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

"Ready to be revealed in the last time." -I Peter 1:5 [KJV] My soul, hast thou ever considered the very great and blessed things contained in these few words? Sit down, this evening, and look them over. Dost thou ask, What is ready to be revealed in the last time? The answer is direct. All the fulness, glory, grace, provision, peace, and everlasting happiness, that are in the covenant of redemption, and all centered in the person and finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thou hast now but obscure views of Jesus, and His fulness, suitableness, and all-sufficiency. Thou hast believed indeed unto salvation, and art resting upon Christ for thy justification, and sanctification, and comfort; but of the fulness in which believers stand complete in Christ, no saint upon earth hath ever had a conception equal to what it really is. "Beloved, (saith John) now are we the sons of God! and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that when He shall appe...

"Exercise thyself unto godliness."   -I Timothy 4:7   "The LORD trieth the righteous." -Psalm  11:5   In fact, a righteous life is for the most part a tried life. There is not a child of God, whose graces are lively and active, that is not tried in his soul. I have no more belief that the soul can live without exercise than that the body can. The more the soul is exercised, the healthier it will be. Trial is one main source of exercise. If you are tried as to your standing; tried as to your state; tried as to the reality of the work of grace upon your soul; tried as to your experience; tried as to your manifestations, deliverances, and evidences; tried by your sins; tried by Satan; tried by professors; tried by profane; and above all tried by your own heart, and that continually—it will keep your soul in exercise. And this is "exercise unto godliness."   If these exercises are unto godliness, they lead to godliness, they take you on your way t...

"Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself."   -Luke 24:39 [KJV] One Amintos had performed some valiant acts, and lost part of his arm in the field of battle for his country’s good. His brother Aechylus was about to be condemned to die. Amintos came into court, spake not a word, but only lifted up the stump of his arm without a hand: as though he had said, See what I have lost in my country’s cause! His silent oratory prevailed, and saved his brother’s life. What a much more affecting sight does our dear Lord now present to His disciples! He called upon them, He calls upon us to behold: they, by the eye of sense; we, by the eye of faith. Consider, the reasons for this;    (1st.) To compose and comfort their minds. They were terrified and affrighted. They took Him for a spirit. Christ is touched with a feeling of our infirmities. He sympathizes with us in all our troubles. One cause of them is misapprehension of the nature of Christ: we too often forg...

     Surely none of us can read the first chapter of Ephesians without seeing that the Holy Spirit constantly holds before us the glorious fact that the saints of God are eternally safe because we are  “in Christ.”   1.  We were blessed  “with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ,”  verse 3.  I take that word  “all”  to mean exactly what it says.  How ever many spiritual blessings there are, they were  “all”  bestowed upon us  “in Christ”  before the world began.   2.  We were chosen  “in Him”  to be  “holy and without blame”  before the heaven and earth was ever formed, verse 4.  The Father, in covenant grace, appointed us  “to obtain salvation”  in His Son (I Thessalonians 5:9) .  Christ is the Father’s elect Servant (Isaiah 42:1) and we were chosen  “in Him.”   3.  We were predestinated to be God’s children through or...

  Hallelujah praise the Savior, He Who bore our sin and shame; Praise His Name for He has triumphed, Sing His glories, spread His fame .   CHORUS: Let us love and praise the Savior, Love and praise Him evermore; Jesus is our great salvation, Love and praise Him forevermore.   Hallelujah praise the Savior, Who for sinners once was slain; Magnify the One who saved us, Washed away our guilty stain.   CHORUS:   Hallelujah for the Savior Came to save His chosen bride; By His blood the Savior bought us When for us He bled and died .  CHORUS:   Hallelujah Jesus suffered, Bore the wrath of God alone; He for us obtained the vict’ry, Now He reigns upon His throne!   CHORUS:   Hallelujah what a Savior, Prophet, Priest and reigning King; S oon He will come down from heaven, All His ransomed home to bring.   CHORUS:     HALLELUJAH, PRAISE THE SAVIOR! Tune: “JESUS, WHAT A FRIEND FOR SINNERS” 8.7.8.7. double Words by Jim Byrd -------O------...

