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

  "HE KNOWETH THEM THAT TRUST IN HIM"                                                                                                                                                  -Nahum 1:7 [KJV] He knows our frame, and bears patiently with us. He knows our temptations, and brings His succour ( help ). He knows our transgressions, and forgives them. He knows our sorrows. and sweetly soothes them. He knows our accusers, and confounds them. He knows our enemies, and scatters them. He knows our tears, and will wipe them away. -preacher Thomas Brad...

Christ said to the religious Jews in His day, “He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God” (John 8:47) . That men will hear men there can be no doubt. They will receive the witness of men. But no man apart from the grace of God will hear GOD. Unless we are chosen of God, redeemed of God and quickened by the Spirit we cannot and will not hear God. To hear God we must “hear God’s words..” The truth is, a man may speak the truth but we only believe what we know to be true from God’s words. We only believe God when we have seen it for ourselves in His word! That’s why so many people are deceived, they receive the witness of men, of preachers often times who do not speak according to God’s words. God’s preacher wants people to see if they telling the truth by checking them in God’s word. The Bereans were said to be “noble” because they searched the scriptures to see if the things Paul said was true. Paul was an apostle of God but the...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(1 8 - 20 SEP20) 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 SECURITY OF THE SHEEP "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father, which gave them Me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand." -John 10:27-29 [KJV] There is no stronger passage to be found in the word of God guaranteeing the absolute security of every child of God. They are His sheep, they follow Him, they have eternal life, they are in the hand of Christ, the Father gave them to Christ (John 6:37; John ch. 17, vss. 2, 6, 9, 11, 12, 24), and they are in the Father’s han...

  " Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth." -Romans 8:33 [KJV] He against whom sin is committed, the Lawgiver, and the righteous Judge, justifies them from every charge; not by teaching them the way of justification, nor by infusing righteousness into them, or on account of any works of righteousness done by them, but by pronouncing them righteous through the imputation of the righteousness of His Son unto them: observe, that "God’s elect," as such, are the objects of justification; which proves the eternity of it; the speciality of it as belonging to particular persons, and the everlasting security and continuance of it. –preacher John Gill (1697 – 1771 A.D.)

  "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." -Romans 10:13 [KJV] The NAME OF THE LORD signifies the Lord Himself. His name reveals WHO He is, WHAT He has done, WHY He did it, and WHERE He is now! And none other NAME can save (Phil ippians 2:6-11) . Jehovah-jireh "The L ORD will provide" (Gen esis 22:13-14) . Jehovah-rapha "The L ORD that healeth" (Exo dus 15:26) . Jehovah-nissi "The L ORD our banner" (Exo dus 17:8-15) . Jehovah-shalom "The L ORD our peace" (Judges 6:24) . Jehovah-ra-ah "The L ORD my shepherd" (Psalm 23:1) . Jehovah-tsidkenu "The L ORD our righteousness" (Jer emiah 23:6) . Jehovah-shammah "The L ORD is present" (Ezek iel 48:35) . To call upon His name is to humble ourselves before Him, to recognize His majesty, to believe His promises, and to hope in His mercy. -preacher Henry T. Mahan (from his commentary on Romans) http://w...

  "The secret of the L ORD is with them that fear H im; and H e will shew them H is covenant." -Psalm 25:14 [KJV] "The secret of the L ORD " (that is, present possession)  "is with them that fear H im; and H e will shew them" (that is, something future) " H is covenant." This shews, that while all the people of God, who fear His name, have the secret with them, that is, a measure of the secret, yet all the people of God have not the covenant revealed to them at the same time with the secret. The "secret" is in the present tense; the "shewing of the covenant" is in the future.   It is very sweet to see how the Holy Ghost has discriminated between these blessings. If, for instance, it had run thus, "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he shews to them his covenant," some doubting, desponding child of God might say, "How can I be one of those that fear God? for it says, God shews to them...

  "For H e is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." -Ephesians 2:14 [KJV] "He is our peace." This necessarily springs from being reconciled and brought nigh by the blood of Christ. Sin has not only made us enemies to God, but made God an enemy to us. What peace, then, can there be between us whilst thus mutual enemies? Peace is between friends, not between foes. During this state of hostility and warfare, as there is no real, so there can be no felt or enjoyed peace. But the removal of the cause of the war brings about peace, first really and then experimentally. Christ has made peace through the blood of H is cross (Col ossians 1:20) . There is now no enmity on the part of God, for it was a law enmity. God always loved H is people in Christ; and as H e is unchanging and unchangeable, H e never could or did hate them. But as a judge is an enemy to a criminal, even were that criminal his own son, so, as...