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

"... l ook unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged." -Isaiah 51:1 [KJV] It is as though the Lord would here by the pen of His prophet turn our eyes to our native origin. And what is that? The same quarry out of which the other stones come. If you and I, by God's grace, are "living stones," we come out of the same quarry with the dead, unbelieving, unregenerate world; there is no difference in that respect. Nay, we are perhaps sunk lower in the quarry than some of those in whom God never has and never will put His grace. It is not the upper stratum, what is called "the capstone," of the quarry, which is to be taken to be hewn into a pillar; they go down deep into the pit to get at the marble which is to be chiselled into the ornamental column. So with God's saints. They do not lie at the top of the quarry; but the Lord has to go down very low, that He may bring up these stones out of ...

“ By the law of Israel the right of redemption belonged to him that was next of blood (Leviticus 25:25, Ruth 2:20). It was being made like H is brethren that Christ acquired the human and legal title to pay the ransom price for H is church. ” - Gospel report by preacher A rthur W. Pink

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (30NOV-02DEC18) 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 un...

"O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock." -Song of Solomon 2:14 [KJV] JESUS is the hiding-place, the only hiding-place from sin and self. "Thou art my hiding-place" said David of old. This was shewn to Moses, in figure, when the Lord put him into the cleft of a rock, which Toplady has so beautifully versified, to paint the longing desires of his soul: "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee!" It is on this "Rock of Ages" that God has built His Church. As a rock, He is deep as well as high—so deep as to have under-bottomed the depths of the fall, so high as to be God's fellow, seated at His right hand. As a rock, too, He is broad as well as long—broad enough to bear millions of living stones built on Him, and long enough to reach from eternity to eternity. The Apostle, therefore, prays that the Church at Ephesus may comprehend with all saints, "what is the breadth and length, and dept...

“ Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom He hath called , not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?” -Romans 9:21-24 [KJV] Men sometimes tell us that they just don’t understand what we mean by divine sovereignty. I disagree; I believe most have a very good understanding, they just don’t like what it signifies. Divine sovereignty clearly denotes that the Lord does what He will with His own. The root word is “reign.” God reigns – that’s what divine sovereignty means. He reigns in creation, in providence and in grace. The Lord declared, “My counsel s hall stand, and I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE” (Isaiah 46:10). ...

Once while listening to a “televangelist” on TV, I heard him say as he was supposedly praying for his listeners, “ I release unto you the efficacy of the blood of Jesus.” I thought, what blasphemy! Then, the thought occurred to me, that’s what most preachers today are telling people to do! This is the very essence of modern 'freewill' works religion. It is the basis of the decisionism that false religion promotes today. Neither man’s work nor man’s will shall be allowed to determine the success of God’s purpose or the efficacy of Christ’s blood. The truth is, the efficacy of the blood of Jesus is what releases us! If it hasn’t, then we are yet in bondage and shall remain so for all eternity. Faith does not release the efficacy of the blood of Jesus, it realizes it, receives it and relies upon it as the single ground of our salvation . Christ made peace by the blood of His cross. His blood obtained eternal redemption for us. He purchased the church with His ...

A fallen sinner, lost undone, A guilty rebel, Adam’s son; How can I ever righteous be, Since I am all impurity? CHORUS: I have no merits of my own, I plead the blood of Christ alone, He died my sin-debt to atone. Though worthless in my wicked soul, The Savior died to make me whole; My ransom Jesus fully paid, To justice satisfaction made. ( CHORUS ) Since God the Spirit touched my heart, Life, grace and faith He did impart; I have no other hope or plea, But that the Savior died for me. ( CHORUS ) Condemned by God I cannot be, My Substitute has died for me; With boldness I the Judge shall meet, For in the Son I am complete. ( CHORUS ) -Words by J IM BYRD to the hymn, "Solid Rock" "HE KNOWETH   THEM THAT    TRUST IN HIM" -Nahum 1:7 [KJV] He knows our frame, and bears patiently with us. He knows our temptations, and brings His succour ( help ). He knows our transgressions, and forgives them. He knows our ...