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

“ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not.” - I John 3:1 [KJV]   No creature of the dust can possibly plum the depth of the manner, the sort or the quality, of the love that God has for His people. But according to God’s word His love, which was totally undeserved, is revealed to have been in the heart of God eternally (Jer emiah 31:3) . His love is a distinguishing and particular love (Mal achi 1:2-3) , graciously and compassionately bestowed upon the recipients of His mercy totally according to the good pleasure of His will (Ex odus 33:1 9 ) . His love, being a love that is never shown at the expense of His justice, flows to His elect according to the efficacy of the broken body and shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ…He who was made sin for His bride that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. And thanks be unto God…if He h...

“ And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.” -Romans 15:29 [KJV] The apostle Paul was an ambitious, zealous missionary and preacher of the gospel of Christ. He had a desire not only to travel and preach the gospel to those in Rome, but also to travel into Spain and preach the gospel there (Rom ans 15:24, 28) . He assured the believers in Rome that on his way to Spain he would stop in Rome also and minister the gospel to them personally and fully (Rom ans 1:10-15; 15:19) . But what Paul says by the power of Holy Spirit inspiration that really caught and fixed my attention in the way and how he says that he will come to Rome, “I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.” That is also true of every believer in how we come before God right now; in the fullness of all spiritual blessings in Christ (Ep hesians 1:3; I Cor inthians 1:30) . Consider what the scriptures teach ...

“ That I may know H im, and the power of H is resurrection, and the fellowship of H is sufferings, being made conformable unto H is death” -Phil ippians 3:10 [KJV] I know that there are some things that are important to us; there are some people that are important to us. However, in light of our great need of Christ nothing else is that important. We need Him. As the woman with the issue of blood said, “If I can but touch the hem of H is garment, I shall be made whole.” Without Him we are lost, undone, and unaccepted by the Father. There is no material thing or human relationship that can supply my spiritual need; however, in Christ we are complete ( Col ossians 2:9-10 ) . In Christ we have all that we need to stand in God’s presence accepted ( Phil ippians 4:19 ) . I cannot express how important it is to know Christ; all material things will burn up, and all fleshly relationships will be dissolved. However, our relationship with Christ will never be d...

“ It is ignorance of doctrine which is mainly responsible for thousands of professing Christians being captivated by the numerous fallacies of the day. It is because the time has now arrived when the bulk of our churches “will not endure sound doctrine” ( II Tim othy 4:3) that they so readily receive false doctrines. Of course it is true that doctrine, like anything else in Scripture, may be studied from a merely cold intellectual viewpoint, and thus approached, doctrinal teaching and doctrinal study will leave the heart untouched, and will naturally be ‘dry’ and profitless. But, doctrine properly received, doctrine studied with an exercised heart, will ever lead into a deeper knowledge of God and of the unsearchable riches of Christ.” -Gospel report by preacher Arthur Pink Excerpt from "The Sovereignty of God," first published in 1919 A.D. https://chapellibrary.org:8443/pdf/books/sogo.pdf

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (08-10MAR19) 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: “ THE WRATH TO COME ” - I Thess alonians 1:10 [KJV] God poured out His wrath upon the old world and destroyed all mankind except those who were in the Ark with Noah. God poured out His wrath upon His Son, when He died upon the cross bearing the sins of His people. Some may persuade themselves that He has no more wrath to pour out, but they deceive themselves. The apostle assures us in this Scripture that He still has wrath to pour out, there is still “wrath to come.” Upon whom will it come? Just as His wrath was poured out upon all who were not in the ark, so it will be poured out upon all those who are not IN CHRIST. There is One refuge ...

"O L ORD , be gracious unto us; we have waited for T hee: be T hou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble." -Isaiah 33:2 [KJV] Israel has often to pass through times of sorrow and trouble. Deep temporal and deep spiritual trouble is the allotted portion of many, if not of most of the people of God. But having found that the Lord is a Saviour, and the only Saviour who can support in trouble and deliver out of trouble, there is this conviction deeply implanted and firmly written upon their heart, that H e is a Saviour in the time of trouble. It is the purpose of God to hunt us out of all lying refuges, that we may believe in Jesus to the saving of our soul; that we may prove that H e is able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by H im; that we may learn what salvation is, and that we may know it for ourselves as a divine and blessed reality. Thus though H e is always a Saviour, yet H e is not experimentally a Saviour in times ...

My friends, do you love to hear Christ lifted up and exalted as your all and in all? If you do you are willing to be made less than nothing and vanity in yourselves. Professors of religion, generally, do not like to be thus humbled. They love to have something to do, in whole or in part, to recommend themselves to God. But the Lord’s salvation is not a mixture of grace and works. It is of free and sovereign grace, and received by faith alone, which is the gift of God. It is “ not of works, lest any man should boast” ( Ephesians 2:8-9 ). The Lord alone be exalted as the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last in the salvation of His people. - Gospel report by preacher John Kershaw, 1848 A.D.