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

Sovereign God of grace and glory; We confess and spread Your fame. All your fullness in Christ dwelling, Yesterday, today, the same. Never changing, never failing, Never taken by surprise; Never needing, never trying, Always wondrous in our eyes. Blessed Jesus whose redemption Is the work that justifies All of grace and thus eternal, Shout His glories to the skies! He is all our peace and comfort: Christ the Lord our Righteousness. In Him such a sweet assurance, One with Him we’re surely blessed. Join us now to sing His praises. All the glory to Him be. Now exalt our blessed Savior. Now and for eternity! ( Tune: 8.7 8.7 ) -Words b y Gary Shepard

“ And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, i n meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; a nd that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.” - II TIMOTHY 2:24-26 [KJV] I am content to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to any and all who come and listen. I do not feel the need to pressure them into some kind of profession or decision, I am glad they come to listen because “faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God” [ROMANS 10:17 ] . I can teach them what God says in His word but they must be “taught of God.” When they are taught of God, when they have learned of the Father, they will acknowledge the truth of God in Christ and believe on Him. Until then, they are bound captives of the devil and I am unable to free them. But there is One who c...

"For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, W ho through the eternal Spirit offered H imself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God ." - HEBREWS 9:13-14 [KJV] What a mercy it is to have a conscience in any measure purged from dead works to serve the living God; to feel any free access to His gracious Majesty, any happy liberty in walking before Him, any deliverance from doubt and fear, any removal of those exercises which try the mind and often bring heavy burdens upon the soul! Still, after all our wanderings, we must ever come to the same spot; after all our departings and backslidings, still again and again we must be brought to the same place to get the guilt removed, the mercy proclaimed and the peace revealed. For is not this the blessedness that the blood of Christ cleanseth from ...

"They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is M y firstborn." -J EREMIAH 31:9 [KJV] Oh how much is needed to bring the soul to its only rest and centre! What trials and afflictions; what furnaces, floods, rods, and strokes, as well as smiles, promises, and gracious drawings! What pride and self to be brought out of! What love and blood to be brought unto! What lessons to learn of the dreadful evil of sin! What lessons to learn of the freeness and fulness of salvation! What sinkings in self! What risings in Christ! What guilt and condemnation on account of sin; what self-loathing and self-abasement; what distrust of self; what fears of falling; what prayers and desires to be kept; what clinging to Christ; what looking up and unto His divine Majesty, as faith views Him at the right hand of t...

We have the building of Babel; in order whereunto it is said that “the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech;” and they said, “let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” {G ENESIS 11:1-4} Here is the figure of all carnal religion; when man will be religious out of his own carnal wisdom, before that God reveal the Lord Christ to him; here is his intent through his own work and wisdom to get to heaven and to get him a name to be more holy than others, that he may be not accounted like other men of the earth; therefore Solomon exhorts, “be not righteous too soon;”for the house that is built too soon is built without a Foundation. Paul’s righteousness wherein he was touching the Law blameless was too soon, because it was before that Christ { W ho is the true Foundation of all Righteousness} was revealed to him; so that religion is mere hyp...

"And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified ." -MATTHEW 28:5 [KJV]   Whatever be our state and case, if it can truly be said of us what the angel said to the women at the sepulchre, "I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified," we have a divine warrant to believe that " H e is gone before us into Galilee. There shall we see him." He is risen; He has ascended up on high, and "has received gifts for men, yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them." He is now upon the mercy-seat, and He invites and draws poor needy sinners to Himself. He says, "Come unto M e, all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." He allows us, He invites us to pour out our heart before Him, to shew before Him our trouble, to spread our wants at His feet, as Hezekiah spread the letter in the temple. If we seek communion with Him, ...

Our sins were crucified with Christ. They were put to death when He died, for He was our covenant head, and we were legally represented by Him. The law has no more right to condemn us than it has to condemn Him. Justice is bound to deal with us as it has with our Saviour. "He that is dead is freed" from the sin for which He died; so are we! If we do not see this complete mortification in Him, sin will reign in us. No sin can be crucified in heart or life unless it be first pardoned in conscience. If the believer does not see HIS PERFECT DEADNESS IN CHRIST, he will open wide a door to unbelief. If a believer does not see HIS COMPLETENESS IN CHRIST, he leaves room for attacks of self righteousness and legalism. If Christ be not all, self will feed personal merit and importance. -Gospel report by preacher Wm. Romaine (1714 – 1795 A.D.)