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

"And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." -Romans 1:4 [KJV]   Do not, my soul, hastily pass away from this most precious subject of thy Lord's resurrection. It is an inexhaustible theme, and will be among thy felicities in eternity. Yesterday, thou didst but barely consider the fact. Let this day occupy thy thoughts on another sweet portion of it, in beholding how Jesus effected it by His own power and Godhead. He had said before that He had power to lay down His life, and power to take it again. And He had told the Jews to destroy the temple, by which He meant the temple of His body, and He would raise it again in three days. He had proclaimed Himself to be the resurrection and the life: and here He proved it, when He was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by His resurrection from the dead.       Now, then, pause over this glorious view of Him w...

"The Lord is risen indeed." -Luke 24:34 [KJV]   Let thy meditations, my soul, this morning, be sweetly exercised upon thy risen and exalted Saviour. For if thy Lord be indeed risen, then will it undeniably follow, that as He died for our sins, so He arose for our justification, and is thereby become the first fruits of them that sleep. Beg of God the Holy Ghost to lead thee into the devout contemplation and enjoyment of this soul-reviving subject. Trace the testimonies of this wonderful event, until, frown being overpowered in the vast assemblage of witnesses, thou art prompted to cry out in the same language, "The Lord is risen indeed." And surely never was there any one fact so fully, so dearly, and so circumstantially confirmed. It hath the united testimony of heaven and earth: of angels and men, of the living and the dead, of friends and foes; and God Himself confirming it in the midst of His people, by sending down the Holy Ghost agreeably to th...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (16-18APR21) 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  our  sins and from Hell:     The Power That Worketh In Us “Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen” (Ephesians 3:20-21) . The grace, love, and mercy of God shown toward us in and by the Lord Jesus Christ are more than doctrines we believe. They are dynamic powers of God implanted within our hearts to motivate and drive us in the obedience of faith as we seek to follow and honor Christ in our lives. God the Holy Spirit is the sovereign ...

  "Way back in old eternity,   In council of the Trinity;  To save a people God agreed,  His saving purpose was decreed.  O praise the Lord His Name adore,  Give Him the glory evermore;  By matchless, free and sovereign grace,  Our God has saved a chosen race.  Into this world Christ Jesus came,  To save His people, praise His Name;  He was the Father’s Sacrifice,  Who fully paid our ransom price.  O what a wondrous mystery,  That Christ would bare iniquity;  The Holy One who is our Head,  Was punished in His people’s stead.  Christ Jesus died but now He lives,  And life to us He freely gives;  We trust the Lord our Righteousness,  Who cleansed us from our sinfulness.  Soon Christ shall come to claim His own,  And then before His great, white throne;  All of the ransomed, holy throng,  Shall join and sing redemption’s song."  Tune: “Sweet Hour of Prayer,” (LM/Doub...

"No man has a true desire for the salvation of men's souls who does not first have a desire for God to be honored and glorified above all things. The individual who believes or preaches a gospel in which God is not glorified, one in which His justice is not fully satisfied as His grace is shown, not only doesn't truly desire to see men's souls saved but most likely is not saved himself.  A salvation which does not begin with God, which is not provided for altogether by God, which does not save all whom He purposes to save and which does not keep all He saves...DOES NOT GLORIFY GOD. The chief end of all things in salvation as well as in general is the glory of God." -preacher Gary Shepard https://www.sermonaudio.com/source_detail.asp?sourceid=allsovgrace

  "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit : and having said thus, He gave up the ghost." -Luke 23:46 [KJV]   My soul, ponder well these last of the last seven words of thy God and Saviour which He uttered on the cross; for surely they are most sweet and precious, and highly interesting, both on thy Saviour's account and thine own. And first remark, the   manner   in which the Lord Jesus thus breathed out His soul; not like a man spent and exhausted, after hanging so many hours on the cross, faint with loss of blood, and such agonies of soul as never one before endured; but it was with a loud voice, thereby proving what He had before declared— "No man taketh My life from Me; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." Precious Jesus, how sweet this assurance to Thy people.       But wherefore cry with a loud voice? A whisper, nay, a thought of the soul only, if with an eye o...

It is Finished  (Part 3)  by D.G. Miles McKee   If you want to be effective as you serve the Lord Christ, never tire of hearing and applying the gospel.  In the light of the cross, we can learn to agree with the old Puritan preacher, John Flavell, who, when speaking of Jesus, declared,   "The condemnation was Thine, that the justification might be mine. The agony was Thine, that the victory might be mine. The pain was Thine, that the ease might be mine. The stripes Thine, that the healing balm issuing from them might be mine. The vinegar and gall Thine, that the honey and the sweet might be mine. The curse was thine, that the blessing might be mine. The crown of thorns was Thine, that the crown of glory might be mine.  The death was Thine, that the life purchased by it might be mine.  You paid the price, that I might enjoy the inheritance."   It is Finished!  We were lost and condemned by sin.  We could not perfectly and fully sati...