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

"The year of M y redeemed is come." -Isaiah 63:4 [KJV] Yes! from everlasting the precise period of redemption was determined, and the appointed time of the vision could not tarry. Every intermediate event ministered to this one glorious area- redemption by Jesus. The church was in Egypt four hundred and thirty years, and in Babylon seventy. But we are told in the former instance, 'the self-same night' the Lord brought, them forth with their armies; and the latter did not out stay the hour of their promised deliverance. So when the fulness of time was come, the Son of God came for the redemption of His people. And observe how graciously Jesus speaks of them; He calls them His redeemed. They were so in the covenant from everlasting; and when the time arrives for calling them by His grace, He claims them as the gift of His Father, and the purchase of His blood. My soul, is this thy jubilee year? Art thou living as the redeemed of the Lord? If so, plead with thy Red...

  "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." -Luke 12:32 [KJV]   While some are disquieted and cavil at a God who does all His pleasure, for those who are the LORD’S, it is their delight and peace. It is with this very truth that the LORD Jesus calms the fears of His disciples, reminding them that they are His sheep, according to the Father’s good pleasure, and that irrespective of the trials and tribulations of this life, that the Father also brings them through, that these are but temporary troubles compared to the eternal kingdom that He has purposed to give them, because of Christ and His finished work at Calvary. Although but a ‘little flock’ [a double diminutive in the original, designed to point out their weakness and insignificance as sinners] , yet Christ being their Redeemer and Justifier, they have no reason to fear, knowing that they are Christ’s by the Father’s eternal love and covenant of grace, and the...

    "Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well; and if not, then after that T hou shalt cut it down." -Luke 13:8, 9 [KJV] Do I not behold the Lord Jesus here represented in His glorious office of our High Priest and Intercessor? And is it thus that He so mercifully pleads for the awakened and unprofitable among His people? Pause, my soul! Was it not from the effects of His intercession, that the world itself was spared from instant destruction, when Adam first brake through the fence of God's law? Is it not now by the same rich grace that thousands are spared from year to year in Christ Jesus, before that they are called to the knowledge of Christ Jesus? Nay my soul! pause once more, over the view of this wonderful subject, and ask thyself was it not from the same almighty interposition that thou was kept from going down to the pit during the long, long period of thy unregeneracy, while thou wert wholly unconsc...

  "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." -Luke 12:32 [KJV]   While some are disquieted and cavil at a God who does all His pleasure, for those who are the LORD’S, it is their delight and peace. It is with this very truth that the LORD Jesus calms the fears of His disciples, reminding them that they are His sheep, according to the Father’s good pleasure, and that irrespective of the trials and tribulations of this life, that the Father also brings them through, that these are but temporary troubles compared to the eternal kingdom that He has purposed to give them, because of Christ and His finished work at Calvary. Although but a ‘little flock’ (a double diminutive in the original, designed to point out their weakness and insignificance as sinners), yet Christ being their Redeemer and Justifier, they have no reason to fear, knowing that they are Christ’s by the Father’s eternal love and covenant of grace, and ther...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands(01-03JAN21) 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: "There is nothing that will make a NEEDY SINNER look to Christ alone or a BELIEVER cling to, and rest in, Christ alone more than to realize that everything God is, everything that God requires, and everything that a sinner needs or will ever need is IN JESUS CHRIST (1 Cor inthians 1:30) . We are perfect in Him (Col ossians 1:21-22; Jude 1:24 ) ! He is perfect, and our being in Him makes us perfect (John 1:16-17; Col ossians 2:9-10) . This is not speaking of what we shall be, but what we are right now in Christ before God." -preacher Henry Mahan

  "Hold up my goings in T hy paths, that my footsteps slip not." -Psalm 17:5 [KJV] Without scrupulously or superstitiously observing "days, and  months, and times, and years," few of us altogether pass by so marked an epoch as the dawning of another year upon our path without some acknowledgment of it both to God and man. When we open our eyes on the first morning of the year, we almost instinctively say, "This is New-year’s day." Nor is this, at least this should not be, all the notice we take, all the acknowledgment we make of that opening year of which we may not see the close. When we bend our knees before the throne of grace, we mingle with thankful acknowledgment for the mercies of the past year, both in providence and in grace, earnest petitions for similar mercies to be experienced and enjoyed through the present. Last evening witnessed our confessions of the many, many grievous sins, wanderings, backslidings, and departings from the living Go...

"All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." - I Peter 1:24, 25 [KJV] All flesh, and everything that springs from the flesh, and is connected with the flesh, is as grass, which, for a time, looks green and flourishing, but touched with the mower's scythe, or scorched by the midday sun, soon withers and fades away. Such is all flesh, without exception, from the highest to the lowest. As in nature, some grass grows thicker and longer than other, and makes, for a while, a brighter show, yet the scythe makes no distinction between the light crop and the heavy, so the scythe of death mows down with equal sweep the rich and the poor, and lays in one common grave all the children of men.   You have seen sometimes in the early spring the grass in flower, and you have noticed those li...