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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (10-12DEC21) 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: “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.”   -Philippians 4:4 [KJV] Let us learn the meaning of the word “Rejoice,” not just in doctrine, but in  experience.  There is always cause to rejoice in the Lord:  in His BLOOD that cleanses (1 John 1:7-9) .  His RIGHTEOUSNESS that perfects (Romans 4:6; Philippians 3:9) .  His LOVE which never fails (Jeremiah 31:3; 1 Corinthians 13:8) .  His PROVIDENCE which works all things for our good (Romans 8:28) .  His INTERCESSION, which is continual (Hebrews 7:25) .  And in the fact that our names are in the Book of Life (Revelation 13:8) .  All by His grace! -preacher Henr...

"For He said, Surely they are My people, children that will not lie: so He was their Saviour." -Isaiah 63:8  [KJV] Oh what a tenderness of expression is contained in these words! Jesus not only takes His people into relationship with Him, but undertakes for their faithfulness. In the birth of God's everlasting purpose, this was done from everlasting; so that in one and the same moment, we are His people, His children, His brethren, His wife, His redeemed, His fair one, made comely in His comeliness, and in His blood cleansed, and in His righteousness justified before God. And observe, my soul, the grounds of this relationship: surely, He saith, they are My people. Not only as God's workmanship and property, but as His purchase. Not only in first giving them being, but in giving them new being in Christ Jesus.     The Lord hath taken them into covenant with Him in Christ, and granted them a charter of grace and salvation in Jesus. Sweet and precious thought. God the F...

  The Unspeakable Christ by D.G. Miles McKee   “And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;). “ How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter” (2 Corinthians 12: 3-4).   I am going to attempt to do the impossible.  In these next few lines, I’m going to endeavour to speak about the unspeakable One, the Lord Jesus Christ.     The apostle Paul had been transported to paradise and there he heard unspeakable things.  He was, it seems, overwhelmed with the reality of the invisible God made visible in the Lord Jesus.  I have some friends who think that the pinnacle of spirituality is to speak in tongues, but when Paul was confronted with the exalted Christ, he couldn’t speak at all.     And yet there are some thrilling things which we can yet say about our Saviour for He has left His imprint and record in the scriptures.  M...

"Gad, a troop shall overcome him; but he shall overcome at the last." -Genesis 49:19  [KJV] Is there nothing, my soul, in this sweet promise, that suits thy case and circumstances? Was not Gad one of the children of Israel? And are not all the seed of Israel interested in the promises? Was the tribe of Gad for a time brought down, and brought under, by a troop of foes? And are not all the seed of Israel oppressed and brought into subjection? Was not that glorious Israelite, the great Captain of our salvation, made perfect through suffering?     Think, my soul, what troops of hell assaulted Him. But was the issue of the battle with Him doubtful? Neither is it now. In His blood and righteousness all the seed of Israel shall be justified and overcome by the blood of the Lamb . What then, though there be troops of lusts within, and legions of foes without? Troops from earth, and troops from hell, may, and will, assault thee; but look unto Jesus . It is said of His people of ...

"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us." -I John 4:16  [KJV] Who hath known, and believed, in terms equal to the greatness of the mercy itself, the love of God to the poor sinner! God's love must be an infinite love, and consequently the display of it must be infinite also. God, we are told, "Commendeth His love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Had God loved and delighted in saints that loved Him, this would have been love.     Had God taken the holy angels into a nearer acquaintance with Him, this would have been love. But when He raised beggars from the dunghill, and took rebels from the prison to sit upon His throne, and at a time when His justice would have been magnified in their destruction; to prefer sinners, haters of God, and despisers of His grace; to bring them into the closest and nearest connection with Him, in the person of His dear Son; and all this by such a wonderful plan of mercy, as the inc...

"If ye shall ask any thing in My name, I will do it." -John 14:14  [KJV] Is it so, blessed Jesus, that if I go to the Father in Thy precious name; my petitions shall be certainly heard, and answered? Lo, then, I come. I feel my faith and confidence emboldened in this gracious assurance. And as Thou knowest, Lord, this day, what is most suited for me, let Thy wisdom choose, and let Thy love bestow, that very grace and mercy, be it what it may. And let a throne of grace witness for me, that I seek it wholly on Christ's account. I consider it as good as given, from the high love my God and Father bears towards His dear Son, as my Surety and Saviour.    And although in the moment that I ask with this boldness of faith, I see and know—in myself, that I have nothing to recommend me to Thy favour, as in the least meriting that favour, but much, very much, to make me an object in meriting Thy displeasure; yet looking up in Jesus, depending upon His blood and righteousness, and w...

"It pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief." -Isaiah 53:10  [KJV] The depths of wisdom were explored to furnish redemption, and to find a person competent to accomplish it; and when found, the depths of love were broken up, to make it complete. My soul, read over the mysterious volume which the Lord hath in part opened before thee. It cost the Father His thoughts from all eternity, to appoint a plan, by which, consistently with His holiness and His justice, thou mightest be saved. It cost the Father His Son, His dear Son, His only Son, before that thou couldest be redeemed. Jesus must die ere thou canst live.    Pause over the subject as it is here expressed. "It pleased the Father to bruise Him." Jesus, who was in Himself holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; He, who knew no sin, must be made sin; He who never merited wrath, must be made a curse. Read on; Jesus must die! and by whom? Not by Jews, nor...