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

 Praise the God of all creation,  Praise the Father’s boundless love;  Praise the Lamb, our expiation,  Priest and King enthroned above;  Praise the Fountain of salvation,  Him by whom our spirits live;  Undivided adoration  To the ONE JEHOVAH give!    For Thy free electing favor,  Thee, O Father, we adore!  Jesus, our redeeming Saviour,  Thee we worship evermore!  Praise the God of our salvation,  Hosts on high His love proclaim;  Heav’n and earth and all creation,  Laud and magnify His name. -old Gospel hymn, "Come Thou Fount"   -------0-------    Proverbs 8:33-35   The Lord Jesus Christ Himself and the Gospel truth of salvation by God’s grace in Him, the very righteousness of God, is the embodiment of God’s wisdom for all His true children. So, He tells us to “Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth Me, watching daily at My gates, waiting ...

“For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” -Malachi 3:6 [KJV]  These words are sweet comfort to the Lord’s people who live in this changing world. To keep us from getting too comfortable in ourselves and our situations, our wise God “stirs the nest.” “As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him” (Deuteronomy 32:11.12) .  Like the eagle, who stirs the nest of her young ones removing some of the soft feathered outer lining to expose the sharper sticks below, the Lord does changes things so that we remember that we can only trust HIM. He rearranges our comfortable little “nests.” All human comfort and confidence fails. He brings us into situations and circumstances in which we are made to know that He alone is our Strength and our Salvation. Like the eaglet out of the comfortable nest and ...

Hebrews ch. 10 / Explained: Why Jesus’ Sacrifice Was Once For All -preacher Henry T. Mahan (39 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V62pKFMqHg In this deep and eye-opening sermon, we explore: Why Old Testament sacrifices could never take away sin The difference between the ceremonial law and moral law How Jesus fulfilled what the law could never accomplish What it truly means to be sanctified, forgiven, and made righteous Why believers can now boldly enter into the presence of God This message breaks down the gospel in a clear and uncompromising way—revealing that salvation is not by works, rituals, or religion, but by the finished work of Christ alone. 📖 Key Scripture: Hebrews Chapter 10 If you’ve ever wondered: “Am I really forgiven?” “Do I still need to earn salvation?” “What did Jesus actually accomplish on the cross?” This sermon will give you clarity and confidence in your faith.  

       In the Scripture, the term justification means “to declare or pronounce one to be righteous or holy before God.” We see this in Acts 13:38.39, where the apostle Paul declared the Gospel to the Jews – “Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man (Christ the Lord) is preached (declared) unto you the forgiveness of sins.” In other words, Paul told them that the only way of salvation was through the WORK OF CHRIST ALONE . Notice verse 39 – “And by Him (by His power) all that believe (literally, are persuaded) are (not will be, but are already) justified (declared legally righteous according to God’s Law and Justice) from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses .”   From the last part of this verse we see that justification cannot be obtained by our personal obedience to the law. Therefore, the hope or cause of justification (being declared legally righteous and holy before God) cannot be p...

Only Two by DG Miles McKee     It is estimated that there are around 10,000 religions in the world, but the truth is there are only two. The first category of religion is comprised of those who demand performance (on the adherent’s part).  Salvation for them is a matter of doing one’s best or obeying a set of rules. For example … ‘Don’t eat this and don’t eat that.’ ‘Pray at this time.’ ’Take part in this ceremony or that sacrament’. ’Perform this or that good work’. This is the religion of ‘DO.’ It is by far the more popular of the two.  The other category of religion is really a non-religion. It is summarized by the word DONE.  Membership in this group comes about by receiving from God the gift of eternal life.  Since it is a gift, it is neither earned nor deserved.  According to Scripture, without Christ, we can do nothing (John 15:5). That’s true, but the flip side is equally true … with Christ, there’s nothing we need to do! Jesus has...

"By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."   - Matthew 12:37 [KJV]   Who then can be saved? Is not this legal doctrine? Does it not contradict that fundamental doctrine of the gospel, justification by faith in the righteousness of Christ only? No: no more than St. James, in maintaining justification by works, contradicts St. Paul, who insists upon justification by faith. They are easy to be reconciled: so are these words to justification by grace. Surely our Lord never meant to contradict His own words: “He who believeth hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death to life” (John 5:24.)    He cannot mean to overthrow our faith, distress our souls, and cause us to rest our final justification, at the last day, upon either our words or our works. If so, woe unto the most perfect! It had been better for that man, he had never been born: for eternal condemnation must be his doom...

"For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shew-bread; which is called the sanctuary." -Hebrews 9:2 [KJV] It is blessed to see how Christ was set forth in every thing, and by every way in the ordinances of God, during the first ages of the church. Surely they had the gospel preached to them in type and shadow, as we have now in sum and substance. My soul, take thine evening meditation among the furniture of the outer sanctuary, and see what emblems they afford of Christ. The tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, contained, in the first apartment, the things here spoken of. The candlestick, if without a light, strikingly set forth the darkness of that dispensation; and if with a light (which seems the most probable, for the lamps were to be always burning) it shewed that the Lord Himself, who walketh in the midst of the golden candlesticks, is the light of His people, and the glory of the temple. T...

"If any man come to Me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple." -Luke 14:26, 27 [KJV]   There is no middle path to heaven—there is no intermediate state between hell and heaven; no purgatory for that numerous class who think themselves hardly good enough for heaven, yet hardly bad enough for hell. No; there is no intermediate road nor state. We must win Christ as our own most blessed Jesus, and with Him enjoy the happiness and glory of heaven, or sink down to hell with all our sins upon our head beneath His most terrible frown. The soul then that has been charmed with the beauty and blessedness of Jesus longs to win Him, and that not for a day, month, or year, but for eternity; for in obtaining Him, it obtains all that God can give the soul of man to enjoy as created immortal and ...