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

“ If salvation depends upon our being or doing anything, we shall inevitably be lost. Thank God, it does not; for the great fundamental principle of the gospel is that Christ is all: man is nothing.  It is not a mixture of Christ and man---it is all of Christ. The peace of the gospel does not rest in part on Christ's work and in part on man's work; it rests wholly on Christ's work, because that work is perfect, perfect forever; and it renders all who put their trust in Him as perfect as Himself! Christ must either be a whole Saviour or no Saviour at all. The moment a man says, 'Except you be this or that, you cannot be saved,' he totally subverts the gospel; for in the gospel I find Christ coming down to me, just as I am--a lost, guilty, self-destroyed sinner; and coming, moreover, with a full remission of all my sins, and a full salvation from my lost estate, all perfectly wrought by Himself on the cross.” -Gospel report by preacher C. H. Ma...

If any deny that salvation be by the free and sovereign grace of God in Christ alone, it is because they do not know themselves! They do not know themselves and their real condition because they do not believe God! We are so blinded by self-righteousness and Satan that unless the Spirit give us the gift of faith, we can never know our true state and condition as sinners before God. We can never know our helplessness except we believe Christ’s words, “no man can come to M e except the Father draw him.” We can never know what we imagine our righteousness to be unless we believe God who says that “all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags” and “there is none righteous, no not one.” When we believe God, we know that we are “lost, blind, dead in trespasses and sins, and without strength.” We are what God says we are, not what men say we are or what we think ourselves to be. When the Spirit of God gives a person faith to believe God and reveals to them what they truly are as sin...

“ Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my B eloved come into H is garden, and eat H is pleasant fruits.” -S ONG OF SOLOMON 4:16 [KJV] We are, most of us, so fettered down by the chains of time and sense, the cares of life and daily business, the weakness of our earthly frame, the distracting claims of a family, and the miserable carnality and sensuality of our fallen nature, that we live at best a poor, dragging, dying life. We take no pleasure in the world, nor mix with a good conscience in its pursuits and amusements; we are many of us poor, moping, dejected creatures, from a variety of trials and afflictions; we have a daily cross and the continual plague of an evil heart; get little consolation from the family of God or the outward means of grace; know enough of ourselves to know that in self there is neither help nor hope, and never expect a smoother path, a better, wiser, holier heart, or to be able...

     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: Sovereign Grace and T he Great Commission Those who are elected to life in Christ shall be saved; “All that the Father giveth Me shall come to M e” (J OHN 6:37) , but they shall be brought to Christ in genuine repentance and faith by God’s Spirit through the means He has appointed – THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL! ( I CORINTHIANS 1:21)… I urge, persuade, and beseech you to be reconciled to God, for “He hath made Him to be sin for us, W ho knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (II CORINTHIANS 5:21) . -Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=418131535290

“ Surely, shall one say, in the L ORD have I righteousness and strength .” -I SAIAH 45:24 [KJV] Have you learnt that you are a sinner in the sight of God? Have you ever felt the length, breadth, and spirituality of H is holy law? Do you feel in your very soul that without Christ’s righteousness being imputed to you, and H is blood being sprinkled upon your conscience, you must die in your sins and never reach the heavenly shore? Has this ever been, or is it still a matter of solicitude to you? Has it ever caused sighs and groans to come out of your heart? Has the spirit of prayer ever been given, to make you plead with the Lord for the forgiveness of your sins, through the merits of a crucified Saviour? And have you any hope but in H is blood, righteousness and finished work? Now if the Lord has been pleased to exercise your soul on this way, if H e has not yet granted the longing desire of your heart, H e certainly will in due time reveal H is dear S on in you as the God...

A song of praise unto our LORD! ---Sung in Hebrew with English translation--- Ref: P SALM 94: 17-19 Shout joyfully in thanksgiving unto our Mighty God ( 4 min 34 sec ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6hq5f9-vs8 LU-LAY ADONAI EZRA-TA-LI KIMAT SAHCH-NA DAUMA NAFSHI Had not the LORD been a help for me, My soul would soon in silence be. IM AMAR-TI MATAH RAG-LI CHAS-D’CHA ADONAI, Y’SA-DAI-NI When I cry God, I’m slipping away, Your loving hands supported me. B’ROV SARA-FAI B’KIR-BI TAN-CHU-MECHA, Y’SHA-A-SHU NAFSHI When the cares of life, crowd in on me, You still my souls anxiety. [chorus] ALL YOU’VE DONE FOR ME, RESCUED ME, AND SET MY SOUL FREE, ALL MY LIFE WILL BE, A TESTIMONY OF YOUR LOVE, FOR ME.

"Take heed  what ye hear." - MARK 4:24 [KJV] It is our unspeakable mercy, it calls for our daily tribute of praise, and daily study to improve it, that a free use of the lively oracles of truth is permitted us; others are denied this rich privilege. Happy those to whom the word of God is the rule of their faith, a light to direct their paths, and a standard whereby they try and prove the doctrines they hear, whether they are of God or man. The WHOLE TRUTH, as it is in Jesus, is precious to every believer. Faith comes by hearing the word of God. As the ear is the inlet to the soul, we should ever take heed what kind of doctrines we hear. It was through the ear Satan gained access to the heart of Eve, and beguiled her. Paul alludes to this, "I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ" (II CORINTHIANS 11:3) . What is this simplicity? Even this p...