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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (26-28FEB21) 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: TWO OPPOSING TESTIMONIES The Pharisee in Luke 18:11-12 proudly stated, “ God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.” The publican in Luke 18:13 cried, “ God be merciful [propitious] to me a sinner.” One, the testimony of the Pharisee, was the rantings of a self-righteous unbeliever. The other, the testimony of the publican, was the testimony of a sinner saved by grace through the Lord Jesus Christ. The Pharisee sought and thought he had found righteousness by what he imagined God had enabled him to be and do. The publican sought an...

 The Delusion of the Free Will Doctrine John 6:44, " No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day." “No Man can come to me” This verse of Holy Scripture destroys the false doctrine of free will, and free moral agency which masquerade as truth; but behind the false face of those doctrines are the gates of hell. Our Lord Jesus Christ said “no men can come to me”. This is a direct statement of fact from the mouth of the God-Man. Gainsayers may seek to alter the meaning of these six words; they may wrest the scriptures to their own destruction (II Peter 3:16); but the doctrine of Christ stands fast. There is not one individual of all mankind that has the ability to come to Christ Jesus believing the doctrine of Christ by an act of his will, choice, or decision. No man can come to Christ Jesus because of the adversary who holds him captive, as it is written: “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are ...

SINNERS NEED A MIRACLE! If a man is near-sighted, he only needs corrective glasses; but if he is BLIND, he needs a miracle only God can give– SIGHT! If a man is sick, he only needs medicinal aid; but if he is DEAD, he needs a miracle only God can give– LIFE! If a man has a weak heart, perhaps changing his diet and habits will improve his condition; but if he has a STONY HEART, a deceitful, desperately wicked heart, he needs this miracle- "...a NEW HEART also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36:26-27).  Knowing these things to be true and knowing the desperate, depraved condition in which Adam's fall has plunged all mankind, I believe, preach, and insist upon one solemn certain fact– "SALVATION IS OF THE LORD." Let every son of Adam who reads these words come (like the leper in Matthew ch. 8) to Christ and worship Him, saying, "LO...

"...Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." - I Corinthians 1:30 [KJV] What a sweet subject for my morning meditation is here! Who is it, my soul, is made of God to thee these precious things but Jesus? And mark how they are made so. I am a poor ignorant creature, grossly ignorant by reason of the fall. I knew not my lost estate, much less the way of recovery. Here Jesus became to me wisdom. By His illuminating the darkness of my mind, He led me to see my ruin and my misery. But this would never have brought me out of it; for though I saw my lost estate, yet still I had no consciousness by what means I could be recovered. Here again Jesus came to my aid, and taught me, that as I needed righteousness, He would be my righteousness, and undertake for me to God. But even after this was done, I felt my soul still the subject of sin; and how to subdue a single sin I knew not. Here Jesus came again, and gave me to see, that as H...

  "Yea, all kings shall fall down before Him: all nations shall serve Him. For He shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in His sight." -Psalm 72:11-14 [KJV]

"He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack." - II Corinthians 8:15 [KJV]   My soul! here is a delightful morsel for thee to feed upon this morning. Thou art come out to gather thy daily food, as Israel did in the wilderness. Faith had no hoards. Thou wantest Jesus now as much as thou didst yesterday. Well then, look at what is here said of Israel. They went out to gather—what? Why, in the morning bread—God's gift. Such is Jesus, the bread of God, the bread of life. And as Israel would have been satisfied with nothing short of this, so neither be thou. And as Israel was never disappointed, so neither wilt thou, if thou seek it in faith, as Israel did. And observe, "they that gathered most had nothing over;" so "he that gathered least had no lack." Yea, my soul, no follower of Jesus can have too much of Jesus; nothing more than he wants—nothing to spare. So the poorest child of God, that hath the least ...

The Gospel and Faith: Part 5 by D.G. Miles McKee   As the gospel is preached, the Holy Spirit will generate faith (Romans 10:17) … and faith will cause the believer to see that God became a man. Not only did He become man, but faith also sees that He became our man.  Faith receives that this God-Man, Christ Jesus, became our representative.  Now, just to stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance the first representative man was Adam. His fall was our fall.  He represented us.  But God in His grace and mercy gave us a Second Man, the Last Adam, who would regain all that was lost in the first (see 1 Corinthians 15:45-47). Because the Second Man represented us, we can say, “When He lived, I lived, when He died I died and when He rose again I rose again.” When the gospel is proclaimed and applied, faith sees many things. Among them it grasps that we were in Christ when redemption was accomplished. By faith, the believer can now say I have lived...