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

"The gospel of the grace of God." -ACTS 20:24 [KJV] What does the word "gospel" signify? Gospel is a good old Anglo-Saxon word, sprung from that pure Anglo-Saxon stock which forms the bulk, as well as the most expressive and precious portion of our noble language, of that language of which the daily lengthening line is gone throughout all the earth, and its words to the end of the world, our mother tongue, in which God seems to have set a tabernacle for the Sun of the gospel, whose going forth is from the end of the heaven and its circuit unto the ends of it. Its literal meaning is either "God's word" or message, or rather, "good news," or "good tidings," which is more agreeable to the original. But if it be "good news," it must be good news of something and to somebody. There must be some good tidings brought, and there must be some person by whom, as good tidings, it is received. In order, then, that the go...

"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." - I Corinthians 3:11 [KJV] Ask yourself, "What am I building on, so as to be able to stand before the holy Lord God?" If you are ignorant of this, I pray the blessed Spirit to convince you, that there is no other foundation for any man to lay, but that laid, which is Christ Jesus . May He give you faith and repentance, so as you may be led to have a total reliance on the righteousness, blood and intercession of Christ for the pardon of sins . -Gospel report by preacher Augustus Toplady

In reading the Scriptures, I not only find that salvation is by God’s grace alone, but also that grace is shown to sinners in a way that honors His justice in the punishment of sin through the death and resurrection of Christ. What does the Bible say about divine grace? 1. GRACE WAS GIVEN TO SOME SINNERS IN CHRIST FROM OLD ETERNITY. "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began" (2 Timothy1:9) . 2. GRACE IS FREELY GIVEN BUT ALWAYS ON THE BASIS OF THE SUBSTITUTIONARY DEATH OF CHRIST. "Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:24) . 3. GRACE IS A SOVEREIGN GIFT OF GOD. "And He said, I will make all My goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on w...

"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." -G ALATIANS 1:8-9 [KJV] My heart breaks as I watch people compromise the Gospel. But I must say again… There is only one Gospel! The Gospel of the free and sovereign grace of Christ my Lord. The Gospel that gives Christ all the Glory in salvation and excludes all human boasting. The Gospel that exalts the electing love of the Father, the effectual redemption of the Son, and the irresistible grace of the Holy Spirit . This is the Gospel and where this is not preached, the Gospel of Christ is not preached! Call me bigoted, narrow or cultist if you will, but this is the only Gospel that will save a sinner like me. I am captive to this Gospel! I really have no choice but to preach this Gospel! While...

One with Jesus, what a Savior! Separated from Him never. One with Him thus one in favor, With my God above. One with Christ in God's election; In Him by divine selection; Grace not works our one connection, To the Righteous One! One with Christ in close relation. Saved by covenant salvation. Put by God's predestination, In His Son of love. One with Jesus here rejected. In His death sins curse corrected. One with Jesus resurrected. Never more to die! One with Christ for heaven suited In His righteousness imputed Law and justice now saluted. Praise His righteous grace! One with Jesus, blessed union! Holding with Him sweet communion! Tis believing not presuming, That we rest in Him. -words by preacher Gary Shepard

"I will set him on high, because he hath known M y name." -PSALM 91:14 [KJV] A man must know the Lord's name before ever he can feel any real love to Him. Now this is needful, this is what the Lord does for His people, He causes them to know His name. "They shall all know M e, from the least of them unto the greatest" (J EREMIAH 31:34) . "They shall all;" they shall. The Lord has declared it. They shall know Me. Now what is the name of the Lord? When God revealed Himself unto Moses, did He not say, "I AM THAT I AM?" This was the way God taught Moses His name, and we may gather from it that whatever God is, that is His name. God is holy, God is just, God is merciful, God is a God of love. Now the sinner must know this. He must know that God is a pure and holy God, and at first when he is beginning to learn this lesson, he is completely astonished and appalled by it. It causes him to shrink away and hide himself from God. "How...

" Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." - MICAH 7:19 [KJV] When God takes all our iniquities with His own hand, and casts them with His own arm into the depths of the sea, they will never come out of those depths to witness against the family of God in the great and terrible day. Your sins now may seem to be all alive in your breast, and every one of them to bring accusation upon accusation against you. This sin is crying out for vengeance, and that for punishment. This slip, this fall, this backsliding, this foolish word, this wrong action, are all testifying against you in the court of conscience. Do what you may, be where you may, live how you may, watch and pray how you may, keep silent and separate from the world or even from your own family how you may, sin still moves, lives, acts, works, and often brings you into guilt and bondage. But if God has had mercy upon us He has cast all our sins with His own hands into the dep...