Good morning dear friends. Enjoy this TV sermon by Pastor Henry Mahan (27 minutes) and pass it on to others. Preached on Nov. 7, 1990 A.D. Title: The People Of The Way Text: I Peter 1:1-8 https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/93007223749/

“Strange that I, who had so long sat under the means of grace in England, should be brought nigh to God in an obscure part of Ireland, amidst a handful of God’s people met together in a barn, and under the ministry of one who could hardly spell his name.  Surely it was the Lord’s doing, and is marvellous! The excellency of such power must be of God, and cannot be of man: the regenerating Spirit breathes not only on whom, but likewise when, where, and as He listeth.” -Augustus Toplady, February 29, 1768 A.D.

     “Strange that I, who had so long sat under the means of grace in England, should be brought nigh to God in an obscure part of Ireland, amidst a handful of God’s people met together in a barn, and under the ministry of one who could hardly spell his name.  Surely it was the Lord’s doing, and is marvellous! The excellency of such power must be of God, and cannot be of man: the regenerating Spirit breathes not only on whom, but likewise when, where, and as he listeth.” -preacher Augustus Toplady, February 29, 1768 A.D.

 "For the time will come that they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears..." -II Timothy 4:3 [KJV] There are but two schemes of religion in this world. One is true the other is false. One is saving the other is damning. These two schemes of religion are free grace and 'free will.' Free grace declares that salvation is the work of God alone (Jonah 2:9) .    'Free will' declares that salvation is, at least in part, the work of man. Free grace declares that salvation is conditioned upon the obedience of Christ alone as the sinner's Substitute (II Corinthians 5:21) . Free will declares that salvation is ultimately and finally conditioned upon the obedience of the sinner himself.    Any doctrine that makes salvation, eternal life, acceptance with God, and the reward of the heavenly inheritance to be dependent upon, or determined by you, at any point or in any measure, is...

The vital thing to understand about the blood of Christ is this: IT IS ENOUGH! As it written, "It is finished" (Jesus shouted heartily from His cross: John 19:30, KJV.) Nothing else is needed to accomplish the salvation of all for whom His blood was shed.   Not His blood plus my works…   Not His blood plus my “decision”…   Not His blood plus the ordinances…   Not His blood plus church membership…   Not even His blood plus my faith…His blood purchased my faith.   HIS BLOOD ALONE paid the price required by His justice, and His blood alone can make a sinner clean.     “By His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having OBTAINED (not made possible) eternal redemption for us” (Hebrews 9:12).   -copied 

"Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King." - Psalm 98:4-6 [KJV]   AN OUTLINE WORTH REPEATING - Psalm 23   The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want-‑   1. For REST - " He maketh me to lie down in green pastures."   2. For PEACE - " He leadeth me beside still waters ."   3. For FORGIVENESS - " He restoreth my soul ."   4. For HOLINESS - " He leads me in the paths of right­eousness for His name's sake ."   5. For FELLOWSHIP - " For Thou art with me ."   6. For COMFORT - " Thy rod and Thy staff they com­fort me ."   7. For PROVISIONS - " Thou preparest a table before me ."   8. For ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD - " Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life."   9. O...

"Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man who layeth hold on it."   - Isaiah 56:2 [KJV] Many poor blind sinners we meet with, who are saying, Do not puzzle me with your points of doctrine. This is my religion, ‘I do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with my God.’ There is scarcely a text in the whole Bible so often quoted, and so frequently hackneyed by ignorant men, to keep up their vain hopes and self-righteous confidence, as this of Micah (-6:8.) As a striking instance of their walking humbly with God, they reject the glorious gospel of His grace, set at nought the atonement and righteousness of His Son, ridicule the inspiration of His Spirit, and walk in the pride of their hearts, fulfilling the lusts of their flesh. They are cursed by the mouth of the Lord. But here is the only blessed man described by him.    (1st.) In his doing. What? Justice? He has a sincere regard to every thing which is moral, just, and good. Without this, know, y...

"Wherefore, the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD..." -I Kings 12:15 [KJV] What a light doth this one verse throw upon the whole of this history, and upon ten thousand of a similar kind, which are perpetually going on through life! The event recorded in this chapter that the king should listen to the counsel of fools, and disregard the advice of wise men, would have appeared incredible, the thing itself being so very obvious. But when we understand the latent cause, and are told that it was "from the LORD," how strikingly doth it set forth the wonderful government of God in bringing about the sacred purposes of His holy will! My soul, sit down this evening, and ponder well the subject. Think how truly blessed it is, and how truly sanctified, to behold this almighty hand in every dispensation. And bring home the doctrine itself, for it is a very blessed one, if well studied and well followed up, to thine own concerns a...