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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (14-16MAY21) 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:   “We preach Christ crucified” (I Corinthians 1:23) . In keeping with the apostle Paul, I proclaim the only message from God that will, if blessed of the Spirit, meet the needs of all who hear me. “Christ and Him crucified” is pardon to the guilty, clothing to the naked, rest to the weary, water to the thirsty, bread to the hungry, ransom to the slave, liberty to the bondman, cleansing to the filthy, righteousness to the sinful and peace to the troubled. To those who are spiritually sick, I preach “Christ crucified,” the Great Physician; to the sorrowful, He is the Comfo...

"And one Man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by His side." - Ezekiel 9:2  [KJV] Pause, my soul, over this scripture. Who could this one man be, but Jesus, thy Mediator. Did not His garment of linen mark His righteousness, and the inkhorn to write down His people, His pierced side? Hath He not written in the book of life the names of all His redeemed, that none of them may be lost when He cometh to make up His jewels? And was it not with an eye to this the soldier pierced His side when by His death He had obtained eternal redemption for them, that He might with His precious blood mark His people, as a shepherd doth his sheep? Yes, Thou dear Redeemer! Surely I behold Thee sweetly set forth in this scripture. Surely the Holy Ghost, who all along delighted to set Thee forth under various similitudes before the old church, hath graciously represented Thee here.    Methinks I behold Thee now coming forth in the white garment of Thy spotless righteous...

  THE AMAZING BLOOD OF JESUS , Part  1 by D.G. Miles McKee 1 Peter 1 :18-19, “Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.” One of the most important things we can come to grips with is to understand the value of the blood of Jesus. The Blood of Jesus has removed all our sins. It is, therefore, not only priceless but also powerful. But what is it that gives the blood its power and value?  I´ll tell you what it is … it is because of whose blood it is!  The blood of Jesus is the blood of the God/Man … He who is fully God and fully Man. Christ’s blood would not have been effective if He had only been God. Why? Because God cannot die! On the other hand, had He merely been a man His death would not have been successful. The death of one man, no matter how good a man, coul...

The great and important question for you and me always has been and is now. "How can man be just with God?" I do not deny an interest in the mysteries of providence and the matters of prophecy, but the most important matter to me at all times ­ and it increases as I grow older and approach the day of judgment ­ is, "How can I stand before God justified and accepted?" Woe to the man who shall be weighed and found wanting! "If I justify myself," Job declared, "my own mouth would condemn me." If I say that I am without sin and holy enough for God's fellowship, I would be a liar and make God a liar! But Paul declares "It is God that justifieth." He can, by the substitution and satisfaction of His Son, make the unjust, just and the unclean, clean! He can cover us with a perfect robe of righteousness, so that we are as holy and pure as the Redeemer Himself. And the important thing is that God can justify us in a way that is...

"Let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him. It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction; and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day." - 2 Samuel 16:11, 12 [KJV] My soul, see here a believer in his best frame. To be sure, it is not always thus with a child of God; but it were to be devoutly desired always thus to be. But while we admire the faith, let us yet more admire and adore Him, and His grace and mercy who gives it. Oh what a blessed state it is to eye the hand of the Lord in every thing. When Shimei thus cursed David, he passeth by the instrument, and recognizeth the hand of the Lord in the appointment. "Let him alone, for the Lord hath bidden him." Sin is at the bottom. The Lord doth not correct for naught. How unjust so ever on the part of man, it is both just and right on the part of God.   And observe, moreover, the comfort he takes to himself out of it. If my God bid my enemy distress me,...

"...sat by the highway side begging." - Mark 10:46   My soul, learn a lesson from the beggar this morning. And Oh Thou blessed friend of beggars, do Thou sweetly make the view gracious to my soul. What was it led this poor man to the high-way side to seek alms? Surely his poverty, wretchedness, and a sense of want. And art thou come forth, my soul, from the same cause, and on the same errand? I presume this poor creature came forth empty; for had he been full he would never have come. And art thou so, my soul! for otherwise it is certain, they that are full in themselves never seek Jesus. But amidst his want and poverty, had this poor beggar hopes that the passers by would commiserate his case and relieve him? Yes, no doubt: though some might overlook and disregard him, all would not.     But, my soul, thy case far exceeds his. Though all disregard, Jesus will not: and thou art sure He will pass by, and not only behold thy misery, but give thee needed relie...

"A certain Samaritan." -Luke 10:33 [KJV] Look, my soul, beyond the letter of the parable, and see if thou canst not instantly discover who it is that is here meant. Mark how he is described: "A certain Samaritan." Not any indifferent undetermined one among the whole mass of men called Samaritans, but an identical certain one: and who but Jesus answers to this character? "Said we not well, (said the Jews) that Thou art a Samaritan?" Yes, truly, thus far ye said right; for our Jesus is the true Samaritan, that came a blissful stranger from His blessed abode, to deliver us from our lost estate, for His mercy endureth for ever. And, my soul, observe how exactly corresponding to all that is said of this certain Samaritan in the parable, thy Jesus proves to have been. Our nature, universally speaking, was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when it fell among thieves, and when it was left more than half dead by the great enemy of souls; for we ...