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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (01-03FEB19) 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: "Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified." -Matthew 27:26 [KJV] God has ordered by His marvelous and sovereign providence a vivid picture of every believer's Substitute. Barabbas was rightly charged, convicted and sentenced to be executed. He was found guilty of murder, robbery and sedition against Rome. When the executioner came to release him, he was told Jesus had taken his scourging and crucifixion and that he could go free. Barabbas is a type and picture of sinners for whom Christ Jesus died (1 Tim. 1:15). We stand guilty before the law of God (Rom. 3:19-20...

Paul, in the book of Romans, reminds us that “Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace” ( Rom ans 11:1-6 ). A “remnant” is a part of a greater piece or body. It may be a small piece but it is still a part of the whole. Paul makes reference to Elijah who sat down under a juniper tree in despair and discouragement and begged God to die, thinking that he alone was left who truly believed and served the living God. God’s words to Elijah revealed just the opposite. “Yet I have left M e seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him” ( 1 Ki ngs 19:18 ). Not everyone had bowed to the idolatry of the day, not everyone had been deceived by the false prophets of the age and not everyone had gone in the cowardly way of unbelief. There was still a “remnant.” And so it is in this hour, “there is a remnant according to the election of grace.” God in His sovere...

" Give unto the LORD the glory due unto His name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." -Psalm 29:2 [KJV] How can we glorify Him? Praise the perfections of the Trinity. Adore and respectfully speak of the Lord and His attributes. Micah 7:18, "Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retaineth not His anger for ever, because He delighteth in mercy." Exalt the Trinity. Rejoice in the salvation God decreed, accomplished, applies and consummates. "Salvation is of the LORD" in its purpose, purchase, power and perfection. The Father chose us unto salvation, the Son redeemed us and the Spirit regenerated us and keeps us safe till we see Christ face to face. Believe Christ in Whom all the fulness of the Godhood dwells bodily. Nothing so honors the Lord like believing His Incarnate Word and His written Word. Walk by faith. Be faithful to attend the se...

“ The LORD shall reign for ever and ever .” -Exodus 15:18 [KJV] This world is not a kingdom without a throne, a throne without a sovereign, or a sovereign without a scepter; by no blind accident are the affairs of this planet governed. God is in the history of the world its past, its present, and its yet unshapen future. The statesman and the politician may not recognize this fact; but it is so, God rules the kingdom of providence. His hand is moving and controlling all events and circumstances, national and social, public and private; giving birth, and shape and tint to those phenomena in the history of nations, and to those affairs in the history of individuals, which to human perception are often enshrouded in mystery so dreadful and profound. Let this view of God's providential reign hush all murmurings at our lot, making us content with such things as we have, assured that He will never leave us nor forsake us. Let it bow our soul in...

“ YE ARE COMPLETE IN HIM…” -Colossians 2:10 [KJV] The believers standing in Christ does not fluctuate with his feelings, not even the increase or decrease of his faith or understanding or anything else. He stands complete in Christ. God would never trust any of His children to stand before Him at any time in their own selves; that is, in their merits or certain good frames of mind. He knows our frame. He remembers that we are yet dust. Therefore, He has on purpose provided for them this perfect standing in Christ Jesus. “Ye are complete in Him , ” the Holy Ghost said. He says in another place, “Ye are perfect in Christ Jesus” ( Col ossians 1:28 ). The very nature of our God requires us to be perfect and complete before Him at all times. He, out of necessity, therefore provided all this for His children; a perfection, a completeness, which can never be diminished. It is as unchanging as God Himself, ( Hebrews 6:17; 13:8 ). Every true believer may walk through thi...

“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and H e shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.” -Psalm 27:13-14 [KJV] Someone wrote that Martin Luther’s strength and confidence lay in the fact that he believed so strongly that the ministry in which he was engaged was not his own but the Lord’s. He often prayed, “Lord, this is Y our cause, not mine.” What would this persuasion do for you and me? Is not most of our depression and unhappiness caused by the desire to SEE more than we are seeing, DO more than we are doing, HAVE more than we have, and to BE what we are not? If this is THE LORD’S CAUSE AND NOT MINE, then I ought to be content to serve diligently where He has placed me, with the gifts He has given me, doing all that I find to do, and rejoicing in His love. “ For w here two or three are gathered together in M y name, there am I in the midst of them. ” Enoch wal...

"For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." - I Timothy 2:5 [KJV] No sooner has living faith embraced the Person of Jesus (and that is the first object which faith lays hold of), than it embraces H im as the divinely-appointed Mediator. And how sweet and suitable is such a Mediator to a poor, sinful, crawling reptile, a wretch defiled, morning, noon, and night, with everything foul and filthy, who has broken the law of God a million times, and cannot keep it a single moment! "How can I," argues the soul, "so full of sin and depravity, how can I approach with acceptance the great, glorious, and holy Jehovah? I cannot, I dare not!" But when it sees, by the eye of faith, a divinely-appointed Mediator, a glorious Intercessor, a great High Priest over the house of God: One that has shed H is blood to put away sin; One who has righteousness to justify, and has a fulness of grace and glory to give to the poo...