Salvation Is of God Tune "This Is My Father’s World" SM/double Words by Jim Byrd
1. Salvation is of God, Unto the Lord we owe; That we rejoice in sovereign grace, And the true gospel know. O praise the Lord above Who in His cov’nant grace; Chose out a people to redeem, A vast unworthy race.
2. Salvation is of God, Through Jesus Christ our Lord; Who died a sacrificial death, That we would be restored. Behold upon the cross, Christ Jesus bled and died; And God is just to justify, The law is satisfied.
3. Salvation is of God, The Spirit shall retrieve, Those sinners whom the Son redeemed, They shall on Christ believe. With thankfulness and joy, The saints as one agree; To lift our voice in endless praise, Unto the Godhead three. *****
"But the LORD is the true God, He is the living God, and an everlasting King: at His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide His indignation." (Jeremiah 10:10) *****
"What a Wonderful Savior!" uring the 1800's, a group of American ministers visited England, prompted especially by a desire to hear some celebrated preachers of that land. On Sunday morning they attended the City Temple where Dr. Joseph Parker was the pastor. Some two thousand people filled the building, and Parker’s forceful personality dominated the service. His voice was commanding, his language descriptive, his imagination lively and his manner animated. The sermon was scriptural, the congregation hung onto his words, and the Americans came away saying, "What a wonderful preacher is Joseph Parker!"
In the evening they went to hear Charles Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. The building was much larger than the City Temple and the congregation was more than twice the size. Spurgeon’s voice was much more impressive and moving and his oratory was noticeably superior. But they soon forgot all about the great building, the immense congregation and the significant voice. They even overlooked their intention to compare the various features of the two preachers, and when the service was over they found themselves saying, "What a wonderful Savior is Jesus Christ!" – Pastor Jim Byrd *****
"Who Art Thou That Repliest Against God?" I once read one man’s observations on Romans 9:14-20. What he saw was that in the entire unregenerate world that he had been acquainted with, by association or in articles of public opinions, there was nothing that excited the bitter hatred of the human heart quite like the clear declaration of the absolute sovereignty of God in election or reprobation: the choosing of some and the passing by of others. And yet, for all their rebellion and disdain of the doctrine, there is not a single part of their lives where it is not practiced. It is practiced in the food they eat, the company they keep, their partner in marriage, the occupations they have chosen, and the churches they attend. They choose here and reject there, they like and dislike according to the direction of their own fancy. And all of these decisions without rule or reason, without wisdom or good sense, and sometimes even to their own peril. Away through life’s experiences they run with a sinful heart at the helm manifesting these things in every aspect of their lives. But, let one Being in all the universe capable of acting in true sovereignty and true wisdom, where election and or reprobation must be established on an unerring standard of right and good; and He, according to a fallen world, is the only one precluded from the exercise of this privilege! Such, said the writer, is the blindness and desperately wicked state of the heart of a man by the fall! – copied *****
The Ship Shall Never Sink! "But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary" (Matthew 14:24). This is the case with the good ship of the church of Christ today; it is "tossed with waves" and "the wind" is "contrary." It is very contrary just now. But then, Christ is still pleading for the ship and all on board – and while He pleads, it can never sink. –C. H. Spurgeon
***** "The torments of hell abide forever....If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word FOREVER breaks the heart." -- (Thomas Watson)
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