persecuting Saul; the Christ-denying Peter, etc. O my God, shall wretched I be there? Yes, if I die in t...

"Praise waiteth for Thee, O God, in Sion; and unto Thee shall the vow be performed." -Psalm 65:1 [KJV] What a sweet thing it is to bless and praise God! There is no feeling upon earth equal to it. But how often are we in that state when we can neither pray nor praise, when sullenness, frowardness, and peevishness seem to take such complete possession, that, so far from praising God, there is no power even to seek His face; and so far from blessing Him, there are even dreadful things working up in the heart against Him, which awfully manifest the enmity of the carnal mind. Those who are painfully exercised with such feelings are certain, therefore, that it is God's work to enable them to praise and bless His holy name. And does not the heaven-taught soul come sometimes into this spot, "O that the Lord would give me something to praise Him for, would bring me out of this trial, break this wretched snare, remove this awful temptation, lift me out of this p...

"And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness, and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people." -Acts 2:46, 47 [KJV] What a beautiful picture is here given of the primitive church! My soul, think of the happiness of the saints of God in those days, when, instead of that idle and unprofitable conversation, which, for the most part, fills up the employment of Christians professing godliness in the present day, believers never met without celebrating the Lord's supper ( for so the expression of eating bread from house to house means ); and their ordinary meals were conducted with a single eye to God's glory! What a sad change hath taken place in the circumstances of Christians! "They were daily with one accord in the temple:" and thousands who would be very highly offended, were their religious profession to be called in question, ...