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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (01-03MAY20) 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 our sins and from Hell: "I HAVE FOUND A RANSOM." -JOB 33:24 [KJV] "Then He is gracious unto him, and saith, DELIVER HIM (let the sinner be rescued) FROM GOING DOWN TO THE PIT (of everlasting destruction) : I HAVE FOUND (devised and secured) A RANSOM (propitiation, satisfaction) ." The ransom the Father found was none other than His only begotten Son. He found our Surety before the world was made and appointed Him not only to be the Redeemer of His elect people, but the price of redemption as well. Behold Him sent forth by the Father in marvelous grace and given as the ransom for the deliverance of chosen sinners from the claims of the law in His ...

"I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you ." -L UKE 11:9 [KJV]   Wherever there is true prayer, there is importunity. Wherever the Lord brings trials upon the soul, He pours out upon it the spirit of grace and supplications. He thus encourages and enables the soul to be importunate with Him. The blessings and benefits of perseverance and importunity in prayer the Lord has brought prominently before us in two parables—one, of  the man in bed with his children, who would not get up and relieve his friend, but yet was overcome by his importunity; and the other, of the woman, who had a cause at issue, and went before the judge, who feared not God, neither regarded man; yet by her continual going to him, overcame him at last by her importunity [ L UKE 11:5-8; 18:1-7 ] .   Thus importunity and perseverance form the very feature of true prayer. If the child of God has a burden—if he...

"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and He shall speak peace unto the heathen: and His dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. As for Thee also, by the blood of Thy covenant I have sent forth Thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water." -ZECHARIAH 9:9-11 [KJV]   God gave to His prophet the very exact description of our Lord Jesus Christ as He entered into Jerusalem to accomplish our salvation, 550 years before it actually happen (Matthew 21:1-11). Zechariah not only describes for us the circumstances how Christ would come but also gives us a very vivid description of Who this is. Notice these things! 1). Jesus Christ is the King of...

If my security in Christ and my final entrance into glory were dependent in any way on my works, before or after conversion, I would have no security. But, blessed truth, salvation is not in ANY way dependent on my works. Christ is my security and He alone will be the cause of my entrance into glory. There are three things that cause the security of my salvation and final entrance into glory: 1). The sovereignty of God . If He loves me now, it is because He always loved me, nothing in me caused His love. He loved me simply because He would. And if He loves me now, He will never cease to love me. "I am the LORD, I change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." 2). The blood of Christ . On Calvary's tree, when the sins of God's elect were placed upon Christ, He literally put them away [HEBREWS 9:26 ] . Because of the blood of Christ, I have no sins to give account of. If Christ paid my debt, it is paid! God's law and justice have been satisfi...

"Lead me in T hy truth, and teach me." -P SALM 25:5 [KJV] What wonderful things does God sometimes shew us in His word! How our eyes sometimes seem to be anointed with eye-salve to behold wondrous things out of God's law [ P SALM 119:18 ] ! Sometimes in reading a chapter we see such beauty, such fulness, such sweetness, such glory in it, that it seems, as it were, to fill our very hearts. And what our souls want (I am sure my soul wants it, and it is my frequent cry to the Lord in secret that I may feel it) is to have this blessed truth taken out of the word of God, and applied to and sealed upon our hearts by the Spirit of God. I want no new revelation. Day by day I seem more satisfied of this, and more established in it—that all saving truth is in the word of God. I seek no visions, I desire no dreams, I want no airy speculations; but when my heart is brought to lie at the footstool of mercy, this seems to be the panting and breathing of my sou...

“ When our God sent the flood, the whole world perished except those happy ones who were found in the ark. Even so, there is only ONE WAY of salvation for all persons living under heaven. There is only one name whereby they can be saved. Would you be saved, rich man? There is no way except that way whereby the poorest pauper is also to be saved. Would you be delivered, O man of intelligence? You must be saved in the same way as the most ignorant! There were not two arks, only one. So there are not two saviors, only one Savior! There was no other means of salvation except the ark; so "there is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved," except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” - Gospel report by preacher Henry T. Mahan (1926–2019 A.D.) Please find enclosed link to audio Gospel sermons: https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Henry_Mahan

My friend Keith Lamb in his delightful book ‘Failed yet Forgiven’ says “There are three phases of anticipation of the coming of the Lord in the New Testament scriptures. Them that Wait for Him [II THESSALONIANS 3:5; I CORINTHIANS 1:7 ] . Them that Look for Him [ PHILIPPIANS 3:20; H EBREWS 9:28 ] . Them that Love His appearing [II TIMOTHY 4:8 ] . May we learn to not only wait and look for His return but also to love the very thought of it. Jesus is coming back soon. How soon? We don’t know …but we are expecting Him.  For how long should we expect Him? Till He comes [I CORINTHIANS 11:12 & 16:22 ] . ‘Till He comes’ could well be the motto and watchword for the church. In fact, the early Christians loved the truth of the Lord’s return so much that they greeted each other with the Aramaic word maranatha . What did that word ‘maranatha’ mean? Simply translated, maranatha means “the Lord is coming back.” ‘Ma...