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

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (09-11JUL21) 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: SALVATION IS TO KNOW CHRIST “And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.”   -The Master, as per John 17:3 [KJV]   Unbelieving people have always denied or devalued right knowledge of God in their attempts, usually, to hide under a cloak of a false profession of salvation under false gospels. Many times, they will raise up “straw men” claiming that, “Knowledge does not save us, Christ does.” Yes, Christ does save us! But, rest assured, the Bible tells us that CHRIST SAVES US BY HIS GRACE in bringing us by the revelation of the Gospel wherein His righteousness i...

"Ye are My witnesses, saith the L ORD , and My servant whom I have chosen." - Isaiah 43:10  [KJV] Doth God indeed appeal to the souls of His people for the truth of His covenant love! Oh the gracious condescension! It is sweet, it is blessed, and a testimony enough to make the heart of every child of God that possesseth it to leap for joy, when the Spirit witnesseth to our spirits that we are the children of God. But it is still carrying on that blessedness with increasing delight, when the people of God themselves become witnesses of covenant love and faithfulness; and, from numberless experiences in themselves, can, and do set to their seals that God is true.     See then, my soul, this morning, whether thou art one of thy God's witnesses, and thy Redeemer, as the servant of Jehovah, witnesseth for thee, and by His sweet influences in thee, all that thine heart can wish concerning the word of His grace, and thy fellowship and communion with Him. Run over a few leading...

  Jesus Christ: Martyr or Sacrifice? by  D.G. Miles McKee   The definition of a martyr is that of someone who suffers death for advocating, or refusing to renounce, a religious or political belief or cause. A sacrifice on the other hand is a religious rite in which someone or something is offered to a divinity to establish, maintain, or restore a right relationship between humans and that deity. Jesus was not a martyr. He was a sacrifice. The Lord Christ offered Himself as a sacrifice (Hebrews 10:12).  In doing so He demonstrated His teaching of John 15:13 , “Greater love has no man than this, than a man lay down his life for his friends.” Jesus died as a sacrifice to bring us back into relationship with God and He did so voluntarily .  During His life, He moved events in accordance with His eternal purposes.  He was, always in full control!  Likewise, with His death, He was in charge.  Listen to the Master as He tell...

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Him that loved us ." - Romans 8:37  [KJV] "More than conquerors?" mark that, my soul. Conquerors all the soldiers of Jesus must be, for in His strength they fight, and He has Himself subdued all our foes, even death, the last enemy, and Satan, whom the God of peace will bruise under our feet shortly. So that victory is sure . For we overcome by the blood of the Lamb, by the sword of the Spirit, and by the shield of faith, whereby we subdue all the fiery darts of the wicked. But though conquerors, how are we more than conquerors? Yes, through Him that loved us, believers absolutely conquer Him that is Himself unconquerable. For, by union with Jesus, we may be said to have power with God, and to prevail. "I will not let Thee go," said the praying Jacob, "except Thou bless me." A blessing he came for, and a blessing he would have.     So all the praying seed of Jacob have power thro...

"Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together." -Deuteronomy 22:11 [KJV] Though the true believer, who like the king's daughter is all glorious within, cannot but know, that as meat commendeth us not to God, so neither doth the necessary dress, which, since the fall, is become suited to cover our sinful bodies, make a part of our holy faith; yet it is highly proper, that persons professing godliness should use great plainness of apparel. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, we are told, is of great price in the sight of God. But who should have thought that such a precept as this of Moses had a gospel signification!     And yet as Christ was preached under types and figure through the whole law, we may reasonably suppose that not a single command was then given but what had an eye to Him and His great salvation. But if we find the Lord so strict respecting the outward dress of the body, what may we conclude the Lord wou...

"I AM among you as He that serveth."   - Luke 22:27  [KJV] Surely there is a blessedness in these words that affords substance to feed upon. My soul, read them again and again; pause over them, pray over them, and look up to Him that thus so humbly, graciously, and lovingly, expressed Himself. Art Thou, blessed Jesus, among Thy people as He that serveth? I know, Lord, that Thou didst condescend to become the Servant of Jehovah, though Thou wert Lord of all, when for the salvation of poor sinners Thou didst undertake to veil Thy Godhead, and in our nature to become our Surety. And I know, Lord, also, that Thou didst, in a very memorable moment, and at a time when as the evangelist had it to relate to the church, Thou knewest that the Father had given all things into Thine hands, Thou didst condescend to wash Thy disciples feet. But art Thou still among Thy people as one that serveth? Be astonished, O heavens, and wonder, O earth! All power is Thine in heaven and in earth. And ...

"...the righteousness of God without the law is manifested... being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." -Romans 3:21-26 "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins." -Isaiah 43:25 "For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." -II Corinthians 5:21 "Who is a God like unto Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?" -Micah 7:18a "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus ...Who shall...