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

"Behold the Lamb of God!" -John 1:36 [KJV] Who is it calls upon thee, my soul, to this most gratifying and enriching of all employments? Is it not God the Holy Ghost, by the ministry of His servant John? And doth not God thy Father do the same by the ministry of His servant Isaiah, when He bids thee behold Him in whom His soul delighteth? And is not Jesus Himself calling, again and again, in the ministry of His word and ordinances upon thy poor forgetful heart, when He saith, "Behold M e! behold M e! look unto M e, and be ye saved!" And wilt thou not obey the sweet and gracious calls, on which all thy present peace and everlasting happiness depend?   Precious, precious Jesus! Yes, my Lord! I would, methinks, so look unto Thee, and so behold Thee, until my whole heart, and all its affections, followed my eyes, and left not a thought behind for a single object besides Thee. I would eye Thee, Thou dear Redeemer, as the Lamb of God; both where Thou once wast, and wh...

"The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls." -Exodus 30:15 [KJV]   Pause, my soul, over this sweet scripture, and mark the graciousness of thy God and Father in the blessed truth conveyed in it. What, were all the souls of the redeemed charged equally alike in the account of God? Did God thy Father rate them thus? And did Jesus, thy precious Jesus, purchase all His redeemed with an equal price , when He bought them with His blood? If this be so, my soul, it must follow, that thou, a poor unworthy creature as thou art, overlooked as thou art by the great ones of the earth, and too frequently overlooked in thyself how precious every redeemed soul must be in Jesus's sight, cost as much to Jesus as the soul of Peter, or of Paul, or of any of the patriarchs, apostles, or prophets.       Oh, think of this; write it down in the tablets of thy remembrance. ...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (05-07FEB21) 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: NO CONDEMNATION AND NO SEPARATION Consider this dreadful truth for a moment. Our sin in fallen Adam charged to us has separated us from God, "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God" (Isaiah 59:2). In Adam we are, "Estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies" (Psalm 58:3). In Adam death and sin entered into us, "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men" (Romans 5:12). But now consider this glorious truth for a moment. Our sin has been separated from us forever. Our Blessed Saviour came in the flesh apart from sin (Romans 8:3) and in o...

"...the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me." -Lamentations 1:16 [KJV]   Whence is it, my soul, that those distressing thoughts arise? Pause, and inquire. Is the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, indeed withdrawn, when Jesus, thy Jesus, sweetly and graciously promised that He should abide for ever? This cannot be. Is the righteousness of Jesus less; or hath His blood to atone and cleanse, lost its efficacy? Oh no! Jesus' righteousness, and Jesus' all-atoning propitiation, like the almighty Author of both, must be eternally and everlastingly the same; "yesterday, and to-day, and for ever." Hath God thy Father forgotten to be  gracious? Oh no! God thy Father proclaimed from heaven that He is well pleased for His dear Son's righteousness' sake; and never, never, shall a word gone out of the Lord's mouth be altered. From whence then, my soul, is thy leanness, thy fears, and despondency? Canst thou not discover? Oh yes! It is...

" ... Who loved me, and gave H imself for me." -Galatians 2:20 [KJV] See, my soul, how Paul is for ever using Jesus, and feasting for ever upon Him. Oh! seek grace to do the same. He saith, Jesus loved him; Jesus, the Son of God, loved Paul. Now love from any object is valuable, but from the first, and best, and greatest of all Beings, what invaluable love is this? And who did Christ love? "Why me," saith Paul: "who was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious." And how do you know, Paul, that Jesus loved you? " He gave Himself for me," saith Paul. "Gave Himself?" Yes, Himself. Not His gifts only, not His grace, not His mercies, though all creation is His. And whatever He gave must have been an undeserved mercy; for I merited hell, when He bestowed upon me heaven. But even heaven, with all its glories, is nothing, saith Paul, to what Jesus gave me; for He gave "Himself for me."   Oh! my soul, wilt thou not look up, wilt th...

This is Gospel Truth! by preacher D.G. Miles McKee 1 Corinthians 15:1-4   What is the gospel?  The simple answer is, the gospel is the person, doing, dying and rising again of the Lord Christ.  He, Himself, is God’s good news from Heaven.  Since the gospel is about Him it is, therefore, not about you and not about me. It is about Jesus. This is Gospel Truth! The gospel, among other things, reveals God’s purpose, accomplished by Christ, for the recovery of sinful people from the deplorable state into, which they had fallen (Luke 19:10; Matthew 1:21). This is Gospel Truth! The gospel tells of how God came to this earth in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was not an impersonation of God, He was, in fact, God manifest in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16). This is Gospel Truth! As a man, He obeyed God’s laws and requirements on our behalf. (Hebrews 4:15; 2 Corinthians 5 : 21; John 15:10). I’m amazed by this grace. My only qualification for such a Saviour ...

" Any religion, which claims that salvation depends upon man to make a decision to accept salvation, is preaching a god who cannot save and they are not preaching man as he is either. Scripture declares God to be sovereign, doing His good will without ever consulting man, saving whom He will, when He will (Daniel 4:35, Romans 9:15). Scripture also declares man to be incapable of deciding to do anything holy or right because all men died spiritually when Adam fell (Romans 4:12). Dead men cannot decide to do anything because they are dead. The only thing a dead man can do is stink. So if scripture is true, man is completely dependent on God to save us. Man is the one who is waiting on God not the other way around. "So then, it is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy" (Romans 8:16). -copied