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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (14-16SEP18) 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. BE STILL "Some preachers want to arouse man’s activity. We want to kill it once and for all, to show him that he is lost and ruined, and that his activities are not able to save him. Some seek to make the man stand up. We seek to bring him down and make him feel that he is in the hands of God and that his business is to submit to God, bow to the claims of Christ, and cry, 'Lord, save me or I perish.' We hold that a man is never so near grace as when he feels that he can do nothing at all but cry for mercy. But, when he says, 'I can pray, I can believe, I can do this or that,' the marks of self-suffic...

“ ... the unsearchable  RICHES OF CHRIST” -Ephesians 3:8 [KJV] “ Has atoning blood so influenced our eyes that we see no true beauty apart from Christ crucified? Has atoning blood influenced our ears so that we can listen to no sound so sweet as that of Jesus’ precious name? Has atoning blood so influenced our hands that we are willing to labor for His sake? Has atoning blood so influenced our feet that we cannot safely take a single step without Him? If this is the case with us, then we are the servants of Jesus Christ, bought with His blood, born into His family and blessed with His bounty.” - Gospel report by preacher Thomas Bradbury (1677-1759 A.D.)

“ Salvation is of the LORD.” -Jonah 2:9c [KJV] “ Cling to the cross though your sins rise up before you like mountains for their size; like the sands on the sea shore for their number; and glowing like scarlet and crimson in color! For no sins, however great, or however numerous should tempt us to despond, or to let go of our hold on the cross, seeing the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from ALL sin . There is a 'buoyancy' in the cross which will never let anyone sink, who clings to it! If our sins were as ponderous as the globe, or as numerous as all the particles of created matter yet embracing the cross of Jesus they are all forgiven, and forgiven forever! They are all blotted out like the dark clouds, which obscured the sun for a little while on the summer's morning. They are all blotted out like a stone cast from an angel's hand into the depths of ocean. They are all forgiven and forgotten forever! Cling to the cross!” -Gospel report by pr...

"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished."   -Proverbs of Solomon 22:3 [KJV] Noah, warned of God, prepared an ark to the saving of his house. Lot, admonished by the angels, fled out of Sodom. So there is a fleeing from the wrath to come. How careless, how secure, and unconcerned are we till quickened with spiritual life! Solomon speaks of those who sleep on the top of a mast, where one jerk of the wave, or one turn of the sleeper may precipitate him into the boiling ocean. God's anger is gathering against a wicked world. Who will escape this fearful storm of eternal, unmitigated wrath? Those who flee to Jesus. Who flee to Jesus? Those only who feel their need of H im. How are they made to feel their need of Him? By the flashes of God's anger. Whence issue these flashes? Out of the thundercloud of God's holy law—the revelation which He has made of His anger against transgressors. ...

"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." -Galatians 1:8-9 [KJV] My heart breaks as I watch people compromise the Gospel. But I must say again, There is only one Gospel! The Gospel of the free and sovereign grace of Christ my Lord. The Gospel that gives Christ all the Glory in salvation and excludes all human boasting. The Gospel that exalts the electing love of the Father, the effectual redemption of the Son, and the irresistible grace of the Holy Spirit. This is the Gospel and where this is not preached, the Gospel of Christ is not preached! Call me bigoted, narrow or cultist if you will, but this is the only Gospel that will save a sinner like me. I am captive to this Gospel! I really have no choice but to preach this Gospe...

"What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?" -Matt hew 22:42-45 [KJV]   After the Pharisees and Sadducees had peppered and bombarded the Lord Jesus with many needless questions, then the Lord asked them the all important question of questions, 'What think ye of Christ?' It concerns each of us to seriously ask ourselves this heart-searching question. What are my thoughts about the Lord Jesus Christ? It is the great test of our spiritual state before God. Do I think of Him at all? Is He in any of my thoughts? To the unbeliever, and the atheist the Lord Jesus is nothing (Psa. 53:1). To the self-righteous legalist, He is just rules and regulations. To the hypocrite Christ Jesus is only convenience at relig...

“ The doctrine of free and sovereign grace is rather an encouragement to awakened and brokenhearted sinners than otherwise. If you are most unworthy of mercy and destitute of every plea, should you not be glad to hear that the Lord does not expect worthiness in those whom He saves; but that He Himself has provided the only plea by which He will accept us and a plea which cannot be overruled – the righteousness and mediation of His well-beloved Son ? None are so bad but the gospel affords them a ground of hope; none are so good as to have any just ground of hope without it.” - Gospel report by preacher John Newton