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

"God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him." — Acts 10:34, 35 [KJV] It is a common, artful device of the adversary to insinuate, "one part of scripture opposes and contradicts another." Hereby he aims to distress the minds, weaken the confidence of disciples, and to render the doctrines of grace of no esteem. The unlearned and unstable in the truths of free grace salvation, "wrest this, as they do also other texts of scripture, to their own destruction." It was farthest from St. Peter to make this declaration, to subvert the fundamental truths of the gospel, and the one only way of salvation taught by himself; namely, by "election, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ." — 1 Peter 1:2 . But he now perceived of a truth that this blessing came eq...

" Verily Thou art a God that hidest Thyself, O God of Israel the Saviour." — Isaiah 45:15 [KJV] Mourning under a sense of sin, and complaining of inbred corruptions, are consistent with faith in Jesus, and rejoicing in His salvation. Sorrowing under the painful sense of an absent God, has been the experience of saints in all ages; few, if any, have been exempt from it. And this is an evidence that they have felt His comforting presence, enjoyed the smiles of His love, and rejoiced in the light of His countenance. So the life and love of the soul is manifested. A Christian is known by his sorrows, as well as joys. He sorrows after a godly sort. But why should a God of love hide Himself from His dear children? We may say, He is a sovereign, and answer in the words of Elihu, Job 33:13 — "He giveth not account of any of His matters." But it is most sweet to say with David, "Continually let the L ORD be magnified, Who hath pleasure in the prosperity...

Hello dear brethren-in-Christ JESUS, "The LORD our righteousness!" Please find enclosed the most recent Gospel broadcast #7 on the 'American Vindicta' YouTube channel. See link below. Copy & Paste this linkey to your browser to listen in. The LORD JESUS Christ be magnified for ever and ever! With love, Sinner Saved, aka 'Billy' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s2oXBhzVA&t=2024s

" Let no man beguile you of your reward." — Colossians 2:18 [KJV] There is a present reward of grace enjoyed in the hearts of the faithful, which consists in pardon of sin, peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost. These are the rewards of Jesus' toils and sufferings for us. Since an artful and subtle serpent hath gained access to the human heart, we can never be warned too much to beware of men . Satan deceived man at the beginning by means of part of himself. He still beguiles men by man. Though the adversary cannot pluck one of Christ's sheep out of his hands, nor rob the loving Saviour of one of the precious jewels of His mediatorial crown, still we are to consider him as a restless, implacable foe, who will strive by all means to perplex and distress our souls. Has Jehovah Jesus appeared to us in the vision of faith? Hath He spoke to our trembling hearts in HIS WORD and by His Spirit, as He did to the father of the faithful? [i.e., Abraham]. ...

"... Because in him there is found some good thing toward the L ORD God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam." — I Kings 14:13 [KJV] Such was the testimony which the Lord gave by His prophet of young Abijah, the son of wicked Jeroboam. The father was branded, even to a proverb, for his abominable wickedness. Behold, the son is recorded by the Lord for his goodness: singled out from the whole house of his father, to be blessed of his God, and to come to his grave in peace. Children of grace often spring from the loins of ungodly parents. The offspring of godly parents, often appear graceless. Grace is not hereditary. Grace is the sovereign gift of God. Parents may and ought to give good instructions, but God only makes them successful. Some good thing would not have been found in young Abijah, if the Lord had not put it there. It was of the will of the Lord, or because the Lord was his Father, as his name Abijah signifies. God's covenant children, though by na...

" For the L ORD will not forsake His people for His great name's sake: Because it hath pleased the L ORD to make you His people ." — I Samuel 12:22 [KJV] The prophet Samuel, like the apostle Paul, "shunned not to declare all the counsel of God." — Acts 20:27 . They feared no licentious consequences from preaching the faith-establishing, soul-comforting truth of God's unchangeable love to His people. Yet Samuel encourages the people to cleave close unto the Lord, and not turn aside from following Him; assuring them, if they walked contrary to the Lord, though He would never change in His love, or cast off His people, "whom He did foreknow," yet He would change in His conduct and dealings towards them. "God will surely visit their transgression with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes; nevertheless, His loving-kindness He will not utterly take away, nor suffer His faithfulness to fail." — Psalm 89:32, 33 . Like a tender...

" The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." — I Peter 3:4 [KJV] Godly parents are delighted at their very hearts, if they see their dear children partakers of the grace of God. How joyful to hear those, who are part of one's self, enquire after Jesus and His salvation! Love and duty unite to constrain us to teach our little ones the knowledge of Jesus; to instruct them in the ways of the Lord. And if the spirit of grace is pleased to crown such endeavours with success, infinitely more precious is the adorning of grace to their immortal souls, than all the gaiety of dress to their perishing bodies. As we to ours, so doth the Lord rejoice over all His dear children in Christ Jesus. He takes pleasure in their dress, which is the robe of His Son's righteousness. Their ornaments, which are the graces of His Spirit, are delighting to His eyes. "He makes them all-glorious within:" He loves His own image, wh...