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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(2 7 -2 9 NOV20) 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: "For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto them that call upon Thee." -Psalm 86: 5 [KJV] The sinner who has saving faith believes that there is a fullness of salvation in Christ for poor sinners "Wherefore HE is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by HIM" (Hebrews 7:25) . In the word of the Gospel Christ is held forth as an able Saviour - able to save men from their sins and from the wrath of God. His merit is a sufficient shield against the tempest of wrath which incensed justice is ready to exact against transgressors. The sinner who has saving faith knows that the righteousness Chri...

In Thy name, O Lord, assembling, We Thy people now draw near; Teach us to rejoice with reverence; Speak and may Thy servants hear. Let Thy word be food to nourish, Those whom Thou hast called Thine own; May Thy people's graces flourish, All our trust in Thee alone. Now with joy we come before Thee, Seek Thy face, Thy mercies own; Lord of life, of light, and glory, Bless this church before Thy throne. While our days on earth are lengthened, May we live them, Lord, in Thee, Cheered by hope and daily strengthened, 'Till Thy glory there we see. -Tune: Jesus Calls Us

The wonder of grace and the glory of God is that He is at the same time a “ just God and a Savior” (Isa iah 45:21) . All who look to Christ Jesus as their only righteousness do so because God has made them righteous in Him. He has given them faith to believe on Christ and thus is both “ just and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus” (Rom ans 3:26) . The thought of the Holy God making a sinner like me righteous is beyond human comprehension. Thank God it is not beyond believing when God gives us faith to do so. Believing on Christ, I declare that God has not only saved me through Christ and Him crucified but that He was right to do so! All to the praise of the glory of His grace. Men can have a “grace” that is less if they want but give me that grace that reigns in righteousness. Man fell and sin entered in on a just principle that, “ even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom ans 5:21) . This truly is good news. ...

"And they shall spring up as among the grass." -Isaiah 44:4 [KJV] The Lord's people are spoken of here as at once "springing up" under the influence of the water poured and of the floods given. We cannot mistake the spiritual meaning of the figure, as it is so clear and certain. In those burning regions where rain does not fall at all seasons from the skies, as in our dripping clime, the effect of copious showers falling upon the parched vegetation is almost miraculous. A few days completely reverse the scene, and on every side vegetation springs up as if it started with gigantic growth out of the bosom of the heated soil. To this the figure in the text alludes, "They shall spring up," that is, Zion's children, "as among the grass," with all that young and active growth which so clearly manifests the power and the blessing of God.   But what may we understand by the expression "grass?" May we not interpret it as emblematic ...

"Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace." -Romans 14:19 [KJV] What a sweetness is contained in the word "peace." Bunyan well represents this in his Pilgrim's Progress, where he speaks of Christian, after having been entertained in the "house Beautiful," going to sleep in the chamber called "Peace." And what blessed sensations are couched in that word "Peace!" It was the legacy that Jesus left to His Church. "Peace I leave with you, M y peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you;" and the Apostle says of it that it "passeth all understanding."   Now many even of the Lord's people seem as if they wanted and were expecting raptures. There is, I believe, a vast deal of enthusiasm in the natural mind of man, as is evident from what I may call its religious history in all ages; and this leads many who, in other points, seem rightly taught to look for wonderful vis...

  The Wonderful Cross   by D. G. Miles McKee (see Romans 3:23-28 ). “When I survey the wondrous cross, On which the young prince of glory died; My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride.” -Watts   Christ in His death opened the way into God's presence for us. Thank God for the Wonderful Cross! When Jesus said, “I am the way” (John 14:6) He meant, He was and is the only way to God.  If you are looking for God anywhere else other than the Lord Jesus, you, according to the Master, are going the wrong way. To look for another way is a subtle attack on the Lord Jesus.  Why? Because Jesus is not one of many ways, He is the way! He didn’t even say His teachings led to the way. No indeed, He boldly declared “I am the way.”   ‘The way’ was a particularly important idea to Israelites. Moses had instructed them, “You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has comm...

"And H e said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven ." -Luke 10:18 [KJV] It deserves our utmost attention and prayerful consideration to see, by the eye of faith, the display of wisdom and power shining forth in the way in which the all-wise God sent his dear Son "to destroy" or, as the word is in the original, to unloose "the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8) . Satan had, so to speak, spun a ravelled knot when he cast the cords of sin round man's heart. This tangled and tight-drawn knot could not be cut through as by a sword of omnipotent power; but had by infinite wisdom and patience to be unravelled through its whole length. The work which Satan had done was to be undone. Disobedience had to be repaired by obedience—the voluntary obedience of the Son of God, and therefore of infinite value. Sin had to be atoned for by sacrifice—the sacrifice of the nature which had sinned, in union with the Person of the Son of God, and therefore...