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

“ Salvation is of the L ORD .” -Jonah 2:9c [KJV] “ Are you afraid of the consequences of death, and what will come after? Throw yourself upon God, in Christ, and you are safe. Christ's righteousness is law-proof, death-proof, and judgment-proof.” -Gospel report from preacher Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778 A.D.)

“ God forbid that I should glory ,  save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ ”     -Galatians 6:1 4 [KJV] David wrote, “The heavens declare the glory of God” (Psalm 19:1) , but the glories of redemption vastly outshine the magnificence of creation. All of the infinite perfections of God are harmoniously featured in the sacrificial, substitutionary death of Christ. At the cross we behold God’s determinate purpose, His everlasting love and His inflexible justice working together to bring about the salvation of unworthy sinners “to the praise of the glory of His grace” (Ephesians 1:6) . - Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd, 13 th Street Baptist Church of Ashland, Kentucky USA Note: written (PDF) , audio Gospel messages & contact information here https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Jim_Byrd

"For the word of God is quick, and powerful" -Hebrews 4:12 [KJV] What is meant by the word of God being "quick?" That it moves with swiftness and velocity? It is certainly said of God's word (Psalm 147:15) that "it runneth very swiftly;" but that is not the meaning of the word "quick" in the text. It there means "living," and corresponds with the expression "lively (or living) oracles," Acts 7:38 . It is an old English word signifying "living;" as in the expression, " W ho shall judge the quick and the dead" ( II Timothy 4:1) , that is, the living and the dead. So we read of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram "going down quick (that is, alive) into the pit" (Numbers 16:30) . So the Lord is said to have "quickened (that is, made spiritually alive) those who were dead in trespasses and sins" (Eph esians 2:1) . The word "quick," then, means not moving wit...

“ For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” -Rom ans 14:17 [KJV] The Kingdom of God and the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ; salvation that is accomplished by Christ and given totally by the free grace of Christ has nothing to do with what you eat and drink; has nothing to do with your morality, clean living and observing certain days. We are justified by grace not by the deeds of the law ( Rom ans 3:24 ) . Our salvation is totally based upon what Christ has done for us not what we do or have done for Him ( Titus 3:5 ) . Salvation that is all of grace has nothing to do with meats, drinks, and days ( II Tim othy 1:9 ) ; but rather upon righteousness established in Christ, upon the peace that Christ made for us with His own blood and the joy we have resting in Christ. These three essential gospel truths always go together where you find one you find the others: 1). Righteousness … how are sinners made rig...

"Look unto M e, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." -Isaiah 45:22 [KJV] How often we seem not to have any real religion, or enjoy any solid comfort! How often are our evidences obscured and beclouded, and our minds covered with deep darkness! How often does the Lord hide Himself, so that we cannot behold Him, nor get near to Him; and how often the ground on which we thought we stood is cut from under our feet, and we have no firm standing! What a painful path is this to walk in, but how profitable! When we are reduced to poverty and beggary, we learn to value Christ's glorious riches; the worse opinion we have of our own heart, and the more deceitful and desperately wicked that we find it, the more we put our trust in His faithfulness; and the more black we are in our own esteem, the more beautiful and comely does He appear in our eyes. As we sink, Jesus rises; as we become feeble, He puts forth His strength; as ...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (08-10FEB19) 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: “ It is only when a sinner comes to Christ as nothing and with nothing that he receives anything. This is a necessary thing 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 makes 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 n...

"And for their sakes I sanctify M yself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." - Jesus Christ, “The LORD our righteousness” as per John 17:19 [KJV] Christ is made to His people sanctification (1 Cor. 1:30) . What am I? What are you? Filthy, polluted, defiled; are we not? Do not some of us, more or less, daily feel altogether as an unclean thing? Is not every thought of our heart altogether vile? Does any holiness, any spirituality, any heavenly-mindedness, any purity, any resemblance to the Divine image dwell in our hearts by nature? Not a grain, not an atom. How then can I, a polluted sinner, ever see the face of a holy God? How can I, a worm of earth, corrupted within and without by indwelling and committed sin, ever hope to see a holy God without shrinking into destruction? I cannot see Him, except so far as the Lord of life and glory is made sanctification to me. Why should men start so at "imputed sanctification?" Why should not C...