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

  “ For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.” -Galatians 5:6 [KJV] True Christian faith, which is the gift of God to His elect in and by the Lord Jesus Christ, is not only a profession of doctrine, but it is a living and working faith. First of all, it is FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST as He is identified and distinguished in the Scriptures in the glory of His Person as GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH, and in the power of His finished work, the redemption He accomplished as the Surety, Substitute, and Savior of His people. His righteousness imputed to His people has secured their complete and eternal salvation. Secondly, it is the power of God’s grace that miraculously and powerfully gives us spiritual life and new hearts whereby we are born again by the Holy Spirit. This causes believers to see Christ as their whole salvation and their whole desire. Thirdly, it is the motivation that drives believers to seek to c

"My soul fainteth for T hy salvation: but I hope in T hy word." -Psalm 119:81 [KJV] How difficult, for the most part, it is, and we may add, how rare to be able to realise for ourselves, with any degree of abiding permanency, a sweet experimental sense of, and an assured interest in those spiritual blessings with which, so far as we are believers in the Son of God, we are blessed in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Glimpses, glances, transient views, sips and tastes, drops and crumbs sweet beyond expression whilst they last, but rarely given and soon gone, are, generally speaking, all we seem to get after much hard labour, many cries, earnest entreaties, and vehement longings before the Lord, as He presents Himself to our faith, seated on the throne of His grace. How many there are who are daily and sometimes almost hourly crying out, if not in the exact words, yet in the substance of them: "O come, T hou much-expected guest; Lord Jesus, quickly come!"   And y

  HERE’S THE QUESTION, Part II D.G. Miles McKee     Here’s the Question … What does it take for a believer to lose their salvation and perish? Here’s the Answer … (continued)   For a believer to become lost and perish, something would have to separate him from the love of God. But God promised this would never happen (Romans 8:35-39).   For a believer to become lost and perish, Christ’s prayer that the Father would keep His followers would have to fail (John 17:11). If you believe that saved people can become un-saved you are saying that Christ’s prayers are ineffective.   For a believer to become lost and perish, God would have to remember sins and iniquities once more … something He promised never to do (Hebrews 8:12; 10:17).    For a believer to become lost and perish, the child of God would have to become un-adopted. But this is out of the question. When God adopted us, He knew what sins and failures we would commit. In this world, there is such a thing as an unwanted pr