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

Unfaithfulness is one of the most outstanding sins of these evil days. In the business world, a man's word is, with exceedingly rare exceptions, no longer his bond. In the social world, marital infidelity abounds on every hand, the sacred bonds of wedlock being broken with as little regard as the discarding of an old garment. In the ecclesiastical realm, thousands who have solemnly covenanted to preach the truth make no scruple to attack and deny it. Nor can reader or writer claim complete immunity from this fearful sin: in how many ways have we been unfaithful to Christ, and to the light and privileges which God has entrusted to us! How refreshing, then, how unspeakably blessed, to lift our eyes above this scene of ruin, and behold One who is faithful, faithful in all things, faithful at all times. 'Know therefore that the L ORD thy God, He is God, the faithful God' . This quality is essential to His being, without it He would not be God. For God to be unf...

"My mouth shall show forth Thy righteousness and Thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.  I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of Thy righteousness, even of Thine only." -Psalm 71:15-16 [KJV] "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering. But if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how SUDDEN A CATASTROPHE may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." -Daniel Webster, American statesman (1782 - 1852 A.D.) “ The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everyone has decided not to see.” -Ayn Rand "A formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession...their ignorance.” -Hendrick Willem von Loon “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” -Aristotle “ It is better to trust in the LORD...

"The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted" (Psalm 18:46). Salvation means the entirety of that work of Jehovah whereby sinners are delivered from sin and all of its effects and raised to the heights of everlasting glory through the blood and righteousness of Christ. Here is the message of scripture: "Salvation is of the LORD" (Jonah 2:9). 1. God purposed salvation. "...Chosen unto salvation before the foundation of the world" (2 Thessalonians 2:13). 2. God provided salvation. "...God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering" (Genesis 22:8). 3. God possesses salvation, it is His to give. "Shew us Thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us Thy salvation" (Psalm 85:7). 4. God has the prerogative to grant salvation to whom He will. "...I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious" (Exodus 33:17). 5. God proclaims salvation. "Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed un...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (21-23DEC18) 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: "No man is able to pluck them  out of My Father’s hand" -John 10:29 [KJV]   Think, my soul, how eternally safe and secure must the church of Jesus be, thus kept by the mighty power of God, through faith, unto salvation! What shall unclasp the hands of Jehovah? Who shall wrest the weakest, the humblest, the poorest of Christ’s little ones from the holding of His omnipotency? Why then art thou, my soul, so frequently exercised with fears, and doubts, and misgivings? It is the Lord’s love that is the foundation of thy assurance, and not the strength of thy graces! His own free mercy, and not thy merit were the first causes...

"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." -Galatians 5:1 [KJV] The Apostle Paul encourages and inspires every believer to "stand fast," defend at all cost the precious freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus (John 8:32). Through His perfect blood atonement (Heb. 9:12), His provided righteousness imputed (Rom. 4:6), every believer has been set free; free from the curse of the Law (Gal. 3:13), free from spiritual death (Eph. 2:1) and free from the condemnation of sin (Rom. 8:1). Not only are we instructed to "stand fast," defend and hold to the ground of salvation by free grace in Christ Jesus at all cost, but we are also encouraged NOT to be entangled with the "yoke of bondage" (Gal. 2:16). Don't be entangled, hampered or ensnared again with the bondage of works and law to obtain the favor and blessings of God, for in Christ we have the favor a...

Christ is my Daysman, my Umpire, the only One W ho can open His "...mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction" (Proverbs 3 1 :8). He is the Intercessor for transgressors ( Isaiah 53:12 ). He is the all-powerful Advocate for sinful little children ( I John 2:1 ). He is the Great High Priest before my God, Who bears my name upon His breast-plate of judgment, and also the iniquity of my holy things, as He appears with His priestly crown, that I may be accepted before the LORD ( Exodus 28:38 ). In Him there is a glorious all fullness that secures for the elect of God all their sin and guilt put away, every question of sin forever settled, their persons accepted, their needs supplied, their enemies defeated, and their heaven sure. - Gospel report by preacher Thomas Bradbury, c. 1897 A.D.

Each glorious person in the Godhead has a glorious part in our salvation. GOD THE FATHER chose, sanctified, and set us apart in Christ before the world was; GOD THE SON took our humanity into union to His personal Godhead, was made flesh, lived a perfect life, suffered and died a solemn death, rose again from the dead, and is now exalted at the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession for us; GOD THE SPIRIT awakened the dead and "called us with a holy calling." This call is the solemn, soul-quickening, heart-rending call of the Holy God from death to Life, from darkness to Light, from the power of sin and Satan to the Kingdom of the Son of His love. So that, BEFORE THE WORLD WAS, the church was saved purposely by God the Father; IN TIME meritoriously by, the God-man, Christ Jesus, Who now lives above, their mediator, High Priest, and advocate; and IN THE DAY OF GOD'S POWER they are saved manifestly and vitally by the "washing of r...