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

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (28-30MAY21) 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: DELIVERANCE FROM ETERNAL RUIN "The voice said,  Cry . And he said, What shall I cry?  All flesh is grass, and all the  goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass."  -Isaiah 40:6-7 [KJV] Unless the Lord is pleased to teach us and reveal to us what we are by nature (Ephesians 2:1-3), we will never see our need for Christ and the gospel of His free grace (Romans 3:24). We will never understand our need of Jesus Christ and His great salvation, unless the Holy Spirit is pleased to move upon our heart (Joh...

  "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." - Isaiah 30:21  [KJV] My soul, who is this Almighty Teacher, out of sight, but the Holy Ghost? And to what way doth He point but to Jesus, who is both the way, and the truth, and the life? Art thou ever at a stand? Listen to this voice. Art thou about to turn to the right or left? See how seasonably He is promised to come to direct thee. Condescend, Thou gracious, matchless Instructor, to guide me. I shall not fail then to know the wholesomeness of Thy teaching, when Thou hast opened mine eyes, to see the wondrous things of Thy law. I shall indeed know that Thou art my Director, because Thou hast said, "I the Lord teacheth thee to profit." And when Thy word comes not in word only, but in power, and in Thee, the Holy Ghost, surely I shall know it, in that it not only reaches my ear, but will influence my heart: not only...

  "Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast led captivity captive, Thou hast received gifts for men: yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them." -Psalm 68:18  [KJV] Sweet view of a risen, ascended, and triumphant Saviour. My soul, ponder over these words, and while meditating upon them, see that thou art ascending after thy exalted Head, and partaking in His glories. Jesus is He who hath indeed ascended, far above all heavens, that He might fill all things. He hath led captivity captive; and that not only in conquering all the powers of hell, but taking His people that were in captivity out of the prison-house, and causing them to partake in the felicity of His triumphs.     And mark, my soul, what follows. "He hath received gifts for men;" or as the apostle to the church of Ephesus expresseth the same blessed truths, He gave gifts to men, Ephesians 4:8. And sweetly Jesus hath done both; for He received that He might give. He needed not f...

The Amazing Blood of Jesus , Part III by D.G. Miles McKee In Parts 1 and 2 we saw that the blood of Jesus both redeems and cleanses us. Today we want to consider that the blood of Jesus also preserves us. Do you remember the dreadful night when the death angel went across the country of Egypt killing the first born of every house? (see Exodus 12) A woeful cry went up across the land.  The first born of every house was slain … from Pharaoh’s palace to the servant´s shack. Death had struck. But there were some houses the death angel did not enter.  Those inhabitants were protected! Why? Were they better than their neighbours? No! Were they holier? No! Were they church goers? No! What preserved them then? It was the blood on the lintel and the two side posts of their homes.  This was in accordance with the promise the Lord had made to the Israelites. He had given His Word saying, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you” (Exodus 12:13). The Blood preserved the I...

 "The gospel is no other than a pure promise, a free declaration of peace and pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation to poor sinners by Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of it is, that This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners (1 Timothy 1:15, KJV) ."   - The Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness Without Works, by John Gill

"Salvation is wholly of grace, not only undeserved but undesired by us until God is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need of it. And then we find everything prepared that our wants require or our wishes conceive; yea, that He has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask or think. Salvation is wholly of the Lord and bears those signatures of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness which distinguish all His works from the puny imitations of men. It is every way worthy of Himself, a great, a free, a full, a sure salvation. It is great whether we consider the objects (miserable, hell-deserving sinners), the end (the restoration of such alienated creatures to His image and favor, to immortal life and happiness) or the means (the incarnation, humiliation, sufferings and death of His beloved Son). It is free, without exception of persons or cases, without any conditions or qualifications, but such as He, Himself, performs in them and bestows upon them." -John Newton (auth...

  "And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity."  - Isaiah 33:24  [KJV] What is this? What happy climate is there where any of its inhabitants are exempt from sickness? Where is that salubrious air, that is not impregnated with disease? Surely, no where but in heaven. But if the cause of sickness be removed; if the envenomed dart of sin be taken out, and hath lost its poison, the inhabitant no longer complains, for both the evil and the pain are gone. My soul, hast thou found this happy spot? Hath Jesus manifested such views of His pardoning grace in the all-sufficiency of His blood and righteousness, that thou not only art fully convinced and satisfied that His blood cleanseth from all sin; but that thou as fully believest and resteth in it for thy salvation; and art of the happy number of those who believe to the salvation of the soul. Hath Jesus said to thee, as to the poor man in the gospel, "Son, be of ...