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

  "The house of the Rechabites." -Jeremiah 35:2 [KJV] My soul, as the prophet had his commission from the Lord, to go unto the house of the Rechabites, and the Holy Ghost hath been pleased to have the event of the visit recorded; do thou go down to it also, and see what instructions thou canst gather there, under His gracious teachings, for thine evening meditation.   The house of the Rechabites drank no wine. And was not this to intimate the law of the Nazarites? Surely there was a reference, in this prohibition, to the one glorious Nazarite, even Jesus! The Rechabites had no fixed dwelling-place, but lived in moveable tents; and believers in Jesus, like their Lord Himself, have "here no abiding city, but are seeking one to come." Hence, when the King of Babylon came into the land where the Rechabites had no fixed abode, they had no attachment to the place, and therefore the more readily took their departure.   Such, my soul, will be the case with thee, in the la...

"I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Thy servant; for I do not forget Thy commandments." - Psalm 119:176 [KJV] If the Lord did not seek us, we should never seek the Lord. That is most certain. If you are one that seeks the Lord in prayer, in supplication, in secret desire, with many a heart-rending groan, and often by night and by day, be well assured, that you would never have sought the Lord, had not the Lord first sought you. He is now seeking you. It may be (as you fear), some time before He finds you; but He will find you at last.  How sweetly the Lord has set this forth in the parable of the lost sheep! The poor sheep has gone astray; and having once left the fold, it is pretty sure to have got into some strange place or other. It has fallen down a rock, or has rolled into a ditch, or is hidden beneath a bush, or has crept into a cave, or is lying in some deep, distant ravine, where none but an experienced eye and hand can find it out. And so with the Lord...

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (07-09OCT22 A.D.) 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 - Almighty God's unmerited favor - from our sins and from Hell: TWO VITAL TRUTHS There are two vital things the Holy Spirit reveals to all whom He brings to faith in Christ Jesus. -1- He will reveal OUR NEED OF CHRIST! “ I need Thee precious Jesus, for I am full of sin, My soul is dark and gloomy; my heart is dead within; I need the cleansing fountain where I can always flee, The blood of Christ most precious, the sinner’s perfect plea.” -2- He will reveal that CHRIST IS ALL WE NEED! “ In Him dwelleth ALL the fulness of the Godhead bodily and ye are COMPLETE IN HIM” (Colossians 2:9-10). He, of God, is made unto me all I need. The more quickly we learn that Christ is, indeed, ALL we need to make us righteou...

"They made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept."   -Song of Solomon 1:6 [KJV] My soul, now the day is over, sit down, and look back on the employments of it. What a day hath it been? What portion of it hath been engaged in the service of thy Lord, and the improvement of thy soul? How wholly occupied in the busy and imperious demands of the world, the care of the body, and in procuring the bread that perisheth! Surely the complaint of the church is thine also. Keeper of the vineyards of others, thine own goeth to waste! And of what avail, in the path of grace, if though occupied by a thousand things in the aid of others, thou art making no progress in the heavenly road by thine own soul?   Are not the peace of thy life, and the glorious expectation of a better, to be advanced in the knowledge and enjoyment of Jesus? If I lose sight of Thee, Thou dear Immanuel; if the lively actings of faith upon Thee be remitted, will the recollection of attention...

"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment "   (margin,   sense ). -Philippians 1:9 [KJV] Love is especially the effect of knowledge; and love we know is a fruit of the blessed Spirit. As then the Lord the Spirit is pleased to open up the precious truth of God to the soul, love embraces what the Holy Ghost reveals. Thus there is a knowledge of the only true God by the teaching of the Spirit. But our love is to abound not only in knowledge, which is the foundation of it, because if there is no knowledge of the Lord there can be no love to the Lord or His people, but also in all feeling, in all sense, in all experience.   Spiritual knowledge, therefore, and experimental feeling are the two feeders of Christian love; the two streams, as it were, that run side by side out of the very throne of the most High, and meet and melt into that boundless river, love. And it is by this union of knowledge and experience, of divine ligh...

  Jesus Himself by D.G. Miles McKee                       The Bible is a book about Jesus. He is everywhere in the Scriptures. He is; The Alpha and Omega (Revelation 1:8) The Anointed One (Psalm 2:2) The Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16) The Author of Life (Acts 3:15) The Mighty God (Isaiah 9:6) The Branch (Zechariah 6:12) The Bright and Morning Star (Revelation 22:16) The Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6) The Christ (Matthew 1:16) The Teacher (John 13:13) Everlasting Father (Isaiah 9:6) The Door (John 10:9) The Good Shepherd (John 10:14) Holy and Righteous One (Acts 3:14) The I Am (John 8:58) The True Vine (John 15:1) Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14) The King of Kings (Revelation 19:16) The Eternal Word (John 1:1) The Word of God (Revelation 19:13) The Lamb of God (John 1:29).   Jesus by Himself created everything. We read,  “ For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, wheth...

"Man did eat angels' food." -Psalm 78:25 [KJV] Yes, so He did, when the Lord rained down manna upon the people in the wilderness. But, my soul, what hast thou eaten, now thou hast. been at the table of thy Lord? What did Jesus there entertain thee with? "Wonder, O heavens, and be astonished, O earth!" Thou hast feasted upon the body and blood of Christ! And this is food which angels never ate, neither was such a feast ever prepared for them. Pause over this blessed subject, for it is enough to call up the wonder, praise, and love of all thine intellectual faculties for ever!   When man fell, the earth was made to bring forth thorns and thistles; this was all the inheritance then left us; man was to eat bread in the sweat of the brow. But Jesus interposeth, and removes the curse, in being made a "curse for us." The curse being removed by Him and His cross, the earth is made to bring forth its blessings, and "wine that maketh glad the heart of ma...