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

  “His commandments are not grievous.”   It is more profitable and enjoyable to love than to hate, to forgive than to hold a grudge, to smile than to quarrel, to behave kindly than to act ugly. The way of the transgressor is hard, not the way of the believer.  The life of faith and love is the good life.                                                                -preacher Henry Mahan

Sovereign Grace is God’s grace. And God’s grace is Sovereign Grace. If it is not Sovereign Grace, it is not saving grace.  Sovereign Grace is the Truth.   Sovereign Grace is the message that declares the electing love of the Father, the redeeming love of the Son, and the invincible love of the Holy Spirit.  Sovereign grace is the content of all true evangelism.  Sovereign Grace is the Gospel!  Any message that does not declare the sovereign Grace of God in Christ Jesus is “another gospel” !  Sovereign grace is saving grace !

  Eternal, faithful, loving Lord, We bow before Thy throne;   Come as we gather in Thy Name,   And make Thy glories known.     O send Thy Spirit from above,   To touch these lips of ours;   That we would praise and honor Thee,   With all our earthly pow’rs.     When to our ears the gospel comes,   Lord send it deep within;   Come fill each heart with love and grace,   And cleanse us from our sin.     May all who gather in this house,   By faith to Jesus flee;   No other One can save our souls,   Or give us peace with Thee.       O give us grace to bless Thy name   As one, to raise our voice;   To honor and adore our God,   To worship and rejoice.       Tune: “Amazing Grace”  CM  Words by Jim Byrd

" From that time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him." -John 6:66 [KJV] Thus was fulfilled that word, “How can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3.) This chapter is like a touch-stone. Herein our Lord tries His disciples, to see who are real sterling, and who not. Many are His professed, but few His real disciples. Sifting times will come. They make manifest. The hottest place in hell is prepared for those who turn their backs upon the Son of God on earth.  Lord, grant that our faces may be set like a flint towards Thee. For, blessed be Thy name, Thou hast said of those who continue with Thee in Thy temptations: “I appoint unto you a kingdom: ye shall eat and drink at My table” (Luke 22:29, 30.) But those who are not agreed with Christ, have not the mind of Christ: will not walk long with Him. See this exemplified.  (1st.) “Some of these disciples followed Christ for the loaves and fishes,” verse 26 . Those who follo...

" Honour the Lord with thy substance." -Proverbs 3:9 [KJV] O may this be the daily study of our hearts, and the constant practice of our lives! “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to the Lord: for the marriage of the Lamb is come” (Revelation 19:7.) He is our husband: we are espoused to Him by faith. Consider the work of honouring the Lord, and the reasons for it.  (1st.) The work. What! can I, a worm of the earth, honour the Lord of heaven: Yes; thou art called to it, and formed for it. This honour have all His saints. It is our greatest honour on earth to honour our Lord in heaven. “All Thy works shall praise Thee, O Lord! and Thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of Thy kingdom, and talk of Thy power: to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom” (Psalm 145:10, 11, 12.)  So they honoured the Lord of old, in displaying the glory of His grace. This work you are called to, if you have s...

"Salvation is wholly of grace; not only undeserved, but undesired by us, till He is pleased to awaken us to a sense of our need of it. And then we find everything prepared that our wants require, or our wishes conceive; yea, that He has done exceedingly beyond what we could either ask or think.  Salvation is wholly of the LORD, and bears those signatures of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness, which distinguish all His works from the puny imitations of men. It is every way worthy of Himself, a great, a free, a full, a sure salvation.  It is great, whether we consider the objects, miserable and hell-deserving sinners; the end, (being) the restoration of such alienated creatures to His image and favour, to immortal life and happiness; or the means, the incarnation, humiliation, sufferings, and death of His beloved Son.  It is free, without exception of persons, or cases, without any conditions or qualifications, but such as He Himself performs in them, and best...

  Saved by the Death of a Lamb                                      by D. G. Miles McKee   Many years ago, in Germany, a steeplejack was doing work on the top of a church spire.  In the course of his work he lost his footing, slipped, and fell. He frantically tried to save himself by clutching onto one of the ledges but to no avail. It seemed as if he was going to lose his life because he was plunging hastily towards the ground. But the church building at which he was working was in a country parish and sheep generally ran freely in the church-yard. In the providence of God on the day that he fell there was a large lamb on the ground below him. The lamb broke his fall and saved his life. When he recovered from the shock of the fall and was able to get back on his feet, he was amazed to find that his injuries were minimal but by contrast the lamb was dead. The story bec...