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

  Happiness, contentment, joy, rest and peace surely are sweet words, and things which all men and women desire and seek after to some degree. It is amazing how Satan, through the deceitfulness of sin, keeps men and women pursuing vanities and lies in their quest for these coveted qualities of life; and thinking them to always lie just ahead… a few more years… just a little longer now, etc. Many young folk expect to find this quality of life merely by growing up and becoming their own bosses. Many parents expect to find it when their children are grown up, settled and provided for. Many businessmen expect to find it when they can retire and travel, fish, hunt, etc. The inordinately ambitious man expects to find it when he has gained power and reputation. The covetous man expects to find it by gaining enough money to satisfy his greed. The lover of pleasures expects to find it when he has experienced his fill of earthly games and entertainments. The sickly man expects to find...

Someone said, “It is not the life buoy on board the ship that saves the man who is drowning, nor is it his belief that the buoy is able to save! No! He must have the buoy around his body, or his hand upon it, or he will perish.” It will not save my soul only to know that Christ is the Saviour (though this I must know) or that His atonement is sufficient to save. I must trust and embrace Him by faith. There must be, as Paul said in 2 Timothy 1:12, a COMMITTAL to Christ Jesus. By faith I rest my weary, troubled, and sinful soul on Christ alone. - Gospel report by preacher Henry T. Mahan Please find enclosed link to audio Gospel sermons: https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Henry_Mahan

"But the anointing which ye have received of H im abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in H im." - I JOHN 2:27 [KJV] Have you ever had a solitary drop of this holy anointing oil fall upon your heart? One drop, if it be but a drop, will sanctify you for ever to the service of God. There was not much of the holy anointing oil used for the service of the tabernacle, when we consider the size and quantity of what had to be consecrated, for Moses had to anoint therewith the whole of the tabernacle of the congregation, as well as all the vessels, with all their various appurtenances. When he went through the sacred work, he touched one vessel after another with a drop of oil; for one drop sanctified the vessel to the service of the tabernacle. There was no repetition of the consecration wanted; it abode. So if you e...

  “We cannot keep our eye too exclusively or too intently fixed on Jesus. All salvation is in Him. All salvation proceeds from Him. All salvation leads to Him. And, for the assurance and comfort of our salvation, we are to repose believingly and entirely on Him. Christ must be all! Christ the beginning; Christ the center; and Christ the end. Oh sweet truth to you who are sensible of your poverty, vileness, and insufficiency, and of the ten thousand flaws and failures of which, perhaps, no one is cognizant but God and your own soul! Oh, to turn and rest in Christ; a full Christ; a loving Christ; a tender Christ, whose heart's love never chills, from whose eye darts no reproof, from whose lips breathes no sentence of condemnation! Christ must be all!” -Gospel report by preacher Octavius Winslow (1808–1878 A.D.)

  “Then drew near unto H im all the publicans and sinners for to hear H im. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them .” -L UKE 15:1-2 [KJV] While the self-righteous Pharisees and Scribes withdrew from the Lord Jesus Christ and then harshly criticized Him, many publicans and sinners drew near to hear Him. What a blessing from the Lord to have a willingness to draw near to Him [JOHN 6:44 ] and then to have ears to actually hear a word from Him [ACTS 10:33 ] . His words are words of life [JOHN 5:24 ] . His words are words of salvation [ROMANS 1:16; H EBREWS 4:12 ] . The worst thing the Pharisees and scribes said of the Lord, “This man recieveth sinners, and eateth with them;” is the best thing any sinner could hear. It is not sin that keeps a man from hearing the good news of the gospel of Christ, it is his presumed righteousness he is going about to establish by his religious deeds [ROMANS 10:1-4 ] . No ma...

"They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them." -J EREMIAH 31:9 [KJV] Until God is pleased to pour out upon us the spirit of grace and of supplications, we cannot worship Him aright; for God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth; nor can we without this spirit offer up that spiritual sacrifice which is acceptable to Him through Jesus Christ. When this spirit has been once given and kindled in a believer's breast, it never dies out. It is like the fire upon the brazen altar, which was first given by the Lord Himself from heaven, and concerning which God gave this command: "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out" [LEVITICUS 6:13 ] . This fire might sink low; it might be covered with the ashes of sacrifice, but it never was suffered to go out for want of supply of fuel. So at times it may seem to you as if there were scarcely any spirit of pray...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (31JAN-02FEB20) 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: “ Though a believer in Christ, you are still a naked sinner in yourself. You have no righteousness of your own which you have wrought out, which can screen you from divine justice, answer all the demands of God’s law, and entitle you to His favor. Your own righteousness is no better than filthy rags, too ragged to hide your shame; too filthy to endure the piercing eye of God’s purity; but must be burnt up by the fire of His justice. True, in Christ you have an infinitely perfect, and everlastingly glorious righteousness, to appear in before God. But it is as true, you can only enjoy the comfort of this, by putting on Christ in your mind, memory a...