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

"What think ye, that H e will not come to the feast?" -John 11:56 [KJV]       Is this thy inquiry, my soul, when at any time thou art seeking Jesus in His word, in His ordinances, at His table? Will He not come? Will Jesus not be there? Think how, He hath dealt in times past. Did not Jesus rejoice when the hour arrived for coming into the world for salvation? Doth He not rejoice, when coming to the heart of the poor sinner for conversion? and will He not come with joy in all the renewed visits of His love? Besides, doth not Jesus know that it is a time of need to thee? And hath He not opened a way to the throne of grace, on purpose that His poor helpless children might come boldly to a throne of grace to obtain help, and find grace in every time of need? Oh then, mark it down as a sure thing, thy Jesus will be there. He spreads the feast, and He will be present, He waits to be gracious; waits to be kind to thee. Love is in His heart, and salvation in His hands. Hasten ...

"That in the ages to come H e might shew the exceeding riches of H is grace, in H is kindness towards us through Christ Jesus." -Ephesians 2:7 [KJV] Pause, my soul, and gather in all the powers of arithmetic, and try if thou art able to count what the exceeding riches of God's grace amount to. Think how great, how free, how sovereign, how inexhaustible, how everlasting! All that a poor sinner hath in time, all that we can enjoy to all eternity, all is of grace . And what a title hath thy God chosen to be known by among His people, when, to make Himself known more fully in Jesus, He styles himself "the God of all grace!" All grace? Yes, all grace , and all sorts and degrees of grace: pardoning grace, renewing grace, quickening grace, strengthening grace, comforting grace; in short, all grace. And is all this treasured up in Jesus? Oh then, my soul, see that Jesus be thine, and all is thine. And mark this down as a sure unerring rule-as grace hath no source but...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (2 9-31 JAN21) 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 comfort of a believer's heart lies not in a mere "feeling" that "everything will be all right." It lies in the Spirit of God's application of truth to our hearts and minds. It is comfort based on the promises of God who cannot lie, die, change or fail in any way. Oh, it does produce wonderful feelings. But these feelings are the product of the assurance of faith, faith based upon that which is given us by God's grace through the merits of Christ's righteous blood. -preacher Gary Shepard

SALVATION is as free as a look. Christ says, "Look unto Me and be ye saved " (Isaiah 45:22) ! Without performance! Without payment! Without preparation! LOOK TO CHRIST AND LIVE! "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else " (Isaiah 45:22) .  " And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day " (John 6:40) . -preacher Scott Richardson https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?speakeronly=true&currsection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=Scott_Richardson

"... a s having nothing, and yet possessing all things ." - II Corinthians 6:10 [KJV] My soul, hast thou learnt this holy science? There are three blessed lessons the Holy Ghost teacheth on this ground. As, first, the believer is thoroughly emptied of himself. Art thou thus taught of God? Hast thou been led to see, to feel, to know, to be convinced that, after all thine attainments, after all thy long standing in the school of Jesus, thou hast nothing, canst do nothing, art worse than nothing, and, literally, hast no more in thyself now to recommend thee to Jesus, than the first moment thou didst hear of His name? This is to have nothing; this is to be poor in spirit. Secondly , dost thou possess all things in Jesus? Yes, if so be thou art living out of thyself wholly upon Him; and how is this known? Nothing more evident. When a sense of my emptiness endears to me His fulness; my poverty, His riches; my weakness, His strength; my sins, His righteousness; my ...

"For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for  necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel." - I Cor inthians 9:16 [KJV] The most humbling and challenging thing I face, the great concern of my heart is that my generation experience a return to the preaching of the gospel of God's glory. We are plagued today with a gospel of works, a religion of form and ceremony, a zeal for God but not according to knowledge (Rom ans 10:2). I pray for a return to the message God was pleased to use in other days to awaken sinners to their need for mercy; that message that reveals the redemptive glory of God in Christ; that message that humbles the proud Pharisee and gives hope to the chief of sinners. If God is pleased to restore that message men will once again sense the awesome Holy presence of the Living God. Gone will be the voice of the proud sinner who inwardly debates whether he will "accept Jesus" or reject Him. Gone...

"He shall glorify M e; for H e shall receive of M ine, and shall shew it unto you." -John 16:14 [KJV] Some precious souls are at a loss to apprehend how the Holy Ghost makes application of Jesus and His benefits to His people. Hence they ask, how am I to know that the righteousness of Jesus, and the blood of Jesus, are applied to me. But be not thou, my soul, ignorant of so important a matter, on the clear apprehension of which thy daily comfort depends. Attend, my soul, to what thy Jesus saith in those precious words; and, under the blessed Spirit's teaching, the matter will appear abundantly plain. He shall glorify Me, saith Jesus. And doth not the Holy Ghost do this in every believer's view, when He gives the soul to see that all that vast extent of redemption-blessings which the Father treasured up in His dear Son for poor sinners, flow immediately from Jesus? And observe, the Holy Ghost doth not at first shew the sinner that all result from the everlasting lov...