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

"Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He hath purposed in Himself." -Ephesians 1:9  [KJV] My soul, pause over these volumes of divine truth for they are not as so many simple words, but contain vast volumes indeed, and such as a whole eternity will not afford space to read over and finish. The first is a large one indeed—even the mystery of God's will namely, the mystery of redemption, originating in the divine mind, before all worlds. And this is not the smallest part of it, that it should be made known in any degree or measure to thee, my soul, a poor creature of a day, and that day, a day of nothing but sin.    The second volume in this vast subject is another precious part of the same glorious truth; namely, that this mercy of God in Christ is the sole result of God's good pleasure. No foresight, no merit, no pretensions of thine, my soul; no, nor the merits of archangels, becoming in the least the cause. For th...

"Then I restored that which I took not away." -Psalm 69:4  [KJV] Whose words are these? They can be none but the words of Jesus; for none ever made restoration but He; and none but He could say, I took nothing away. And what was taken away? God's glory was taken away by sin; and consequently, man's happiness also. For when Adam sinned, he robbed God of His glory, and robbed himself and all his posterity of God's image, and with it all happiness. Nay, my soul, thou hast done the same, in every renewed act of disobedience. And in breaking the divine law thou hast justly lost the divine favour. And hath Jesus, all precious Jesus, restored all these? Yes, blessings on His name, He hath! And what renders it ten-fold more gracious, He hath so done it as never to be lost any more.    By His finished work of salvation He hath restored to God His glory. And by His obedience and death, as our Surety, He hath restored to man his happiness. The favour of God we lost by sin; ...

"The blood of Jesus Christ His Son, cleanseth us from all sin." -1 John 1:7  [KJV] My soul, sit down for a while, by this crimson fountain, and duly ponder over this glorious property of thy Redeemer's blood. Oh the sovereign efficacy of it! For it not only cleanseth sin, but all sin: not only other's sins, but our sins : not only the present evil of sin, but the everlasting evil of it: not only now, but for ever . It cleanseth from all sin. Pause, my soul. Is there any other laver to wash away sin; can prayers, or tears, or repentance, or ordinances, or communions, or duties, or alms? Oh no. We must say of every thing, and of all things, out of Christ, and void of Christ, as Job did concerning his friends, "Miserable comforters are ye all; physicians of no value." Here then, my soul, seek thy cleansing, and here only.    And while to this Fountain thou art daily brought by the Holy Ghost, look up and behold the whole assembly of the redeemed above, who a...

"God is faithful by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord." -1 Corinthians 1:9  [KJV] Think, my soul, what a dignity believers in Jesus are called unto, when brought into a nearness of communion with their glorious Head, in any exercise of trial or affliction for His sake. God is faithful in the appointment. How? In that it proves God's fulfilment of His covenant promises, when Jesus and His members are considered by Him as one. God is faithful in manifesting this oneness and fellowship, in making the members conformable to their glorious Head, by trials or sufferings. God is faithful in sending the affliction. And God manifests His faithfulness in guiding through it, and supporting under it. The trial itself, be it what it may, is a discovery of the covenant love and faithfulness of Jehovah. Nay, God would not have manifested His faithfulness to a believer without it. What a sweet consoling thought this is to the afflicted exercised fo...

"For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." -Ephesians 2:18  [KJV] Who would have thought that so short a verse should contain so much sweetness? And who would have conceived that in it the gracious offices of all the Persons of the Godhead, as they are mercifully exercised towards a poor sinner; are described? Is not the access to a throne of grace the work, the leading of God the Holy Ghost? Surely, He is the Spirit here spoken of. And through whom can a poor sinner have access to the mercy-seat but in Him, and by Him, and through Him, whom the Father heareth always?  And of whom should the regenerated, adopted child of God have access, but unto His God and Father in Christ Jesus? Are then all the glorious persons of the Godhead thus revealed, as engaged in every poor sinner's approach to the heavenly throne? Oh for grace to give to each, and to all, the praise, and glory, and love, due to such transcendent mercy; and in a conscious sense of be...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (17-19DEC21) 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: S UBSTITUTION AND SATISFACTION! These two words sum up the Gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ, as the Substitute of His chosen people, rendered complete satisfaction to the law and justice of God by His perfect life and His sin-removing death. The imputation of righteousness to His people was solely dependent upon Christ’s obedience "unto death, even the death of the cross" (Philippians 2:8). His triumphant resurrection declared that the Substitute had satisfied every stipulation the Father laid down for the redemption, reconciliation and justification of His people. -copied "Storm Warning: Prove All Things"  is a fifteen-minute Gospel broadcast ...

"He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure." -Proverbs 11:15  [KJV] Blessed Jesus, well is it for me that Thou didst not hate to become a Surety; for hadst Thou so done, and refused the vast undertaking, I must have perished for ever. And hadst Thou consented to have become a Surety only for friends, and those only that loved Thee, still here again I should have been lost: but when Thou condescendedst to become Surety for me, Oh Lord, it was not simply for a stranger, but for a rebel, a hater and despiser of Thee, and of Thy great salvation. Oh the love of God that passeth knowledge! And how, blessed Jesus, didst Thou indeed smart, and wert crushed and broken, when for my dreadful debt of sin, which surpassed all the angels of light to pay, it pleased the Father to bruise Thee, and to put Thee to grief. Oh matchless love of a most compassionate Saviour!     Me thinks I still see Thee taking my place under the angry eye of ...