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

"Though H e were a Son, yet learned H e obedience by the things which H e suffered." -Hebrews 5:8 [KJV] Our gracious Lord had to learn obedience to the will of God by a personal experience of suffering, and especially by an implicit submission to His heavenly Father's will. And what was this will? That He should take upon Himself the huge debt which His bride had incurred by original and actual transgression; that He should offer Himself as a ransom price to discharge and put it away; that He should bear our sins in His own body on the tree, with everything which was involved in being made a curse for us; that He should by death overcome Satan, who had the power of death, and deliver them who all their life, through fear of death, were subject to bondage; and that, whatever sorrows and sufferings should lie in His path, He should bear them all, and learn, in and by them, implicit submission to the will of God. This was the will of God, for He was determined that H...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (1 7 -1 9 JUL20) 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: “ Whosoever believeth that JESUS IS THE CHRIST is born of God” -I JOHN 5:1 [KJV] All who are born of God believe that Jesus is the Christ. The title THE CHRIST signifies anointed and includes all the offices of the Son of God. To believe Him to be THE CHRIST is to believe Him to that Prophet which Moses said should come, who has declared the whole mind and will of the Father. It is to believe He is that Priest which should arise after the order of Melchizedek and make full atonement for sin and effectual intercession for transgressors. It is to believe He is King of kings and Lord of lords, whom God hath set over all things from all ages and for all time. This...

"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." - I TIMOTHY 2:5 [KJV] That He is God, is the very foundation of His salvation; for it is His eternal Godhead that gives virtue, efficacy, and dignity to all that as man He did and suffered for His chosen people. If He were not God, God and man in one glorious Person, what hope would there be for our guilty souls? Could His blood atone for our sins, unless Deity gave it efficacy? Could His righteousness justify our persons, unless Deity imparted merit and value to all the doings and sufferings of His humanity? Could His loving heart sympathise with and deliver us, unless "as God over all," He saw and knew all that passes within us, and had all power, as well as all compassion, to exert on our behalf? We are continually in circumstances where no man can do us the least good, and where we cannot help or deliver ourselves; we are in snares, and cannot break them; we are in tempt...

Psalm 32 declares the blessedness of the man whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is covered. This good news is unfolded for us in Romans 3 where we see how God can be just, and yet the justifier of the person who believes in Jesus. In the cross of Christ, we learn the wonderful story of how God cancels our debt of sin, and yet acts in full consistency with His own character and righteousness. Do you know the blessedness of transgression forgiven, and sins covered? Many years ago, in England, way before the times of government health care, in a fishing village there lived a fisherman man with his wife and family. One day, while out shooting, he met with a serious gun accident, which deprived him of the means of gaining a living for them. As a result, the family was thrown into abject poverty and despair. The wife in her distress went to a wealthy gentleman who lived nearby, to ask him if he could help them. He listened to her sad story, and then asked her the unexpected que...

The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus, with all His beloved people, individually—is a strong ground of consolation amidst . . . the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good. -preacher Octavius Winslow

"Look unto M e, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else." -Isaiah 45:22 [KJV] Till in soul feeling, we are at "the ends of the earth," we have no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no hearts to feel what a glorious Mediator there is at the right hand of the Father. And the more we feel to be at "the ends of the earth," the deeper is our need of Him; and as the Spirit unfolds the mystery of the glorious Person of Christ, and reveals His beauty, the more does He become the object of the soul's admiration and adoration. And O what a Mediator is held out in the word of truth to living faith! What a subject for spiritual faith to look to, for a lively hope to anchor in, and for divine love to embrace! That the Son of God, who lay in the bosom of the Father from all eternity, equal with the Father and the Holy Ghost, the second Person in the glorious Trinity, should condescend to take upon Him our nature, that He migh...

The more we gain confidence in those that are used of God to preach and teach us, the more care we must give to try (test) all they say by the Word of God. This, lest we should become as was said of a man who was asked, "What do you believe?" He replied, "I believe what my preacher believes." Then he was asked, "What does your preacher believe?" His replay was, "He believes what I believe!" Humorous, yes, but sadly too real in the experiences of many professors of religion today. The apostle Paul was greatly used of God to teach many; but it was said of the "noble Bereans" who heard him that they "received the word with all readiness of mind, and SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES DAILY, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:10,11) . Every true gospel preacher wants his hearers to listen with Bible in hand and then go home to search it to know of a certainty that what they were told is of God. John's words still ring tru...