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

"The L ORD keep thee." -Numbers 6:24 [KJV] How we need the Lord to keep us! We stand upon slippery places. Snares and traps are laid for us in every direction. Every employment, every profession in life, from the highest to the lowest, has its special temptations. Snares are spread for the feet of the most illiterate as well as the most highly cultivated minds; nor is there any one, whatever his position in life may be, who has not a snare laid for him, and such a snare as will surely prove his downfall if God keep him not. When Elisha sat upon the mountain and his servant was distressed lest his master should be taken away by violence, the prophet prayed the Lord to open his servant’s eyes. What then saw he? Chariots and horses of fire all round about the mountain guarding the prophet. Perhaps if the Lord were to open our eyes as he opened the eyes of Elisha’s servant, we might see devils where he saw angels, see ourselves surrounded by Beelzebub and his legions,...

“ And He said unto them, This is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many .” -Mark 14:24 [KJV] “ What a thought to be justified in the sight of the holy God, to have every vestige of sin and pollution washed away. I awoke during the night with that thought. Our Lord has a special way of blessing during the nighttime hours. Here I am on the edge of eternity, and the Almighty Creator waits with a welcome. You top that, brother! I am in God's purpose as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Then the words came to me; "Not without blood." I own the blood! I confess the blood! As I age may God by His amazing grace take away any vestige of hope I might have in anything but the "precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot" ( I Pet er 1:9 ). I've heard men say, "Well, I just want peace as I grow old." I do too! "Not without blood." It will be a bloody peace or none at all. "And...

“ The Lord Jesus Christ proclaimed blood atonement. He said the blood has been shed. It was God's blood...holy blood, precious blood...it was divinely sent blood...saving blood …redeeming blood. The blood atonement means the life laid down, it means the offering up of the Lord of glory!  And He said this was the only basis on which a Holy God could deal with sinful men. Not upon your goodness, but upon the basis of His life laid down...that's how God deals with sinners.” - Gospel report by preacher Rolfe Barnard ( 1904-1969 A.D. )

"But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth." - II Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV] There is the impartation of righteousness, as well as the imputation of it; and the impartation of it is the communication of a divine nature to the soul. Have I one grain of holiness in myself? Not one. Can all the men in the world, by all their united exertions, raise up a grain of spiritual holiness in their hearts? Not an atom, with all their efforts. If all the preachers in the world were to unite together for the purpose of working a grain of holiness in one man’s soul, they might strive to all eternity: they could no more by their preaching create holiness, than by their preaching they could create a lump of gold. But because, by a gracious act of God the Father, Jesus is made unto H is people sanctification, H e impar...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands ( 11-13JAN19 ) 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: “ But this man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His footstool. For by one offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” -Hebrews 10:12-14 [KJV] The Son of God came into the world to accomplish the salvation of those the Father gave Him in electing grace before the world began. “ Thou shalt call His name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins” ( Matthew 1:21 ). In order to carry out this great task, Messiah said, “ A body Thou hast prepared Me” ( Hebrews 10:5 ). In that body, ordained by the Fathe...

"Preserved in Jesus Christ, and called." What a mercy it is for God’s people that before they have a vital union with Christ, before they are grafted into Him experimentally, they have an eternal, immanent union with Him before all worlds. It is this eternal union that brings them into time existence. It is by virtue of this eternal union that they come into the world at such a time, at such a place, from such parents, under such circumstances, as God has appointed. It is by virtue of this eternal union that the circumstances of their time-state are ordained. By virtue of this eternal union they are preserved in Christ before they are called; they cannot die till God has brought about a vital union with Christ. Whatever sickness they may pass through, whatever injuries they may be exposed to, whatever perils assault them on sea or land, fall they will not, fall they cannot, till God’s purposes are executed in bringing them into a vital union with the Son of ...

  “ To believe God is no small thing. It is the evidence of a heart reconciled unto God; it is the proof of our being weaned from our own works and deeds; it is a clear sign of the true conviction of sin; it is honoring to Christ, our only Redeemer; it is the essence of true worship; and it is the root of sincere obedience.” -Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan