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

The last book in the Holy Scriptures, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, identifies three agents employed by Satan in his warfare against the church of Jesus Christ.      First is The Beast Out of the Sea [REVELATION 13:1-10 ] . It represents anti-Christian government . This beast is active wherever governments are trying to eradicate churches of Christ.      Second is The Beast Out of the Earth [REVELATION 13:11-18 ] . It represents anti-Christian persecution . This second beast is active not only where first beast is active but also in other parts of the world.      Third is Babylon The Great, The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth [REVELATION chs.17f ] . She represents anti-Christian seduction . This Babylon is active wherever you see false religion seducing people away from God and His Christ. She seduces people with a counterfeit Christianity, one that is contrary to Christ but attractive to...

N O TRUTH SHINES WITH CLEARER LUSTER IN THE BIBLE than that SALVATION , from first to last, IS OF GOD .   God is sovereign in salvation! He often selects the poorest, the vilest, the most depraved, the most fallen, as if utterly to explode all idea of human merit, and to reflect the free grace of His heart in its richest luster. O precious truth! It stains the pride of human merit! It lays the axe at the root of self! It humbles and abases! It empties and lays low! It ascribes all the praise, honor and glory, might, majesty and dominion, of the new creation in the soul, to the Triune God! No worthiness of the creature allures Him to the sinner's heart. What worthiness can be supposed to exist: what merit can there be in a guilty criminal, an outlawed rebel, a poor insolvent, one whose mind is enmity, one whose heart is swelling with treason against God, His government, and His Son? One who owes millions, but has 'nothing to pay'? None whatever! And t...

"Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God ." -P HILIPPIANS 4:6 [KJV]   What a word this is! "Everything!" You are privileged, saint of God, to go to the throne of God with everything. What, with every little occurrence? Yes. What, with things that people call trifles? Yes. With your daily concerns? Yes. If you feel that there is a God who can hear you, it is your privilege to go to Him in everything. All things are comprehended; nothing is excluded. In everything, and that by prayer and supplication. Sometimes we pray, sometimes we supplicate. Prayer is something more gentle than supplication, less earnest, less fervent, less powerful; yet not less effectual. I have sometimes compared prayer and supplication to two things in nature. The one to a river—a stream, such as we see in our low country that flows with gentle course to the sea; the other to the torrents ...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (15-17NOV19) 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 GREATEST TRUTH OF ALL Child of God, do you see yourself as a poor, pitiful, and sinful creature? Does the Holy Spirit Who resides within you continually convict you of your sins and lack of perfection? Imagine how it would be if all of your sins were recorded in God’s law-books to be held against you in the day of Judgment! As the psalmist wrote, “If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?” [PSALM 130:3 ] . Certainly none of us would pass this test. But the psalmist goes on to write, “But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared” [PSALM 130:4 ] . How is this possible when we know that God is holy and must puni...

WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC OPINION VERSUS THE WORD OF GOD, we do not care one iota about the sentiments of the natural man. "Let God be true and every man a liar" [ROMANS 3:4 ] . Though many deny creation, that does not change the fact that " I n the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" [GENESIS 1:1 ] . Though highly educated fools insist man evolved from some sort of slime to what he is now, that does not alter the inspired declaration, "And the L ORD God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" [GENESIS 2:7 ] . Let men attribute catastrophic weather events to "mother nature." Let them trace advancements and pleasant things to "lady luck" and "fate," that does not change what the Book of God says: "Of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things: to Whom be glory for ever. Amen" [ROMANS 11:36 ] . L...

"My Father, which gave them M e, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of M y Father's hand." -J OHN 10:29 [KJV]   In that most sublime and touching prayer which the Lord Jesus Christ, as the great High Priest over the house of God, offered up to H is heavenly Father before H e shed H is precious blood on the cross, there is one petition, or rather an expression of H is holy will, which is full of unspeakable blessedness. "Father, I will that they also, whom T hou hast given M e, be with M e where I am; that they may behold M y glory, which T hou hast given M e; for T hou lovedst M e before the foundation of the world." The change from petitioning as a Priest to willing as a King is very remarkable, and casts a gracious light on the nature of Christ's mediatorial intercession at the right hand of God. On the footing of H is covenant engagements, atoning sacrifice, and finished work, as well as from the perfect equality...

Moses, the servant of God, made a very bold request before Almighty God, "I beseech Thee, shew me Thy glory" [EXODUS 33:18] . God, in granting this request makes this amazing and glorious statement, "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 whom I will shew mercy." Many people in our day only talk about the goodness of God, but never make mention that God is sovereign. Many others only talk of His sovereignty and fail to mention that God delights to show mercy [PSALM 130:7 ] . Our real aim is to show how God can be just and justify the guilty in Christ Jesus [ROMANS 3:26 ] , how God can be a just God and Saviour [ISAIAH 45.21 ] . God is not revealed only by one attribute, but by all His attributes [PSALM 85: 10 ] . Notice, in this text you have the GOODNESS and the SOVEREIGNTY of our God declared, when you put the two t...