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

“ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L ORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.” -Isaiah 1:18-19 [KJV] COME to the Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t come to the Preacher, or Church, or Baptism, or some fleshly experience. COME to the Lord Jesus – COME to God by Him. COME with your heart opened to Him. COME sincere and honest with Him. He knows your very thoughts. COME NOW to Him. As you are reading this article COME to the Lord Jesus. He waits now to hear the voice of your heart, begin to speak to Him NOW. COME now and REASON with Him. Not about your goodness, but your badness; not about your obedience, but disobedience, your sins. Tell Him your sins are exceedingly sinful, more than you could ever comprehend. Tell Him you are worthy to be judged and sent to eternal misery for your sins. Tell Him how red and black and damnable yo...

  "Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit." -Jeremiah 2:11 [KJV]   Pause, my soul, over these words! Was it ever known that any nation changed their dunghill gods for others? Such regard had they for whatever ignorance had set up, that the veneration never after ceased. But Israel, above every other nation of the earth, manifested folly, and even exceeded the most senseless and stupid of men. My soul! dost thou not in Israel's folly behold thy own? Was there ever one, when the Lord first called thee, less deserving? A transgressor, as the Lord knew thee, from the womb! And yet this did not prevent the Lord from calling thee.  He loved thee because He would love thee; gave thee His Christ, — gave thee His Holy Spirit—gave thee the name, the privilege, the adoption of a son. What returns hast thou made? How often since hath thy backslidings, thy coldness, thy departures, been like Israe...

  "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."   -II  Corinthians 3:17 [KJV]   What liberty, my soul! art thou brought into by thine adoption into the family of God in Christ? Not from the assaults of sin; for thou still carriest about with thee a body of sin, under which thou groanest. Not from the temptations of Satan; for he is still levelling at thee many a fiery dart. Not from outward troubles; for the world thou art still in, thou findest it a wilderness state. Not from inward fears; for thine unbelief begets many. Not from the chastisement of thy wise and kind Father: for then many a sweet visit of His love, under the rod, would be unknown. Not from death; for the stroke of it thou must one day feel—though, blessed be Jesus, He hath taken out the sting in His blood and righteousness. What liberty then is it, my soul, thou enjoyest? What hath the Spirit of the Lord, as a spirit of revelation, discovering to thee the glory of Jesus, and thy interest in ...

Jesus crucified should be the Alpha and Omega of all our preaching and teaching. Woe to the man who makes anything else the subject of his ministry. "God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world" (Galatians 6:14) . Do not tell me you preach sound doctrine, you preach rotten doctrine if you do not preach Christ. Preach nothing up but Christ, and nothing down but sin. Preach Christ; lift Him up high on the pole of the gospel, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, and you will accomplish your life’s end, but preach orthodoxy, or any form of doxy, if you have left out Christ, there is no manna from heaven, no water from the rock, no refuge from the storm, no healing for the sick, no life for the dead.  If you leave out Christ, you have left the sun out of the day, and the moon out of the night; you have left the waters out of the sea, and the floods out of the river; you have l...

"I will say unto God, D o not condemn me; shew me wherefore T hou contendest with me ." -Job 10:2 [KJV]   My soul, art thou at any time exercised with any trying dispensations? Doth thy God, thy Jesus, seem to hide His face from thee? Are His providences afflicting? Art thou brought under bereaving visitations? Is thy earthly tabernacle shaken by sickness? Are the pins of it loosening? Are thy worldly circumstances pinching? Is prayer restrained? Oh, refer thy state, my soul, be it what it may, to Jesus. Tell thy Lord, that of all things, thy greatest dread and fear is, lest thou shouldest be mistaken concerning His love to thee. Say, as Job did, "Shew me wherefore T hou contendest with me." There is an Achan in the heart. Thy Jesus doth not withdraw for nothing. Love is in His lips. Salvation fills the whole soul of Jesus. Fly to Him, then, my soul! Say to Him, Lord, make me what Thou wouldest have me to be. Oh! for a word, a whisper of Jesus. I cannot live wit...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (1 9 - 21 FEB21) 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: Oh, The Wonder Of It! Ephesians 1:6,7 [KJV] When I think of the wonder, majesty, and glory of God, I can hardly believe that such a worm as I am should be called to be an heir of His grace. Yet, it is just this vast difference that manifests the glory of His grace. He who is the highest, the holiest, and the greatest has set His affection on the lowest, the most sinful, and weakest. It is "to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace." -copied

“ Jesus Christ, God manifested in the flesh, was nailed through His hands and His feet to a cross. He bled for us, for without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. He shed His precious blood as of a Lamb without spot and without blemish. He was the perfect sacrifice and the ONLY one that God will ever accept. Any man that wants to know the true and the living God must go through Jesus Christ. It is Jesus Christ alone that God will accept. We are made accepted by God only through Jesus Christ, the One who gave His life as a ransom for us.” -copied