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

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 - God's unmerited favor - from their sins and from Hell: What has happened to the preaching of the true gospel of God's grace in Christ?  Occasionally, I watch the local religious TV station to see what is being preached and what the local religious community is up to.  The other day I heard such an unbelievable and incredible statement of utter, outright heresy and blasphemy against God I could hardly believe what I heard.  This is what the preacher said, 'God cannot save you unless you give Him permission.'    Such a statement reveals the man knows nothing of the true and living God of the Bible, for he preaches the sinner greater than the Saviour.   The scriptures teach that God is in charge in salvation not man . Christ has power over all ...

"But Jesus stooped down, and with His finger wrote on the ground, as though He heard them not."   -John 8:6 [KJV] Every, the most minute transaction of the life of Christ, should be precious to the faith of our hearts. For in all that He did in life, and by all that He suffered in death, He manifested Himself to be the Saviour of lost sinners. The love of His heart knows no bounds to such. He willingly came to seek, and to save them. It is His joy to find, and His glory to save the lost. O were it not so, the hand that writes must tremble, that holds the pen, drop it with terror, while his heart would be filled with distress, and his soul sink into black despair. But, O this faithful saying, “That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , ” braces every nerve with joy, and fills the whole man with triumph—See a vile prostitute brought before our Lord; and her crimes charged upon her. She was taken in the act. Here are witnesses to prove it. Her sin admi...

  "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And He was numbered with the transgressors."   -Mark 15:28 [KJV] Look up, my soul, to the cross, and behold thy Lord hanging with two thieves; yea, in the middle of them, as if the greatest malefactor of the three; and, what is the most awful part of the subject, not only was He thus considered by the Jewish rabble, but as the sinner's representative, Jesus was thus beheld in Jehovah's view; "numbered with the transgressors," and virtually, the great surety and sponsor of them all. Pause, my soul, as thou readest this scripture, and as thou beholdest it fulfilled on the cross. Will it not undeniably follow, that if Christ was so reckoned, and so numbered, then must it have been, not for Himself, for He had no sin, but for His people; and if made sin and a curse, surely He hath taken away both sin and the curse, by the sacrifice of Himself, that they might be made the righteousness of God in him?  ...

"I will be as the dew unto Israel."   -Hosea 14:5 [KJV] Sometimes the Lord, without applying His word with any very great and distinguishing power to the heart, makes His truth to drop with a measure of sweetness into the soul. This is as rain or dew, according to His own gracious declaration, "My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew"   (Deuteronomy 32:2) . The dropping, then, of His doctrine, or, as the word means, His "teaching,"  as rain, and the distilling of His gracious speech as dew, kindle in the soul a love of the truth, and wherever this is felt there is salvation, for we read of those who perish that "they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved" (II Thessalonians 2:10). There is a receiving of the truth, and a receiving of the love of the truth . These two things widely differ. To receive the truth will not necessarily save; for many receive the truth who never receive the ...