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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands 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:   LAW OR CHRIST?   Occasionally I hear from someone, who wants to know what relationship believers have to the law, my reply is always the same. Believers are not under the law in any way, shape, form, or fashion. God's people are free from the law's curse, because "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us" (Galatians 3: 13) . The law was not given to give life, or sanctification, but to reveal how sinful we really are . Can that which pronounces death give life? Can that which demands perfection give a man the ability to perform perfectly? "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not ...

There’s a Savior sent to save His sheep from sin; Christ is all; Christ is all. He has come to ransom and to bring them in; Christ is all; Christ is all.   REFRAIN : Christ is all, our only sacrifice, He has paid our debt in full; Christ is all, our pearl of greatest price, All to Him of love we owe. Let us sing His praises for His cleansing blood; Christ is all; Christ is all. He our Great High Priest in our place He stood; Christ is all; Christ is all. By almighty power He has set us free; Christ is all; Christ is all. For His righteousness is all our hope and plea; Christ is all; Christ is all.   -Gospel hymn, "Send The Light"    -------0-------    "The four Gospels are a narrative of the heart of Christ. They show His compassion to sinners and His glorious work in their stead. If you only knew that heart as it is, you would lay your weary head with John on His bosom. Do not take up your time so much with studying your own heart as with studying Christ’s...

The eternal kingdom of God was prepared for God’s elect before the foundation of the world ; and it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared; for it is secured in Christ, to them who are heirs thereof by virtue of their indissoluble union to Him, and not through their relation to Adam; nor had it ever the least dependence upon any created power, or upon the good or evil of any creature.  For the plan was fixed in Him in whose hands it could not miscarry; for it pleased the Father that in Christ should all fullness dwell. In His all sufficiency, He is prepared for all events; and in His immutability, He is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. The work was laid upon Christ in His Surety engagements before the foundation of the world; by Him the Great Propitiatory atonement was made, sin was taken away, and everlasting Righteousness brought in, when He appeared on the earth.  By Him the great High Priest who appears now in the presence of God for His Church; pleading...

It is very common among many who claim to believe and rest in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation but who ignore, compromise, even  deny and hate the doctrines that identify, distinguish, honor, and glorify Christ.  The doctrine of Christ consists of the truths that set Him apart from all counterfeits in the glory of His Person as God manifests in the flesh and in the power and efficacy of His  substitutionary work of obedience unto death as the Surety, Substitute, Redeemer, Intercessor, and Preserver of God’s chosen people given to Him before the world began.  These truths are used by the Holy Spirit from the inerrant Word of God ( the Bible ), and specifically in the true Gospel of salvation by God’s grace in and by the Lord Jesus Christ and based upon the merits of His blood, His righteousness imputed for salvation, to assure all who truly believe in Christ that we are trusting in Him alone and not in a counterfeit.  Hereby we know that we have a solid and fi...

"There is no fear in love. But perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment; he who feareth is not made perfect in love."   -I John 4:18 [KJV] The wild fire of nature’s passions are often mistaken for heavenly love. These have hurried people into dreadful delusions. Some have pretended to be so perfect in love, as to have nothing but pure love in them, and that the being of sin was entirely taken out of them. But they have soon given awful evidence, that they “deceived themselves, and that the truth was not in them” (see I John 1:8.) Be wise by other’s harms. Study the word of God: abide by that. Live upon the perfect love of God: glory in that alone. For you are, and ever will be, while in the body, the subject of sin, therefore subject to that fear which hath torment: to fear God as an enemy, armed with almighty vengeance and vindictive wrath against you, a sinner. How is this tormenting fear to be cast out? By love; the perfect love of God in Chr...

"He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied." -Isaiah 53:11 [KJV] Is not this covenant promise of thy faithful God and Father peculiarly suited, my soul, for thine evening meditation, after the subject of the morning, in contemplating the first cry of Jesus upon the cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do?"  And was not the cry answered in the case of the Jerusalem sinners at the day of Pentecost, soon after, when, under the apostle Peter's sermon, they were pricked to the heart, and cried out, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?"   Acts 2:37 . Ponder over the solemn expression, The travail of the Redeemer's soul . Did Jesus really sustain in soul somewhat like those throes of nature with which a woman is exercised in her hour of extremity? Did He travail in birth for His redeemed?—Pause, my soul, and very solemnly consider the subject. If the eighteenth Psalm be supposed to contain prophetic...

"Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for Thou art my praise." -Jeremiah 17:14 [KJV] If we feel that we have ruined our own souls, that no human arm can save us, that we cannot bring salvation into our own consciences, nor of ourselves see any beauty, glory, sweetness, or suitability in the Lord Jesus Christ, and yet are striving with prayer and supplication to touch the hem of His garment, to taste the sweetness of His dying love, to feel the efficacy of His atoning blood, to be wrapped up in His glorious robe of righteousness, and to know Him in the sweet manifestations of His grace, we too can say, "Save me, and I shall be saved."  Here is this sin! save me from it: here is this snare! break it to pieces; here is this lust! Lord, subdue it; here is this temptation! deliver me out of it; here is my proud heart! Lord, humble it; my unbelieving heart! take it away, and give me faith; give me submission to Thy mind and wi...