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

Dear friends, Please find enclosed a link to a recent Gospel sermon for Christ’s glory and your own cheer, comfort and encouragement in Him. Message, “Encouragement to Believers” [ROMANS 15:13-19] by preacher Bill Parker, 25 minutes in length: The LORD JESUS be magnified! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTkujeWP7E

"My friends, when the Lord Jesus is truly seen, believed, and loved, there will be joy in the Lord with genuine peace of conscience. Yes, we are sinners; but Christ died for sinners! Yes, the law condemns; but Christ honored the law! Yes, justice has a claim; but Christ satisfied that claim! Yes, we are imperfect in faith, in commitment, in love; but "He knows our frame and remembers that we are dust," and loves us just the same. We are in Him by HIS CHOICE, redeemed by HIS BLOOD, called by HIS SPIRIT, and kept by HIS POWER, through faith which HE GAVE US! How can I entertain any doubts based on shortcomings found in me when the whole affair is THE LORD'S DOINGS?" - Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan Please find enclosed link to audio Gospel sermons: https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Henry_Mahan

"God is faithful, by W hom ye were called unto the fellowship of H is Son Jesus Christ our Lord." -I CORINTHIANS 1:9 [KJV] When God calls His people by His grace, it is to make them partakers of the highest bliss and the greatest glory that He could confer upon the sons of men. And this not only in eternity, but in time; not only beyond, but this side of the grave. He appeals, therefore, to them by His prophet. "Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness?" [JEREMIAH 2:31 ] . When the Lord calls His people out of earthly pleasures, is it for no other purpose than to lead them into paths of affliction and sorrow? Does He make them leave the fleshpots of Egypt to starve them in a waste howling wilderness? This was the complaint of the ancient murmurers, that Moses had brought them up out of Egypt to kill them with thirst [EXODUS 17:3 ] . Does He take them from earthly delights to abandon them to misery and despair? O no! He cal...

What wisdom, majesty, and grace Through all the gospel shine! ’Tis God that speaks, and we confess His doctrine most divine. Down from His shining throne on High Th’Almighty Savior comes, Lays His bright robes of glory by, And feeble flesh assumes, The mighty debt His chosen owed Upon the cross He pays; Then through the clouds ascends to God, ’Midst shouts of loftiest praise. There He, our great High Priest, appears Before His Father’s throne; There on His breast our names He wears, And counts our cause His own. -Tune: "Amazing Grace"

"I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God" -R OMANS 15:17 [KJV] Paul was very careful throughout his ministry not to glory, boast or brag in the flesh (Phil. 3:7-9). He taught others not to do this and certainly he would not glory in himself; not in his religious heritage, nor in his attainments or gifts, nor in his labors and success in the ministry but only "through Jesus Christ" (Gal. 6:14). Read this statement carefully, "By the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me" (1 Cor. 15:10). All the apostles and those who truly believe the gospel of God's grace only glory "in those things that pertain to God." As a result of Adam's sin, rebellion and fall into condemnation, we have absolutely no reason to glory in the flesh. The things...

"Commit thy way unto the L ORD ; trust also in H im; and H e shall bring it to pass." -P SALM 37:5 [KJV]   What shall God bring to pass? The thing that lies deepest in the heart— "thy way." Does not thy way lie deepest in thy soul— the path that God has led, the path that God is now leading you by? You may be troubled in your soul, doubting and fearing in your mind, distressed in your feelings; you may sink down to the lowest point that a child of God can sink to; yet that way, in which you are so deeply sunk, if the Lord enable you from time to time to commit it to H im, and trust in H im, H e will bring to pass above what your heart desires.   Look at the movements of your heart God-ward; look at your embarrassments, temptations, and exercises; look at that which rolls backwards and forwards in your mind, that which is tossed to and fro on the waves of your anxious bosom,—what lies nearest, dearest, and deepest,—let honest conscience speak. T...

“ Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.” -PSALM 119:111 [KJV]