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

I love the Ten Commandments - ­ God's holy law. And I do not try to keep them. I have kept them perfectly! When the Lord Jesus Christ obeyed God's holy law perfectly ­ I did too! Trying to keep them always comes up short, and in reality stirs up the passions of sin ( see Rom ans 7:7-8). No, I do not try to keep them. I have kept them! In the Person of my Representative, I have kept them! "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, WE ESTABLISH THE LAW " (Rom ans 3:31). - Gospel report by preacher Todd Nibert

It is only when a sinner comes to Christ as nothing and with nothing that he receives anything. This is a necessary because Christ is ALL ! He alone has all the preeminence. He is all the “fullness.” The only way for us to have Him is for the Holy Spirit to empty us of ourselves! And what a painful thing that is to proud, self-righteous sinners! Yet, it must happen if we are to be saved. Grace brings us to Christ with nothing and He takes nothing and make it something! Something in Himself! What He did in the natural creation He must also do in the new creation. He does not redo but makes all things new! We come with nothing and are made something. We come as poverty stricken souls and receive the riches of His grace. We come void of any righteousness and are made the righteousness of God in Him. We come as empty vessels and are filled with His fullness. We come as those who are spiritually bankrupt and receive the bounty of His grace. We come as those who are orphans an...

Is faith necessary in salvation? Most certainly! For "he that believeth not shall be damned" (Mark 16:16), and "without faith it is impossible to please" God (Heb rews 11:6). But why is faith necessary? It is not because faith is the ground of salvation, nor is there any merit in faith, and faith is not the instrumental cause of salvation. It is because saving faith (which is the gift of God) believes in and lays hold of the Lord Jesus Christ and submits to His righteousness imputed as the only ground of salvation! -copied

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (12-14OCT18) 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: Golden Promises “ And even to your old age I am He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; EVEN I WILL CARRY , AND WILL DELIVER YOU ” -Isaiah 46:4 [KJV] Jehovah is always the same. Though we are aging and changing, yet our Lord remains the eternal, faithful, unchanging and unchangeable God. Let all who rest in Christ rejoice. The Lord’s love, care, protection, truth and promises shall never fail as the years go by. As our lives are spent, as the white hairs slowly accumulate in abundance, He will still bear us up, support us and carry us. He made us, not only physically, but He made us spiritually. He ...

The Wednesday Word None C an Perish There “Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat Where Jesus answers prayer; There humbly fall before His feet, For none can perish there.” -John Newton We can all remember a time when we were sinners. Oh yes, I know we are (present tense) sinners (1 Timothy 1;15) but I’m talking about when we knew we were vile and base and living in despair. And do you remember what happened? Jesus interposed and led us to the cross and assured us that, None can perish there! Then by the Spirit and the Word we were taught precious truths like the Mercy Seat (Exodus 25:17-22). We learned that it was made of pure gold and thus a picture of Christ (Exodus 37:6). It pointed us again to Jesus the only sinless one who ever lived. Indeed, None can perish there! God told Moses He would commune with him from above the Mercy Seat (Exodus 25:22). It is no wonder then that in John 14:6, Jesus, being the Mercy Seat, said, "I am the way, the t...

In II Peter 1:1, the apostle Peter addresses those he writes to as "them that have obtained like precious faith." We know that faith comes from God and is the gift of God (Eph. 2:8). The faith that God gives never stands alone. Faith is only as good as its object. What distinguishes this "precious faith" and makes it precious? The faith of God's elect is precious for this reason: "Unto you therefore which believe HE is precious.." (I Pet. 2:7). Faith in anyone or anything else is worthless! True faith believes God. Like Abraham, we "believe on Him that justifieth the ungodly" and the object of this God-given faith, Christ, is counted for our righteousness before God (Rom. 4:5). Do we get righteousness by faith? Through faith we are brought to realize and see that God in grace has made us righteous by imputing to us the very "righteousness of God" in Christ. The truth is, we don't "obtain" righteo...

"I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek T hy servant; for I do not forget T hy commandments." -Psalm 119:176 [KJV] If the Lord did not seek us, we should never seek the Lord. That is most certain. If you are one that seeks the Lord in prayer, in supplication, in secret desire, with many a heartrending groan, and often by night and by day, be well assured, that you would never have sought the Lord, had not the Lord first sought you. He is now seeking you. It may be (as you fear), some time before H e finds you; but H e will find you at last. How sweetly the Lord has set this forth in the parable of the lost sheep! The poor sheep has gone astray; and having  once left the fold, it is pretty sure to have got into some strange place or other. It has fallen down a rock, or has rolled into a ditch, or is hidden beneath a bush, or has crept into a cave, or is lying in some deep, distant ravine, where none but an experienced eye and hand can find it out...